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
Tags: ancestral, body language, communication, fears, feelings, HNLP, Lakota, language, life partner, NLP, powerful, time line
I agree with the importance of language in creating our reality. Our words and patterns of thought are so powerful! Being compassionate with ourselves as we make changes is also a key for growth. Self-loving applied with authentic kindness as we continue to improve step by step can bring seemingly miraculous transformation in a little time. It is really a natural process based on loving and those simple changes such as choosing our words more carefully.
Love and Light,
Ilenya