Mind Your Language

In our life language matters a lot. When we are out to become something, to achieve something, the language plays an important role. Everyone talks about the decent language for conversation and presentation. No one needs any suggestions for this dimension of our language. But, here I am talking about the language we use to describe ourselves.

The problem with this use of language is that we use it while talking about ourselves. It can be right from a casual remark like my life is like this to I cannot do this. The irony is that most of time we are not aware of our own language.The way we describe our self to our self or in conversation with others matter a lot in our psychological make up.

If you have a close friend with whom you can share your thoughts, your feelings, you can take his help in identifying such negative expressions in your personal conversation.

There is a definite relationship between our language and our psychological make up. And there is a definite way to influence this relationship. Note the negative words with which you describe yourself. Find suitable positive words to describe your personality traits. Speak those words aloud to yourself.

For example, if you have a feeling that you are unlucky. You have number of events to describe how unlucky you are. Just think you are lucky. You have number of events to prove that also. But our exercise does not end here. You say aloud "I am Lucky". Repeat it several times. Do it whenever you can find sometime.

Here is a very good exercise to fight your blues. Whenever you feel sad or depressed or are flooded with negative thoughts just breath out vigorously. It is a good exercise to shake off your negativity. Try it. It works. Ultimately life is game of breaths.

Yogesh Sharma

www.gujaratglobal.com