54. Leaving Imprints

When walking barefoot on a sandy beach, we leave our foot imprints that soon get washed away. However, this cannot be said about emotional imprints left by harsh words, that can lead to long-lasting terrible consequences. Everyone of us have faced this in our lives whether we recognise it or not and our physical health is the evidence of its imprint. Isn’t it time to bring our focus to how every word we utter, carries a power beyond the moment it is out?

Kind words, full of love and compassion has an incredible power to heal. Unfortunately, it is the hurtful words and actions that leave a deeper imprint…causing a lasting damage. As the impetus for these come from our thoughts, it is a rare and powerful outlook that focuses on how and what to think, in order to create a reality that we control.

What kind of imprint do we want to leave behind? The fact remains, that there is no choice in this matter – we created an imprint from the moment we came into this world! It is more a case of what kind of a difference our words and behaviour have created in the lives of the people we encounter…and how enriching it could be for us. If only we can get a grasp on our thinking and bring awareness to it… just imagine the results!