Sharon Anne Klingler - Power words: igniting your life with lightning force

Praise for Power Words

I love this book! Power Words is perhaps the most profound, transformative book ever written on the influence that our internal (and external) language has on our lives. In an easily accessible style, Sharon Anne Klingler demonstrates the energy and effect of every word we use. Highly recommended, this book can change your life.

Denise Linn, Author, The Secret Language of Signs and Sacred Space

Your words carry energy, and they shape your life. InPower WordsSharon Anne Klingler helps you to become a maestro of your wordsappreciating them, loving them, choosing them in ways that steer your life toward your hearts desire. This book will forever change your relationship with words, the most intimate companions of your mind. I highly recommend it.

Donna Eden, Author, Energy Medicine

Sharon Anne Klingler has written the book I wish I had!Power Wordstakes all the elements of instant creation and puts them into doable, fun, empowering exercises we can all choose in the snap of a finger. A new, fresh take on the simplicity of creation itself.

Dee Wallace, Actress, Author, International Speaker, and Radio Host

What a simple but brilliant idea! Sharon Anne Klingler brings a heightened awareness to this ever so important thing we do every day. She provides countless examples so that you can ignite your own life with the power of words. I love this book!

Michele Takei, Ph.D., Author of She-Q and Mandala Magic

Power Wordshelped me see the subtle ways I create my life every day. Sharons exercises are effective, simple, inspiring, and they work very quickly!

Mary McCann, Actress, Atlantic Theater Company Member

As a practicing psychologist and hypnotherapist, Ive incorporated the principles inPower Wordswith my clients. I believe that therapists of every stripe will findPower Wordsapplicable as a powerful intervention and homework tool. This book also lends itself to those in the world of interpersonal communication, advertising, and marketing. Most surprising, Sharons book installed an unconscious positive technique in me that fits my psychology. I recommend this book to all who are on a path of personal growth. Its full of simple exercises, examples, and wisdoms that can help anyone and everyone!

Michael Freedman, Ph.D., Psychologist

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Copyright 2013 by Sharon Anne Klingler

Published and distributed in the United States by: Hay House, Inc.: www.hayhouse.com Published and distributed in Australia by: Hay House Australia Pty. Ltd.: www.hayhouse.com.au Published and distributed in the United Kingdom by: Hay House UK, Ltd.: www.hayhouse.co.uk Published and distributed in the Republic of South Africa by: Hay House SA (Pty), Ltd.: www.hayhouse.co.za Distributed in Canada by: Raincoast: www.raincoast.com Published in India by: Hay House Publishers India: www.hayhouse.co.in

Cover design: Julie Davison Interior design: Nick C. Welch

All of the stories in this book are true. However, all names have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals involved.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public or private useother than for fair use as brief quotations embodied in articles and reviewswithout prior written permission of the publisher.

The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Klingler, Sharon A.

Power words : igniting your life with lightning force / Sharon Anne Klingler.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-4019-4179-6 (pbk.)

1. Change (Psychology). 2. Language and emotions. I. Title.

BF637.C4K55 2013

650.1014dc23

2013028693

Tradepaper ISBN: 978-1-4019-4179-6

16 15 14 13 4 3 2 1
1st edition, December 2013

Printed in the United States of America

I dedicate this book to my dear friend, Dr. Wayne Knolla gift to his students at Georgetown University, a treasure to all his family and friends, andin every waythe best of men.

T he discovery of words is one of lifes greatest adventures. My quest to discover the enormous energy of words started many, many years ago when a good friend and health-care professional, Loren Schuh, gave me one word to say in order to prevent injury when lifting heavy cartons. I tried it, and my body immediately jumped to attentionjust by saying a single word! And it wasnt an action word, like a verb; it was just a simple, single noun. (Later youll be surprised by what this very effective word is.)

I wondered then, if a specific, simple noun can stimulate a precise and very active response, what kind of power can be lurking in the other words we speak? I was determined to find out. Of course, this quest wasnt entirely new for me. The origins and meanings of words have long been a curiosity and even a passion of mine. Words communicate, but when their energy is focused, words take on a new life. They can become weapons in an arsenal, beacons in the dark, and catalysts for indescribable power. It is this power, this force of wordsapart from all elsethat began to fascinate me and move me in a very literal way.

When you say to someone, I give you my word, its meant to convey a promise. Its an absolute, unwavering promise of some future action or some unimpeachable truth. As I studied and worked with the energy of words, I began to realize that I was giving my word with every word I spoke or thought. Just imagine the kind of power you have at hand when each word holds the promise of action and a proclamation of truth!

It was this promise of action and truth that led me to understand and work with the energy of words in two different ways: