Be Upset

To be upset is natural. To genuinely feel upset takes some practice. Learn how to deal with and feel your upsets 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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• Mindfulness
• Peace of mind
• Creativity
• How to stay in the present moment
• Spirituality
• Behavior improvement

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Transcript

Be Upset

There’s no need to plumb for a reason why you’re upset. It’s most productive to be with the upset.

Dwelling on the reason you’re upset just keeps the feeling around that much longer.

The temptation is to stay with your reasons, while the solution is to spend time with your sensations.

I believe it’s helpful to parse the difference between a feeling and a sensation. The words are not interchangeable.

A feeling is a thought about a sensation. A sensation is an actual feeling in your body.

If you say, “I’m depressed,” that’s a thought in your mind that you label as “depressed.”

To truly address that feeling, you need to find out where the associated sensation shows up in your body.

Where does what you’re labeling as “depression” register in your body? Is it a throbbing in your temples, a flush feeling, a lump in your throat, a tightness in your chest, a gnawing sensation in your stomach, a gurgling in your bowels, or something else? What is your body feeling? It’s more valuable to recognize that than it is to stay in your head with your label.

Fully feeling your upsetting sensations, without comment, is the quickest way I know to metabolize a sensation.

You can find countless reasons why you’re upset, none of which will alleviate the sensation. They just prolong it.

If you genuinely want to get past your upset, sit with the sensation that’s causing ugly thoughts. With practice, two things will happen:

1. The thought will go away.
2. The sensation will be right on the heels of the thought and race it to the door.

It’s valuable to know where your upsets register in your body. So start noticing the sensations and send them and your thoughts on a mini vacation.

Oh, yes, they’ll be back, but now you’re equipped with a helpful way to react.

All the best,

John