Faith,

 

Let me ask you something. When was the last time, you said what you meant to say, what you wanted others to hear and know, when you stood your ground and took a risk to defend your point of view? When you do that, you have people, who hate you for your passion, but there are also some, who love you for your belief. However, for the most part, we don’t speak our so-called mind, we don’t talk genuinely, as we don’t want to get ourselves in trouble.

 

Why is speaking the truth, saying our own truth, such a huge problem? I know why. Whenever we make our claims about what we believe, we engage in what I call Disembodied Language (DL), that is, we try to win the argument we have with others, who also, like us, try to dominate the conversation with their opinions and convictions. In Embodied Language (EL), on the other hand, we aren’t arguing with each other, as we are not speaking anymore to outdo each other.

 

EL is an effortless, natural, peaceful, beautiful, and intelligent process, in which we sincerely say what is going on with us. Surely, there may still be, due to our dreadful history with DL, some things we say and believe that are not true, but as we talk more, with ourselves and with each other, these left-overs are dissolved, as they have been accurately addressed.

 

In EL, we don’t push back on claims which are made by others, as we speak from our own relaxed way of being. In DL, by contrast, we can’t be relaxed, as the difference of opinion, is the reason we are stressed,  argumentative, upset, fearful and defensive. In EL, we don’t have any disagreements, struggles or conflicts at all. Although it is, at first, almost unbelievable, that this is possible, when we explore our EL alone, by talking out loud with ourselves, we find out, rather quickly, that it is not only possible, but also necessary.

 

When we get to talk with someone, who has also explored EL alone – by talking out loud with her or himself, by listening to the sound of her or his voice and by acknowledging, that our DL is destructive, stupid, and harmful – we realize that a different way of life is ahead of us, in which we transcend the brutality, ignorance, and meaninglessness of the tragic lives we have lived, due to our DL. Moreover, our freedom to express our own EL, never gets us in trouble. To get clear on that point is revolutionary.

 

When you discover your EL, you are at a point of no return. You begin to change and shed everything you have accumulated and weighed yourself down with, due to your DL. Undoubtedly, this is a drastic process, as you stop doing many of the things you have been doing for a long time. There is no shame or hesitation in your clear understanding, that you must abandon everything which belonged to DL.

 

Even if remnants of DL, occasionally, still emerge, as they are triggered by the circumstances you are in, you can recognize them and feel confident, they will no longer bother you, the next time you happen to be in the same circumstance. Most likely, these difficult circumstances do not even anymore occur, as you have become capable of avoiding them altogether. Your EL keeps you safe in ways you have never been able to experience with DL. Actually, DL  always provided you with a false sense of security.

 

As I have often stated, EL is the expression of your Language Enlightenment (LE). Your understanding  of your LE depends on your EL, but with DL, you are oblivious about your self-evident self-nature. In DL, your life-energy is drained out of you by opposing forces, which aren’t, as many have tried to believe, complementary, but which literally tear you apart. In EL, we are one with what we say and how we say it and this congruence endures the rest of your life.

 

EL shows you that your LE is permanent. There is no such thing, as having only a few moments of EL and you go back again to DL. You may not immediately realize this, but it is inevitable, in your ongoing EL, that you will find out, it is profoundly troubling to go back and forth between DL and EL. Thus, after you have acknowledged the agonizing difference between your DL and your EL, you can only go on with EL, as you have been initiated by your own LE. Although you still experience some effects of your conditioning history with DL, these miserable events are preventable and you rejoice in each opportunity to do so. Your LE sets the stage for the prolongation of your EL and your faith in being yourself is total, as you reap the wonderful results of your EL every day.