We all know that sounds are waves or vibrations that move at various frequencies. We (as in we as a species, not necessarily you and me) have discovered that at the smallest particle-level, everything, as in all the things, are moving, vibrating, shifting, interacting in an infinite number of combinations to create the expression of life experienced by conscious beings.
When I make a sound, especially in reference to speech, it is a decision my being makes, whether consciously or unconsciously, to create an expression. To set any particle in motion or to change its current motion, energy is required to make that change. The energy behind my particular sounds or words that I make with my vocal chords comes from food and drink intake, just like exercise. Yes: talking burns calories! Which is obvious when I look at it baldly and it is something I’ve rarely thought of as burning calories.
Okay, so we have some logic to how words are physically formed, yet we have not discussed why or how this makes a difference in terms of creating energetic shifts and causing my world around me to change. Still sounds pretty woo-woo. To delve into this, we must first establish and agree that each of us can only experience life from behind our own eyes. Therefore, my words–my out-loud words and my internal words–are the “physical shapes” of my decisions, opinions, thoughts, and moods. My words are responsible then for creating the “shape” and expression of life to me. Even if I use my words to describe what someone else’s life is to them, I’m still only able to describe what I experience someone else’s life is for them. I’m calling words “physical shapes” because a) they burn calories and b) they physically move about in the air via sound waves. They exist in the physical world even if they are invisible to our eye!
Because a word is created with an action (a calorie-burning action!), that action can either be a conscious decision or a habitual decision based on background decisions or agreements that I’ve already made. If I’ve decided or agreed that the sky is blue, I won’t question the words, “the sky is so blue today” when they come out of my mouth. Similarly, if I’ve decided to agree that I’m not book-smart because I failed a few standardized tests as a kid, I won’t question the words, “I’m just not book-smart” when they come out of my mouth. I have continued to express these things with physical words, making them true realities for me. When I say a word, don’t forget that I also hear and take in the physical vibrations of the word back into me.
As you can see, deciding the sky is blue is an extremely logical and sensible decision given all the evidence, past and current, that the sky is blue and it does not cause me any emotional stress or disempowerment to continue to declare that as my truth. However, is it powerful to make it true for myself that I am not book-smart?
If all of life is a series of vibrations or movements and words are also physical movements… and I experience life by taking in vibrations or movements, even my own ones that I put out… and I can decide what vibrations or movements I put into the world and subsequently back into me… then only I am responsible for what I am deciding to put out. No matter what happens to me, only I can decide what to say about it. If I’m experiencing life feeling down, disempowered, angry, resentful, apathetic, or with resignation, that is when I know there is something icky that I’ve agreed with and made it true for myself with my own words. I could be even agreeing with someone else’s words about me, making their words the words I’ve been saying. Because I can only experience my life from behind my own eyes, I’m responsible for uncovering these areas where I’ve decided something icky is true.
There can be stacks of evidence of why this icky “truth” is the truth for me. It takes shifting my words about it to begin shifting my perspective about it (and shifting my perspective about it to start shifting my words! It’s a chicken or the egg kind of thing.). It takes caloric-burning, intentional choices to act with words I want to believe to replace ickier words I don’t want to believe. I will start to physically output different vibrations into the air with my words that will inexplicably change my reality. This tangible reality shift is only inexplicable because of the sheer amount of complicated and infinite combinations that occur when one little thing sets a giant amount of other things in motion in physical space. It is explicable in terms of words being the food-burning physical things sent out into the world from our bodies, generated from decision.
This is the power of words. Be more conscious of them so you are choosing how you output what you take in to suit you and your life.
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