Notice What You Don't Notice

So much of what we do goes unnoticed by us. It's useful to start noticing more and be a slave to our limiting, habitual patterns less.

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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• How to stay in the present moment
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Transcript

Notice What You Don’t Notice - Grasshopper

My observation is that we are considered to be who we are by others, by the conditioning they observe in us. That’s only a partial picture. We're more than our conditioning.

To discover that, ask yourself this: Who were you before you were conditioned? There was a before and there can be an after, but it will take some noticing.

As an example, notice how you speak: your accent. “But I don’t have an accent,” you say. Yes you do; you just haven’t noticed. You were conditioned to speak in that accent well before you knew what the word “conditioned” meant. It means you were brought up around people who spoke that way, and now you do too. It’s all second nature, meaning it’s unnoticed.

Most of what we do (good, bad, indifferent) is conditioned (unnoticed).

So how do we go about the process of reconditioning? Start noticing your automatic behaviors. And when you notice one that’s getting in your way, interrupt it. That act of interruption is the passport to the whole picture of you.

In between your thoughts, in between your actions is a space where reconditioning lives. So it’s our job to notice our conditioning and interrupt it. That creates a space that leads to where the rest of us lives.

You don’t have to begin big. You can start by noticing little things that you do automatically. This gets you in the habit of noticing, which breeds more noticing. Before too long, you start to notice a whole host of things that you didn’t notice before. 

Some of these automatic, conditioned patterns are working for you. Hang on to them. Others are holding you back. Interrupt them.

“Know thyself,” the ancient Greek aphorism, applies today as much as it did during the time of Socrates and Plato. It could easily be called “Notice thyself.” 

The way to get more access to your reconditioning force is to force yourself to notice. Pay more attention to your conditioning than you do to others. It'll keep your conditioned patterns from hiding under the covers.

All the best,

John