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How Spiritual Growth Is Influenced By Our Words
Our words show the outer world what our inner world is like. Words are the guardians of our emotions and our emotions guard our thoughts. How spiritual growth is influenced by the words that we use will be reviewed in this article.
Spiritual growth is the process of moving closer to our ideal state. Having attained our ideal state we can see that our true nature easily shines through. And our true nature is that which was given to use by our creator.
There are many filters that block our true nature from shining through to the world. Are these filters made of some mysterious substance? They are made up of our emotions and our thoughts. Our words are what expresses both our thoughts and emotions.
The question is, why choose words as the main focus of my attention? I could easily have focused on thoughts or emotions. Words are the easiest to observe which became my main reason for choosing them. And our friends and associates can easily show us our use of words.
If someone says that you seem sad that is an interpretation that you could disagree with. But if they said that you said “I hate everybody” or “I love everybody” that is difficult to challenge. We are able to see our growth by the words that we use. Change your words and you can change your life.
It is difficult to directly change your thoughts because thoughts are so fleeting. If you were to try to follow your thoughts you would see that they go from subject to subject to subject. It is very difficult to capture a picture of your thoughts in any single action.
Emotions are just as hard to get a glimpse of. I am sure you have been surprised by your emotional reactions. 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.
But words are different. You can retract words after you have spoken them. You can change you words completely or simply change the order of what you have said. Instead of saying “You make me mad” you could say “What you are doing makes me mad”. It is easy to see that these sentences are very different.
How does this help change the filters that block our true nature from shining through. Negative emotions are our main filters. Emotions such as fear, hate, jealousy, anger etc… These negative emotions are best replaced with positive emotions such as gratitude, love, patience, kindness etc…
The more we watch what we say the more we can replace the negative with the positive. The more positive and uplifting our words become, the more positive and uplifting will our thoughts and emotions become.
The positive will grow as the negative gets cleared away which lets our true nature shine through.