When we focus on bringing purpose to our speech, we bring healing and meaning to our relationships, our communities, and our world. Dear Friends,
How we speak to others, our tone and the words we choose, leave our lips and go out into the world affecting one person or thousands of people. It is more important than ever to be aware of the reasons and motivations behind how we communicate. We bring you a Q&A about our online course Speak with Purpose, Not Impulse.
Course OverviewThis enlightening course provides expert guidance to truly understand what can trigger us to communicate more hastily. And, you'll receive transformative strategies for listening and talking in a more mindful way. Through simple, practical approaches that you can immediately implement, you'll open and expand your consciousness to achieve the positive results you want in conversations. After this course, you'll have all the tools and skills to connect more deeply with every person in any situation.
- Receive a new lesson every day for 1 week (total of 7 lessons).
- Have lifetime access to the course for reference whenever you want.
- Select the amount you can afford, and get the same course as everyone.
- If you are not 100% satisfied, you may request a refund.
How much do you want to pay?$19$35$55
This is the total amount for all 7 lessons
Q&A with DailyOM Q: What does it mean to Speak with Purpose, Not Impulse?
A: Speaking with purpose means entering deeply into the root causes and motivations that cause us to wield our words in impulsive, hurtful, and even destructive ways. It is the practice of bringing kinder and more conscious intention not only to the ways in which we interact with others but to ourselves too. So many of us do our best to speak meaningfully to others, but we fail to show this kindness and intentionality to ourselves, instead speaking critical and reactive words. Speaking with purpose means diving into our beings, locating the harsh words that reside there, and approaching them with a spirit of curiosity and compassion. It is about speaking with a desire to bring meaning to our speech and to serve others with our words.
Q: Why do we so often speak from impulse?
A: We speak without purpose because we are immersed in a culture that encourages us to speak loudly, to seek more, to brand our lives, and to brandish our opinions like weapons. We live in a social media era that values speed, competition, and instant gratification. Unconsciousness is the umbrella over so many of the reasons we speak without purpose. We may think of unconsciousness as another word for impulsivity. In this context, we require real intentionality to become human beings who speak meaningful words. This course offers practices that help us develop this consciousness around our words.
There are also personal reasons for why we speak from impulse. For example, family can hold enormous influence over how we speak to others and ourselves. If we were raised in an environment where family members spoke over one another, we may struggle with conscious listening. If we were encouraged to remain silent, we may struggle with making our purpose known. Our personal witness to the behaviors around words in our childhood environments has the power to shape how we speak to ourselves and others throughout our lives.
Q: Why is it important to be conscious of our words?
A: It is important because words have power. The great poet Maya Angelou said, "Words are things." If words are indeed things, then they are things that can be used for better or worse. Words can be used as weapons, or they can be used as balms. Words can harm and heal. It is our choice how we use them. Words do not control us. We are in the driver's seat. It may seem easy to dismiss the profound power of words with tired phrases like, "Sticks and stones may hurt my bones, but words will never hurt me." But words do hurt. This phrase came from a time when as a society we shunned vulnerability. In many ways, we still do this, however, we are also collectively coming to consciousness about the need for vulnerability in healing as well as the enormous role verbal abuse plays in causing childhood trauma as well as trauma in relationships. Words have the power to affirm us, to turn us toward love, compassion, and creativity. This course is about developing the tools to regularly harness the power of words for growth and good in our own lives and the lives of others.
Q: How do we begin to speak with more mindfulness?
A: The first step is to start developing consciousness around our language and listening. It is very easy to move through life without ever pausing to notice the quality of our words and thoughts, especially when our egos hold onto fixed ideas of who we are -- i.e., someone who never interrupts or utters an unkind word. Often it is those of us who cling to such ideas who find, once we begin consciousness work, that we do in fact have a tendency to interrupt or regularly speak unkind words to ourselves. In order to begin speaking with purpose, we must be willing to step outside of ourselves, pause, and witness. This involves not reacting to the incessant chatter in our minds and instead observing. This is the vantage point we need in order to become conscious of the negative behaviors and patterns in our words. It is a beautiful process of learning and renewal.
Q: Walk us through the journey of this course, how will it unfold for a student?
A: The course begins by defining our key terms: purpose and impulse. We will dive into the etymology of these terms in order to unpack their meaning in the context of speaking, as well as to move forward together on the same page about how they apply specifically to our course. We will then explore the personal and cultural reasons why we so often speak without purpose. Next, we will move into the power words hold in our personal and collective lives. At that point we will then begin the healing process, so to speak, with lessons about the hope for transformation and the need for discernment as we cultivate consciousness around our words.
Discernment is vital for change. It leads the way to purpose in our lives; if we practice purpose in our speech, we are also practicing discernment in our hearts. We will then move into the important relationship between intuition and impulse, using etymology as our foundation. There is a time and place for impulse, but the key to discerning whether impulse is reactive and potentially harmful is the presence of intuition. For our final lesson, we will explore simple, practical, and meaningful ways to apply these lessons to our daily lives. This concluding lesson also acknowledges the reality of the digital landscape in our lives and offers methods for speaking with purpose within those spaces. Many of us cannot entirely remove technology from our lives, but we can bring intentionality and consciousness to our interactions with it.
Q: Tell us about some of the homework included in the course.
A: All of the lessons are supported by journaling homework. The journaling in this course is personal and creative, asking you to look deeply into your own heart and soul, tune into your words and your intentions, listen, and notice. It is both gentle and challenging. Truth-telling is the most important part of the journaling process. Your honesty about yourself is what will make the course transformative. This might feel a bit uncomfortable at times, for example, when the homework asks you to reflect on a time when words hurt you or you hurt another with your words. Most of the journaling homework will reacquaint you with your innermost self. It is the documentation of your heart, and it is yours alone.
How Does It Work?Starting today, you will receive a new lesson every day for 1 week (total of 7 lessons). Each lesson is yours to keep and you'll be able to refer back to it whenever you want. And if you miss a lesson or are too busy to get to it that day, each lesson will conveniently remain in your account so you won't have to search for it when you're ready to get back to it.
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Get Started NowWe are offering this course with the option of selecting how much you want to pay. No matter how much you pay, you'll be getting the same course as everybody else. We simply trust that people are honest and will support the author of the course with whatever they can afford. And if you are not 100% satisfied, we will refund your money.
How much do you want to pay?$19$35$55
This is the total amount for all 7 lessons
We hope you are interested in learning more about this fascinating topic. As always, any course you purchase is yours to keep, and you can work it at your own pace. Each course comes with a discussion group just for that particular course so you can journey through the work with other people if you choose. Until next time.
Be well,
DailyOM
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