| Conscious Language & Manifesting Our Heart's Desire An Interview with Robert Tennyson Stevens by Elizabeth Cutting Mignon, daughter of Robert Tennyson Stevens, said this about having a session with her father: "I catch a magic glimmer when I'm being with Dad. I think, 'Oh, this is possible.' We could all be our magic, amazing, holy, sacred, precious being self, doing whatever it is we are ecstatic and enthusiastic to be. This man has the brilliant, amazing ability to look right at you and see your truth, under whatever you have put on top of it, through whatever appearances you have, through to the pure truth that sets you literally free to be and live what you most desire." "It's like he knows how to read the universal code," she said. "He can look in your eyes, hear your language, and know the physical and soul challenges of your life." Robert Tennyson Stevens is a teacher of conscious languaging. He and his wife, Helena, co-founded Mastery Systems Corp. (www.masterysystems.com). His expertise encompasses spoken language, body language, emotions, nutrition and imagination. He had developed a profound ability to understand the unconscious messages in the spoken word and created a system to bring them to consciousness. He teaches techniques to use the awakened awareness to return to wholeness and manifest heart's desire. He spoke with The EDGE about his upcoming talk and workshops on February 1-3 in Kansas City. How do you define "Conscious Language?" Robert Tennyson Stevens: The word "conscious" means "to be aware." The idea of conscious languaging is a description of being aware of what I'm saying and using my language to claim or connect with what I choose. If I say, "I want help," and I were aware of what I was saying, the definition of the words would be, "I desire help -- without having it." I would also be saying, "I lack help," because the word want means lack. With conscious awareness, I can upgrade to: "I choose help," or "I will find help," or "I give myself help," or "Please help me." How did you become interested in conscious language? Stevens: I originally started my trek in languaging in my second year of college in Western Michigan University in 1968 studying the Hopi language. I realized shortly, in my study of language in a book written by Benjamin Lee Whorf called Language, Thought and Reality, that our language shapes our reality. The hub of all my studies came together in an event about 17 years ago. I was doing a form of healing called "body electronics." The man who was having the session had a broken leg. I heard him say as he relived a memory, "I don't understand, I don't understand, I don't understand." His left leg went off the curb and he broke his leg saying, "I don't understand why my wife left me." I woke up in that moment, after 20,000 body electronic sessions, to the idea that our subconscious is 100 percent literal. All my study in positive thinking and spirituality, and herbs, and acupressure, and many, many systems all came together in one idea: Our subconscious takes what we say literally. How have you seen language affect health? Stevens: All our "dis-ease" is spoken into exactly and specifically. If somebody says, "I don't see," or "I don't want to be seen," that's going to be eye issues. If somebody has support issues, it's probably going to be shoulders of spine issues. "I can't handle this," might be carpal tunnel. "I just don't understand you," can be leg or back issues about standing under ourselves. If we were to sit in a doctor's office and listen to the physical challenges of patients, we could hear them describing, unconsciously, their state. They would be actually decreeing into the state they are "trying to heal." They would actually be languaging it exactly. Sickness is a consciousness. Separation is a consciousness. God-being-outside-of-me is a consciousness. What would happen if everything I've ever desired is already within me? We have the opportunity to speak the truth from our hearts and to give ourselves permission to be already unified, already loved, already one with our creator. My prayer is to share with people what their language is doing. We have a system of language, thought and communication I call the "Babble Virus," a language system of confusion: want, need, should do, have to, kinda, maybe, so that, in order to, I think, hopefully, someday. Many of us have been living with the old paradigm that everything is hard: work, relationships, life.... It is only because that is what we have learned. Now we can learn new options. We can choose to make it easy. A lot of humor has a negative edge to it. How do you see humor fitting in with conscious language? Stevens: The power of negative jesting or sarcasm is that it does go into the subconscious on some level. The word sarcasm comes from a word that means, "the tearing of flesh." In my experience, sarcasm is taken directly by the subconscious. Even when the mental body knows one is joking, the emotional body feels pain or hurt. There is a way to laugh in beauty, in joy, in harmony with our greater truth. Laughing with ourselves, "lightening up," is really important. How has your focus changed or grown in the last few years? Stevens: I realize there are stepping stones in languaging. Conscious languaging, for me, is a great way to start my awareness of what I am saying, and then lovingly ask myself, "Is what I said exactly what I choose to have happen? Is it my highest choice to want, or to try to get something, or to need something or to hope something?" If I don't feel good, is there another way that I can say it and be creative? If I don't feel good, I could say, "I choose to feel good," and still be honest. So my focus is to say whatever is true in a conscious, creative way, in a way that opens doors instead of a way that finalizes my situation. Tell us about your upcoming workshops in Kansas City Stevens: The Saturday workshop, "Living the Path of Conscious Language," gives a profound series of tools. Within a day we are able to make a quantum leap in consciousness through languaging. We find core self-sabotage patterns in an individual's thinking or speaking, and give tools for upgrading language into their heart's desire, into having and being and doing what they really choose. "The Power of Imagination Activation," the Sunday workshop, teaches imagination from our goal and in a consciousness of it already existing. If I imagine from already being healthy, my subconscious will go, "Oh, this person is already imagining from it, so it's already here." My health begins to happen quickly. It's a very rapid increase of manifestation time. On February 2-3 in Kansas City, Robert Tennyson Stevens will present a pair of workshops, with an introductory evening Friday February 1. Each one-day event may be done individually or both can be taken together. For information or to register, contact Elizabeth Cutting at (816) 532-4727. Elizabeth Cutting is a writer, astrologer and seminar producer. Contact her at (816) 532-4727 for a personal astrology reading. Copyright © 2002 Elizabeth Cutting |
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