Access

You may not be the smartest person on the planet, but you have as much access as they do to solutions. Find out more in this mini podcast.

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. 

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"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? 

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Transcript

Access

Many years ago, The Grasshopper offered me this:

“What you know pales in comparison to what you have access to.”

I had to let this one settle in. After some quiet reflection, my sense is it’s about internal resources.

Reminds me of a story . . .

We have a quaint, old library in the town where I live. It’s not the big, main library, but a regional one that’s been around since the turn of a couple of centuries. It’s quite the experience to go in there and soak up all the history and charm and browse the books and services they have to offer. Size and budget keeps its resources at a level lower than the main library, but it has a feel you’ll never get in a big, modern building.

The same is true about what we know. It’s personal, unique and has a familiar feel. After all, nobody has the exact collection you contain but you.

A difficulty develops when we limit ourselves by what we know. We may evaluate our own personal collection of knowledge and find that others have quite a bit more on hand than we do. We may label them superior. Or we may think we have the upper hand in the area of knowledge and label others with less as inferior. The truth is there will always be someone who is smarter/dumber and more or less knowledgeable than we are.

Enter the great equalizer for all – Access.

Every public library has the capacity to order a book not on its shelves. And they now have computers to search the world for useful information that may not be in book form. You also have access to a much bigger database, but you may lack the mindset to find it or use it. That’s called being stuck in your ways.

If all you want to do is browse the limited amount of books in your personal library, you will be going over the same information again and again. You may be hesitant to use the computer to do a wider search on what you’re looking for because it’s unfamiliar to you. You'll remain impoverished if you have anachronistic tendencies and refuse to branch out. What you remain stuck with is a label that glues you in place.

The person who pokes past their personal knowledge and mines their internal resources is on the fast track to discovery. What they will discover is that knowledge is limiting. There is only so much of it we can retain, depending on the size of our library. If we determine that’s all there is, we miss the opportunity to grow.

To gain access to our unlimited, internal resources, we have to let go of what we know. It’s the first step.

There’s an old expression about financial resources that explains the comparison between knowledge and internal resources. When comparing their financial holdings, one person says to the other, “If I had your money, I would burn mine.”

When you gain access to your internal resources, your knowledge compared to your wisdom begins to pale by comparison.

You do have access to internal resources. The only question you want to ask yourself is, “Am I brave enough to let go of what I know?”

What could you find out if you weren’t hampered by what you know? Lots!

Here’s a challenge. Find something you know that’s in cement. Chisel it out and set it aside. It will be there if you need it. Now get curious about what you can find out without having what you know be foundational. It may feel like taking a rock to a knife fight at first but it gets easier the more we practice.

Give yourself some quiet time where you can experience the deep reflection of not having to know anything. I like to call this time what the poet Longfellow referred to as, “a pause in the day’s occupations.” Out of this “pause” comes insight. 

To get there, you only need to heed the words of the librarian – “Be quiet.”

All the best,

John