How Things Really Are

How rigid is your rulebook? The more rigid, the less real life you live.

 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

How Things Really Are

How often do you catch yourself using the words should, ought, or must?

Truth be told, those words usually aren’t facts. They’re opinions dressed up like facts.

And who among us hasn’t gotten tangled up in a good old-fashioned “should” chin wag? Maybe with somebody else or, god forbid, with ourselves. Either way, the result is usually the same: we stop dealing with reality and start arguing with it.

“You should do this.” “They ought to know better.” “I must get my life together.”

Every one of those statements is built on a rule — not reality.

The moment we use words like should, ought, and must, we’re putting our personal rulebook on display. And sometimes those rules are so old and automatic, we don’t even realize we’re living by them.

Here’s the problem: the more rules you carry around, the less life you actually experience.

Because when we spend all our time focused on how life should be, we miss how life actually is. And real life only happens in the “is.” Not in the “ought to be.”

That’s why these words can quietly pull us one step away from living. They keep us negotiating with reality instead of participating in it.

Now, should, ought, and must  probably aren’t going away anytime soon. But maybe the real question is this:

How quickly can you notice them when they show up?

Because the moment you notice them, you create a little space between yourself and your opinions. And in that space, life gets a little lighter. A little freer. A little more real.

And if you absolutely "must" have one more rule to live by, maybe try this one:

My opinions shouldn’t keep me from living.

All the best,

John