Do Your Words Have An Effect?

I wonder if we realize the effect our words have on other people's lives, and even ourselves. Once spoken words can heal, inspire, encourage, motivate. They can also cause a great deal of pain. You don't have to speak out loud everything you think in your mind. Some things are better left unsaid.
Things my mother said to me as a child:

"I hope you have a daughter someday, and I hope she acts just like you do!" - I have NO children.

"You are TOO loud, I heard you over everyone else on the bus!" I have spent the last few years of my life learning to be more assertive and speak up! People constantly complain that I am mumbling and they can't hear me.

" Why do you always have to learn everything the hard way?" I am still trying to stop doing that.

My father had his own contributions. I was a chunky kid, and he was always concerned about my weight. I loved milk. But everytime I would pour myself a glass of milk, he would say " You don't need that whole glass of milk". I am 42 years old, and to this day I cannot pour myself a whole glass of milk.

Think real hard about the things you say to your children, your spouse, family and friends. Are they damaging? Are they hurtful and thoughtless? Do they encourage and inspire or tear down and jab?

Even more detrimental is the negative things that we say to ourselves! Do you constantly tear yourself down? " I believe that the brain doesn't know the difference between what is real and what you tell it. Try some positive affirmations. Write some positive things to say to yourself and paste them on your bathroom mirror. Say them every day, over and over. Tony Robbins has great affirmations like "Every day in every way I am getting better and better. (stronger & stronger or happier and happier) " All I need is within me now!" All the _____ I need is within me now!"

Don't think it works? Did it work when my mother told me I was too loud?

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