Words are like food―they may be packed with nutrition and goodness or they may be junk that is empty and possibly toxic … Eat junk food and you may get an upset in your stomach, or a pain in your head… and then experience energy levels plummeting to a real low… Digest junk words and you may wallow in self-rejection, low self-esteem, and untruth.
Words can champion us! Words can celebrate us! Words can support us in excavating the deepest foundations of our soul. Words can hurt us, and words can send us spiralling from heaven to hell, or up to the stratosphere and on to Cloud Nine.. Words can fuel an inner team of saboteurs or an inner team of supporters.
Words are given to us… sometimes by others… parents, teachers, siblings… and sometimes, when they are repeated time and again, these words become defining life-sentences, they can become life-depleting rather than life-enriching and sustaining and celebrating.
We oftimes adopt the labels that were given to us when we were young, and we wear them year in, year out, although they may be shabby and worn out and no longer suit us… but they feel comfortably familiar and we have identified ourselves with them for so many years, it is hard to let go of them.
These words feed the inner saboteurs of low self-esteem, low self-worth, and low self-esteem. Guilt, anxiety, nervousness, doubt and fear … these “snipers in the brain” do not need sleep. They hang in there ― hunkered down deep in the folds of our cerebral cortex, taking out any soldiers of optimism that put their heads above the battlements, waging a war of attrition against the spirit.
Until a day comes … a day of dawning… a day of revolution … we decide to choose another way, to face down the inner enemy. One day we have an epiphany, and awaken to the truth that we can in fact design our own labels … we can beat the inner demons at their own game, and win back our joy and spirit, label by label. In this rally, one label drives out one label, one word drives out one word.
We can begin to choose words, and compilations of words as phrases, and sentences that define and describe who we truly are in the here and now! We can jettison the old life sentences, take down the interior snipers, over-run their dug-in defences, dismantle the battery of words that have locked up our spirit as if we had thrown away the key.
We discover we can choose words and phrases and sentences that do us justice in this moment… this week… today! Words that cheer us to the roof-beams, that celebrate and champion who we are in this moment. Our inner activists gather in force to take back the territory of the inner mind: self-esteem strides forward… courage vanquishes fear and self-doubt… and calm… over-rides and neutralises anxiety and nervousness. We have health and safety in the here and the now!
Read my thoughts about hypnotherapy in Central London here.
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I loved how you wrote this piece Deborah. I really enjoyed reading it and I often point my clients towards interesting articles and videos that I think they may enjoy so I will send some this way!
Well said Deborah,
I think this is truly a wonderful post!
We have our internal dialogue, which is our self talk. It can make us or break us. In some people more so, which are more auditory inclined than others. As you said it is better to use Positive Statements, Positive Thoughts, and Healthy descriptions.
This is easier said than done however. It requires diligence from one’s part.
If one finds it difficult however, he/she could change the tone of voice of one’s internal dialogue to a more pleasant one. An effective NLP technique.
Or if all fails one can use the Mental Mantra my teacher Richard Bandler taught us which goes like this, “Shut …. up, Shut…. up, Shut … up”. Although he says it in a more colourful way.
I found it works wonders. 🙂 🙂
Thanks. I’ll refer your site to all enthusiasts.