Thank you, Anthem
I meditated this evening, and the I AM felt ok again. I don’t know…I think part of the problem is that I have used a longer mantra for more than 10 years. I shifted between that and looking at my Dan Tien. (Not at the same time; just different meditations)I will have to be better aquainted with I AM. Therefore - I will follow your advise to pick it up in a subtle way. I will report back on how things are working out.
From what I have read in Yoganis lessons, I think the worst I could do right now would be to meditate with the mantra OM.(I have never tried it). That would probably send me, rocket speed, away and afar. Don’t want that - not much permanent Yoga in that outcome (from what I have heard)
Once again I would like to emphasize the importance of Pranayama. I feel how it very explicitly guides the energy where it is most needed: root to eye. eye to root. The afterglow in my spine from 5 min of pranayama is amazing. Without it, I think I would have crashed through the ceiling days ago.
Thank you 
May all your Nows be Here
Hi Katrine,
Of course only you will know what is best for you. I agree 5 minutes of pranayama is great and it is also the fastest way to balance out too! Just because it was mentioned though, the first mantra enhancement in AYP doesn’t have Om in it. It is “Shree Shree I am I am” and it can be found described in this lesson by Yogani:
http://www.aypsite.com/116.html
By the way, what is “Dan Tiem”?
A
Good morning Anthem 
(You are probably sleeping)
Just calling to thank you for your great advise:
I followed this advise this morning. I changed my routine a little too:
Since I am away from home right now, and don’t have my dog with me, I did the following:
10 min of qi-gong, 5 min of pranayama and 10 minutes of I AM meditation.
When I was finished with Pranayama, the mantra surfaced of itself (I kid you not). It is not located in my mind at all! It is deep down somewhere in the region of my heart. I is a faint (but oh so penetrating)whisper. The contrast to yesterdays experience (when it felt fake) was enormous. The way I see it; today was the first time I used it correctly: All I have to do when the thoughts come, is simply go into listening mode (NOT activity; NOT doing something with the mantra). The effect was amazing. I sunk into a bottomless cushion; a softness way down there. Yet I was very…present.
The OM sound didn’t disappear, but it wasn’t important. Not an issue. I wonder; does I AM live in my heart? Is the heart where I should sink? It feels very right…
Thank you again, Anthem
Oh yes…Dan Tien is located about three fingers below the navel (and about two fingers inwards). It is the major energy intake…vortex. I feel it as my energetic navel chord.
May all your Nows be Here
follow your Heart
Dear Katrine,
The Om sound you are hearing which can vary from a whining, ringing etc is a sign of the heart chakra opening so no doubt this is why you hear it and find association to your heart.
L&L
Dave
‘the mind can see further than the eyes’
This morning the mantra (IAM) fell down to my navel. This is it! I don’t have to question the feeling of landing there. The heart is a portal…the navel is home. No drama. Just peace.
The ecstacy is still there, but when I don’t focus on it, it becomes like the sound: Not important. This answers many questions for me. This solves my issue on how to self pace.
Thank you all for wonderful contributions.
May all your Nows be Here
Hi Katrine:
The mantra knows where to be and how to be according to the course of our inner purification, which is automatic, riding on the wings of inner silence.
The mantra may seem to be somewhere, or nowhere. It matters not. It is the process of easily picking it up and letting it refine that takes us forward in silence. If we notice locations it is okay, but we do not determine them for the mantra. In other practices – spinal breathing in particular – we locate with attention. But gently, not to overdo in that. Even spinal breathing has its own inner scheme – our glorious divine flight through inner space – opening, balancing, transforming!
The guru is in you.
Thank you, Yogani
Point taken!
If I have any more reports on this meditation I will put it in the “Meditation with the i am mantra”- topic (Deep meditation and Samyama)
May all your Nows be Here