#409 The Power of Our Words
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The Power of Our Words
The power of our words is genuinely astonishing. With our words, we can ask someone to spend the rest of our lives together, and at the same time, our words can destroy a decades-old relationship. Not only do the word we share affect others, but they also impact us based on what we hear in our heads all day long. Most importantly, our words can create love, kindness, and joy in us and those around us.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. The power of our words. This is such a true statement. |
| 0:12.4 | I think everyone would agree with This is such a true statement. |
| 0:13.4 | I think everyone would agree with that, but I'm not sure that everyone adheres to how important |
| 0:19.2 | our words are. |
| 0:20.7 | I remember once when I was on vacation in Florida visiting Cape Canaveral and there was a woman who had a child with her. |
| 0:29.0 | He was probably about six years old and at the top of her lungs outside she started screaming at him |
| 0:36.2 | seeing how he was ruining their vacation and what a horrible child he was. |
| 0:46.8 | It was so moving I remember to this day and everyone that heard it I'm sure was moved too. I'm also sure that she was exhausted in a lot of emotional pain and not having a very good day, but |
| 0:57.1 | to raise a temple to that level where everyone could see and hear what she was doing. |
| 1:03.9 | Created memories for that little boy |
| 1:06.3 | that I'm sure last to this very day. |
| 1:09.4 | In his lifetime, she might have 10,000 times, told him how much she loved him, how grateful and precious he was to her. |
| 1:18.8 | But those words at Cape Canaveral could take away all those 10,000 other words. |
| 1:25.1 | Because our words are powerful. |
| 1:29.0 | With our words, we can entice another person to fall in love with us, particularly if our words are |
| 1:36.2 | meaningful and true, but at the same time our words can destroy a it's amazing how we can say so many nice good or even just neutral things. |
| 1:55.0 | And one time, one night, one drunken stupor, |
| 2:00.0 | and our whole world can change. |
| 2:02.0 | Because of certain words that we say. |
| 2:05.0 | I really do believe we all know this. |
| 2:08.0 | So why do we use our words to hurt others? |
| 2:11.0 | Sometimes it is intentional. We want to hurt them. They, we |
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