Peter Hatherley on words.

Peter Hatherley on words.
Prelude to the Midweek Zap this Wednesday.
thoughts become words and words become actions.

Originally shared by Peter Hatherley

What you say is what you get
Words and phrases are like virtual command prompts to our own Human Operating Systems (HoS) and what we say will eventually manifest in our lives. Every spoken or written word produces an effect and the initiation of that sequence begins with simple acceptance. Yet if we do not accept it, it has no power over us.

What we are examining here happens deep within our own neocortex which is fully capable of activating our behaviours much like an obedient AI (Artificial Intelligence) does. It can also activate these things in others who simply accept it for what it is.

Interestingly enough our decision making process is binary also. The only difference is that computers work with ones and zeros and we work with yes and no. The more conscious we are of this fact the more efficient we can become in our daily lives. When we are armed with this empowering knowledge we can control and activate behaviours that we really want in ourselves, on demand. As it is said, happiness manifests in those who don't practice what they hate.

Watch what you accept or don't accept
Being decisive is absolutely vital. The undecided wonder why things go wrong for them but in reality it's because they're living out their previous lack of wordification. Not saying no can be as good as saying yes and not saying yes can be as good as saying no. And, even worse, if we consciously say 'yes' to seeds that produce bad results those words will do exactly what they're designated to do. After all it's in their DNA like produces like, as with any seed.

Unfortunately our HoS doesn't come with a built in anti virus program like your PC does. We learn through experience and in the best case scenario we quarantine off behaviours that we don't like and in the worst case scenario we persist with behaviours that will ultimately produce a pile of crap for us instead of a crop. This is why a decisive yes or no is far better because the other alternative is living out default solutions that are instigated through other people's words. It's this simple, wordify or be wordified.

The solution is in producing triggers that produce the results that we're after. It all starts with a single word and that word will manifest as expected especially if we back that up with strong semantic connectors.

Wordifying your life is quite easy. Thoughts that don't manifest as words are like seeds that haven't been planted. They have latent power but they just haven't germinated yet. Speech is that fusion that forms all things much like the germination of seeds.

As they say, thoughts become words and words become actions.

#semantics   #powerofNo   #powerofyes   #poweroflanguage