【正文】 t time or space for gremlins to act up. In this flowing in the zone, we are pletely involved in the process rather than the prize. And this can happen only when we really live in the present. So the first step in taming Joe G is to simply notice him at work. Awareness is your tool. It will allow you to differentiate yourself from your gremlin. To put this in the here and now, take a moment and just focus on your breathing. Do it now and just be aware of what is happening. Most people change their style of breathing as soon as they start noticing the process. You probably started to take deeper breaths. That was not the assignment. You were only to bee aware of your breathing, not to change it. Or perhaps you stopped breathing for a moment. What is really going on is a search for a problem to solve. How am I supposed to be breathing? You were looking for an old category in which to put this instruction. Let39。 check out the Lotto players. The newspapers carry stories about the winners but never about the losers. Our effort here is about winning, learning, acplishing, and taking the stress out of successful trading. Polar thinking does not allow these alternatives. Winning is not the best thing, it is the only thing. Whenever we put on a trade or make an investment, we immediately monitor the market and/or other people39。t even imagine that concept. You spend some of the money you make at work to pay to see others play. Now there is an interesting concept. There seems little to connect your working and their playing, but they all are the same game. We just play it in a different manner. While we all want to perform in an optimum manner, we (the workers) and we (the players) go at it in very opposite ways. I39。s or the most recent crash or whatever we can drag up to talk about. The problem with organizing anything is that as soon as it bees organized it takes on a life of its own and its primary motivation is to surviue. Everything from junior proms to political parties wants to ensure its own survival. Four organizing forces move more money around than any country on earth: 1. War. 2. Medicine. 3. Insurance. 4. Religion. No nation has as much economic clout as any one of these four. Ask yourself: What do they have in mon? Exactly what every organization in the world has, including your brain structure: survival. 1. War breaks things and kills people. 2. Medicine patches up those who weren39。EDDIE, The Houston newspaper39。 the sports stars are paid for their individual performance. We are most interested here in our own individual performance in trading and investing. We do not want to be dependent on other people. Let39。 . 3. Focused relaxation. Flowing in the zone is elusive. Most of us experience a great deal of frustration attempting to get into and/or staying in this state for any period of time. Our inability to remain in this state frustrates our ability to get desired results and/or pels us to use our primary defensive mechanism, procrastination. Just as a runny nose is a symptom of a cold, procrastination and not getting desired results are symptoms of being out of the zone. Our most formidable opponent is none other than ourselves. As Pogo so truthfully put it, We have met the enemy and it is us. It is our misused mental technology that beats us to the ground. This misuse often discourages us so much that we consider simply giving up and leading a regular/normal/average life. Our goal is to get in the zone and flow while using the same techniques to automagically take the stress from success. RIGHTBRAIN TRADING FOR LEFTBRAIN PEOPLEOur current educational system is heavily loaded with leftbrain learning and neglects our rightbrain zone. About the only activity that really teaches how to get into the zone is athletics. Most of our teachers neglect the coaching aspects of their job and substitute the inferior standardization of rote learning. There is too much math (left brain) and not enough music (right brain), and that hampers our success and enjoyment of living and winning. What we know for sure is that the standard way of thinking that we learned in school (including especially business schools) is not very rewarding and produces many more life failures than successes. In modity trading, for example, over 90 percent of all traders lose money consistently. The reason is that the mon mode of thinking is not productive in the naturalistic world of the markets, and losing rather consistently produces a diminishing enjoyment of our tasks. We will examine the power of logical trading based on the proper use of our mental equipment rather than the bipolar thinking of win/lose. By moving from left hemispheric (digital) thinking to right hemispheric (analog) thinking, we will gain financial and worryfree peace. We find that Chaos gives us choice, and by right choosing we create everything we value. We learn that the markets work just like our minds, and by understanding our minds we can use the markets in any fashion that suits us. We must get to know our opponent, whom we will name Joe Gremlin (Joe G). The concept of gremlins became popular during World War II. They were blamed for anything that did not perform as it was designed to do. Joe G is the product of bipolar thinking and is our biggest roadblock to flowing in the zone. In this chapter, we will examine what advantages and attributes we can bring to bear on this problem of enjoying maximum performance and winning consistently. We will formulate a procedure of getting into this flow automagically whenever we choose. We will look inside our brain/mind to see how we trap ourselves by the thoughts we think and the words we use. Finally, using equipment we already have, we will devise a game plan to use in our trading and in our lives. We will tune up our motor to qualify for any race we choose. Our own best speed will bring victory, prizes, good feeling, and a joy of living unknown