The Danger of Caution and the Power of Words

I assume that anyone reading this post understands that speech wields great power.

There’s a great practice in carefully pre-phrasing and re-phrasing what we say, because we understand that our words portray, project, and reinforce our intention. We can actually get quite knotted up in this process: the constipation of artificial positivity.

It’s okay. We do have to talk the talk, before we can walk the walk.

Most of us can understand how words have connotations. I just shared a conversation with someone, in which we took turns searching for “the positive way” to say something. And that’s a nice first step. It’s a baby step, and it can turn into steps leading us in circles…

If we use positive terms, and still hold fear, are we being hypocrites?

If we spend a tremendous amount of energy stopping the flow of…