The words we can’t speak are the most important ones we’ll ever find.
Language is a tool, but it can be a weapon. Sometimes a sledgehammer, other times a scalpel. Whether deployed with deliberate precision, or wielded without care, the words we use have the power to hurt or to heal, to bind up or break down.
And they also are the key to our survival and our progression.
You can feel anger without words; but you’ll never understand your anger without words.
Many of us carry significant emotional wounds, down in the deepest parts of our brains. These may be from past trauma, or from misunderstandings that we took upon us as a little child. Our subconscious mind, deep in the older parts of our brains does not command in the construct of language, but rather in the cacophony of imagery and emotion.
As we try to understand ourselves, and delve deeper into the chaos that controls us, we are faced with the truth that healing requires us to bring our painful past into the light of language, so that we may encode our emotion in a way that we can interpret and ultimately change.
To recognize a feeling is the first step on the pathway of peace, but ultimately we have to examine it so that we may explain it, and humanize it so that we can heal it. Without healing the past, we can never find stillness in the future.
Whenever you try to understand your own soul, as expressed in the communication of your choices, you will inevitably arrive at those behaviors for which you can express an emotion, but not an explanation.
Where the scalpels of logic and language are weakened in the fire of feeling and where the epoch of your intellect is laid low by a torrent of emotion.
We’ve all been there, and will probably be there again as we try to understand ourselves further.
If you find yourself unable to clearly explain the reason for the choices that you have made, may I invite you to carry the emotions that encumber you into the sunrise of self reflection.
Allow yourself to work through the painful feelings that scarred over the wound that bedevils you, and describe it with all the power of the language that you wield.
As you come to understand why you feel and behave the way you do, you can begin the journey back to healing your soul, and becoming the radiance that you were born to be.
With language as our light, and words our microscope, we can apply love and understanding over time to bring us all into the peace that is available to those who have healed.
Heal your heart, heal your soul, heal yourself.
And arise.
-- Dr. Alan Barnes
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