LESSON 2: Watch What You Say

‘Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit – you choose.’

The Message Bible, Proverbs 18:21

It was a familiar scene.

A group of us ladies had met up, and as usual, before long the conversation turned to weight issues and body woes. We all tried to outdo each other as we recounted the details of the endless diets and fitness plans we had tried – what had worked, and what hadn't.

We vied for attention as we compared our various defective body parts…

“I don’t know what to do about my thighs. I have so much cellulite.”

“That’s nothing! You should take a look at my bum – it’s huge! I can’t find any jeans to fit me!”

“You call that huge? You haven’t seen my tummy! Look at that bulge!”

…And so on and so on...

You get the picture. Sound like anything you’ve ever done?

Well, stop it!

In LESSON 1 You Are What You Think, we discovered that to change your life, you have to change your thoughts. If you want to change who you are, or what you do, you have to change the way you think.

Well, your words are connected to your thoughts.

Your words are the vocal expression of your thoughts.

Your words convey your inner thoughts, beliefs, opinions and intents.

A good indicator of what you are thinking is what is coming out of your mouth.

To change your life, you have to change the way that you speak.

You have to stop talking about the negative, and start talking about the positive.

Stop talking about everything that you think is wrong with you. Stop rehearsing your faults and weaknesses. Going over your faults again and again and again only serves to emphasize them and to reinforce the belief that that’s just the way you are, you’ll never change.

Change the way that you speak to yourself and about yourself.

Speak hope to yourself. Stop focusing on the way things are right now. Start focusing on where you want to go. Speak about the better future that you’re looking forward to in 2012. Focus on the better you that you want to be. Start rehearsing who and what you want to be and do.

Speak kindly to yourself and about yourself. Stop putting yourself down; not everything about you is a walking disaster area! Look for your strengths and emphasize your strengths.  Start focusing on what is right about you.

Science is finally catching up with what the ancients have known from ages past: sound affects matter.

Scientific research has shown that matter, our very DNA, is affected by sound. The study of Cymatics is spearheading knowledge in this field.

The Bible tells us in the Genesis account of Creation that God spoke everything into being (Genesis Chapters 1-2). 

The universe was created by words. The universe responds to words.

Your body, your world, was created to respond to words.

You effect change in your world by the words that you speak

Use your words wisely.

Use your words to build up and not to tear down.