Key Points:
- Mindfulness is not about feeling better but becoming better at feeling and perceiving the truth.
- Stand-on-one-leg exercise sharpens attention to bodily sensations and environmental data.
- Recognizing data that influences emotional biases can improve trading decisions.
In this midday mindfulness session, Sean Sawyer emphasizes that mindfulness isn’t a tool for instant emotional relief but a practice to enhance self-awareness, especially of uncomfortable truths. Through mindful breathing and an unconventional balance exercise, Sean teaches participants how to focus on the subtleties of bodily sensations, using these observations to enhance awareness. This session underscores the importance of tuning into how the body gathers and processes data, paralleling the importance of recognizing emotional biases in trading.
Sean says, “The sooner you can feel your FEELZ score moving, the better off you are.”
C.L.E.A.R. Mindset Connections:
Connect to the present moment and enhance your self-awareness with practical techniques.
- Participants are empowered with practical techniques to heighten their present-moment awareness, such as focusing on the temperature difference in their breath or standing on one leg.
Loosen your attachment to thoughts and emotions, and cultivate mental clarity and resilience.
- Standing on one leg challenges the mind to notice thoughts and judgments, much like how traders need to ignore distracting emotional narratives. This exercise helps traders develop the mental discipline to focus on relevant data and ignore emotional biases, thereby improving their trading decisions.
Embody your core values and align them with your actions to foster authenticity and purpose.
- Sean emphasizes grounding in one’s sensations to stay aligned with trading values, enhancing authenticity and purpose.
Accept all the present moment offers, whether wanted or not, and find peace and strength.
- Mindfulness is about feeling whatever comes up—good or bad—strengthening one’s ability to accept the full spectrum of experience without resistance.
Respond with decisive, informed action, transforming challenges into opportunities for growth.
- This practice helps traders sharpen their ability to detect emotional bias early, allowing them to act decisively before biases skew decisions.
Conclusion:
In this session, Sean highlights the power of mindfulness in enhancing both personal awareness and trading performance. By honing the ability to perceive subtle data, traders can better navigate their emotions and make more informed decisions, reassuring the effectiveness of mindfulness in trading.