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Our Words, Thoughts, And Mind Have Power: Where Are We Putting Our Attention?

January 11, 2026
1:31 pm

The Power of Words and Thoughts in Shaping Reality

Our words, thoughts, and mind have power. These past few weeks this power has been up for me.

Shakespeare, the Buddha and many others have spoken about the power of thoughts, words, mind. An earlier post of mine contains this quote: “Each word we speak has a life of its own, a vibratory signature that creates waves into the expanse of the universe…”

The Ripple Effect of Our Words and Thoughts on the World

What a powerful image to visualize our words and thoughts sending energetic waves out into the world, our world, the whole world, the universe!

The/our world continues to be deeply, troublingly challenging as well as richly, amazingly miraculous. What is the role we want to play in the unfolding? Whatever our personal answer, our words and our thoughts feature significantly. The Daily Om recently offered an essay on this topic: Elevate Your Language, about how we can contribute to positive change through our choice of words.

Learning to Pause: Practicing Mindful Speech and Thought

It’s a big one for me, because I certainly have put my foot in my mouth, or stepped on someone’s toes, and/or in proverbial doo doo, when I have Blurted. Elevating, reflecting on, being attentive to, careful with, my thoughts and words… taking a breath before anything comes out, are all valuable and ongoing practices for me.

How does this all resonate with you? I’d love to hear.

Further Reading: Exploring the Power of Mind and Mindset

In case you’re really into all this, here are a few more links about how our mind and mindset make a huge difference in our life and experience. It is deep and powerful, radical and transformational stuff.

• Joe Dispenza talks and writes much about this topic. Here is a link to short intro talk about how our thoughts affect our lives.

• David Suzuki devotes one of his episodes of The Nature of Things to Brain Magic, The Power of Placebo about the incredible power of our minds to affect our lives, health, healing.

• Here’s even a Forbes article: This is how your thoughts become your reality. Same ideas, same power.

• Finally, a post of mine, with many cool links: Mindset Matters Mightily: Let’s Pay Attention!

• Actions and Reactions: What’s Really Going On? When we are on the receiving end of what seem like mean-spirited actions, it’s really hard to know what’s really going on, and it is very easy to jump to conclusions, and they are usually not very open-hearted ones! Thich Nhat Hanh offers another way of experiencing such moments. It has made a huge difference in my life recently.

Jill Schroder is the author of BECOMING: Journeying Toward Authenticity. BECOMING is an invitation for self-reflection, and to mine our memorable moments for insights, meaning, and growth. Check the website for a sample chapter, or see the reviews to get a flavor for the volume. Your feedback, forwards, shares, likes are most welcome.

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