Dear Choose Happy Community,

When we long for connection, it’s easy to feel isolated or alone. This teaching reminds us that meditating with others—whether in person or at the same time—can reduce stress, support emotional balance, and help the mind become more flexible and steady. Most of all, it strengthens our ability to remember a deeper truth: I am love, and I am always connected. Community practice doesn’t just link us to others… it brings us home to ourselves.

Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:

“ Community meditations, meditating at the same time with other people, reduces individual stress and also reduces societal stress. And so some of the mechanisms that science is aware of by which this happens when we meditate in community, it helps us enhance the adaptability within the way our brain is functioning.

“It helps us with our emotional regulation. It helps us with our attention and our memory. And so one of the things that means is it becomes easier for me to remember and to focus on that foundational realization ‘I am love. I’m always connected to the source of all the energy, the light, the healing, the growth, the inspiration, the expansion in the universe always.’

“And so it helps heal that feeling of isolation.”

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In loving service,Awake Yoga Meditation

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Dear Choose Happy Community,

When the world feels overwhelming—filled with anger, fear, or harmful words—this teaching reminds us of our deeper task. Like the river, we are invited to become vast in our goodwill, steady beneath the surface no matter what storms arise. The fire may exist, but we are not the fire. We can choose to go deeper, to respond with clarity, peace, and love that radiates outward. Nothing outside of you has to shake the peace within.

Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:

“ This is our task: to fill ourselves with goodwill and to be like the river so that we are deep and enormous in our goodwill. And the fire, like the Buddha is not saying that the fire is not there, he’s acknowledging it’s there, but he’s saying you are deeper than the fire. And so go deeper than the fire.

“And anything that you see in time and space is just an opportunity to go deeper, always. And then what happens is you become imbued with this goodwill so that nothing can shake you. No matter what it is that you observe or experience in time and space.

“The Buddha goes farther. So that was about if you see people who are lying, people who are using words to create hatred. People who are using words to create fear. People who are using words to create harm. This is what he says: stay with goodwill. Be deep and immeasurable like the river in your goodwill. Extend goodwill even to the people who are saying that. Even to the people who are doing that. And then allow goodwill to radiate forth through you to benefit the entire world.”

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In loving service,Awake Yoga Meditation

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Dear Choose Happy Community,

It’s okay to acknowledge when someone’s anger hurts you or crosses a boundary. But this teaching reminds us that we don’t have to take on their anger or mirror it back. With practice and steadiness, we stay aligned with truth and centered in our own emotional clarity. When we hold our ground with love, we naturally move out of situations that no longer match our vibration.

Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:

“ Sometimes people in their anger can hurt us, and it’s okay to acknowledge that feeling of hurt. It’s okay to say ‘this is really unacceptable behavior. I don’t deserve this’. That’s all okay. And we don’t have to let somebody’s anger become our anger. We don’t have to mirror that anger back. We don’t have to allow somebody’s, misunderstanding, misperceiving of what is real to make us feel sorrow.

“We are the masters of our emotional state, and so it’s again, just through steadiness and practice that we can stay in alignment. And the truth is, if we are doing our work, that person will find a way out of our experience. It’s not a match, it’s not a vibrational match.

“If I’m steady, I’m centered, I’m love, I’m clear, I’m navigating this with skill, at some point they will find a way or it will heal. It will resolve itself.”

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In loving service,Awake Yoga Meditation

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Dear Choose Happy Community,

When pain from the past keeps resurfacing, it’s easy to feel trapped. But this teaching reminds us that we have the power to choose again. Both neuroscience and yogic wisdom say the same thing: whatever we focus on, we strengthen. If we keep returning to pain, we build more pain—but if we shift toward healing, we lay the groundwork for peace. Love yourself enough to choose what heals.

Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:

“Love yourself so much that you’re willing to let go of past pain. Because what neuroscience says is this, and the yogis say it too. If I am focusing on past pain, I am creating neural structures that create more pain for myself in the present and in the future.

“As soon as I become aware that past pain is here, I dedicate myself to letting go of identifying with a past pain and to connecting with what is healing. As soon as I shift and I start focusing on what is healing, I am creating neural structures that create healing, now in my present and in my future as well. So what this tells you, and the yogis have always said, this is it is my ability to choose.”

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In loving service,Awake Yoga Meditation

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Dear Choose Happy Community,

Sometimes we search for our purpose in big, dramatic answers. But this gentle teaching reminds us that the Divine might whisper something much simpler: be peace today. When we dedicate ourselves to expressing the Divine in every moment, guidance becomes clear.

Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:

“It’s possible to ask the Divine, what is the highest purpose for me today? And it might be something really simple, like the Divine might tell you from within, peace. ”It might just be, how can I be the energy of peace in my kitchen, at my dining table, when I’m taking out the garbage, when I’m interacting with my family or my friends, or when I’m composing that email?

“t might just be the energy of peace. So there’s a continual guidance as soon as we dedicate ourselves to fully expressing our spiritual purpose.”

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In loving service,Awake Yoga Meditation

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Dear Choose Happy Community,

Sometimes we carry the past like a weight, and we look toward the future with fear. This teaching invites us to release all of it, even just for a moment, and return to the light that is always present within. Even our identification with the body can soften when it is met with love and the vastness of heart. In presence, there is peace. In peace, there is clarity.

Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:

“ If I’m identifying overly much with my body, that’s an indicator that I’m sort of identifying with what’s temporary rather than what’s eternal. And so if that’s something that’s true for you, then offer your body consciousness to the light within you and just say, ‘my heart is so vast it gives me ability to love even my body consciousness, even the way I’m identifying myself with my body’.

“And I open to be aware of that in me, which is eternal. And what happens then is you’ll just be fully present in your daily life. And I know this sounds so simple, but if you just, as a practice right now, just say, ‘I let go of the past’.

“So if you feel like you’ve been carrying around heavy pain in relation to the past, just for this moment, ‘I let it go’. ‘I let go of the future’. So if you’ve been carrying around a lot of fear in relation to the future, just for this moment, you let it go, and you say, ‘I’m here in the present and in this moment I stand in the light and I just allow kindness to fill my heart and I just allow light to fill my heart’. What remains? What remains in that moment?”

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In loving service,Awake Yoga Meditation

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Dear Choose Happy Community,

What if you could meet yourself as if for the very first time—full of kindness, curiosity, and welcome?This powerful teaching invites us to shift out of judgment and fear, and into the presence of the divine within. Healing doesn’t require fixing anything—it starts by letting go of the belief that we are broken. When we stop identifying with our pain, what once felt impossible becomes natural. Miracles begin where limitation ends.

Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:

“ Just opening in the now as if I am meeting myself for the first time, how would I meet myself for the first time? With what kindness, with what gladness, with what joy, with what interest, with what welcome, with what curiosity, can I open and allow myself to meet myself for the first time? And the Divine will give us.

“The Divine is not anywhere other than always within us. So as we turn within and we let go of fear, we let go of lack, we let go of self-judgment, we let go of frustration, we let go of any blame, we let go of identifying with any limitations, there’s just a pure open inquiry. allowing ourselves to be taught by the spirit of pure life energy within ourselves. And then what we’re doing is we’re shifting our consciousness.

“QWe’re not identifying anymore with the pain. We’re not identifying anymore with what we have defined as a problem. We’re not identifying anymore with any limitation and what the Divine can make possible humans call miraculous. It’s just natural for miracles to happen all the time when we let go of identifying with limitation.”

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In loving service,Awake Yoga Meditation

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Dear Choose Happy Community,

When tension or negativity takes hold, it can feel like there’s no way out. But this teaching offers a simple, powerful reminder: there is a fountain of light at the center of your heart—and when you stay connected to it, the stress begins to melt away.

This light brings not only emotional clarity but physical relief, deeper rest, and healing on every level. You don’t have to fight the negativity—just return to the light within, and notice what shifts.

Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:

 “ If you’re feeling any tension, If you’re feeling any negativity, stay in contact with this fountain of light right at the center of your heart and notice what happens to the tension. It melts away in a way that brings actual physical relief, actual relaxation of the physical body. So this can help with sleep.

This can help with you being in contact with the energy of wholeness if you’re healing anything physically or emotionally or mentally, or on any level, and then negativity. If you become aware of any negativity within yourself or within anyone else that they’re experiencing it or feeling it or energizing it, stay in contact with this fountain of light at the center of your heart.

And just notice what happens. It transforms. There’s no room for it in your energy field if you stay without flowing fountain of light.”

We also shared this video on YouTube, but wanted you to be able to have it on your Substack video player as well, in case you prefer that.

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In loving service,Awake Yoga Meditation

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Dear Choose Happy Community,

When we feel stuck in cycles of negativity or emotional reactivity, it’s easy to think change is out of reach. But this teaching reminds us that what we energize, we amplify. Swami Nityananda invites us to take a yogic path—one of awareness, discipline, and compassion. You can choose clarity over chaos. Even one conscious breath can begin to shift the storm.

Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:

“ If I am in reactivity, if I am getting stuck in that maelstrom of misery and that negative energy, I’m actually increasing the maelstrom of misery. I’m actually energizing more negativity. And so just have that clarity and that awareness. It takes being a yogi. Throughout the Bhagavad Gita, the Divine says to each of us, be thou a yogi.”

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If you have heard this teaching before, we invite you — as Swami so often invites us — to hear it as if you are hearing it for the first time. Often we receive these teachings right when we need them.

In loving service,Awake Yoga Meditation

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Dear Feel Love Now Community,

With so much anger and judgment circulating in the world, it’s easy to absorb it without even realizing. But what if that very emotion is what’s blocking us from feeling the full embrace of divine love?

This teaching invites us to ask an honest, spiritually powerful question: Am I holding myself back through resentment? When we choose self-love, awareness, and discernment, we move from fight to light—and into the peace that’s already here.

Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:

“For yourself, allow yourself to truly become aware. What in me never ends? And it might be something really simple like, the way I love the Divine, it never ends. It might be something like, the way I love kindness that shares through pure hearted humans, never ends. It might be something like, the way I love beauty, never ends.

“Swami Shankarananda says that beauty is love made visible. And when we remember that, we will see beauty everywhere, in what is considered conventionally beautiful and what might not be considered conventionally beautiful. We will be in contact with beauty everywhere in the energy of nature. And when we know that the Divine is constantly sharing kindness through pure hearted humans, what do you think that helps the Divine share with us, through pure hearted humans? It helps the Divine share more kindness with us, through pure hearted humans. ”And so also when we are here and we are open to asking the Divine what is most of service, I open. Whatever the next chapter is, whatever the next unfoldment is, can you help me open, so that even more kindness shares through me?"

We also shared this video on YouTube, but wanted you to be able to have it on your Substack video player as well, in case you prefer that.

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In loving service,The Karma Yoga Team at AYM

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