Tongue - the strongest weapon

Your tongue articulates your wisdom. – Werner van Tonder

It is amazing how the strongest muscle in your body have the strongest effect on your life. This might sound cliché but the truth is that we do affect people around us and ourselves with the words we express via our tongue.

We rely on our tongue to create success and mediate our future. We fight with it and we break with it. Human nature is designed to kill. Our first instinct is that of selfishness. But think of how much more we can actually get out of life when we use this weapon as a tool. Compliments can make a huge difference at the right time. How do you react when you get attacked and abused verbally.. we go into defence mode. How about breaking the norm and seeing it from the other perspective, even if you are right, words of kindness can change the atmosphere..

Building people up with kind words are more rewarding than insults. In my experience I found that the rewards you get from positive words are success. We need to breed a new indoctrination upon our generation. How are we to succeed when we cannot tame our strongest weapon?

Mindsets are one of our biggest walls we build to protect us. Your tongue can break those walls. I am not prophesying the key to wealth and other things deemed as success, but I am talking about being content with who you are. The words rolling over your tongue are like food for your soul. What you spew out affects your ears and that in turn will clutter your heart with its contents.

I would rather want to be cluttered by understanding, comprehension, love, compassion and forgiveness than hate and all other atrocities.

Take a look at your words today on the conversing persons face and see how you kill people or how you build people up. It might be an ear opener for you.

 The right word at the right time is stronger than the biggest weapon. – Werner van Tonder