Hello, and welcome to this episode of Decide on Joy podcast, coming to you from Harmony Spiritual Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Exploring aspects of new thought and and how it works. I am Jim Covalt and I am Rev. Dr. P. J. Stanley, Senior Minister here at Harmony Spiritual Center here in Fort Worth. Okay. And our, our topic today is Speak What You Seek. Speak What You Seek. And what does that mean? It is just so critical that we watch what we're saying because the universe is always listening to what we're saying. And always saying yes. So, whatever you're speaking is, you're bringing into your life, not, not random words, but what you're speaking consistently, oh, I'm not good enough, oh, I won't get that job, oh, I love, whatever you're speaking consistently, the universe is saying yes to that and bringing it into your life. So, when I say speak what you seek, that means for you to be intentional. About the words that you do speak, because the universe is listening. So not just then, when you're specifically, like, Looking for a particular thing, looking for, I don't know, you know, a better relationship or whatever. It's not just that, but all the time. All the time. You're all the time looking at your, at your words and what you're, and what you're saying to yourself. What you're saying to yourself, you're saying to the universe. And we just we tend to get into for whatever reason it's kind of fun to just be saying negative things Oh, this will never work for me my bad luck you know, just just say those kinds of things and it seems, you know, just fun and you're not really doing anything But you actually are the words that we speak Because the universe doesn't look at positive or negative. It just says yes to whatever you're whatever you're saying And you don't really notice that until your life starts to go, you know Of course To basically hell in a handbasket and you're like, what in the world happened here? Why is my life like this? And I find it very powerful to know that we have the ability to change that to look at our lives and say This isn't what I Well, I really want it. What have I been saying about this particular thing? Let's say relationships, or let's say a job. Let's say you don't necessarily have the job that you're looking for. What have you been saying about the job that you're looking for? Are you saying things like, well, I don't have enough information. I'm not educated enough. No one's going to hire me. And the university is saying, yes, yes, yes. So, The, the random, or the words that we seem to speak that we think are random that don't have meaning. Have great meaning and i'm just cautioning us to And not caution you in like be careful because you know You can never change that you can the very thing that you drew into your life You can release from your life. And so i'm i'm asking you to think about being aware more Of what is in your life what you want to draw in and what you want to actually let go of in your life. So always understanding that your speech The words you speak have so much power. How, it may be hard to be more specific, but how does that work? I mean, when you say the universe always says yes, what, how does that work? What's going on there? Okay, so, so if you think of, because I'm talking about, when I say universal law, I'm talking about universal spiritual laws. And so those are a little bit harder for, For most people to understand, but if you talk about a physical law, then that's easier to understand, or even the law of mathematical law. You know that and I use gravity because that's something that everybody understands and it's easy to get the gravity doesn't say no I'm not gonna let you fall when you jump off a building. It always says yes, it's going to be true to its nature That's what I what I mean. Yes, it's going to be true to its nature Gravity does what it does if you step off a building you're going to get sucked down to the ground It was you know, so So, that's always saying yes. The universal laws are the same. The law of attraction is always the same. You're going to attract people into your life that are aligned with your thinking. That's a yes. That's its yes. So, if you don't want particular people in your life, then you change the way you think about those people or that thing. That's what yes is for a spiritual law. It's true to its nature. So it's not just randomly saying, I'll say yes to you and no to this. I'll say yes to Jim and no to PJ. It's always yes. If Jim says, I am a great director, the universe says yes. If PJ says, I suck at being a spiritual leader, the universe says, yes, you are correct. It always says yes, because that's its nature. Huh. If, if so I know that some, some writers and, and, and experts in the field would say it's a vibrational thing. It's energetic. It's a, that's, I think that's I was, I was on a talk today with Pam Grout, who's written the book, E Squared, and she talked about, she called it the FP, which is the field. of potentiality, which is the energetic field. So yes, there is an energetic field. If you want to describe, people have, when you're talking about spirituality and that energy that is of, if you want to call it God, if you want to call it good orderly direction, if you want to, whatever you call that, which is greater than you, greater than us, something that is aligned with yes, that is aligned with positive. The force is in the universe. It's an energetic force and in fact there's, she has a lot of, of of experiments in her book that shows you exactly energy actually working, like she'll have you do kind of divining rods where you take a wire and you just see the energy moving, it's not your hands moving, you just hold it still and it'll move to the energy that's happening based on what you're thinking or whatever. Edward Hawkins has the same thing in his book Power Versus Force. You can, there's all kinds of energy experiments that you can, you can do for yourself to prove to yourself how energy actually works and some people call it energy god whatever you want to call it. There is a, there is definitely a field force of energy in the universe for sure. And I, I know that it was coming up in one of your talk topics, I think, but, and, and maybe it's a side issue, but something So, speaking what you seek doesn't ideally include saying, I want this, or I need this. Exactly. Because again, think what those words are saying. If you say, I want, then that's, then the universe will keep you wanting it. It's still, you're speaking what you're seeking. If what you're seeking is want, if what you're seeking is need, then need will always be what you have. So you speak it as if you have it. I am. I have. So those are the, those, so thank you very much for that clarity of the kinds of words that you, that you speak that you want to say yes to, that you want the universe and the universe is saying yes, but that is coming your way the way that you want to. So yes, using words like I need to have this will constantly having you feeling like you need something. And in fact, the universe is abundant. The universe is abundant. All that, that you desire, all that is, that, that you, that is there for you, that you want to draw into your life that you're saying yes to is already available. But, but using the words want or need or those kinds of words keeps putting it out in the future. Or I will. I will, that keeps putting it out in the future. It's I am right now. So you speak everything in the present tense, present tense, positive tense. This is who I am right now. And you're simply waiting for the physical manifestation of it to show up. Right. Right. Cause it's a very good question. And okay, here's a much more specific and, and, and maybe this is in the range of. Not things that you're thinking all the time, whatever, but just, just like before we started and we were having technical issues and I was saying, yeah, well, it's Mercury retrograde and technology is screwed for it. So is that something I should not be saying because that. Well, it's kind of, it's this and I don't really know about the, the. The energies around planets, right? I'm not, I'm not a, I'm not a retrograde. Right, but whatever that is. Even, even saying, okay, but technology is, is a mess at the moment. And I think, and I think we can begin to, to draw things into our lives like that. So, let's just say this, there's a, If there is, there's bad weather, we know that there's a, for example, and we know that a tornado is coming our way. If in your mind you're saying, it's going to hit me because it always does, I have such bad luck and that tornado path is going to come my way, you are in fact drawing it to you. And if you think, I don't know. It's going to miss me entirely. It's coming, and I understand that because weather is weather, but I'm not going to be affected by this. I am, it's going to jump right over me or go around me, and I'm going to be unharmed. And so you speak what you seek. Are you seeking the tornado to hit you, or are you seeking it to go past you? So we do get to do those things. Now, I can't say 100 percent of the time that it's going to work because you are around other people with their other thoughts. So if you're in a path, if you're with someone who's also thinking that same thing, Same thing with a group of people that say, Oh, it's going to hit us. Well, you might be in a group of people that that truth is coming towards them and you happen to be in the mix with them. You understand what I mean? So you're not alone in that your energy, my energy, all of our energies work together. So we do have a consciousness of negativity or positivity. And one of the reasons why we talk about, you know, why we're here on this podcast right now is to. To be here speaking these words for those people who want to hear this word for people who want the energy of people who believe like they do to build a consciousness of these ideas that go along with your ideas and perhaps you're around people who don't believe this and it's hard for you then to get the life that you want. So, we encourage you to be around people who believe like you do. Not saying anyone is right or wrong. I'm saying that you want to get into a consciousness of people that have the same consciousness that you do if that's where you want to go, if that's who you want to be. It's powerful to do that. It's the same thing we did in school when we wanted to get good grades. Your parents always said, well, stop hanging around the dummies, you know, hang out, get around some smart kids, you know, and start doing some things that they're doing. It's kind of the same idea, right? Yeah. Some of that can. start to sound a bit like traditional prayer or ritual that has to be, the exact words have to be said exactly correctly, or the right music has to be played, or the right sacrifice has to be made. How is, how is this different? Well, it's, it's because we're not asking, you don't need to sacrifice, you know, what we're, what you're doing is, what I'm asking you to do is to be clear in your own mind and heart. That's all, that's all this is. So it's not that the words have to be, to be specific. They have to be true. They have to be true for you. So, if you're saying that you let's say, I'm not good at math and so I can't get a job at a bank, that is true for you and you're going to need to change that truth for you. So it's not the word necessarily, it's the truth behind it. And your belief behind it. So, You, you're going to have to either take a class or you don't feel like you're, like you can't do it, whatever it is, but change your mind about that so you can actually change the words. It's not just changing the words, it's changing your mind and your heart about what you're feeling is true for you and believe something greater for yourself. That's what we're asking you to do. And you can do that. You, whatever, because we're all we're all, we all have a a growth field or Path that we can be on and we can say this is where I want to be. This is where I want to stay, or I want to go to the next place, whatever that next place is for you. All of us have that ability to grow, to learn, to be something more. And all we're talking about is how to expedite that and make sure that you're going in the direction you want to go in. And it starts with you being clear about where you want to go and speaking those words that Encourage you to be there. I am smart. I can do this. I am doing this. Now. That's what, that's what those words are. So yeah, it's not so much about the words as it is your own heart and mind. Right? And, and I, I think we don't, you don't just say this in theory, but, but your experience backs it up. It does. I mean, it's not something you just, no, exactly. And, and, you know, if you've, and I think this is a, this is a, the thing for humanity, for humans, because we do have a brain, we do have a mind, we have a heart, we have all of those things. And we can actually think our way out. into and out of whatever we want to whatever we decide to do, which I think is powerful. You can decide that this is not the life that I wanted. I was going for something. I didn't get there and you don't have to stay there. You can just say, Hmm, no, no, this is, I thought it was going to look like one thing. It looks like something else. And I no longer want to be here. I want, and I am, no, no, no. In other words, I am not here. Doing something different right now. Yeah, and so even me, as I'm talking about it, I'm saying I want, but that's the beginning of it. I want something to know that there's a desire. And then you actually go towards that. So there is a desire that starts at the beginning that says, I want something different. How do I do that? And that's, you ask yourself, you already know, you let the answers come and you move towards that new, the new truth for you. You know, which is a, a, a growth thing for you. And we all have that ability to do that. We all have the ability to grow and to learn and to change. That's the brilliant part of being a human being and having a mind. Right. Now let me say, Speak what you think. Speak what you seek. Speak what you seek, sorry. Do you mean that literally? Like, you should be saying it. out loud to the world? Oh, no, no, it's just in yourself. I mean, you can, so I, so there's a whole lot of different ways that you do it. And it really is about what works best for you. I, to get started, I say it out loud because there's right. How many critics are in our heads? How many, how many committees and people telling us parents and teachers and students, you know, telling us about what we can and can't do. There was a woman that was on a show I was doing earlier that if she was, She was 60. I mean, if she was a day, she was 60 years old. And she was talking about something that happened to her when she was six years old. And she said she wanted to go to Italy. And she told, she said it out loud. I want to go. I don't know why she saw a picture of it. Don't know why she knew at six that she wanted to go. And her father said, you can't go to Italy. You're only six years old. You don't have a job. And so that went into her head that she couldn't go to Italy. And so. When she got, as she got older, by the time she was in her 20s, late 20s, early 30s, she thought, I, I, that, that thought was in her head, I can't go to Italy, and she stopped thinking that, and she goes, Why? Why can't I go? I can go. I'm going to, and then she started saying, I'm going to Italy. I am going to go. And she went. The point is, is that that thought from her father was in her head all the way up until she was 30 years old, that she couldn't go until she questioned that thought in her head that said she couldn't go. You go, why? Why can't I go? We can do the same thing at any time. When we have something in our lives that isn't working, we can say, why? Why is that true for me now? Maybe it was never true. We don't know why we believed it was true, but we can change that truth by just saying, No. I am doing this now. I am this now. Anytime. Right. And it's, it can, can sort of take that on board and have a certain dread of thinking the wrong thing, you know what I mean? I get that. I get that. And so, How to avoid that. So I, and I, and I think, yeah, that's a very good point. It's that we, we're human beings. We're going to have thoughts coming in and out. We're going to live our lives. We're going to experience our lives. And it's going to unfold. I, I think everything is happening in a, in the right time and a perfect time. So. We don't have to worry that, oh my gosh, I was here for such a long time. As you know I've been in a relationship, or was in a relationship, for quite some time. And and it ended. Well, okay, that's fine. Because it was finished. And I cannot worry, or I'm not going to continue to worry, I was sad, because I didn't want it to end. But I'm not going to worry that I spent a lot of time in the wrong place. I did not. It was a great place. It was a great place. I had a great time. I learned a lot of things. It's over, and my life is going in a different direction, and so is his. It's going in a different direction, so I'm not going to worry or concern myself or feel bad about the fact that it ended. And stop what's coming. This is the future. It's where you are right now. And we can't keep trying to keep ourselves at 5 years old when we're 10. We can't keep ourselves at 20 when we're 30. We know what we're comfortable with. We know what we know. And then we're concerned about, well, I don't know what it's gonna look like over here. That's okay. You didn't know what it was gonna look like at 10 when you were 5 either. That's okay, too. That's just the way life is. What I'm saying is, is that when we get someplace and we wake up to something and we go, nope, not what I want. Don't waste time on the fact that this is not what you want. The good news is, okay, I recognize I don't want to be here, I'm going someplace else. Period. That's okay. So just let it go. It's okay. You don't have to beat yourself up about where you are. You don't have to beat yourself up about where you might not be going. Sometimes you just need a rest. I'm tired. I don't want to go anywhere. I don't want to do anything. Okay. It's your life. It's okay. These are options. That's all I'm talking about are options for your life and choices that you can make. And all of them are for you. Anything you want to do. That's all it is. And those choices can affect reality. They can. They do affect reality. Yes. They absolutely do. They absolutely do. Great questions. We can stop there for today. Yes. Thank you all for being here and we'll see you next time. Absolutely. Thank you so much.