You’ve heard of the 30-day
Body Cleanse? This is usually where you drink certain natural beverages to
cleanse the body of impurities. This could be before you start a diet or just
for general health. The Thirty Day Verbal Diet is essentially much the same
thing, except this is more for the mind and soul than specifically for the
physical body. Just as we feel bloated or tired when our bodies are full of
impurities, our minds, or conscience, feels sluggish when we don’t take the
time to improve how we think and speak. We just feel better when we cleanse or
clean out these impurities. Although some would say that a clean mind contributes
to a healthy body.
The Thirty Day Verbal Cleanse
is just that, a cleaning up of your vocabulary. Changing the way we express
ourselves requires most of us to slow down our thoughts. We are then able to
process our thoughts using a different approach of self-expression. Not only
are we using different words we’re changing the way we structure our speech. We
then use words that actually express what we’re feeling, seeing, or
experiencing at any given moment.
Taking the time to think
through your thoughts and express them not only helps others to understand what
you are thinking and feeling, but you also understand what you are experiencing
in a clearer fashion. Taking the time to write down the experience you desire
to relate to another person helps clarify this same experience to yourself.
This deliberate act slows the thought process even more. The words you use are
an expression of who you are. However this does not mean you have to or need to
be wordy. Being succinct with your expressions helps to grab and maintain the
attention of others.
During this time of
cleansing take notice of how the people in your life, professional or personal,
respond to you as you say something that they didn’t expect you to say. This is
also true when you don’t say something that they did expect you to say. You may
be surprised at the positive responses you receive. Your use of language is
perhaps the single most important expression of who you are. And you use it
every day to nearly everyone you meet.
Why bother with the Thirty
Day Verbal Cleanse? Many of us may experience a feeling of conflict when we use
words of an expletive or of a derisive nature. This would also include the kind
of language used to bully another person. Usually these feelings of conflict
arise when we do something that is not consistent with what we believe as true
or coincides with our core selves. This internal conflict occurs as we realize
that spiritually we are not this kind of a person. A verbal cleanse can help
you self-evaluate your spirituality resulting in a more peaceful you.
Living your life within
your beliefs of Spirit, Higher Power or God will help you get in touch with
your personal spirituality. This in turn should reduce internal conflict and
stress while allowing you to think clearer and with increased focus.
I wish you all the best in your journey for a better mind and body and
soul.
by David E. Gonzales
