Grasshopper Notes Podcast
The Grasshopper Notes Podcast is hosted by John Morgan the man who has been billed as America’s Best Known Hypnotherapist.
John’s podcasts are a collection of guided meditations and bite-sized, mini podcasts which open you to new ways of thinking, communicating, and responding. You get a finer appreciation of how your mind works and how to use your internal resources to your best advantage.
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In short, John Morgan is a people helper. Explore this channel and see what he can help you discover.
Grasshopper Notes Podcast
The Memory Machine
This week's Grasshopper Notes essay from John Morgan for the week of December 26th addresses the fact that your memories are not you. Find out how the memory machine tricks you into believing that.
Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades.
Find the written versions of these podcasts on John's website: https://grasshoppernotes.com
"The Grasshopper" the part of you that whispers pearls of wisdom that seem to pop into your mind from out of the blue. John's essays and blog posts are his interpretations of these "Nips of Nectar." Others have labeled his writings as timeless wisdom.
Most of the John's writings revolve around self improvement and self help. They address topics like:
• Mindfulness
• Peace of mind
• Creativity
• How to stay in the present moment
• Spirituality
• Behavior improvement
And stories that transform you to a wider sense of awareness that presents more options. And isn't that what we all want, more options?
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The Memory Machine - Grasshopper
Your mind is a memory machine, loaded with tapes and video of days gone by. If you’ve ever mistaken your mind as being who you are now, you have failed at history. It’s simply a recording device of your personal history.
Your personal historian will play back memories from 10 minutes ago to umpteen years ago and pretend what was happening then is happening now. And all the attendant emotions that happened then will resurface now.
We aren’t the movie being played for us. We are the watcher now, not the actor.
The memory machine attempts to trick us into thinking then is now and then is us. The mind is only a history teacher, not a student of now.
Your only job now is to make new memories, not relive old ones. Sure, a trip down memory lane can be a very pleasant vacation but attempting to put down roots there is planting in barren soil, where nothing new will grow.
When the chatter in your mind is unkind, just know it’s only a show, a bad Hallmark movie. You are not the labels or diatribe your mind cranks out. You are simply the watcher of the movie now, not its sacrificial cow.
If you continue to confuse your mind with you, you’ll find yourself in a never-ending stew, one that doesn’t agree with you.
Best to notice that your mind is a machine separate and apart from who you are that’s pretending to be your avatar.
Final thought: The real you has nothing to do with the output of the memory machine’s historical voodoo.
All the best,
John
