2024 - Week 48 - Your Mouth and Mindfulness!

Why Struggle? Podcast w Barbara J. Faison

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This is an episode about how to use your mouth and words as a mindful practice.

The words we think and speak are powerful! As we continue on our journey of my Five Mindful Ways to Struggle Less and Enjoy Life More, Mouth is the second M. Last week I shared how music changes your brain chemistry, and next week I’ll talk about Meditation/Mindfulness. I hope you gave some thought to how to access music to shift your mind and energy and maybe even added or came up with a playlist as suggested.

Every day and in every way I use my voice to heal, educate and inspire. Every day I grow stronger and more confident in using my voice. I am a magnet for the right people who appreciate, honor and compensate me well for sharing my voice on their projects. I am grateful to my source, God, for sharing the right thoughts, feelings, ideas and resources for my ultimate success.

This is one of my daily declarations.Are you ready to hear more about how using your mouth can help you struggle less?

Enjoy this excerpt about second mindful practice, Your Mouth. I hope you enjoy it!

One of my first published articles was for a local magazine called Africa’s children, back in the late 1990’s. I wrote about the power of words. When I was a young child growing up my mother was gorgeous. I looked like my father. Oftentimes children would say to me, that’s not your mother. I would have to defend myself and say yes she is my mother!

You may have heard the expression sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never words will never hurt me. I disagree. When we recognize the power of the words that we think and speak we can make major changes in our lives.

Using our mouth to speak words of life over ourselves is a powerful Practice. Learning to use your mouth and creating a habit around positive affirmations can be life-changing.

Affirmations are defined in many ways. It can be a positive assertion. To assert to be true, to declare to be positive, to declare the existence of something. Whichever way you choose to define an affirmation remember affirmations are:

• Personal - related to you

• Portable - write them or say them wherever you are

• Positive - indicating something desirable

• Present tense- keep them in the present tense such as I am, or I am willing, versus I should or I could.

You may have heard that the two words I am are the most powerful words in the universe. Because I am is a powerful creation tool. Whatever we put behind the words I am solidifies what you are embodying in your life. So if you don’t feel completely confident in saying I am strong, I am fill in the blank, add the word willing. So for example, you might say I am willing to be powerful. Versus I am powerful.

It took a lot of years of reprogramming my thoughts and how I felt about myself because of those words that young children spoke to me. And that may be why I have a love affair with affirmations and positive affirming words.

I created something I call GTP, GoTo Phrases. It’s one of my ways to keep my mind engaged with positive thinking. So I have these go to phrases that I keep on my mental playlist. Here are a few.

• Things are always working out for me.

• All is well in my world.

• I am in the right place at the right time with the right people doing the right thing.

• My timing is always divine.

• I am open to miracles and watch things come from out of nowhere to now here.

• One of my favorites from Louise Hay is everyone loves me and always wants to help me.

And this one I got from a good girlfriend, Regenna, when I’m not quite sure how things are gonna work out. “I can’t wait to see how this is gonna work out.’

So we know that when we speak affirming words it impacts how we feel in our bodies. Science has caught up to what we probably already knew.

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