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Mariuslol Norway. Jan 07 2010 21:56. Posts 4742 | | |
Mindfulness
- Mindfulness is the oposite of mindlessness. Unfortunatly how most of us go about living our lives, puppets on a string, doing anything people want us to do.
- One of the most common misconception about the buda stuff is "you want to empty ur mind, get rid of the feeling" But it's the oposite, you observe your thoughts, you observe your feelings. Witnessing them.
- None of us are ever rarely a good witness.
"Mindlessness is our normal state of mind." (Our default operating system.)
"Mindfulness is intentional awareness."
"Mindfulness melts away anger" (If you get really angry, and you become aware, you tell yourself I am angry now, then it will go away.)
- Mindfulness is a tool which directly relate to how you play poker, will tilt less. And carries on into your regular life. (See it as a tilt reduction tool.)
Breathing
- This is the best tool there is for practicing mindfulness. The reason is, it's always with us, we're always breathing.
- The act of being mindful, is putting ur effort and ur mind to something which is happening right now. Mindfulwalking, standing, sitting, looking, listen, so forth.
(All ways you can look at mindfulness, but the one that trumphs them all, is breathing.)
To practice minful breathing, there is 2 main ways
* Counting you breath
1 in, 2 out, 3 in, 4 out, 5 in, 6 out...... (count to 10, then start again.)
* Following your breath
" Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in.
Breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out."
- The only practice you'll ever need, if you want to train yourself to be mindful of your thoughts and your actions, and what's going on around you."
Benefits: Forcing your mind away from it's own wrenching, ongoing thinking.
- In the moment you gain the benefit of not being consumed by your thoughts
- And when you do do it, you can't help but notice, that you are consumed by ur thoughts
- Take the training wheels off, and count when you breath out, in then out and two on the second exhale.
"And when you lose count, that's fine. It's like, the whole point. That we can't hold the count is a symptom of an affliction that counting cures.
Breath > Body calms mind > Mind calms body
(Like a circle of effects.)
"The breath is the link between the mind and the body."
- If you can do this at peak agitation, there's tremendous benefits
"The moments when you're most agitated are exactly those moments when you're most lost in your thoughts."
- The more practice you do, the better you get at it. Increase the % of mindful breaths in your life.
* The intense way of doing this is Meditation.
* The closest synonom in the English language is Concentration.
(Bringing your mind to focus, listening to stuff, great skills for poker.)
Poker is so distracting, we're constantly being dragged into the past, thinking of the future, noise, anxiety, so forth generated in your mind.
- Very smart to practice them in your life, then drag them into poker, or vice verca.
The four postures
We are always doing one of four things in life
* Laying down
* Walking
* Sitting
* Standing
What's so awesome bout this is, if our objective is to put more mindfulness in our life. All we have to do it put more of it into when we're doing one of the four things.
Something to try: Lay down on ur bed, have ur legs straight, arms on ur side, just do some breathing, a few breaths. Even if your tired, laying there in bed, the act of focusing, can wake you up, and you'll become more vitalized.
- The act of concentrating will give you more energy.
Walking: A practice to do at home, practice at going very slowly, and breath once every 2 or 3 steps, back and forth, concentrating on ur feet, on ur breathing. What happens is when ur doing other stuff, instead of ur mind going bzz, you'll do it other places, a casino, buying groceries.
(Maybe not smart doing this in public lol.)
Standing: Stand straight, mindful breathing, can do it anywhere.
Sitting (Biggest one of all, the posture we're in when we play poker):
*Will increase the winrate of ANY poker player*
- Posture, and there's breathing. Arrange your leg straight down, spine straight. Like a sphinx sitting. It's gonna be a huge improvement of not having good posture.
(Unrealistic sitting 1,5 hour in correct posture, but any amount of time is a huge improvement, just keep adding time, even if it's just 30 seconds.)
- Singletasking and online poker: Don't multi task when multi tabling, msn, phone, mail, looking at tv, so forth.
- Interessting thought: When someone calls you, and your playing poker, either stop playing take the phone, or don't answer. It's disrespectful not giving someone your whole attention.
"Play when you're playing."
Mindful listening
- When you're in a concentration, the other person starts talking, you concentrate on your breathing.
(What will happen the mind energy which would normally be thinking of, what am I gonna say next, yeah I have a story like that, yeah he's wrong. You'll be more likely to actually be hearing them, hearing what they are saying. And it's a beautiful thing when you can keep the conversation on the other person, but not be faking it, but actually interested. And that happens when your own thoughts arent stirred by what they say.)
"So easy to be consumed in your own reality all the time"
- The way to break that chain of churning thought is the tool of mindful breathing.
When to practice
- You can do it all the time
"Think of being agitated as an opportunity to practice not being agitated."
- Being bored is something that can be eliminated with mindful thinking, because your observering what's happening around you all the time, no matter what it is.
(The main thing about it, it takes time before you get the benefits.)
Shedding mental weight
- Understanding practicing will make you more thoughtful/tiltless, understanding, easier to enjoy moment to moment, you do actually have to do the work.
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Mariuslol Norway. Jan 07 2010 21:57. Posts 4742 | | |
Calm abiding, something to think about =]
I sit straight and I settle my body and mind. I settle my body and it settles my mind. I settle my mind and it settles my body. I settle, and next I am less settled than I was the moment before, so I notice this, and I return to more settlement, and that lasts for some amount of tiem, and then it ends when mental and physical disturbance prevails, but then, in time, because I am sitting still, I notice that I have strayed from the task of becoming more settled than I was the moment before, and I return to it. And that is how it goes when I sit straight and settle.
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Mariuslol Norway. Jan 07 2010 21:57. Posts 4742 | | |
And how is all this settling accomplished? By the way, the only way, the necessary way, of following the breath. Why would you expect or want there to be more to it than that? To find the answer to that question and all others, breathe |
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Mariuslol Norway. Jan 07 2010 21:57. Posts 4742 | | |
All of my good streaks and all of my bad streaks of every length and depth have had one thing in common. They did not exist in your mind. They only existed in my mind. And this is true for everyone's winning and losing streaks. None of them actually exist. They are all mental frabrication, like past and future. Everything that ever happens happens in the present tense. But how can you have a "streak" in the present tense?
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Mariuslol Norway. Jan 07 2010 21:58. Posts 4742 | | |
You can't. And therfore, if you are in the present tense, which, in fact, at this time, you are, then at this moment there is no streak in your life. There is no inherent existence to streaks. The st reak is there when you think about it, and when you stop thinking about it, it goes away. It blossoms and withers, all in your mind. And when your mind invents a streak, you believe it exists, because you belive what your mind tells you. But the truth is there is only the hand you are playing. |
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Mariuslol Norway. Jan 07 2010 21:58. Posts 4742 | | |
For some reason, I thought it'd be easier to read like this =] |
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phexac United States. Jan 07 2010 22:25. Posts 2563 | | |
I just masturbate instead. |
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| | On January 07 2010 21:25 phexac wrote:
I just masturbate instead. |
i lol'd
but i like these posts very informative |
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