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THE POWER OF I AM
“I AM” are the two most powerful words on Earth because what comes after those words will determine who you will become. And they will define the life you will experience.
Have you ever thought about the power of the words “I AM”? Do you recognize the unconscious “I AM” statements you are making about yourself all the time? You should begin to look at them! You might be amazed at how many times you look in the mirror and then just look away because you believe there is nothing you can do to make yourself look better. You’re ugly. You’ll never be beautiful. Your freckles are hideous. Your nose is too big. Your hair will always be unruly. You’re too short or fat or tall or thin. All the things you tell yourself every day have an impact on the way you feel aboutyourself.
“But I can’t change my height or my hair or mynose!”
While all that is true, you can change the way you think about them. You can’t change your past, but you can change the way you view it. You may not be able to immediately change your circumstances, but you can change the way you think about them. You have the freedom and the immense power to decide who you are, who you’d like to become, and what you think about anything and everything. Some may call that ‘having an opinion’. But if you pursue your opinion with intensity, it will become yourreality.
The truth is, you are your own biggest critic and the creator of your own life. Unfortunately, most of us are very critical of ourselves. We don’t hold on to positive beliefs because we’re constantly being bombarded by negativity. In fact, many of the beliefs you have about yourself and your world actually come from someoneelse.
- How did you begin to think the way you do?
- When did your world change?
- What influenced the way you think today?
- How did your emotions, heart and spirit become what
they are?
Surely you were not born to mistrust or hate others or devalueyourself.
Let meexplain.
As babies, our world–the environment we live in and experience–is decided by our parents. As small children, we’re still relatively fearless in that we have no awareness of injustice, injury, politics, invasion, privacy, or context, among other things. Our only context is the world in which we currently live, the world our parents created. This may be a h