Practice,

 

I have come to the unexpected conclusion, that this writing is the only way, in which you are ever going to find out about Embodied Language (EL). When I first discovered EL, forty years ago, I abhorred the idea of writing about it, as I felt convinced, it could only be acquired by talking about it. At this point of my life, after talking about it and after teaching psychology classes for many years, I want to come at your Disembodied Language (DL) from a different angle, as there is no way my EL and your DL mix.

 

Finding your way to this blog and reading about EL, is the only chance, to begin the practice of listening to yourself while you speak, as there is no one, who writes about EL as I do. I write like this, because you are either going to do it or you don’t. I’m quite sure, that, most likely, you are not going to do as I say. If you do as I say, stop reading, right now, and start again from the beginning, but this time, read it out loud and listen to the sound of your voice. To be able to grasp EL, you have to hear yourself speak.

 

This writing is the bridge to EL, as it presents the opportunity, to not only read about it, but to do it yourself and to know, instantly, that EL is, of course, entirely different from your usual DL. You know you have never, deliberately, spoken like that, because in your habitual way of talking, you don’t listen to your own voice while you speak, as your attention is always either drawn to listening to others or to your own attempts to get others to listen to you. In each case, the other, not you, is the most important.

 

In EL, you are the most important. This has nothing to do with narcissism, self-centeredness or egotism, but with a new way of talking, which only becomes possible, if you actually begin to do it. Although it is absolutely true, in DL, you don’t listen to yourself while you speak, you can now recognize, that you didn’t even know, it is possible to listen to yourself.

 

Your ignorance about EL is your biggest problem and once you begin to tell yourself what it is, all your problems begin to disappear. It is not your fault, that you never bothered about listening to yourself and never had any interest in how you use your language, as DL didn’t and couldn’t allow you to become interested. Your usual way of talking will discard anything, that brings your attention to it.

 

Once you know about EL, you have discovered, your DL can be ended. You didn’t even know this, before you read this text, as you have never heard yourself saying this or felt yourself experiencing this. There is no doubt about it, whatsoever, that when you have EL, your usual DL has ended. Is it happening now, or isn’t it? If it is, you feel victorious and proud, as you have accomplished something, your conditioning history tells you isn’t even possible. The newness of this experience refutes everything you believed in, due to your almost constant involvement in DL.

 

As you read these sentences, you can also wonder about the possibility, why your EL isn’t happening? What does it mean to stop your DL? How do you do that? These words or the so-called guidance from anyone, haven’t helped you at all, to stop DL and to acquire EL and you are still in doubt about how to do it. People have said, that it is good to doubt and to remain skeptical, but to doubt EL, is a bad thing.

 

In EL, you never doubt, and, therefore, if you doubt, you don’t have EL, but DL. Surely, you will perceive things very differently, as continue to have EL, as the newness of your language keeps revealing more and more about your Language Enlightenment (LE), but, the point here is: you never doubt that you are having EL. I write that doubting EL is a bad thing, to let you know, that you are not having EL, but DL.

 

You’ll never have EL, as long as you keep sitting on the fence and don’t give yourself to it completely. To have ongoing EL, you can’t hold back, but your DL-tendency is to hold back. This tendency has to be stopped. Are you stopping it now? You must do it, as no one else can do it for you. I assume, you do it, because you keep reading about what happens next. You already know what it is, but you want to deny that it is happening. You would like this writing to confirm your belief, but that belief has nothing to do with your EL. Without your belief, you don’t know what is happening and to have EL, you don’t know and, yet, you feel perfectly okay, not knowing.  

 

With EL, you no longer predetermine what you are going to say. It emerges by itself, but only if you let it and this writing can allow you to feel encouraged, to do that. This brings us to an important aspect of EL: there is no leader. I am not your leader, but you are not your own leader either. In EL there really is nobody in charge and that’s the beauty of it. You speak without any sense of self or authorship.

 

In your EL, you find to your own big surprise, again and again, that you are free. Your freedom has to do with how you deal with your language, that is, with your EL, you express your LE. This is a fantastic revelation. Yes, you are enlightened and there is nothing to claim or achieve, yet you are full of this magnificent energy and totally aware of yourself.

 

These written words can be read again, if what is described didn’t happen the first time. Perhaps, you need to or want to read them again, but, perhaps you never want to read them again, as you have got it what I was trying to convey. It is also possible, that you want to give your own description of your LE and write your own piece about your EL. I would like to read it, hear you say it and speak with you, no money involved, so you can experience what EL is like. I look forward to talking with you. Send me an email or skype message to set up a time to talk.   

Email: mpeperkamp@sbcglobal.net

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