I'm meditating today on the First Agreement in Don Miguel Ruiz's The Four Agreements, A Toltec Wisdom Book.
Be impeccable with your word.
Our words are powerful, whether spoken or internally thought. We create, we manifest everything through our word. What are you telling yourself right now? How do you treat YOU? Are you loving and kind? Do you forgive yourself and offer grace when you fall short?
When you are impeccable with your word, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not blame or judge yourself. Being impeccable with your word is directing your energy toward truth and love for yourself. Loving yourself is the first step to loving others. Speak kindly to yourself and you will find that your communication with others will be kinder.
The power in a word is irrefutable. Think about the people you like to be around. Do they uplift you with their words or are they offering damaging statements? I have had a "bad day" completely dissolve just because of one kind word, whether spoken from a loved one or a perfect stranger. We are that powerful. Our words are THAT POWERFUL!
Be aware that your mind is a fertile ground. When you become impeccable with your word, your mind is no longer a fertile ground for negativity. You are no longer susceptible to the damaging words others may speak knowingly or unknowingly. You already know the truth. Make your mind a fertile space for the words that come from love and dismiss the rest.
"With the impeccability of the word you can transcend the dream of fear and live a different life. You can live in heaven in the middle of thousands of people living in hell because you are immune to that hell" ~ Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements.
Why does good advice like this, always have to be shrouded in mysticism to seem relevant or transcendent? I haven’t heard the term Toltec since AP World History in high school, and it did bring a smile. The Toltecs, possibly mythical, were a pre-Aztec civilization, which the Aztecs deified, but no historical or archeological data can confirm this positively. Maybe it should be a Ruiz wisdom book in its stead?
ReplyDeleteeither way, good to see a post!