“I am”
When we use the words I am, we are kind of back stepping on all the hard work we have done.
People are investigating where they are happy and where they want to improve and what is their nature and what is their nurture, but then what we all often do is harden the results of these investigations into a deciding that what we are noticing about ourselves is all we will ever be because that is just the way we are.
But instead of hardening our self-awareness observations into a sense of identity, we can instead make a different choice. We can choose to stay lighter, more playful, and more curious with our self-awareness process.
We can tap lightly on our observations of self and let them swirl around in our awareness, like a dandelion seed in the wind.
We can just let awareness itself blow our self-awareness in whatever direction it needs to go without putting on artificial brakes and freezing our self-awareness epiphanies into a hard and fast rule for our life by slapping I am on the front of them.
So, let’s drop the I am’s and soften into whatever just is.
Ruth Lera, 2015, The 2 Most Dangerous Words We Use on Our Path to Enlightenment.