The Power of Words

It's generally true that women talk more than men. That is, they use more words. If every word has power, then women should have more power then men by the shear number of words they use, or so you would think. However, if every word has power, the resident power within you is distributed over the number of words you use to express yourself. This tends to be the reason for men to use less words. They seem to be more efficient in words. Since they concentrate their power in the few words they use, it may be better targeted and effective.

Now let us take a turn of opinion. What are words for? Are words tools to express power?

If that is so, then there must be different kinds of power. Every word, every sentence conveys words and thus power. The number of words is an aspect of power. It is an outer quality of a message, something that can be measured. In other words, the number of words can be counted; this is an objective measure for the power exerted by the words. How accurate this measure is, is questionable, though.

When it is grasped that the power of words is also in their meaning, the meaning can be concentrated in specific words, in specific sentences and deliver its power immediately. This effect can not be measured. It is a hidden aspect of words how effective they are. The reason for this is, that the power words have, depends on the way they are understood by those who receive (hear, read) them. Just using less words is not more effective, although it often is, because everybody has a way of focusing their intentions in the words they use. The less words you use to express your intention, generally the more clearly you are understood.

Words to describe femininity are often related to 'measurable' (observable) aspects, like the shape of the body, the softness of the body, the beauty of make-up and the fashion they wear. These are all visible aspects.

Words to describe masculinity are often related to immeasurable aspects, like the strength or stamina of the body, smartness, ego, self-confidence and such things. All these are invisible aspects.

Female = visible; male = invisible.

For instance, if a man has ego, he expresses this by becoming visible. In other words, his male part is turned into a female aspect. Whether that female aspect, comprising his actions, is beautiful, is another question. But if a man could look at the things he expresses as his own female part, it may become easier for him to allow himself to express it more beautiful.

If a woman is beautiful, what is it that makes her really beautiful? Is it her looks (her visible part), or is it something else, something invisible, something more illusive, i.e. something invisible? That invisible part of her may eventually draw a man into her life that appreciates those invisible parts. According to me, a woman is really beautiful because of the invisible things she expresses. And when I say beautiful in this last sentence, it can't be the part that is visible. So, how can something invisible be beautiful?

That is the power of words. Words are those invisible things, that express themselves in the words that we hear or read. Words have a male and a female part. The words you choose to express yourself reflect the words that you internally use to cope with the impressions you receive from your surroundings.

Your male part, your invisible part, handles the female part, the visible part, and when you express yourself, you express in a female way how you handled the situation in a male way. Your female part feeds back to you how you handled it and you feel the result of it inside. These two aspects of yourself influence each other continuously. The one can not do without the other. Both of these aspects of you grow to maturity, until these aspects not only influence each other, but mate. When this happens, your reality is changed forever. In a very real sense, a child is on the way; your rebirth.

Then the male part is not constantly reflecting on the female part just to cope with it, it does not fight the female part any more, but commands it. Nor does the female part hurt the male part, but surrenders. Both male and female parts have become powerful in their own right to influence the other part positively. Then the male part chooses intentions that are more loving and more accepting. As a result, the female part responds more peacefully and harmoniously with those intentions.

Love becomes the flow between the male and female part. And when it flows, this love flows over to others and the love of others will flow back.

The power of words is the flow they produce between the male and female aspects, both in yourself and in others, whether you are male or female.