Soulfully Rich

“The words we speak become the house we live in”

Hafiz

Around the time I was 19, I started changing my thoughts and words, and my reality truly began to change…. before that, I was a negative, insecure, externally motivated child/teenager who wanted more than to fit in, I wanted to be better than others because I felt poorly about me..

I wasn’t in alignment with my truest self. In fact, I was the most toxic version: negative, weak-minded, and unsuccessful.

I spoke negatively to myself and others and thought showing emotion was weakness. I had the beliefs and reality to back them up that: “I have horrible luck”, “of course this would happen to me”, “that’s just my luck”, “life is fucked”, “trust no one”, all the regular poor me bs that we all experience at one point or another.

But… I remember clearly one day I woke up and decided I would not be this person. I started changing the way I spoke to myself and started practicing stopping the negative thought patterns in their tracks. I noticed an immediate difference.

I tested it when seemingly “bad” things would happen. And the bad things started to seem less like bad things and more like lessons. And the good things began to show themselves to me more and more often. I started to chip away at the parts of myself I had adopted for survival and began to reveal the parts of me that would thrive and contribute to this world.

Now, 10+ years later I of course, still have moments and even days of discontent, which are equally as important as the good (we need the contrast), but they are much fewer.

Our words, thoughts, and beliefs truly have the ability to change our entire lives and by extention the lives of those around us. Everything we do has a ripple effect. Every move, every interaction with another human being, ripples throughout humanity and time. Now more than ever, we owe it to humanity and to ourselves to find and move with peace. What kind of house do you want to dwell in?