AlchemistOne

Explore who you are beyond habits, addictions, worry and anxiety.

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The only winning bet is the one you don’t make.

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Dream:

“If only that bet would've hit.”

You'd be rolled for a full day of betting today.

No financial stress. No responsibilities. You could've had a couple of MLB bets running while you were at that birthday party this afternoon. Football is right around the corner.

Reality:

Every win just buys another day of escape.

So where does it end?

You're not chasing money. You're chasing a feeling. A point of arrival that never actually arrives.

The peace you're looking for isn’t on the other side of an 8x. It begins when you unplug from the madness and start building a relationship with your own mind.

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Casinos and sportsbooks want you to believe you can ‘gamble responsibly’ because it keeps you in the funnel longer.

Then, when you lose, you blame yourself for losing control. And when we beat ourselves up, we run back to the escape for relief.

It’s a hamster wheel, and it’s out of your control.

The only path to peace is a deeply reformed relationship with your own experience.

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Every sports bet you’ve ever won was at the expense of someone losing the other side, while a selfish predator sits in the middle taking their 10%.

And of course, the wins are never enough to give you that feeling of finality anyway. That hole you’re looking to fill keeps growing, and you keep playing to try and fill it.

It’s an endless loop of action-chasing until you drain yourself to the point of exhaustion (financial, emotional, physical and spiritual).

You deserve better.

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@stoolpresidente It wins, but so what? You can't stop and it eventually ends up with the book anyway. Literally every gambler knows deep down they're chasing a moment of arrival that never comes.

Only win happens when you get off the hamster wheel.

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Log off.

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Option C: Unplug.

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Option A: Know the result of every sports game for 1 year

Option B: Win every casino bet for the next 24 hours

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@PlusEV It cannot.

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@TheGoobr @Jelitics If you’re reading this, you deserve better.

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@j__fort @Novig @Mets Fostering addiction and keeping fans in a constant state of chasing isn’t improving the fan experience.

It’s improving your bottom line.

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@HannahRKeyser Yes.

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What if you wanted exactly what you have right now?

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Habits will take. And take. And take. Until you realize they were trying to give you something all along.

And then you're free.

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Less desire means more freedom. What if you wanted exactly what you have, right now?

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What if there was never a separate self to be lost in addiction or found in recovery?

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Have we ever found happiness in the things sold to us as happiness?

Maybe it's time for something different.

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It is not the one who has too little, but the one who craves more, that is poor.

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My ego loves to solve the problems of my ego. And there's the problem.

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Less desire means more freedom. What if you wanted exactly what you have, right now?

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.