While affirmations are designed to manifest their energies at some future time the power word is designed to energize and change you or the given situation right now, immediately.   Triumphant, energy, energize, strength, stamina, might, strong, mighty, competent, skilled, acceptable, beautiful, beware, invisible, talent, love, health, find, notice, desirable, hearty, hungry, satisfied, content, happy, comfortable, easy, relaxed, forgiving, energy, awake, and on and on and on and on.

Virtually any word can be a power word if that be your intent.  Note that power words are spoken mentally.  It is important also to realize that you have a volume of degrees when speaking mentally.  Mentally you can shout, or you can whisper. Sometimes you want to shout the word, other times, whisper it. You will know as you realize you have that ability.

Obviously if you are using a power word to relax, be comfortable or to sleep, you want to whisper it, not shout it. Sitting in a dentist”s chair waiting for a drill, to shout the word relax will not work. Whispering the word however will send you off immediately into a pleasant state of comfort.

Have a go at power words immediately and notice how differnt you feel and also how differntly others react to you.  Try some on the tube on in the shops and have fun.

You can demonstarte the power of words to make you either strong or weak with your friends.

Get a bunch of your friends together and give half of them the word ‘strong’ and ask them to repeat it over and over and really feel it within their body.   Tell them to think the word power for thirty seconds, repeating the word every two or three seconds.

To see the word in their mind’s eye and beginning with a diminished image start to enhance it.   Then to enlarge the word so that they can see it in huge letters on the side of a mountain and at the same time, hear the word spoken, becoming louder and louder.   They should mentally shout out the word power, while feeling themselves becoming more powerful as they do so.

Give the other half of your friends the word ‘weak’ and get them to follow the same instructions.  After five minutes ask all of them to hold their right arms straight out and away from their bodies.

Now test their arms for strength by having either you or someone press down on them.  People often gasp in astonishment and amusement as they realize that something unusual has taken place.  All those who were told to repeat the power word “strong”  will have their right arms extended and those who repeated the word “weak” will be looking kind of sheepish, with their right arms loosely dangling at their sides. The power words used have weakened those who thought weak and strengthened those who thought “strong.”

A muscular, healthy, bull of a man, believing that for some reason he is weak due to an imagined problem or that someone he is going to meet is stronger than he, will in fact be weakened. This has been proven many times in the professional arenas of the world, especially with boxers who attempt to “spook” or weaken their opponents with words of power for themselves and weakness for their opponent. The same effect is seen in the home-team advantage that has been well documented over the years in every high school, college, and professional stadium in the world.

When you get thousands of people together thinking of their man, woman, or team winning, those thoughts generate a feeling of power in the team members. The home-team advantage is enhanced even more when all the spectators use the same word, as they do when chanting the name of a favorite player.

You can use the technique of power words to create an immediate change in your actions. Whether it involves a change from cowardice to courage, procrastination to motivation, or lethargy to activity, there is a word for you.

Say that you wish to do something now that you have been putting off. Create a mental image of yourself doing this thing. You can add to the technique by brightening the image and then enlarging and zooming in on it. Once you have a clear image in your mind repeat the appropriate power word, in this case “energize.”

Repeat the word over and over while holding the image of the thing you wish to do. You will find your energy building to the stage where you will in fact energize yourself to do it. There are many words that you can use as power words. Strength, health, beware, handsome, beautiful, strong, powerful, courageous, fearless, thin, relaxed, successful, effective, attract, repel, creative, are but a handful.

See how many more you can think of that would be useful to you. Understand that you are in control, and that one of the tools of that control is the directed use of the power word. You can change, by degrees, from weak to strong, from fearful to courageous, from fat to thin, from putting things off to getting them done, and from failure to success in any goal you direct the powerful force of your mind to achieve.

Here’s another example of how words spoken internally can change outcomes.  This is a story I love and often tell people, especially clients who need a boost in self esteem.  This story came from one of my students who found it on the Internet:

An example of the dynamic force of the words of power came comes from the experience of a young girl who attended a workshop on the power of the mind with her parents. She hated school. Not because of the work, but because of a few of the students there. The young lady feared some of the local toughs in the school after suffering several verbal assaults by them in the past. She paid particular attention to the segment on power words.

She asked again and again if it were true that her thinking a particular word could actually have an effect on another person. She was told to try it and see. Her main interest was in keeping herself safe from harm, and she felt that learning power words would accomplish the most good. The day after the seminar, she subsequently reported, she was walking through the school yard past the group she feared, and instead of expecting sneers, smirks, someone tripping her, or perhaps a punch on the arm or worse, she concentrated on the power word “beware.”

She repeated the word “beware” over and over again mentally as she had been taught. She visualized a quiet beware in her mind growing louder and louder until the word filled her consciousness. Approaching the group with her head high and concentrating on the word beware, she strolled right on past the group, and for the first time she reported, not one of them said or did anything to harm her in the slightest. Indeed, she said, they acted as though she wasn’t even there.

Reasons abound for the effectiveness of the power word. There is the expectation that things will be right. There is the elimination of the negative expectation of fear, thereby producing a stress-free and relaxed state of mind. And not the least, there is the faith that the word instills in an individual. Here’s how to use the concept of power words as a resource to help better your life.

Begin with a simple word, one that will demonstrate to you the effectiveness of the power word concept. The first power word for you to use is the word power itself. You may use the finger/thumb technique by placing the thumb and forefinger of your stronger hand together as a trigger device to enhance its use.

Think the word power for thirty seconds, repeating the word every two or three seconds. Begin with a diminished image and enhance it. Enlarge the word so that you can see it in huge letters on the side of a mountain. At the same time, hear the word spoken, becoming louder and louder. Mentally shout out the word power, feeling yourself become more powerful as you do.

Take a few steps as you do this and you will notice that you are walking taller, straighter, and with more confidence. You may be able to feel new strength surging through your body. That is the concept and use of the power word.

Here’s a brilliant story to demonstrate the power of your words.

A few decades ago, there lived a Russian psychic whose reputation for accomplishing strange and mysterious feats rivaled that of our greatest magicians. It was said that while magicians used tricks to accomplish their sensational effects, Wolf Messing did not.

As the story goes, the Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, asked to see the psychic. He told his head of security to get the message to Messing that he was to be in Stalin’s office at the Kremlin within three days. He also told the security chief not to give the man a pass; if he was as good as he claimed, he should be able to get into the office without any passes, sanctions, or written material of any sort – even if it was the most closely guarded area in the entire world.

Two days after the request was made, Stalin looked up from his desk to see a man standing in front of him. Not only was this a breach of security, but to his mind it was impossible. Calling for his security people, he pressed hidden buttons that rang loud clanging bells and alarms. The entire floor was soon in an uproar. Guards ran in and surrounded the stranger. When the man was questioned, he revealed himself to be Wolf Messing, simply complying with Stalin’s request for an appearance.

On further questioning as to how he accomplished the seemingly impossible feat, he said that he laid a cloak of invisibility over himself by saying the words, “Beria, Beria, I am Beria,” and repeating it until he believed it himself. When questioned, the guards said that the only person who’d passed them was the head of the Soviet secret police, the chief of security, Lavrenti Beria. Wolf Messing’s feat is a remarkable demonstration of the concept of power words.

Examples of the use of power words are all around us, from the shouts of martial arts practitioners to the “Fore!” of golfers. Despite the prevalence and obvious utility of this concept, however, it seldom occurs to most people to apply it in their own lives. In this chapter we’ll give a more complete explanation of its use and range of applications so that you can add another valuable resource to your mental warehouse.