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That's right, we agree then, and George will do I think.
Some people won't stop smoking with hypnotherapy, and some people are impossible to hypnotize (I think you may be one of them ).
But some people are very good "clients" for this, easy to hypnotize, and good results for them.
I managed to improve some important things in my mind by using psycho-cybernetics.
It is not hypnotims, but it teaches you how to relax, how to get rid of bad things in your mind (or unlearning) and how to reprogram your mind through visualization.
I think it is a kind of Neuro Linguistic Programming.
That sounds very interesting!!! Did you learn it from a book, CDs, website? I have trouble relaxing, hence all the CDs I own and websites I visit looking for help.
You're most welcome!
And remember if you've managed to get yourself into trans, then every sentence (affirmation etc.), will work! Why? The gatekeeper is gone, and the information is allowed to enter directly into the subconscious! That's the trick, and what differs a good hypnotist from a bad one, is that he/she is able to see if you're passed your gatekeeper!
One idea is to do this before you've fallen a sleep! Just before we've fallen into sleep our brain goes into (one of the Greeks, can't remember which one Alpha or ....) state, and that's as near as trans as we can come! So, when you go to bed, start by relaxing, and go on after that to your sentences, and repeat them till you've fallen a sleep.
We all struggle to make tomorrow look like yesterday!
Get rid of your past and let the future unfold from the now. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
/George
We all struggle to make tomorrow look like yesterday!
Get rid of your past and let the future unfold from the now. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
/George
I liked your other picture better! But maybe this one is giving your more justice !
So apart from the jokes! I totally agree with you!
The unlearning is the most important key in this whole equation called life! The irony is that, we have to learn first in order to unlearn later. And by the time we've learned, we've already paved our paths with concrete!
The key is still the one you're hiding constantly behind! Dump the monkey! And reach out!
I'm in a bad mode right now. Could be the bottle of wine, you suggested!
Let me give you a hint!
When do you do your best trades? And really just stop over rationalizing, and just be fair to yourself. When, do you always, always get your best trades?
Al right, I confess, I guessed here! But I do dare to guess, that this is the case for almost all of us!
The best trades, we do, ALWAYS when we don't give a damn about the outcome!
Correct me if I'm wrong!
Now, why is it that way? Very simple answer! NO FEAR!
When we don't give a damn about the outcome, we simply don't care. We just throw the trade out there, and we don't care if it's going against us, or if it's with us. We simply don't care. And because we lack fear, - that indeed allows us to perceive the trade very much differently from our "normal" we do care about the outcome trade - our perception shifts to a much more objective one, you're getting in sync with the market! That's what's happening to you (you meaning all of us) when you trade on sim. You're trading without the fear of loosing money.
It's called "LETTING GO"!
Now, would hypnosis even reach that far, and help you? Yes if you dare to let go of things!
Would the unlearning process allow you to give up your safety?! No, because we're so keen to get our so beloved past to be projected onto our future!
PS: Impatience is also based on fear!
Oh and by the way! One thing about habits. Try to look at it this way instead!
The moment you've realized that your so beloved habit exists then it's not a habit anymore. It shifts. And it shifts to a choice you're making. The question to be asked then is WHY?
Why am I choosing to do this?
And Fat Tails, once again thanks for your wonderful injections! I do enjoy, and appreciate them.
We all struggle to make tomorrow look like yesterday!
Get rid of your past and let the future unfold from the now. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
/George
I really enjoy reading your posts. It is a challenge to find an appropriate answer.
"Dump the Monkey". I am still laughing. Seems you prefer an orang utan baby with pampers to a grown up gorilla? Do you feel that the monkey is a threat to the dogs?
No, that monkey won't be dumped. When I first visited this forum, I was not sure whether it was trader's forum or a forum for dog breeders. A dog is a follower, representing the trading crowd. It stands for the retail bus people. Dogs of the Dow. The monkey tends to do the unexpected and for me it has several meanings:
It is a contrarian response to a crowd of dogs (including your beloved bat).
I think it was Konrad Lorenz who compared humans to a carriage with rocket propulsion, the carriage being our instincts and the rocket propulsion our intellect. There is a lack of equilibrium, as the carriage is not adapted to the propulsion system. The monkey represents our lower instincts, those instincts and impulsive reactions which make trading that difficult. The monkey is part of every traders personality and it needs to arrange itself with the rocket propulsion. Nothing wrong there.
The monkey also stands for fugacity. The orang utans ("orang hutan" Bahasa Indonesia for forest man) and the gorillas are near extinct, because humans are badly exploiting the planet's resources. The climatic change and the extinction of a large variety of species may well be a 7-sigma-event in the Earth's history. It is a fat tail or black swan, which is now inescapable. It paralles events such as the Flash Crash. Both the evolution of species and the markets are nonlinear dynamic systems, the extinction of the species is the evolutionary crash.
I agree that this leads a bit away from the subject of this thread, just wanted to explain why I do not intend to "dump the Monkey". Byhe way, it is not yet sure that Homo Sapiens will prove superior to the rats or monkeys.
You say that impatience is based on fear.
This could well be in some circumstances. But I do not agree in general. At the origin I would rather see a conflict between something that holds you back - typically an external cause - and the wish to follow an already activated plan or idea. Impatience is bad a way to cope with this conflict. I think it is also part of our Western culture. Actually I am much more patient when in Asia or on a holiday trip.
Impatience can be based on fear, if you cannot stand the tension any more and follow an impulse. But I think that the other reaction is predominant, that fear prevents you from trading.
Impatience is just a habit. If your mind is trained and used to a certain level of noise, it asks you for some entertainment. If I put on the first trade too early, it is not fear, it is rather boredom, as I do not want to follow the exercise of my prefabricated plan. Charts are like shadow plays, you get five new ideas every minute, and then you are curious, you want to try what happens, if - and oops - you will be find out.
It is the difficulty to reach the zone. If you go to a piano concert, usually the pianist has a hard time during the first 15 minutes, the audience also has. So he does not play well. If am listening I cannot fully concentrate either, it takes me at least 20 minutes to settle down and to focus my attention to the music. So you will not have a flow experience, when starting out, and the flow experience is what every top performer needs. The flow protects you and actually activates you mental capacities, which are not present during the first half hour.
So I am not in the zone during the first 20 minutes for any activity. In the morning these 20 minutes can easily become 30 minutes, in the evening I can adapt somehow faster.