Counting up on The Top 10 List Of Things YOU Can Do To Create World Peace, we now explore #7 which is . . .

Watch Your Words

Words are powerful, and we should choose them wisely.

Thoughts and Ideas are the first act of creation. Everything in the physical world is the result of an idea or a thought.

And how do we bring those thoughts and ideas into creation? Through the use of our words.

Many people don’t realize this, but daily we are creating are reality by the words we choose. There have been entire courses of study devoted to this phenomenon, such as NeuroLinguistic Programming.

Let’s explore more deeply how we use our words to create desirable or undesirable results.

First of all, do you know what the worst four letter word you could ever use is? No, it’s not what you had your mouth washed out with soap for.

The worst four letter word is….H. A. T. E.

Hate is a strong word, with strong emotion. I realized that I used this dirty little word quite frequently in my daily life. Saying things such as, “I hate it when my food gets cold,” or “I hate it when this or that happens.”

Your mind doesn’t know the difference between hating it when your food gets cold or hating another person. Energetically, they are the same thing.

It seems that if our results are to create a peaceful earth, than we would best be served by not going to that place of “hate” energetically.

So, instead of saying, “I hate it when this or that happens,” I choose to say, “I prefer it if this happens…” Do you feel the difference energetically?

Another word that is used often, yet gives away our authentic power is the word “make.” As in, “you make me so angry.”

Most of us know by now that no one person, event or circumstance “makes” us anything, and that we are responsible for our own response to any given situation.

Try substituting the word, “I choose” instead of “make.” See if this statement rings true. Instead of saying, “you make me so angry,” you instead say, “I have chosen to be angry.” Now, while we may not like to hear that, it is the ultimate truth.

Another word that is limiting is the word “want.” When you say you want something, it is coming from a place of neediness or lack. Think of something you really want. I want….etc. I know for me that when I really want something, I feel almost desperate.

I learned from the Sedona Method, a self-help tape series, that something you can say instead of “I want…” is “I allow myself to have…”

Also, NeuroLinguistic programming says that negative words are not registered by the subconscious mind. For example, if you say, “I am not sick,” the subconscious mind hears the “I am sick” portion.

It is best to affirm things in the positive. So in the above example instead of focusing on what you don’t want, or the negative, it is important to affirm the positive. So instead of saying, “I am not sick,” choose to say “I am healthy.”

Again, entire fields of study have been devoted to this topic of “watching your words,” but it is worth mentioning and reviewing so that we can be conscious of the world we are creating through the use of our words.

© Lisa Hepner
Life Channels Staff Writer
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