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I found this today and thought I’d share.  It is from my late friend, Dr. Janice Dorn, probably one of the finest gold traders on the planet.  She only traded gold.   Dr. Dorn helped me in the early 90’s when my own Mothers health condition was impacting my trading.  Dr. Dorn always fancied herself a Lakota woman and was extremely spiritual.  She left us way too early.   dp

 

11-Apr-2006
Uplifting Words, by Dr. Janice Dorn

 

In an age where technology is accelerating at logarithmic speed, people are hypertasking, hyperactive, hypertexting and just about everything else which leads to neurochemical hypomania, addiction, anxiety, depression and various states of disease, it behooves one to step back and take heed of what your body and brain are telling you.

What is serenity and how do we achieve it- even for a few moments every day?

The cardinal principles are simple, but not easy. Every day is a new beginning, a time to start again, to renew, to look in the mirror and decide-- in the first three minutes-- what your goals are for today. You are what you say to yourself as your face is staring you in the face. Just as trees have dendrochronology, so do your face and your body. Rigidity, obsessiveness, anger, paranoia, joy, anticipation, and every conceivable emotion show in the set of your face and your body. You are what you make yourself. It is about you and no one else.

What can we do each morning to make ourselves better human beings, and to allow ourselves to evolve in a way that is effortless?

• Forgive others...truly forgive and move on. Resentment is among the most destructive of all feelings.
• Forgive yourself...get over yourself because you're "Not All That!"
• Visualize yourself as a person of confidence and success with clear, delineated goals who can sustain yourself through anything. Life is not at all about what happens to you. It is about who you are and how to respond to what happens to you.
• Keep up with yourself, not with others. Use your dignity to rise above yourself as you stand in your integrity and speak the truth to yourself and others.

Every week, I pick one day to send myself a note saying something nice about myself. I take the note to the florist and ask the florist to include it with roses which I send to myself. What a delight when the flowers arrive and I see what nice words have been written about me!

Many years ago, I came across a writing which has sustained me through triumph and tears. A worn copy of it is with me always :

After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul and you learn that love doesn't mean possession and company doesn't mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead with the grace of an adult not the grief of a child. And you learn to build your roads today because tomorrows ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have ways of falling down in mid-flight. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much so you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure that you really are strong and you really do have worth and you learn and you learn. --Veronica A. Shoffstall

But, you have only one body, one mind and one spirit.

Save yourself. Preserve yourself. You are all you have!

When you are stressed, sleep-deprived, contaminated with continual worrisome thoughts or in a toxic state because of alcohol, tobacco, opioids, other drugs,  junk food, disorganized and negative-karmic environment or dysfunctional relationships, you have nothing but despair, self-loathing, anger or depression. You are in a state of mental and physical disease and whipsaw. 

In the end, if you lose your health, you lose everything. Money might be able to assuage this misery, somewhat like putting a bandage on a large, gaping wound. After a while, the wound breaks open, becomes infected and just gets systemically worse unless you deal with the source of it. As always, you have the power to be the best you can be in every aspect of life. It's really quite awesome when you think about it. You are the problem, and you are the solution. Find the freedom and serenity that come to you when you refurbish and restore your psychological capital.

Save yourself. Preserve yourself. You are all you have!

ABOUT JANICE DORN…….

Janice Dorn, M.D, Ph.D. held an M.D. in Psychiatry and a Ph.D. in Brain Anatomy.

She is believed to have been the only M.D. Psychiatrist and Ph.D. Brain Anatomist in the world who actively traded, wrote commentary about the financial markets, coached traders and ran a subscription-based trading and trading psychology website.

Dr. Dorn had been a full-time commodities futures trader since 1993, focusing on the gold markets. She previously served in the capacity of Global Risk Strategist for Ingenieux Wealth Management, Sydney, Australia, where she was responsible for behavioral risk profiling and portfolio risk management solutions relating to investing and trading decision making.

Dr. Dorn authored over 2,000 publications, relating to Trading Psychiatry, Financial Supercycles, Behavioral Neurofinance, and Trader Wellness and Longevity.

Dr. Dorn provided coaching/mentoring to more than 600 traders around the world. Her first book, entitled "Personal Responsibility: The Power of You," was published in January 2008.

She is now, or has been, a member of numerous professional societies including The Market Technicians Association, The World Future Society, The International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology, and The American Society for Anti-Aging Medicine. She presently sits on the Advisory Board of The Center For Future Consciousness.

Admit it, we live in a world that is on a total dopamine, hypomanic binge. 

https://www.deanparisian.com/2009/04/janice-dorn-mdphd-wwwthetradingdoctorco.html

https://www.deanparisian.com/2006/06/dr-janice-dorn-is-true-gemtaken-from.html