Trading on Target: How to Cultivate a Winner's State of Mind

FEELINGS THAT CREATE REALITY

For all of us, feelings are the final element in the process of how we create our reality. First comes the experience; next, we tell ourselves the story about the experience; and then comes the feeling(s) associated with the story. As a result of the repetition of the story over time, with the associated feelings, we will create a reality that reflects those feelings. For example, pain that is associated with a loss in the markets will eventually create more and more loss by impairing judgment, preventing a trader from following his rules, preventing him from pulling the trigger, and holding him back from taking necessary risk.

However, when there is a conditioning for negative feelings, an immediate response can occur without the story that was originally attached to the bad feeling. For example, the story of the original and painful loss may be forgotten, but the feelings of pain and fear may rise to the surface each time a trader attempts to enter a trade. To let go of these negative and sabotaging feelings, you must change the original story, or change the feelings attached to the story.

By understanding the process of your “creating reality strategy,” you will begin to understand where changes must take place in order to transform the conditioning.