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began to dig a little deeper. His research uncovered even

more negativity. Interestingly, there are five to seven basic

emotions that show up in every language and appear to have

similar meanings. Among thirty-seven languages, the words

for joy, fear, anger, sadness, disgust, shame, and guilt each

carry very similar definitions.

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If you haven’t noticed already, the list of universally shared words above are all negative except one. Shocking, isn’t it?

Why are we so negative? Further evidence reveals it may be a

coping mechanism. Our survival depends on being able to ex-

press ourselves correctly and precisely in the case that some-

thing is causing us pain, suffering, or is jeopardizing our

survival or quality of life. A wider variety of negative words to choose from appears to have developed from necessity and has

a more primal basis.

An article titled “Negative Words Dominate Language”

by Lee Dye, a columnist on ABCNews.com, highlights a

quote from Schrauf indicating that more mental processing

is required of us when thinking and speaking negative words:

Negative words, like fear or anger, signal a threat or a

danger. There’s a tendency to slow down our process-

ing or think more carefully. While positive emotions

tend to tell us that things are benign or safe or every-

thing is OK. So processing of those emotions is more

script-like. Things are going OK, things are proceed-

ing according to the outline of my life, so you don’t

do a lot of word processing.8

Again, it boils down to our instincts. The word “fear” indi-

cates a threat to our survival, so we therefore pay more attention to this word and the mental processing behind it.

Positive words require less mental attention because there’s

no threatening trigger associated with them. Positive and

neutral words are processed in an “autopilot” mode.

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Could it be that we tend to dwell more often on the negative than positive merely because we’re instinctually spend-

ing more time processing and focusing on negative words? If

we spend more time thinking about negative words, based

on the law of attraction, negativity would tip the scales to

bring the focus of our attention on the negative things and

therefore we manifest more of the same. Sounds like a cycle

that could be hard to break.

Deciding to Change

Instinctual response is innate and determined by the “hard-

wiring” of the nervous system. It is usually inflexible, a given stimulus triggering a given response.9 Reflexes are an example of an instinctual behavior. Alternatively, a learned behavior or a habit is formed through repeated experiences. During

our early days as humans, we were almost purely operating

on instinct. Now that we have evolved to become more con-

scious creatures, we understand that we have a choice in ev-

erything we say or do. Instinct is not nearly as much a daily

factor in our lives anymore, since we don’t have the daily

threats to our survival that our ancestors did, yet the auto-

matic response still remains a part of our hardwiring.

So the question remains: How do we undo millions of

years’ worth of habitual behavior? The answer is simple: con-

scious choice. As human beings, we’re poised to take the

reins of our creative power and begin to consciously choose

the life we dwell in. We have always had the ability to create any reality we choose, but it has not been until now that we

have recognized this ability. Unfortunately, even though we

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now have the ability to recognize our power of choice, it’s

easier to fall back on instinct and old patterns of existence.

Conscious choice is a relatively new option available to us at this point in our evolutionary journey, so it only stands to

reason that it’s going to take some practice to get it into a habitual behavior.

As you delve deeper into this book, you’ll realize there’s

no easy fix for manifesting the life you desire. Old habits tend to have a firm grasp and it takes time, patience, and effort to change them. Thankfully, you’ve got the lesson plan literally

in the palm of your hand. You may be hardwired to put more

focus and attention on the negative, but you’re about to be

given the tools you need to rearrange the wiring and give

your life a positive charge.

Language is truly a gift but its exact origins are still un-

known. Could it be that the electrical pathways we devel-

oped in order to be able to process words may have led us to

the ability to consciously choose? Was language the precur-

sor to conscious choice? Regardless of how or why language

came to be, there is no denying that the words we use are the

missing link to manifesting our reality moment by moment.

Through the power of words, you can take your life from

chaos to clarity by becoming the conscious creator you were

destined to be. The choice is yours.

Angelic Word Power

C. J. is another example of an individual who had a profound

angelic experience, a perfect example of the human ability to

make conscious choices:

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After my husband (now of fifteen years) and I moved

in together in the early years, something unexpected

happened. I began experiencing with vivid detail all

the previous negative moments in my life. It was like

reliving all my traumatic experiences one by one.

Each memory was endowed with an intensity that I

cannot describe fully. I became despondent and liter-

ally stuck in the past.

When my mind fell apart, I not only became de-

pressed, but very angry. I couldn’t understand why I

was falling apart when things were actually going in a

positive direction. It seemed like the ultimate irony.

Here I had someone who loved me for me, yet I was

miserable and couldn’t seem to enjoy it. This went on

for over three months before an incredible thing hap-

pened.

One evening, I was going through my usual night-

time routine getting ready for bed. Emotionally, I felt

bruised and blue from head to toe. I thought that my

situation would be a never-ending one. I was alone in

the room but starting speaking out loud to no one in

particular.

“I’m so tired of hurting. I just can’t do this any-

more. Why is this happening to me?”

The room was silent. No answer came.

“I feel so alone. I feel like nothing matters. Why

do I feel this way?”

The room was still silent. No answer came.

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“Someone take this pain from me. I’m tired of

hurting.”

Then I heard a soft clear voice. A singular idea

came across from the air around me.

“
You’re not hurting
.”

“What do you mean, not hurting!” I said angrily

to the voice.

“
You’re not hurting
.”

I sat in silence for several moments. Then I heard

the voice again, so clearly. It was like another person

was sitting next to me. At the time, hearing the voice

come from seemingly no one didn’t really alarm me.

“
You’re not hurting. You are healing
.”

I considered what I had heard very carefully.

“Healing” was a word that had never entered my con-

sciousness in regard to this situation. I tried healing on

for size. I thought about what it meant to be healing

instead of hurting. What if the voice were right?

I spoke again: “If I’m healing then I can’t do it

alone.” At that very moment, I raised my hands to-

ward the ceiling inviting anyone who might help me.

What happened next was the most tangible spiritual

experience I’ve ever known. Anything that had hap-

pened in my childhood paled by comparison. What

was conveyed to me in milliseconds was unlike any-

thing I had ever felt before. I was tingly from head to

toe. It was the consummate spiritual experience in

one enormous flash of light. I felt the room fill up all

around me with an intense love—pure and uncondi-

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tional. And then I saw where the voice had come

from. Standing around me in my bedroom was a

whole group of breathtaking angels. I was speechless.

At that moment, everything became instantly

clear. I could easily see the distinction between using

the word “healing” instead of “hurting.” I fully knew

what it had felt like to be in a state of hurting, so I

tried to imagine what healing would be like. While

looking at everything as an experience of healing, my

perception shifted effortlessly from one of utter pain

to one of hopeful reflection.

A calm filled my entire body. I relaxed for the first

time in months. Healing was doable because I could

see healing as a process and that I was taking part in it

instead of endless suffering I could see would have no

end.

I call that day my awakening. Using the word

“healing” to describe my situation entered my con-

sciousness that day and set me free. I realized that my

perception of the situation had kept me stuck in a

hopeless place. My perception had been the key to ev-

erything.

In C. J.’s case, making the shift from living through the lens of the word “hurting” to the word “healing” was paramount.

Instead of manifesting more hurt-filled experiences and

going around in a circle of unhappiness and suffering, she

chose to step into the frequency of healing, thus transform-

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ing what she was manifesting in her life into what she truly

desired for herself and her family.

In Chapter 3, we’ll go through the steps to convert a

word to numerical form using numerology. We’ll dig deeper

into what a word means from an energetic standpoint. To

whet your appetite, let’s briefly examine what these two

words mean for C. J.’s manifesting power. The word “hurt-

ing” is a 7 frequency; in the negative, the number 7 has the

traits of distrust, skepticism, and isolation. The word “healing” has a 2 energetic frequency; 2 is the number of intuition, sensitivity, balance, harmony, and cooperation. Based on the

number meanings of these two words, it’s clear how and

why the switch had such a profound impact on how C. J.

viewed her situation.

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The Progression and Forms

of Communication

When we think about language and its expression, we auto-

matically think of speaking and writing. However, we actually

express language in three forms: thought, speech, and the written word. We often forget that before we speak or write lan-

guage, we also think about it. By far, the most forgotten form of language is in fact the most powerful—the language in our

thoughts. The words running through our head on a daily

basis are constantly shaping our reality in a multitude of ways.

The Basics of How We Think in Words

As children, usually in the first two years of life, we begin to express our thoughts and emotions through language. Until

that point, there is a tremendous amount of behind-the-scenes

learning going on in the form of thought. At the tender age of
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two, a child’s language skills on the thought level are much

more advanced than they could ever express verbally. They un-

derstand hundreds if not thousands of words, yet they can

only verbally utter a fraction of them. The mind is a powerful tool and can process and assimilate words far faster than we

can express them verbally. What does this say about the power

of words in thought form? A thought is worth a thousand spo-

ken words!

Think about the last time you did any kind of public

speaking, such as giving a toast at a wedding reception, doing a presentation at school, or even going to a job interview.

Most of us are familiar with the enormous amount of

thought that goes behind any of those nerve-wracking expe-

riences. If you’re like the majority of the population, you

tend to run through the entire verbal scenario in your mind

many times before the big day arrives.

According to the law of attraction, what we think about,

we bring about. Focusing all your thought processes on the

possible “what if ” scenarios before a big job interview usu-

ally makes the “what if ” scenarios manifest in some form or

another, no matter how long you spent perfecting your an-

swers. You can’t blame it on bad luck—it’s the power of

thought at work.

There’s always a running commentary in our minds, and

words outweigh our thought processes over imagery. We may

envision ourselves acing the job interview, but the voiceover

behind that mental scene could be painting a different picture altogether. According to a widely quoted National Science