Changing Habits

[tommcginnis]

The calm we seek I think is from releasing traumas from the past. It is deep! Meditation, hypnosis, breath work, and tools like that can help in this process. When I work with clients it is to help them get to a place where they can release the traumas for good, rather than have to fight against them and be "disciplined". Discipline only lasts so long and the day it doesn't one can blow up their gains. So, the focus is release traumas, not fight against them.

Egads.
• I wonder where you'd put your "releasing past traumas" in Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs....
• "Discipline only lasts so long..." That's beautiful. Poetic. Koan-like! Cash-manifesting, even. Sweeeeet.

Here -- I'll give you a freebie: "The way which can be described is not the way."

[EDIT] Having reread this entire thread, I'm struck by how constructive everyone's posts have been -- and how raw and snarky and obnoxious is my "contribution" above. But I'll own it.

And maybe lean a bit on my earlier Thoreau-based post: clarity in seeing patterns of one's own behavior is (IMO) much more important than new responses. Thus, discipline in self-reflection is more important than discipline in self-correction. Horse comes before the cart, and all that.

Now, one could fold that a bit differently, and come up with "discover your traumas! Clarity!" as a solution, but that is a narrow, narrow slice of life, and one that would handily lead to repeat visits, if one were in the business of discussing such things....

 

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[Steve Alexander]

Egads.
• I wonder where you'd put your "releasing past traumas" in Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs....
• "Discipline only lasts so long..." That's beautiful. Poetic. Koan-like! Cash-manifesting, even. Sweeeeet.

Here -- I'll give you a freebie: "The way which can be described is not the way."

[EDIT] Having reread this entire thread, I'm struck by how constructive everyone's posts have been -- and how raw and snarky and obnoxious is my "contribution" above. But I'll own it.

And maybe lean a bit on my earlier Thoreau-based post: clarity in seeing patterns of one's own behavior is (IMO) much more important than new responses. Thus, discipline in self-reflection is more important than discipline in self-correction. Horse comes before the cart, and all that.

Now, one could fold that a bit differently, and come up with "discover your traumas! Clarity!" as a solution, but that is a narrow, narrow slice of life, and one that would handily lead to repeat visits, if one were in the business of discussing such things....

Tommcginnis Your post is an excellent example of lots of knowledge and no wisdom. Thanks for owning it, and thus providing just a pinch of wisdom.

 

[tommcginnis]

Tommcginnis Your post is an excellent example of lots of knowledge and no wisdom. Thanks for owning it, and thus providing just a pinch of wisdom.

So you've 'got this', eh Steve-a-reno? Here's another koan for ya,......
"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him."



You get the last word.....

 

[Steve Alexander]

If you want to changes the lens(es) through which you view life, I don't know of a single book that might encourage such introspection better than Thoreau's Walden.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden
I started reading of Thoreau when I was 11 or 12 years old -- started by hunting out the naturalist 'woodsy' passages, then focused on the 'raging iconoclast' passages (throughout high school), and then in college, started really noticing the 'economy' passages. Much grist there.

Amen! Good book.

 

[Sekiyo]

 

[murray t turtle]

The calm we seek I think is from releasing traumas from the past. It is deep! Meditation, hypnosis, breath work, and tools like that can help in this process. When I work with clients it is to help them get to a place where they can release the traumas for good, rather than have to fight against them and be "disciplined". Discipline only lasts so long and the day it doesn't one can blow up their gains. So, the focus is release traumas, not fight against them.

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That sounds good ; never have tried hypnosis, but that is OK. I have a sis + never no never did like hype- unless it was in SPY or QQQ + nice trend .LOL WEb MD is mostly positive on hypnosis for phobias, fears, depression, anxiety. Actually years of chart study will/can cure a fear of a bull market/bear market. Depression maybe more complex, especially in winter/low light.....................................................................................................Thanks

 

[ironchef]

Hey guys,

Does anyone have any recommendation for books or material about how to alter bad habits. The books dont need to be trading specific but something that you found helpful in achieving behavior modification.

Thanks,

Instead of trying to get out of bad habits, develop new winning habits:

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, the power of thinking without thinking.

 

[murray t turtle]

Instead of trying to get out of bad habits, develop new winning habits:

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, the power of thinking without thinking.

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Thinking without thinking sounds like Mr. Mark Douglas pscho-babbel LOL;
unless that book involves your subconscious mind- which they say never forgets anything.By the way, I NEVER have bought TSLA junk[ nor junk silver lately] + most likely NEVER will. But if Wall Street thinks they may fire mr musk, I noted many months ago,OK. Mr Gladwell does note if both show contempt in a marriage =that's trouble. Sounds right.....Actually I'm getting more out of his David + Goliath book.......Misfits + Battling Giants/Gladwell.....................................................................,

 

[ironchef]

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Thinking without thinking sounds like Mr. Mark Douglas pscho-babbel LOL;
unless that book involves your subconscious mind- which they say never forgets anything.By the way, I NEVER have bought TSLA junk[ nor junk silver lately] + most likely NEVER will. But if Wall Street thinks they may fire mr musk, I noted many months ago,OK. Mr Gladwell does note if both show contempt in a marriage =that's trouble. Sounds right.....Actually I'm getting more out of his David + Goliath book.......Misfits + Battling Giants/Gladwell.....................................................................,

It says how you can harness your subconscious mind to make decision.