An interesting phenomenon I have discovered through personal experience and observation is that every time you speak something out into the universe, every time you make some sort of proclamation, the universe or God, whatever you want to call that mysterious power, will challenge your claim and test the truth of your words.
This isn’t all woo-woo spiritual hippie stuff, though. There is science to back up my claim. Studies have shown that whenever you talk about your goals or plans or resolutions to not do this thing or that thing, you trick your brain into believing that you have actually achieved something and chemicals are released in your brain and body that give you that feel good that comes with accomplishing something and makes you less likely to actually do something that moves you towards your goals.
It is for this reason that the Virtue of Silence and the Virtue of Resolution go hand in hand. You should keep your goals, plans, beliefs, and resolutions to yourself. Talking about these things weakens your resolve and will reduce the probability of you staying true to your resolutions. We all know that talking about something isn’t the same as doing it, but unfortunately your brain can’t see the difference between the two.
It’s a strange phenomenon that is difficult to prove, but every time I talk about my plans, goals or about my newest resolution, I receive a challenge from the universe. It can happen in the next five minutes, or in the same day, or the next day, but something will happen, and I am put in a situation where I am in a position to either confirm or disprove my resolve through action.
Sometimes the test can be really subtle, or it can be very obvious. I tell someone about how I quit drinking energy drinks and only drink coffee and then get offered a free Red Bull at work the next day. It’s like I try to convince myself it’s okay to drink it because it’s free and I didn’t actively pursue it, and of course I’m tired and caffeine would help. All of a sudden, I’m drinking a Red Bull and abandoning my resolution with little resistance.
Talking about your resolutions tricks your brain into believing you’ve accomplished something and then when the moment of truth comes to prove your resolve, it will be more difficult to support your goal because your brain chemistry has lowered your mental defenses. A false sense of satisfaction kills the desire to follow through on your ambitions. You are self-sabotaging your motivation by giving yourself the dopamine associated with accomplishing the goal without actually doing anything productive.
To avoid the challenges that the universe will throw at you to test the validity of your words, simply do not talk about your resolutions. You need to act. Keep your mouth shut and do what you need to do. Find peace in the Virtue of Silence.
Now for the woo-woo side of things. Consider this with an open mind for a moment. If the power of manifestation is truly a reality, then the people you are voicing your goals and resolutions to can be using their own powers of manifestation to defeat yours. If your goal is a lofty one, which most goals worth working towards are, and if your resolution is a difficult one to stick to, then it will probably be far easier for that person listening to you to imagine you failing and to believe that you will fail than it is for you to believe that you will succeed.
That person most likely doesn’t have any negative intentions, nor do they hope you will fail, but we’ve all heard our own friends talk about some great thing that they are going to accomplish only to see it shortly forgotten or see them fail just the next day.
This is especially true if whoever is talking has a long track record of never actually doing any of the things that they say they are going to do. Your powers of manifestation can be defeating your friend’s powers of manifestation to accomplish that thing just as the reverse is true.
That power of manifestation comes from the strong belief and strong mental pictures. If the person who you are telling your goals to strongly believes you will fail, then they could be directly contributing to the challenges that the universe throws at you. Their belief that you will fail, whether badly intended or not, may be stronger than your belief that you will succeed.
I cannot provide evidence that this is the case because it’ impossible to measure, but if you experiment with the idea, you can come to your own conclusions as to whether or not what I’m saying could be true.
Keep your resolutions to yourself by utilizing the Virtue of Silence as a safeguard against negative manifestations becoming a reality. In fact, if you keep your resolutions a secret and your peers see the fruits of your labor and if you keep that resolution a secret even after being asked how you did what you did, then your peers might start imagining you doing incredible things.
They start believing that you are deserving of what you have accomplished and now their powers of manifestation are being used to aid your success. It may seem like a backwards approach to how you think things should work, but that’s often the case before you understand manifestation.
If you want your resolve to be strong, then don’t give the universe a reason to challenge it. Don’t give your brain an opportunity to sabotage your efforts. You don’t have to announce everything on your mind to the world. Most of the time, people don’t really care about your goals. In fact, most people don’t want you to succeed because they see you as a threat to their own success or social status, so why tell them anyway? What you want for your life isn’t any of their business, so why let them in on your goals? It’s your life not theirs.
Don’t trick your brain into false satisfaction. It’s better to be dissatisfied because dissatisfaction is a motivator, and what you want to be about action, not flowery words about what could be. Stay true to the Virtue of Silence and Resolution and watch the results.
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