Words... with words we can make our noblest intentions felt and our deepest desires known. Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in causes, and to shape the course of destiny.
Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.
Most beliefs are formed by our words - and they can be changed by words as well. An effective selection of words to describe the experience of our lives can heighten our most empowering emotions. A poor selection of words can devastate us just as surely and just as swiftly. Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.
People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multi-hued palette of colors with which to paint their experience, not only for others, but for themselves as well.
Most people are not challenged though, by the size of the vocabulary they consciously understand, but rather by the words they choose to use. Many times, we use words as "short cuts", but often these short cuts shortchange us emotionally. To consciously control our lives, we need to consciously evaluate and improve our consistent vocabulary to make sure that it is pulling us in the direction we desire instead of that which we wish to avoid.
Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary - the words you consistently use to describe the emotions in your life - you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live.
Transformational Vocabulary
I found that if I came up with words that were potent enough, I could instantly lower or increase my intensity about virtually anything. How does this process really work? Think of it this way: imagine that your five senses funnel a series of sensations to your brain. You're getting visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory stimuli, and they are all translated by your sense organs into internal sensations. Then they must be organized into categories. But how do we know that these images, sounds, and other sensations mean?
One of the most powerful ways that man has learned to quickly decide what sensations mean is to create labels for them, and these labels are what you and I know as words. Three people can have the same experience, yet one person might feel rage, another feels anger, and the third feels annoyance. Obviously, the sensations are being changed by each person's translation.
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. - Aldous Huxley
You Can Use Transformational Vocabulary To Help Others
Transformational vocabulary can allow us to intensify or diminish any emotional state, positive or negative. This means it gives us the power to take the most negative feelings in our lives and lower their intensity to the point where they no longer bother us, and take the most positive experiences and move them to even greater heights of pleasure and empowerment. If you don't have a way of representing something, you can't experience it. While it may may be true that you'll can picture something without having a word for it, you can represent it through sound or sensation, there's no denying that being able to articulate something gives it added dimension and substance, and thus a sense of reality. Words are a basic tool for representing things to ourselves, and often if there's no word, there's no word, there's no way to think about the experience.
IF an assemblage of words you're using is creating states that disempower you, get rid of those words and replace them with those that empower you.
At this point you may be saying, "This is just semantics, isn't it? What difference does it make to play with words?" The answer is that, if all you do is change the word, then the experience does not change. But if using the word causes you to break your own habitual emotional patterns, then everything changes.
Negative Emotion/Expression Transforms Into ...
I'm Feeling...
angry to → disenchanted
afraid to → uncomfortable
anxious to → a little concerned
anxious to → expected
confused to → curious
depressed to → calm before action
depressed to → not on top of it
depressed to → on the road to a turn-around
that stinks to → that's a little aromatic
pissed off to → tinkled
disappointed to → underwhelmed
disappointed to → delayed
disgusted to → surprised
dread to → challenge
embarrassed to → stimulated
embarrassed to → recharging
exhausted to → a little droopy
exhausted to → stumble
failure to → learning
failure to → getting educated
failure to → wonderment
fear to → curious
fearful to → inquiring
frightened to → challenged
frustrated to → fascinated
frustrated to → passionate
furious to → passionate
humiliated to → uncomfortable
humiliated to → surprised
hurt to → bothered
hurt to → dinged
I hate to → I prefer
impatient to → anticipating
insecure to → questioning
insulted to → misunderstood
insulted to → misinterpreted
irritated to → stimulated
irritated to → ruffled
jealous to → overloving
lazy to → storing energy
lonely to → available
lonely to → temporarily on my own
lost to → searching
nervous to → energized
overloaded to → stretching
overwhelmed to → some imbalance
overwhelmed to → busy
overwhelmed to → challenged
overwhelmed to → in demand
overwhelmed to → many opportunities
overwhelmed to → maximized
overwhelmed to → moving and shaking
painful to → uncomfortable
petrified to → challenged
rejected to → deflected
rejected to → learning
rejected to → overlooked
rejected to → underappreciated
rejected to → misunderstood
sad to → sorting my thoughts
scared to → excited
oh, shit to → oh, poo
sick to → cleansing
stressed to → busy
stressed to → blessed
stressed to → energized
stupid to → discovering
stupid to → unresourceful
stupid to → learning
terrible to → different
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