Bless or F**k! What’s Your Choice?

Our choices create the energy which flows in our own lives, and also our collective choices create the great arena of life itself. And in everything that we do, we have a choice. One of our greatest area of choice is in the words that we use to express. We actually speak thousands of words every day and researchers suggest that we may speak as many as 10,000 words. All of those words have some form of intention for words have meaning and they carry power. So, what energy are we sending out in the world with our words; what personal message do we convey and what’s the world we are collectively creating with our everyday utterances?

Before I continue, I would like to say that I am coming at this from an energy perspective rather than a prudish perspective. I am interested in how we humans can define and create our world energetically and make responsible choices in that regard, and so what follows is a reflection of that concept J

The word “f**k” (and I am deliberately not energizing it here) is becoming one of the most commonly used words in the English Language. You hear it in the cinema, on TV, in the street, at polite dinner parties, in bars, cafes, the supermarket and pretty much every other walk of life you can name. It is used by people of a variety of educational standards, upbringings, and people of every level of intelligence and most races, classes and creeds. There are several variations of it, and they can be used as nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives and often you find it compounded into other words.

In short, it’s everywhere and with a lot of people, it slips as easily off the tongue as thank you, and certainly a lot more easily than bless at times of frustration, exasperation or desperation….but does that really matter in the 21^st Century? Is it a bad thing, a good thing or just a thing?

So, what’s the energy and meaning behind it? Whilst it may be a word that is closely associated with the act of sexual intercourse, for many people that wouldn’t be their first choice of word to describe what’s an essentially beautiful and loving act. Historically, or at least since 1775, the scribes tell us that the “F” word has been considered the vulgar or even derisive way of describing the sexual act.

Other connotations of the “F” word are to indicate contempt, disgust, dislike, hostility and probably more that I am unaware of. The emotions that are often conveyed with it are frequently exasperation, anger, worry and it is of course often used to offend another. A good friend of mine also calls it “the laziest choice of words on offer”.

So does it matter if this energy is increasingly going out into the world, if it’s becoming more of a cultural norm, or is it something that we as individuals could start or even need to become more mindful of?

Bless, to present an opposing point, “evokes a sense of warmth and protection…though suffering and chaos befall us, they can never quench that inner light of providence” according to the poet John O’Donohue.

Perhaps a blessing, for some, has a religious connection in the sense of a prayer, and for this reason some turn away from the idea of using it. However, whilst blessing does have a religious context, its origin actually means making sacred, which is something which is not exclusively religious.

A good definition of a blessing says that is empowering as it connects us to an ability to project goodness into the world through relatively simple thoughts and actions. When we bless something it is actually a constructive way to redirect our energy, comprising those thoughts, actions and emotions, in a more positively-oriented manner that is designed to uplift and empower ourselves or another.

So, if you find yourself in a frustrating situation at work or anywhere in life, where you seem to have run out of options and solutions, you could choose to bring the energy of “F**k” to your dilemma, or you could choose to bring the energy of “Bless” to your situation.

This choice of how to energise a situation is a choice that we all have, at all times. What if something as simple as blessing a difficult situation, instead of cursing it, actually changed it for the better? Energetically speaking it’s putting positive energy on negative fuel, instead of negative energy on the same fuel. As many of the great sages and energy masters of our times have told us, if we want to change something for the better then we need to start to putting a positive energy into it, rather than filling it with more of the same of which it is already full.

So, what is your choice of what you fill your world with?

Bless? Or F**k?