Denial Wins

If denial is winning, you're losing. That's the topic of 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. 

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• 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

Denial Wins 

In the category of “most losses,” denial wins!

We keep winning the denial argument and losing the war.

What are we denying? Just about everything that’s happening in our life that we don’t want happening.

Denying it’s happening just keeps it happening.

We've become experts at the game of denial. I remember playing hide-and-seek when I was 5 years old and thought that if I closed my eyes the other kids wouldn’t be able to see me. 

We can easily give a pass to an imaginative 5-year old but what about now?

The game we play now is thinking that if we deny it long enough, people will stop noticing what we’re in denial about. We lose even more when we play that game with ourself.

Denial is a pattern that we’ve learned that we believe absolves us of responsibility. It’s never the case. We’re always responsible for that which we deny.

The first objective is to notice that denial isn’t working. Yes, you may have shouted someone down and temporarily chased them off with your denials, but arguing for your limitations just keeps them in place. Notice that denial equals loss every time. It’s a surer bet than death, taxes, and gravity rolled into one.

Just noticing that you’re denying is often the first step in any recovery model.

Open the door to reality and you'll stop losing at the denial game. 

If you’re looking for more wins in life, notice what you’re denying. Noticing will shine a light on unseen opportunities that were previously blocked from view.

Now that the door is open, all you have to do to get a win is to walk through and leave denial behind.

All the best,

John