Traders struggle with discipline because their unconscious mind, which operates 95% of the time, reacts based on past conditioning, beliefs, and emotional responses rather than conscious decision-making. This makes it difficult to consistently follow rules and maintain discipline.
The unconscious mind, which controls 95% of our behavior, dictates how traders react to situations based on past experiences, beliefs, and emotional conditioning. It can sabotage trading decisions if not properly managed or reprogrammed.
Sam Daghash uses neurotransformational tools like hypnotherapy, neurolinguistic programming, and quantum therapy to reprogram the unconscious mind. This helps traders change their emotional responses, beliefs, and behaviors to become more disciplined and aligned with their trading goals.
Emotional regulation is crucial because traders often react emotionally to losses or gains, which can lead to poor decision-making. By managing emotions, traders can maintain discipline, stick to their strategies, and avoid self-sabotage.
Traders can improve mental rehearsal by using techniques like brain-heart coherence, which brings the nervous system into a calm state. This allows for better access to the unconscious mind, enabling more effective mental rehearsal and the creation of new neural pathways for better decision-making.
Traders may avoid exiting losing trades because of emotional attachments, such as fear of being wrong or proving themselves inadequate. This behavior is often rooted in past conditioning, where losses are associated with failure or inadequacy.
Gestalt refers to the accumulation of emotional experiences stored in the body, which forms patterns and belief systems. In trading, these stored emotions can influence future reactions, leading to heightened emotional responses during losses or other stressful situations.
Traders can clear emotional baggage through practitioner-led interventions that release stored emotional charges. This process allows traders to revisit past experiences without the associated emotional intensity, enabling them to respond more calmly and rationally in future trading scenarios.
Traders may hit a financial ceiling due to limiting beliefs about their self-worth or the perception of money. These beliefs, often rooted in past conditioning, create an emotional block that prevents them from feeling comfortable with higher levels of profitability.
Cultural conditioning, such as the pressure to perform or prove oneself, can create an inner critic that sabotages trading success. This conditioning often stems from upbringing, where high expectations and a need to prove worth can lead to emotional blocks in trading.
We often hear that having “Discipline” is the key to trading success. But many of us traders continue to struggle developing discipline and good habits for trading no matter how hard and how long we’ve tried. Could there be a deeper reason for this?
As fellow human traders, we are commonly faced with our own programming that we are often unaware of. In this special episode, Sam Daghash, a professional coach and cofounder (alongside cofounder David Capablanca, featured on Chat With Traders Episode 257) of the Conscious Trading Academy specializing in helping traders overcome mental barriers, dive into aspects of a trader’s mindset.
If we cannot think greater than we feel, then this would compel us to be more aware of our mental states which can sabotage our trading.
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