The intuitive nature of language

Language is something that we don't often think twice about, it's a second nature to us but if you break down language to its origins, how it's formed, what it carries, you may find that It changes how you feel about the words that you speak and the power that they really hold.

Language is what ties together the subtle feelings in our mind to form. It's what comes after the intuitive fog and transforms it into something transferable, recognizable tying us together. It is what binds us together from mind to mind.

In the beginning it would have had to have been an intuitive shared connection needed in order to form words with shared meaning, nothing more than a shared and agreed feeling to affirm language.

Through this blog I am going to prompt an exercise to demonstrate this. I now want you to slow down and get ready to take in these two next lines of text, how they make you feel, and repeat each line in your head enough to affirm this feeling that perhaps you might not be able to label but will be present nevertheless. This exercise is very subtle so try to take some time to be present. 

Take 5 deep breaths now and read on.

subtle, pastel, petal, mellow, palm, familiar, wind, mist, practice, lilac, glimpse

Sharp, loud, root, bold, update, wheel, grant, change, impulse, crossing, red

There in each line tied together is a portal to a unique feeling, your subconscious associations and emotional attachments have come into a soup, a mental chemistry that brings you to a unique state of mind that you can return just by re reading whichever verse, every time you affirm it it becomes stronger and begins to carry a unified indescribable quality. 

I intentionally used random words so that you could not only pinpoint that foggy feeling that you can't quite label that comes before language but to also demonstrate how words have the ability to take you into very unique mind states. I included 2 verses so that you can compare how each one makes you feel differently.

In many ancient cultures they put a sacred or very special value on song and the spoken word. For this reason they chose their words very carefully. There was a time where people could say “My word is as good as gold” meaning that it would be as good as a signed contract. The power to create the language comes from absolute coherence, alignment and integrity between what we think, say or do. 

There were certain words and phrases that were held very secret for the power that they possessed that were used in exclusive rituals. In ancient Egypt for example they had divine words which is another term for Egyptian Magic commands. These are also called hieroglyphic spells or Words of Power. They are called 'divine' because they enable the magicians using the commands to wield godly strength and powers.

In theory ritual is all about manipulating vibrational energies which are directly linked to different specific states of mind/emotions so it absolutely makes sense that language has been such an important element in the history of ritual when you think about sound in terms of frequency making spoken language frequency codes. 

Building off this notation, the word “abracadabra” which you have likely heard before as the typical “magic word” comes from the Hebrew phase “ebrah k’dabri’ translating  to “I create as I speak”. 

Mantra is also  a well known eastern practice traditionally spoken in Sanskrit in a meditative state. The practice is to affirm certain words or phrases numerous times until the words become more of a flowing wave. Some people do so to manifest change in their external lives or to change their state of mind to something that they would rather feel. “OM” is the most well known mantra considered to be a universal sound believed to be the sound that initiated the creation of the universe.