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Thanks, Jack.
Last week, I really enjoyed using the EmWave. Right up until the moment when I felt I had tacit permission to leave the computer screen, and to do so didnât constitute a lack of discipline or focus. As soon as I was liberated from that imaginary prison, the EmWave earpiece transformed into a shackle, locking me to my chair. I need to see it, once more, for what it is, an invaluable monitoring and biofeedback device, which can be clipped and unclipped at leisure as circumstance demands.
Still on level two, Iâm practicing coherence and enjoying the games. This was my longest non-RTH session to date (30 mins):
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A good friend of mine is a masseuse, a Reiki practitioner, and easily one of the most grounded and balanced people Iâve ever met. She moved back to Vancouver a couple of years ago, but while she was here, she raved about a meditation space in Covent Garden. I suddenly have so much more time on my hands, so had been thinking about trying something alone those lines, in order to make the coherent state a more familiar and accessible one.
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Just three workouts into my new cardio regime, and I can already feel the difference. Perhaps itâs all in my mind, but for long stretches in my life, Iâve been completely hooked on that post-exercise endorphin rush that few other things could rival. Often, returning to exercise after a layoff, the feeling would be one of being reborn, or alive again.
Iâm doing some clinics at a Crisis-managed homeless shelter over Xmas, and am looking forward to experiencing a different kind of coherence.
Youâre right that my life has been very unbalanced lately. Piece by piece â or circle by circle â I intend to restore that which has been lacking.
p.s. What are the sub-circles?
Last week, I really enjoyed using the EmWave. Right up until the moment when I felt I had tacit permission to leave the computer screen, and to do so didnât constitute a lack of discipline or focus. As soon as I was liberated from that imaginary prison, the EmWave earpiece transformed into a shackle, locking me to my chair. I need to see it, once more, for what it is, an invaluable monitoring and biofeedback device, which can be clipped and unclipped at leisure as circumstance demands.
Still on level two, Iâm practicing coherence and enjoying the games. This was my longest non-RTH session to date (30 mins):
<img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2231870>
A good friend of mine is a masseuse, a Reiki practitioner, and easily one of the most grounded and balanced people Iâve ever met. She moved back to Vancouver a couple of years ago, but while she was here, she raved about a meditation space in Covent Garden. I suddenly have so much more time on my hands, so had been thinking about trying something alone those lines, in order to make the coherent state a more familiar and accessible one.
<img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2231808http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2231808>
Just three workouts into my new cardio regime, and I can already feel the difference. Perhaps itâs all in my mind, but for long stretches in my life, Iâve been completely hooked on that post-exercise endorphin rush that few other things could rival. Often, returning to exercise after a layoff, the feeling would be one of being reborn, or alive again.
Iâm doing some clinics at a Crisis-managed homeless shelter over Xmas, and am looking forward to experiencing a different kind of coherence.
Youâre right that my life has been very unbalanced lately. Piece by piece â or circle by circle â I intend to restore that which has been lacking.
p.s. What are the sub-circles?
While searching for local meditation classes, I came across this relevant snippet...
The quickest way to relaxation is to be in the present. The easiest way to be in the present is by focusing on your senses: sight, sound, smell, taste or touch. Research has shown that most adults spend about 55 minutes in every hour thinking about the past or the future; whilst they are doing this, they are quite clearly not in the present or using their senses to the full. Excessive thinking is the fuel that powers the bodyâs stress response. Ironically, because we do it so little, being in the present is the most relaxing place for us to be. One of the easiest ways for us to stay in the present is by using our senses to the full â sensing and thinking are opposite functions; one induces calm, the other anxiety.
The quickest way to relaxation is to be in the present. The easiest way to be in the present is by focusing on your senses: sight, sound, smell, taste or touch. Research has shown that most adults spend about 55 minutes in every hour thinking about the past or the future; whilst they are doing this, they are quite clearly not in the present or using their senses to the full. Excessive thinking is the fuel that powers the bodyâs stress response. Ironically, because we do it so little, being in the present is the most relaxing place for us to be. One of the easiest ways for us to stay in the present is by using our senses to the full â sensing and thinking are opposite functions; one induces calm, the other anxiety.
Nice to see you have had an 'aha' moment about that. I was rather amused when you found that looking outside the window improved your state, but then continued checking your score on the computer screen.
Availing yourself of a 2500 year tradition detailing the theory and , especially, the practice of mindful breathing would seem a sensible idea. London offers many possibilities. I've also heard good things about the Covent Garden place, and I believe there's a center near Wimbledon as well. Also a major one connected to a monastery just outside London, near Hemel Hempstead.
There are also some good books, though I don't believe anything beats full immersion in the practice.
- palinuro
Thanks for the suggestions, Pali.
Bought 'The Meditator's Handbook' a few years ago, but didn't make it past chapter one.
I agree with you that nothing beats total immersion for rapid learning. Plugged in a search on Hemel Hempstead, and came up with the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, which is less than an hour's drive from here. Will look into this further.
Bought 'The Meditator's Handbook' a few years ago, but didn't make it past chapter one.
I agree with you that nothing beats total immersion for rapid learning. Plugged in a search on Hemel Hempstead, and came up with the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, which is less than an hour's drive from here. Will look into this further.
The small circles are the 12 topics of the 12-three hour classes Liz and I attended.
The notes from these amount to about a 1 1/2 inch three ring binder.
The Guidebook refers to these notes.
Our last session was to create a plan. So I did that before class and bound copies and stuffed a CD inside the back cover.
As you would expect I didvided the plan into three levels:
Part I The what and why of how the balance works for me.
Part II How all the parts and aspects of the balance work separately and together. (My owner's operating guide and practices)
Part III All my splendiferous support and resources. In this section there is a "standard support package" for each of the five big circles. These gin up to about 450 specific reference like pages on the 12 small topics as they relate to the 5 big topics that provide the balance. So I am partly hard copy and partly electronic files that could be printed and stuffed into a big three ring binder.
It turns out to be the book the two instructors always wanted to write over their 10 years of tuning up the course they entitle: Coronary Artery Disease can be Stabilized and Reversed.
The Meditation does engender the coherence state quite nicely. There are many many ways to accomplish this.
We were all very fortunate to have the instructors we did. Our T'ia Chi each class lasted nearly an hour. This is a very coherence daily practice. Our instructor's instructor lived with her in Tucson for years and she returned to China several times to be with him in his later years. He is the person in the Moyers "Healing in the Mind" series and also mentioned in Eisenberg's book "Encounters with Qi", the MD who accompanied Moyers to China.
I added the Stark and Stark to the Guidebook and it will be in the future courses.
It is my practice to duplicate the format B. Franklin mentions in his Autobiography by substituting the 12 cicle for his first 12 virtues. He did one a week in rotation each quarter and finally found a 13th (Humility) later. I also each week take adjacent pairs and consider their relationships. This set of combos takes a lot of weeks.
We all plan to use this refinement process and meet monthly until we have a new resource for the course as a package.
As in anything, getting to balance and behavior is an iterative refinement drill.
Balance takes the FFR and BE out of the way a person lives. By having an alternative first recourse as the instructors do, the way life works turns out very differently.
You can see where a learner coming to bootcamp un contaminated by the CW or PA is quite and advantage towards achieving coherence. As you become aware of the alternative to FFR and BE, you will very able to observe those who operate in a "survival" mode where FRR and BE dominate almost without exception.
Boot camp's drills allowed the "never empty" to come into view through repeated drills. the trust based partnership possible with the markets comes from having coherence in the space and accepting the tells of the market continually.
MADA forms a coherence routine of four separate mental processes that are done under coherence.
The result is continually taking the market's offer and at a multiple of the market's offer. as you will find out, when you feel any of the symptoms of sympathetic type trading, it is just an input to you that you may not know that you know. At this time your bear down back into the coherence of the parasympathetic.
the 1 through 12 of the small circles are:
1. Risk factor assessment; risk factor modification
2. Nourishment for the heart.
3. Heart Math
4. The Mystery of Chi
5. An Ornish hour (Ornish was a poineer in Balance)
6. Exercise for a lifetime
7. Navigating the Aisles (there is a lot to overcome re the food industry labelling misling of people)
8. Supplements and the heart.
9. Food choices for a lifetime; creating a food plan Each meeting involved a sitdown dinner where dishes were made by participants from a three ring cookbook of receipes from all over the world. Tucson is supplied from all over the world it turns out.
10. Heart Medications
11. Creating resiliency
12. Creating your personal plan.
I quit paying Med Malpractice insurance about 7 years ago; I was a lowly trauma guy from the EMT stabilization sphere. Almost all those who came through the ER door were the result of FFR and BE failure.
As you would expect there is a noticable increase in trauma these days that is financially driven. Having a neutral bias is important; it is coherent. So I was a contributor in the classes regarding the "effects" of FFR and BE as to what people in ET inflict upon themselves. Not so much the past the tipping point OCD but moreso the fear, anxiety and anger of the sympathetic orientation to trading of CW and PA.
the high rate of failure in trading has nothing to do with the mind's capabilities. People learn repeated failure simply through how they "freeze up" or "freakout" as a consequence of seeing the screen. With Scott who is doing the indicator ATS, the most fearful part of the screen is removable (price). It is hard to imagine what it is like for people to use a "price only" appraoch when price is not necessary for trading at an intermediate money velocity (SCT intermediate).
The notes from these amount to about a 1 1/2 inch three ring binder.
The Guidebook refers to these notes.
Our last session was to create a plan. So I did that before class and bound copies and stuffed a CD inside the back cover.
As you would expect I didvided the plan into three levels:
Part I The what and why of how the balance works for me.
Part II How all the parts and aspects of the balance work separately and together. (My owner's operating guide and practices)
Part III All my splendiferous support and resources. In this section there is a "standard support package" for each of the five big circles. These gin up to about 450 specific reference like pages on the 12 small topics as they relate to the 5 big topics that provide the balance. So I am partly hard copy and partly electronic files that could be printed and stuffed into a big three ring binder.
It turns out to be the book the two instructors always wanted to write over their 10 years of tuning up the course they entitle: Coronary Artery Disease can be Stabilized and Reversed.
The Meditation does engender the coherence state quite nicely. There are many many ways to accomplish this.
We were all very fortunate to have the instructors we did. Our T'ia Chi each class lasted nearly an hour. This is a very coherence daily practice. Our instructor's instructor lived with her in Tucson for years and she returned to China several times to be with him in his later years. He is the person in the Moyers "Healing in the Mind" series and also mentioned in Eisenberg's book "Encounters with Qi", the MD who accompanied Moyers to China.
I added the Stark and Stark to the Guidebook and it will be in the future courses.
It is my practice to duplicate the format B. Franklin mentions in his Autobiography by substituting the 12 cicle for his first 12 virtues. He did one a week in rotation each quarter and finally found a 13th (Humility) later. I also each week take adjacent pairs and consider their relationships. This set of combos takes a lot of weeks.
We all plan to use this refinement process and meet monthly until we have a new resource for the course as a package.
As in anything, getting to balance and behavior is an iterative refinement drill.
Balance takes the FFR and BE out of the way a person lives. By having an alternative first recourse as the instructors do, the way life works turns out very differently.
You can see where a learner coming to bootcamp un contaminated by the CW or PA is quite and advantage towards achieving coherence. As you become aware of the alternative to FFR and BE, you will very able to observe those who operate in a "survival" mode where FRR and BE dominate almost without exception.
Boot camp's drills allowed the "never empty" to come into view through repeated drills. the trust based partnership possible with the markets comes from having coherence in the space and accepting the tells of the market continually.
MADA forms a coherence routine of four separate mental processes that are done under coherence.
The result is continually taking the market's offer and at a multiple of the market's offer. as you will find out, when you feel any of the symptoms of sympathetic type trading, it is just an input to you that you may not know that you know. At this time your bear down back into the coherence of the parasympathetic.
the 1 through 12 of the small circles are:
1. Risk factor assessment; risk factor modification
2. Nourishment for the heart.
3. Heart Math
4. The Mystery of Chi
5. An Ornish hour (Ornish was a poineer in Balance)
6. Exercise for a lifetime
7. Navigating the Aisles (there is a lot to overcome re the food industry labelling misling of people)
8. Supplements and the heart.
9. Food choices for a lifetime; creating a food plan Each meeting involved a sitdown dinner where dishes were made by participants from a three ring cookbook of receipes from all over the world. Tucson is supplied from all over the world it turns out.
10. Heart Medications
11. Creating resiliency
12. Creating your personal plan.
I quit paying Med Malpractice insurance about 7 years ago; I was a lowly trauma guy from the EMT stabilization sphere. Almost all those who came through the ER door were the result of FFR and BE failure.
As you would expect there is a noticable increase in trauma these days that is financially driven. Having a neutral bias is important; it is coherent. So I was a contributor in the classes regarding the "effects" of FFR and BE as to what people in ET inflict upon themselves. Not so much the past the tipping point OCD but moreso the fear, anxiety and anger of the sympathetic orientation to trading of CW and PA.
the high rate of failure in trading has nothing to do with the mind's capabilities. People learn repeated failure simply through how they "freeze up" or "freakout" as a consequence of seeing the screen. With Scott who is doing the indicator ATS, the most fearful part of the screen is removable (price). It is hard to imagine what it is like for people to use a "price only" appraoch when price is not necessary for trading at an intermediate money velocity (SCT intermediate).
Thanks for the explanation, Jack.
The cover is essentially a mind-map in outline, and a wonderful demonstration of how a gestalt is more than just the sum of its parts.
I remember you mentioning the venerable Tai Chi instructor at the start of the thread. The importance of first-class instruction cannot be overvalued. On a personal level, what I look forward to most about the partnership and the illimitable possibilities it engenders is access to the most sought-after teachers and guides. BE DO HAVE begetting the next level of BE and DO.
I absolutely concur that a learner unencumbered by CW baggage would be at a tremendous advantage coming into a bootcamp setting. As in learning any endeavour impeccably and under expert instruction from the outset â when there are no knowledge or skill prerequisites â a blank slate offers the clearest foundation.
The ânever emptyâ has certainly come into view, and Iâm slowly cultivating the habit of trust and coherence.
I canât determine the exact point in time at which most of ET suddenly became unreadable. Painful self-destructive monologues, artificially imposed limitations and raging hair-splitting debates. Itâs even more difficult to look at the charts⦠like viewing a primitive alien culture, beating sweat from their collective brow as they push their square wheels uphill.
The cover is essentially a mind-map in outline, and a wonderful demonstration of how a gestalt is more than just the sum of its parts.
I remember you mentioning the venerable Tai Chi instructor at the start of the thread. The importance of first-class instruction cannot be overvalued. On a personal level, what I look forward to most about the partnership and the illimitable possibilities it engenders is access to the most sought-after teachers and guides. BE DO HAVE begetting the next level of BE and DO.
I absolutely concur that a learner unencumbered by CW baggage would be at a tremendous advantage coming into a bootcamp setting. As in learning any endeavour impeccably and under expert instruction from the outset â when there are no knowledge or skill prerequisites â a blank slate offers the clearest foundation.
The ânever emptyâ has certainly come into view, and Iâm slowly cultivating the habit of trust and coherence.
I canât determine the exact point in time at which most of ET suddenly became unreadable. Painful self-destructive monologues, artificially imposed limitations and raging hair-splitting debates. Itâs even more difficult to look at the charts⦠like viewing a primitive alien culture, beating sweat from their collective brow as they push their square wheels uphill.
Dreadnought
A fresh look at the specs:
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A fresh look at the specs:
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