What is language? And what can or does language do for us?
Some of the obvious answers would be:
- Language connects us
- Language allows us to express ourselves
- Language allows us to communicate
Have you ever wondered if you are able to influence a particular outcome of a situation or feeling through the use of your speech or talking in a certain way?
Or perhaps you feel that your current use of language leaves you jaded or regretful by your own modus operandi which always conveys and delivers the same unwanted outcome through your words or what you say?
Consider this; language is not only one of the most powerful tools available to you at any point in your life that will connect you to people or cultures but using effective language can and will alter a specific outcome or end an unwanted state or situation immediately.
You can use language to change your current status (of being, feeling or an experience) and you can also use language to alter your current frame or state of mind (from believing something is not possible to experiencing what is possible). Using effective language can shift both these situations instantly in your life.
I hear so many people use poor language, quite unintentionally so, which can sub-consiously or unconsciously sabotage their self-esteem or undermine their efforts when wanting to achieve something or when preempting a different outcome.
How is this possible? Our worlds are understood through the use of language and when we use the right language to create possibility, we have a substantially better shot at achieving exactly that; possibility. When we use our language in the form of doubt or to harm another, we will achieve that as a state of mind and/or being too.
We can also use language to create something new; something that has not existed before. We can use language to make a statement and bring that statement forth with our intention and the required action we take to make that happen.
Language can thus be used as a powerful tool to create possibility, love and success in your life, just as it can instantly shift you from being a victim to a victor. Using language effectively with real intention, can change any situation around or make what seemed impossible before, very possible indeed!
Here’s a simple example: Remember when your partner last asked “please don’t forget to buy the strawberries for the dessert recipe” as you were on your way out the door? And what exactly was the ONE thing that you forgot to buy? Yes, the strawberries of course! You concentrated solely on the negative you were presented with.
Change your negatives into positives and you will experience a totally different result.
Here are some uses and examples of powerful and positive language:
- Abandon negatives. Replace phrases like “please don’t forget…” with “please remember to…”
- Change words such as “crisis” to “opportunity” e.g. “with this opportunity (crisis) we have the following options or solutions to consider…”
- Use phrases like “solutions” in the place of words like “problems” and feel how your energy shifts when dealing with solutions vs that of problems.
- Abandon the word “hope” or “hope to”. Hope will not save or change any situation so depending or relying on “hopium” will result only in disappointment or disillusionment in your life.
To create something new, use the following language and see what happens when you really apply it:
- Swap words such as “try” for words like “commit” e.g. Instead of “I’ll try to do that…”, say “I commit to…”
- Ban the word “need” from your vocabulary. You do not “need” to do anything frankly. Instead ask yourself: “what do I want to do?” and “what do I commit to do?”
- Be cautious with words such as “have”. In the context of: “I have to do….”, ask yourself instead “what do I choose and commit to do?”
Use statements to create something new and powerful or to change an unwanted situation or orchestrate a different outcome such as:
- I commit to…
- I want to… and therefore I…
- I choose to…
- I am…
- I shall…
- I will…
- I am going to…
Similarly, use powerful questions and commands instead of complaints or threats to get what you are really after.
Positivity drives people ahead and negativity only breeds negativity which will further continue to cultivate a culture of even more negativity and poor outcomes. And I think we agree that a permanent state of negativity will not and cannot deliver desired results or resolve conflict or difficult circumstances with any success.
Can you think of any other positive, creative and powerful language to add to this list?
And what type of language do you choose for your state of being and creation today?
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