Here's a quick post from one of my favourites, Denise Shull. I bought her book a few years ago (ASAP after it was published) and can highly recommend it.
When making a trading decision ...
most of us think we are just "thinking". We aren't aware that ... beliefs, memories and feelings are influencing our "thoughts."
There are big benefits to ...
Making these elements conscious
(Doing so)
can do two things - 1) reduce the need to falsely try to manufacture certainty and 2) reduce the odds of succumbing to an impulse trade as a way of interrupting the anxiety of not knowing. You can actually detect your dislike for the uncertainty and by stating it, find yourself better able to tolerate it.
ps. Denise's book is Market Mind Games - more on it: