Giving up the harmful word

Daily writing promptIf you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?View all responses

I’ve spent my life giving up harmful, tormenting, and unkind words — the bossy kind of words that regularly barge uninvited into the psyche and try to bully and destroy our inner peace. From my earliest memories those intrusive words have tried to welcome themselves into my thoughts, but I forcefully resisted them because I didn’t like what they were telling me and how they made me feel. Sometimes I would fight hostile thoughts all day long. I continue to resist them to this day. My mind belongs to me and I’m never going to surrender it to tormenting thoughts.

A tool that helps me keep out the troubling thoughts is to fill my mind with hope-filled words. I consume positive books (especially the Bible) and they saturate my mental state with joy and encouragement as long as I will stick with them and apply what they say in my daily life.

Protecting your mind from damaging thoughts isn’t easy. It takes much courage to persistently fight them and to make them flee. from your cranium, However, if you allow destructive thoughts to direct your daily life, they will work diligently to destroy you.

Some words are best resisted and rejected. Give ’em up! Drive ’em out! Replace ’em with hope-filled words.

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