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.
See a video of John's background at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbCPd00ok0I
In short, John Morgan is a people helper. Explore this channel and see what he can help you discover.
Grasshopper Notes Podcast
Your Parking Garage
The longer a thought stays parked in your mind, the less useful it becomes.
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 podcasting site: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1628038
"The Grasshopper" is 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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Your Parking Garage
Some years ago I got this thought: The mind is like a parking garage for our thoughts. It seems there are daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and lifelong customers.
The longer a thought stays parked in your mind, the less useful it becomes.
The key to keeping thoughts useful is to keep them flowing. The minute they become parked, there's no room for new thoughts to enter your garage.
There's also a below ground garage that holds the experiences that keep those thoughts parked. It’s like a giant electromagnet that holds those thoughts in their spaces.
It’s time for a Garage Sale.
We have to begin at the source, meaning we have to start our clean up below decks so that we can get the results we want on the surface.
There's a long way and a short way to accomplish this task.
The long way is to try and figure out a way to manage our thoughts. This may take years of trial and error and long hours of therapy and still not be successful. It's like moving a thought from one space to another. It still stays parked. We want them to flow in an out and only have short term parking at most.
The short way is to turn off the power of the magnet. Once the magnetic hold is removed, it’s easier for the thoughts to move through.
The way to reduce the magnetic pull is to experience the emotion that holds the thought in place. As long as the emotion is charged up, the thought isn’t going to budge.
Experiencing emotions is not an easy task because there is discomfort involved. It involves feeling, the thought of which scares most of us into a state of immobility.
There's also discomfort involved in passing a kidney stone. But It's a necessary discomfort to move through in order to get things flowing again.
Moving through your emotions is necessary to get your thoughts flowing which means getting you unstuck.
As discussed in past recordings, moving through your emotions is paying attention to the feeling, or better said, the sensation they deliver in your body. Different emotions may turn up different places in your physical body. Place your awareness on the sensation that’s going on in that body part and you'll move through the emotion.
It may take a few minutes or an hour of sustained awareness on that body part for the attendant feeling to get that emotion to release. Along with that release comes a free flowing garage that doesn’t have you hold on to a thought any longer than is necessary or useful.
To clean up your mind, you first have to clean up your body.
Find an emotion that has persistently followed you around and give it some attention. That’s all it needs in order to release.
The price you pay for long-term parking can be sizably reduced by returning the flow to your parking garage. Begin today by not keeping your emotions at bay.
All the best,
John
