Unlocking The Power Of Words
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---INTEGRITY
YOUR WORDS ARE YOUR LIFE!
Why is it so important to honor your words? Whether you realize it or not, your life is built on your words and commitments. The words you give to yourself and others form the structure on which your life-building is built! If your life can be compared to a building, the words you give to yourself and others is like the foundation of this building. It has to be free from dust and rust, which means that it has to be free from unconscious patterns.
The unconscious words you give to yourself and others is the dust and rust on your building. The building built upon a rusty, dusty structure cannot last long! It has to be made of pure, authentic, strong steel. In the same way, your life is built on the words and commitments you give to you and to others. It has to be without any unconsciousness or unawareness.
The strength of your life is based on the words you give to you and to others. If your words are conscious, your life will be conscious. If your words are unconscious, your life will be unconscious. That is why integrity forms the basis for your life. Integrity is part of your very life energy. It is the energy on which you and the whole cosmos run!
WHAT IS INTEGRITY?
Integrity is you fulfilling the words and thoughts you give to yourself and to others, and experiencing a state of completion with yourself and with life.
Integrity is not just about the big commitments we make in our life. It could be something as simple as telling yourself, 'I am going to wake up early every morning and practice yoga,' or telling a friend, 'Let's meet at 5 p.m.' No matter what the word you have given to yourself or others, honoring it as your life is real integrity.
YOUR UNKEPT WORDS CREATE A HANGOVER
Many times, you don't even remember
the commitments you make to
yourself or to others, because you use
your words so unconsciously, without
thinking. You don't realize the impact
it can have on others.
When you make a commitment and don't keep it, it will leave a 'hangover' in you or in the other person, which can destroy your self-confidence and the other person's confidence in you.
When you utter unconscious words in your relationships or in your business or anywhere in your life, you will be unaware of what consequences it is going to have in your life. When you are unaware of the consequences of your words, life will always bring shocks to you. If life is continuously bringing shocks to you, understand that you are not living in integrity!
INTEGRITY GIVES POWER TO YOUR WORDS
Integrity is the key which unlocks the Power of Words. Integrity has two dimensions - honoring the words you give to yourself and honoring the words you give to others.
Who is the first person to hear the words you utter? YOU!
So using the right words start with YOU.
When you honor the words you give to yourself, your confidence in yourself grows and your self-doubt melts away.
YOU become powerful!
When you honor the words you give to others, others' confidence in you grows. Your relationship with that person becomes powerful!
WHY SHOULD YOU USE WORDS CONSCIOUSLY?
- Using words consciously, with awareness, will help you understand the impact of your words on yourself and others
- Using the right words can immediately change the way you think and feel about yourself. You will even notice a change in your body's response to a situation when you handle it with the right words
- The right words keep your inner space conflict-free and peaceful, visibly improving your health and longevity
- By creating and expressing the right words to yourself and others, you can actually shape your reality as you choose!
YOU CAN CREATE YOUR REALITY WITH THE POWER OF WORDS!
The words you utter are YOU!
You become the words you speak to yourself and others. If you go on saying, I am sick, I am sick, you simply will become sick. In the same way, if you constantly tell yourself, I am healthy, your energy will wake up. You will be very healthy! Cosmic energy awakens in your system and makes your declarations a reality. It is important to choose the right words, because you can create your reality with the power of your words!
RIGHT WORDS TOWARDS YOURSELF → RIGHT WORDS TOWARDS OTHERS
WRONG WORDS TOWARDS YOURSELF → WRONG WORDS TO OTHERS
A SMALL STORY ABOUT THE POWER OF WORDS...
Once, a small town was visited by a saint. As the saint passed by a small hut, a woman came to him and begged him to pray for her dying child. Since the saint was new to the town, a crowd gathered around him, curious to see if he could do anything. The woman brought the sick child out to him and he said a prayer over her.
Do you really think your prayer will help the child, when even medicine has failed? After all, they are just some words!', yelled a man from the crowd.
The saint turned and started shouting at the man, 'You idiot, you don't know what I am doing! Just shut up!'
The man was furious! His face grew red and hot. 'How dare you insult me!', he shouted at the saint.
The saint smiled at him calmly and said, 'If one word has the power to make you so angry, may not another word have the power to heal this child?'
That is the power of words!
LISTENING BRINGS INTEGRITY TO YOUR WORDS
When was the last time you really listened to your own words?
We never ever really listen, either to ourselves or to others. When you really start listening to yourself, you will naturally become more aware of the words you give to yourself and others. You will also have the ability to listen to others' words with integrity.
Listening is directly connected to your ability to handle reality as it is, without creating your own unconscious ideas and conclusions. When you don't have listening, you always come to a conclusion even before the information is cognized in you.
That is why the very first step of Hindu spiritual practice is shravana, Integrated Listening.
WHAT HAPPENS IF I CANNOT KEEP A WORD?
If you do your VERY BEST to
keep a commitment but still find
that you cannot keep it, you can
complete with yourself and the
other person, by telling them in
advance that you cannot keep
the commitment. Once you
complete, you move on without
pain or guilt or any other
hangover of that commitment.
Either fulfil or complete!
Understand, completion is also integrity.
Integrity means aligning the words you utter in both your inner and outer space toward completion. When you are in the space of Integrity, the Power of Words opens up in you.
COMPLETION TECHNIQUE FOR CONFLICT-FREE LIVING
What is Completion?
Completion means living and acting without any hangover of the past incidents, words, actions or memories.
Not having a hangover does not mean that you will not remember your past at all. When you are in completion, you will remember past incidents and actions, but they will no longer have the power to cause pain or anger or guilt in you anymore. Integrity is a beautiful way to ensure that you don't create incompletion in yourself and others through your words.
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TWO TECHNIQUES FOR COMPLETION
A. TECHNIQUE FOR CONTINUOUS COMPLETION
Anything from the past that hinders you from participating in life as it happens is incompletion. So completion starts by remembering, reliving and relieving yourself of those incidents from your past which caused suffering in you. Completion is the only method where you can alter your past.
- Be seated comfortably in front of a mirror.
- The mirror should be large enough for you to see your entire reflection.
- Maintain a deep eye-to-eye contact between your body and your reflection.
- The moment you have a deep eye-to-eye contact, the first thing you will have is tears! Allow it.
6. Keep sitting in front of the mirror and talking - just pour out whatever you want to tell yourself.
- Spend time with YOU. Talk. Talk.
- Now, try to identify the earliest memory that created this incomplete understanding in you, forming the root pattern of your suffering. Go back to the first few situations in your life when you experienced conflict. This situation would have happened typically between the third and fifth year of your life.
10. Relive that situation. If the tears come, if the anger comes, let them come.
11. When you stand face to face with your past, the pain disappears, the a n g e r disappears! When the anger disappears, it turns into love. Please understand, when the energy expresses as anger, if the anger is removed from the energy, it just completely turns into love.
Completion will not happen if you just work on that root pattern; every incident which stems from the root pattern must also be completed. Please understand: you need to go back to the very earliest memory you have had in your childhood and complete this memory - and then complete each and every pattern that you've had till today.
B. TECHNIQUE FOR SPONTANEOUS COMPLETION
Completion does not mean blindly accepting everything that happens in your life. It simply means not resisting life as it happens to us. The root of all our incompletions is the idea we carry - Life should not be this way.
That is why we spend our whole life asking, 'Why, why, why? Why is life so bad? Why did this happen to me? Why do bad things happen to good people?'
Spontaneous completion or instant completion means simply dropping the wrong understanding that is creating conflict for you in a particular situation. It is possible!
Next time you face a crisis or conflict in life, don't ask, 'Why is life this way?' Instead, decide: THIS IS LIFE, SO NOW WHAT? Do I want to accept it and move on? Do I want to reject it and move on? Or do I change it the way I want?
TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR WORDS
Taking responsibility for your words is practicing Dharma, right living. In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, it is said, 'Do not do unto others that which would cause you pain
POWER OF DECLARATION
To strengthen your decision to be integrated and complete, declare it to yourself and others. Whenever you declare a decision, it helps gather your scattered energies and focus them towards making your declaration into reality through responsible actions. When you continuously and consciously align your words to the right actions, your words become powerful. You achieve vak-shakti or vak-siddi, the power to make anything you say into reality. This is the ultimate experience of the Power of Words.
Unlocking The
Power Of Thinking
AUTHENTICITY
TUNE YOUR THINKING TO YOUR PEAK POSSIBILITY
accidental and you cannot control your mind.
When you unlock the power of thinking, you will be able to spontaneously focus your thoughts to achieve your highest potential. Constantly functioning at your peak possibility is Authenticity. Authenticity is the key that unlocks the Power of Thinking.
Authenticity is you being established in the peak of your capability and responding to life from who you perceive yourself to be for yourself, who you project yourself to be for others, and what others expect you to be for them.
Listen! You don't have just one identity, as you imagine. You have four identities! At all times, you carry four identities or dimensions together.
The first of these four identities is mamakara or INNER IMAGE. It is the inner image and experience you carry about yourself : I am healthy - I am ugly - I am intelligent - I cannot tolerate hard work. I love people etc. You carry many such inner ideas about yourself. Unfortunately, the idea you carry about yourself is always less then what you project yourself to be for others!
The second identity is ahamkara or OUTER IMAGE. WHAT IS AUTHENTICITY? It is how you project yourself to others.
You may try to project yourself as powerful, talented, honest, helpful or whatever. Unfortunately, what you project is always far more then what you believe yourself to be.