Playing 4 Keeps™

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Happy Anniversary Irishsetter

...Stay'n Alive!

Who Ya Gonna Call?

Playing 4 Keeps Seminars 2004

Testimonials

Recommended Links

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…Stay’n Alive

I often write about "playing detached", but what does that phrase mean?

Detachment is a self-imposed discipline. Playing detached keeps you from becoming emotionally involved and distracted. It is especially targeted to mean being involved with those things that have nothing to do with you and those things you have no control of in the first place. An example, is when you play detached from the loss. You have no control over the out come. You accept loss as part of the game and you avoid the imbalance of reacting emotionally.

You make the choice to play, you make the decisions, and you take the necessary actions that might keep you out of the fray. In a craps game, this means that you play your game. You stick to your battle plan. You play centered and when you do, you can not be pulled off balance. You play alone, even in a crowd, indifferent to worldly concerns.

Detachment is maintaining your focus on the priorities. You are still subject to the conditions that cause other players’ imbalance. However, you step aside from them, as in a Martial Arts maneuver. You do not take on the energy of the blow as it comes at you. You move out of the way, redirecting the punch, allowing the force to go on its merry way.

Like walking away from a fight, detachment means never having to defend. You are not pulled into things by your opinions. Allow the other person the evolutionary process of their opinion. If you really believe in your truth, it is not necessary to prove it through argument or to convince others you are right. You demonstrate your truth when you are able to detach from the need to argue or convince.

Walking away from confrontation is your best asset. When you are able to separate from your emotions, you free up more of your personal energy. It is the difference between the draining effects of an argument and the joy of enlightenment. When you walk away from a confrontation, you consolidate your power.

From the parables of Don Guangoche, comes a metaphor of natural detachment. It’s the story of the coyote and the jackrabbit.

Everyday, the jackrabbit wakes up and says to himself, "Jack, today you will have to out run the fastest coyote if your are to survive." Everyday, the coyote wakes up and says to himself, "Wilie, you will have to out run the slowest jackrabbit if you are to survive." Both animals are naturally detached from being emotionally involved in the external influences they face to survive. Their focus, their one goal, is to live by being the fastest.

It does not matter if it is too hot or if it is too cold. Both animals are detached from the elements. There is no compromising. It may be sunny or blowing snow straight out of the west, yet both animals will run because their life depends on it.

They are detached from the kinds of things that often distract or confuse humans from their course of action. All that either animal has to do is to run faster than the other one, in order to stay alive. That is their game plan and as long as they tend to their business, they satisfy their goal.

When playing craps or blackjack, you must be detached like the jackrabbit or the coyote. Your business is playing for the win. Playing detached means that you separate from the kinds of things that distract or confuse your attention. Playing detached enables you to focus on the priorities necessary to survive and win.

Here are just a few priorities when playing:
1.) Exist in the present moment. Play with an awareness about what is going on in the here and now.
2.) Align to a sensitivity that informs you that you have positioned yourself in a winning or losing situation.
3.) Recognize early in the game whether there is a threat to your survival.
4.) Sensing that things are not going your way, run for it, "Jackrabbit". Leave the game. It is never wrong to walk away.

At the table, you have to detach from emotion, ego and distracting thoughts. You play the part of the hunter, focused on your goal, patiently waiting for your time to come. It is all about you and your ability to settle into the present moment of a game. This is not to say that you are not aware of things going on around you. You do notice everything. You just don’t let events affect you with emotion. It is all about avoiding peripheral influences like intimidation and distractions, while maintaining your priority of focusing on the game through detachment.

¨ Playing detached allows you to get into the flow of the game. You are able to perceive, feel and identify the direction of the game. When you are detached, your perception is not obscured by emotions and you tend to "see" things as they really are.

¨ Playing detached means that your sensors are raw and alert. You are sharp. You focus your attention on the subtle messages of the game. You keep yourself out of the rapids, yet still going with the flow of the energy.

¨ Playing detached does not mean you win. Playing without detachment does not mean you will lose. It is an added skill. It assists you in the game and in life. As with any skill, it facilitates success, rather than guarantees it.

¨ Playing detached is an exercise in empowerment. It provides you with the power of an additional tool. As you disengage from the "clutter", you are more able to observe reality.

¨Playing detached is minding your own business.

In the motion picture, Apollo 13, unnecessary systems where shut down to conserve energy on the crippled space ship. Playing detached is like shutting down an unnecessary waste of power. Detachment is a way of consolidating your energy. You can then focus that energy like a laser on the game.

Through detachment, you are more able to perceive the subtleties that bear the important information. This information supports your confidence. Feeling in harmony with the messages you are receiving, you can continue to play or heed early warning signs that it is time to quit.

More to come on this subject of playing detached in future editions of Playing 4 Keeps™.

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Seminar Schedule for the Year 2003:

Blackjack Students                Craps Students.

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