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The Positive Power of You: The Words We Carry

  • Writer: M. LaRae
    M. LaRae
  • 5 hours ago
  • 4 min read



Your voice is not just sound. It is the living frequency of your inner world — and it shapes your reality further than you can imagine.



There is a moment, just before you speak, when something extraordinary happens. A thought — flickering, electric, charged with feeling — crosses the threshold between your inner world and the outer one. It moves through your body, picks up the frequency of your emotion, and becomes sound.


We tend to think of speaking as a simple act. We open our mouths, words come out, people hear them, and life moves on. Your voice is not just communication. It is energy. It is the audible expression of your frequency — the sum of everything you are thinking and feeling in any given moment.


Modern neuroscience confirms that thoughts are not passive events. They are active. They produce measurable electrical patterns, trigger cascades of neurochemicals, and directly influence the physical body's state. A thought centered in fear will activate the same stress pathways as a real physical threat. A thought centered in gratitude will release the same chemicals as a genuine moment of joy.


Think of your thoughts as frequencies — invisible vibrations that permeate everything they touch. When you speak from a place of anxiety, resentment, or self-doubt, those frequencies do not stay hidden inside you. They shape the context of the words you choose and the tone you take. The person sitting across from you may not be able to recognize what they are sensing, but they feel it. We all do.


This is the insight worth sitting with: your voice does not exist separate from your thoughts and emotions. It is their extension. Speak from clarity, and your words will carry clarity. Speak from chaos, and your words will carry chaos, even if you choose them carefully.


This is why you can feel the difference between a compliment that lands warmly and one that feels hollow. The words may be identical. The thought behind them is not. We are not just decoding language when we listen to each other — we are decoding the whole energetic package of the verbal delivery.


What this means, practically, is that working only on the surface level of your words — choosing them more carefully, sounding more confident, practicing better phrasing — will only take you so far. Real transformation in how you communicate begins at a deeper layer: in the quality of your thoughts and the energy of your emotions before a single word is spoken.


Once spoken, a word is not finished with its work. It functions as an energy channel — a conduit that extends forward in time and ripples outward in ways we rarely take the time to consider or understand. The encouraging word you offered a struggling colleague six months ago may still be with them today, quietly shaping their confidence. The careless comment made in frustration may have taken root in someone's inner narrative, becoming a belief they carry for years.


This is not limited to the words we say to others. The words we say to ourselves — the internal monologue most of us barely notice — are constantly creating the architecture of our experience. "I always get this wrong." "Things never work out for me." "Why does it always happen to me?" These are not descriptions of reality. These are instructions. Repeated often enough, they become the lens through which our reality is filtered, and the filter always finds evidence to confirm what you believe.


None of this requires perfection. It requires awareness — a different, and far more achievable, thing. The practice is simple to describe, if not always easy to maintain: begin to notice. Notice what you are thinking before you speak. Notice what you are feeling underneath those thoughts. Ask whether the words you are about to release into the world carry the energy you actually want to be sending.


This is not about censoring yourself or forcing artificial positivity. There is a profound difference between words that are genuinely grounded in love, curiosity, or honest care and words that are an emotional performance. Authenticity is always felt. The goal is not to sound different. It is to think differently, to feel differently, and to let your voice become the natural expression of your inner being and your authentic intentions.

Start small. Before a difficult conversation, take a pause and check in with what is alive inside you. Before you respond in anger, notice the feeling beneath the anger — because anger is almost always a surface emotion, covering something more vulnerable underneath. Before you speak words of doubt about yourself or someone else, ask whether those words are true, whether they are kind, and whether they are necessary.


Perhaps the most humbling thing to consider is this: the full impact of any word you speak is impossible to trace. A child who hears they are capable carries that frequency into adulthood and passes it through their own words to the next generation. A stranger who overhears an act of unexpected kindness described aloud is subtly shifted. A student who receives one genuinely seen moment from a teacher may find the courage to persist in a life that changes thousands of others.


Your voice reaches further than you can imagine. Not because of volume or eloquence or influence — but because energy moves and frequency travels. The inner world you inhabit, and the words that grow from it, are always extending outward into a future you will never fully see.


Tend to your thoughts. Honor your feelings. And choose your words as though they matter — because they do, in ways that are infinite, and in directions that stretch far beyond the moment you speak them.


Marquetta LaRae, M.Sc.

M. LaRae
M. LaRae

M. LaRae M.Sc.


Metaphysician and Reiki Master M. LaRae, M.Sc.


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