Four trades. Your own. Held for ninety seconds each.
An emotion arrives in the body before it arrives in the mind. Both before it evolves as a reactionary trade or a grounded response. Today takes you out of the head and back into the body to gain greater awareness of the signal before it becomes action taken.
An emotion moves through the body in about ninety seconds. The chemistry arrives, peaks and clears. Any frequency carried after that is feeding a story once told. This is where the ERX lives.
An ERX is a reaction. An ON PLAN trade is a response. The ninety seconds is the gap between them.
Today we bring up four of your own trades and hold each one for the full ninety. The data that arises in those ninety seconds is worth gathering. Nobody else can collect it, accept it and move on from it for you.
Movement shifts energy. With intention it may ground and calm the system. Often the body settles faster than the mind.
Start with a forward fold. Let the head hang heavy and feel the weight go down through the feet. Then roll up slowly, one vertebra at a time.
Follow the sequence from toe to head.
All of it works from the chair. Follow along live or move at whatever pace your body asks for.
In this order. Gentle rubbing, small circles or light tapping, about ten times at each point.
Lightly bounce on the feet for thirty to sixty seconds while shaking out the arms.
Go gently. Stop if anything hurts.
In for four. Hold for four. Out for four. Hold for four. Then release. That is one complete square. Two rounds at each location, sent there and left to rest.
Two squares at each location, feet to crown.
Where the breath feels stuck, sit with it, ask why, try another round of breath.
Notes
Perfection lives in the ratio of your trades and their expected value over time. The goal is to have more structured trades taken than emotionally reactive action trades. We are human after all.
A · The equationHold the equation first. See the shape of it before the trades arrive.
B · Structured programUse your strategy, your structured program, your plan, your process. Pick or create a trade to visually represent each category.
In the plan and paid.
1 · Define it
2 · Why I took it
Hold ninety seconds3 · The emotional cue received from the body
In the plan with the risk defined, and it cost you anyway.
1 · Define it
2 · Why I took it
Hold ninety seconds3 · The emotional cue received from the body
An emotional reactive action taken from an engaged trigger. An experience, a memory, a thought or a belief created the emotion and was given permission to initiate the trade.
Taken outside the plan and it paid anyway.
1 · Define it
2 · Why I took it
Hold ninety seconds3 · The emotional cue received from the body
Taken outside the plan in reaction to what had just happened.
1 · Define it
2 · Why I took it
Hold ninety seconds3 · The emotional cue received from the body
A decision executed in a market.
That is the whole of it.
Every trade is the outcome of a choice and a decision made.
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Everything else is the trade.