Nourishment for your spiritual awakening

Published by Lola

I’ve been tagged for this meme on how we give away our personal power by Lorraine Cohen.  I have been doing a lot of work on my personal power lately and one area that has been brought to my attention is my language.

Language links to personal power in two ways; 1) listening to yourself speak can highlight where your power issues are and 2) speaking with conscious awareness can move you into embracing your personal power.¼br>

Giving away your power with speech

I had a few methods I used to give away my power through my language:

• Using wishy washy language like “I’ll try to”, “I hope I can”, “But what if I can’t”, “If I do x”.  Now this kind of language was indicative of my larger issue of fear of success.  It kept me from committing to make things happen and provided me with a get out clause, which since I was preparing for it, would usually get used.  Consciously changing your language to “I will”, “When I”, “I am”, “I can” etc immediately has a lifting and empowering effect.  Simple but effective try it.
• Prefacing my speech with drivel that detracts from my message. Padding my stories with “I don’t know about you, but I find” instead of “I find” or “This might be nothing new to you, but I have just realised” instead of “I have just realised”.  Regular readers of my blog may have noticed this about me since I do have longer posts than usual!  What I have to say is important and so why the overwhelm of justification?  A way of playing small, or not too big anyhow methinks. 

These are small things with a huge impact and since the realisation that what I do is way too important to play small on, I have a responsibility to sort it out.

How do I reclaim my power through language?

Awareness is the place to start.  What annoys you about the way others’ speak?  The world is your mirror, so what’s available for you from there?  Where and/or when do you do that same thing that annoys you? What learning can you take from this realisation? 

How do you want life to be?  Who do you need to become to have it that way?  How would they speak?  Start speaking that way. 

 Be present.  When you are consciously speaking, it less likely for anything old thing to fly out of your mouth.  Speak with intention.

I’m tagging:

Luke Houghton

Ellesse at Goal setting college

Raymond at ZenChilli

In love, light and abundance x x x

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Nov 27, 2007
Filed under: Personal development, Growth, Personal Power, Beliefs