How the Words ‘I Am’ Can Bring You Joy

The Awake Yoga Meditation Podcast

Dear Feel Love Now Community,

When we say “I am”, we are actively shaping our reality. This teaching, rooted in both Biblical and Yogic traditions, reveals how our words and thoughts connect us to divine source energy. As the Gayatri Mantra reminds us, radiance flows into time and space—just as our consciousness flows into our daily experience.

Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:

“So right after the Divine says to Moses, ‘Put off thy shoes from off thy feet for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground,’ Moses asks the Divine, ‘What name do you call yourself?’ And that’s the famous place where the Divine says, ‘I am that I am.”

“Each of us—from the standpoint of the yogic teachings—is participating in that great I am. Each of us is connected with pure source energy. So, the Gayatri Mantra says radiance projects into time and space. We are continually participating in that flow of creative energy.

“Every time we say ‘I am,’ whatever follows the ‘I am,’ we are helping to activate that. And so, just pay attention to your own thought patterns, your own words, the predominating features of what do we add to ‘I am,’ for each of us. There’s an incredible power to change right there in that self-awareness.”

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If you have heard this teaching before, we invite you — as Swami so often invites us — to hear it as if you are hearing it for the first time. Often we receive these teachings right when we need them.

In loving service,The Karma Yoga Team at AYM

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