Imagine winning every single contest you enter - be it sweepstakes competitions, buying a lottery ticket, participating in a TV game show or even buying a raffle ticket for an expensive house. How would you feel if you could "manipulate reality" to win every game you play in?

If this sounds to you like an idea from the movie "The Matrix", you're probably not alone.

Yet, this is the life Helene Hadsell of Alvarado, Texas leads.

I first learned about Helene when I saw a testimonial from her on the Silva Method website. I googled her name and found this blog post by Joe Vitale. Joe is a friend of hers and a teacher from the hit film, "The Secret".

The post fascinated me. If what Joe was saying was true -- then Helene has pulled off what many teachers of the Law of Attraction have said is possible,  but have never actually demonstrated. Can you use the Law of Attraction in such a way that you can actually win every single time?

And we're not talking talent shows or atheletic events. We're talking winning in competitions that are strictly probability based. Such as raffles. You buy a ticket and if you're lucky you win. Your looks, your brains, your talent do not contribute to your ticket being selected as the winning ticket.

Yet Helene wins these raffles. Over and over again. She won a house at the World's Fair and her ticket was selected out of 2 million others.

We'll be writing more about this amazing lady soon. But for now, do head over to Joe Vitale's blog to read what Joe has to say:

Contesting, a True Story

Back in the 1980s I read a life changing book called Contesting: The Name It and Claim It Game.

It was by Helen Hadsell, billed as “the woman who wins every contest she enters.”

The book showed the practical side of metaphysics. My attract a new car program is in the same genre: the idea is to show how tools like positive belief, visualization, feeling and action lead to concrete results — like winning a contest or manifesting a new car.

Contesting was a breakthrough book for me and many others - in fact, millions of others. The book sold three million copies. A few copies are still floating around, but you’ll pay anywhere from fifty to two hundred dollars for one (unless you’re smart and read this post to the end).

What most people don’t know is the author is still with us.

I talked to her on the phone the other night.

Helen Hadsell is 83 years old and a hoot. She’s vibrant, humorous, active, a hypnotic storyteller, and still as plugged into metaphysics as anyone around. She should have been in the movie The Secret.

Movie producers are in fact considering making a film of her life. I’d love to see that happen.

Helen and I spoke for about an hour. She’s still writing. She sent me her recent autobiography, Confessions of an 83-Year-Old Sage, which I’d love to see published, and one of her lesser known books, In Contact With Other Realms: An Adventurer’s Experiences in Awareness.

She personally knew many of the great teachers of the New Thought Movement, from prolific prosperity author Joseph The Power of Your Subsconscious Mind Murphy to Silva Mind Control creator Jose Silva to the mystical founder of Eckanker, Paul Twitchell.

» Read the Full Article on Joe Vitale's Blog

PS - Sometimes when you come across magical stories like this they almost sound unbelievable. It's easy just to disregard them as false, fiction or too good to ever happen to you. But by doing so we actually just turn away from the fact that life is a much bigger mystery than we ever thought.

When was the last time you felt grateful for something?

Ok, and the last time you actually expressed your gratitude for something?

Scientific studies show that expressing gratitude on a daily basis literally makes people happier. Gratitude research by McCullough and Emmons revealed that only a small daily dose of gratitude makes you more alert, enthusiastic, determined, optimistic and energetic. Additionally - a grateful person feels less depression and stress, is likely to help others, exercises more regularly and makes more progress toward personal goals. And above all - grateful people are more likely to be loved.

And this ain't some new age mumbo jumbo folks - this is from scientific studies!

Enter the Gratidudes...

Two guys that call themselves the GratiDudes have taken the whole concept to a higher level. They're aiming to change the world by helping people to become more grateful with a funny Gratitude Dance. The video has already gained huge popularity in YouTube. The idea is simple - all you need to do is to write down the things you are grateful for, turn on the video and do the dance!

You have to watch it yourself, smiling and laughing is guaranteed! Showing your gratitude can be a lot of fun - and having fun is one of the ingredients of happyness!

Don't forget to let us know how it worked (and what funny situations you ended up in)!

PS - that's not all, the guys behind FinerMinds will be launching a new website soon that will give everyone a unique way to express gratitude to the world and to loved one. Check out GratitudeLog.com. It's launching in a few days and this is the first public hint of it on the Internet. Remember, you heard it first on FinerMinds!