Words are energy
“ Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate, and to humble.”
We have many superpowers we can dismiss, ignore or just don't value and appreciate, and the most potent power is language. Our words derive from our subconscious, and we use them to project our feelings, loss, worry, anxious, joy, happiness, uncertainty and most powerfully our beliefs.
Throughout DDC, we use language intentionally, and every word has relevance. The Master Key itself is written in the same manner the strength in words, their application, their intent, their association and what they create as they are used.
Thoughts become things
Thoughts can be visual, pictures, and even if not written, they are words. Consider how we share the content in visual, audio and written format to ensure that the words get absorbed through your sense of sight, hearing and then read through written language- entirely intentional. These words create the thoughts in your mind. As powerful as the thoughts, the use of words makes things, reactions, responses, outcomes, distortions, generalisations, assumptions, and shapes our beliefs.
Why do you choose certain words?
What do your words impact?
How do you choose your words?
What if you focus on your intentionally of each word?
We can dismiss our impact and influence through what we say.
This dismissal is ignoring a real superpower that has universal implications.
· When you wake, what are the first words you speak?
· What words do you use when describing yourself?
· What words do you use to describe what you do?
· How concise are you?
· Do your words share what you want to say?
· Do you get confused when you speak?
· Do others misinterpret what you say?
Let's look at each of these and the power of choosing the right words.
First words of choice
When we wake, we rouse ourselves from a therapeutic and meditative state (we have three states as a human Sleep, Awake, Dream). This is a highly suggestive and positive time.
Do you wake and ever consider what you say first?
If you wake up next to someone, what's the first thing you say to them?
If you wake alone, how do you speak to yourself first, what are those instant internal words on waking?
Is it kind, gentle, aware, warm, positive, inviting, stimulating, thoughtful, intention setting? Is it?
As with any morning routine, how we start sets us up for the whole 24 hours ahead. Consider this carefully. Building a practice of intentional words each Morning is key to ourselves and the others we share our lives with.
Applying your practice at this instant wake up mode is powerful as it is triggering many more responses. Our words can impact us on many levels
Biological in this example can be gustatory, nerve impacting, neuron firing all happening innately and without you. Physiological and Psychological can be the response we feel emotionally affecting our body and mind.
If this is important, why aren't we intentionally aware of the impact these first moments of words can have on us.
Testing this is easy and creates enormous benefits. Each morning wake and pause, think about what you want to say, its impact, the actual words you choose. This nano moment of consideration can change how you approach, feel and influence your day.
Great examples of practice are short and straightforward:
Good Morning (positive intent)
Hello, what a wonderful day ahead we /I can have
Internal dialogue – I am alive, awake and here right now
Also, very intentional is No words
Just wake and smile
“You can make choices every day without consideration, or you can choose to consider every choice ~ you make the difference.”
Self-Description
What words do you use when describing yourself?
We know the adages around we wouldn't speak to others how we talk to ourselves, YET we still do it. Habitual, self-affirming, and self-deprecating about ourselves means we start and create negative intent, which instantly impacts any manifestation.
We can also get lost in the ego and potential overuse of “being positive” and that if we say we are, then it's big-headed, arrogant and bullish.
Self-description is one of balance, awareness and knowledge of who you are, and a big moment to accept who you are RIGHT NOW. Self-description is in the now. Not the past or the future. Being aware how you describe yourself can be seen in a straightforward assessment – if you receive a compliment – “you look nice today”, “what a great approach you have”: your work is excellent” you have a good life your lucky” how do you reply?
Dismiss it? Embrace it?
Any self-description starts with Thank you. Simple, easy words and creating with them stimulates the same reactions and responses to our Biological Psychology. Thank you.
How this works for negative and positive self-commentary. Your brain can do many amazing things what it can’t do is having the inner dialogue as well as create extra commentary- this simple Thank you when you get external, or internal feedback is
If negative comments are your default response by using Thank you, you create a nano pause, the brain recognises the thank you first, and you can reset your reply.
Prefixing any reply with Thank-You, you are reprograming your brain to appreciate and accept therefore neutrality prevails.
When we start to be more intentional with our words, we learn to apply to self as concise and precise (both needed) that we are who we are.
Self-awareness work is also simple, start noting down words you use about yourself. When you see your reflection, when you reply, when you react, when you are happy, when you are sad, when you feel indifferent. This allows you to start to decipher how you can replace the words that affect you.
A caveat when you are working on self-awareness it’s not an activity of self-promotion that’s ego. It is the self-realisation of what you do well, can improve and can ignore and make irrelevant. Recognise what you enjoy, what you do well, what you dislike at each point ask why. Why do I like this? Why do I do this well? Why do I dislike this? This is self-awareness without ego, without self-promotion and overzealous positivity. You can make good choices, with understanding and this boost intentionality in your words.
Conciseness & Misinterpretation
Focussing on your words prompts conciseness. Being defined and being transparent is the ownership of our words by default you. When we aren’t clear on our words, we begin to waffle, and we lose our point, intention even engagement. This can create frustration from the giver and the receiver.
“The originator of the communication is the owner of the results”
Think about this statement. We expect others to understand and then blame them for not, and we justify this through adverse reactions to validate. Yet, we have to own our words and intentional outcome of what we say, not the response. Your words are your choice, not that of the other person or people you are sharing with. They create the outcome. Be intentional, accept responsibility for your words and see how doing so impacts all you do, feel and focus on.
Reference and extra reading
Biological Psychology examines thoughts, feelings, and behaviours from a natural and thus physical point of view. All that is psychological is first physiological Physiology is the study of how an organism function. Reference Jane Goodall, (1957) Charles Darwin (1895), Edward Wilson (1975) also refers to the birth of Evolutionary Psychology, "The Psychological Foundations of Culture" by Tooby and Cosmides (1992).
