The Power of Language

​There is no better time than now to remember the power of language. If you’re reading or listening to various news outlets, you’ll read or hear words like “these are uncertain times” or “these are trying times”. Notice for a moment what that language evokes in you. Friends, family members or strangers may be uttering the words “I’m going stir crazy”. Again, notice what images and sensations hearing or thinking that evokes in you. While there is no issue with describing your reality with honest emotion at the moment, you must be mindful of the emerging stories you begin to perpetuate. 

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​Words are energy. Words shape and influence your thinking. Words are creative and perpetuate specific emotional states in your nervous system. The words you thread together impact and affect your energy flow and sense of empowerment. The language you use in any situation becomes internalized, and that internalization creates and sustains a specific quality of feeling. It is this feeling that you create and maintain in yourself that becomes the basis of your co-creative dialogue with the Universe. At all times, the goal of a deliberate creator is to be generating energy currents that affirm the ever-present opportunities for expansion. To contract into stories that create anxiety is to keep yourself in frequencies that diminish your access to the powerful life solutions you’ve summoned from the Universe. You keep your energy elevated not only because it’s what feels good to your nervous system, but also because it’s what ensures you are remaining in magnetic and receptive states.
 

If you were to examine your narrative right now about where you are, about what your life is like, about the state of the world, what would you say is the tone of your co-creative dialogue with the Universe? Your word choices, your language patterns are impressing upon your psychology specific interpretations of what reality is. As the meaning maker of your experience, you have the power to shape your mind and evoke the states that empower and propel you forward in your growth and evolution. Words like “these are curious times” or “these are interesting times” convey and evoke a completely different internal experience. These words communicate a different tone. When you tell your nervous system that things are “uncertain” and “trying”, your nervous system automatically positions itself into stress response readiness. “Curious” and “interesting” on the other hand, keep your system alert without the stress preparation element. 

​​You must bring consciousness into the language you are using and the language you are receptive to in your moments. You have the power to frame and re-frame the language you’re making use of to describe reality. You are the storyteller. You are the author of your perspective. Own your speech, take ownership of the words you are stringing together to tell your story about what your life is like right now. Diligently guard the gate of your mind so that what’s influencing your interpretations of reality are facts that you form your own narratives around. Be informed without giving away your power. It’s your right and your duty to maintain empowered boundaries on all levels. 

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