Distilling Thoughts

Part of my ritual is to write the same I Am statement 20 times in order to focus on what’s intended, claim it, and do so until it’s the result that’s lived. Rather than doing this by rote, I allow my mind to engage with what’s taking place. I listen to what’s happening at the inner level as I write.

When I first started this practice, I carefully chose what I intend for myself and arrived at three things. I noticed that as I put pen to paper, sometimes I’d come close to running out of room on the line before I was finished. A question popped into mind, “Do I feel I have room for or feel ready to make room in my life for this one?” Since I list three outcomes in one sentence, I wondered if the first two took priority over the third. Did I write the entire sentence out with balance in mind?

The words I used for my second item kept niggling at me. One morning, I focused attention there and realized the words and energy attached to them created an opposite, as though I actually affirmed I don’t have it now on some level. I also saw it was written as a general rather than specific outcome. What did I truly want to claim? When the words came, the voice that tries to limit, attempted to do that. I responded, “That’s settling for less and I’m not doing that any more.”

Every time I write these, something new comes to mind about what they look like, feel like, and even a sense of when they will be a result in my life so they become what I live. Clarification: This only works if you can get in touch with some part of your statement as real in your life now, even if mostly at an inner level until fully manifested in the outer.

The process that occurs through this practice confirms why it’s important to physically write or type them rather than just read them silently or aloud from a sheet, though reading them aloud is effective. Writing them may just be a quirk of my nature, so I recommend you determine what works for you. From time to time though, be sure you do these with mindfulness and listen to what’s going on inside of you. You’ll notice your mind takes your thoughts and distills them, causes you to notice what takes up space and needs to be removed or needs to be transformed to something even better. When you allow this process to happen, you discover a great deal about yourself. That, alone, is worth your time and energy.

A definition of distill is to draw out or obtain the purest form of something. When you distill your thoughts, you unclutter your mind. If you’re one who writes I Am statements, I hope you engage in the process I’ve described. It’s easier to reach a target when you’re clear on what it is and you’ve taken the time to remove all obstructions that block your path, most especially those at the inner level.