Died In Prison

Are you dying in a personally constructed prison? Find out 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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Transcript

Died In Prison 

This isn’t meant as a persuasion statement, just a personal revelation about how I feel when I see or hear news about the death penalty being administered: I feel awful.

I can’t explain it, or tell you its origin, or justify it. I only know that I get a visceral response even when it’s given to some of the nastiest people you’ll ever see, read, or hear about.

I also get a similar feeling about people who are given life sentences with no possibility of parole.

But at the risk of sounding hypocritical, I probably wouldn't be opposed to the death penalty or life in prison if the person did something awful to someone close to me.

So, this is not a lobby against the death penalty or an argument to improve prison life. I’ll leave that to those more qualified. My purpose is to highlight that many of us are in self-made prisons and our sentence can extend until our death, if we let it.

It’s my experience that many of us will argue that we had nothing to do with how we got into this prison. We'll point the finger out there somewhere and rail against the bars of reality until we “rale” our last breath.

The first step towards parole is to recognize that you are your own jailor. It’s you who locks the door that keeps you from experiencing more. You put yourself here, and if you want to be there, it’s going to take more than a fervent prayer.

It takes recognition that you played a part in your own imprisonment.

Once you admit to your part in your sentence, it gets lighter. Light begins to form at the end of the tunnel and you’ll gravitate towards it like a plant in a dark place grows towards even the tiniest bit of sun.

Taking personal responsibility for our situation is freeing.

It’s a big step to admit that you had a large hand in being where you are, because it’s so easy to blame somebody else and ignore our part. That finger pointing strategy doesn’t work and it insures a life sentence.

Your chance to be free is to recognize that your situation is “on me.”

Once you cop to your part, options you've turned a blind eye towards in the past, show up and pave the way to the straight and narrow path that leads to freedom.

All the best,

John