Food for Thought

What’s in a Word

Everything in the world we live in is energy in one form or another – this is scientific fact. From the clothes we wear, to the homes we live in even the words we speak. How is it that a word is energy, and how does it take form?

Simply put, a word is the collective of letters and when audibly pronounced, creates a sound vibration that resonates out into the ether. Through our sense of hearing combined with our intellectual faculty of reasoning, our mind creates an image on our ‘inner screen’, and a form is created.

For example, let’s take the word “egg”. Our belief system tells us that an egg in its rudimentary form is the seed of life. However, the word “egg” is nothing more than 3 letters put together. If you are of Asian ancestry, for example, the word means nothing to you. When we audibly pronounce the three letters, our mind brings up an image that has been stored in our internal database. The image is oval in shape, possibly white or brown in color, weighing but a few ounces, and quite edible when processed prior to maturation of the contents. Do you see the image in your mind now?

What if you were to question the meaning or implanted image of the egg? What if you were to ask, “Who originally decided to allocate the word “egg” to this collective form of energy?” How far back would you have to go?

Now take your attention and focus off the egg – what happens? Where did it go? When we start to question other things or habits in our life with the same intention, what we thought ‘just is’ starts to dissolve. It is at this point that we may implant our own definition or understanding or habit to what we choose it to be. Through the use of focus and attention, combined with our higher faculties of Perception and Will, we have the power to create and recreate what we personally choose to believe, experience or have. We have the power to bend and shape our own reality once we start to question what we were taught as being “Is”.

© Kevin Hanna 2012