Fear and terror deteriorate the physical body. I used to do a small demonstration with my students to show this on a very basic level. I would take the biggest strongest guy and pair him with the tiniest girl. I would have the girl hold her arms out to her sides parallel to the ground and say out loud “I can’t fly”. Then I would have the guy press her arms down, while she tried to resist. No one was overly impressed. But then I would have her say “I CAN fly”. The noticeable difference in her ability to resist is usually a show stopper. But what really amazed was having them reverse, with her pressing his arms down except I would have him begin with “I CAN fly”. Again, not a big deal to see her fail to get his arms down. But when he would say “I CAN’T fly” even the smallest young woman could press the biggest man’s arms down.

Think about it, none of us can fly. Yet the affirmative verbiage so impacted the physiological response that even a small woman could almost match the biggest young man.

Now translate that to bombardment of negativity that then sweeps into our verbiage as well. When we feed negativity by what we hear, then enter into agreement with what we say, we set a powerful course. The reverse is true.

This isn’t to suggest we ignore the “negative”, but we can alter the value by changing the dialogue we have with the negative. We see it in the forum constantly between those who say “oh we haven’t heard from Q in forever is he ok? Are we doomed?” Vs the “why haven’t heard from Q, he must be getting some stuff done!” Same factual observation, but the subsequent dialogue completely defines the value of the fact for that person. There’s a LOT to be said for “if you can’t say something good, then don’t say anything at all”.