so I hope that you are starting to get an idea why self-awareness is so important in this section we are going to show you a few exercises that will help you to bring your awareness into everyday life I have already provided you with a few simple questions such as what am I doing how do I feel these are the basic questions which are actually bringing our our self awareness because as it was already mentioned in order to understand ourselves and our results it is first important to understand our thoughts feelings and behavior okay so this
was a little bit of theory now let's try a little exercise you can try to do in your daily life when you have the time and also while trading because with practice you can build your skill of self-awareness at the beginning it can be difficult especially if it is a new thing for you however with time it gets easier and you can really benefit from it now please begin to focus on my instructions and questions are you fully focused look around you where are you what is your environment what are you doing here now I
want you to concentrate EX exclusively on yourself inhale exhale think about your body how does it feel do you feel comfortable or is there anything unpleasant what about your back does your neck hurt now concentrate on your breath how are you breathing can you breathe freely or do you feel any t in your chest what about your legs and your hands do you feel relaxed perhaps you are wondering why we started to talk about the body it's because our body is a valuable source of information sometimes you can even recognize just by observing your own
body that you are experiencing feelings like being nervous anxious or other emot emotions so let's move on to your emotional state now how do you feel how is your day today has something happened that has affected your mood how would you describe your current mental state is it focused tired distracted or or maybe excited are you aware that you are feeling any type of emotion like sadness Joy anger frustration or maybe even fear if so try to catch this feeling and think about it where it might be coming from what are the reasons behind these
emotions our mental state also consists of thoughts what are you thinking about right now maybe you have some ideas about this course perhaps you are thinking about what you're going to have for a dinner if I find out that I'm thinking about something other then what I'm doing it's a sign that I'm not fully focused on the activity I'm doing and if I'm not fully focused I can deliver my big performance in trading but also in everyday life let's try to apply what we just went through think about your trading process it is crucial to
bring awareness all the time we must be as aware of what we are doing while trading as for example when we are driving a car otherwise we don't know what we are doing and it can negatively impact our performance now please try to recall how do you feel before placing a trade what are you thinking about do you have any expectations about the outcome of the trade got it nice now imagine that the trade is open what are your usual feelings during the time what are your thoughts how do you react when the price is
approaching your stoploss level are you aware of any changes in your body what about when the price is nearly hitting your take profit and then starts to reverse what are your emotions at that moment what do you usually do now imagine the trade has finished with a stop loss what is your typical reaction are there any specific thoughts come into mind during that time do you have any emotional reaction what if the trade would finish with a take profit what is your usual reaction after winning trade think about your thoughts emotions and now think about
the reviewing of your trade think about what do you think is important to focus on while reviewing the trades it may be quite difficult if you do not have any record of things you've been aware of now try to imagine the first trade before your last trade what symbol did you trade what were the reasons for taking that trade what were your thoughts during the trade how did you feel after perhaps you are not able to remember now and that is totally fine as that is how do human brain works we simply cannot remember everything
however that is why we should Journal it thanks to journaling you may realize where the mistakes were made and also discover patterns in your thinking feeling and behavior perhaps you may even discover some bad habits you wouldn't ever think of it also helps to organize your thoughts and get a better understanding of your actions in general because as you may know there is a difference between thinking about something writing it down or sing it out loud journaling is one of the best roles when it comes to Bringing awareness because most likely you're not going to
remember what happens during every single trait without our notes we won't understand what happened and and why we made the decisions we made it could happen that you would be even consistent when it comes to reviewing of your traits but it would be very difficult to find out for example why did you decide to C that position earlier at that moment plus if you are going to journal in between your sessions maybe it will help you prevent such unwanted impulsive actions you can Journal your own way or you can use our fdmo Journal where everything
is already prepared and easily accessible in your client area as you can see you can put here reasons for taking the trade your type of signal and other notes which you may find important such as your thoughts emotions Etc often those traders who Journal tend to focus on what already happened and journal everything just after the session or at the end of the day or they would just take a screenshot while opening the trade and after closing the position however to enhance the awareness you should record your notes before and within the process as well
