Life is lived in words.
You
likely know fundamentally that specific words matter. You click on a headline because a single word strikes you. You
click a signup button because a word creates an emotion. The research behind
this power of words is incredibly deep. Researchers have found that the word you use to describe a car accident (“contacted” vs. “smashed”) paints the way
eyewitnesses view the event. Another study found that simple stock names that
are easier to pronounce lead to quicker gain post. There is a study which was shared by Brian Clark of
Copy blogger.
Social psychologist Ellen Langer tested the power of a single word in an
experiment where she asked to cut in line at a copy machine. She tried three
different ways of asking:
“Excuse
me, I have five pages. May I use the Xerox machine?” – 60% said OK
“Excuse
me, I have five pages. May I use the Xerox machine because I’m in a rush?” –
94% said OK
“Excuse
me, I have five pages. May I use the Xerox machine because I have to make
some copies?” – 93% said OK
I
don’t know about you, but I thought Langer’s third request was rather plain.
Yet it didn’t matter. The trigger word “because” was all she needed. The
takeaway: When you want people to take action, always give a reason.
Believe this truth that things are influenced by words spoken.
Words
echo reality in their utterance, this means that words give reality according
to what you have uttered. If you say positive and good things about yourself
that is what will be the reality and if you speak negatively about yourself,
that is what will also be reality. You cannot be what you have not thought and
spoken. Words define people. It is very easy to notice that people who have
been saying continuously that they will be successful in life have been finally
defined as such and so they are, successful. You cannot be caught unaware. When
you are successful it means that you have been thinking about it and you have
also been talking about it. Words have a force to cause things into being
whether negative or positive, this means you cannot avoid it. Whatever you say
is as important as the actual thing. Life is run and lived in words, someone
once told me that a closed mouth is a closed destiny. Words are life medicine
to a body, this world already has its negative things which it offers. For you
to get the good things out of this life you have to say words. Look at this
scripture then you will understand how powerful words are;
GENESIS
1:2-3, “And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face
of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God
said, Let there be light: and there was light.” Things came into being by
words, there might be darkness in this world but that does not mean there is no
light, you have to call it out; what do you want to see into reality? Then say
it and it shall be. Apart from the creation of man, all other creation was done
in words so therefore you cannot be careless about words. You can be whatever
you say, you can have whatever thing you say. Things respond to words.
:: Olly Moonga
:: Thoughts Are Things
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