How to avoid being influenced by another player

(book excerpt).....There is some more knowledge that I want to share with you. Every time you perform a meditation, an introspection, a deepening, an entrance into deep levels of relaxation and heightened awareness, rituals, ceremonies of any kind, or whatever you want to call them, when you finish you must open your eyes and "look directly at your body", this is of vital importance. I'll explain you why. Do you remember the ugly duckling story? That world-famous story in which one female duck finds an egg and starts to incubate it with its own eggs, not knowing it was of a swan, then when this egg opened and the small animal, that has been in a physical and mental relaxed place and deep (inside the egg) very similar to what you are when you relax deeply, goes out and look up, the first thing it sees is the female duck and thinks "mother", and immediately creates a deep emotional mental connection toward this other being that really is not its mother. In Neurolinguistic programming, it’s called Anchoring.

Exactly the same happens to the apprentices of various mental and spiritual disciplines. When they enter their meditation, deep relaxation or ceremony, at the moment they open their eyes they observe directly a symbol or person standing in front of them, and what happens is that they create a deep bond with that person or symbol. This will make your mind to relate its higher states of consciousness or spirituality with that person or symbol, then they will begin to feel that the person who was there (or symbol) is important to feel full and expanded, and then consider the symbol or person as being superior, a special being, energetic, a master, a guide, a guru, etc., but all that really happened is that they have created a mental connection with their deep states of consciousness.

This is similar to when we go to a house and smell the food that makes us remember our grandmother, or a smell of a perfume that makes us remember a loved one, or a song that makes us remember a stage in our life. In all those situations, the feelings will manifest themselves throughout the body and mind. The same thing will happen if you meditate and open your eyes and see another person or object. So when you get out of these deep states you must see yourself, so that your mind relates these pleasant states with your very being. This begins to create a deeper self-acceptance process for yourself, and without realizing it, it affects your very thoughts of self-esteem, which will improve without having to do any other special work.

Based on this principle, you should never look into the eyes of other gamblers when we are doing our plays, because at that time we will be in a state of higher consciousness and we can find people whose mental influence blocking our mental processes, because before us may be another Perfect Bettor.............