You are blessing your words!
Take the words you utter in your inner space very seriously, very sincerely. Whatever the words you utter, the most powerful being in your life is responding the saying, 'Tathaastu, tathaaastu! So be it!' Who is that being? YOU!
You are sitting inside you as the antaryaami, the inner Divine, and continually blessing whatever you are saying inside, and making it the reality of your life. If you keep saying, 'I am sick. I am tired. I am not good enough. I am broke. I really can't do the work, and even if I work they will exploit me', then your Being is saying, 'Tathaastu, tathaaastu, tathaaastu! So be it! So be it! So be it!' Then, when you feel tired, sick, broke and exploited, you wonder, 'How did this happen to me?'
Listen! You are the source and you are the solution. So bring integrity to every thought, word and action in your life.
Sit and write down all the words that you say to yourself about yourself. Do it without editing and changing anything.
Read what you have written.
Now rewrite any negative words that you say to yourself in positive words.
For example, if you think, 'I am not good enough', change it to 'I am good enough.'
Keep repeating these words to yourself for at least one week.
You will see that what you think about yourself will change - and life will bless you with that.
Awareness: Your key to peace
When you take the responsibility for the words you utter to you and to others, what do you think will happen? A sharp reduction in the words in your inner space will happen. The amount of inner chatter that goes on continuously inside you will lessen considerably.
The father of yoga, the sage Patanjali says, Yogasysa pratamam dwaaram vaang-nirodhah. The first step towards yoga is the reduction in the words you create inside you. When you bring integrity, the words inside and outside will drop drastically. When you bring awareness to what you are saying and committing to, automatically your authenticity will increase, and your capacity to fulfill your word will also increase. A beautiful, enriching virtuous circle begins when you practice integrity.
When you take the responsibility for the words you utter to yourself and to others, your inner chatter will drop on its own.
Integrity kills inner chatter
Words that are clearly expressed with awareness create fulfilment. The word that is perverted and hurting yourself is guilt. The word that is hurting others is violence. The word that goes on expanding you is desire. The commitments that constantly keeps you in a state of completion and expansion is integrity.
If you just decide, 'From this moment I will honor the words I utter to others and me as my life!', the inner thoughts and inner chattering will drastically reduce. A huge breakthrough in your thinking process will happen, because the moment you become aware of the thought or word you give to you and others, you will know whether your thought is from ego, jealousy or arrogance, and immediately you will complete it, correct it. You will create so much good health in you with this breakthrough in your thinking. Each new cell created in the space of integrity will transform your body so that it expresses vibrant health.
Every morning, the moment you wake up, decide consciously and repeat to yourself: 'From this moment, I will honor the words I utter to myself and others as my life!' This will act as a powerful mantra and a reminder throughout the day.
Integrity increases with awareness
With integrity, not only will you honor the words and commitments you give to you and others, but you will constantly live in a space where less words are created.
You must learn to make commitments consciously, so that you have enough time and energy and space to fulfil those commitments. The great enlightened saint, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa says again and again, 'mann mukh ek karo' - unite the heart and speech.
Integrity is not just about living as per your word - it is also about creating a space where you carry less words, so that the words you commit to yourself and the words you commit to others can be fulfilled by you.
Listening - shravana – has to be done with awareness. Internalizing - manana - has to be done continuously with awareness. When you use words with consciousness, you will naturally use fewer words, because you will be aware that those words are shaping your life.
For just 24 hours, work on carrying less words within you. Whenever you become aware, consciously stop the endless flow of words inside. Dissolve your self-doubt
Living true to your word means living without your mind. You may not have destroyed the mind, but you will use the mind when you need it. You will be moving through your life in an unclutched way. Being unclutched means you will not be tossed around by a constant flow of random thoughts. You will be in an inner space of restful awareness that expresses as integrity and high achievement.
If you are truly integrated, you will not give a single false promise to yourself or others. With integrity, you will literally wipe clean your inner space of all the unwanted beliefs that you constantly carry. The strong belief you carry that you are a failure will continuously lead you to failure. When you start living in integrity you will diagnose those self-fulfilling negative prophecies that you constantly feed to yourself, and remove them from your inner space. By continuously consciously cognizing this, your incompletions get healed.
Write down all the self-fulfilling negative prophecies that you constantly feed yourself with . One by one, cancel them out and make a conscious declaration not to allow them into your inner space again.