TODAY'S INSPIRATIONAL “MYTHOLOGICAL MAGIC”
Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Given the fact that I have a amassed a collection of over 400 books, it is no wonder my TRIBE members are very apt to ask me if I have read a particular title from time too time. And I am so grateful for each and every suggestion I am engaged with. In fact, many of my favorite tombs have come from these very recommendations through out the years since I began on my journey of Self Actualization. Most of the time, I actually receive these inquiries with complete reverence and gratitude, because I believe it is the Universe's way of tapping me on the shoulder to pay attention. Something is on its way that I must be ready to receive in all its ethereal glory! Now when this typically occurs, I stop whatever it is that I am doing and take a note on the book/film/blog being introduced to me and investigate the source material as soon as possible. When the student is ready, the teacher appears. And I have come to realize that my Journey is a continuing oscillation between being a teacher and student, often at the same time. LOL Which makes perfect sense because I have come to find that most coaches/teachers preach that which they need to learn themselves. Even master Miyagi from the Karate Kid had much to learn from Danielson during their symbiotic relationship.
So when a true TRIBE member of mine recently inquired about my knowledge of a decades old book title, I did not hesitate to investigate everything about it. And once again, I found it to be a wonderful addition to my robust collection. Even the book's title had me excited as it was imbued with a mythical, fairy tale essence that completely resonates with my love of MYTHOLOGY and the Hero's/Heroine's Journey that informs The New Age Nerd within us all!
The book is called ‘Your Words are Your Wand‘ and it was written back in the 1920's by a pioneer in the New Thought movement named Florence Scovel Shinn. Born in 1871, Ms. Shinn was an artist and metaphysics teacher in New York city in the early 20th Century. Although she had a devout following during her time, her legacy has not had the same sort of long lasting impact of other New Thought leaders from her era such as Napoleon Hill and Earl Nightingale. And that's a shame because her book, while short in length, contains a wealth of practical and wisdom filled knowledge for anyone who is a TRUTH SEEKER and Bringer of the Light. The archetypes that are so desperately needed in our current times of disconnection from the fact that WE ARE ALL ONE!
There is something about the book's title itself that strikes a powerful image of the magic that is imbued deep within each and every one of us and can be unleashed with the use of our WORDS.
Being a writer, I personally have a love affair with words and their ability to shift perspectives, heal long held wounds, and give clarity and newfound direction to the most lost of Souls. Author Diane Setterfield, a like minded lover of words said, “There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
Of course, the simple wisdom within ‘Your Words are Your Wand’ are equally powerful. In one passage Shinn espouses, “Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power. So man has the power to change an unhappy condition by waving over it the wand of his word. In the place of sorrow appears joy, in the place of sickness becomes health, in the place of lack appears plenty."
The point here is that or as much as we sometimes feel as though we have little control over our lives, there are several elements and tools which are such a powerful part of the experiences that manifest into our world. Our word is certainly one of those controllable factors we all share and that has a massive amount of influence in our own disposition, not to mention how much it has to do with the manifestations that appear in our experience.
In fact, God himself told Abraham that his name was ‘I AM’. And that whatever words were placed after those two words, literally send out a vibration of energy to the Universe as a declaration of who you think you are and your experiences become a direct correlation to that very pronouncement. Makes you want to think twice before uttering flippant declarations in that manner doesn't it?! LOL And if it doesn't, learn to become much more aware of every word you utter to yourself and others and see the massive difference it causes in your life.
Our words are such miraculous gift given to us all, and they have the ability to both empower and terribly injure in due nature. In fact, many believe that verbal abuse can be more damaging than physical abuse. And for those of us who have been or are currently being verbally abused, we know the devastating effect words can have. Why would we choose to use our words as form of hurt and pain, when our words are TRULY our wands and can be used in ways that create MIRACLES and to help others Re-member who they truly are! What a wonderful world that could be!! Right?!
So this evening I ask you in what new ways can you begin a daily practice of realization that our words are our personal magical wands, able to conjure transcendent amounts of LOVE, empowerment, confidence, connection, and belief in everyone we interact with on a daily basis. And incorporate this incredible magical power within us all, to use our words as a form of transcendent action and energy toward one another ALWAYS and in all ways from now on.
Nerdmaste,
Jeffrey Louis Martinez
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