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Mumbai-based businesswoman Kunti Nagwekar, would also agree. Says she, “My life is nothing but what I say it is. What I say to myself about myself, money, others, my children, is what shows up. Nothing more or less. Even my body aligns to what I say. “If I say that I will get a cold after eating a guava, that is what my body will produce. Your whole life is on your tongue.”

  She gives a powerful example of the creative power of words. In 2011, her husband, Gautam, then CEO of Mahindra & Mahindra, passed away from         cancer. For Kunti, the bottom fell out of her world. She says, “Suddenly, I did not know what to do or how to live. I knew that if I did not take a      decision,  default thoughts would enter my head. So I decided to live life as a celebration. At his funeral I had the visceral experience that I too had    burned away  with him. I decided that the new me was boundlessness, love and joy. Every morning, I would wake up and even while crying, I would  affirm, ‘Who I am  is love, joy.’ In three months, people were coming to me and saying, ‘I can experience love in your presence.’”

Words make our world. They shape who we are and how we see life. They shape our response to situations and people and form our destiny. The words we use today become the life we live tomorrow.

Indeed, our very world has been created by the power of words. Our collective understanding of who we are, the values we stand for, the culture that defines us, the civilisation we belong to, is largely a creation of words. First orally and then through the written word after the invention of the printing press, mankind has been creating and recreating itself and life through words. The worldview we inherit and that we take to be the truth has been handed down to us from society through words.

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Harvinder Kaur: Using words to describe reality objectively