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The power of words
Words can hurt, help or heal. There’s power
in everything you write and say. Your
message is significant; be wise with it.
In the 1990s, Dr Masaru Emoto carried out ground-breaking experiments on
the impact of emotional energy on water.
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In one study, he wrote positive
and negative words on containers full of water. He then froze samples of the
water from each container.
Among the negative words were ‘you fool’ while a positive one was ‘love’.
Dr Emoto’s thinking was that if our words are energy and water is an
absorber of energy, then surely the words would affect the water in some
way.
He was absolutely right. The water that had been exposed to positive words
formed beautiful ice crystals, with the words ‘love’ and ‘gratitude’ forming
the most stunning ones. In contrast, the water exposed to negative words
formed unappealing patterns with distorted shapes. He found the same results
by verbally communicating words to different water containers. It was clear
that our words carry a vibration.
As I mentioned in Part Two of this book, our bodies are mainly made up of
water. Now imagine how much our words might affect us.
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Set the intention
If you’re unsure about what you
want, you’ll end up with a lot
of things you’re unsure of.
Before going after your goals, you have to know what you want. You cannot
attain that which you’re unsure about. You wouldn’t go into a restaurant and
say, ‘I think I want the vegetable curry,’ when placing your order. You either
want it or you don’t.
If you’re confused about your intention, the results that follow will reflect
that. For example, if the waiter asks you how spicy you want the vegetable
curry but say you’re not sure, you could receive any level of spice. If you
then find it too spicy, it would be your own fault because you didn’t give
clear instructions.
Setting the right goal is everything. It has to reflect what you deeply desire –
not what you think you 
should
want. For many years, the things I believed I
wanted were actually only to impress other people. Sometimes I’d achieve
these things and feel surprised that they didn’t satisfy me.
Your goals should reflect who you are as a person. They should be the things
you think about all the time that you know will improve the quality of your
life. Having materialistic desires is fine; only those who have completely
transcended their ego don’t have any. Nevertheless, your goals should mean a
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lot to you. For example, someone might want a bigger house to raise a large
family in, so they can share good times together. There’s greater meaning to
this goal than wanting the bigger house just to prove how rich you are.
Once you make an intention clear, the Universe will work in miraculous
ways. When we put what we want out there, the manifestation process begins
and things start to unfold in our favour. Our dreams come to life.
J. Cole is a renowned American rapper, writer and producer, who previously
had jobs in advertising and debt collecting. In a 2011 interview, Cole claimed
that after watching the rapper 50 Cent’s movie 
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
, he
was inspired to make himself a T-shirt carrying the bold statement: ‘Produce
for Jay-Z or Die Tryin’. In the interview, Cole said he thought he could take a
different route to becoming a rapper by first becoming noticed as a producer.
He wanted to create an avenue to his main goal, and that’s why he created the
T-shirt.
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After wearing the T-shirt in the hope that someone from the music industry or
Jay-Z himself would recognize him, it wasn’t until several years later that
something amazing happened: with his goal set and his great work ethic