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Yoga and Poker Part Iv: Practice and Non-attachment to Results
Perhaps one of the hardest things we as humans most learn to do is to learn how to do things for ourselves. What this means is not that we should be selfish and only look out for our own interests. What is meant by this is, as a simple example, that when we go to the gym we should go because we want to feel good and be healthy. People should not go to the gym just so that they can impress the girl next door or to wow their friends because they have the biggest biceps of the group. We are constantly trying to do things that will make others happy instead of making ourselves happy thinking that in order to be satisfied with ourselves we must be satisfactory to others.
A life philosophy that I have often heard and am a big proponent of goes as such: how can you love others and be a happy person if you don’t love yourself and are not happy person? It is like teaching a person how to play guitar without ever having plucked a string. All this pondering about the meaning of life is fascinating enough but what does this have to do with yoga and, more importantly, poker?
Going back to the previous discussions of the yoga sutras, we must go back to the very beginning and study some of the core principles and pieces of advice given by Patanjali to all practitioners of the science of yoga.
In the beginning of the yoga sutras one of the very first pillars mentioned is abhyasa, or practice. This does not mean that one must constantly do asanas (poses) it merely means that one needs to be persistent in trying to maintain a tranquil state of being, which is the entire point of yoga.
The essential companion to abhyasa is vairagya, or non-attachment. Yoga teaches us that we must learn to let go of the many attachments we hold on to in our everyday live such as fears and distractions we pay attention to that cloud us from getting in touch with our true inner-selves.
These concepts, carried out during the practice of yoga, can be readily applied to one’s poker game. There is a reason why many of the best-known poker players in the world gained their renown through impressive and consistent online play, not just by winning a tournament on television – players who clock in such a great deal of hours gain their skill through experience and tenacity, not chance. Many of these players not only spend a great deal of time playing the game, they have also put in hours in the library studying texts and learning what the best in the business have to say. They learn every single strength and weakness of their game thereby finding ways to work with their shortcomings as well as gifts.
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