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The website content describes the "I-Am" breathing exercise as a method to activate the heart chakra and cultivate an inclusive sense of love.

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The "I-Am" exercise is presented as a simple yet profound technique to stimulate the heart chakra and foster a sense of love that transcends typical emotional attachments. By focusing on the intention of the heart during breathing, with the silent repetition of "I" on the inhale and "am" on the exhale, practitioners can reportedly experience a growing sense of peace, joy, and unconditional love. This practice aims to bypass cognitive filters and emotional screens, allowing for a pure experience of love that can be invoked at any time, even during conversations. The ultimate goal is to become a conduit of love, extending it to others and the world at large, potentially facilitating the opening of the third eye for heightened perception.

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  • The author believes that the heart chakra is central to emotional experience and that the "I-Am" exercise effectively activates it.
  • Regular practice of the "I-Am" technique can lead to a state where love is felt and shared effortlessly and without detection by others.
  • Love is considered the foundation of all emotions, and the "I-Am" exercise is a tool to affirm and strengthen one's emotional presence.
  • The exercise is seen as a way to blend love with the light of the third eye, suggesting a connection between emotional and spiritual awakening.
  • The author expresses a personal experience of feeling filled with love and inclusivity through this practice, indicating its transformative potential.
  • There is an opinion that the neocortex, responsible for cognitive processing, often limits love by categorizing it into specific contexts, which the "I-Am" exercise aims to transcend.
  • The article implies that through the expansion of one's being with love, it is possible to include and affect the entire world positively.

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The “I-Am” a simple way to build Love

Activate your heart chakra with the “I-am” exercise.

This is breathing with your intention on your heart chakra — the breastbone or sternum. On the in-breath or inhalation, think “I” or say “I” silently while breathing in. On the breath-out and say “am” silently or think “am” on while exhaling.

When I do this I feel filled with love. It is a love that grows and includes. I find peace and joy in this simple inner exercise.

Allow a resonance of feeling to arise in your heart.

The heart is the source of emotion. Our cognitive processes (the neocortex) interpret, delineate, and name emotions we feel. Our neocortex also screens love through opinions, beliefs, and judgments to box love into a context that our egos can become attached to, such as romantic love or a parent’s love of a child, for example.

With increased practice, the exercise can be done anywhere at any time with no one knowing. Adept practitioners can do the exercise in the course of a conversation.

Love is the underpinning of all emotions and

The purpose of the “I-Am” exercise is to activate and affirm our emotional presence.

The resonance that the “I-Am” builds makes love and light. Light is one way to blend the energies of Love with the Light of the 3rd Eye so that it may open and perceive beyond the ordinary world.

It is a way of Being Love so as to include others in Love if they wish to participate or receive it. Through an expansion of my being through Love I can include the whole world.

Sending the “I-Am” love to individuals and everyone:

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