Your Mind Is A Fear Machine

It cranks out fear 24 hours a day . . . even when you're sleeping. Train your brain to head fear off at the pass.

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

Your Mind Is A Fear Machine

Where does fear live?

It lives in your mind . . . and takes its toll on your body.

If you start paying attention – really noticing your thoughts – you’ll see it.
Fear . . . on parade.

Every waking hour . . . and even in your dreams.

One fearful thought after another moves in, sets up shop in your mind . . .
 and your body pays the price for that mental grind.

Now, Dr. Dave Dobson once suggested that the only sensation we come through the birthing canal with . . . is fear.

It shows up in the body first.

Then later, as the intellect develops, the mind tries to explain it . . . and that’s when we give it a name: fear.

And fear triggers that familiar response – fight or flight . . . or the often-overlooked third “F” word: freeze.

Sometimes we’re too scared to fight . . . too scared to run . . . so we just lock up – frozen in place with our disabling fear.

Now here’s the real deal – you’re never going to eradicate fear. But you can learn to have it visit less often.

How?

By catching those fearful thoughts in real time.

Notice them . . . as they’re happening.

Watch them like a witness, not a participant.

Don’t jump in. Don’t wrestle with them.

Just observe – like a bystander at the scene of an accident.

And it goes without saying that yes, sometimes fear is useful.
 It can be a warning worth heeding.

But most of the time?

It’s just your mind . . . seething.

And if there’s only one lesson worth holding onto, maybe it’s this:
You are not your thoughts.

Your mind has a mind of its own. It’s separate from you – even though it does a pretty convincing impression of you.

And if you’re not careful, you buy into the act . . . and let its fearful agenda run your life.

But the moment you start noticing those thoughts – without fighting them, without feeding them – something shifts.

That’s your way out.

That’s your path back to a more peaceful body.

So train your brain.

When fear shows up, notice it.
Give it your attention . . . without interaction.

And what happens next?

Your fearful thoughts begin to lose their traction.

All the best,

John