Yogan's Journey to Life

What are connotations? So it turns out we have divided our languages into the positive and negative. Relax-lazy confident-arrogant brave-foolhardy (brash) determined-hard headed (stubborn) So you will notice above that all the words on the left have  positive connotations and the words on the right have negative. Both words however mean the same thing, the only difference being that the person views the act as either positive or negative. So this is what is meant by connotation. It is useful to also know the word denotation, which means what a words actually means its: definition. So what does the fact that we have created and use words that have built in their definition a meaning of positivity or negativity? Personally, I see this as a form of a secret underhanded enslavement, where we in a moment react. Because if we were to separate out the positive and negative meaning and express explicitly that we view something as positive or negative we would speak like this: ...

W O R D S Today I watched the eqafe video by Anu about words: The Nature of Words - Reptilians - Part 183 I also spent some hours for writing a word, saying the word outloud, and then writing what came up and apply self-forgiveness, like so: -->  Word: Performance -what if I don’t do well enough? -I have to do better. I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to connect the word ‘performance’ to the words ‘what if I don’t do well enough?’ I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to connect the word ‘performance’ to the words ‘I have to do better.’ Word: last year -its too long ago -it doesn’t matter. I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to connect the words ‘last year’ to the words ‘its too long ago.’ I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to connect the words ‘last year’ to the words ‘it doesn’t matter’ The above example was written when I was writing an email to a professor and I noticed I ...