Ideally you want to keep moving in the direction of your inner truth, which is continually leading you to love. So as you follow this path toward love, you are wise not to say things that are incongruous with your quest. You are wise not to speak words that are against yourself. You are also wise not to speak words that are against others, because you and all others are one. Now that you know how powerful your words are, you need to use them for your advancement, not your detriment. Words are there for us to use in any manner that we desire. They can be used to speak negatively about ourselves or they can be used to reflect all that is good and positive about who we are. Like all of life it is a matter of choice.

When you are sleepwalking, you have often spoken words that put yourself down and describe aspects of yourself that do not promote creations that serve you. Words like I am stupid� or I can't do it� or how can you ever love a person like me?� or I am not worthy of your love� are powerful statements to the universe and the universe must respond accordingly. Remember, the universe doesn't judge your words and say, well, he didn't really mean that�; Quite the contraire. The universe hears your words, and how you say them, and begins to create in your reality the appropriate manifestation of whatever it is that you have to say. Remember, thoughts create at one level and words create at a higher, more powerful level. It would behoove you to think a little more before you speak your words because even though you are still creating with your thoughts, you are creating at a much lower level.

If you drop a thought and don't think about it again, you have not put enough energy into your thought to have a big influence on what you manifest. If you choose to pursue a thought, you are giving that thought more energy and that energy will give impetus to the thought to allow its creation to be more viable. If you have a viable thought that you desire, you will go through the conscious or unconscious effort to speak that thought and propel the energy of that thought to a higher level of creation. Once that thought is expressed into the physical realm via your word then that word has power that transcends your thought.

Words that are expressed over and over build upon themselves and give the universe a message about you that has to be taken seriously. If you are in a habit of using words that denounce yourself or your creations, such as God damn it� you are sending a strong message to the universe to keep creating in your reality lots of impediments to your ultimate progress. What if you were to change the words God damn it to God bless it? Can you see how that might be a positive change in your overall life creation?

What if you were thinking to yourself why did I do such a stupid thing? and then, just before you blurted out to the universe a statement of describing yourself as stupid, you caught yourself and thought wait a minute, yes, I just did something that does not serve me, but now that I have observed what I just did, would I not serve myself better by just acknowledging that and letting it go? Would I serve myself by exclaiming to the world that I think myself to be stupid?� Hey, you know how thinking is.

That whole scenario of thought can flash through your mind in about a second. So then you catch yourself, and when you speak you say, That didn't work. I will choose something else using the knowledge I just learned. Would that not serve you better? All too often we are our own worst enemies in the advancement of our personal cause. The tool of choice for this self-detrimental action is your words. The tool of choice for your own self advancement is also your words.

About the Author
Richard Blackstone is an author and international speaker on Life, Love and The True Nature of How Things Work. He won the prestigious "America's Next Top Author" award from ConsciousOne.com for his book, "Nuts & Bolts Spirituality." Read his FREE report, "The 3 Simple Immutable Laws of the Universe" at: http://www.NutsandBoltsSpirituality.com