Increase Your Peace Of Mind

Learn how to turn regrets into Reflections in this mini podcast and increase your peace of mind.

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? 

John uploads these podcasts on a regular basis. So check back often to hear these podcasts heard around the world. Who wants to be the next person to change? 

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Transcript

Increase Your Peace Of Mind - Grasshopper

There is a powerful tool that came out of the world of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) called reframing. It's the process of shifting your focus to a more advantageous interpretation.

"I'm tired of all this rain" is one's refrain. "Imagine what it will do to alleviate the predicted drought" is the reframe. It really doesn't change reality - just one's perception of it.

Regrets are perceptions. When you reframe them as reflections, your vantage point and viewing angle change.

Reflecting allows you to go over old territory without all the bumps and bruises of regrets.

Reflecting is a reality-based position. Regrets have you attempt to change reality - which has never worked in the history of human kind.

The only thing that regret and reflect have in common is that they rhyme.

Reframing regrets into reflections is an easy process and it takes practice to become second nature. 

Here's one technique: When you catch yourself regretting, fill up a plastic cup with water and set it next to a sink. Then purposely knock the cup over into the sink. Then immediately attempt to get all the water back in the cup before it goes down the drain. If you didn't just laugh at the folly of this exercise, you need to practice this technique until you do.

You'll never get the water back in the cup and you'll never be able to go back and redo whatever you did or didn't do that's causing regret. You can reflect on it though.

Here's a reflection technique: Go back to that time in your mind as an older, wiser you and console and counsel the younger you that just did the thing they regretted. Let them know that there will be consequences to their behavior but that they can begin now to learn that retracing and regretting their steps won't move them forward. 

The effect is that the younger you begins to heal sooner from the ineffectiveness of regret and the inclination to reframe regret strengthens as you age to where you are today. By reflecting, you adjust your personal conditioning towards regret.

This is a powerful strategy, but like any powerful strategy it has no power if you don't use it. As the British say, "Give it a go" and notice what you get. Find out for yourself that only a guitar works better by having a fret.

All the best,

John