"I Am" - Magic Words
How many times a day do you say the words "I am?"
Check it out for yourself. During any normal day in any normal conversation you will probably find that you say these words often.
What is important is to pay attention to what you follow "I am" with. Is it something you want more of in your life or is it something you want less of in your life? For example, on an average day are you more apt to say, "I am happy" or "I am miserable"? When you think about it, do you most often tell others, "I am feeling great," or do you frequently lament, "I am so tired"?
If you are like most people, especially
during stressful times, you are following "I am" with negative
statements rather than a positive ones; with things you want less of in
your life rather than things you want more of.
The words "I am" are very powerful.
Most of the world's religions talk about the "I am" presence
that is your God-self or higher self. This is the creative part of your
being. The words "I am" invokes this higher self, which has
the power to create your physical reality. In other words, when you say,
"I am" you are issuing a command to your higher self to create
whatever follows these words; a command that encompasses your whole self.
For example, the statement, "I am tired," commands your whole presence -- physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual -- to be tired. A better statement would be, "My physical body is tired." This new statment frees your emotional, mental, and spiritual selves from being tired and allows them to develop a plan about how to rejuvenate the physical body. If "I am tired" encompasses all of these individual parts of you, then no one is left with the energy to take action and your level of tiredness is not only magnified but it also persists.
A powerful exercise is to simply say
those two statements:"I am tired" and "My physical body
is tired." Compare the feeling that you have with each. The first
serves as a command that your whole being obeys instantly to provide a
powerful feeling of tiredness. The second gives a feeling of observing
your tired body.
Likewise, "I am depressed (or angry)" can be replaced with "My emotional body is depressed (or angry)." Notice again the difference in feeling level between the two statements.
You can also say "My mind is confused
(or overwhelmed)" rather than "I am confused (or overwhelmed)."
Not only are these revised statements more accurate of what is really
happening, but they allow for some parts of you to observe and come to
the aid of other parts. This keeps you from getting stuck in a feeling
or mental state that you have commanded your whole being to adopt.
Reserve the "I am" statements
for what you want to create more of. For instance, your mind might be
inspired by something you have read and when you say, "I am inspired,"
it calls all of your being to come into a state of inspiration. Perhaps
your physical body is feeling energized, say, "I am feeling energized,"
and your mental, emotional and spiritual bodies follow suit.
It may seem like only semantics, but magic lies in speaking words that call certain vibrations into being. The words, "Abra ka dabra" that we associated with magicians are actually Aramaic words (the language that Jesus spoke) that mean, "I create as I speak." Claim the power of your words through the wise use of "I am."
I am joy singing
Its song of life to the dawn
All nature dances.
Brilliant light
surrounds
The form that I manifest
I Am that I Am
If you have comments on this article or ideas for future topics, call Linda Heron Wind at (585) 924-5620 or send e-mail to LHWind@aol.com.
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