Before “I Am Tired”: A Guided Meditation into the Eternal I AM

How often do we wake up and immediately ask the body, mind, or emotions to tell us who we are?

I'm tired.
I'm anxious.
I'm sad.
I'm in pain.
I'm peaceful.

But before “I am this” or “I am that,” there is simply: I AM.

In this gentle guided meditation for self-inquiry, healing, and spiritual awakening, Jody Agard invites you to explore what remains when you stop consulting the body, thoughts, and emotions for information about what you truly are. Beginning with a simple experience of waking up tired and noticing the thought “I'm tired,” Jody asks a deeper question: Who is this “I” that's tired?

The body may experience fatigue. Emotions may move through. Thoughts may arise. Pain, anxiety, sadness, restlessness, or even happiness may be present.
None of it needs to be denied or disappear.

Through spacious silence and gentle non-dual self-inquiry, you'll be invited to notice that every sensation, thought, feeling, and bodily experience is already known, and then turn attention toward the knowing itself.

This isn't an invitation to deny the body or pretend difficult feelings aren't happening. The body and mind can have its experience. Feelings are allowed to move through. But before you claim any of it as me, pause.

What is already here?
What you truly are does not become more whole when the body feels good or less whole when the body struggles. Beneath every description and before every thought is the simple, formless Presence of I AM.

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