“Watch
what you say!”, “The tongue is
powerful!”, “watch what you wish for!” etc., etc. An endless list of
sayings that concern the tongue exist within our dictionaries. And the list
goes on and on…
Majority of the time when we speak, these are
words on everyone’s lips and on everyone’s minds. For a long time (probably
since Adam & Eve), we have known the tongue to be a soft but powerful and
deadly organ capable of destroying the mightiest of men. It is said that the tongue can easily lead to
your assent in society, yet with the same guile swiftly tackle you down rougher
than a rugby or hockey player. End
result?? Many people think twice before opening their mouths (at least when in
a rational state of mind).
So why is the tongue so powerful?? The answer
is simple and well-known: because what we speak may/will come to pass. So if we
speak well of ourselves and others, good things will befall us and whomever we
speak well of. Vice versa is also true. What we speak is also what drives us;
it is what lies on our thoughts and our hearts. Like an outlet of sorts.
So engrossed are we in this that we may not
have stopped to ask ourselves: “Is the tongue the only powerful organ in our
bodily arsenal?” I know for sure not many of you have asked themselves this,
some may even think of it as a stupid question. I have thought about it, and
something immediately popped up into my mind: the hands!!
The hands you ask?? Yes!! Put simply, what we
write is what we think, and what we say is what we think. This can be summed up
logically as:
Your thoughts are expressed in --> what you
write and -->
what you speak
Indeed when your mentor or teacher told you
to write down your goals in life; who you wanted to be and what you wanted to
accomplish, most of us simply brushed the thought aside. “How could some dry ink on a piece of paper
help me?” was the common question.
Indeed in a physical point of view it doesn’t make sense. But what about
the mental? The psychological? Even the spiritual? Did we put these into
consideration?
When you write down a sentence on a piece of
paper, it has just as much power as speaking out the same words. Majority of us
just don’t do it; maybe because we’re too lazy, or because we feel it’s stupid,
or maybe even because it’s a waste of time and resources!! Writing words down
is the first step in actualizing that thought, dream or goal(s) that you have.
It turns one from a dreamer to a doer, quite literally!! When you write an
aspiration down, you are subconsciously telling yourself that you are ready to
turn it into a reality, no matter the hurdles that may come.
In the same way a negatively spoken word is
bad, the same goes for a negatively written word. Words written down to
ridicule, scorn or look down upon others may eventually come round to bite you!
So let’s start practicing the art of writing.
And not just writing, but writing in the positive. A positive writer is a
positive thinker!
