The Words On Your Lips Will Change Your World
What we tell ourselves is what makes our reality
The greatest revelation you will ever have, if you are lucky enough to have it, is that you can quite literally create whatever life you want.
There is some wonderful, mysterious, and intangible power that exists inside our words. It has been so since the beginning of the universe.
Dictum factum.
What is said is done.
As a child, I remember using my finger to trace images that I saw in my mind onto the wall, while singing to myself. Here, a microphone. There, the crowd. Someone is holding up a sign - ‘We Love You!’ My dress is long, glittering, disco-inspired a la Diana Ross. All this was painted in vivid color in my imagination. I wanted to bring it into real life. I wanted to grip the microphone with my real hand, feel the music vibrating in the air, and see the endless audience before me.
We are given two ears and one mouth; to listen twice as much as we speak. I think it is because our words bear so much power.
It’s incredible to think about. What affects you the most? Eminem’s final freestyle in ‘8 Mile’ is one of the best examples of words wielded like a weapon. Shakespeare’s soliloquy’s are a wealth of imagery. I often find myself exclaiming out loud when I read something really extraordinary by him - hIs words excite me into action. Don Draper plays with society’s collective feelings about certain terms to market an unmarketable product. (I’m watching Mad Men right now.) Great lines from films resonate for decades. Phrases become bigger than their original uses, and form our modern culture.
Consider some iconic figures in history. What they once said echoes through time and comes to our aid today. A good talker can get out of ANYTHING. It’s a skill I admire hugely. If we recognized how powerful words are, I think we would spend a great deal more time learning to master them.
The words on your lips will change your world.
Whether you say you are a loser or a winner, you are right. You become what you believe you are.
The most interesting thing about writing this out is knowing some will read it and have that revelation, at long last, that yes, I can speak my world into what I want it to be. And others will not; perhaps not ever. Maybe you have had vicious, painful words thrown at you during vulnerable periods of your life and let them stick to your brain for too long, like hooked burrs that cling. Not everything spoken to you is true. Pluck them off one by one, examine them thoroughly, and decide for yourself if those statements are going to be absorbed into your identity or thrown away. You can do that for yourself.
What world am I creating? I script it in my mind, storyboard it with my words, and turn it into my very own film, starring myself.
Since we’re talking lips, let them stare while you speak. Shop my lip collection.