Are You Here Or There?

Here and Now vs. There and Then. It's not a fair fight. Find out the perennial winner in this min podcast from John Morgan.

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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Transcript

Are You Here Or There? - Grasshopper

Where do you spend most of your day – here or there? Being here keeps you in touch with reality; going there sends you off into illusion.

Chew on this for a moment: You can only really be here, never there, yet we spend a large amount of our time attempting to be in a place we can’t be - there.

You can only get there by going through here. This is beginning to sound like a Dr. Seuss story.

Attempting to be there when you’re not, delays your arrival. Most of us ignore here and now too often and that causes us to cease moving because we’re too busy in the make-believe world of our mind pretending we’re not here. You can’t move on from here until you recognize here and all its attendant sensations.

We have been conditioned to escape here by going off to mythical places in our mind (there) with the sole purpose of escaping now. The problem is that once the fantasy balloon bursts, you are right back here again.

The prescription seems to be: Be here as often as you can. It will put you in touch with reality and from this base of operation you can make fact-based choices, instead of pie-in-the-sky plans to be there.

Choices made here and now have a much better chance of bearing fruit than ones made in the make believe world of there and then.

The quality of your life will be found here, not there. “There” is an empty promise of tomorrow, which is promised to no one.

The quality of your life will improve when you begin responding to life as it happens. Here's the big kept secret: It’s the quality of our response that determines the quality of our life - not the escapism trap that we seem to fall into most often.

Begin dealing with what’s here by responding to the moment. Responding in the moment builds confidence in your ability to respond to life. The juice of life is in your response, not in your escape plan. 

This elixir is always here. Drink from the cup of now and by doing so, when you do get to there, you’ll be trained to respond to it in the here and now.

All the best,

John