It is this time of year, when many trading gurus proffer trading advice often confusing those who read it. The reason for this is that the advice offered with the best of intentions can only reflect the point of view of the advisor and not your own. Little thought is given on the mental filter systems that make up the receivers’ belief systems. The fact is that no two people will have exactly the same beliefs.
The problem is that most of our core belief systems aren’t even our own.
They are the product of multi generational programming.
Without realising it you are walking around defending beliefs inherited from parents, teachers and other “authority” sources as if they were your own. Your belief matrix is a reflection of programs that have been placed in your mind’s hard drive and you obediently follow the programs when prompted.
I know, this sounds hard, alas that is how the brain works. By the age of seven your belief system is in place. You are fully operational, alas what you may perceive as your own is some else’s. How could you possibly be in touch with your inner guidance when you don’t know which belief is yours reflecting your values and which one is not?
Unless you have gone through training to learn how to examine your core values and separate them from the ones you inherited your intuition will not be realizable. Many of you know this to be true, hence they rely on the linear mind alone to make trading decisions.
When you use the linear mind, you are in separation mode.
Thinking, unless it comes from a place of higher consciousness is the obstacle that cuts off your inner guidance system. It is rather like using your satnav, but the satnav has an interference frequency that distorts the signal.
Coaching is the best way to find your true identity and bring out your authentic inner guidance. Uncovering beliefs that are true for you, is immensely empowering.
It requires systematic self examination and questioning of pretty much everything. This technique can be learnt and once learnt it becomes second nature.
You will soon notice the benefits:
You will be able to observe your emotions impartially. You will become aware how you fall in line with other people’s ideas just to please them or to be part of something you value.
This self awareness enables you to choose. Until you reach that level of self awareness you will not be able to make choices from a place of true inner independence. You will be at the mercy of outside circumstances.
I wonder how many trades you have entered just because someone told you that the price of crude is going up, or down?
True transformation comes only from one place.
That place is within you. You are the centre of the universe. You also are the centre of your personal universe which is a fractal of the big universe we live in. You think you have no power. That is conditioning. You think you are at the mercy of a Clinton government, or a Trump government, or the market makers, or something else.
The ultimate truth is that you are not at the mercy of anything but the lack of your conscious awareness.
Conscious awareness brings self knowledge. It enables you to distinguish between conditioned thoughts, learned emotions and the eternal truth of existence.
The journey is never predominantly about your trading system, the economy or politics. Rather the journey is about YOUR core values, free from outside teachings about reality. The journey is spiritual, not material. Most of what you have been taught is incorrect anyway.
Going to your inner core means examining who you really are.
While your mental game is clogged up with false ideas about what’s right and what’s wrong about you and others, conflicting values, which aren’t your own, and a lack of self acceptance prevent your inner guidance system from working reliably.
The only way to become free though is to get to know and accept yourself fully. Once you do this you release layers of conditioning. Your inner guidance will begin to work for you. You may be surprised what you will discover…
