If Life Is a Game, These Are The Rules

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If Life is a Game, These are the Rules Cherie Carter-Scott In workshops and retreats, on photocopies and emails, on noticeboards and fridge doors, the 'Ten Rules for Being Human' have been spreading round the world like wildfire, so, in all probability, you've already seen them. In case you haven't, they're brilliant, and here they are, together with Cherie Carter-Scott's summary of how you can use them as a primer for higher consciousness. Rule One You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth. Rule Two You will be presented with lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called ‘life.' Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum. Rule Three There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that work. Rule Four A lesson is repeated until learned. Lessons will be repeated to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson. Rule Five Learning does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned. Rule Six ‘There’ is no better than ‘here’. When your ‘there’ has become a ‘here,' you will simply obtain a ‘there’ that will look better to you than your present ‘here’. Rule Seven Others are only mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself. Rule Eight What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to

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