The way people gamble and how they live their lives often parallel one another. Because, really, life is a series of decisions and gambles [...]
Here is a typical scenario of Gambler A. He bets $10 and loses; he bets $10 again and loses; now he bets $20 and loses; $30 and loses. He increases his bets as he does worse. The gambler tries to chase his money -- trying to win it all back in one hand by betting more to make up for the times he's lost.
- Gambler A: The Chaser
Here is a typical scenario of Gambler B. He bets $10 and loses; bets $10 and loses; after some time his bet goes down to $5.00 Good plan? No, because he never feels successful. If he wins the $5.00 bet then he feels he should have bet more and if he loses then he still lost. And he's partly pleased he's lost because it is through losing that he can now justify to himself lowering his bet!
- Gambler B: A Man Divided Against Himself Will Fall
And what about when we're winning? [...] gamblers don't know when to stop. The longer you play the better it is for the house. When you run out of money you'll stop. But when you're winning when do you stop? Often you don't, since there's no reason to, so you keep going until the tide turns against you, you lose, and then you are forced to stop.
So if increasing your bet when you're losing isn't the answer and decreasing it when you're losing isn't the answer, what is? Research suggests that when you are losing you should do what gamblers hate to do -- stop. However, when you are winning or on a "streak," then it is a fair strategy to increase slightly your amount of play.
One other interesting fact to note is that all unsuccessful gambling strategies are predicated out of fear. When you act out of fear your decisions are not logical, but emotional. And this will ensure that you will end up on the losing side of the game. Never do anything out of fear. If you need to win you will lose. You must only focus on the game, not the outcome. If you are praying to win then you are fearful of losing. The best mentality is that of pure detachment -- where you're completely objective and unemotional. If you're gambling with money that you cannot afford to lose it is impossible to remove the emotional element from your decision-making process.
Can you recall those times when you were completely in the zone? You may remember that fear was absent. It was just pure action, where you weren't even aware of yourself, just what you were doing. That is how you win in gambling and in life. As the saying goes, he who cares less wins!
This is an old recipe for a Gambling Hand. It uses one of those old mercury-filled nutmegs that most people advise against trying (due to health and safety concerns) these days.
I have a suspicion that the purpose of the liquid mercury comes from a bit of wordplay off "quicksilver" (suggesting silver, money, will come quick.) I like to replace it with some Fast Luck oil and silver magnetic sand: I know others who use filed down Mercury dimes for this.
Begin: prepare a round whole nutmeg by drilling a hole in it and filling it with liquid mercury (or whatever you will substitute.) Then use some strong adhesive tape to seal it, making an X or a cross with two pieces.
For the rest of the bag you need:
- a chamois bag
- an eagle eye (possibly the real thing but possibly the gemstone)
- a shark tooth
- a lodestone
- magnetic sand
- cinnamon
Combine all the items and the nutmeg inside the bag, and sew it shut.
You dress the bag with a mixture of clove oil, cinnamon oil and "green-luck oil." Seven drops are used to feed it. If you lose while carrying this bag, stop a while and let it rest; and don't try to use it during the waning moon.
Considering why this would be so, I come to a few possibilities: firstly, that the kind of love in question is a "player's" love, where one is just trying to get as many mates as possible and overall the formulas help one to accumulate hits.
The next possibility then is that they don't particularly influence gambling or love, but rather Luck in general. The Church of Good Luck talks of influencers on the matter: "The mechanism by which these techniques operate is not known. Perhaps they serve to alter attitude or openness. Maybe they work in small ways on cause and effect to alter results in a larger way. Since the effectiveness of these techniques can be neither proved nor disproved theories are rather useless and practice is the key to results."
Finally, if you follow the practice of deity worship, there's the chance that these formulas particularly appeal to one of those sort of entities who rule over both love and money. In fact, it's slightly common in world religions that a single entity rules, or at least influences, both these matters -- Hariti, Kurukulla, Xochiquetzal, Venus, Oshun, etc. In the case of Hathor, she is described as a "goddess of joy" and I suppose, given that love and money are the things most people worry most about, that makes sense.
3 Ways to Become a Luckier Person (From an old article at the now defunct Mind Power News)
In the wake of these studies, I think there are three easy techniques that can help to maximise good fortune:Unlucky people often fail to follow their intuition when making a choice, whereas lucky people tend to respect hunches. Lucky people are interested in how they both think and feel about the various options, rather than simply looking at the rational side of the situation. I think this helps them because gut feelings act as an alarm bell - a reason to consider a decision carefully.Unlucky people tend to be creatures of routine. They tend to take the same route to and from work and talk to the same types of people at parties. In contrast, many lucky people try to introduce variety into their lives. For example, one person described how he thought of a colour before arriving at a party and then introduced himself to people wearing that colour. This kind of behaviour boosts the likelihood of chance opportunities by introducing variety.Lucky people tend to see the positive side of their ill fortune. They imagine how things could have been worse. In one interview, a lucky volunteer arrived with his leg in a plaster cast and described how he had fallen down a flight of stairs. I asked him whether he still felt lucky and he cheerfully explained that he felt luckier than before. As he pointed out, he could have broken his neck.
