【正文】 ll him that he is just not wele there any more. ~rading is a state of being, not doing.MORE ABOUT JOE GREMLINThere is a critical, judgmental, negative voice in all of us. Part of it is there naturally, but most of it has been learned from our teachers. We use it against ourselves to judge, intimidate, and threaten ourselves. The price we pay for this free loader is our own personal initiative and the success we could have if that part of us could be kept in control or used judiciously. Our personal Joe G takes most of the joy out of living. Our Joe G is born with us, and its job is to keep us out of trouble. In the market, it bees our riskreward warden and generally evaluates, from a negative standpoint, every move we make and every thought we think. Whenever you have a positive, lifeenriching thought, Joe G raises its critical head to point out all the things that might go wrong, including a meteorite that just might fall on our heads. Throughout our life, anything that goes wrong or off course is a signal to Joe G to jump up and say, I told you so, You shouldn39。t be trading with that many contracts, You are going to lose everything that you have ever worked for. A FEW WORDS ABOUT THEGREMLINTAMING PROCESSTaming your gremlin is a simple (not to be confused with easy) process. It can even be an enjoyable process that takes practice and persistence. Taming your gremlin requires the sort of effort implied by words like allowing and letting, not by words like trying and straining. Three basic processes are involved in taming your 1. Simply noticing. 2. Choosing and playing with options. 3 . Being in process. The problem with Joe G39。s polar thinking is that we have only one option. It is a blackandwhite world. All abortions are bad, All Indians are lazy, You can39。t trust lawyers, and so on. Think what would happen if we had only two choices at a traffic light. (Oops! My own Joe G almost said a red light instead of a traffic light.) What if there were no yellow lights. Every light you approach would bring up anticipation and fear that the light might turn red with no warning and you might be in trouble. That kind of situation is a roadblock to your creativity and your profitability. It is like pointing a pistol at your own head and wondering whether the gun is loaded or not. No one has the power over you that your gremlin has. To tame him, you must start by simply noticing. To simply notice is to beaware—to pay attention. It is important to notice how you are, not why you are how you are. Thinking about and simply noticing are two very different activities. Thinking about remoues you from your present experience. Simply noticing puts you in contact with your present experience. Simply noticing is much more exciting and productive than thinking about. Simply noticing is a tool. When you are simply noticing, you are grounded in reality. However, when you focus your awareness on your thoughts, fantasies, ideas, and memories, you are involved in the world of makebelieve. It is often helpful to describe this gremlin and let us share with you our view of our own gremlin. Our goal in this section is for you to glance at how selfhurtful it is for you to entertain this gremlin. Consider the tremendous damage that it does to you every day that you listen to it, because whenever you listen to it, it has control over you. GremlinFree TradingHighly paid professional athletes are often thought of as getting paid to play children39。s games. What we often don39。t see is that to perform at this level, the athletes must play these games like children—with a spirit OI seiftrust, awareness, enthusiasm, belief, imagination, enjoyment, and, most of all, being pletely in the present moment. Whenever we are pletely in the present moment, there isn39。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。s do another exercise. This time, I want you to simply make yourself (or fake it, if you need to) yawn. Bee aware of what is happening as you are forcing the yawn. For almost everyone, at a certain point in the faking, the yawn takes on a life of its own and bees real. That exact point where it takes on a life of its own is the difference between thinking about and allowing. When it is on its own, you are allowing and you can bee AWARE. Trying hard is the opposite of allowing. Let39。s do one other simple but not easy exercise. The assignment this time is to do something you have already done probably a hundred times today. You certainly know how to do it well, only now let39。s do it on purpose. Here it is. Swallow five times as quickly as you possibly can. Before you read on, try it now. What were your results? With most of us it gets more difficult each time and many simply cannot do it five times without pausing for a while. What is happening is our Joe G is not equipped to allow and let gO. The only way to swallow correctly is to let go and let our mind/body do what it is capable of doing. Think about it. The final exercise to do right now is to play a simple game of Now I Am Aware Of. Using only