BS”DCreating your World with Words
Try saying these words to yourself:
Depressed, sad, afraid, guilty, alone, weak, fragmented, disconnected, weary, helpless, victimized, threatened, tired, drained, resentful, unappreciated, misunderstood, burdened, angry, hate, hard, not good enough, dreary, stupid, ugly, lonely, impossible, overwhelmed, isolated, too much for me, failure, I can’t, danger, panic, it’s too hard…
How do you feel? And, what happens to your goals when you feel this way? To your energy? To your willingness to take risks? To your belief in yourself and your dreams?
It’s not such a pretty picture.
Now try these:
Happy, overjoyed, energized, strong, delighted, proud, empowered, flowing, intimate, ease, rested, fresh, possibility, connectedness, trust, openness, aliveness, love, awe, greatness, authenticity, harmony, success, safe, free, just right, excellence, beauty, pleasure, joy, power, creative, wholeness, shimmering, I have what it takes, I can do it, it’s a breeze….
Feel any better? Ready to get going again?
This simple but powerful exercise is designed to give you a tiny taste of
power of words. Words create! The words we use (whether in speech or thought) play a central role in generating our perspective and feelings. Our feelings generate actions and our actions generate results. It all starts with words.
Want to know why it works this way?
G-d created world with words. According to Kabbalah, words and letters are actual building blocks – raw material - of creation. Everything has a Hebrew name, and each letter of that name is a channel for a specific Divine energy. The energies of these letters and way they are combined determines particular unique characteristics of everything in existence.
Before words of creation were spoken, everything existed only in a primordial state of Divine ‘nothingness’ - infinite undifferentiated potential.
But when G-d said, “Let there be light” (In Hebrew, ‘vayehi ohr’), these words became creative force that brought into being what we know as light. The same thing applies to each and every detail of creation.
Creation, however, was not a onetime event. According to Kabbalah, words of creation are being ‘spoken’ by G-d continuously. Therefore, world is being brought into being anew out of Divine ‘nothingness’ at every moment. In fact, natural state of universe is non-existence. If G-d were to stop ‘speaking’ words of creation for even an instant, whole universe would disappear as if it had never been!
