Rabbit Hole

What rabbit hole are you going down and what are you looking for? It's never going to make you feel enough. Find the real Wonderland when you stop chasing carrots.

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? 

Make sure to order a copy of John's new book: WISDOM OF THE GRASSHOPPER – 21 Days to Creativity. These mini-meditations take you inside where all your creative resources live. And you'll come out not only refreshed but recommitted to creating your future. 

It's only $16.95 and available at BLURB.COM at the link below. https://www.blurb.com/b/10239673-wisd...

Also, download John's FREE book INTER RUPTION: The Magic Key To Lasting Change. It's available at John's website  https://GrasshopperNotes.com

Transcript

Rabbit Hole

Who hasn’t heard the expression going down a rabbit hole? 

It’s indelibly etched into our minds by the antics of Alice in “Alice In Wonderland” following a mysterious rabbit down a rabbit hole.

Wonderland is where Alice discovers her true self. That’s not the case for most of us. When we go down a rabbit hole, we’re looking for more carrots, the currency of our false self.

What carrots are in your rabbit hole that keep you going back for more?

For some, it’s alcohol or drugs. For others it’s the search for the fountain of youth. How many Botox ads have you seen on TV recently? But most are looking for additions that we think will make us “enough.”

We’re constantly asking ourselves what we’re missing and the advertising industry (God love ‘em) is dangling those carrots on a stick right before our very eyes.

Here a question for some of our older listeners: What did you buy into, that you had to have, that you look back on now and amusingly ask, “What was I thinking?”

What if you got that gift of awareness much sooner? How many less carrots would you have pursued? 

We can get that gift at any age. But it takes some recognition that we’re being played. We’re being lured into a rabbit hole that’s filled with plastic carrots. No matter how many of them you eat, you’ll never fill yourself up. They’ll never be enough.

Reminds me of a story . . . about 20 some years ago I was having a conversation with a teenage girl who had multiple piercings on each ear. Not a couple, mind you, but a lot. I asked her to notice a man who was standing nearby. I’m guessing he was somewhere in his 60’s and had long grey hair in a pony tail. I asked her what she noticed first about the man. She said, “his ponytail.”

I said, “I’m only guessing here but I think he would like you to notice him first. And I further surmise that he wears that hair style so you will notice him. But the reality is we notice the adornments first. Our focus is on the additions rather than the person. Oh, and by the way, those are some nice earrings you have.”

I ran into her the next day and she was down to one piercing per ear. 

The moral of the Aesop fable of The Hare & The Tortoise is that “The race is not always to the swift.”

The ad industry doesn’t think you’re too swift, and they lure you down holes that are hard to get out of. Here’s a version of Wonderland that will keep you from taking the bait. When your interest is peaked by some sort of addition that’s going to make you enough, wonder if it’s something you need or something you merely desire. That may be enough of an interruption to dampen your desire to go down a rabbit hole and get another bunch of plastic carrots. 

All the best,

John