Psychedelics to Improve Your Psychology

We often talk about the number one factor in your trading success is your psychology. It's literally what is between your ears that determines how good you are as a trader. We talk about this a lot, and today we're going to talk about a controversial topic. We're gonna talk about the use of psychedelics to improve your psychology. Now, tonight, I literally just an hour ago finished a ketamine treatment, and I've been doing ketamine treatments over the last several months. Now ironically, if you had talked to me two years ago, and talked to me about using psychedelic drugs, I would have said no freakin way am I ever doing psychedelic drugs. No way. But through some connections I have, and through a program I've gone through, I started to see the potential benefits of using psychedelic drugs in a very targeted way, not recreationally. To be clear, we talk about this today, psychedelic drugs should never be taken recreationally. You should consult with a doctor, and anything you do with them should be in conjunction with a certified program, or a health practitioner who engages in dealing with psychedelic drugs. But now, having said that, there's some amazing benefits to psychedelic drugs.

I want to give you an analogy to start here. They've been having amazing success helping people deal with PTSD, particularly war veterans, and police officers. They've had incredible success dealing with depression, anxiety, and other disorders that people really struggle with. The kind of disorders that people are on other prescription drugs for years and years. But using some of these psychedelics, to actually be able to break through and do years of therapy in just a handful of sessions. Something that would have taken years to break through, can be done in three to five sessions, sometimes even one session, depending on how it's administered. Let's talk about this for a minute. Why does this work? Why is this such a big deal? Well, our ego, which starts to show up when around 12, or 13 years old, our ego has a positive intention of protecting us. Everybody thinks the ego is bad. Well, let's avoid labeling it, and let's just see what it is. What the ego does is it protects us, it protects you. The problem is, is that in conventional therapy, when you sit down and you work with a therapist, your ego sits between you and a therapist, and your ego is protecting you. It's protecting you from bringing up memories, or going back into past experiences that are traumatic, it doesn't want you to relive these. It runs games to make sure that you do not relive these. The analogy I heard that I like is the essence of you is your soul, it's your true self. You have your soul, and you have your ego, and in fact, what happens is your ego in order to protect you, essentially takes your soul and puts it in jail. It puts it in a cell and it slams the cell shut. Then what ego does is it patrols that cell back and forth, making sure that nobody is going to get inside to hurt you, the soul.

The ego thinks it's doing a good thing by protecting you. But the reality is, is you're stuck in prison. When you take psychedelics, what essentially happens is when you go under the influence of the drug, it's like taking the ego and throwing it off to the side, locking it in another cell, ripping open the cell doors and out comes the soul. Then in your experience, your soul, is free and able to fully express itself and be expressed upon. Essentially what the drug does is it opens up and allows you to fully realize what's going on. I'm gonna go in a more specific frame. In the more specific frame, this is my belief, it actually opens the door for you and God to connect directly. The ego runs interference from God. The ego likes separation from God, but the soul craves connection to God. Essentially, when the ego is removed, it allows the soul and God to connect directly, and because of this amazing changes can occur very, very rapidly. Traumas can be removed very, very quickly because the ego is out of the way.

Now, there's another aspect to this, I did a lot of research on this, and another aspect of this in my family, Alzheimer's and Dementia is a hereditary issue. I'm 54, and as they started to get into my late 40s, I started to notice my cognition, my memory really started to slip. Basic things like I couldn't remember where my keys were, or I'd find myself walking in a circle in the kitchen, trying to remember what was I just doing? Many of you can identify with this. But as I hit 50, this really, honestly scared me. Because I saw how my grandma ended up later in life where she just had no idea where she was or what was going on, and I don't, I don't want to live that life, I don't want to be a burden on people around me I care about the day after day take care of me when I'm like that. What's really interesting is, when I started to do research on this, one of the things that psychedelics have been shown to do, and particularly LSD is they have been shown to prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer's and dementia. This is in white papers, this is in research.

There's this concept of micro dosing where you take a tiny dose in regular intervals, and it keeps just a little bit in your system, and that little bit in your system actually can change the way that you think, the way that you act. Now if we bring this back to trading, and we talk about it in the context of trading, so many of you in trading really struggle with anxiety. The fear of loss, the fear of taking a trade, the fear of being wrong, the fear of losing money, and this fear can be crippling, it can actually prevent really smart people from having the success that they're capable of having. But they're getting all mucked up because of their psychology. For some of you, this could be a very interesting avenue for you to make rapid gains in your trading psychology by being able to directly address anxiety, depression, and things of this nature, and also be able to potentially improve your cognitive abilities, your processing, your memory.

This is not for everybody, and some of you are going to be upset that I'm even talking about this. Remember, two years ago, I would have been totally dismissive of this idea. The thing I would ask you is to step back and look and examine what are the attachments you have on this issue? What are the beliefs you have that have you thinking the way that you do? This is not going to be a very long Trader Tip Tuesday, but I want to put this out there. One place that you can go to, this is where I'm doing my ketamine treatments, is through mindbloom.com If you look up mindbloom.com, in that program, you can work with a coach, with a therapist, with a nurse and they set everything up. Now one very interesting thing about these is that you will go into these sessions with a specific intention. Like you literally go into the session with work that you want to accomplish, or an objective you want to meet, and then the saying is is that when you go into the session, you won't necessarily get what you want, but you're gonna get exactly what you need. Then when you go through the session, what you do when the session is over is you actually, so first of all, I always record my sessions because your talk out loud during the session, and then it was just because you talk out loud, you can hear what you said and then when the session is over, you can go create a transcript off of what you said, and there'll be things that you do not remember saying that you will pick up when you do the transcript and this transcript gives you a guide for you to learn from, and if you go in with an objective, you'll start to see major insights show up in the transcripts.

This is playing the game on a whole, entirely different level. It's up to you, you've got to make a decision, but for some of you, this allows you to go and take your game to the elite level. Remember, we always talk about this is what Trader Tip Tuesday is all about. Trader Tip Tuesday is about every week, I'm teaching you different ways and how to take your performance to an elite level. This is an example. It's not for everybody, but for some of you, this could be incredibly helpful to change the quality of your life. I'll see you next Tuesday.