"Our actions create our life… Agree? Our thoughts create our actions…. Agree? Our thoughts are communicated to us in the form of language…. Agree? So…how can we live our largest, most expressive and most loving life if we are using vocabulary that makes us smaller, weaker and discouraged.
Do you know anybody, maybe even yourself, who loves to use phrases like: “This only happens to me”, “Life’s a b*tch“, “I caaaaaaaaan’t!”, “Never!”, “I just can’t win”, “I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t”.
The biggest problem with these phrases is not that they are negative or self centered, it’s that they stop you from taking action. Phrases like this paralyze us and fool us into thinking that we have no power and no choice. Which is nonsense.
What if our words always made us and who ever we are talking to feel inspired, empowered and re-energized?"
Read on ...
http://everydaypowerblog.com/2013/04/23/top-5-words-to-delete-from-your-vocabulary/
This may be of interest to you Robin Griggs Wood : http://instagram.com/p/WUkw_3M7lo/ :D
ReplyDeleteRobin:What you say is so true that a word, a phrase, can cheer you up and make daily or painful that day. The words are the best tools of the human being. thanks for your message.
ReplyDeleteI was going to read it but I can't. I'm too overwhelmed.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite quotes:
ReplyDelete“Who wills, Can.
Who tries, Does.
Who loves, Lives.”
Anne McCaffrey
word :P
ReplyDeleteInteresting article . . . . still not sold on our words shaping our reality . . . . then again perhaps they do!
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Lund -- one way to look it is to think of it terms of other's words shaping one's reality ... such as a child who is told repeatedly while growing up that he is no good or a loser. That kind of mental abuse has a profound effect on a person (and I believe I've encountered studies on that in the past, but don't have any to hand to point out right now.) Is it really all that different, if it is someone else doing the talking or you? As an example, the fact that I told you all that you were artists didn't make you believe it ... but perhaps it made you look and try harder to realize it? ... ;o). If you exercise for your health, here's a quick way to test it: experiment by saying the word "weak" (or words, "I am weak") repeatedly for a couple of minutes while you do your exercise, and visualize that. Then say "strong" or "healthy" (or "I feel strong", "I feel great!") for a couple of minutes, visualizing it as well. When I have done this in the past, I have noticed a profound difference in my performance between the two blocks of time. If you exercise in private, saying them out loud works even better than merely thinking them. It's kind of a fun experiment, too ... :o)
ReplyDeleteThis topic reminds me of how we get shaped by how we perceive our own intelligence.
ReplyDeleteThere is typically two trends. One trend is to look at what your mind can achieve in a deterministic way. If you do will you typically imagine yourself as intelligent, or not, a quick learner, or not. The thing is that it traps you no matter the very simplified and wrong impression you got and not only related to others, but for your own achievements. If you are intelligent can you easily take lightly on the things to learn to learn less. If you are unintelligent will you discourage yourself from even trying "I'm stupid and stupid people do not manage things like this".
The brain get better at what it is used for. While the brain and overall results get influenced by natural differences and also physical changes like brain cancer, brain damages and other things that disrupts or physically alters the brain, will the brain try to compensate simply by trying to learn what you are trying to reach it. So what we do will shape more mental results than our "natural talents" (real or not).
(Not meaning to preach the prophetic "You can achieve everything if you just will it enough" since that typically ignore circumstances, cause and effect, and can be used just as much as alibi and as scapegoat. Unhealthy, IMO)