Follow,

 

If you follow, where your Embodied Language (EL) can take you, you will feel satisfied and happy, because your EL always reveals your Language Enlightenment (LE). The reason most people stay busy with Disembodied Language (DL) – and never get to express their LE – is because they haven’t given their EL the chance to grow and to blossom.

 

Initially, after we first discover the great difference between DL and EL, we are very excited about EL, but this high wears off, after we are faced with our conditioning history with DL, that keeps overtaking us. For the most part, our DL determines, that we remain preoccupied with others and, thus, we can’t bring our full attention to our language. Instead of  following where our EL leads us, we want to have EL with others, but we only just started to have EL with ourselves. In our longing to be able to continue with our own EL, we lose touch with it, as we keep trying to have EL with others, rather than with ourselves.

 

The only way to continue with our EL, is to follow it and to keep having it with ourselves and this is only going to happen, if we talk out loud with ourselves and listen to ourselves and act on what we say to ourselves. Moreover, speaking with and listening to ourselves, produces new interpretations of events, which we weren’t able to comprehend when we were still involved with DL. These novel perceptions of who we are and how we want to live our life, only begin to stick, if we write about them and read our own writing. You could say, with EL we diagnose our own situation and we prescribe our own treatment.

 

The path we follow, once we are guided by our EL, is only travelled by us and, therefore, nobody can go on – or even be in – our way. Whenever we have EL with others, we are reassured, each person, who expresses his or her EL, is solely responsible for his or her own actions and no one can tell anyone else, where their EL is going to take them. At best, others, with EL, reinforce that we each go our own way and this is our LE, but what this entails, is only known to us, individually, as we explore our language with our speaking, listening, writing and reading. Following or going our own way, is determined by how we use our language and this has nothing to do with what we – in DL – have called our mind, our thoughts or what we, supposedly, covertly, say to ourselves.

 

Since what we say to ourselves can and will be heard – by us – and since what we write about speaking with and listening to ourselves, can and will be read – by us – no is energy lost with the common fantasy, that our language deals with some mysterious inner self, inside of us. Furthermore, because we are in charge of our language, we are not missing out on anything we heard ourselves say or anything we have written to ourselves. To the contrary, everything we have said to ourselves, was listened to and everything we wrote to ourselves, was read, acknowledged, understood, followed and implemented. Nothing of what anyone else has ever said or written, has such an enormous effect on us, as what we have said and written to ourselves.

 

Once we have ongoing EL – rather than only a few miserly moments of it – we are really going to do everything we say to ourselves and everything we have written to ourselves. And, since this is the inevitable consequence of our involvement in EL, we are going to experience the marvelous results of these actions. These outcomes are predicted with our EL, which paves the way for a natural way of life.

 

Besides our language, we are also involved in other behaviors, but all these behaviors are coordinated by our EL. Previously, due to our ignorance about EL, our other behaviors were based on our involvement in DL, but our new understanding with EL, makes us want to change our ways. We can’t postpone it, as that would mean, we follow DL again. Our faith in EL has nothing to do with feeling, but with reasoning, in which we let ourselves know, what will or what will not happen, if we do or don’t do certain things.

 

When we conclude what works for us, we always speak from our past experience. We have endlessly gone through the same behaviors, but have never trusted our own language enough, to let ourselves know about why this is happening. We have never followed through on our own self-instructions, as the verbal prompt, to do so, simply wasn’t strong enough, as it didn’t reach the threshold required for behavioral change. When our behavior doesn’t change for the better, it bothers and keeps nagging us, as there is always a sense, that we are harming ourselves. When, due to EL, our attention can finally go to how we use our language, we stop any kind of self-defeating behavior and we will do what is right.  

 

With EL, we stop following our dreams, because we become realistic. This whole business of making the impossible possible, is a DL-concept, because in EL we do only what is possible. However, we are not used to following and acting on what is possible, as with DL we keep trying to do the impossible. Doing what is right, is doing what is possible, as that is the natural way. With DL, we keep telling ourselves, that what is actually possible, is impossible, but once we have EL, we realize that it is possible and needed.