Speak Life!

Our words have power, it can be life-changing or life-threatening. Our daily devotional for today is from Proverbs 18:21

" The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit."

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When I was in Grade School, that's almost ages ago. hahaha. I sometimes find myself lazy to go to school. There are really days that I cannot lift myself and come to class. Purposely, I will tell my mother that I am sick. I vaguely remember,there is one day that I even put garlic or onion, under my armpit because, I read somewhere that it can make your temperature go higher. Those excuses happened for a quite number of times. I just realized one time that when I told my mother I was not feeling well just so I won't go to school. Mid day I felt that I was some kind of sick already. I feel headache and literally not feeling well. So what happened to me is a Self Fulfilling Prophecy.

Words have power! When we speak of something over and over again, like in memorizing a poem or a song, it somehow becomes a part of us. That's why we even have the term LSS or the Last Song Syndrome, when a music is repeatedly heard, it goes to our subconscious mind thus we can even hear ourselves singing without consciously doing it. That logic goes the same when we speak of something good or bad to ourselves and to others. I, being a mother sometimes feel guilty that out of tiredness, and sometimes frustrations, I would scold my childre,n and speak not good words to them. I know those words would have made an impact to their lives and how they will live when they grow up.

As a mother, I only want what's the best for them. So I would like to speak them good qualities, speak words of encouragement, speak words of success. I know sometimes it's hard but, these things we have many times taken for granted of. These simple yet crucial thing, that can make or break someone's life.

Consequently, we need to also speak affirmations to ourselves that we haven't done on a regular basis because of our busy schedule. As lucrative as it is, we need to make daily affirmations like I'm Beautiful, I'm handsome, I'm Successful, I'm generous, etc. Like being LSS to these affirmations, I believe that it will make a big impact in to our lives today and tomorrow.

It's affirmative that bulk of our success will come from our mind, but we need to make it work for us. We need to teach our mind and feed it with good intentions.