Spiritual Or Worldly?

Worldly advice comes from experience, not books. Spiritual advice comes from an other than worldly realm. Find out more about these types of advice 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. 

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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

Spiritual Or Worldly?

I offer two types of input: Spiritual and Worldly.

I use the word “input” rather than advice because most people are conditioned to ignore advice. A computer gets input. If it registers, it’s accepted; if it doesn’t, it’s rejected.

The spiritual input falls into the category of getting to know yourself better. That means that you subtract layers of conditioning and discover that you're deeper than those layers.

My worldly input isn’t as deep, but can be useful.

For example, one day I was on the phone with our seminar coordinator and she told me about some 18 year old twins whose mother gave them each a $100 allowance. I inquired why they didn’t have at least a part-time job at that age. She didn’t know. I then offered some worldly “advice”: “She’s conditioning them for a world that doesn’t exist.”

I'm not opposed to giving 18 year olds a helping hand; lord knows, others helped me long after that age came and went. But this isn’t about 18 year olds or monetary assistance; it’s about setting ourselves and others up to fail.

What a rude awakening it is to find out that what you thought was the way it worked and the actual way is quite different. Take the graduate of law school. They just spent three years studying one subject: The law. Let’s even pretend they graduated near the top of their class. That means they know a lot about the law. Then they go out and practice it and find out the worldly law is worlds apart from their knowledge base.

On-the-job training accounts for much more than we’ll ever learn in a formal setting. Hands-on training results in our book reviews more closely reflecting the worldly view.

This takes me back to the spiritual. We have to get out of our heads to get more worldly, and, at the same time, deeper.

To become more worldly we have to take life as it comes more often. Our response to what life brings determines the quality of our life, not our storybook game plan that’s subject to all sorts of worldly disappointments.

I believe in planning and have learned that it’s useful to be worldly enough to adopt Plan B or C or D when someone runs your PowerPoint® manifesto through the shredder.

Oftentimes, Plan B or C or D is much deeper than your original idea. You would have never gotten there unless you were flexible enough to become more worldly.

Bottom line: You set yourself up for failure when your plans are always in hard cement. An here's some pleasant irony: You become more spiritual when you become more worldly.

All the best,

John