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.