Pain,

 

In this blog, I write about my Embodied Language (EL). Every word has been said and listened to, by me and, therefore, it could be written, by me, and read by you. However, you haven’t heard me nor have you heard yourself. Most importantly, you’ve never deliberately spoken with yourself, so that you could hear how your voice sounds, when you come to your senses. For you, Disembodied Language (DL) is normal, because you speak with a sound, which is absolutely phony and, quite literally, unheard of.

 

Increasingly, more and more people engage in hefty discussions with each other, about what is going on. The culture wars are ragging, but although everyone gets constantly carried away, about the content of what is being said, simply stated, it is not a political issue, but it is all about whose values are listened to, and whose aren’t. Those who, as we say, control the narrative, always inevitably do so with a demanding voice, which sounds unnatural, acted, rehearsed, phony, shallow, deceitful, incendiary. Unknowingly,  you react to the sound of someone’s horrible voice, in DL. This issue, can only be properly addressed and explored, if you listen to yourself, while you speak, alone with yourself. As long as you don’t do that, you yourself are bound to speak with a voice, which isn’t real, which isn’t yours, which you yourself don’t want to or like to listen to, because it represents all your struggles, problems and pain.

 

Pause and reflect on the undeniable fact, that the sound of your voice – and not just your voice, but everyone’s voice – in DL, totally sucks, as it reflects that we are suffering. It is hard to believe, because it is true, that we consider it to be normal, to speak with a sound, which doesn’t feel good. Therefore, to talk with ourselves and to listen to ourselves, while we speak, is to recognize that we, unconsciously, are hurting ourselves, as long as we engage in DL. Once we do this, our DL stops and then, we engage in EL and must admit, to ourselves, we have been missing out on our bliss: our Language Enlightenment (LE).

 

What has, up till now, been misunderstood about the ever-lasting, insidious, unintelligent battle for the redistribution of social and political power is: it always involves attention- demanding speakers, who force listeners to listen. Enslavement of the listener, is the name of the game for every speaker in DL. Of course, there can only be a few adamant, scripted, manipulative, dramatic, charismatic, specialized speakers, who come out on top of everybody else, who, as passive listeners, readers, viewers, basically end up doing what and believing in what they are told and are, unknowingly, also telling themselves.

 

Once you start talking out loud, alone with yourself, it appears, as if you are talking with someone else – a stranger, you never really talked with – as you have been raised in and conditioned by DL, the way of talking, in which listening to and being obedient to others, is considered to be more important than talking with, listening to and being true to yourself. If you happen to be one of the few speakers, who, are calling the shots, in the daily deluge of people, who all try to have their voices heard, by others, you must know how tiring, exhausting and meaningless your life is, in spite of everything you have achieved. We are coming to terms with humiliation, rejection and loss, when we begin to listen to ourselves, if we don’t have any power, but if we have power, we hold on to it, in any way we can till the very end and we refuse to ever listen to ourselves, as that would imply, we give up on our struggle to remain on top.  

 

Power, as defined by DL, which is happening 24/7, everywhere, around the world, is being listened to and being followed by others. However, power, as redefined by me – or anyone, who is able to engage in ongoing EL –  is to be control of our own language and, thus, to enjoy our LE. Our ongoing EL equals a life without conflict. Another way of describing our LE, is to verbalize and experience an ever-deepening sense of love, beauty, wellbeing and mystery. EL has made us accept and transcend our pain. Tears flow of gratitude, that we have, indeed, found what we have, unknowingly, been looking for our entire life. In effect, with EL, we finally catch up with ourselves.