Reconditioning Your Conditioning

Your conditioning often has you say or do something that goes contrary to your  current beliefs. That dichotomy often can present some awful feelings. Learn how to recondition yourself by doing something you naturally know how to do. 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

Reconditioning Your Conditioning

The Grasshopper had this to say today: “When it comes to responding, your conditioning comes first.”

Have you ever spontaneously said something to yourself or someone else that you instantly followed with, “That was an awful thing for me to say”? And then you felt bad about it?

That instant response was your conditioning showing itself.

You may have intellectually evolved on the topic your conditioning was commenting on, but your conditioning hasn’t caught up yet.

It happens to me all the time. I’ll have a thought pop into my head or out of my mouth that isn’t something I currently believe, but maybe one time I did. I’m sure you have your own examples. 

Here’s something I’ve trained myself to do that leaves me with a much better feeling: Instead of feeling awful for saying something I no longer believe, I laugh at myself. The laughter interrupts the pattern of feeling bad and highlights how silly I was to believe that something in the first place.

I don’t beat myself up about something that I really have no control over. It would be like castigating yourself for sneezing.

This laughter response works in other areas as well. Maybe you know someone who does this: They accidentally do something and then throw a fit that it happened. Maybe they utter,“Oh, I’m such an idiot” or they throw something, or kick the thing that caused their accident. That’s conditioning at play. 

I’ve often said if people could see themselves on video being angry, they’d be angry less often.

If you can recondition yourself to laugh at your accidental foibles, you can save yourself a lot of unnecessary angst.

The process begins by interrupting your conditioned response, while it’s happening, and then laugh. Each time you do this, you get closer to having a different response to your conditioning – one that leaves you in a better frame of mind.

All the best,

John