Words - The Bridge Between Invisible and Visible
Going to begin this a bit differently than usual so bear with me…. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” While this is not intended as some sort of lesson on theological texts, I could think of no better way to begin this piece then that quote from the Bible. It points to exactly what I am illustrating here, the divinity of the word, the power of the word, the bridge between consciousness and experience. This quote is telling us that the word is the source of all creation. If you want to change something in your life, this is where it all begins.
Words are powerful forces of creation and destruction, what we say, think, and believe creates the world around us in ways many of us do not fully understand or appreciate. That is what I want to share here, the power of the word in our lives. Words matter, the words we say matter, the words we think matter. They matter a lot! Simply using the word in right thought and action we can completely change our lives. Much of this goes back to something I have written repeatedly as of late, about this experience of life, of being a conscious being, it is not happening to you, it is happening through you, and I am going to show you how.
How you think and speak about yourself, your life, and your experience of life matters immensely. I am going to share something here that I was taught by very important teacher in my life, this is the power of our consciousness at work, it is the source from which, all that humans have been able to figure out and create in this reality, has been derived, it is the very nature of creation. It can go by many names, but for the sake of this piece, let us call it the Force of Creation.
It goes as follow, our thoughts(words) about our circumstances, create feeling, from that feeling we act, and those actions give us results. It is really that simple. Because our results in life create new circumstances, we end up in this perpetual feedback loop that all originated with the words we use. Now you may be thinking to yourself, “no duh dipshit”, because deep within, we know this at some level, it came with the programming we received from the factory, but I bet if you dig into it, really consider the words you use daily, evaluate what the story in your head is telling you about your circumstances, I bet you will see how unconscious and unintentional thoughts, words, are creating less than desirable results in your life.
I want to get into an example, and I am going to be perfectly blunt and honest here, and I know this may trigger some people, but that is the point, because it is impossible to speak truth without triggering someone. When someone uses the word “Trauma” my whole being clinches. It has become such a buzz word to escape ownership of life, blame everything on “what happened to me.” It has nothing to do with the word itself, but rather what it means for this person, the story behind it. Within that story that they have going, the world has and is happening to them, somewhere along the way it become the source of their identity. If you have not figured it out already, SHIT happens, it happens to us all, show me any human and I will show you someone who has experienced some circumstance, that some therapist would consider trauma. I not here to judge it as real or not, to validate it, nor invalidate it, I am only here to share the reality of the word, its power. So long as we identify with this word trauma, that thought will create our results in life.
The identification with and use of this word becomes a vicious cycle, repeating endlessly, just refer to the Force of Creation I outlined above. This thought, this word, Trauma, is creating a feeling and actions in this person’s life, which gives them a certain result, into the loop they go, creating new circumstances that just reinforces the original thought about “their trauma.” Not until they create a new thought about the circumstance, stop identifying as a victim of trauma, take radical responsibility for all that has happened in their life, accept that whatever happened was just as it was meant to be, can they begin creating a new story, and begin creating different results for themselves.
Trauma is just one example of words and thoughts, that create results in life that get us trapped in this loop, blaming our circumstances for our life, when the truth is, we are the ones doing it, it always has been us. This is the work I do with people in coaching, showing them that their thoughts about their circumstances are keeping them from what they want most in life, whatever that happens to be for them. Shifting our life, creating what we want, improving our relationships, finding peace, finding joy, begins right here, we need look no further. Our life experience will line up with the words we use, the ones we say and those we think. So long as our story is that there is something wrong, we will continue to find something wrong. As I am writing this, I wonder if I am putting to much emphasis where we might be using “wrong” thought or words in life, because what I hope you will get from this is seeing the power and potential of using “right” thought and words, but ultimately this is where our attention must go, because we can not begin to use “right” thought until we have unearthed the “wrong” thought that has been holding us back.
The work here is to piece by piece, little by little, begin peeling back our story, our thoughts, see them for what they are, they are not facts, circumstances are facts. Many people, myself included, confuse their thoughts with their circumstances, especially when they are triggered by something. Circumstances are factual, no judgements, no adjectives, just facts. A great test is to ask yourself the question, “Is this something everyone would agree with?”. If that answer is no, then it is a thought. I will give you a common example, “I don’t have enough money”. That is a thought, not a circumstance, why? Because not everyone would agree with it, there is someone, billions actually, that would look at the financial circumstances of your life and have the thought, “you have more than enough”. That is simply one example of how our conditioning, the program we are running, keeps us in the endless loop of results we don’t like. In our example above, as long as we believe we don’t have enough money, we won’t have enough money, it is only when we shift that thought to one of abundance, deny the whole idea of lack, along with it’s corresponding feeling and actions, will our results begin to change. This is the law of attraction at work, we attract what we vibrate, and the word has great influence on our energetic vibration, the mental atmosphere we vibrate into the world.
I can’t write about this without getting into feeling, even though it could be a separate topic all to itself, because the feeling is critical. Because it is through the feeling and the chemical reactions in our body that things actually happen, this is how the human vessel was designed to connect with conscious intelligence. What I am saying is that, if we don’t believe what we are thinking or the words we use, then none of it matters. Which is why we must learn to feel, learn to accept all the ways we might feel and let them work through us. It is through trying to escape our feelings that we buffer, essentially distract ourselves from our consciousness, which lessons our ability to feel. Moving into this level of spiritual awareness will not bring peace alone, it will bring turbulence and means that we have to feel more, more of everything. But as I said, that is a whole other topic for another day.
The creative use of conscious intelligence is the spiritual path. In the world that is spirituality, there is much surface level spiritual “fakeness”, for lack of a better word, all the Pachamama stuff, as we refer to it, all the love and light, hippy dippy shit, these are distractions from the truth, these are external validations for the ego. While that stuff can be fun and should be enjoyed if we desire, we must stay grounded in our understanding that consciousness is the path. The spiritual path has been and always will be about stepping into and owning our conscious connection to the universe. Our words and our thoughts are where it all begins, this is the bridge, the bridge into conscious intelligence. While we all have lived our lives enthralled with the world that we experience, all the beautiful external stuff, deep down we all know there is greater intelligence at work, we know we are of this intelligence, we know we are of the spirit. Our connection to this intelligence is through our consciousness.
It all comes down to this. A word is not merely something we say. It is the authority of consciousness speaking itself into form. Each one of us, as pure conscious energy is creating with the universe, the way that we do that is through our conscious mind, we are connected to this energetic force of creation, the energy back of all things. If we want something for ourselves or those we love, then the universe will give it to us, but only if we create with it, and the way we do that begins with our thoughts, our words, and it all happens inside of us, not in the external world.
Never underestimate words. There exists great power in our Word! The Word is the bridge between invisible consciousness and visible experience.
I will leave you with a question…
What Word am I giving to Life?
Fear or Faith?
Lack or Abundance?
Separation or Wholeness?
Limitation or Possibility?
Joshua
