Transforming My Life Through My Vocabulary

Dwelling in the realm of great ideas and truth is indeed a rich and exciting endeavor, which only becomes more meaningful and worthwhile as you APPLY those ideas by making them a living part of your everyday experience. 

What follow is the application of Transformational Vocabulary within the context of my own verbal model. I'm not going to completely discard any words, because every word has a valid use within the proper context. I just think I use most of these words in a very unconscious, generalized form that limits the emotional range of my experience. I want to provide more variety by being more specific about how I define my emotional responses to experience thru labeling. 

The words we'll examine in this post are mostly negative, so redefining them as labels will allow us the opportunity for more conscious control to lighten or diminish their overall effect. In the next post, I'll redefine positive word labels in a way which enhances and boosts their emotional impact..

The following words appearing in red will be the old word labels used as generalizations.

Words appearing in green are the new and improved versions that give a more precise and accurate description of the emotional state I wish to invoke.

How about you? Are there words you use automatically and unconsciously as broad emotional generalizations that aren't serving your expression and the emotional realities to which they are linked?

Sentences using both the old and new vocabulary follow as examples:

1. Anger, Angry

She makes me so damned angry!

Right now, the anger is consuming me.

Annoy, Annoying

She's really annoying.

Right now, I'm very annoyed!

2. Pissed, Pissed Off

You're really starting to piss me off this time!

I'm so pissed, I could scream!

Displeased, Displeasure

This situation is making me feel much displeasure.

I am thoroughly displeased by the way my boss has handled this.

3.Hate, Hatred

I hate the way you spend money.

I have a strong hatred for selfish people.

Dislike

I have a strong dislike for selfish people.

4. Sick

I am so sick of putting up with all this.

Weary

I am so weary of all this.

5. Depressed, Depression

Whenever I start feeling depressed, that's when I smoke.

I have struggled with depression my entire life.

Blue

Whenever I start to feel blue, I just think a happy thought.

I have struggled with blueness my entire adult life.

6. Frustration, Frustrated

Most of the time, I feel frustrated at work.

The dominant component of my marriage is frustration.

Stumped

The series of events in my life have me quite stumped.

7. Stupid

That was the most stupid thing I've ever heard you say.

Dull

That was the dullest thing I've ever heard you say.

8. Fail, Failure

You'll never be anything but a failure!

I'm afraid if take the risk, I'll fail.

Lack

I'm afraid if I take the risk, I might lack!

It's better to lack than be an outright failure.

9. Bullshit

I refuse to believe this bullshit any longer.

Fantasy

I refuse to believe this fantasy any longer.

10. Problem

Tomorrow's presentation is going to be a real problem.

Challenge

Tomorrow's presentation is going to be a real challenge.

11.Confused, Confusion

I'm confused about what you would like me to do.

I've been experiencing a lot of confusion about my future

Pre-understanding

I am slightly pre-understood about what you would like me to do.

I've been experiencing a lot of pre-understanding about my future.

12. Sad

What's happening to my father makes me feel sad.

Low

Whenever I start feeling low, that's when I smoke.

What's happening to my father makes me feel low.

Transformational Vocabulary Part 2

The best part about understanding this technology is being able to spot what previously was an unconscious pattern and exercise conscious control over interrupting it. We all know what happens when you interrupt unwanted or undesirable patterns enough; they cease to be active because your mind eventually gets the message the pattern is unavailable for completion,  then creates a different pattern to replace it. 

Another advantage in the creation of conscious control over your vocabulary is you can select and modify your choice of words to increase pleasurable sensations and experience  as well as decreasing the painful experiences. Take your own mental inventory in this area and you'll probably discover (like so many places in your thinking) you've been conditioned by previous experience to have all this wired completely bass ackwards: i.e., overly intense word labels exaggerate pain experiences; and, weaker word labels limit and diminish sensation and experience of pleasure states. Does it feel better to be PASSIONATE about something or merely feel  good about it?

Most of us have very intense words set up on the pain side, weak words on the pleasure side and don't understand why we  experience so much more pain than pleasure in our lives.

Words are the building blocks of human experience. If other people can use words that move you, then you can most certainly use words to move yourself; to tears, joy, nobility, etc. The first step starts by you consciously determining your habits of language use.

Expand your vocabulary; expand your life. 

Enrich your vocabulary; enrich your life.

Representation occurs through sounds, pictures, smells or feelings; however, words are the primary form of representation within Human culture. If you have no way to represent something, then you have no way to experience it; or conversely, you can experience anything so long as you can discover a way to adequately represent it. Our experience of life automatically expands when we elect to become more articulate about our experience of life. 

So here is a sweeping opportunity to take your negative sensations and lower their intensity. Every emotion is a resource in the right context. You can also intensify your emotional life on the positive side by developing new sets of habitual words that magnify positive sensations. Then condition the new pattern into permanence with focus and repetition.

Transformational Vocabulary

"This is simple." Tony Robbins isn't joking when he says something is easy. His Transformational Vocabulary technique is very much as real of a game changer as you're going to get without having to break a sweat. This truly is the lazy man's way of effecting dramatic change.

So here in my own words, is my take on this absolutely phenomenal information. I started using it about a week ago to modify my internal linguistic labeling of emotional states and the results have been nothing short of spectacular. Of course, writing all this out not only serves as an extremely useful way of breaking down the technique, but also isolating and evaluating details, and further hard-wiring it all into my physiology. That's what it's all about!  

Words shape our beliefs: specific language and the words we use with ourselves create the outcomes we experience. Words have an unbelievable power to move people if we chose to use the them correctly.The words we use moment to moment literally shape our destiny; they can change the way we think and feel in an instant. A single word contains your state. Words create a bio-chemical effect on our bodies.

Among all the words in our language, the most consistently used, habituated words have the most power to shape us. Our minds are constantly creating shortcuts to narrow the decision time for what something means and how we should react. One shortcut we have developed is our belief system. Beliefs are generalizations. Generalizations help save you time in the mental processing of sensations. Generalizations have the capacity to both empower (I'm familiar with how to drive this car because I have driven others similar to it in the past) or disempower (All relationships seem to end in heartache.).

All our beliefs are made up of words and if we change just one word within your belief system, we can change the entire belief. We can also listen to the words people use. Its a major part of the diagnostic process we are involved in. Listen for words that you know are creating limits within that person as they speak. Words are the basis of your ability to represent to yourself what is happening in the World.

Our brains generalize about sensations coming in as a shortcut to understand what they mean, and adds a linguistic label in order to further speed the process. Is anger always the exact same sensation or are there varying levels of intensity? It may feel like it, because once you call it anger, you create an anchor to what anger is for you and trigger all those sensations into the experience. Most people have habitual ways of classifying any level of emotional sensation by simply naming it.

The second you take an experience of life and put a word to it, it becomes what you call it. Your brain instantly fires of the bio-chemistry connected to that word and that becomes your experience.

That's why most of us feel limited in our range and variety of emotions we are capable of feeling, because on average, we have only about twelve words to habitually describe all our experiences of pain and pleasure. Its not that you don't have other sensations, you just don't experience them because you label them ineffectively.

In it's entirety, the English language contains over 500,000 words; of which, about 3,000 can be used to describe emotional states, yet most of use have narrowed that number down to twelve we use habitually.

Before we add the label, it's sensation: after, it becomes perception and experience. Unless we learn to expand our references, these shortcuts will continue to shortchange our emotions 

Transformational Vocabulary is the transformation of experience through words: taking sensation and transforming it through language. You can either transform your experience into something more pleasurable or more painful, and by adopting someone's language patterns, it is possible to adopt their emotional patterns as well. The label you put on your experience becomes  your experience.