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.
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