Anthony Robbins AWAKEN THE GIANT... - Lemma Coaching

the most powerful ways that man has learned to quickly decide what sensations mean (is it pain or
pleasure?) is to create labels for them, and these labels are what you and I know as "words."
Here's the challenge: all of your sensations are coming to you through this funnel, like liquid sensation
poured through a thin spout into various molds called words. In our desire to make decisions quickly,
rather than using all of the words available to us and finding the most appropriate and accurate
description, we often force the experience into a disempowering mold. We form habitual favorites:
molds that shape and transform our life experience. Unfortunately, most of us have not consciously
evaluated the impact of the words we've grown accustomed to using. The problem occurs when we
start consistently pouring any form of negative sensation into the word-mold of "furious" or
"depressed" or "humiliated" or "insecure." And this word may not accurately reflect the actual
experience. The moment we place this mold around our experience, the label we put on it becomes our
experience. What was "a bit challenging" becomes "devastating."
For example, my CEO used "furious," "livid," and "enraged"; I called it "angry" or "upset"; and when it
came to my friend, he poured 66 his experience into the mold of "peeved" or "annoyed." What's
interesting is that all of us, I discovered, use these same patterns of words to describe multitudes of
frustrating experiences. You and I need to know that we can all have the same sensations, but the way
in which we organize them—the mold or word we use for them—becomes our experience. I later found
that by using my friend's mold (the words "peeved" or "annoyed")
I instantly was able to change the intensity of my experience. It became something else. This is the
essence of Transformational Vocabulary: the words that we attach to our experience become our
experience. Thus, we must consciously choose the words we use to describe our emotional states, or
suffer the penalty of creating greater pain than is truly warranted or appropriate.
Literally, words are used to re-present to us what our experience of life is. In that representation, they
alter our perceptions and feelings.
Remember, if three people can have the same experience, yet one person feels rage, another feels
anger, and the third feels annoyance, then obviously the sensations are being changed by each
person's translation.
Since words are our primary tool for interpretation or translation, the way we label our experience
immediately changes the sensations produced in our nervous systems. You and I must realize that
words do indeed create a biochemical effect.
If you doubt this, I'd like you to honestly consider whether or not there are words that, if someone
were to use them, would immediately create an emotional reaction. If someone hurls a racial slur at
you, how does that make you feel? Or if someone were to call you a four-letter word, for example,
wouldn't that change your state? There's probably a big difference between someone calling you by the
initials "S.O.B." and having them articulate in graphic detail the phrase these letters stand for.
Wouldn't it produce a different level of tension in your body than if they were to call you an "angel"? Or
a "genius"? Or a "dude"? We all link tremendous levels of pain to certain words. When I interviewed Dr.
Leo Buscaglia, he shared with me the findings of a research study done at an eastern university in the
late fifties. People were asked, "How would you define communism?" An astonishing number of the
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