Latest / Dits & Dahs / fewer words have more potency
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- Sue: thinking today about how potent words become when you generally live solo, as I do, and only speak out loud in circumstances like this when I'm recording this audio. And there's an occasional chit-chat with the neighbors that you encounter when you're out and about, but for the most part What I'm saying now, which might unedited last for twenty, thirty minutes, is the only time that I hear my voice during the course of the day. Sometimes I'll watch a sports game and make certain utterances as you can imagine, but for the most part, these words that I'm speaking are spoken with the energy that hasn't been utilized and has very potent strength. And I know this because as a child, my family was on a road trip traveling from southern Michigan all the way north through the upper peninsula. Headed towards Duluth, Minnesota, at which point we were headed west to Colorado. I think I was about four. My brother would have been a young teenager. And I think you can probably imagine the two of us in the back seat were going varr. And my dad drove us to Duluth, at which point he'd had enough. In his quiet, understated way, 'cause he was always very calm and measured. He said, If you kids don't shut up, I'm turning this car around right now. And of course, the two of us, without having to say anything, were gonna immediately call his bluff on that, because after all, he had already driven about four or five hundred miles on his vacation, which was our benefit as well. No one would ever abandon their vacation for the sake of two kids going at it, spewing words. It wasn't so much that we were fighting or arguing, we were just a constant drivel of blatherings at one another, of course. So the next thing that happened, yeah, he did turn around. And from that point on and I Our lives after recovering from the stunned silence in the vehicle all the way back to southern Michigan. We recognize that when Dad speaks, he's gonna speak softly, and you will follow his advice, sp his spoken advice. It's my affirmation of understanding why it is that I believe that words, when few and unspoken, do get spoken with your energy attached, they can have some pretty potent impact. Specifically, this blog post is rather random, but it got Me thinking about the fact that when I was married, my late husband and I used to chat all the time, and in fact, I would have to say that he was probably contributing 80% of the chatter to my 20%. He was a lovely Welsh boy who loved to yak. Had many stories, you know. And in some ways, those stories that were repeated so many times in the 15 years that we were together kind of got deluded. Because you know how it is. You hear somebody telling the same story over and over again, you you're not using your critical thoughts. Thinking to hear those repetitions. It's just my way of stating that it's the quiet ones that have the most power with their manifestations, not necessarily in volume, just by the one utterance. And I think about my father now, with great reverence about him having that awareness about his words. He was one who when he said something, backed it up with his energy. That's the the power in somebody who's able to visualize what they want to happen and to act on it and know that it's going to be a success. And the way they visualize it. I'm grateful to have inherited that and am putting it to good use now that I'm mostly silent and solo. I'm not asking you to listen more critically to what I say, but in the context of when you listen to this, understand that these words that you're hearing might be the only ones I speak aloud for 24 hours. And when you compare that to your conversational activity, is it equal? Do you speak more than I do? That doesn't really matter. I'm just saying that have you noticed that when you speak less, that your words are received and listened and and acted upon appropriately because of that. Does this resonate with you? Let me know if you feel guided to do so. As ever, and if it's your first time, many thanks for your listen. I appreciate you.