The final superhighway to the land of your nightmares is one that the vast majority of people travel. It is part of our culture and it is part of our tendency as humans, and it will remain so until we recognize it and strive for something better. I call this superhighway the “You-Don’t-Say Expressway”.
Travelers on this road live and talk as though their talk has nothing to do with how they live.
The “You-Don’t-Say Expressway” says that what we talk about really has no effect upon our lives, so we can just talk about whatever we want to talk about. A traveler on this road will reject the idea that speaking things into existence is a reality.
She will believe that it is completely acceptable to be sarcastic, to put people down, to be negative, even to tell lies or use fowl language or exaggerate. She will assume that people can tell the difference between when she is joking and when she is being serious and she will use her wit and power with words to appear clever and humorous.
She will also believe that speaking about her worries or fears has no power at all in bringing them about.
The most alarming part of this superhighway is that travelers on it cannot see the damage that their words do, even when it is right in front of them. Because they reject the idea that words have power, they do not make the connection in their minds between the things they speak about and the things that are going on around them.
- Exercise:
We can all find ourselves on the “You-Don’t-Say Turnpike” from time to time, speaking about something or someone negatively.
Today, write down one person or situation about which you find yourself speaking negatively from time to time and resolve today to speak positive words aloud about that person or situation.
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