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
Who You Are
Who are you, really? Find out 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.
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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Who You Are
Did you ever notice that once in a while an eye-opening thought pops into your mind? It’s usually in an unguarded moment when your thought machine is quiet. These are the thoughts I attribute to a part of us I call The Grasshopper.
I like to think of The Grasshopper as the part of you that lets the truth slip out from time to time. Not the relevant truth, but the truth that can only come from the one source of everything.
One night The Grasshopper slipped through my guard and delivered this:
“Who I am rarely makes it into my thoughts; who I’m not, often does.” (I’ve noticed something: The Grasshopper doesn’t care about the proper use of “Who” and “Whom.”)
Did you ever notice that you can have some awful thoughts about yourself in your head? It’s like a political, name calling, series of ads in there. Of course, we’ve learned from the “Positive thinking” group that we’re supposed to replace those names with positive names. I guess they've never noticed that that never works.
Who you are is not a thought. It’s deeper than thought and only manifests briefly, as thought, when there are no thoughts in your mind. Who you are can't be thought of in thought – it’s too elusive. It’s like the wonderful dream you awaken from that you can’t remember any of the details of moments later.
Who you are not is the collection of thoughts in your head about yourself. They're repetitive thoughts that stick around. Since they’re there all the time, we mistake them for who we are.
Who you are doesn’t stick around as a thought because as the old saying goes, “Once you label it, you lose it.”
Who you are can’t be named. It’s like the ancient Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu reminded us in the opening verse of the Tao Te Ching: “The Tao that can be explained with words is not the Tao.” The verse goes on to say, “We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are the effects of something subtle. When we see beyond the desire to use names, we can sense the nameless cause of these effects.”
Who you are can never be reduced to a name, yet we continue to to label ourselves in a misguided effort to discover who we are.
When the name calling calms down and takes a siesta, who you are arrives in full sombrero, because who you are is much bigger than your head.
You don’t have to take my word for it that the names you are calling yourself are not you; just pause the naming practice and notice what shows up in its place. That’s when you’ll find the peace that passes all understanding.
Or as Rocky the Squirrel may have said, “That’s who you are in a nutshell."
All the best,
John
