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The Power of ‘Right Speech”

As we explore new boundaries and degrees of acceptability in justice, equality, and right relationship, our history and heritage are coming under intense scrutiny. Some of this is a powerful journey through the lessons that we can learn and apply in how we choose to live and behave today. Some have become, as it often does, a strange parody of extreme outrage.

In reflecting on this I am reminded of the fundamental power of ‘right speech’. As much as any actions taken in the past or previous cultural norms show us the definite need for new values, mindsets, and behaviours, we would be well-served to consider the basic principle of right speech.

Right speech starts with the quality of our inner thought life because it’s our thoughts that actually create the world we live in…as we think, so we do. In righting the injustices in our world, we need to come from a place of love, allowing love to fuel our thinking, words, and actions.

Speech is a sound that carries a vibrational quality and energy. The tone and quality of that sound are impacted by how and what we think. The more angry, harsh, and judgemental our thinking, however seemingly justified, the more we risk replacing one injustice with another. The real need is for compassion, understanding, and creative thought directed at creating a fair, equal, and just society.

As leaders, we know the power of words. We know how some ideas can carry and some fall flat. If we truly examine where we have the greatest impact, it is when we have alignment between what’s in our heart and what’s in our mind. Sometimes, as with Hitler, this can be used for evil. Mainly, hopefully, we are fuelled by love and care for others and our impact is at worst benign and at best uplifting, inspiring and transformative.

Right speech will help us all to make the small and large steps toward the better world we all want. Leaders everywhere, organisational, campaigners, teachers, children, the person in the pub…we all need to examine the quality of our inner thought life and our hearts and allow that to guide what we say and how we say it.

Lorraine Flower
Lorraine Flowerhttp://azzur.co.uk/
As a Corporate change agent, consultant, coach and mentor Lorraine founded azzur and is completely transparent about the spiritual principles on which it operates. Alongside her 18 years as azzur’s founder, Lorraine brings 20 years' service industry experience to bear through her senior leadership roles at British Airways (BA) and Great North Eastern Railway (GNER). It is Lorraine's belief in individual and organisational power for good that gives azzur its raison d'etre. azzur and Lorraine specifically has worked with clients across the business spectrum from financial services, to retail and transport to healthcare an in both the public and private sectors. azzur is focused on developing contemporary, spirited leadership capability, and organisations built on inspiring purpose, empowering cultures and a powerful vision and values. She is championing new models of leadership and organisational development founded on the principles of conscious leadership and writes extensively on these topics.She is a member of a number of global spiritual groups and communities serving the greater good of Humanity and the planet. She works and studies extensively in developing and exploring conscious leadership believing that business leaders are key players in transforming the well-being of the planet and humanity as a whole.

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