Struggles

Are you struggling with something? Perhaps it's your self worth. Find out how to get in touch with an inexhaustible amount of it in thi 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

Struggles

Everyone struggles with something. It doesn’t matter who you are or what your station is in life. If you’re human, you struggle.

The question is: What are most of us struggling with? It seems we have one tussle that we all have in common – The struggle with our self worth.

We question our worth. We then measure it up against others’ perceived self worth in an attempt to get a handle on our own. What we rarely discover is our self worth is independent of anyone else’s and independent of any thought we may have about it.

Have you ever had the “I don’t measure up” conversation in your head? Notice you're measuring your worth against another’s. What is sibling rivalry other than a comparison of your self worth with another’s competing for a parent’s attention?

When we attempt to measure up to someone else’s standards, we will have struggles with self worth.

There are no standards. That’s a head trip. Attempting to apply those standards will keep you unworthy for a lifetime.

When we attempt to measure our self worth, we are using a standard that can never be reached, so the struggle is ongoing. That standard seems to be perfection.

Perfection is consciously unattainable. There will always be someone more perfect than us and they're struggling as well. 

So the struggle stays in place for everyone because the goal is unattainable for all. Sounds like the house odds in Vegas.

How do we end the struggle with self worth? Begin by noticing that perfection is an illusion – a mind made concept that’s more addictive than heroin. Once you notice that perfection is a false god, you begin to get in touch with your worth.

Everyone has worth in equal measure; it’s just a matter of finding it. Here’s a hint: it’s not between your ears. Anytime you're having a conversation with yourself about worthiness, you distance yourself from your worth.

True perfection is finding the place in you that negates the conversation in your mind about who you are or aren’t.

Each time you visit this quiet place of perfection, you bring back more of your worth and you find your struggles to be fewer.

You can spend the rest of your life struggling with how worthy you are by keeping someone else’s idea of perfect as your standard. Or you can find out that you’re already perfect when you get outside of your head.

All the best,

John