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       Changing Your Mind
       By: fxvictory Date: September 14, 2014, 10:14 am
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       The following is an excerpt from The Psychology of Trading
       (Wiley, 2003).
       Our normal states of mind, which define most of our daily
       experience, lie within a restricted range of our possibilities.
       Your immersion in daily routine keeps you locked in routine mind
       states.  This traps you in problem patterns that have been
       anchored to these states.  The heart of counseling is the
       introduction of new, constructive patterns during times when a
       person is operating outside of their emotional, physical, and
       cognitive norms.  Attempting different change techniques—such as
       positive imagery or self-talk—is unlikely to succeed if those
       techniques are administered during periods of normal, routine
       functioning.  The psychological techniques that are most
       powerful in accelerating change create positive traumas,
       providing new experiences during extraordinary states of
       cognitive and emotional processing.  Ordinary human
       consciousness—not necessarily any abnormalities associated with
       mental disorders—is the enemy of profitable trading.
       Black mamba, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and
       Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University in
       Syracuse, NY and a daily trader of the stock index futures
       markets.  He is the author of The Psychology of Trading (Wiley,
       2003) and coeditor of the forthcoming The Art and Science of the
       Brief Psychotherapies (American Psychiatric Press, 2004).  Many
       of his articles on trading psychology and daily trading
       strategies are archived at his website
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