Celebrate,

 

People have had all kinds of celebrations, but they have never celebrated their joy, at hearing their own sound, while they speak. Listening to your voice, while you speak, about anything you want to address, is very revealing. You will have a big sigh of relief, because it is instantly clear to you, that in your usual, habitual, mechanical way of talking, you don’t listen to yourself. So, when you listen to your voice, while you speak – with yourself – you realize and become aware, you had lost yourself, while you were speaking with others and that is why it was so  troublesome, tiring and upsetting. When you finally hear yourself again, you have returned to who you really are, as you can say what you want to say.

 

When you take time, to be alone and talk out loud with yourself, about stuff you couldn’t talk about with others – because you weren’t aware about it yourself, until you started to speak with yourself – your celebration begins, when you hear a peculiar change, in the sound of your voice. At that moment, you know, you are listening to yourself, because you produce no longer the sound of frustration, anxiety, stress, fear or distraction. In other words, you can hear and feel, your Disembodied Language (DL) has stopped and you greatly enjoy hearing the sound of your own Embodied Language (EL). You celebrate who you are, by continuing your EL, but you forget who you are, each time you engage again in DL.

 

When you keep speaking with yourself and listening to the sound of your natural voice, while you speak, you effortlessly continue with your EL, as you give yourself permission, to celebrate your own truth. It is remarkable, what you are able to say to yourself with the sound of your wellbeing. You are surprised  it is so easy, so meaningful, but also, so sad, as you know very well, you haven’t attended to your own EL. Initially, when you stop your DL and discover you are able to continue with EL, you can’t help feeling an enormous sense of loss, as you, inevitably, have to admit how much you short-changed yourself.

 

I cried and cried, each time I caught myself having DL again, as I felt so blessed, to have found a way to return again to my EL, by simply listening to myself while I speak. I am convinced, in principle, we all want to have EL instead of DL, but we don’t want to acknowledge and mourn the tremendous loss of having wasted so much time and energy with our own senseless DL. And, of course, it is even more deeply troubling to recognize, that all of mankind is hopelessly, unconsciously, stuck with DL. You are bound to feel alone, as nobody is interested in EL.

 

To celebrate our EL, our tears must flow, as human beings have been at war with each other and with themselves since the beginning of time. However, we are not crying any sentimental tears, as we are no longer experiencing the struggle and the conflict, which is our usual way of dealing with our language. We celebrate our aloneness and our tears, are tears of thankfulness, because in EL, we can be alone with ourselves and whole again. There’s no holding back on the great joy and self-knowledge of our own EL. Likewise, there’s a tremendous process of relief and unburdening, due to our permanent departure from DL. During DL, we, as speakers, always struggle to get the listener’s attention. In DL, our voice sounds demanding, that is, like children, we cry and throw temper-tantrums. However, in EL, we have stopped crying for or about others, as others, unconsciously, engage in DL and don’t recognize the importance of EL. Thus, in EL, we talk with and cry for ourselves, as we celebrate this opportunity to liberate ourselves.

 

To celebrate derives from Latin, celebrationem, numerous attendance, especially upon a festival celebration; celebratus: kept solemn, performance of a religious ceremony, repeated; celebrare means: assemble to honor, to sing praises of, to practice often; celeber means: to frequent in great numbers. Thus, to celebrate, is to commemorate or honor with demonstrations of joy. What a wonderful word. We celebrate our EL, which, of course, didn’t come out of the blue, because it is the verbal expression of who we are, when we are without any struggle. It is only when we celebrate everything our EL brings to our attention – and, by verbally giving attention to whatever asks our attention – we realize, it is of course, our true nature or Language Enlightenment (LE), which makes us want to have EL instead of DL.

 

While it is delightful, interesting and energizing, to engage in ongoing EL, it is, due to our long, dreadful history of conditioning with DL, that the enormous potential of our EL remains hidden. Obviously, with DL, sorrow is closer to our everyday experience than bliss. Religious texts have often addressed this issue, but it never resulted into the conceptualization of DL and EL, let alone, in LE. In spite of our so-called spirituality, our DL has continued unabated. Surely, if we are going to accept our LE, because our ongoing EL instructs and convinces us to do so, our EL is going to forever replace our misguided, superstitious, unintelligent infatuation with some sort of higher power, which, of course, was always the projection of our own need to have real communication or EL. Only in EL can we and do we celebrate our own language. Hilariously, we have to accept, we can only cry and laugh our way into it.