Syringe or Crayons for Inoculation

This is the fifth of a series of articles this week that began with the September 18, 2006 article entitled "Inoculate Yourself Against Toxic People".

Here's a great way to inoculate yourself against the effects toxic people have on your trading. Use a syringe. No, not the kind you find in a medical doctor’s office. Instead, it’s one from the field of NLP Psychology.

Bring to mind a toxic person. Imagine you have a huge gigantic syringe filled with detoxifying solution. Imagine poking the toxic person in whatever body part you please. Imagine the toxic person being no longer having any toxic effect on your trading.

Another method involves crayons. Again, this is from the field of NLP Psychology.

Bring to mind a toxic person. Then use your crayons to “fix” the picture of the toxic person so that you have a different emotional response to him. For example, if the sight of toxic person makes you feel angry, use your crayons to clothe that person as a clown, complete with a red nose that honks when you squeeze it. If that change makes you feel like laughing instead of feeling like being angry, the change worked. If not, then make whatever change using the crayons that would result in you having a different emotional response to that toxic person.

...back on Monday

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