The Spiritual Side Of Gambling - Using Your Mind To Play Tough

Author: Ron Daniels - All Casino Bonuses

There are many skilled athletes who perform magnificently during training and then blow it when it comes time to perform for real. When they are on stage they just can't deliver the goods. This is a common problem and one that often determines who will succeed in a big way and who will not.

This is also a problem of many gamblers. When they are watching others play they feel like they know just how it should be done. But when it is their turn to put up or shut up they get tensed up and stiff and aren’t able to trust their instincts or intuition. In fact there are many otherwise competent players who under stress suffer from a drop in their abilities and skills, a phenomenon that significantly reduces their chances of winning.

There is a solution to this problem and it has two parts:

• You have to comprehend what is intuition and the role that it plays in one’s life.
• You need to increase your awareness of the tools and techniques that you can use to increase your control of your intuitive abilities.

Although it may not be that easy to live life guided by your intuitive ability, if you can begin to understand its importance you will truly benefit.

There are many philosophers, such as Descarte for an example, who perceive of humans as being dualistic creatures, consisting of both physical and mental natures. In the model that follows, humans are also defined as being dualistic in nature. This model sees humans as having the ability to function at two levels, the physical and the spiritual. With this model we can consider a new aspect of living, the spiritual. It provides a means for taking into consideration a board variety of feelings and thoughts, those that are shared by all, but which most individuals seem to lack the ability to understand.

We humans all consist of two natures:
1. The physical nature – this includes the body which is driven by the five senses and which contains the brain. The brain reacts when we feel something from our environment through one of these five senses. This is experienced as thoughts.

2. The spiritual nature – this is experienced as thoughts in our mind that are not generated by the external environment through our senses. These are thoughts that come through an entirely different process, by means of the subconscious.

Our actions and the decisions that we make in life are directly linked with an internal process that takes place within our mind. This process combines information acquired through two inputs, those thoughts that are generated as a reaction to stimuli that activate our senses, and those that are not generated by such stimuli but occur from within our subconscious.

An ongoing dynamic occurs between these two forces as each endeavors to become the sole source of ideas that generate the decisions that we make.
When we experience fear or stress, it is the physical senses that dominate and that force the decision-making process. When we are more relaxed and less tense, it is the spiritual side of our mind that dominates our thoughts and expresses itself. This is seen in the much more improved performances that we are able to give at such times. This spiritual nature of the mind becomes the source of our wisdom and superior performance. Those who operate more from their spiritual side are considered to be wiser and usually experience better results in their lives. That is why you need to learn to let the spiritual side of your nature dominate when you play.

Controlling your thought level or the level of thought activity in your mind allows you to accomplish this. Techniques that are available for accomplishing this include the practice of meditation, mental control and controlled thought visualization. These techniques help you to remove useless and unnecessary thoughts from your mind. Once you have accomplished the ability to empty your mind of noncreative thoughts, you can put in place a kind of screening process by which you allow only those thoughts that are not generated by the senses to enter your mind. This will allow those thoughts that derive from your intuition to come in and to have free reign. This will allow you a surprising level of success in your play.