I've Been Praying Alot Lately

[Michlow]

Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

Michlow, when I first spoke in tongues, it was completely involuntary. It was my voice, my vocal chords and my breath but it was like a fountain of water gushing from my belly through my throat, words in tongues. Was your experience like this?

Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*

Could you talk about this a little more? How/when you still speak in tongues? When you're praying, just out of the blue..... when? What triggers it?

I kind of feel like I'm on the therapists couch, LOL

When I speak in tongues, it's not like I have no control over it. I can clamp my lips shut and stop my tongue from moving. But at the same time, it's not an action that I perform willingly.

The best way to describe why or when is that it seems to happen when I am totally and completely overcome emotionally. Whether this is joy, sadness, anger, excitement, it doesn't seem to matter. I guess I look at it takes over when I am beyond words or coherent thought.

It's one of the things in my experience that I cannot explain. And I'm pretty sure I'm not making it up. I guess there is a chance that it could be some sort of brainwashing / mass hysteria after effect, but I don't truly believe that.