July 24, 2009
Cause and Effect
Greetings
I desire to continue with some of the information I began a few blogs ago and that was the power of language and the presuppositions inherent in the words we utilize to express our thoughts.
How We Think
I was doing a lecture here in Australia the other night and said that I felt there was a global pandemic, and no it wasn’t the swine flu but the global pandemic of the victim virus. The audience readily agreed and I continued my presentation about self leadership. But as I thought more about that statement I realized that most of our victim thinking is caused by the use of a linguistic pattern called Cause and Effect.
An example of this language pattern would be “I don’t trust people because I had abusive parents”, I can’t be success because I didn’t get a college education,” where something, generally from the past, is the cause of some effect today. This pattern makes the speaker a victim of something they have no control over today.
We may have limited choice over situations in our lives but we have major choice over the meaning we ascribe to those situations. So to help us get out of the conditioned rut of victim thinking utilize language choices such as “MY choice is” or any statement that begins with “I am.” When you utilize language that is upgraded you will speak toward what you desire to create rather further conditioning yourself to think you are the effect of anything except your own perception.
Utilize some new language choices and let me know what results you get in your thinking.
Love & Light
Gary