The Power of "I Am"

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Hello, and welcome to thisepisode of Decide on Joy, a
podcast coming to you fromHarmony Spiritual Center in Fort
Worth, Texas.
My name is Jim Kovalt, and myname is Reverend Dr.
P.
J.
Stanley.
Thanks so much for being heretoday.
And we, in general, are talkingabout various aspects of new
thought spirituality andsometimes beyond that.

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And today we're talking, thetitle of today's episode is The
Power of I Am.
PJ, you want to elaborate onwhat that is?
Yes.
So just, I'm going to go back towhat we're doing here.
And part of the, our our missionis to, to learn, to understand
how spiritual concepts work, thepower that we have of our minds

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and ours, our, our statements tocreate in the principles of the
universe to create our ownlives.
So understanding all the thingsthat help you create, create,
create.
our lives, help you create yourlife, is what we're trying to
share with you and and hopefullyhave you a better understanding
and put you more in control ofhow your life is turning out for
you.
And not everything, of courseyou can't, some things are just

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going to be accidents, we areliving in the world, but for the
most part, for the main, forWhat, what, what you can do to
live the life that you say youwant to live.
So understanding the power of Iam when you, whenever you say I
am, whatever goes behind that iswhat you end up calling in to
your life.
I am not a biblical scholar atall, but one of the, One of the

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things about I am that I recallfrom Bible studies and Bible
school was when, when Jesusasked, and people said, who do
you think you are?
And he said, who do you say Iam?
And that was just one, there wasmany other times when You use
the word I am and so it it saysto me and I know from my own

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experience That calling thingsinto your life starts with you
saying I am and it doesn't haveto be a positive thing You can
say I am something negative andstill draw that into yourself.
So Such as I am smart.
I am I am Whatever I want to sayabout myself, I am strong, I am

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courageous I am afraid.
All of those things, we, we'recalling it, that into our lives,
whatever, however we say it.
So when, when you say that, doyou have to believe it?
You are believing it becauseyou're saying it.
So it goes the other, you know,it goes in the opposite
direction.
The reason why you call, you sayit is because it's what you

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already think about yourself.
And so what ends up happeningis, is that you have to change
your mind about what you thinkabout yourself.
I'm afraid.
Okay, and you could be, it couldbe a situational fear.
Or it could be fear of moviestepping into something it's
stepping into your greatnessstepping into your purpose in
life stepping into a talent thatyou have.
I know I certainly denied atalent that I have But didn't

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believe that I did so it was mybelief and so I never thought I
was a good singer and would saythat And and would be reinforced
by other people around me sayingthe same thing right, but Here
we're talking about purposelylate I'm sort of doing
affirmations.
That is correct.
That's correct.
As I understood, part of that isabout building your belief.

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That's correct.
Not just that you have tototally believe you are powerful
when you say it.
Got you.
Repeatedly it's laying sometracks.
Yes.
Thank you for clarifying thatquestion as you're asking.
You're exactly correct That isthe reason why we're talking
about it because you can if youhave found yourself owning
something or having a Way ofbeing that you want to change

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You can't actually begin to twothings that you can do.
You can't actually start to laydown some Affirmations or so I I
am statements that are theopposite of that or that are
actually the thing you want tobring in as well as you can do
denials when you hear yourselfsaying the Automatic thing that
you say about yourself.
I am afraid you can stop and saythat's not true You can I I

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literally put my hand up To stopmyself so I can see no i'm not
going to let that end to my lifeI am afraid no I am not afraid I
am Courageous I step intowhatever it is that I'm stepping
into.
So yes, both affirm it.
You're, you're absolutelycorrect about that.

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So how, how does using that sortof statement empower you?
What is, what's, what's going onthere?
So I, it's that you're, you, themind is so powerful and what our
heart hears Is, is, is what wesay to ourselves repeatedly.

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And so when you say, I am, youare convincing yourself, you're
saying to yourself, you arebelieving yourself that this
thing, whatever you are ammingabout is true.
And so the more that you say it,whether it's currently true or
not, it either becomes true,which is not something you want.

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I am afraid.
And maybe you weren't.
But you are because youconsistently say it and convince
yourself that that is true.
So the opposite can also happen.
If you want to change that, andinstead of saying, I'm fearful,
I am courageous.
And you can continue to tellyourself that.
And the more that you say it,the more you're convincing your
subconscious that it's true.

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And that's what we get to do.
Did that answer the question youhad?
It's awesome.
Helpful if you can avoid havingyour subconscious running a
counter statement under there.
Exactly.
You may be saying, I amcourageous and back there your
mind's going, no, you're not.
And that, that will happen.
That's your thank you forbringing that up because that
will happen.
And that is the power ofcontinuing to say it, to say

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what you really want.
The reason why you're, you're,you're the background, it's
saying, no, you're not becauseit's heard you say many, many
times, I'm afraid.
And so it's remembering that.
It's like, no, you're notcourageous because you're
fearful.
You've told me this already, andyou've told me this many times,
so I know what is true.
So it's going to take a numberof times of you saying that and

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starting to, starting to feelthat truth on your heart, the
energetic truth of that that westart to feel that.
So the number of times that yousay it and start to feel
energetically the truth of it ishow it's going to con change.
But you do have to say it anumber of times to continue to
say it and con and affirm thetruth now.
That was true.

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It is no longer true.
Here's what is true.
You're not saying all of that.
This is what's going on in yourmind.
Yes.
It was true It's no longer truefor me.
Here's what is true.
So so and those words Actuallyhave the power to to shift
things The words themselves.
I don't believe the wordsthemselves do I think you

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convincing yourself is what thesame those words over and over
Convinces your heart so that soit it just It helps you bring in
the truth of who you are now.
Because you know, we're alwaysevolving, and sometimes we
simply remember who we were.
And we have to continue to saythat's not who I am anymore.
And sometimes we have changed.
We have actually evolved, butwe're still claiming what we
used to be.

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And so, that's just the way themind works.
It's just the way history works.
That's the way the people aroundus work.
That's one of the reasons why,you know, we talk about crabs in
a barrel and all this sort ofthing.
It's difficult to come out ofone mindset and go into another
because not only are youremembering what What you used
to do, but other people aroundyou are still emotionally
remembering that, too.
Who, that's, who are you to saythat?

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That's not who you used to,that's not, you don't do that.
Okay, I, I have to know.
Yes, please.
I heard the phrase crabs in abarrel there.
Did I hear that correctly?
Yes.
And what does that mean?
Oh, is that it?
Yeah.
So, so, you know, when crabs tryto get out of a barrel, they
pull each other down.
As one's trying to get out, theytry to climb over each other.
Oh, okay.
Oh, I'm sorry.

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I've had no exposure to crabsand barrels.
Oh, crabs and barrels, yes, yes.
They'll just pull each otherdown.
One will try to get out, and theother will try to get out too,
and pull that one down and tryto climb on top of it, and they
all just fall back down.
None of them can get out, yes.
Yes.
A metaphor for current politicsthere.
Ooh.
Ooh.
We won't go there.
Oh.
Okay.

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Moving on.
Yes.
In all directions, not, not anyspecific person we're referring
to there.
Yeah, so, and, and yeah, you,you talk about the, the, Like
with the Krabs, the influence ofother people trying to keep you
as to what they know you as.

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That is correct.
That is correct.
And that's of course thathappens.
It does.
People don't, people want theirworld, we're, we're comfortable
with what we know.
There's a, there's a path we'reused to taking, there's a, we're
used to you being this personand it, it disrupts our world
when you show up as somethingdifferent or someone different
than we've known you to be.
And so we're like.

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Well, what's this about no getback get back there get back to
being the person I know you tobe And unfortunately, that is
the evolutionary process thatyou do change It's and and the
here's what we know Is thatwe're either moving forward or
we're moving backward.
We're not staying the same.
You're not standing still We'renot standing still.
Either for age experiences,we're not standing still.

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And so it's the natural processfor us to move forward or to
move, whether it's forward orbackward.
But for whatever reason, again,And part of it, part of what we
do as we're trying to dosomething different, become
something more is that weactually move away from the
group that we were in and intothe group that is doing or
behaving the way we want tobehave.

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They talked to us about that inschool all the time.
Your parents always said it,well, stop hanging around with
those dummies you've beenhanging around with and start
hanging around with the smartkids, you know, start going to
studies hall with them.
We were told this our wholelives.
Mm hmm.
And And probably literally inaddition to the input that you

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might be getting from otherpeople and I don't say that
always happens certainly I haveknown people to To when I
haven't seen them in a whileand, and I see them again and
they, they perhaps have changedfor the better in my opinion
anyway.
Right, right, right, right.
And that, and that's exactly,that's how you see it.
So it's good for you.
And I recognize that and I, Idon't, I don't try and get them

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to be what they were beforebecause I didn't maybe like
that, you know, so I'm like,okay.
So again, who they are works foryou, so no need to change it.
Yes.
But if it doesn't work for you,then we're like, of course.
Trying to change it.
Yes.
Back to our comfort level.
And there's, like you've laiddown those patterns in your mind

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for yourself about what you are.
Yes.
The same, those patterns havebeen laid down in theirs, you
know, that is not necessarily avoluntary thing on their part.
It just, it just is.
It's just, it exactly is thatthey've just and there's a word
for it, but it's eluding meright now, but we do lay down
these patterns, these pathwaysof being behavior wise and just

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thinking wise, probably literalneural neural pathways for sure.
We do.
And so breaking out of those areit.
Is a, is a focused attempt.
It's a focused, determinedattempt to break away from those
pathways when it's no longerserving you.
Yes.
So that's, that's essentiallywhat all this I am thing would
be achieving.
Thank you.
Yeah.
That's a very valid, that's anabsolute valid point.

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You're exactly right.
Okay.
You are breaking the neuralpathways.
All right.
Yeah.
We can stop there for today.
I think that's good.
That sort of sums it up.
Okay.
Thank you for being here andwe'll see you at the next
episode.
Yeah.