Wholeness

Seems the longest search in life is for wholeness. Find out how to make yourself whole by giving up just one thing.

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

Wholeness

I believe there's an unextinguished fire within the human spirit that is fueled by the search for wholeness.

Seems we're all looking to complete ourselves, but most of our journey here on planet earth is spent on the path that won’t take us there.

Examine your thoughts. Notice how many times, you entertain this scenario in your mind: “If I ruled the world.” As you play that thought out, you'll find that you're still left with more questions than answers. We use so much energy attempting to control our kingdom that we miss the opportunity to discover our wholeness.

We were born whole and have been conditioned away from that state by the forbidden fruit known as control. And getting my Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on, If you seek to control, you’ll never become whole. (Side note:) The next time you go to a new doctor for a visit and have to fill out a new patient form, where it asks for occupation, put down "poet." 

Back to our regularly scheduled podcast . . .

Control shuts off the flow of wholeness.

It seems the purpose of all our controlling activities is to complete ourselves and return to the wholeness we arrived here with. We're doing a very poor job because the fabric of everyday human life is stitched together with a dissolving suture known as control. 

Control eventually comes unraveled because it’s a manufactured condition that is, at best, weak. When we get to that stage of life that I call "falling apart," we oftentimes look for stronger controls. That effort also fails.

Most people find themselves later in life looking back on a life filled with controls that never worked. This is when many discover wholeness.

The best kept secret is this: You don’t have to wait.

Wholeness is an available choice at any point in life. The only price you have to pay to get it is to give up control.

Wholeness is a feeling of certainty that everything is taken care of, or as the Buddha said, “Everything is as it should be.” We stop attempting to control reality and discover that acceptance of reality is the key to being whole. It’s from this place of wholeness that new ways of dealing with life’s dilemmas emerge that keep us from falling back to our default position of control.

If you really want to nag yourself, wait until the end of your life to find out you spent your whole life riding the wrong horse. The truth is you can change horses in midstream. You may get frightened in the process because giving up control is scary, but your reward for riding reality is you don’t have to wait until the home stretch to find wholeness

All the best,

John