This Is Your Moment

This mini podcast shows you the way to take your life off hold.

 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

This Is Your Moment

Let me toss this out there as a bit of a wake-up call . . .

Take your life off hold and step into it. Because every moment you’re in? That’s your moment.

When we treat the moment like it doesn’t matter - or like it’s not even real – we’re slowly checking out of our own lives. Reality isn’t negotiable. It’s as real as it gets.

And yet . . . we’ve trained ourselves to escape it. We act like the present moment is some kind of prison, so we retreat into our heads – living off scraps from the past and crumbs from the future.

And that’s where we get stuck.

“If” and “when” . . . those two words will trap you every time. They keep your life just out of reach.

But here’s the undebatable truth: This is it. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Right now.

You win Wimbledon? That’s your moment. You come in dead last? That’s your moment too.

We love to say, “It shouldn’t be this way.” But the fact that it is this way . . . kind of settles the argument, doesn’t it?

Fighting reality doesn’t change it – it just takes you out of the game.

Now, accepting the moment isn’t giving up. It’s not putting on rose-colored glasses and pretending everything’s great. That’s denial.

It’s actually the opposite.

It’s looking at what’s right in front of you and saying, “Okay . . . this is what’s here.” And then stepping into it.

Because life only flows through the present. The second you resist the moment you’re in, you clog the pipe.

We do this all the time – we build these little mental dams. We try to hold life back, freeze it, redirect it . . .

Meanwhile, life just keeps moving right on by.

And we miss it.

There’s an old line from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that nails it:

Into each life a little rain must fall.

That’s not pessimism – that’s reality.

Life isn’t stuck. It never is. But we can get stuck . . . when we refuse to meet the moment.

And when that happens, we become spectators in our own lives—watching, waiting, daydreaming . . . wanting more of the very thing we’re not stepping into.

So here it is, plain and simple:

This is your moment.

You can take it . . . or you can leave it.

Take it – and life moves through you. Leave it – and you’re left standing on the sidelines.

Own the moment you’re in.That’s where the freedom is.

Because the second you stop trying to control reality . . . you’re finally free to live it.

And when you do that?

Yee-ha.

All the best,

John