6 Ways Remaining Silent Creates Pain, Wrongdoing and Despair

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling spoke these famous words to the Royal College of Surgeons in London in 1923.

He continued:

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

Kipling understood how words can change the way another person thinks and feels, and influence people to do things they might not otherwise do.

Just like drugs.

At the time Kipling spoke, Adolf Hitler was on the rise to power. What was one key to Hitler’s success? Words. Hitler’s use of hypnotic language helped persuade an entire culture toward hatred, war and willingness to look the other way.

Other timeless words, spoken thousands of years ago, still ring in our minds today:

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

These words, often attributed to Jesus, are responsible for stirring the conscience of countless millions.

Words can destroy. Words can heal.

A lesser known fact about words:

Words retain their power even when they remain unspoken. Because the meaning packaged in words can alter your life in an instant, you need to be thoughtful about how you communicate.

Refusing to express yourself through words, however, can create a burden on your psyche from which there is little relief. Your unspoken message rings in your own soul as long as it is unexpressed. If that message is one of pain, then you suffer in isolated misery. Because words have consequences, it’s remains dilemma for many: To speak or not to speak?

My vote is to SPEAK. And do it with a great deal of maturity.

Here are six reasons why you should speak up, plus four resources you’ll need:

1. Unspoken words pour salt on old wounds.

Old hurts fester when they are kept inside and words are the vehicle that transports those wounds out of your mind and body. Keeping your feelings inside is just that – trapping them in your body. Words are perhaps the best way to express feelings, putting them into the stream of social consciousness so that they can be sorted and dealt with.

2. Silence keeps you trapped in bad situations.

Many are suffering poor treatment by others simply because they will not speak up. So often, when someone knows you are unhappy, he or she will change the circumstances for you so that you can get relief. This is not always the case, but if you never speak up, you’ll never know.

3. Unspoken words create emotional distance.

If you’re feeling ill toward another person and you don’t let them know, you’ll likely keep your ill feelings and begin to act differently toward the other. Your actions will betray your silence, of course, and possibly lead to passive aggressive behavior on your part.

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