I am a busy therapist in mh day job, and it never ceases to amaze me that people are often unaware of the importance of the words that they use. You know, those words that we constantly allow to run around our heads and pop out of our mouths before we even think about it. As a writer it is essential to make sure our words and sentences convey exactly what we mean. We write and rewrite sentences and phrases, consult dictionaries and thesauruses (thesauri?) to be certain we have conveyed our exact meaning to our readers.
Yet in our actual day to day lives we don't pay this level of attention to the words we use or think. With this in mind is it any wonder that others misconstrue what we say, and so often we manage to confuse our own unconscious minds too?
Obviously I'm not advocating the level of precision given by a master wordsmith to his magnum opus, but I think we could all benefit from choosing our words and constructing the beliefs and values we hold (which are really just sentences and phrases we have chosen to believe after all) with a bit more awareness of their actual meaning, and making informed decisions as to whether they really are serving us well or not.
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