Dear Feel Love Now Community,

Worry is one of the most harmful emotions we carry. It keeps us entangled, caught in patterns that drain our energy and peace. But how do we untangle this web of thoughts?

The Buddha’s timeless wisdom in the Jata Sutta reminds us that integrity, mindfulness, and discernment dissolve these inner knots. When we turn within, we reconnect with the wholeness of our being, and the tangles of worry begin to melt away.

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

“One of the most damaging emotions we experience in our daily life is worry. To keep tearing at something that bothers you, that’s to worry. When you repeat old patterns—the same old things over and over that are harmful—that means you are the victim of your thoughts.

When you blame another for what you’re feeling, you are victimizing yourself.’ So, for each of us, what to do if we have been feeling worry either for ourselves or for someone else or for our planet or for anything that we’re aware of in our consciousness.

What to do if we feel this energy of worry? The first thing that you’ll notice is that this is a universal human question because I’m about to share a question someone asked the Buddha. It’s the same question. They said, ‘Tangle within, tangle without. People are tangled in a tangle. And I would ask of you Gautama this: Who can untangle this tangle?’

Here is the Buddha’s response: ‘A person established in integrity, developing discernment and mindfulness, ardent and clear, they can untangle this tangle. Those whose passions, aversions, and ignorance have faded away, for them, the tangles untangled.’ If you’re wanting to look that up, that’s from the Jata Sutta.

For each of us, when we are in contact with our own integrity, our own wholeness of being, it melts away the tangles. For each of us: I turn within and connect with the wholeness of my being.”

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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,The Karma Yoga Team at AYM

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