Most traders suffer from trauma. From a psychological standpoint all adults have experienced various forms of trauma, from childhood abuse, to death or devastation, poverty, divorce, infidelity, or just plain stupidity.
I do not make light of this.
All families are dysfunctional. No group of people, loving of one another to complete strangers, can function well together without the independent personalities of the individuals coming out.
The traumas we hear of most are the most obvious:
-Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse
-Extreme situations that created or allowed an “unnatural” situation to occur
-Violence
-Reactions to events that we see (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, etc)
Recently a long term subscriber wrote me on “make a video helping us with our childhood traumas, or the “emotional events” that occurred that make us behave as we do”.
I’ve thought long on this as the question was sincere. And his concerns on “what can I do about it” are well based.
Study a bit on what psychological Trauma is defined as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_trauma
Now, sit back quietly and review YOUR LIFE. Using transpersonal psychology as an approach I suggest the client write down their life, and tell themselves “the whole story”. Write your autobiography. First, it’s cleansing. Second, it’s therapeutic.
Third, it puts it all on the table.
Having emotions, raw feelings, and memories on the table is the key to therapy.
You must know and remember what happened, and how you felt.
This is what you must find, almost like a "core" or a "Hard spot" inside you.
And what you do with it, from a transpersonal psychology methodology, is learn to "let it go". Traumas can be "forgotten", or "used" to our advantage.
This is also key and is possible to do . Deep seated traumas can be uncovered best by meditation, and by intense self analysis.
And what to do when you’ve identified the traumas? Let them go.
