Living a Passionate Life - How to Practice Empowering Language
Designing a passionate life means using language that empowers you to take responsibility for your own life.
Empowering language energizes you and helps move you forward.
This article outlines an exercise that will start you on the road to using empowering language.
Give it a try, you may learn something about yourself and improve your communications with other people.
The use of "I" when speaking to others and being responsible for your own emotions is an empowering way to communicate.
Using "I" language combined with an appropriate tone will increase the receptivity of the other person.
Try it and see what happens.
Empowering Language Exercise Step 1: Pick two days in the same week and set the intention to simply notice the words that you say to yourself.
Which disempowering words did you use? How does it feel when you use these words? Write down the emotions that you experience when you use these words.
In what context did you use these words? What is the message that you are sending to yourself? When did the use of these words start? What patterns did you notice? Step 2: Pick one day to practice changing your language.
Set the intention for the day to catch yourself every time you use a disempowering word or phrase and consciously choose to restate it with an empowering word, phrase, or question.
For example, use I can, I choose to, or what are the possibilities? Step 3: At the end of the day, take some time to notice what happened.
How hard was it for you to catch yourself using disempowering words? How many times did it happen? What patterns did you notice? How did it feel when you changed from disempowering language to empowering language? Step 4: Spend some time with the answers to these questions and reflect on what you learned as a result of this exercise.
How and what you speak is a direct reflection of your thoughts and beliefs and what manifests in the world for you that is and is not aligned with your passions.
Empowering language energizes you and helps move you forward.
This article outlines an exercise that will start you on the road to using empowering language.
Give it a try, you may learn something about yourself and improve your communications with other people.
The use of "I" when speaking to others and being responsible for your own emotions is an empowering way to communicate.
Using "I" language combined with an appropriate tone will increase the receptivity of the other person.
Try it and see what happens.
Empowering Language Exercise Step 1: Pick two days in the same week and set the intention to simply notice the words that you say to yourself.
Which disempowering words did you use? How does it feel when you use these words? Write down the emotions that you experience when you use these words.
In what context did you use these words? What is the message that you are sending to yourself? When did the use of these words start? What patterns did you notice? Step 2: Pick one day to practice changing your language.
Set the intention for the day to catch yourself every time you use a disempowering word or phrase and consciously choose to restate it with an empowering word, phrase, or question.
For example, use I can, I choose to, or what are the possibilities? Step 3: At the end of the day, take some time to notice what happened.
How hard was it for you to catch yourself using disempowering words? How many times did it happen? What patterns did you notice? How did it feel when you changed from disempowering language to empowering language? Step 4: Spend some time with the answers to these questions and reflect on what you learned as a result of this exercise.
How and what you speak is a direct reflection of your thoughts and beliefs and what manifests in the world for you that is and is not aligned with your passions.