Are you aware that we are speaking and thinking about 60,000 to 80,000 words per day? When I got that information, I was holy macaroni, that many words and, even if we don't talk a lot, we're pretty busy in our head. So what are we telling ourselves with all those thoughts?
Are we programming ourselves in a way? I think yes, we are doing that, because what we're thinking about ourselves, for instance, impacts our emotions, our actions, our health. What we say can uplift or crush us or somebody else. It influences how we see our lives, and, depending on that, it influences what we feel we can or cannot do. How limited or unlimited are we? How much ability do we have to perceive a different way of looking at something, to create a new box into which to put some thoughts?
The question is, are we willing to be aware of the energy that words have. Recently, when I was writing something, I initially chose the word to attempt, and somehow, as I was reading it, the energy was off. That was not what I wanted to communicate. Attempting is trying, but it's not actually doing. I stopped the writing and looked for a word that had the energy that I wanted to communicate.
What I found is definitions in the dictionary are not, from my perspective, necessarily accurate. They state how we use the word in common language, but are we always using the words correctly, really intending what what we plan to communicate?
Energetically, looking at it from that perspective, my sense is that we are pretty sloppy. For instance, recently I listened to a master class on healing.
The presenter talked about what is broken in the body. To me in regard to the body, the word broken does not contribute to healing. Afterwards, I wondered how I would have said that? What came for me is: currently not functioning as intended. If an organ is not working as intended, then there are consequences in the body. The body is not functioning in a in the best possible way. But is the body broken? And considering that the body has the ability to wheel itself, it's not broken, in my viewpoint.
Therefore, the words we use are important. We use words to create something, to create a vision, to communicate a vision. We use words to co-create with the universe, and if we do co-create with the universe, or even just ask the universe, we need to be clear in our communication.
Right now, I am taking a course with Greg Braden on the Wisdom Codes. He talks about, what if our words were a declaration, a declaration of what we desire, of who we are. The universe takes things very literally, not figuratively. If I say I don't want that, then the universe gives me more I don't want that, whatever that that is. It doesn't say: 'Oh, she doesn't want that. What could I replace it with?' Think about it. Let that sink in. It's a declaration of what we desire.
Recently, I had quite an Aha effect while listening to a podcast with Peter Crone, where he talked about declarations. If we declare something, it is no longer affected by our emotions. That sort of had me listen up. It's not no longer affected by our emotion when we make a declaration. We are stating that we get to do something, not that we have to do something. I realized, how often have I declared something and then said: Today I don't feel like it and didn't do it. Then the next day I did it, and the next day I didn't feel like it and so it petered out. How familiar are we all with that kind of behavior?
What if we honor our word in the way that I say what I mean and I mean what I say. That means to be congruent within myself. In a way that changes the game, if we really, really get that. When I had that aha effect, I remember so vividly that next day I didn't feel like doing that, what I had declared, and I sort of heard Peter Corona back of my mind, and I said, Oh, here we go. I acknowledged that I didn't feel like it and did it anyway. I got to do it. That changed the energy. The fact that I get to do that. I am allowed to do that. I am invited to do that, and I don't have to do that, which creates the I don't feel like .
How much can we change our life simply by paying attention to the words we speak, to the words that are going on in our heads on an almost constant basis, often not even cognitively aware of them? How much can that change our life, the way we feel about things, the way we act and our health, because we tell us a lot about how healthy we are. Indirectly, the emotions that we create affect our health, but let's do that as a subject for another article.