When Words Become Dangerously Magnetic

 

In the early 1900s, a woman wrote what I believe are some of the most important books ever written on consciousness and the relationship between the inner world and the outer world. Most people know her classic, The Game of Life and How to Play It. But hidden in the shadow of that book is another shorter, simpler, and arguably even more profound book, Your Word is Your Wand.

Today, neuroscience tells us that the words we repeatedly speak reinforce neural pathways. They change how we perceive and interact with the world. But Florence Scovel Shinn believed they did even more... that every word you speak sends a powerful vibration into the quantum field and crystallizes what you speak into reality itself.

In this script, we're going to unpack why this nearly century old book is more relevant now than ever and how changing the way that you speak may just be the most powerful tool that you can start using today to re-engineer your tomorrow.

Everything in this book literally revolves around one sentence and that is

your word is your wand

and Florence doesn't mean this metaphorically. She literally means that the words that you speak are like casting spells. And you know what? It's probably no coincidence that a big part of our education and use of language is a thing called spell-ing.

We are all spell-casters, and the thing is, most of us have a pretty crappy filter on the words that we speak. We are not careful with our tongues. For instance, how often do you find yourself saying, "I'm tired. I don't feel good. I don't have time. It's going to be hard." It is so easy to complain, and to judge. And it's not just ourselves, but others as well.

What Florence says is that every time you open your mouth, it is a creative act. When you speak positive words, you are blessing yourself. You're blessing others. When you speak negatively over yourself or your life, you are literally cursing yourself. So every sentence that you repeatedly speak is a command to the subconscious and a declaration to what she calls divine law.

Your words are seeds that you are planting and they eventually become your reality.

This is so important to understand because it can feel like trying to change your beliefs, even just becoming aware of them or the way that you think or the way that you feel, is hard and that may in itself be a limiting belief, but it is much easier to be aware of what you're saying and to change the way that you speak.

So, one of the really powerful tools in personal growth that I don't think has gotten very much attention is to use your language and what you speak on a regular basis as a way to change your consciousness. I'm going to walk you through five principles from Your Word is your Wand that you can use as a framework to go beyond this script and create real change in yourself and in your life.

Principle #1, what you say reveals what you think.

This is a powerful yet simple observation that Florence makes. She says that your words reveal your consciousness. In other words, if I was to walk around for a week and record everything that you say, we'd have a pretty good idea of what your current state of consciousness is... what you believe about yourself, what you believe about money, what you believe about time, about relationships, whether you were someone who was confident or someone who was indecisive, someone who compared yourself to other people or who had high self-esteem or personal insecurities.

Your thoughts, which are very subtle vibrations, make their way into reality first and foremost through your speech. In other words,

your mouth is like a portal between your inner world and the external reality and the words that flow out become the seeds that you're planting into your reality.

If you're hanging out with someone who has a lot of self-confidence, they don't use words that would sound people-pleasing. They don't constantly apologize. They don't say things to try to impress other people. Their words prove who they are and who they are is their consciousness.

On the other hand, if you're hanging out with someone who is financially insecure, they may put down other people who have money, they'll talk about how they never have enough money, they'll talk about how they can't afford things or how money is hard to make because that's the current state of their consciousness.

What's amazing about this is that

if you can begin to catch yourself and the words that you speak that are not in alignment with the reality that you want and you close the portal, you close your mouth over time, you'll literally choke that old consciousness out and your reality will begin to change.

If you could go seven days without complaining, what a new habit you would be building inside of yourself and what a different person you would be because you would no longer be a person who's complaining, and if you were no longer a person who's complaining, do you think it might start to change your perception, change your relationships, change your reality? Science actually tells us that it will.

There was a well-known mental and physical conditioning coach, Trevor Moad, who worked with collegiate and professional athletes, and what he discovered was that negative language and complaining dramatically affected athletic performance. He worked with championship players and teams like Russell Wilson, the University of Alabama football team, and Florida State's 2013 national championship team, and he focused almost exclusively on what's called language reconditioning. There was a massive direct correlation between players and teams who learned to speak optimistically and their increase in performance on the football field. Literally by learning to eliminate complaining and negative self-talk, they were able to increase their performance. What Moad found was that negative speech was actually ten times more powerful than positive speak.

So we're not even talking about having to uncover your limiting beliefs and change your beliefs. We're not talking about having a perfect mindset. We're not even talking about speaking positively all the time. We're just saying eliminate the negative self-talk and negative language and you can dramatically increase your life results. This makes sense when you understand principle number two.

Principle #2, your words reinforce your identity.

It's one thing for someone to tell you that you can't afford something or that money is hard to make or even that you're not good enough or you don't deserve to be loved or that you're not worthy of abundance. But it's a much different thing when you tell yourself that, when you speak it and hear it in your own words, because when others speak negatively about you, it still has to pass through your conscious filter, questioning “Do I believe what they're saying? Do I agree with it? And what do I even think about this person? Do I value what this person has to say? Do I trust what this person has to say?” And while we may all find ourselves at different times being influenced by what other people say and think, at least we have a filter. But when you say something about yourself, it penetrates directly to the subconscious mind.

Why? Because when you speak about yourself in a particular way, you assume it to be true. “I always mess up. I never get it right. It's always my fault.” Those words reinforce old limiting beliefs and they continue to strengthen the neural pathways that have built your identity and keep you locked into that identity and therefore that reality because your identity is always going to reflect back to you - who you believe yourself to be.

The good news is that when we use the same process, we can actually begin to rebuild or reprogram our identity. This is why affirmations can be so powerful. When we affirm ourselves, that also goes directly to the subconscious mind and starts to reprogram who we believe ourselves to be. “I am worthy. I am good enough. I'm always learning, every day in every way. I'm getting better and getting stronger.”

Think about how you speak about yourself. Do you speak about yourself using powerful language or do you sometimes use negative or destructive language? Notice for the next 24 hours what words you speak about yourself. Do an inventory. Even if you notice just a couple of times that you were about to say something negative about yourself and you keep that portal closed, that will begin to create powerful subconscious shifts that over time will change not only your life, but will also change you.

It's not about doing this perfectly. It's about making small changes that produce dramatic results in your life... like Christ said, "All you need is the faith of a mustard seed to tell the mountain to go from here to there." Small changes create dramatic results.

Principle #3, faith is certainty before evidence seen.

This is one of my favorite things that Florence talks about. A lot of readers think that Florence is talking about positive thinking, but that's actually not accurate. She's obsessed with just one thing, which is faith, not hope. She says hope says “I wish”. Faith says “it already exists and it's only a matter of time”. She really emphasizes the importance of faith... faith in those things that are not yet seen.

Florence tells stories about people acting as though their answer already exists. She talks about one client of hers who was buying furniture before the house even appeared, and another one who was preparing a room before the opportunity even arrived; another person giving money when they actually didn't really have much to give or making plans before circumstances justify themselves. These are what she called demonstrations of faith.

One of my favorite distinctions from her work is this...

Hope waits. Faith prepares.

That is a phenomenal distinction. And how does it relate to the words that you speak? Stop speaking as if you're waiting. Acknowledge today that “I am healthy. I am abundant. I am worthy.” Because the truth is that

there is a healthy, wealthy, worthy version of you that does exist right here, right now. It's just that that version simply hasn't materialized yet.

The current version of you, the you right now, is just one version of you. But it is really old news. It's a byproduct of how you've been thinking and feeling and speaking in the past. But so what? Today is a new day. And what you speak today becomes your soon-to-be tomorrow.

This is why so many people struggle with the idea of incantations or affirmations. They say, "Yeah, but what I'm saying is not true. I'm not healthy. I'm sick. I'm not wealthy. I'm broke. I'm not worthy." But we live in a multi-dimensional reality. We only perceive one sliver of that reality, a third-dimensional reality that our senses can detect. But there's a fourth-dimensional field where all possibilities exist right here, right now.

The great mystic Neville Goddard spoke about this. And that reality is as equally valid as this third-dimensional five senses reality that mostly dominates our attention, but we dismiss it because it doesn't seem to be here yet.

What I'm suggesting is don't dismiss it. Speak into that reality as if it were here today because it is. Feed that reality with your words and your energy and given a short period of time your current reality will be replaced by that one. Speak what you want now from a place of knowing it already is and your reality must eventually catch up to match it.

Principle #4, there is no competition.

This is an amazing concept and it is important if you want to eliminate the negative self-talk around comparing or scarcity or feeling like there's a limited amount or supply in the world of things like time or money. What Florence says is that someone else's success cannot take away or diminish yours. One person's abundance cannot reduce yours. This may be one of the most psychologically healthy teachings in the book because when you truly believe that you are on your own divinely guided path and that any desire that has been put into your heart comes with the resources to fulfill that desire, regardless of what other people's own individual paths look like, then there's no need for comparison. There's no need for jealousy. There's no need for scarcity and you can stop asking “How do I get ahead of those people?” or worrying that other people have things and how it might take away from what you want. Instead, you simply focus on your own path.

The truth is that there's enough for everyone, and you can close the gap between where you are and the desire that you have. Over a short period of time, the future that you envision will become your present moment.

Principle #5, resistance strengthens what you fight.

This theme appears repeatedly in Your Word as your Wand. What Florence says is that

attention is the creative force and what you focus on expands.

What you make matter becomes matter.

What you put your attention on crystallizes from the fourth dimension to the third dimension. It becomes available to the five senses and it becomes your reality.

As humans, we tend to focus on the absence or the lack or the negative. It's part of the survival-based mechanism of the human operating system. The moment you become aware that you want something, you're aware of two things... you're aware of the thing that you want, but you're also aware of the absence of it. What ends up happening is the mind will just begin to explain the absence of it. We talk about the absence of it and we start to reinforce beliefs around the absence of it. So the absence remains because it's given so much attention.

The key is to starve or choke out the problem and give it no air time. But you might say, “Don't I have to solve the problem? Don't I have to figure out how to actually create the thing that I want? ...how to create more health? ...how to find my soul mate? ...how to figure out how to create a successful business or become financially abundant?” And the answer is NO, that's not actually your job. The problem will solve itself. The solution will emerge and you will be a part of it. The point is to stop talking about the problem or the absence of what you want. Stop making your problems matter. Stop bringing resistance to your current reality and stop speaking about problems because speaking about them only strengthens them.

So what's the takeaway from all this? I don't think Florence was giving us a manifestation technique. I think she was actually giving us an identity practice because

every word that you speak is either reinforcing the person that you've been or rehearsing the person that you're becoming.

Every complaint strengthens old neural pathways. Every declaration of possibility strengthens new ones. And every day you're teaching your subconscious who you are. Over time, your subconscious organizes your emotions, your behaviors, your decisions, your relationships, your frequency, and ultimately, that creates your life. So maybe your word really is your wand... not necessarily because you're magically controlling the universe, but because you're continually shaping the consciousness that creates reality itself.

So this week, here's my challenge to you.

Become a guardian of your portal.

Watch what comes in and out of your mouth.

Remember, your mouth is the portal between your inner world and the world that you're creating. So before you speak, ask yourself a simple question...

Is what I'm about to say strengthening the person that I'm becoming or the person I'm trying to leave behind?

And if it isn't aligned, don't say it. Close the portal. Because every word you refuse to speak weakens an old identity and every word that you intentionally choose plants new seeds, and enough new seeds becomes a new you and a new you becomes a new life.

from YouTube at DavidBayer33 on August 6, 2026