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
Skype:
limbicease