Just for the heck of it I turned on E! to watch a True Hollywood Story about lottery horror stories (which had nothing to do with Hollywood, by the way). This program actually intrigued me because I knew that, statistically, lottery winners actually lead happy lives contrary to popular myth and I was curious as to what these stories actually were.
So I watched a few of the stories presented and within minutes it became clear that the misery the people endured after winning the lottery was 100% due to blockages of flow. One winner was dirt poor prior to winning. Once he won he not only spent the money like water, but became extremely paranoid someone was going to steal it. Finally he lost it all and, according to his daughter, was happier than ever. So did money ruin him? No. Money is a neutral thing, meaning it has no power in and of itself — it is up to the person’s flow to determine how it is used.
In the lottery winner’s case, it was obvious that he had a severe fear of success. The lottery winnings only compounded that fear and his blockages forced him to eliminate the success as fast as possible, which is why he ended up in bankruptcy and almost in jail for failure to pay taxes.
Another winner actually did end up in jail. She and her husband split the money and then got a divorce. A few years later she ended up being arrested for vehicular homicide after she killed her best friend in a car accident while she was driving under the influence. Ends up she had been a drug addict and alcoholic long before the money came along, and the money only exacerbated her problem.
These people had dramatic flow blockages in their lives and the negative energy they sent out attracted more negative energy. In each case, the money was actually a message from the universe pointing out the blockages in a dramatic way. Unfortunately, none of the winners profiled was able to remove their blockages and ended up in tragic circumstances.
The old axiom that money changes people really refers to blockages of flow — money will simply exacerbate any blockages already there. If you follow your flow an event like winning the lottery will not bring misery.