I think I want to start updating this thing. I
am having many a thoughts these days. Something is stirring deep within me that
I feel needs an outlet into the World.
One thing I have been thinking about lately is
the notion that Every Word is a Prayer.
I believe this very deeply; we create our
realities and the words we throw around each day cast out a vibration into the
air around us, either nurturing or polluting the environment of our individual
& collective worlds.
I learned the power of this concept when I was
becoming aware of the ways in which we often believe ourselves into being
victims. So many people in this world are victims, hopelessly mourning the
trials and tragedies of the(ir) world; dancing in blame games and pity parties
driven by ego-soothing disposal of response-ability & self-care.
Every Word is a Prayer. I felt the power of
this when I started to notice myself feeling as a victim in different
situations - large or small. Not trying to change it, I started noticing.
“ugh, why does this always happen to me” —
“dude my life sucks, nothing ever works out for me” — “why is s/he doing this
to me?” — “why do people treat me like crap”
There is no
agency in these words. They are passive, disengaged, powerless.
Victim words. The
world is acting upon me; I am not an agent acting in&upon the world in
these words. I do not care for myself because I have no accountability to
myself, I am laying down my power and offering it to preconceived notions of
negativity and loss. In these words, I feel no abundance.
When I started to
notice these words, I noticed where I was giving up my power, and in doing so,
self-inflicting victimhood. I am the perpetrator and the victim. Can there be
justice in this war against empowerment and self-love? Restorative justice?
Every Word is a
Prayer. The power of prayer has been seen across history & landscapes;
taking form as meditation, trance, reflection, hymns, prayers, movement –
across cultures and creeds – be it mystical or psychological there is no doubt
it holds a particular quality which can somehow initiate a sense of
transcendence. In it(s) intention is a powerful creator.
If the words I speak are prayers, each of those power-ceding
victim words initiates the creation of deeper victimhood; drawing such
negativity more tightly around my world, like the safety blanket of a fearful
child. Do you remember those days – when you were small and afraid; each groan
and creak of the settling house evidence of the monsters who cast shadows under
your window? Pulling the blanket over your head and lying frozen, even though
you couldn’t breathe through the thick cotton wall; your imagination building
on the fear of the unknown that lingered in the darkness at the foot of your
bed, until you were certain there was something there, haunting you with
malicious intention? Victim words are like that stifling cotton wall. Except
the malicious haunting manifests itself in more frighteningly tangible ways.
You give up your power under that blanket, and let your imagination create an
entirely terrifying new world.
But that new world is not the thing. It is not the reality. You
have created it. It’s the same today, when we give up our power to a world in
which we are victims. We create our victimhood as well. So what if we take down
that blanket? Go into the unknown knowing our power to mould and create it into
something entirely different? Not to make it known, but to recognize the
immense potential for creation that is present in the unknowing of things?
If you stand fully in yourself and in your power, conscious of the
depth of agency you possess, the world you create can respond to the unknown as
it comes, and create within it from a place of openness, of transformation and
transcendence.
Every Word is a Prayer. If words are intentions and intentions
creators – words cast out in to the unknown either pollute or nurture our
environments. If we use words from a place of power, of consciousness and
agency, the world we create will respond by opening to positive creativity.
When we renounce our agency through words of a victim, the world we create
responds in deprivation of positive creation.
