Words. How Are You Using Yours?

Words.  They have the power to create.  They can create positive joyful manifestations of Love or they can create destructive fearful manifestations of our negative fear based emotions.  How do you use your words towards others and towards yourself?  Before you answer... your thoughts are words too.  Are your predominant thoughts ones of comparison, criticism, exclusion and judgment?  Or are they of acceptance, inclusion, appreciation and love?  That goes for your thoughts towards yourself.  Your "self talk".  Of all talk and words, the ones we use in every moment towards ourselves are the most important.  Are we using words as a weapon "against" ourselves?  Or a constructive tool "for" ourselves?

 

Decide right now to live your life adapting the first two Agreements of the Toltec.  Just choosing to keep these first two agreements will transform your life and what  you manifest.

 

First Agreement:  Be Impeccable with your Word (thought and spoken - Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the Word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your Word in the direction of truth and love.) 

 

and the Second Agreement:  Don't take anything personally (Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering) 

 

To learn more about these Agreements and the wisdom of the Toltec, check out the **The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book** by Don Miguel Ruiz

 

Here is a beatiful story of timeless teaching; The Story Of Two Frogs.    Please take the time to read it, even if you have read it before, absorb the wisdom and ask yourself honestly:  Are you aware of what you say? Do you empower or destroy with your words?  Which of the two do you do most of the time?  Even more important, are you aware of your own 'Self talk' - what words do you say to yourself?  Do you empower yourself or tell yourself it's impossible?  Do you speak to yourself with love and appreciation or disgust and impatience?

We have all been judged and we have all experienced criticism and we all know how it feels.  To see the powerful effect that words just "said" or tossed off in passing have in the world and on others, watch this video.  No words are inconsequential or meaningless. 

 

You may want to do some Ho'Oponopono after watching.  The tissue box is a few posts down...