Ultimate Success Words have an ability to create emotions which can then be transformed into actions which ultimately shape our destiny. This is due to the fact that beliefs can be formed and changed by words. Specifically, the words you habitually chose and use affect not only how you communicate with yourself but also what you actually experience. By changing your habitual vocabulary, you can actually modify how you think, feel and experience. Specifically, by altering the words you use to speak of and think about any situation, you can consistently and deliberately change your emotional state and your life experience. By consciously selecting the words you use in conversation and thought, you can change your life and shape your destiny. You can choose between deliberately using words that are empowering or words that are counterproductive. To put this into practice: 1. Pay close attention to the words you habitually use to describe your negative emotions. For example, ‘‘angry’’, ‘‘confused’’ or ‘‘depressed’’. 2. Develop a list of creative alternatives for those words (like ‘‘disenchanted’’, ‘‘curious’’ or ‘‘on the way to turning it around’’). These alternatives should ideally make you laugh or at least feel less intense. Examples: Don’t feel like a failure but like a learner. Instead of feeling rejected, feel misunderstood. Rather than being overwhelmed, feel maximized. Don’t feel stupid, feel unresourceful. Instead of feeling irritated, feel stimulate. Don’t say: I hate, instead say: I prefer Rather than being frustrated, be challenged or fascinated. Don’t feel humiliated, only surprised or uncomfortable. Instead of feeling hurt, allow yourself to be bothered. When you’re tempted to say insulted, use misinterpreted. Transform feeling fearful into feeling curious. Never be lonely, only temporarily on your own. 3. Make a conscious and deliberate attempt to use your new word choice whenever the situation arises in which you would automatically have used your old word. In a short period of time, you’ll actually begin to feel and act differently as your thoughts start following the new and preferred pattern. 4. Develop an effective way to reinforce your transformation. For example, perhaps you can have a friend in on the scheme, and have them remind you. 5. Be aware that your new word choice can either intensify positive emotions or lower negative feelings. Select new words that are fun to use, imaginative and effective. ‘‘A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.’’ ---- Mark Twain ‘‘Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.’’ ---- Aldous Huxley
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:46:11 +0000
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