I’m tired.’ ‘I’m so broke.’ ‘I’m too fat.’ ‘I’m lazy.’ ‘I’m miserable.’ ‘I’m confused.’ ‘I’m worthless.’ Every day millions of us walk around saying these kinds of self-destructive ‘I am’ statements about ourselves. We say them to ourselves when no one’s around, we use them to describe how we feel when asked and we unconsciously wear them around like armour deflecting all of love and opportunities that we so desperately want.
Our words create our future
Our words are very powerful. Words can heal and restore or they can wound and destroy. Take a moment to really think about this for a second. Have you ever noticed how someone saying a certain word can make you swoon and then in the next breath they use another word and you’re ready to attack? Of course right?! It’s because our words create the future. And if we aren’t using them consciously and responsibly we will continue to say and create the same things whether we like it or not.
What we put after ‘I AM’ we become
I was watching an electrifying episode of Oprah’s life class with Joel Osteen and I remember him saying this “Whatever we put after ‘I AM’ we become’. The moment those words left his lips and floated into my consciousness my whole life changed. Because I stopped complaining, acting like a victim and asking ‘why?’ certain things happened to me. I was able to see that everything in my life, the good and the bad, was my very own creation. Now don’t get me wrong, it was a bit of a tough pill to swallow. There were some awful things that happened to me, like dating a guy who nearly destroyed my credit or being assaulted that I didn’t want to take responsibility for… But when I found the courage to dig really deep and truthfully look at myself in the mirror, I was able to see how the negative beliefs I had about myself at the time, shaped the negative way that I talked about myself and created an opening for negative people to find their way into my life. (To be perfectly clear, I’m not saying that what happens us is our ‘fault’. What I am saying is that how we feel about ourselves and what we say about ourselves affects who and what we attract into our lives.) Then I saw something even more amazing! I saw that if negative thoughts and negative words could create negative things, then positive thoughts and positive words can create positive things.
Focus on the positive
When we focus on the positive we create the positive. So from now on whenever you talk about yourself be sure to only place positive and powerful descriptive words after the words ‘I AM’. I’m not asking you to be Pollyanna and ignore how you really feel or what’s really going on. But what I am saying is that we all need to bring more awareness to what and how we say it. For example instead of saying ‘I’m broke’, say, ‘I’ve got 500 dollars in my bank account. I’m so ready to tear the lid off this issue and make more money than ever before.’ Can you see the difference in the energy that each of these two statements holds and how they both create different futures?
Play the Positive “I AM’ game with your super amazing friends
I play this game all the time with my best friends. We’ll often ask each other to retract whatever it was we said and say the statement again in a positive way. We do this for each other not to pick on each other, but because we love each other, we want the best for each other and because it makes a huge freakin difference in our lives. So I’m encouraging you now to share this concept with all of your best friends and play the Positive ‘I AM’ game. Make a pact to point out to each other when one of you says a self-desructive statement and turn that icky statement into a power statement. Not everyone will want to play with you… Some people are just attached to their ‘stuff’. If you ask someone to play and they scoff, don’t make it mean anything about you. Just move on and find some other awesome person who wants to play.
Here’s the bottom line. You ROCK! Did you really take that in? If not i’ll repeat myself and this time take in and read the words out loud until you really feel it okay?! I said YOU ROCK!!!
You have the power
You have the power to create anything that you want. And there is absolutely nothing that can stand in your way or stop you any longer. Change your thoughts, change your words and you will change your life. If you loved this article and the lesson we talked about today and you want more check out the Cosmic Fire and Basic Coaching programs and join our facebook page. This is article is a little bite size morsel of the kind of distinctions and yummy stuff we focus on at Modern Day Wise Woman.
You have the power to create anything. This is your life. Make it beautiful!
xo Renee
P.s. Are you going to take on the Positive ‘I AM’ Challenge? Share your experience with us.
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