Cycles are nothing else but expressions of energy: When you learn how to read and feel energy you can save yourself a lot of guesswork and frustration in the timing of your trades and investments.

 

The nature of the universe is cyclical, at least from our perspective as humans living on earth.

 

Each cycle has its very own unique energy field and feel. While cycles are predictable up to a degree, because they repeat, they never repeat in the same way, because our consciousness changes. As long as the world is a place where the observer sees the same things repeating over and over again, the viewer who is observing is not the same than the viewer who observed the last cycle.

 

Consciousness evolves in cycles too.

 

Therein lies the complication of all forecasting, because the viewer shifts with the constant shifts in the cosmos. Change happens not because what you observe is changing; rather it changes because the observer sees the same things over and over again, but through a slightly altered lens of perception.

 

Usually these perceptual shifts are minuscule hence they go unnoticed by the causal observer. And, let’s be honest here: Most of us are not trained in the art of observation. This is true for the majority of traders and the majority of people. We live our lives believing that what appears on the surface of our lives in material form is real.

 

The only reality though is consciousness

 

Hard to grasp and even harder to turn into a workable model to help you trade better and live life from a place of harmony and peace, particularly in times when everything around us appears to be in turmoil. The reason everything around us is in turmoil is because everyone, actually the entire cosmos, is going through a cycle of expansion of consciousness. When that happens many a dark area gets exposed. As humankind moves from survival mode into self actualization mode our predominantly negative thinking is coming to the fore.

 

Traders are facing increased fear and anger emotions, emotions that have been buried in the subconscious part of our minds for way too long. These emotions are increasingly becoming apparent to all of us, because we are aware of larger parts of our minds. I cannot put it in more simple terms. These emotional reactions are apparent in the extremely high market volatility which represents the sum total of the psychology of all players.

 

The question for all of us whether we trade, invest, or are engaged in other activities, is of course how to deal with the issues?

 

Rule number one: Accept what is happening.

 

I know there is this urge to go back in one’s box, putting on a pair of rose tinted glasses and hoping things will go back to normal if only we are patient and sit this one out.

 

Forget it. What is happening right now is becoming normal, at least while we are going through this massive phase transition which will last years. Yes, you read this correctly. I am talking about years, not months or weeks. When these big shifts happen we need time to adjust, comprehend the new “reality”, integrate and start living with the new energy instead of pretending we can hang on in the old energy.

 

This is not about giving up what you love doing and experiencing, it is all about doing and experiencing what you love with the new energy, and that means with a new level of consciousness.

 

When light shines into a dark tunnel, exposing the walls and every flaw, you might shut your eyes for a while, but sooner or later you have to face the new perception, because you cannot keep your eyes shut forever.

 

Trade less, and learn techniques to feel the energy of the market players. Energy is non local and it can be felt.

We become comfortable in a new environment by familiarizing ourselves with it.

 

How can we do this?

 

We do this by hanging out in the field: Opening up to new experiences and experimenting with the new energies. Expose yourself to new ideas and information instead of rejecting new ideas out of fear of the unknown. Calm detached observation from the centre of your being is the one and only thing that will assist you to navigate your (trading) life around the debris that is being exposed all round us.

 

Bring pleasant experiences into your field, spending quality time with friends and seeking out people of high vibration are excellent ways to help yourself evolve to higher levels of consciousness with greater ease. Make sure your environment reflects the shifts into higher consciousness and above all do not judge what is happening, but instead learn to see events from the perspective of natural progression, since we have not yet learnt to make an omelette without cracking eggs first. That is the next step.