Saturday 31 October 2009

Spiritual Growth And The Words That We use

By Mark Walters

Our inner world is presented to the outer world through our words. Our thoughts are revealed through our emotions and our emotions are shown through our words. How Spiritual Growth is influenced by the language that we use will be reviewed in this article.

Our ideal state is achieved through the process of Spiritual Growth. Having achieved our ideal state we can see that our true nature easily shines through. And the creator has bestowed upon us our true nature.

The inner beauty of our true nature will shine through only when we take off the filters that block it. What makes up these filters? Both our thoughts and emotions give life to these filters. Both thoughts and emotions are put forth through our language.

Why have I chosen to focus on the words that we use? Why not select thoughts and emotions. Language are the easiest to observe which became my main reason for choosing them. And they are the easiest for others to take note of and point out to us.

When someone comments on your emotions it is easy to disagree with their viewpoint. But if they said that you said "I hate everybody" or "I love everybody" that is tough to challenge. Growth is judged by the words that we use. Change your language and you can change your life.

The fleeting nature of thoughts make them difficult to directly change. If you were to try to follow your thoughts you would see that they go from subject to subject to subject. It is very hard to stop them long enough to see what is going on.

Emotions are just as hard to get a glimpse of. Emotions have a tendency to just appear without warning. Usually by the time we recognize an emotional state, such as anger, we might be to far gone too be able to change what is going on.

Observing language is not the same. When you speak a sentence you have the ability to immediately change it. To either reorder the words or change the words altogether. Instead of saying "You make me mad" you could say "What you are doing makes me mad". These two sentences are very different.

How does this help change the filters that block our true nature from shining through. To understand our filters all we need to do is look at our irrational negative emotions. Emotions such as fear, hate, jealousy, anger etc... These negative emotions are best replaced with positive emotions such as gratitude, love, patience, kindness etc...

By paying attention to what we say we can substitute the positive for the negative. The more positive and uplifting our language turned into, the more positive and uplifting will our thoughts and emotions turned into.

The more we clear away the negative the more the positive grows and the more our true nature shines through.

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