Language is one of the most powerful tools we possess as human beings. While it’s clearly helpful in sharing our thoughts and connecting with others, our words are so much more than just a way to communicate. In every moment, we have the option to speak language that either heals and helps, or hurts and hinders. The words we choose have a profound impact on our overall health and well-being.

Our energy, thoughts, and words have the power to shape our reality. They can uplift and inspire, or tear down and destroy. It's a responsibility we all carry, and it’s worth bringing more attention to. So in this post, I’ll be sharing why language awareness is so important for our health and well-being, scientific evidence showing the power of our words, appreciation for both the positive and negative, and how to grow your language awareness so you can consciously empower yourself by using words as holistic medicine.

Our Words Are a Powerful Creative Energy Force

Words are truly magical. With every word we speak, we are casting spells. With every letter we write, we are “spelling” our words. The more feeling, intention, and repetition in our words, the more they manifest in our physical reality. The force of our words can either feed the light, elevating, encouraging energy, or the dark, depressing, disempowering energy in our world.

Think about it. When you're feeling down, a kind word from a loved one can instantly lift your spirits. On the other hand, a harsh comment can leave you feeling deflated and defeated. But the words that others say to us do not have the most impact on our lives. The words we use to talk about ourselves hold even more power.

Whether we think, write, speak, sing, or scream our words, we are creating vibrational energy that physically manifests into all we experience in our lives.

Scientists Show How Language Is Able to Hurt and to Heal

Words have a powerful effect on our health and well-being. This is not just my opinion; a growing number of studies have found scientific evidence to support this.

Studies have shown how our thoughts and words affect our body's physiological response, releasing chemicals in the brain that can either promote healing or contribute to stress and illness. For example, using positive, uplifting words and phrases can trigger the release of feel-good chemicals like dopamine and serotonin, while negative, self-deprecating language can lead to the release of stress hormones like cortisol.

Researchers of Alzheimer’s disease have found that negative self-talk is connected to the brain’s growth of harmful protein deposits that can lead to cognitive decline and dementia.

Scientific studies in peer reviewed journals have found that positive self-talk boosts our immune system, relieves anxiety, reduces the desire for harmful behaviors, creates positive emotions, and promotes a higher quality of life.

When we find our own personal ways to be kind, respectful, forgiving, grateful, and loving to ourselves, we can improve our physical health and feel more well-being in our lives.

Expressing Negative Emotions Can Improve Your Health

As someone who has experienced anxiety and depression, I’m aware that the “Just think positive!” advice isn’t really helpful.

It’s natural to feel negative emotions and it’s important to express them so they don’t get stuck inside or suppressed. I often remind myself that I can think, write, or share my negative thoughts in order to better understand them, and there is no need to feel guilty for “putting out bad vibes.”

Feeling shame for thinking negatively or fear that this will attract more negativity can cause us to spiral into lower and heavier energy, so feel free to express your emotions. It’s all okay.

You can forgive yourself and others for however you feel, focus on your breath, and notice where you feel your emotional pain. Then you can let it grow if you’re able to and notice how it changes. By observing your feelings and letting go of your thoughts or stories behind them, you may be able to release whatever was weighing you down.

This process can be very healing, especially if you’re able to get a good cry out to release your emotions. Both positive and negative energies are important for our growth and experience, so both sides are equally deserving of attention, understanding, and love. Transmuting darkness into light wouldn’t be possible without the darkness. So let’s find gratitude for any lessons the everchanging rollercoaster of our emotional journey has to offer.

Grow Awareness of Your Language to Transform Your Life

Becoming conscious of the words you speak is a great first step to attaining peace.

For example, you may stub your toe and passionately react with “I am sick and tired of always hurting myself!”

Consider these exclamations with strong energy behind them as potent spells from the magical being you are.

The two most powerful words in the English language are “I Am.”

Whatever comes after the words “I Am” shapes your life, your reality, and your experience. You can program your subconscious to be who you say you are, attracting circumstances, situations, and outcomes that match your self-belief.

Being aware of this makes me wonder who promoted the phrase “I am sick and tired of this” to mean “I am experiencing this more than I’d like to, so I choose to find a way through it.”

Besides casting illness and exhaustion into your life, this example programs your “I Am” to hurt you more often. Also, beware of saying “I always” or “I never,” as these can create limiting beliefs that are often untrue. Lies hurt, and truth heals, so be honest with yourself and others to bring more health and wellness into your life.

Expressions like this are common because we’ve learned not to take these sayings literally. But subconsciously, our language is taken very literally.

It can also be helpful to look into the etymology of words to gain a better understanding of where our words come from and what they were created to represent, revealing their true meaning. The vibrations that form our words are packed with centuries of intention, so it can be eye-opening to discover how our words developed over time.

Playing with conscious language can involve a good amount of practice, patience, and forgiveness. If you hear yourself say something other than what you would choose and you become aware of that, you’ve made an empowering first step towards transforming your life for the better.

Positive Affirmations Have the Power to Overcome Negative Beliefs

I find peace of mind when I become conscious of my ability to shift my path with my words. I am moving in the direction of my most recent affirmation I said or thought with feeling and heart.

So it’s okay if someone asks me to go out to eat with them and I say with shame, guilt, and frustration, “I can’t, I don’t have any money left to spend.” If I become aware that I said this, I can then choose to form a more empowering view of my financial health. I can say, with equal or greater feeling in my words, “I am conscious of where I invest my money. I am investing in the growth of my freedom. I am valuable. I am finding new opportunities to share my value. I am open to receiving money. I am worthy of wealth. I am grateful for who I am.”

The more positive affirmations I repeat in the present with emotion and spirit, the more powerful they become. By reinforcing my new positive mindset, I inspire motivation and action to start moving in this direction.

To keep affirmations positive, avoid negative wording such as “I am no longer poor. I avoid unhealthy habits. I am not weak. I am unrestrained.” While it may seem like two negatives make a positive, you can feel how the energy, frequency, and vibration of these statements is very different from how it feels to affirm “I am wealthy. I am healthy. I am strong. I am free.”

Repeating Your Choice of Affirmations Moves You Into a Life You Choose

Studies have shown that people who use positive affirmations regularly have better mental health and well-being, increased self-esteem, and better coping mechanisms to overcome challenges.

Remember, it's not just about repeating positive words, it's about feeling them with intention, confidence, and belief. This way, you're not just saying or writing the words, you're embodying the energy and the feeling of what it’s like for them to be true.

Being honest with yourself while also challenging and transforming your limiting beliefs is a balancing act that takes practice and patience. With daily repetition, you will likely feel inspired to make big changes in your life because you no longer resonate with who you used to be. This transformation may involve discomfort, but these “growing pains” are transporting you into the life of your choice. Any challenges that come up are helping you to grow your strength so you can truly change into who you choose to be.

Journaling Can Help Us Gain Empowering Self-Awareness

If proudly declaring positive affirmations into a mirror isn’t for you, another great option is to start a journal. Writing can help us perceive our emotions, gain awareness of our language, and recognize our patterns.

Journaling helps us to get our thoughts out of our minds and onto a page, where we can perceive them more clearly. Seeing our thoughts, feelings, and experiences written on paper can be a highly effective tool for self-reflection and emotional growth.

Free writing or stream of consciousness writing can be very healing and therapeutic. By allowing whatever arises in our minds to flow onto a page, we can gain insight into our innermost thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. We can get to know ourselves better through our language. Finding the words to voice our feelings and express ourselves openly and freely can help us process challenging emotions and experiences.

When we grow more aware of ourselves, we get the power to consciously choose who we are, what we do, and how we impact our world.

Share Forgiveness and Gratitude in Your Language

We can also use language as holistic medicine to promote healing by offering forgiveness for all that is difficult and gratitude for all that is pleasurable.

Practicing forgiveness helps us to let go of and release resentments or pains we may be carrying, allowing us to move forward with a lighter sense of peace, ease, and health. Sharing gratitude helps shift our focus from what we lack to what we have, promoting feelings of happiness and joy. To combine these, we can forgive any challenges in our lives by appreciating the lessons, growth, and strength gained from each experience.

Since our bodies, minds, emotions, and spirits are all connected, using the power of language to forgive and be grateful can provide miraculous benefits to our overall health and well-being.

Our Words Are a Potent Holistic Medicine

By treating words as holistic medicine, we can tap into the power of language to improve our physical wellness, mental health, emotional wellbeing, and spiritual growth.

Being aware of how language shapes our subconscious programming, which guides our actions and inspires our experiences, may lead us to shift the words we listen to in our daily lives. The shows or movies we watch, the books or posts we read, the people we hear, the music we listen to, and the friends we share our time with all have an influence on how we think, feel, and speak.

Alternative wellness practices such as meditation, yoga, or journaling can help us become more aware of our thoughts and the language we use to describe them. This can help us to recognize and challenge limiting beliefs, transmuting them into strong empowering beliefs.

Self-compassion, which involves treating ourselves with the same kindness, care, and understanding that we would offer to a friend, can help us to use more supportive and encouraging language when talking to ourselves.

We can use language to cultivate self-love and acceptance, allowing us to be more open to opportunities and new experiences. Our thoughts and self-talk have the ability to shape our beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions, which in turn shape our reality. This is why it's so important to grow a conscious awareness of the language we use.

We can use this power of words to manifest our goals and dreams, promote healing and well-being, and create meaningful relationships with others. You have the magical ability to uplift and inspire people’s spirits by how you speak with them. Our words have the power to transform us and the world around us for the better.

Words are not just a tool for communication, they are a form of creative energy, shifting our world with every vibration. They shape our reality and change our lives. Let's use them to create and manifest a life we choose. Our words can be a healing holistic medicine for our mind, body, and soul, so let's choose them with care.