Words

How often do you focus on the goodness?
How often are you sad?
How often do you think and talk
Of things that make you feel quite bad?

If you care to pay attention
To the things that cross your mind
Quite a big surprise, my friend,
We think that you would find.

You do enjoy your gossip.
You talk and talk of others' plights--
Of what they do in public
And with whom they spend their nights.

You focus on your body
And how it gives you pain,
Of how it ages, how it groans
And with your voice you do the same.

You talk quite like a record
Going round and round without a pause
And also without seeing
That your low vibrations you do cause.

Listen closely to your words.
Pay attention to the themes.
Are they happy and uplifting
Or as bad as your life seems?

If the latter, do not wonder
Why your life is not so gay.
It's right there in the topics
That you so often choose to say.

Idle chatter and the gossip
May be fun for just a while,
But in the long run rest assured
They will not bring about a smile.

Hear your thoughts before you speak.
Speak not with judgment of your brothers.
Speak of love and cheerful things.
Speak with kindness of all others.

You are the cause of your own health,
Of how you feel from day to day.
It all begins within the mind
So be aware of what you say.