Powerful Words, You Say?

?This morning, for some unknown reason, I had a weird thought. I had an upcoming dental cleaning and envisioned saying to the office workers, I don’t want strangers groping around my mouth (not knowing who would clean my teeth).

I went to the appointment and my usual hygienist was there. I felt relieved.

After she was almost done picking, prodding and priming my teeth, someone came into our stall. It was someone who was a stranger to me and she dove into my mouth as if it were a swimming pool and she was diving into it, head first. ?

I asked her, “Have we met?” and we hadn’t. It was the other dentist—whom I had not met before. So here is this stranger rummaging around in my mouth!

That’s when I remembered my earlier thoughts…about no strangers in my mouth. Here I had put that out there, into the vast universe and it came back to me, exactly as I had worded it.

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And we wonder about the power of our words and thoughts? Think again, dear readers. Your thoughts may surprise you.

When I shared with someone (with regret) how I have a mortgage to be responsible for paying, he said, “I do, too. And I am glad because it means I have a home to live in.”

Wow.

What a turn of thoughts!

From complaint to gratitude.

And it got me thinking about how when I think in terms of gratitude, it feels good. Complaint, however, does not. It leaves me with a snarl on my face. (Well, maybe not literally.) But sometimes, it is literal because our bodies are connected to our brains and thus, our thoughts.

So today, turning around my thoughts of fear, I choose love. It may feel challenging some days. Yet it’s simple and doing so, will change the entire day. Wouldn’t that be great?

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