Power of the Spoken Word, pt. 1

The spoken word has three qualities, mystical, physical, and spiritual. We will concentrate of the physical today.

The spoken word has the power to kill, to heal and to sustain.

Words spoken in anger are words designed to hurt the recipient of those words. Oftentimes, when spoken with little or no thought or with no self control will wound and sometimes even kill a relationship. The recipient of those words will more than likely shut down and shut out the person who spoke those words. They do it to protect themselves from further harm. There is nothing they can do to bring themselves to talk on an intimate level to the person who spoke those words. They do not want to put themselves in the path of harm again, even if it means restoring the relationship. Even if they may have had something to do with what caused the person to become angry. They do not want to experience the punishment again. The cruel words spoken in anger are a form of punishment and no one should be punished twice for a wrong done in the past. No one should expect a person to want to be punished twice for an infraction. No wife, husband, mother, father, son or daughter should be talked to with cruel words by a loved one for any reasons.

If you have spoken cruel words to a loved one it is you who needs to bridge the gap. You have to heal the other person. They cannot heal themselves. They cannot trust that the person who spoke those cruel words will not hurt them again with more cruel words.

Many times the person who spoke the cruel words, does not realize they have a problem with their anger, or they may have had this problem in the past and thought they had dealt with the problem, but they had not, because that is a problem that is always there and it is never justified to speak cruel words unless they seriously want to end that relationship.