The Joy Behind Every Bet Is An Illusion Your Subconscious Keeps Selling

One More Bet, Then Definitely Done

Most gambling starts as a harmless hobby, such as a small bet on the weekend’s game, a night out at the casino or an app on the phone for quiet evenings. For a while it stays small and fun.

Then comes the night when the losses run a little higher than planned, and the new plan is to win some of it back before stopping. A win does arrive, and with it a rush that feels like proof the plan was right, so the money goes straight back in. By the end of the night the total is worse than it was when the “one more” started.

Next time, the person promises, they’ll quit while they’re ahead. Being ahead, though, is the very feeling that keeps the bets coming.

(The same pattern runs through lottery tickets, sports apps and online slots, wherever the next bet is only a tap away.)

“You’ve probably realized that what starts out as a harmless hobby can turn into an unhealthy addiction with serious consequences.”

Steve has had collection agencies beating down on his door himself. Career detours and failed business ventures left him $80,000 in credit card debt, evicted and living out of his office. His way back is further down this page, and it started in the same place this track works: his own mind.

Steve names the part of gambling that does the damage: thought patterns that create a false sense of joy. The rush of a win feels like the reason to play, and it comes from the same subconscious patterns that keep the habit running.

That’s why quitting while you’re ahead so rarely happens. A plan to stop at the next win is made by the conscious mind, and it relies on the win to trigger the exit. To the subconscious, though, the win is the reward, and a reward is a signal to keep going. The exit plan and the habit are both waiting for the same moment, and when it comes, the habit has the stronger pull.

Promises, budgets and willpower all work at the level of decisions, while the false joy works underneath them, so each new resolution walks into the next session up against a feeling that hasn’t changed at all.

Call it the Exit-Win Plan. Sensible, self-aware people fall for it because it sounds so reasonable, so needing another go at quitting says very little about anyone’s character. The pull comes from the illusion running in the subconscious, and taking that illusion apart is what End Addiction To Gambling was designed to do.

From $80,000 In Debt And Living Out Of His Office To Self-Made Multimillionaire

Steve lost his mother at an early age and grew up with his father, who battled alcohol abuse.

Later in life he went through a lot of career detours and failed business ventures, and he soon found himself $80,000 in credit card debt. Financial institutions and collection agencies were beating down on his door. He held on as long as he could, until he was evicted from his own place and had to live out of his office, which he was about to lose as well.

Think about what getting up for work looks like when the office is also where you live, and you know it’s about to go too. That was where things turned for Steve. He discovered a way to reprogram his mind to attract everything he needed, and to put systems in place that got his life back on track.

He used a combination of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques and a specific framework for happiness and success, and from it he developed the Dream Life Mastery program for getting the results he wanted.

Today he’s a licensed Clinical Hypnotherapist and a self-made multimillionaire who manages 22 training certification programs in hypnosis and NLP.

End Addiction To Gambling takes the idea at the heart of Steve’s turnaround, changing the mind before expecting life to change, and aims it at the pull of the next bet.

Leo Konfino, one of Steve’s students, wrote this about his work in general:

“have actually taken real steps towards its realization”

My appreciation for your work and the positive impact it’s made on my life is far more than I’m able to describe here. However, I’ve been inspired to live out my dreams and have actually taken real steps towards its realization in the past few months. Your Fan, Student & Friend.

Steve Has Practiced Hypnotherapy And NLP Since The 1980s

Dr. Steve G. Jones is a licensed Clinical Hypnotherapist and self-made multimillionaire who developed the Dream Life Mastery Program to help other people reach their goals and make incredible breakthroughs in their own lives.

• Life and business coach to top Hollywood directors, sports stars and CEOs.
• President of the American Alliance of Hypnotists and of the American Union of NLP.
• Member of the American Board of Hypnotherapy and the National Guild of Hypnotists, and an associate member of the American Psychological Association.
• Four degrees: a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Florida (1994), an M.Ed. from Armstrong Atlantic State University (2007), and an Ed.S. (2009) and Ed.D. (2013) from Georgia Southern University.

“I’ve also used this with my one-on-one clients to free them from their addiction to betting.”

Budgets And Blocked Cards Do Their Job Better Once The Thrill Has Gone

Many people trying to stop gambling have already set up practical defenses. They’ve put limits on their cards, deleted the apps, handed their bank details to someone they trust or stayed away from the places they used to play.

Those are good steps, and every one of them guards the money. The thrill they’re guarding against is still running in the subconscious, so each defense becomes something the urge has to get around, and on a bad night it often finds a way.

End Addiction To Gambling goes after what those defenses are holding back. It disrupts the thought patterns that create the false sense of joy, so the limits you’ve set up have far less pushing against them.

How Much Of Your Year Does Gambling Take?

This only counts time, meaning the minutes spent betting, checking results or planning the next one. Leave the money out of it for now.

Those hours sit alongside the money, which isn’t counted here at all. Steve puts the goal as being in control of how you spend your time and money, instead of having it revolve around gambling.

Set the numbers to match your own week. They stay where they are, or climb, for as long as the illusion keeps running.

How End Addiction To Gambling Takes Apart The Pull Of The Next Bet

Between them, the six benefits cover all four things that keep gambling going.

When It Arrives, What It Plays On And How The Refund Works