How the Universe looks from here: Affirmations Don't Just Affirm: Words and Beliefs

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Affirmations Don't Just Affirm: Words and Beliefs

Hello, again! Grounded? Centered? "Can you hear me now? Good!" Lenny Bruce did a bit about the emotional power we give to words, along with a suggestion that we exercise a bit more conscious control over that dynamic. If you want to see it, Dustin Hoffman recreated the act in the film, Lenny. The 'parts' of self that drift around in the unconscious mind are esssentially fragments of our conscious selves that, like pearls around grit, we have formed around our hard-earned truths: The tougher the... Sign in to see full entry.

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