Conscious Conversion: How getting into alignment creates a huge life transformation.

Welcome to Steven Johnson Stocks. This is a new episode and it's quite a personal one, but it's something that I really have to share with you guys. Basically, this is Sam Daghash, Master NLP Practitioner, Quantum Linguistics, studies in the field, and I consulted him for help because I really wanted to achieve some goals. I wanted to get my stuff sorted on trading because I was struggling with red months and green months and I couldn't get past $5,000 at any one time. I kept on blowing up accounts on $5,000, and I was on— I mean, I don't want to go on about it or labor on it because I want this to be positive and not sad, but I was on drugs for anxiety and I just couldn't get off for about 5 years. And I wanted a girlfriend. Um, and I came to Sam with these goals not expecting to achieve any of them, and we achieved all of them. So—

That's great.

I've come with this mission that I want on the channel to impart the knowledge and the transformation that I've gone through to the audience, because everything I've done, all of the lessons in trading, I've passed it on to them. And this has been such a transformation for me that I want to pass the key parts of the knowledge to them for free. So thank you for coming on. Thank you for being willing to impart the knowledge. I know obviously you're a professional at this for many years.

Thank you for having me, Steven. It's a— it's an absolute pleasure to always share with your audience and, and all the people out there the idea and understanding that what, what we seek is always within us, right? We have— we all have the power and the knowledge to get to where we want in life. It's just that we need to overcome our own demons, right? And like you did. And I'm extremely proud of your progress and, and honored to have experienced the journey that we've worked together. So it's— and I continue to see you evolving, which is, which is great. So yeah, thank you very much for having me. Thank you.

No, Yeah, it's good, and what we must notice is, obviously, if something's good and it's helped me, I refer it on to help others, and we've already started working with a couple of the guys. I'll not mention names 'cause it's private. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. But we've already worked with a couple of other traders who've also demonstrated great results.

Yeah.

But the first question the audience are gonna ask is, Steven, you were down $1,000 in March, you are consistently up and down, you are consistently inconsistent. Yeah, it's the best way to put it. You are consistently inconsistent. How did you go from, I was 1,000 down in March, I finished the training with you, and then April I hit 10K, May I hit 15K? And the question that most people ask you is, what did you do to me? What did you do?

Well, it was all in the tea actually. No, I didn't tell you that it was some good stuff in the tea. No, on a serious note, what I think your audience needs to understand and what they need to know is, first of all, everything in our life is a result, right? So you came to me with a specific result or a couple of results in your life that you wanted to change. And what people don't know is that all our results are led by our behavior. So our behavior dictates all the time the results we want in our life. And our behavior is 95% unconscious. So it's a set of programs. It's your, it's your habits, it's your beliefs, it's your, autopilot. It's your habitual mind really. So, and people sometimes work hard in trying to change those behaviors, but when it's unconscious, you're 5% conscious that, that Steven that wants to do things but goes back to the program is difficult for you to switch back and overcome it. So what I worked with you is I went all the way down to understanding, and you know, you understand now very well what is a state, a state of being, which is our thinking and feeling. So we had to get our thinking and feeling right so our behaviors can change. And then we can move into the result we want. But the work is about going down deep down into the conditioned mind, which is your conditioning. And I remember you said to me when you came in, I mean, it was beautiful the first day. You were looking at me like, dude, I've tried everything. I don't even know if this is going to work, but you know what? I have nothing to lose. I mean, that was the conversation if I wasn't mistaken, right?

Yeah. And honestly, and I was skeptical about paying the fee as well, but I mean, if you think about the fee and the recent money I've made in the last few It's like 20 times over.

Well, yeah, what I like to do with everyone that speaks generally when they come, I was like, listen, forget about the fees, because if it doesn't work, your money's back, 'cause that's the law of exchange, you know? That's how I work and how I operate. I think that's how everybody should work in this world, if you ask me. But ultimately, if you want me to tackle the first point, which is that belief about trading, not achieving a number, was it?

Yeah, no, let me— so basically, you've taught me and I've learned that things happen. I mean, basically, My ultimate problem and everyone's ultimate problem is we live in the unconscious mind without realizing.

Yeah, yeah.

And your unconscious mind is trying to protect you, but if it learns, if it forms too many bad habits trying to protect you, it actually becomes unhelpful. Correct. So it's diving into the unconscious mind and bringing it to the surface so you can have new, new, new ways of thinking. 100%. But so the first problem I had, I basically again reiterate, I went to Sam and said, Sam, I'm gonna definitely get my money back here because you'll never fix these things. And I said, I want, I want to find love because I didn't feel I was worthy of a girlfriend. Again, repeating, I need to smash this $5,000 number. And you actually said, ah, it's brilliant because it's actually really managed. It's not abstract. This is, you either break it or you don't.

Mm-hmm.

And I had terrible anxiety, so it's nice that I'm sitting in front of the camera and not feeling too nervous.

Which is good to hear.

I had the worst anxiety in presenting, and there was meds for that, which I don't take anymore. But first, the first limiting belief, I cannot trade with size. I cannot get over $5,000. I said, Sam, I can't do it. Something happens to me in my mind where I trade with a bit more size, I get to $5,000, and I don't just lose a little, I lose thousands of dollars. I go from $500, I flip it to $5,000, and then I lose $3,000 at that number. So what the hell was happening?

Well, to be— to try and make this as simple to explain to your audience, Steven, what you were experiencing was something known as a limiting belief. So a limiting belief is a belief that when you reach a specific set point in your life, being it trading or anything else for that matter, but let's specifically go into trading. What happens is, as you get back to, you get into that territory, your behavior triggers, your behavior changes, and it throws you out of balance for you to not reach that number. So what I did with you is, first of all, we identified the limiting belief, and you said, well, Sam, I believe that when I get to this number, I'm always losing. And I just looked into your eyes, if you remember, I said, Steven, do you believe that? And you were like, Believe it 100%. Are you sure? The reason that belief is developed is because you've had multiple experiences. So the unconscious mind, when you have one or two things that happens to you in life, what happens is it captures that and it becomes— it has to assign a meaning because your unconscious mind is a meaning-making process. So it assigned it, go, okay, this is me, this is who I am. When I get to that stage, that's what's going to happen to me, and that's how I believe it. So therefore, every time you get into that environment or that setup, that's what happens. It throws you out of balance. So what I did is I identified it and then I went into your unconscious mind and we rewired the beautiful mind of yours. And we basically created a different theme and a different scenario is that, no, when I get to this, I can actually break through the 5K, 10K, 15K, whatever the number was, can't recall. And that basically allows you to get into that environment, to come to that stage, and you're still in a state of ease and flow and you can manage. And that energy shifts as well, so that reality changes.

Yeah, I mean, basically, so just to let it down for the audience, to break it down, one day I went into Sam's office and I said, Sam, I swear to you I will never break $5,000. And then 3 weeks later, Sam said to me, can you break $5,000? I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no reason why I can't. And I didn't understand why I believed so incessantly that I couldn't break it. And then once you believe you can do something, all of a sudden, well, I'm up 10, I'm up 15.

100%.

And now 5, like, I mean, I'm just coming close to finishing $5,000 this month. It's a disappointment. I'm so sorry to say it. $5,000 was mind-blowing at one point, and now $5,000's, I could have done better. Maybe me trading wasn't as good this month.

It's a good belief to have because now you have confidence that you can achieve way more, and that old barrier is no longer there. So that's proof.

Yeah.

So it's a positive thing, actually.

But I mean, you'd think that the 5,000 limiting belief was— it was with the course alone, or it was with the investment alone. And this isn't just an ad for Sam. This is a promotion to talk about why people should be more conscious in general, because it's— I didn't come here for the trading, and that's an important thing. I came to you with what— for 30% of it was the trading, but A lot of it was just that I was sick of living with anxiety all the time. I was panicking almost before meetings. I was panicking in social situations. And we actually did some other work that helped me get into alignment. We removed a lot of negative charges. And I remember thinking, aha, yeah, you're going to remove negative charges, okay. But then the anxiety went.

Yeah.

And I came off the drugs.

Yeah.

And I had the crazy record months.

Yeah.

So what, what, how did that happen?

So, so, so just to briefly explain, um, all our experiences in our life from the day we're born, right? So wherever you are in your life, there is your unconscious mind, uh, records all of these events. Some of them, um, are known as significant emotional experiences. So if I ask you, for example, can you think of anything that may gave you fear in life? You'll come up with 1 or 2 or 3 that will come up to your mind. But usually those 3 are not the only ones that are, that are, that are, uh, in your unconscious mind recorded. So what I do is, is through the work I do is allows us to remove all the negative charges of the past, the negative emotions known as gestalt. They are collections. And when you release that, you're releasing your energy flow because what emotion is, what people need to understand is emotion actually stands for energy in motion. So when you're removing negative emotion, you are now becoming lighter in your thinking because your thinking is influenced by your past, by your past experiences and by the negativity. So once that goes, you don't have no longer anymore fear of the unknown, fear of going and speaking in front of an audience, fear, because that's your old negative charges. So that shifts you and puts you in alignment. That also, by the way, tends to impact our limiting beliefs as well, because a lot of our beliefs, limiting ones, are due to fear, uh, anger, or, or other previous experiences in our past that creates a belief that makes us feel like I'm not worthy, or I'm not able to, or I can't achieve this or whatever, that usually comes from those gestalts, those, those negative anchors, what I like, what I call them. And once what we did with you is we cut all the anchors. So you release that. Remember when we did it, when you, I said to test anything in the past where it used to make you feel a certain way and you were going back and you were like, I feel nothing. It's not about feeling nothing. It's about releasing it, getting that, changing that in your mind to wisdom so you can grow as a person, but also move into the direction of life that you want. And then that creates alignment. So alignment is really you being yourself, being your true self, being happy, being in a state of ease and flow, and that somehow supports other areas of your life, Steven. Because like you said, for me, your trading and your success of trading and how you're evolving in trading is a byproduct of you being in alignment, being comfortable with yourself, being confident in yourself. And, and, you know, anything else that's going well in, in your life, it will naturally go well because your energy is aligned And you are more happy and, and, and, and, you know, moving in the right direction.

It's crazy because our memory, our brains try to protect us. So if a lot of people have negative experiences growing up, the subconscious mind tells you maybe you don't want to do that, a bad thing might happen.

Correct.

And if it happens too many times, your brain's like, ah, you should maybe be worried about that, but it doesn't know what it's protecting you from. And then ordinary situations become anxiety-ridden.

Correct.

And you release the negative charge. And I know it sounds not silly, but it sounds quite strong to say, but I went running the next day and there was a major shift in who I was. And I was thinking, there's some— someone's not there anymore. I don't want to say someone's died because it sounds silly. It's like someone's not there anymore. And I was thinking, who's not there? And I realized it was me. And I thought, I'm not there. I couldn't understand it. And then I realized now that the old me is not there. The negative charge and all of the negative emotions and the negative charges that came with the bad memories. Not that nothing's terrible that's happened to me. I'm okay. But I'm sensitive. I'm quite emotional and I held a lot of energy and emotion to those things.

You see, the thing is, it's a great point you're bringing up. What we need to understand is our mind also has different prime directives from running your body and storing your energy, but there's one known as the psychocybernetic mechanism, which is known as your comfort zone. So in your case, if you don't mind me using your case—

Yeah.

So in your case, when we were experiencing anxiety, what happens is your brain and your mind is trained to keep you in something that's familiar. So the minute you were stepping out, it was using your previous negative charges of thoughts and feelings and was triggering them out to give you doubt and fear in yourself with the feeling, which is the charge, which makes you feel uncomfortable. Some people get panic attacks, you know what I'm trying to say? You feel sweat, et cetera.

Yeah.

So that was pushing you back and bringing you back into your familiar, which is known as the comfort zone. When you remove those gestalts, when you remove those negative emotions and those charges, what that does, it actually allows you to get out into the unfamiliar, and it's easy because there's nothing holding you back. There's nothing going, ooh, this is dangerous. You're like, okay, and then you start to see things differently. Your perception of reality starts to project a different reality because you're inside of you, your mind has shifted, therefore you see different things and people. Everything is shifted without that negative charge, and it's, it's a beautiful place to be in when you're aligned. I, I can, I can, I can relate to you.

And, and, um, and I never really believed too much in energy and energy flow until I experienced it for myself, and hopefully some of you guys will experience it for yourself. Um, it's a really beautiful thing, but just, just to get back to trading a little bit because Every single person watching this is gonna be like, how can this better and improve my trading, my trading performance? Yes, you're talking about the theory and psychology of different things, touching NLP, unconsciousness, quantum, but how did I all of a sudden be more of a conscious woke trader?

Well, that's a really good question, and the reality is, it starts with step number 1, is alignment. So once you get into alignment, You start to connect with some state of being. Remember, our state is thinking and feeling. You move into a state known as state of flow, state of ease and allowance. So you become more disciplined, you become more focused.

But why, why am I more disciplined and focused?

Because you are not reacting to anything emotionally. Because remember, when you have negative charges, if something goes wrong with the trade, that throws you out of balance, and you could stay 2, 3 weeks in that state. and that affects your energy and affects your concentration and affects your judgment. You still, you get stuck in that energy, you get stuck in that flow. It's not a state of ease and flow. So now when you are in alignment, you are now more disciplined because even when something goes wrong, even if a trade goes wrong, for example, you're not allowing that to upset you. You're not allowing that to make you, oh my God, I start to create self-doubt. It's not creating fear. You know what? That's part of the game. I'm gonna stand up and carry on doing what I'm doing and focus on what I want. and not focus on what I don't want. And that reality shifts, that projection shifts. I hope that answers your question.

Yeah, no, but it's— there's also a famous quote, um, that the stock market always gives you what you want. Whatever you want out of the stock market, you'll get. But if you go in unhappy, miserable, convoluted mind, yeah, I just don't care. If you don't care about the results that you get, the market will give you a loss, a loss. So I think, if you don't care, I don't care, they'll give you a loss. But somehow with me, I felt like I had so much negative baggage and emotion that when that was released, I was more woke. I was more conscious. Yeah. I could—

your vibration changed.

I could see things more clearly.

Yeah. So, so, so, so if you want me to go a little bit deep with your audience, I can a little bit. Okay. So, so, uh, when we're in alignment, that's really step number one. And what happens is it impacts something known as our vibration, which is our energy. So when your vibration changes, your energy changes. And when your energy changes, you're like a radio receiver, really. Like when you tune into radio frequency and that changes into a sound, your body is also a receiver to energy and frequency. So if you are sitting in an ease and flow and you're relaxing— let's use trading because of your audiences again, but it's happened in any areas of life— and now you are in a relaxed state, you know, you're confident, you're relaxed, you're, you're, you're energetic, you're sending out a frequency of You know what? I'm focusing on what I want and I'm not coming from a place of lack. I'm not fearful. My energy charges are not lower vibration because negative charges lowers your vibration. And when you don't have negative charges, it raises your vibration. And that's a frequency that transmits into our beautiful reality, which manifests itself into physical form. So that manifestation of physical form is really you just being yourself, not holding into the results too much and, you know, being stressful about it, just being relaxed. Doing what you believe is right to you, and that belief and that hard work will transmit and get the results you want in your life. It's as simple as that.

Yeah. So I mean, I think what's quite important is you mentioned if you come from a place of lack, and then just going back to whatever the market, whatever you put into the market, you get out. So if you come into the market feeling like from a place of lack, you'll probably get something more lackful.

Yeah, exactly.

Right. Yeah. If that's a word. If you come in with a positive self-belief and you come in thinking, I really believe that with no doubt I can achieve this.

You're aligned.

If you're aligned and you're— I mean, basically some of the work that I do, and I'm going to ask Sam what he can do for you because I don't want to just run this and like, oh, look what happened. Look what I did. Look how good I am. I want the audience to get something from this. So, but just to explain, one of the meditations that I was given, the first— the second meditation I was given, there's a book called The Secret and it's about having a strong vision and conviction for the future.

Yeah.

It reminded me of that a little bit. Maybe you'll explain the nuances, but you installed in me and I installed in myself through constant meditation every day for what's probably been about 4 months, 5 months. I installed beliefs in me and I meditated in a deep state thinking I will smash— I wanted to smash $10,000 on the end. You said that's ridiculous. I said you're ridiculous. And now I'm up $40,000. So you won on that one, but really I won as well because I have—

I told you you can achieve more than that, of course. You know, it's true, Steven. Yeah, very true.

But you installed— I installed, we installed a belief that I could Yeah, make $20,000 and I'm up $40,000.

You know, I, I'll explain a bit easy to the audience. Your audience is basically— when, when I say conscious unconscious, we go back to the foundations, right? So conscious unconscious, what happens, a lot of people in this world, they— I want to be a millionaire, I want to be a millionaire, I want to be a successful trader— and they reaffirm it and they say it, but when that thought comes through to the mind or to the body, there's no alignment, there's no true belief, they're not feeling it. They're saying it, but they're not feeling it. So the important thing is— There's a disconnect between mind and body. Yeah, there's a disconnect. There's a disconnect between mind and body. But when you say something and you believe what you're saying and you feel what you're saying, so there becomes alignment in terms of thought and feeling, that's when you have true alignment. That's when you are now carrying that energy of, I am successful. I am a successful trader, or I am, you know, worthy of anything my heart desires in this world. And when you understand that and you can get that in terms of congruency alignment, that's what starts to shift your energy. And that really, really translates into life. You know, the, all law of attractions and all these books that are out there, they don't tell you one thing. They say one thing is the reality. The truth is of the reality in this perspective is an understanding that you have to be it. You have to feel it. You have to walk like it, even if you don't have it, because your unconscious mind doesn't know the difference between what's real and not. So what you're doing is you're conditioning the mind and the body for a reality that hasn't happened yet, but by you doing your meditation and, and now what you're doing is you're programming your mind into a future that you want. And by programming your mind into a future that you want, what you're doing is you are now conditioning the mind and the body into that future. And then you start to shift your energy into that future. A lot of people don't do this. They keep living in the memories of the past because that's all they know. And they can't get that energy and they can't get that alignment, right? What you've been doing, and you are, very committed in that. That's why I think you're getting those results is because you are daily committing yourself and daily saying to yourself, this is the future that I want. And you're programming your unconscious mind and your body to that future. So when you see it, you can believe, you believe it, and then you can, you know, vision it and then, and then you achieve it. It's, it's, it's, it's so easy yet so powerful. And you know, that's how, how things are in life. If you ask me, people, they think it's too simple, when they actually— but when they put it to practice as you did, and as a lot of my students and clients do, they see that in their lives, you know.

Yeah, but it's, it's just, it's just crazy because people, people just accept what society tells them. People just accept what society gives them. And it's the same with trading. Everyone says don't trade, you'll never make it, everyone loses. Parents told us not to trade, boss told us not to trade, friends told us not to trade. I said, you know what it is, I believe that I can do this. this.

Of course, yeah.

No matter what. And, and it's kind of the same with this kind of work that we've done. A lot of people are like, ah, it's not approved by— I don't know what it's— if it's not done by a professor, or if it's not done by a doctor in a doctor's hospital, by someone who's got the accredited degree, it mustn't, it mustn't work. But a lot of different books touch on the work that you do. But it's weird, like, people are scared to step into the unknown.

Yeah. Yeah.

And people won't do the work because it's easier to just say it probably doesn't work.

Yeah.

Because that's not how society's run. Do you know what I mean?

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think an attitude that we all need to adapt to in life, you know, that's a starting point that your audience can practice, is carry that attitude which is, I don't know what I don't know. You know, if you go into life with that open-minded, I don't know what I don't know until I've explored it, until I've tested it for myself and seen if it works for me or not, Versus, no, I know what I know and that's the only way in life. That sometimes really just puts you into a box of non-exploration, not able to raise your consciousness and awareness. And what you did, and many of the people and students and clients I work with, is they take that chance. They come in and go, you know what, I have nothing to lose. If I don't achieve what I'm achieving, you can get my money back. Yes, it's in the agreement, whatever. But when they see that and they actually get into that and dive, and they, you know, they lose that worry and thought, that little critical mind that's saying, I don't know if this is gonna work. just let go and go with I don't know what I don't know until they shift their energy, they can't deny it because it's proof in their life, it's proof in how they're feeling, right? It all starts within our feeling and state of being.

Yeah, and to be honest, trading's gone well, it's so much better.

But isn't other areas of your life, Steven, has also improved?

Yeah, that's what I'm touching on. Yes, great, I've made some money trading, but money's not the be-all and end-all of anything.

Exactly.

We're understating the real shift. I mean, I was seeing— I'm not anti-doctors or anything, but I mean, I was seeing different doctors for 4 or 5 years trying to get off these stupid pills, trying to get off these drugs, still living with anxiety even on drugs. They didn't really do much. They just clouded me thinking. And, and I know tons of people will have their own limiting beliefs. Tons of people will be stuck with anxiety, or they'll have down days and stuff like that. I couldn't get off the drugs for like 5 years, and I saw you, and in 6 weeks I was off them.

But you did the work, Steven. You were committed, and that's the difference between someone being committed and not, and someone really wanting to change and ready to change. It's about discipline, and you also have to meet and come and meet halfway with your commitment, but also an understanding that, you know, again, no disrespect to, you know, the mainstream, you know, doctors and stuff, but The reality is it's all about finding the root cause. Once you find the root cause, which we can do with the work we do, which is bypassing the critical mind and going to the deep unconscious mind, and when you remove the root cause, then all the triggers, all the other behaviors and all the things that were throwing you out of balance shift away. And that's what happened to you. You started to notice not only trading, but in your personal life, I believe, all the other things that helps, mate.

I've got a nice little girlfriend. She's not little, she's tall, by the way.

She better not watch this video.

No, I've got a nice girlfriend and stuff like that. But again, there's gonna be traders out there, they're gonna be like, what can you give me now? What advice can you give me to—

Okay.

We need to give them some sort of breathing technique to get started.

Yeah, I can share with you some breathing techniques that you can share with your audience, but more importantly, the first step The first step really is to go into an empty space, go into a place where there's no distractions, and just sit with yourself for like 10, 15 minutes. Start with doing 30 deep breaths in through your nose, 4 seconds in, hold for a second, and out. Just focus your attention on your breathing. Then take a pen and paper and ask yourself, write down, what are my dreams and what are the things that I want to achieve in my life and why haven't I achieved them yet? Be very open with yourself. Be very, uh, honest with yourself and write those answers down. And you will find out that the answers that you get are the limiting beliefs in your life, are the things that are limiting you. And they're only you that you're limiting yourself. Then, then, then, then, then challenge yourself, challenge those, those, those answers that you're writing and ask yourself, is that true? Is that really true about me? Or am I making an excuse? Am I on the effect side? Am I doing something to, to, to, because it's not you, it's your conscious that you need to focus on your, because all these are coming from the unconscious mind. So take 30 deep breaths in through your nose, out through your mouth, calibrate yourself, clear your mind, then ask yourself those questions. And I guarantee you, the first thing that comes up usually comes— that, that's the truth that you're getting. And those are the reality checks that you can start challenging. And if you break through those slowly, your life will start to change.

Yeah. And I just want to maybe add to that as well. Once you're in alignment and you're in a good state, you're very conscious. You're very woke when you train. And, You're trading with good intentions, the market generally gives you what you want for the third time.

Correct, yeah.

But one piece of advice I'd add to that is take the 30 deep breaths and just remind yourself, why am I trading today? Why am I doing this? Do I wanna make a quick buck? Do I wanna destroy me life 'cause I feel miserable and this is the answer? 'Cause the market will give you what you want. Or do you want to trade the patterns perfectly because you're in love with The game of trading?

Yeah.

Do you want the long-term success? Because if you do, cut the losses. Cut the losses quickly, and maybe don't trade today because it doesn't match your alignment.

So true. I think, like you said, the gold word is alignment. So alignment puts us in a state of flow and puts us in a state of excitement, because we have to all in our life, being in trading or anything else for that matter, we have to follow our excitement. Follow that inner energy, that force, that life force energy that keeps us in alignment and keeps us happy and satisfied with what we're doing. Because if you're happy with what you're doing, you're carrying that energy. If you're doing it for the wrong reasons, from a place of lack or from a place of fear, or you're running away from something, then that's never going to last. It's not sustainable. So make sure you're in alignment, make sure you're congruent, make sure you understand what you want is because it's good for you and it makes you happy and it moves your heart and it's something that keeps you excited. And, and, and that's true alignment. That's you moving in the right direction, even if anyone or anything in this world says to you, no, that's not the right thing. But you have to listen to yourself because feelings are feedback to your thinking and feedback to how— what you should be doing in your life and your purpose. And that's what will continue driving you, right, in life.

Okay, so that, that was— so I removed the limiting belief by actually earning more than the $5,000. Tick. But goal 2 and 3 were to come off the medication, which I've been brutally honest with the audience. I know it's not— not many people will do this, but I think it's important to help others. And, and how many people will be on medication probably who are watching this? But nobody knows. So goal 2 was to not feel anxiety, because I would have to take medication to not feel anxious at work, and especially in presentations. How did you remove this thing that I've had for the last 10 years? I still get it a tiny bit, but it's natural. We get it. But how did you remove it?

Well, that's, that's going back to what we spoke about earlier, which is removing the gestalt of fear. Because fear— because anxiety, for your audience to understand, anxiety is the only emotion that happens in the future. All other emotions are emotions of the past. So when you think about something that you don't want or you're in an unfamiliar territory, remember the comfort zone, you're stepping out, your mind starts to play and trigger things, scenarios that's going to go wrong, and then you get the fear that's triggered. So in your case, when we removed the fear and then we removed and we worked out removing fear completely, there was no ammo for that comfort zone to— that cyber or cybernetic mechanism to push you out of and give you those bad images instead of good images. Plus we worked, I believe, on some limiting beliefs that was aiding towards that, that was like, uh, I'm not good enough, or am I gonna, you know, am I gonna present well? Or my confidence. I think we worked on confidence also. So whatever the areas that we worked on, they all complement each other. So that really starts to remove the anxiety. Um, and also condition the mind and the body that, that to stay in a resourceful state of being, that you don't have to go and look at the worst case scenario, but instead Look at what you want. Focusing on what you want as opposed to not what you want, we condition the mind.

But so, I mean, yeah, I used to wake up with anxiety first thing in the morning and then it kind of stopped because I just removed the negative charges associated with it.

The root cause. The root cause. Yeah, the root cause.

But what even was the root cause?

So the root cause, unconscious mind allocates multiple root causes for anxiety, but it's always derived from fear. Because anxiety is the fear of the unknown, and and it could be feelings or beliefs or limiting beliefs that allow you to feel anxious when you're in certain environments. So when we cleared that, that's a beautiful part because you can't even know sometimes what is actually triggering it. But your unconscious mind knows everything because it records everything from day one. So by us removing the charge, those beliefs, those actions, or those they don't have weight, so they just vaporize away, and then you can focus. And therefore that's why you were able to get into environments, i.e., meetings, presentations, whatever it is, that doesn't give you that feeling anymore. 'Cause there's no charge. Charge is what causes problems. Every single problem in our world, in our reality, is always a problem because it makes you feel something. That feeling is an emotional charge. It makes you feel bad, fear, anger, sadness. When that's released, you are liberated. You're moving in what you want in life.

Yeah. So just to recap for the audience, if anyone out there is living with anxiety or depression— depression I don't know as well, but anxiety I can really speak for. I mean, I got—

Well, depression is an underlying of sadness really.

Yeah. But I mean, I got depressed because I had anxiety all the time. It's not good to live in a permanent state of panic. But I want to say that for those out there who are living with anxiety, I'm not saying it can be completely removed forever and it'll never come back, but what I am saying is you can have a much better quality of life and live in a much better state, and it can be healed much more beyond than you actually think it can be. And just because you've been living it for 20 years, you don't need to think, oh, it's just me, it's my identity, because you can literally— I mean, you used to say to me all the time, you're not that, that's the old you, this is the The new you. You shifted me from an old person to a new person. When I crossed the river, which we used as the metaphor, the anxiety significantly reduced. And it's— I'm almost like, how did I ever have it in the first place? Now where did it go?

Well, what happens is you change your personality. Your personality is your conditioning. It's your beliefs, behavior, your values. So what we did is when we worked on your conditioning, that changes your personality and And your old personality dies that had the anxiety and dealt with certain things in different ways and reacted to certain environment and certain people versus the new personality, which shifts your personal reality. And that's all you did. You shifted your personality. You changed as a person. You decided you wanted to change. That's the first step that you want to get out of this old and be different and be a better version of yourself, an even better version of yourself. So that's what changes and shifts you, right?

Yeah. And obviously the last goal was to get a girlfriend. I don't want to go into it again, but I thought if I have a girlfriend, I'm just such a mess of a person that I'll mess the relationship up.

Another limiting belief.

Yeah. And we removed the limiting belief and then all of a sudden a girl fell from the stars.

Yeah. Well, it's— that's nice. That's nice to say. Well, look, the reality is when we worked on your on your goal settings, the way we do the goal settings is installing the goal into your unconscious mind and your subconscious mind. So we literally create an image, a feeling. How would it feel like? What would you see? What do you feel? So now what you're doing is you're conditioning the mind because the mind doesn't know the difference between what's real and not. So you're installing that into your mind, into your subconscious mind, or known as the unconscious mind. And that starts to— you start to move and act unconsciously because remember, 95% with you is unconscious. So you're moving into a life that's supporting those goals. Anything and anyone that drives you away from those goals, you're automatically gonna ignore it. Not because consciously you want— you're not in charge. Remember, it's unconscious mind. It's, it's, it's the beautiful operating system of the mind. I like to call it, right? So that's saying to you, Stephen, that's your goals. This is what you're gonna do. This is how you're gonna behave. This is the actions you're gonna take. If you, if anything influences you, you're not, because I've installed it. So you move, it's like a program. You just move. And that's why you've achieved all your goals, simply because you went deep in the unconscious. It was— and then you said, well, this is what I want, Sam, and this is what I need to tell my body and my mind. So what we did is we installed that, dropped that in there, and now you have— which is known as alignment, congruency between unconscious, conscious, full, full force supporting you. Your body and mind is supporting you with what you want, and that's how you do the goals and achieve them.

Questions that I think commentators will ask about this time together. Sure. But I also just want to say, it sounds like there's a lot of problems and we're clearing them all up. We are doing that very well. Yeah, together with the sessions.

Yeah, interventions.

But it's not, it's not all that. Like, there's a lot of good stuff that comes out of it.

Of course.

I'll walk down the street feeling like I'm walking on the clouds sometimes. Not all the time.

It's your vibration.

You'll feel like some— or you'll come out of a meditation and you'll feel an absolute bliss.

Yeah.

Wow, I feel like I'm connecting with another world.

Exactly. You're shifting your energy. You see, when we change our energy, we change our life. So our energy— we're energy at the end of the day, you know. Your audience needs to know this.

Absolutely. This rang a bell when you said this to us. It's all energy.

We're all energy. This is matter. Anything that's dense is matter. It's energy, and we're energy. So when you're releasing those negative charges and when you're meditating and clearing your mind, What you're doing is you're raising your energy, becoming more lighter of a human being. You know, like when somebody has a good cry and they let it all out and they feel so good, that's coming out. That's an emotional charge that you're releasing. But if you release the deep emotional charges in your body, you move into vibration. You become more lighter, more energy, less matter, and you move and you just, you feel that you are more of a co-creator of your life. You feel that you are more, more present. more mindful and really able to shift whatever it is that you want and, and, and, and, and get away from the old paradigm of thinking to the new paradigm of thinking of our reality is created inside out, not outside in. Everything we see in this world is what we are inside of us. And that's a reflection outside of us.

And what's perception as projection again?

Ooh, that's, that's, that's a, that's a deep topic. I don't think we can cover it now, but the reality perception is projection, to summarize that in, in, in, in as short as possible, is that everything outside of us is a reflection for what's inside of us. So if you see someone, for example, and people, some people accept this or not, but that's the reality, uh, uh, is when you see someone and you find and identify all the beautiful things in that person sitting in front of you, it's only because you have those filters in your mind and your body. You're perceiving that into others. You're projecting it on them. We're like a movie constantly projecting projecting our reality onto others. That's why when you're in a state of fear or anger, you, you, you just see anger. You just see things that are going to make you even more angry. But if you're in a state of allowance and more peaceful and love, and you're working and operating from your heart, then you're more acceptance and you see the more beauty in others and into this world.

But I think, isn't it fascinating that when, when you're talking about when you're meditating and you're feeling light and you're reaching a higher frequency, it's funny when you, when you're happy, you feel very light. And when you feel— it's positive charges, right?

Yes.

And but when you feel depressed, you feel so heavy you can't get out of bed.

Yeah, yeah.

It's the negative.

It's a negative charge.

All the negative charges.

100%.

Yeah, it's crazy how energy works like that.

Yeah, yeah. So yeah, so, so it's just, it's just an energetic flow in our body. The most important thing is an understanding: emotion is energy in motion. So what is the energy in your body? How are you feeling and how are you thinking right now? You know, that's, that's That's quite powerful, really.

Right, so I think we'll just finish this up with some questions about, around the psychology of trading.

Okay.

The first one that I'll get, which I'll answer, and then you can add, and then the second one I'll let you go first.

Sure.

The first one is, Steven, I'm too scared to hit the trigger to make a trade. What can I do to pull the trigger? You can answer, but my answer is, if you're scared to pull the trigger, it's probably because your buddy's telling you that you shouldn't, because you're not confident enough in the setup, and you haven't seen it enough times to believe that you are making the right decision. When you've missed enough trades, and you see it go pow, or long and short.

Yeah.

When you've missed enough opportunities, you're gonna get so annoyed with yourself that you're gonna think, I now have the confidence, I've seen enough of these work that I've missed on, I'm gonna pull the trigger. You'll be sick of it. I think that's your body protecting yourself. But for you—

Well, well, I think this will be applied to trading, but anything else in life. One important, you know, again, I want to share as much value as I can, but a reality is that you are always feeling your thinking. So if you're feeling fearful, or if you're feeling not confident, or if you're feeling that something's holding you back, it's because you are thinking something negative that's stopping you from achieving what you want in life. So, you know, lesson number 1, or value number 1, is always understand that you're always feeding your thinking. So what you need to do is change your thinking, create that confidence, that flow, that understanding that I'm all in, and that will now replicate and reflect in your reality. Then you can press— what do you call it?

The trigger? Buy, sell.

The buy, sell, whatever it is. I'm not a trader. I'm not a trader, but it's— Yeah, yeah, okay. So yeah, the buy-sell button or whatever it is you do as a trader, that buy-sell button is—

it's—

you have to be comfortable. And, and you must always listen to your body. And your body, your body's language is the feelings, is the emotions, right? So your body's giving you feelings and feedback to your thinking. So if you're not thinking good, remember, your body's basically saying to you, please, so-and-so, change your thinking, brother. Change it so you can shift your energy and and then basically, you know, get into a state where, oh, this feels good, I wanna press that buy button, whatever it is.

Yeah, but there's a difference between a limiting belief and your body actually telling you you're not ready to take the trade.

You know what I mean?

Because most traders lose. The body's probably saying, you don't know what you're doing.

Yeah, exactly.

You don't know what you're doing. I don't want you to take the trade, you're probably gonna lose.

But it derives from the limiting belief, as you said. So that's where it is. So we would need to remove those limiting beliefs, whatever they are, so you don't have those thoughts and feelings Only if it is, though. Yeah, only if it is, yeah, in that case, yeah.

Because, I mean, if— so for example, to clear this up, if you see hundreds of stocks, or you see hundreds of opportunities that you can't press the buy button on, and they all work, and you still can't do it, then you've got a limiting belief, and you need to remove it.

Yeah, correct.

If sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, your results are very incongruent, then you probably— it's your body telling you. Don't take the trade because you're not ready to do it and you don't know enough.

Yeah, that's very— that's summed up very nicely, to be honest, in your perspective.

A lot of people say, how do I stop taking big losses? How— and I mean, I'll let you answer first. I mean, look, I've took many $5,000 losses, I've took a couple of $3,000 losses, I took a $3,000 this month, so I'm still not perfect, I still slip. But the difference is I'm So much more in alignment that the positive way outweighs the negative, the positive charge. But for you to answer, how, how do you help people who can't stop taking losses?

Well, the idea is to make, make sure we understand first of all what's throwing them out of balance and what's making them take more losses than not. Because usually taking more losses are a result of the person being out of alignment and out of balance, and they are still struggling to get that confidence up or still struggling to get that self-doubt away, therefore they keep getting the same scenario. Their energy is not shifted. They're not in alignment, so they keep getting the same of what they're feeling. So they need to change their feeling and their thinking, their state of being, so then they can reflect that and start to get those wins and losses. And when a loss comes in, that's normal. That's part of the game in trading, I believe. So it's fine, you fall out of balance, but it's not— the idea is not— it's normal to react, but it's not normal to stay stay there. It's normal to come back into your focus and carry on doing what you believe is right, but you have to believe 100% that what you're doing is right and you don't have any self-doubt.

Yeah, and an important prerequisite to this is you might be a bad trader, and if you're a bad trader and you're making losses, it might be because you don't know what you're doing.

Yeah, exactly. And yeah, and if you're confident, if you're confident in yourself and you think you're doing it right but you're not doing it right, then that's, that's the reality. You're not doing it right. Yeah, I don't want to give people Yeah, yeah, no, no, of course it has to be, it has to be around setup, you know, a whole congruency alignment. Yeah, 100%.

So basically, for the people, for the people that are, they know how to trade, they're good at trading, because it only takes a year or 2 to get trading, the rest of the battle, I'd say 80% of it is mental. Yeah. So they've learned trading, they get it, but they keep on making The same mistake.

The reason is because they're out of balance, and the results, and they're behaving the same way. Yeah, because the the behavior is the same. Because remember, all your results are a sum total of your behaviors. Your behaviors are results, but you can't change your behavior because it's unconscious. You have to change your state of being that changes your behavior. But you go, okay, but what controls my state? It's 95% unconscious. It's your conditioning. You go to conditioning, then that will change your state. And that state gives you a range of behavior. For example, Steven, if I'm in a state of anger, I'm pissed off, what's gonna happen is I'm going to be— I'm only gonna be able to throw my phone, say something that's gonna upset people, and then I'll regret it later. But I can't be resourceful. I'm not resourceful. So I'm gonna behave a certain way. It's exactly the same thing in trading. Your behavior is what drives your results. So you have to be shifting your behavior. Something needs to change within your behavior, which is dictated by your state of But the conditioning is what dictates that.

So you—

it starts a full channel. I hope that answers your—

Yeah, but I mean, the way I can— it's the best way I can summarize it, and it might be too brash and it might not be correct, but it's like if you go into the market not feeling like a loser but feeling like a hub, it's like where energy goes, where focus goes, energy flows.

Correct.

I've made this mistake loads of times, I'm not gonna make this mistake, I'm not gonna make this mistake, I'm not gonna make this mistake, and then you make a mistake.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And you do it again. It's more— but it's— I don't understand how you get out of the pattern. It comes from changing your state.

Yes, it's your state that changes, which will change your behavior. But you have to make sure, because the state is what dictates your behavior, that successful behavior, that, that feeling and alignment and your congruence in terms of what the results you want. Because your results is always— that is always the indicator of what's going right and what's going wrong, right? And if you keep getting the same results, that's the same pattern. So then that pattern needs Needs to change from your behavior. So the patterns based on your behaviors, the behaviors are based on your states, how you think and feel, and what's what's allowing you to think and feel in a certain way and change your state throughout the day or the year or the month is your conditioning.

It's hard to change states. You've been living that way for well, I've been living that way for twenty no thirty two years.

Yeah, but if you change your conditioning, you can start to change your state. Your conditioning is what is allowing you to react to the external environment, which impacts the way you think. and the way you feel.

So, I mean, this is really interesting because a common saying in trading is that everyone trades based on their personality. Aggressive people who are aggressive in personality, they'll trade aggressively. People who are more cautious will trade cautious. You'll find setups in trading that mirror your risk tolerance, how you think and feel, and your personality. Your personality has a personality in the market. It's crazy. But how this insanely relates to what you're saying is your conditioning forms a state, a state forms behaviors, behaviors are what you trade in the markets. So it's exactly the same thing.

Correct, yeah. So you always go back, always go back to your conditioning, because that's the work we do is going to the conditioning. And because you remember, your behavior is unconscious. You can't change your behavior because it's 95% of your habitual mind. You can only change your 5% conscious, but that doesn't win the battle. So again, why am I behaving this way? It's because of my state. Okay. How can I change and control my state to get the results I want and the behavior? Go to the conditioning, change what needs to be changed, negative charges, limiting beliefs, whatever needs to happen within that domain, the operating system, then everything will, you'll start to get the results you want in life.

Most people here are going to say, well, people are going to be thinking, 30, 40, 50, some will be in their 20s. Say, look, I've got 20 years of conditioning, it sounds like a lot of work. How long does it take to change your conditioning?

Well, to be honest with you, I mean, with the work we did to get you to an alignment, we needed 10 hours of work. 10 hours of, of, of, of work. First raising your consciousness, understanding the models, understanding the foundations, what I call. Then moving into the mind cleanse of clearing your mind, clearing those negative charges, clearing all those understandings that was conditioned to unbecome who you really are. And then, and those limiting beliefs, and then move into the direction, the goals, where I want to go in my life. What do I want to do? Because you have to create the future you want by conditioning the mind of what you want, not by just being and just trying and not knowing where you're going.

Yeah. And just the one, the one major change that I realized is like I went through life And I had experiences, and those experiences, some good, some bad, few bad, like my mom was ill and stuff like that. They shaped my personality and who I become, who I now was. And then I was seeing life through a bit of a negative lens.

Your perception of reality.

Yeah.

And again, yeah, it's, it's, it's freed. Exactly, exactly. So that's the thing. It's just an understanding of the past is not you. Your experiences is not you. And, and that's not part of you. That's not part of your identity. That's just conditioning through, you know, experiences, through cultures, through religions, through everything in our life. We get conditioned in a way, and unfortunately not all our conditionings are things that support us. They create some form of limitations in our life, and we think this is part of us. All your limitations, all your conditioning can be changed. You just want to— you have to just know what you want and where you want to go in life, and you can remove that.

Yeah.

It sounds— I know it sounds— I mean, with the work I do, with the work I do, people say, but how are you gonna change my personality? You have to change your personality to change your personal reality. But the idea is to shift it. The idea is to let go of what doesn't serve you and move into what you want.

Yeah, I think— and I think that's— I think that's huge. So just to recap, the most important— like, forget training, but for a second, you don't have to be your past. Your future doesn't have to And that's so liberating to think that. And it's true, you don't have to be held by the shackles of the past.

100%.

It's, it's so, so powerful, and that is worth the recording in itself.

Yeah.

The second is, if you're consistently making a mistake as a trader, it's because you fell into a pattern. And you fell into the pattern because you're making the same behavior, because you're in the same state, and it's a result of the Yeah. So we need to talk and give people guidance on how to change the conditioning.

Okay. Well, look, the deep-rooted conditioning is intervention work, so that's something that needs to be actually sat down and done. But the first thing that, you know, you can take from today's, you know, sort of understanding is that the most important thing is to remember that your conscious mind and your unconscious mind doesn't know the difference between Do and don't. So it doesn't understand I don't want this or I do want that. So step number one is always focus on what you want. Create those images, those thoughts that you want, not what you don't want, but because your mind reads in images. So if you say I don't want to get sick, I don't want to get sick, I don't want to get sick, you're actually feeding the mind and the body get sick, get sick, get sick. So in essence, you always focus I want to get healthier, I want to get stronger, I want to become an even more successful trader. Not I don't want to get, I don't want to lose, because then you're, you're creating that environment and that mind and it's so It becomes part of your, your, your domain. So understanding is step number 1. Focus on what you want. Move all the time. Write down what is it that you want, and that will start to train your mind and body into a reality, into a shift of an understanding. Step number 2 is really, I would highly advise you guys to look at some form of meditation. I'll share some stuff with you to share with the audience, but meditation, giving yourself some peace of mind and quiet, giving yourself 15 15, 20 minutes a day, the start of the day, before creating that busy mind, you know, getting into a quiet mind, quiet that analytical mind, and just start to position yourself in what is it that I want to achieve today. Today's going to be a great day, that affirmations in the morning, right? And 3, I'm a big believer in breathing. You know, I do a lot of breathwork, and all my students and clients, including yourself, breathwork is a great way for shifting your energy, a great way for creating a release. So research some, you know, maybe Steven, we can add some links here from great, great, great mentors that I follow, and that will give you an idea and understanding that what breathwork is important, how you can move your energy and start to shift that reality of yours. So I think those are the 3 starts. I mean, perhaps, hopefully—

Yeah, no, and the only thing I would add, the only thing, and it goes with trading and it goes with the work that you do is keep an open mind. Keep an open mind.

Yeah.

Because you don't always have to believe the conditioning that we've got, we've been given from society, I guess. And again, I'm not anti-society, but it's true. The only other thing I'd say is step into the unknown with an open mind. Don't be afraid to step into the unknown. A famous guy who we both follow, I mean, we could say it's Joe Dispenza.

Yeah, Dr. Joe Dispenza, one of my mentors. Yeah, big fan.

Yeah, me as well. You said, um, do you know what it is? Every time I've gone to the unknown— because right, right, right now we all live in patterns and cycles and we all do the same cycles and get the same results. Yes. And then think, why is nothing different? And you know, um, Einstein's definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. Yet we all do the same thing and expect different results.

Yeah, yeah.

The famous line from Joe Dispenza, Dr. Joe Dispenza, as he said, I've never been let down when I've stepped Of course, 100%. I've never been let down. And you know what it is? It's a bit scary at first, but I've never been let down when I've stepped into the unknown. In fact, I've been greatly, greatly rewarded.

And the unknown for me personally in my life is, is the place of excitement, the place of— that creates, that drives my energy force within me. I love the unknown. I think the unknown is a place where everyone should explore, because the unknown— we've been conditioned to stay in what we feel that is certainty and security, but when we explore it and we just take a step in that path, it, it, you realize that that's our destiny. That's how we're actually wired to, to be, to be able to be exploring like that little kid that comes into this world. There's always excitement. They're chasing, they want to explore things. They're not afraid, you know, get rid of that fear, get rid of those doubts and live the life that you seek from within. 'Cause that's what we're all destined to be.

Yeah, and we'll close it there. It's been fantastic. We've covered a lot of different topics. We've certainly covered my journey of how I've undergone a transformation, and thank God we can capture all of the lessons on camera. I'll just end it by saying I, Sam, will be more than grateful to give one or two different exercises for free.

Yeah, sure.

Because I want to start others the same journey that I've undergone. And I mean, we'll work out how to do it.

Yeah, we'll make a plan, no problem.

Certainly we'll give some stuff for free.

I'm happy.

To see if there's a difference.

No problem, no problem. Any, anyone that wants to reach out, um, you can leave my details maybe if you want, but anyone that wants to reach out and have a call, I, I give out free calls initially to, to help people understand, you know, and, and give, give, you know, It's all about being open to receive and open to understand. If you're ready to make some changes in your life, I'm always happy to support anyone that wants to raise their consciousness so they can master their life, you know, and master their mind really for that matter.

Yeah. So that's a wrap. Thank you so much.

This is Sam Daghash. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Master NLP practitioner.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you guys.

I'm Steven. You know us for a long time.

Cheers guys. Thank you very much. Cheers.