Faith & Facts

You can have more faith when you check the facts. That's the message of this mini podcast.

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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"The Grasshopper" is the part of you that whispers pearls of wisdom that  seem to pop into your mind from out of the blue. John's essays and blog posts are his interpretations of these "Nips of Nectar." Others have labeled his writings as timeless wisdom. 

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• Mindfulness
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• Creativity
• How to stay in the present moment
• Spirituality
• Behavior improvement

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Transcript

Faith & Facts

Years ago, while out walking our dog, The Grasshopper dropped this article of faith on me: “Rely less on faith when facts are available.”

I had to let it sit for a day before I could glean any meaning.

I believe we have to take many things on faith. For instance, we take it on faith that our car's gonna start when we turn the key or push the "start" button. If we don’t have faith that'll happen, we'll deal with doubt more often than's necessary. So faith plays a valuable role in our life. It saves us from changing our name to “Thomas I. Doubt.”

But, we often rely too much on faith when facts are available, and it can be the cause of lots of avoidable angst.

There’s a reason that one of my favorite quotes is, “The reason life doesn’t work is because people don’t keep their agreements.” 

It comes from the founder of EST, Werner Erhard. My experience is that a huge majority of people who agree to do something, don’t follow through. If I take them at their word, I’m going to be disappointed more often than not. This causes me to sidestep my faith and call on the facts, especially early on in any sort of relationship.

Reminds me of a conversation I had with my grandson . . . “Poppy, why do you ask for things more than once? I hear you on the phone asking the same question lots of different times during your calls.” My response was, “When I die and you are at my funeral and people ask, ‘What was your Poppy good at?’, your answer should be, ‘He checked on shit.'”

It is at the beginning of any agreement where facts best take the lead. After the facts are established and there is a track record of them being adhered to, then open the door and let faith back in.

We humans are flawed and, more often than not, we don’t keep our agreements. Don’t take that on faith; check your life experience and you can verify it as a fact.

Having this knowledge will have you play the odds more often, and results in you getting played less often.

Bottom line: When you check on the facts, you can have more faith.

All the best,

John