Dear Choose Happy Community,

No matter what you’re going through—fear, exhaustion, confusion, or pain, you are not separate from light. This teaching reminds us that healing begins with honesty: naming what we truly feel and bringing it into the heart. The light does not interfere with our freedom, so we are invited to ask. The moment we do, support begins to move. Even when you feel alone, you are surrounded by luminosity waiting to respond.

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

“For anyone, no matter what it is that you’re going through, if you give yourself the gift of going to the heart, and give yourself the gift. He’s being very emotionally honest: naming whatever it is that you’re feeling, naming whatever it is that you’re thinking, naming what your questions are, but then asking for the light within you to bring luminosity.

“Someone said to me recently, do we even have to ask? And I said, until you are completely merged in Divine Oneness, please ask. And the reason for that is, there’s, I call it, it’s like a mandate of non-interference. The light will not interfere with our freedom, so it really helps to ask for the light to help.

“And so the moment that you ask, it’s like each of us is actually, if you could only see this, we’re surrounded by light all the time. And so even if you feel cut off, if you feel what he’s naming right here: If you feel despair, fatigue, sleepless nights, fears, worries, pain, hurt, confused, tired, weary, whatever it is that you feel, you’re actually surrounded by light. And it’s when you ask and you go into the heart and you listen, that the light is able to unfold, that the light is able to rush to your assistance, to your support.”

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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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