The ex-broker who says traders are disconnected from their bodies: "They are in a highly active state"

Damaris Jallow has got magic fingers. Using "psycho sensory techniques" relating to the French military, which she is unwilling to divulge in full, she claims to be able to rapidly alleviate the stress experienced by traders through the power of touch. 

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Many people working in hedge funds or on trading floors are so stressed that their bodies are "physically loaded," says Jallow. They are in a "highly active state" which is not natural, even when they are not on the trading floor. Their bodies are in "constant threat mode" and they have thus become disassociated from their physical selves.

It all sounds intense, but Jallow says physical disassociation is not unusual in the financial services industry and that she knows this because she experienced it for herself. She worked for SocGen and BNP Paribas (in operations). Then she was briefly a broker at Tradition and Marex in Paris. Then she left to found "The Human Spot."

When she was a broker, Jallow says she tried all sorts of things to destress, from spas to hypnotherapy to psychology. Only one technique worked. "I could change my state very quickly in just one session."

What is this technique? Jallow is vague on exactly what it entails but discloses that it has something to do with reprogramming the nervous system through touching the body rhythmically on the arms, face and hands. "It enables the body to let its guard down," says Jallow. 

Jallow says she works with traders and hedge fund managers in Paris and London, but can't share any names because people are protective of their privacy. She doesn't advertise and claims that some hedge fund headhunters refer her to their candidates. Touch is better than therapy, says Jallow: "These people have no space in their minds."

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