Against,

 

If you know what is true, you’ll have to admit, that everyone is against you. This isn’t some paranoia, but it is the truth about knowing your own truth. Your truth isn’t like anyone else’s truth, because it only matters to you and when you try to adjust it to others, you will lose touch with your truth and get confused and frustrated. The only way to get clear about your own truth, is to stop comparing it to anyone else’s truth or trying to make it acceptable to others. Your truth is irrefutable, because you know it is true for you, so nobody’s approval is needed. However, it is great if others, who also have acknowledged their own truth, confirm your truth. This is only possible with Embodied Language (EL).

 

Most people, unknowingly, engage in Disembodied Language (DL). When they approve or disapprove, they do so, because of their DL, which is against EL, as EL can only happen, if DL is stopped. Approval from someone with EL, is of much greater value, as such an endorsement has nothing to do with what someone, presumably, is thinking, but with what he or she is saying or writing. This difference is of huge importance, because if we reinforce the illusion that someone is thinking, we prevent this person from doing something, that is, we prevented him or her from saying, writing, thus, from verbally expressing something. This will only become crystal clear, once we engage in ongoing EL, but as long as we still have DL, the point I refer to is never properly addressed.

 

Against the backdrop of our EL, everything will be  different and once we discover and begin to admit the big difference between our DL and EL, we will have to reinterpret everything we know, in the light of our EL, because the knowledge we have acquired was attained with DL. The point I am referring to, is that EL, has no relation whatsoever, to what anyone claims to be thinking. In other words, what is said, written, heard, read or understood, has absolutely no connection at all, to what we consider to be meaningful with DL. Stated differently, our EL from our DL-perspective, may seem utterly meaningless.  

 

There is something odd is going on with the social reinforcement of EL. We need the encouragement from others, to be able to allow ourselves, to find out, that EL is actually self-reinforcing. Someone who plays guitar, likes to hear that sound and keeps playing and practicing, because it is self-reinforcing and a similar effect occurs, while we are listening to our voice, while we speak. We can immediately experience these self-reinforcing effects, but we are not used to enjoying our own voice, while we speak, because we were conditioned, to listen to others, but not to ourselves. Even if we listen to ourselves and feel good about our sound, while we speak, it just seems too good to be true. This is the magic energy of our EL, the gift that keeps on giving. As long as we are unaware of and against our natural sound, while we speak, we undermine ourselves.

 

Once we can have EL with others – because we have had it by ourselves – the social reinforcement is like icing on the cake. Others can only reinforce our EL, if they themselves experience the self-reinforcing effects, I mentioned in the previous paragraph. And, we only become convinced, our thinking doesn’t exist, when we acknowledge these self-reinforcing effects of our EL. This wonderful feeling of engaging in EL, is natural, effortless and ongoing, as it comes about without any practice. It is a matter of being attuned to ourselves and expressing what this is like, in our own way, with the words that we have. With EL, we are no longer verbally against ourselves.

 

With EL, we are finally capable of testifying against our own history of conditioning with DL. We were never able to do this before, with DL. Each time we have tried, to go against our DL with our DL, we only made things worse. With EL we are not against our DL, but we can let it be what it is, as we recognize it for what it is. It is how we were taught, but not how we want to be. We prefer to have EL, but we were never able to admit this to ourselves with our DL.

 

With our EL, we feel, we are receiving a precious gift. Our demeanor changes, to accommodate this valuable experience. You can call it divine energy, but I know, it is the energy, which is now available to you, since you are in charge of your language. With DL, all your energy is, unknowingly, lost in language, because you don’t have a clear sense of who you are and, therefore, you don’t have any boundaries. With EL, we have, for the first time in our life, solid boundaries, which means: we know, that thinking doesn’t exist. As long as we are still in the grip of our habitual DL, we talk as if thinking is a real thing.   

 

Our belief in thinking dissolves like snow in the sun, once we engage in EL. Any reference to presumed inner language doesn’t stand a chance against our EL, because we realize language is about speaking, listening, writing and reading, not about thoughts, ideas, concepts, memories, theories or narratives. With DL, we have been continuously bamboozled, because we bought into the false notion of inner speech and we have believed in happenings, which, with EL, turn out to be imaginary. With DL, we say, we think, but we act like schizophrenics, who claim to hear or see things, that no one else experiences, who have many assumptions, which are absolutely not true, whose reasoning is not logical and who have difficulty communicating their experiences.

 

Surely, with DL, we have never been able to protect ourselves against the adverse effects of our belief in our minds, since we have never paid attention to our common way of talking, which – among many other problems – causes so-called mental-health problems. That idiotic word, mental health, is a contradiction in terms. Yes, we will go against the grain, by saying that thinking doesn’t exist, and it will some take time, to get used to it. I myself, for a long time, was lacking proper boundaries, as I was still convinced every psychologist, psychiatrist, therapist, teacher, student, parent – or any honest, intelligent human being – should know about EL, but nobody was interested, as our EL goes against everything we’ve been told. Yet, I insist thinking doesn’t exist.

 

It doesn’t matter, whether you are for or against, your hangup – or hangover – about your thinking is maintained by how you talk. You, unknowingly, have DL, because don’t listen to yourself while you speak. Your attention always goes to listening to others or to making others listen to you. In EL, you joyfully listen to yourself and the fog, which was created by your so-called thinking is gone. I wanted others to know about EL so badly, that I was short-changing myself, but since I have started speaking and writing about my Language Enlightenment (LE), I am no longer so concerned about others and, funny how, I am also no longer so concerned about myself. This major issue, that our thinking doesn’t exist, could only be addressed in the context of our LE.

 

Somehow, I have come full circle, and my energy is now flowing freely with my EL. Also, I really have nothing else to speak or write about than my LE and I feel fully satisfied with that. I don’t care anymore whether others are going to do, whatever it takes, to have EL and I am indifferent to the fact, that everyone keeps unconsciously engaging in DL. It is already a while ago, I gave up teaching, but since I was the person, who discovered EL, I inadvertently, took on me the role, to bring EL and LE to others, but I finally seem to have abandoned that role. I could have never believed, not too long ago, that I would turn against my own inclination, to want to spread the word, but this is how I feel about my EL right now. It is my LE, which makes me be like this.