word to the wise

The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to hose obscure regions below the conscious mind. – Loren Eiseley

The gift of Heaven is forever made. The receiving of this gift is an eternal process of forever expanding the finite. – The Science of Mind, pg 405

The MerrianWebster Collegiate Dictionary has adopted a score of new terms between the covers of its eleventh addition. Among these are bodyboard, ringtone, and google (a verb). Earlier additions welcomed rollbar and tanktop; before that, wonderful words like snood. As a rule, writers struggle to avoid using words or terms that are relatively unknown to most people.

We say, “speaking the word” as a shorthand for prayer, and those learning to create affirmations are advised to select the shortest, punchiest, most evocative terms in which to frame the realities they desire to experience. What seldom occurs to us is to create our own words, like Mary Poppins’s supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

I knew somebody who coined a term for the opposite of serendipity (finding something greater than one went after). His term meant being so negative things got even worse than expected – it was sorrydupity – and with it, he could laugh at his own judgments. Now maybe you aren’t interested in sitting around making up words that mean something only to you, but if the purpose of an affirmation is to convince your own subconscious mind of the immediacy of its subject, and your subconscious is also the place of imagination, maybe it knows what would do the trick. Why not let it have a word with you?

Today my imagination and my intellect click into harmonious and perfect understanding. The needs of one are the errands of the other, and together they serve the whole being that I am.