Dear Joshua,
I'd like to start trading in the stock market again - but this is an emotional topic for me. For a little background - a few years back, I received my Series 7 license and I tried to make a go of day trading the stock market while keeping my day job part-time. I loved combining my love of computers and programming with trading the stock market. It was fun, exciting and a perfect match for my personality. For an extremely abbreviated version of what happened, I invested a large amount of time, effort and money into the endeavor that ultimately didn't work out and left me in a giant financial hole that I had to climb out of along with a very bruised ego. It was really the first time I really, really wanted to do something but could not. So now I feel a bit like a dog that that has been beaten and it brings up a lot of "emotional baggage" when I think about trading again. I'd love to find that feeling again of joy and positive expectation around trading. Also, as a bonus, I should be able to be wildly successful at trading utilizing the laws of the universe... As always, your perspective on all this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Steve
Dear Steve,
An understanding of the laws of the universe allows you to have, be, and do anything you want, as long as you create the right vibrational environment for what it is that you want to enter into your personal reality. Your life has caused expansion and from this new level you birth new desires. Now that you have experienced something, you are lead into a direction of what is preferred. You make choices based on what you think you want in any given moment in time. From this stance, you attract thoughts. The thoughts are of the feeling of what is desired.
As you stand now in this specific place in time, you have a thought that you would like to day trade once again. There were certain aspects of this that appealed to you. Mostly you enjoyed the thrill, the adrenaline rush, and the overcoming of fear. This is a theme in this life for you.
You feel a sense of accomplishment when you make a trade and are successful. You have fear prior to the trade, you do some research, you believe something will happen to cause the stock to move in the direction you want, and you make the decision to make the trade. When you are successful, you feel elated. It is this feeling you are yearning for. When the trade does not move in the direction you thought it would, you feel failure. If not for this feeling of failure, this profession would be very appealing.
So what is the difference in the feeling of success and failure? Did anything really happen to make you feel one way or the other, or was it all concocted in your mind? The fact that a certain stock moves up or down is irrelevant to most people, but to you it becomes extremely important. You create the importance of this otherwise meaningless movement of value. In doing so you create intense feelings. The feelings of success, achievement, and winning are ecstatic, while the feelings of loss, failure, and incompetence are painful. But you created the feelings yourself. You might say you enjoy the feelings of failure as much as the feelings of success. The money is really meaningless. You're not going to put yourself in a position of losing everything. So you're simply manipulating your own feelings for the fun of it.
Why do you think it's important to feel successful in this manner for you specifically? What do you need to prove? Why are you constantly challenging your own sense of worthiness? As a successful day trader, you'll impress no one. So you're not trying to prove your worthiness to others, you're trying to prove your worthiness to yourself. We will say that this is unnecessary.You are already worthy. There is no need to prove anything to yourself. Trying to do so will only make you feel even less worthy.
Until you've resolved this worthiness issue, you cannot become financially successful day trading stocks. Your core feelings are of unworthiness and the joy you seek from this endeavor is to make yourself feel worthy. Do you see how this is impossible? You must feel worthy first and then the success will come.
If you truly felt worthy you would be truly successful at anything you did. If you truly felt worthy, you would not want to day trade. The good feelings your received from day trading were the ones that made you feel worthy. However, if you already felt worthy, you would not need those feelings to come from this and thus you would have no interest in day trading.
If you felt worthy, you would be led to higher-level interests and passions. You would focus on discovering who you really are and living a life in love. You would drop any desire to prove yourself. You have already proven yourself countless times and this no longer appeals to you. Now you do things for the exploration of the feeling of it. Now you push yourself out of your comfort zone and you take inspired action to create something grander.
Your conversations with us have led you to a new vibration. You are seeking something more and your untrained mind has a need to fill in the blanks. You are moving rapidly and you have no idea where all of this will lead, so you create ideas based on what you know. You cannot see the road ahead and you try to fill in the missing pieces before the story unfolds as it is meant to.
You can relax knowing that everything will be revealed in time. You do not need to justify your existence especially to yourself. You no longer need to be right, but you might want to practice being patient. Don't try to make things happen, start observing your inner feelings and how they manifest into ideas, thoughts and your everyday reality. It is all unfolding right before your eyes. There's nothing you need to do other than focusing on feeling good. Until you are chronically feeling good, demanding that you feel good, noticing that you're feeling good, and appreciating that you're feeling good, you don't need to do anything else.
If we were living your life in your body, we would take note of how we felt. For us to be thrust into your body would be a shocking experience. We would feel some discomfort in the form of tension. We would feel this nagging, longing for more. We would notice the conflict between what is and what is wanted and we would understand the stress this places you under. We would feel the fear and the worry. We would feel the doubt you feel. We would see how all the little things annoy you and how you see the wrong in so many things. So we wouldn't do anything more to try to alleviate these feelings. We would stop and adjust our approach to life.
The first thing we would do would be to slow down and take note of our feelings. We would meditate and practice slowing thought. Thought is attracted by what we feel so we would try to feel nothing in order to stop the attraction of random thought. While meditating we would practice the feeling of joy. Do you know what joy feels like? Then think thoughts of joy.
When we opened our eyes we would look around to find things that represented love. We would look at our home and the people we love. We would express our love for them. We would tell them we loved them and we would know we are loved in return, even if it is not expressed. We would have confidence in our love. We would not doubt that we loved or that we were loved.
If we felt good enough, we might consider going to work; your work. Once there, we would appreciate our chair and our desk and the power of our computer. We would not focus on what was wrong, but only look at what was right and the possibilities for an improved future. We would not consider what people were saying because we would understand that everything they say is being perceived by us based on how we were feeling. We could only hope to understand their true message from a place of love and we could not know what their life was like from their perspective. Nothing anyone would say could have a negative impact on us. We would never care what anyone was thinking about us because we could never know and it would not matter anyway since it was all coming from their perspective. We would focus on feeling good.
We would not care if our boss thought we were doing a good job or not. We would love him anyway. We would not care if we were fired because the universe unfolds as it must and we will be led to the physical representation that matched our feelings. Since we felt good, we know that whatever manifests in our reality will also feel good. We would simply focus on what's interesting and move in the direction of our passion.
We would never try to fill in the manifestation of what is wanted with any action other than what was fun, interesting, or compelling. We would observe what was happening and be amused by all of it. Then we would think, "How magical this event was" and "How interesting that person was" and we would know that we are being changed so that we will be ready for our desire once it comes to us.
It would be easy for us to change our approach to life if we were placed in your body. We know how this system works. We are used to feeling good and we would demand that we feel good in your body. Nothing else would matter and we know that until we started feeling good, we could not attract what we wanted.
Our advice to you, since you asked for it, is to avoid any action that you think will make you feel worthy. The fact that you want to feel worthy means that you do not feel worthy. If you do not feel worthy, the laws of the universe will show you how you feel in the physical representation of your reality. Overcoming fear feels good. Success feels great. This is how you're supposed to feel anyway. If you were truly successful, success would feel normal.
You are worthy, you are unique, you are so much more than what you perceive. Start feeling that way and you'll begin to see what we mean.
You are love.
Joshua
