Short one here. I started using this visual tactics and noticed Im much less keen to gamble.
I love travelling. Chilling, seeing new places, going on adrenaline fuelled experiences. Whenever i get the urge to gamble, I start visualising a bookie sitting on a yacht with a smirk on the face. He invites a waitress to get more oysters, then another bottle champagne, because he’s celebrating life. He’s relaxed, soaking up the sun, not worrying he needs to go to work on Monday..well not this Monday. He might travel to Bahamas this Monday...This visual picture gets me so angry that I think long and hard before I make up my mind to donate another £10 for his oysters.
Because we know, our profit is temporary. His profit lets him do the things we dream of doing!
Visualise something you love doing that involves money. Then imagine a bookie doing it with no effort in gaining money made. Cause it is so easy just to take £ from John, £ from Ben, £ from Sophie..
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Hi Lila,
Great post but i think compulsive gambling is about need. As each one of us wises up, gets clean proving to ourselves we don't need gambling in our lives any revenge we wish to inflict on bookmakers or casinos will come naturally.
Best Wishes
AL
Yes Lila35 use that and every other thought process to get through this.
Thats exactly what we were doing because on those odds it was a losing game. The risk was all with us because the gambling dens have a calculated spread fund to absorb the process.
If its the machines you are talking about they win every day because the percentage they take is fixed. What a gambling addict and punter wont come to terms with is that the gambling dens wouldnt put the machines in if there was a risk of loss for them.
Every tenner is stained with the abject misery of loss but the gambling dens are happy to spend that on tropical islands and yachts
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