Positive and Pure Language to Accelerate your Success

Have you ever noticed how some people seem to have everything they want? A great relationship, successful career, a fantastic social life and great health? So why do some people live a fulfilled life and others seem to miss out? It could be really, really simple.

Are you sitting comfortably? Let me tell you a little story...

Recently, I went for a coffee with my friend Caroline; she was telling me how she'd just landed her dream job: she's working from home three days a week; she's had a great pay rise, she loves the role and has developed great relationships with her new colleagues. We chatted about it until our coffees were nearly cold!

As we were getting up to leave, Caroline turned to me and blurted out "I'm so pleased we've had this opportunity to chat, I feel so much better about it. I've been worrying there's something wrong with me, I've got this fantastic new job but sometimes I just feel really down. I can't explain why, but I feel so much better now." I ordered two more coffees and we chatted more honestly this time - there was a pattern to this sinking feeling she was getting: it was following the days she spent with her colleagues in the office. So I let her into the same secret I'm going to share with you: the language used around us has a real power on our mind, on our state, on our emotions and on our energy.

Caroline's colleagues all used very negative language. For example, her manager would say things like "we mustn't miss this deadline or overspend on our tight budget". In order to make sense of these statements, Caroline's unconscious mind would have to imagine missing the deadlines and blowing the budget before it could imagine not doing it. This is how our mind processes negatives.

Take this example: consider the statement "don't think of a blue elephant." Notice what your first thought was - I bet it was a blue elephant! In order to process the statement, your brain had to imagine what you didn't want before it could imagine what you did so its process was elephant - pink - not. Notice how the first focus is the elephant. To put this into a more useful context, how many times do you find yourself saying "don't worry" to someone? Every time you say this, the brain's very first focus is to worry - probably not the constructive and positive outcome you were looking for!

Research conducted by the well-known psychiatrist John H Reitmann confirmed this. He once said "It takes an average person almost twice as long to understand a sentence that uses a negative approach than it does to understand a positive sentence." Just imagine all the extra energy Caroline was using trying to battle against all the negative messages she was getting in just two days at the office! No wonder she was feeling drained.

Coffee became lunch...

Over lunch, we discussed how to use pure and positive language to ensure the message you convey is instantly understood and, most importantly, is the message you intended to convey. A few small changes will ensure that your language has a purely positive impact on you, your results and what happens in your life by giving you the ability to choose your outcomes. For example, if Caroline's boss had known about how important pure and positive language is to success, he would have said "let's all focus on meeting our deadline of xxxx and staying within our budget of xxxx." These simple changes would have made him a much better, more inspiring leader and therefore much more likely to have a high performing team.

This is also really important in our internal dialogue. Your internal conversations can have a huge effect on your external results as well as how you feel. For example, if you say to yourself "I'm tired." What happens to your physiology? How does it make you feel? Now say to yourself "I could do with more energy." It's the same thing, and just using different words will have a massive impact on how your brain responds. When I say things like "I could do with more energy", immediately my brain says "I know how to do more energy" and will release the chemicals, change my breathing habits and I'll stand in a different way because I've been given more energy.

Not everybody's aware of the power of their language so I'd like to leave you with the same tips I gave Caroline (over dessert!) in order to ensure all your communications - both internally and externally - lead you towards success in your life...

Give your mind a positive workout...

Like all muscles, the brain develops with a workout! Some practice will help your unconscious mind install good habits to support you in taking you to where you want to be. To begin, start to notice your language in your conversations and your internal dialogues and ask yourself:

• Is my language positive and pure?
• What am I really saying to myself?
• What am I focusing on?

Is your language taking you towards success, or is it holding you back? When you notice that you are using negative language, rethink how you can better phrase what you are saying. Changing your focus to one of success is as simple as asking yourself the following questions:

• What would I like to do instead?
• What would I like to happen instead?
• How would I like things to be instead?

Try doing this for the next 24 hours and notice the positive impact it has on your mind, your state, your emotions and your energy and then build the techniques into all your conversations and start to feel the positive results! Remember: where you are today is a reflection of your thoughts and language used in the past and you can change where you are tomorrow by changing those thoughts and language.

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The Power of Positive and Pure Language: Installing Empowering Habits

Have you ever noticed how some people seem to have exactly what they want? A great relationship, a job that they love, a fantastic social life, time to go to the gym AND bags of confidence and energy to go with it?

You may be asking yourself this question.

Why do some people live a fulfilled life and others seem to miss out? It could be as simple as the language that you use! Yes it really could be that simple. Your self-talk as well as your conversations with others can have a major influence on how successful you are in your life. As you begin to understand the power of pure language, you will also begin to understand the great benefits that can be gained and how using pure language accelerates your success.

Pure Language - What is it?

Language, or more specifically words, that only have a neutral or positive impact on the hearer. Words that support the person in achieving success, direct you towards achievement and empower you so that you have power over your surroundings and the results you achieve. Pure language gives you the ability to choose your outcomes.

If you consider that your brain seeks out what you focus on, you begin to understand the importance of pure language for ensuring that you focus on achieving positive results. Have you ever had the experience where you have purchased something; perhaps a car or a pair of shoes? Suddenly you notice that there are lots of people driving a car like yours and lots of people wearing shoes like yours. This is your brain seeking out a pattern as it makes sense of what is going on around it. So use this knowledge of how the brain works, make your language pure and powerful so that it provides direction towards who you want to be, what you want to do and what you want to have in your life.

As Karen Berg puts it:

"With everything we do and say, there is a force that motivates. When we say things are rotten ��" that is what we expect, so they are. If we say things are good, things happen that way. We are the motivation for our own lives."

What happens if we focus on something we want to avoid?

What happens as you read "don’t think of a pink elephant"? I bet you are thinking of a pink elephant! In order to process this statement your brain has to imagine what you don’t want before it can imagine what you do want so its process is elephant-pink-not. Notice how the first focus is the elephant. If you say to someone "don’t worry" the brain’s first focus is worrying. If you say to yourself "I don’t want to fail". What is your focus? It is failing. You are giving the direction to your brain of failure. So as a pattern seeker your brain is looking for failure and could find many ways for you to fail!

To change the focus, change the language so that it is pure and powerful. Examples are "I want a successful meeting with my boss where I agree a pay rise", "I want my presentation to be successful" and "I want to remember to post my letter".

What impact does it have on our results?

The thoughts and words that we use filter into our unconscious mind and affect our unconscious behaviour. If we continually accept a thought or words over a period of time to be true, they can become what we call a habit and result in habitual behaviour based on the message we have accepted. This can be an issue for someone if that message is not helping them achieve what they want.

For example, telling yourself "I am so clumsy" over a period of time when you need to be balanced, adept and competent to achieve what you want, is forming a habit directed away from success. So, because of the close link between words, thoughts and behaviours, one way to change your behaviour, and therefore your results, is to change those thoughts and words! Remember where you are today is reflection of your thoughts and language used in the past and you can change where you are tomorrow by changing those thoughts and language.

What impact does it have on our energy levels?

Consider again the statement "I don’t want to fail." How does that make you feel? What happens to your physiology? Consider now "I’m going to be successful." How does that make you feel? What is happening to your body now?

There is an energy attached to all things, including words, and they will trigger a vibration in the body which, in turn, has an effect on how you feel physically as well as emotionally. Some words have a low vibration such as failure, sadness, tired, weak, anxiety, fear and some words have a high vibration such as succeed, happy, confident, strong, wide awake and powerful. You can probably feel that the first set of words vibrate at a lower level of energy than the second set of words. In other words, they can either have an effect of raising your energy levels by boosting you and your emotional state, or lowering them as they drain energy away with negativity.

Since words have an impact on how we behave, the results that we achieve and our whole energy level (sometimes called motivation) they also affect our ability to attract positive energy into our life. Remember if your language leads to a high level of vibration (high energy, feel good motivation) then this is the level of energy you will attract into your life - giving a boost to your aims and supporting the achievement of your dreams and desires.

Have a go...

Like all muscles, the brain develops with a workout! Practice with tools and techniques installs good habits into the unconscious mind that support you in being what you want to be. If you want to get those pure language muscles working, here are some tasks to help you.

For the next 24 hours monitor the language that you use in both conversations and self-talk. When you notice that you are using negative language rethink how you can say what you are saying. Ask yourself the following questions to help:

• What would I like to do instead?
• What would I like to happen instead?
• How would I like things to be instead?

For the next 24 hours listen out for the language that others use to you and notice whether it is pure or not, notice the impact it has on you and your energy.

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