RT Yumi🌸 【Your Emotional Problems In Trading Are Not A Nervous System Problem】 Your body freezes every time you take a stop loss, your heart jumps every time your unrealized profit shrinks, and your hands shake the moment you enter a trade. If those reactions have been explained to you as your autonomic nervous system acting up, or your amygdala reacting, and that has made you try to regulate your nervous system or calm it down, then you are fundamentally mistaking cause and effect. ■ The Nervous System Is The Result, Not The Cause Let me be clear. Your nervous system is reacting. That is a fact. Your body really does freeze, and your heart really does jump. I am not denying that. But the nervous system is not the cause. It is the result. Your nervous system is simply reacting to the recognition you hold toward the loss, the win, and the loss in front of you as "bad, something that should be avoided." The nervous system is nothing more than a device faithfully following the meaning you have assigned. That is why, even if you regulate your nervous system, if the root that recognizes loss as something bad has not changed, the next time a loss comes, your nervous system will react the same way again. It is the same as clearing the smoke without putting out the fire. So how does that root recognition change. ■ Recognizing Loss As Bad Means You Have Not Prepared This is the core that almost no one talks about. If you recognize loss as "something bad," that means, in reverse, that you have not done the necessary preparation. You have not completed the preparation of defining the conditions that allow probability to work, testing them across a large sample size, mathematically calculating position size based on the performance obtained from that test, and reaching the point where all that remains is to repeat it. Because you have not passed through that preparation, you do not understand from the bottom of your heart that a rule based loss is a necessary part of forming positive expectancy. Because you do not understand it, loss simply looks like "something bad." In other words, recognizing loss as something bad is itself a sign of insufficient preparation. The problem of recognition and the problem of preparation are not separate. They are the front and back of the same thing. And when you actually pass through that preparation, the nervous system reaction itself changes. You define the conditions that allow probability to work, test them across a large sample size, mathematically calculate position size based on that performance, and repeat it again and again through practice with your own hands, passing through the way the law of large numbers works as something you have verified for yourself. Only after passing through that does trust get built, and the belief you held, the belief that placed value on short term wins and losses, changes. At that point, your belief changes into this. Following these rules and continuing to repeat them is what success means. Only after this change in recognition and belief does the very target your nervous system reacts to change. The loss in front of you is no longer something bad, and instead, you begin to recognize deviating from the rules as the thing that is bad. That is why, in the opposite direction, you become unable to deviate from the rules. This is not training the nervous system. It is not learning to endure, and it is not becoming mentally stronger. It is fixing the root of the problem. ■ "But Fear Is Something The Body Reacts To On Its Own" Here, many people will think this. "But fear and tension are not logic. The body reacts on its own. So shouldn't I calm the nervous system down first." Yes, there are fears where the body reacts almost instinctively. Thunder. Darkness under your feet. A snake suddenly appearing in front of you. These do not require much meaning. The body reacts because they are close to survival. But fear in trading is different. Think about it. A baby may be startled by a loud noise or thunder. That is close to the body reacting instinctively. But show that same baby a chart, and nothing happens. Show a red candle. Show the moment price hits a stop loss. Show unrealized profit shrinking on the screen. The baby will not freeze. The baby will not panic. The baby will not feel anger or fear. Why? Because the baby has not assigned any meaning to the chart yet. To that baby, the chart is only lines, colors, and light moving on a screen. There is no "loss." There is no "danger." There is no "something bad is happening." You do not react to the chart because the body is instinctively afraid of charts. You react because you have already assigned the meaning of "danger" and "something bad is happening" to that chart. A chart is not thunder. A red candle is not darkness. A stop loss is not a snake. So the chart itself is not producing fear. The loss itself is not directly attacking your body. What your body reacts to is the meaning you have assigned to it. That is why, even if it feels like the nervous system is reacting on its own, there is recognition before that reaction. You recognize the situation as danger, so the body responds as if danger is present. And what rewrites that recognition is not regulating the nervous system. It is preparation. If you have truly understood, through verification and practice with your own hands, that a rule based loss is an essential part of forming positive expectancy, that loss is no longer processed as danger. If it is not processed as danger, the nervous system cannot react to it in the same way. The body reacts. That is true. But what the body reacts to is decided by recognition. And that recognition is built by preparation. ■ The Fire Starts Before The Nervous System So stop trying to regulate your nervous system. It is only the smoke rising from the fire. What you truly need to change is the recognition that sees losses, wins, and losses as bad. And that recognition is not changed by telling yourself something in your head. It is rewritten only after you pass through preparation. Defining the conditions that allow probability to work, testing them, calculating size from that performance, practicing with your own hands, and verifying the law of large numbers for yourself. Do not try to solve an emotional problem through the nervous system. The fire is far before the nervous system. It is inside your preparation. 📚 Content for serious traders https://payhip.com/YumiSakura/collection/e-books Thank you for reading.