Pain

Finding and addressing the cause of your pain is the quickest way to get the elephant out of the room.

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

Pain

Who the heck hasn’t experienced pain? It’s a staple of the human condition. Some seem to experience it more than others, but we all know what it feels like for us.

I got to wondering about the causes for pain, physical and emotional. It seems the physical has more of an evidence trail but sometimes we are still clueless about its origins. Emotional pain also leaves clues, but sometimes it's buried so deep that it escapes investigation.

Walking Snuffy the black nosed beagle was a wonderful spiritual practice for me. I got so many ideas while absorbed in this ritual. One morning the word “Pain” came to mind. I immediately knew it was an acronym – P.A.I.N.

A few steps later the acronym had meaning – Past Actions I‘ve Negated.

It may not explain the cause for all of our pain, but it’s a useful place to start.

Believe it or not, the elephant in the room is not your behavior. That’s the elephant dung.

The cause of your behavior is the problematic pachyderm itself.

The cause of your pain is what needs to be addressed and it can be addressed more fully when you bring the focus away from others and onto yourself.

Let’s suppose that you've developed diabetes. Your physician may ask if it runs in your family. If the answer is “yes,” you have found your cause, or have you? Or did you lead a lifestyle that lead to your disease? I have a mostly different view of heredity and disease. This is it. “If you do what they did, you'll get what they got.”

Have you noticed that false teeth are not as common today as they were in the 40’s and 50’s? That’s because most people have better dental hygiene than they had back then. I’m sure there was some explanation of heredity given to adults of that generation when their gums became inflamed causing them to lose their teeth.

Long term emotional pain has a cause. If you suffer from it, you may want to get curious about what past actions you're negating. As long as you take no responsibility for your pain, it will endure. You can try and cover it over with self medicating of some sort but that just leads to a life of shoveling elephant shit from one pile to another.

We keep our pain alive when we cover over its cause. Again, if you are looking past your part in this painful ordeal, you're being emotionally myopic.

Past actions don’t have a statute of limitations. They follow you more closely than your shadow.

What do you continue to lie to yourself about? That’s a question that reveals a pain alleviating answer. Once you stop negating the cause, you bring it up for exploration and you can then begin the process of moving through the pain. 

If you continue to pooh-pooh your past actions, you’ll postpone your prescription and remain in pain.

Take time to address the acronym P.A.I.N. (Past Actions I've Negated) and learn one of life’s best magic tricks – how to make the elephant disappear.

All the best,

John