Getting Through

What's a win for you? If it's being right, you'll be left out. If it's getting through, you'll step in less pooh.

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. 

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• Mindfulness
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• Creativity
• How to stay in the present moment
• Spirituality
• Behavior improvement

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Transcript

Getting Through

It may sound odd, but, for me, the opposite of losing is not winning.

It used to be until I examined it more closely.

Winning and losing are culturally joined at the hip, which means they seem like the only two options. They’re not.

In the past, winning for me was about being right, and as The Grasshopper reminded us many moons ago, continually staking your claim to being right leaves you left out.

The opposite of losing for me is getting through. That’s my win.

Getting through is not getting people to see it my way. That would be too much like being right.

Getting through is getting them to see that their way isn’t working. Getting through to yourself also follows the same guideline.

It’s amazing to me the number of times we retreat back to a position that doesn’t work. We have a history of our way not working, yet we cling to that rock as though it’s a life preserver.

There’s something eerily comfortable about that which doesn’t work. That’s why getting through is so hard.

At one time, my livelihood depended on me being able to get through. It’s what I made an effort to do. I'd attempt to lead people to paths away from their grooved path, often called a rut. Most often, I didn't offer step-by-step instructions because that suggests there is a right direction to go.

What I find is this: Once people finally discover their ingrained ways aren’t working, they find their own path.

There are some people you and I will never get through to. Again, it’s not selling them on our position, but rather having them notice that their position is on shaky ground.

That shifting ground makes them feel alive. It’s why they're unsettled. It’s as though they have to stick themselves with pins to prove they exist. Their perceived reality is that pain has become all too familiar, so getting through to them is an uphill climb.

Some people find it next to impossible to shed being right, even though right feels so wrong. Their win is a loss.

If winning is their only goal, losing will be their destiny.

Final thought: One thing I suspect to be true is we all lose when we can’t get through.

All the best,

John