What did you say?

The purpose of speech is to clothe our thoughts in language and make them available to others.

Yes I am stating the obvious there.

Only consider: sound creates.

What effects are your thoughts and speech having on you now?  Do you know?

What does your inner, self-talk say?

What do your spoken patterns of speech say about who you are?

When a thought is embodied - sounded -by means of language it is energised and activated to bring about the effects of that thought.

Sometimes it is safer to choose silence.

This is particularly the case with self-talk. The constant stream of inner speech is repetitive and powerful.  Where we put our energy is where growth comes. So, if we are focused on unsatisfactory conditions, on grievances, on ill health our thoughts will be of those things. If we passively allow those unhealthy thoughts to sound in our minds we create yet more of those undesirable conditions.

Unmonitored self talk often speaks in phrases which undermine a healthy perception of Self: “I’m so clumsy”, “How could I be so stupid.” Such seemingly trivial speech patterns send out a thought form which is potent and self destructive.

The same power is active in the conversations we have with others around us.

Gossip and critical words concerning others create a powerful energetic field around the speaker, magnetically attracting to them more critical, destructive thought matter.

Over time this makes the speaker increasingly negative in outlook and subject to difficulty in their outer life.

We attract only what we are, after all.

We can make a conscious choice to opt out of gossip and negative chatter.

Try using humour to turn the conversation to more general, happier topics. Laughter is the best way to lift your energy, so steer away from dissecting the latest disaster stories from the media too.

A second powerful step to improving our conditions is to take control of the self-talk tapes.

When you hear a negative phrase in your head such as “I am stupid” -stop. Affirm clearly and forcefully “Cancel”. Repeat a positive replacement, using emotion, such as “I am intelligent and capable.”

The fast track to managing self talk is meditation. Investigate and find the approach that appeals to you. A morning and evening meditation of only 10 minutes or so does much to bring a clear, calm focus to the mind. In just a few months of practise you will find the mental noise drops away. Your tension and stress levels will fall away too, as you will no longer be wearing yourself out with thoughtless sound creation.

Before you know it, you will be sounding and feeling healthier by far. All the best.