INCREDIBLE WORD POWER - A UNIQUE HUMAN ENDOWMENTDo you know that the energy generated by positive and negative words can actually change the physical structure of an object? That the words you speak to a medium like water or a bowl of rice will be 'digested' by the targeted inanimate object with forceful and visible impact? Your body will digest the words spoken to you as any food material you eat and will transform your biology. Words crystalize our perceptions that would shape our beliefs. These beliefs drive our behaviors and create our world. Words and thoughts are inextricably tied together. No word, no thought. No thought, no word. The thought is the inner kernel of word and word, its outer shell. In the final analysis, you are your words, and your words shape your world. The words are inarguably the most powerful force and a unique gift of the creator to humans. The transformative power of words emerges from the emotional responses triggered in the body as you read, speak, or hear them. We do make innumerable self-talks every moment, every day. Positive autosuggestions, repeated often enough, can actualize our desires. Many people are also habituated to underestimating themselves using terms like 'stupid' 'unworthy' 'untalented' 'lousy' etc. A phenomenon called the 'Illusion Truth Effect' posits that any statement we repeatedly read, see, or speak, true or false, can alter our minds. This being the case, one can imagine how the negative autosuggestions will shape a false self-image within us.The first part of the 'Incredible Word Power - A Unique Human Endowment' dwells on the amazing power of the word, how it creates our world, its curative properties, etc., which, more often than not, are overlooked or grossly underestimated. The book peeps into the great Indian epics and examines why: --- Mahabali, the asura king, who gave a boon of three steps of ground to a scheming Vamana, stuck to his word and consequently gave up his kingdom and got banished to Patala, the infernal regions.---Dasarath, the king of Ayodhya in Ramayan, could have given a 'no' as the answer to wife Kaikeyi's malicious demand that the two boons he promised her were to be granted unjustly. Instead, the king chose to honor his committed word and paid with his life.---Kunti of Mahabharat didn't change her mind nor withdrew the inadvertent words spoken to her five sons, which caused them to share one wife, although polygamy was never an approved practice in any age. ---To keep his word to an unworthy Duryodhan, Yudhistir, the eldest of Pandavas, pledged, one after another, all four mighty brothers and also their wife, and surrendered them too, upon losing in a deceitful dicing game. And eventually, they all got banished to the forest along with the mother, empty-handed.All because the people of yore considered their words as inviolable. To them, their words' worth was distinctly superior to their net worth. Why so?Do you know the root cause of the cultural decadence and deterioration of values in the modern world?Success in life depends on our ability to discover and cash in on certain only-for-humans gifts of God. One, the four keys, to open the door to winning, that lie between any stimulus and one's response to it. Two, the three birth-gifts, postulated by Sankaracharya, to realize the ultimate goal of human birth. Nature maintains a spiritual bank account in the name of each jivatma. We should be wary of what constitutes the debit, credit, and balance in this account and how that is deterministic in the type and nature of rebirths of the soul.Why and how the carpenter's rule 'measure twice, cut once' is important in our life?What are the two life questions that will help you leave a legacy and add to the soul's 'bank balance'?How the law of giving is richly rewarding and the power to give, limitless for anyone?Find all the answers and much more in this second book in the series 'holistic personal development'.