4 Words to Banish From Your Vocabulary
We
use words to express ourselves. These words create a specific emotion
within us. This emotion creates a cascade of reactions in every system
of our body: hormonal, nervous, digestive, circulatory, respiratory etc.
This physical reaction, created by specific words, is stored as a
memory at a cellular level. When repeatedly created, this memory becomes
a truth.
The following four words are commonly
used and abused on a daily basis, way more than we can imagine. They’re
not rude words, or even offensive. Yet they are intricately linked to creating
negative truths within us. They are intrinsically tied to judgment,
criticism, and defeatism and are fundamentally disempowering through
their lack of flexibility and change.
How often do you find yourself using these four words, and do you actually mean them when you use them?
Always: Do you/he/she/they really always do/say this, that, or the other?
Never: Really? Ever, ever? Not even once?
Everyone: Every single body? Surely not, we are a diverse bunch after all.
No one: If you’ve had the thought then most likely ‘someone’ is/does/says…
Talk
about making a mountain out of a molehill! You see, these words may
seem innocent enough, but notice what happens next time you use one of
them in a negative situation. How does it make you feel about the
situation? How does it affect your current state of mind? Does it
empower you to resolve the situation? Probably not…
The antidote:
Catch
yourself using any of these words in a sentence, whether it’s about you
or someone else and immediately replace them - out loud - with ‘no,
actually, that’s not true, what I really mean is often/lately/he, she,
they/sometimes etc.’ This will help you to put things into perspective,
to verbalize them as they really are, in this particular situation. This
is your reality here and now, it is not a universal truth.
Unless you want it to be.
