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A Lesson in the Power of Language

The three pillars of Neuro-Linguistic Programming are (1) language, (2) imagination and (3) emotion. In this piece I want to talk about language and how it works to shape our lives. While imagination and emotion are often discussed esoterically, language is this tangible thing that is acting upon us and coming from us all of the time. It shapes our culture and forms the foundation of our relationships with one another and, more importantly, with ourselves.

Yet, how often have you taken the power of language for granted? Like the oxygen we breathe, we rarely give it a second thought until something painful happens to make us reconsider our actions, our words, the messages we have put out to the universe.

Language is the tool that directs our thinking, and whatever you are thinking about-whatever your mind is focused on-will determine your success or your failure. How many times though have you said to yourself “I am going to change my thinking,” but all you did was try to change your thinking?(!) This is an exercise in futility. The easiest way to change how you think is to change your language, both internally and externally.

If you continuously language your communications to align with your personal vision of success and abundance, you are, in effect, directing your subconscious mind toward that goal. The same is true of your negative thoughts. If you are constantly expecting the worst, talking about your fears, imagining the future cloaked in possible failure, you will draw those experiences toward you.

We employ just 10% of our mental capacity while the other 90% lies dormant at the subconscious level. What would our lives be like if we learned how to program the infinite capacity of our minds toward our goals and outcomes?

Here are some little known facts about the subconscious mind:

• Your subconscious mind is programmed by your conscious mind, but often it is power without direction.
• Your subconscious mind takes language literally and personally. Language is one of the most important ways we program this power within us.
• That which we dwell on, feel to be real, and language accordingly, are the principal programming agents that guide our lives’ successes and failures.
• We have CHOICE. We are in charge of our minds and therefore our results. We have all the abilities and resources we require to succeed in life.

 What we require to accomplish is the study of how to awaken and direct our subconscious minds toward our goals. Language is a bridge to this awakening.

The subject on which you are dwelling is the temple at which you pray. Either the God of your negative thought forms or the God of your positive thought forms will answer. Your present day reality is a culmination of answers to your past thoughts. You have brought those answers into manifestation by what you consistently dwelt upon and “languaged” to be real. Because of the delay of time, you have forgotten what you called into being and thus created for yourself.

How will you recreate your tomorrows using the Power of Language?

Love & Light

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Language is Powerful

 Watch and be alert to today, what you are saying, and are you speaking in outcome.  I get all teary when I think of this because it’s like, it’s such a big piece.  It seems like such a little thing, doesn’t it?  It is a big thing.  It’s a really big thing.

  “Language of exaggeration.”  In the language of exaggeration we produce vagueness by omitting personal and specific information.  By using exaggeration, we speak nonpersonally, unrealistically, as an avoidance of our feelings.  Emotions are the key ingredient to having our word manifest.  Remember, the subconscious mind takes your language literally.

  Now, I’m going to repeat what I said last night, and this is really important, because emotions are key.  In our culture we have 750,000 words to use that literally cut at the root of us feeling and speaking first person personal in the now.

  Has anyone ever read any writings by Chief Seattle?  Read some things that he’s written.  This man speaks from the heart and his words are so powerful you get goose bumps all over your body reading what he wrote, because as he spoke, his heart was completely connected to his language, and he will bring tears to your eyes reading what he wrote.  He spoke very little, but when he spoke it was profound.

  When I was very young, I was married to this really wonderful woman, and I remember I met her from this old Victorian house in Berkeley.  We were both following the master that we were both initiated by.  When she walked in the door, I thought she was

thirteen, she was four years older than I was.  She had died purple gloves and a little beaded dress and a little beaded jacket.  She was all like in antique vintage clothes, and I thought “I love this woman.”  She rarely spoke, but when she opened her mouth, it was profound what would come out of it.  I just thought, “I love this person.” As soon as I walked into her bedroom, she had this wall of little vials that were filled with perfectly preserved dandelion flowers, just dandelion flowers.  And I thought “I love this woman.”  She was one of the most amazing people I had yet to know.  I had the great good fortune to be godfather to her little girl.  And we’re very close to this day. So when we speak with specifics connected to our heart, our words have power.  What makes a great speaker?  What makes your word have power is your heart connected to it.  What makes a lousy speaker is that you are so shielded by your fear of someone seeing what you are, choosing no one to see because you have no tolerance for it in your own self, that you speak in shallow terminology, vague terminology, and people never get who you are.  They don’t get who you are because you are afraid to have people see who you are because you can barely stand to look at who you are yourself.

  So wake up.  Begin to start using your language that will give you intense power and know that there is nothing about you that is not lovable.

  One of the most profound gifts that you can give yourself is your own self-acceptance and your own self-compassion, and your language will begin to reflect this as your thinking begins to.  Your language is the back door to correct the thinking.  It is the back door.

  In the language of exaggeration, we produce vagueness by omitting personal specific information.  By using exaggeration, we speak nonpersonally, unrealistically as an avoidance of our feelings.  Emotions are the key to having our word manifest.  The subconscious takes your language literally.

  Examples of exaggeration:  “Everyone.”  Who specifically?  Is what you’re saying including all people on the planet, whoever lived throughout time?  This is what “everyone” means. 

           ”Everything.”  What specifically?  Is what you’re saying including all things which ever existed physically and nonphysical throughout time?  “Always.”  Is what you’re saying including all time from the beginning of time into infinity forever?  

Love & Light

Gary De Rodriguez

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