Let You Hair Down

Get a glimpse behind the scenes of what you really are like by getting off stage and letting your hair down.

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? 

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Transcript

Let Your Hair Down

Watching the Academy Awards one year, it occurred to me that we’re all actors.

Our skills equal theirs, except ours never make it to the Silver Screen.

Their roles are varied, unless, of course, you’re Steven Seagal. Our role seems to be the same day in and day out.

Who is this person we're playing?

We’ve taken years to develop it and it goes by many names – Personality, ego, and character to name a few.

Have you ever meet a performer who’s always on? They just can’t seem to shut it off. That’s most of us.

We take this character we’ve developed and walk them to every corner of life’s stage in full costume and we even have dreams about them when we sleep.

We’ve come to believe we are the person we made up. Imagine for a moment that Tobey Maguire wears his Spiderman suit beneath his street clothes everyday so that he’s ready to scale the side of a building, and you’ll start to see the silliness of it.

You know that you are really locked into character when you begin to defend it. There are no defenses for illusions because illusions don't exist. The part you're defending only exists in your mind.

Perhaps, it’s time to retire your character. Maybe, it’s time to let your hair down. Perchance, it’s time to inspect your illusion.

We've taken a collection of routine behaviors and called it us. That’s like calling a strip of film a projector. Those film strips, no matter how action packed or colorful, can’t make them a projector.

You're the projector, not a film strip.

What are you projecting? If you let your hair down, you’ll only project your light. If you keep it tied up in a bun or wear a powdered wig, you remain in character and are limited to the role you play.

This isn't about changing roles; it’s about letting your hair down so there is no more role to play.

Acting is tiring. Projecting your light is effortless.

It begins when we stop pretending that we’re anything other than our light. Our light doesn’t need two thumbs up to make us feel wonderful, or likes on Facebook. It doesn’t need any feedback to keep shining brightly. It just needs us to remove the filmstrip from the projector.

It’s a bit confusing , at first, when we find out we’re not the role we’ve been playing. We discover that most of our life has been a dress rehearsal and all that amounts to is, “All dressed up with no place to go.”

To close the curtain on this recording, it’s a wrap when we discover our light.

All the best,

John