Chapter 6
Practicing Mental Self-Coaching
IN THIS CHAPTER
Working with hypnosis and trance states
Your inner dialogue
Building up your self-esteem (and self-confidence)
One quite popular method you can use to develop your trader personality is self-coaching. You can use a variety of techniques and, because it’s self-coaching, you get to decide which tools to use and when.
In Chapters 7 and 8, you get the chance to explore methodologies from the following fields:
- Systemic psychotherapy
- Hypnosystemic psychotherapy
- Positive psychology
- Neurolinguistic programming (NLP)
You also learn techniques that can help you to
- Process and dissolve harmful patterns of thought and behavior
- Transform negative beliefs into positive ones
- Take on new perspectives that enable you to deal with loss in a professional manner
- Maintain a focused state of relaxation in order to maintain emotional balance
- Increase motivation, self-awareness, and self-efficacy
- Develop your potential as well as your mental strength
A simple but effective tool in self-coaching is the use of a success journal, which you can ...
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