Key Points:
- Begin the week with awareness, focusing on the present moment instead of rushing toward future outcomes.
- Practice a body scan to uncover hidden tension or emotions and stay grounded through mindful breathing.
- Embrace the unique edge mindfulness offers traders, creating clarity amid market pressures.
Summary:
In this session, Sean Sawyer guides the SPP community through a mindful start to the trading week. Recognizing that Mondays bring high expectations and heightened emotions, Sean encourages participants to let go of the “gap-up” excitement and other future-focused anxieties. Instead, he invites a series of deep breaths, awareness of physical sensations, and an open-hearted approach to being present with one’s body and thoughts. This grounding ritual sets the tone for facing trading and personal life challenges with resilience and clarity.
“We’re not alone in this…we’re working on similar stuff, similar struggles, similar goals. That’s what makes community powerful,”
Sean reminds participants, highlighting the role of shared experience and intentionality in their practice. In observing thoughts of perfectionism and judgments that often arise in mindfulness, Sean encourages participants to embrace these moments as reminders of their goals, grounding each trader in the discipline of staying aware.
C.L.E.A.R. Mindset Connections
Connect to the present moment and enhance your self-awareness with practical techniques.
- Focus on deep breathing and body scanning as tools to bring attention to the present, away from market-driven distractions.
Loosen your attachment to thoughts and emotions, and cultivate mental clarity and resilience.
- Notice judgments and perfectionism, allowing these thoughts to pass without clinging to them, fostering mental resilience.
Embody your core values and align them with your actions to foster authenticity and purpose.
- Reflect on your unique commitment to mindfulness, setting yourself apart from the average trader’s approach to performance.
Accept all the present moment offers, whether wanted or not, and find peace and strength.
- Acknowledge any physical tension, stress, or excitement as part of the moment without rushing to change or fix it.
Respond with decisive, informed action, transforming challenges into opportunities for growth.
- By staying aware of the body and mind, approach trading with calm decisiveness, ready to handle any fluctuations with focus.
By grounding in mindfulness together, traders in this session gain a calm yet proactive stance for the week ahead. Sean emphasizes that while not every trader is willing to do this work, those who do gain a decisive edge, both in trading and life.