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“Remove the ‘I want you to like me’ sticker from your forehead and place it on the mirror, where it belongs.“

– Susan Jeffers

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The Power of “I Am”

I’m aware of how powerful affirmations can be, but still, sometimes I get stuck in the “I know that” syndrome and resist practicing them, telling myself:

“I know this is supposed to work, and yet I feel awkward saying it out loud to myself, and how much is it really gonna change anything, anyway?” 

But even with all that inner “side chatter”, I started saying this affirmation every day and it has turned into a profound experience of transformation:

“I am whole, worthy, and powerful.”

I’ve been saying it out loud, in the mirror, just to myself. 

Over the course of three weeks, I noticed things in me begin to shift. It was as if I had pulled a loose thread of an old limiting belief, (aka paradigm), I’d carried quietly for years: something is wrong with me; somehow I’m flawed, not enough.

As I pulled that thread, the integrity of that old, fabricated “truth” began to unravel. And every other unconscious thought that had been woven into it, all the small, hidden ways I’d reinforced it, started to come loose too.

What remained was clarity, truth and the knowing that I am whole, worthy, and powerful.

Not just an intellectual understanding that I am all of those things, but a deep-seated, subconscious transformation.

The Unraveling

Unraveling can feel uncomfortable. For me, it brought old memories and emotions to the surface, even rage for being made to feel small and unworthy, which made perfect sense given the experiences that created that old paradigm in the first place.

But more than anything, it’s liberating. Because one, giving yourself permission to feel not so pretty feelings is one step toward accepting one’s authentic self and two, when something false unravels, what’s left is what’s real.

The Ripple of Awareness

One night I rewatched a movie I loved years ago, Contact with Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey. There’s a scene where she lands on a peaceful, otherworldly beach. When she reaches out her hand, the air around her ripples like liquid light, invisible but responsive, full of intelligence and life.

That scene stopped me. It gave me a visual for something I’ve known conceptually but rarely felt so vividly: we live inside a creative, intelligent field that is constantly responding to us. It’s like invisible jello, a living medium of pure potential.

Wallace Wattles once wrote that we exist and have our being in an intelligent  “thinking substance.” Watching that scene, I could feel it, this beautiful, responsive substance that carries our thoughts, our words, our “I am…”, and responds instantly.

And I realized again, the universe isn’t out there. We’re in it. We’re made of it.

A Dime and a Demonstration

A few days later, something small yet delightfully “evidential” happened.

My daughter was visiting from Brooklyn, and after collecting her at the train, we stopped to pick up her coffee order. We pulled into a metered spot, and knowing I had no change in my purse, I said out loud, “I’d love to find a dime so we can feed the meter and not get a ticket.”

Now, I never carry change. Ever. I’d even run out of the few coins I usually keep in the car door. But I reached into my bag, and there it was, a single dime.

I laughed and said to her, “Bridget, this is my life. I think a thought, and it shows up.”

It wasn’t about the dime. It was about coherence, being in harmony with what I would love.

When I’m aligned, (and this is true for you, too),  things I once considered “small coincidences” become quiet confirmations that the field around me is listening. That it’s alive and responding to my energy.

Practicing Coherence

The more I’ve practiced being clear and even playful, about what I would love, the more quickly I see evidence of that alignment. It’s like building a muscle.

At first, it takes repetition, getting accustomed to not pushing for the outcome I want. But over time, coherence becomes natural and feels easy.

When I’m clear, focused, and unattached, not hoping, not grasping, not needing, just being with the idea of what I’d love, I notice how easily the universe responds.

That dime was just one of many reminders.

The Subtle but Powerful “I Am”

It’s easy to underestimate how much power lives in two simple words: I am.

Whatever follows those words organizes your subconscious mind. And your subconscious mind, in turn, organizes the conditions of your life to match.

It’s one thing to “know” that intellectually. But it’s another thing to experience it, to actually feel your outer world rearranging itself in response to the inner intention you’ve chosen.

Each “I am” is like a command to the universe. It’s not about forcing or controlling; it’s about aligning.

That’s why this practice has felt so sacred to me. It’s not about trying to make something happen. It’s about remembering who I already am.

So now, I simply stay with the feeling of truth. 

Reflection

Every time you say “I am,” you are casting a vote for the reality you want to live in.

With an affirmation you choose your dominant thoughts, and spoken aloud, you are declaring your new direction to the universe.

You are planting a seed that reorganizes everything around you to reflect who you truly are.

So the next time you catch yourself doubting, or thinking an old thought that doesn’t serve you, pause and pull that thread. Let the false unravel.

And speak the truth instead:
I am whole. I am worthy. I am powerful.

Keep it up for a few weeks and you’ll feel the ripples, subtle at first, then unmistakable, moving through the intelligent, responsive, invisible “jello” of creation.

Your life begins to rearrange in wonderful ways you’ve previously thought impossible.