3. When our brain believes there will be a positive outcome, it releases endorphins, it’s important for us to understand this
Endorphins push us to the positive. So we could get ourselves in a loop, meaning we get excited about all the money we’re going to win by betting on the Cardinals to beat the 49ers because the Cards are a +450 money line underdog.
Those endorphins tell us, “Do it! You’re going to be rich!” So, of course, we do it and then, when the 49ers beat the Cardinals by 30 we fall into a survival depression because we realize we needed the money we bet to pay rent.
Doing something like the above doesn’t mean we have a gambling problem. It means we have to understand how our brain works. Then, we have to realize that our brain doesn’t understand things the way our mind and consciousness do.
We can then pull our brain back by saying something simple like, “Brain, calm down.”
If you think like that when you gamble, it could potentially give you more losses than of winning, because ones you lose you will automatically get frustrated and upset for expecting so much for your bet to win. That kind of mindset is like counting the chickens before it hatched, thus when the number did not meet, one will get disappointed.
Controlling your emotion is not really easy, but if you can manage to gamble what you can afford to lose, I guess you can handle disappointment and frustrations when you lose.