MWG Writes on Q
June 2015
Health and Wellness
Choose the words you want to be. Now pay attention to the tone of your words. How much effort
do you give to your words? Sub-consciously, your words will give you so many clues you don’t hear
otherwise. One woman as I talked to her kept telling me she wasn’t going to be like her mother all
weak and she repeated it several times in different ways. Then she kept saying why she doesn’t feel
right in what she was doing. I asked her why she put so much effort into not being like her mother
and less in being herself. She denied ever feeling like that but her words were quite clear and
eventually she did start changing and now she is doing things she enjoys more for herself.
Journal your thoughts and feelings for a week but don’t read them. Write down what is happening to
you in the present day. Two weeks later look at your written words. Look at the words you use and
which are repeated. How is the phrasing of your sentences? What is the tone of your thoughts? What
kind of statement does it make? Now say those words aloud and feel what they say about you. Be
aware of those feelings and ask yourself how or if you would change that.
Now write those same thoughts but with more positive or hopeful words. Figure out what and where
you want to be in the future. In the next week, be aware of how often you repeat your old words and
try to replace them with more thoughtful and positive words. Be aware and make the choices to bring
yourself a different life.
What I have always taught in my classes is that what we see in others we also see in ourselves or we
wouldn’t recognize it in others. What bothers or inspires you the most in others is what is in you?
Look at the people in your life? What do you see in them? What draws you to some people and not
others? What are the qualities you aspire or decline to have? Write them down using very
descriptive words and pay attention to them – all of them.
Now look deeper into your thoughts and what they are saying. Write the continuous and repetitive
thoughts down. What thoughts do you have difficulty acknowledging and revealing even to
yourself? They are the undercurrents of your words.
Your own biography is one of the hardest things you will probably have to write. Because of my
books, I have had to write multiple bios. At first, it is difficult to turn it around and focus on you but
it becomes easier. Write your own biography. Write your life story, good and bad relationships,
passions, and what you want to become or accomplish. Write it down and date it. Keep adding to
this or changing it as you go along.