To expand on my previous post on “Three environments”, I will share some thoughts about the words we speak and their effect on our wellbeing.

This topic hit home to me a few years ago while trying to lose some weight. I felt the overall girth around my waste was increasing at an alarming rate. I went on an heavy regime of sit ups and other calisthenics and even cut down visits to my altar of libation.  however, all my efforts were to no avail.

As the weeks went on the weight scale showed that my efforts at losing weight were paying off but sadly my abdomen looked like a Mexican piñata. At this point I realized that in actuality what I was experiencing was severe bloating which was not the case prior to my efforts at losing weight.

Then one day, like a lighting, a revelation came upon me. I was causing the bloating. I was the reason my digestion had deteriorated in spite of maintaining a good diet, less adult beverages, and being a vegetarian. My own mouth was the problem. Not because of what went into it. But the words that came out it. “I’ve got to GET RID Of my gut” was a common phrase. “This GUT’S GOTTA GO! And it was. My intestines, my stomach and all my digestive processes where not longer functioning at their peak performance and “I” was the cause of it..I was speaking these symptoms into existence.

In an old book I used to read, it says that: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof”. And, “A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.”.. I’m not trying to get religious on you here.. Trust me on that!. But these principles that govern the power of our words have been around for millennia and will continue to be true to the ends of time.

Another phrase that has caught my attention lately and one that I am l purging from my vocabulary is: “I’m sick of this”.  No wonder I have not been feeling up to par. ’I’m tired of this, I’m tired of that” No wonder I look tired! I keep telling my self how tired of this and that, and how sick of this and that I AM!

It is not what goes into a man’s mouth that defiles him. It’s what comes out of it!

If I can’t say anything kind to myself, then it is best to stay quiet.

Now i’m feeling better...and much more refreshed..