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- 1 weeks ago51 min
Feeling Unlucky in Love?
Dear Choose Happy Community,Feeling unlucky in love can leave you carrying disappointment, heartbreak, and emotions you don’t always know what to do with.But healing doesn’t mean forcing yourself to move on or pretending you’re okay. Sometimes, you need to cry, give yourself space, and let the grief pass through you. Just as a storm eventually clears the air, allowing yourself to feel can create room for a fresh start.Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:“If you give yourself time and space to grieve and you let yourself cry when you need to, the grief blows through you the same way that a storm blows through. And then after the storm blows through, you’re like, ‘The air is clean.’ And your body feels clean. It feels fresh. It feels like that energy just needed to move through you.“And so wherever you are in that process, be kind, be wise, be good, be nice, be gentle to yourself. I would say, you know, this is just like practical advice, but choose a few friends who you can trust to be confidential. It only takes like two or three. And ask them, say like, ‘I trust you, to have a confidential conversation with me, and I trust you to keep my confidence now and ongoingly. Do you feel comfortable with that?’ “And it only takes like two or three people like that, and then you don’t have to do the heavy processing with everybody all the time because you’ve got your space and time, your meditation practice, hopefully your karma yoga practice,. And then your two or three trusted confidential friends, and that really helps as well.”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.Having it on Substack makes it easy for you to see any other podcasts, videos, articles, or full meditation services that might be available in the Truth, Love and Justice by clicking here.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 MeditationEverything available to a paid subscriber. Are you one yet?This is a free post made available to everyone. If you are not yet a paid subscriber to Choose Happy with Swami Nityananda, consider becoming one today to receive exclusive audio talks, articles, meditation service replays, access to the archives, and so much more.Podcast Episodes*: All EpisodesDarshan Articles*: All ArticlesFrom the Founder Series: All Series • Mantra Series • St. Francis Prayer SeriesLive Meditation Replays: All Services • Index of All Services by Series • Sunday Meditation Services • Tuesday Darshan Meditation Services • Friday Night Healing Meditation Services • SatsangsBook Excerpts**: All Excerpts • Satsang with Swami ShankaranandaWorkshops (formerly eCourses): All Workshops • The Spiritual Art of Intentions: Creating a Life You Love • <a target="_blank" href="https://awakeyogameditation.s
- 2 weeks ago35 min
Let Divine Love Flow Through You
Dear Choose Happy Community,Sometimes, a few kind words can change how someone sees themselves. When we’re feeling discouraged or disconnected from our own worth, a simple expression of kindness can remind us of the beauty we may have forgotten was there all along.This teaching invites us not to hold back the kindness that comes naturally through us. Whether it’s offering encouragement to someone else or taking a moment to reconnect with our own inner light, these small choices can create meaningful transformation. You never know how much a few sincere words might help someone remember who they truly are.Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video: “The mom says, ‘Honey, what did you say to that girl?’ And the five-year-old says, ‘I just said, ‘You are the most beautiful person I have seen, and I want to be exactly like you when I grow up.’ And that word of kindness changed everything for the high school girl. Nothing outwardly changed. It was just a reconnection to the beauty of her being that was already present within her, and the high school girl was just sharing what was natural and innocent and spontaneous to share through her.“And that’s another moment where there’s, like, this visible change, this visible transformation. And so, don’t hold back kindness. Don’t edit yourself out of allowing the Divine to express through you. And the Divine is constantly expressing in the ways that are-- llke, that’s just natural; It’s innocent. It’s so pure and so beautiful, and that was what we’re calling healing consciousness.'“It’s just helping everyone remember the truth. So if someone is slumped down and feeling despondent, just to remember, and if you are feeling slumped down and despondent, be honest with yourself. But then be open to sitting up straight. And actually, even, like, when we meditate and we have the spine erect, that helps us reconnect with the energy of light.“It helps us reconnect with the energy of divine love and wisdom and that energy that helps us to choose highest good and to be here to be an instrument of highest good.”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.Having it on Substack makes it easy for you to see any other podcasts, videos, articles, or full meditation services that might be available in the Healing Consciousness by clicking here.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 MeditationEverything available to a paid subscriber. Are you one yet?This is a free post made available to everyone. If you are not yet a paid subscriber to Choose Happy with Swami Nityananda, consider becoming one today to receive exclusive audio talks, articles, meditation service replays, access to the archives, and so much more.Podcast Episodes*: All EpisodesDarshan Articles*: All ArticlesFrom the Founder Series: All Series • Mantra Series • St. Francis Prayer SeriesLive Meditation Replays: All Services • Index of All Services by Series • Sunday Meditation Services • Tuesday Darshan Meditation Services • Friday Night Healing Meditation Services • SatsangsBook Excerpts**: All Excerp
- 2 weeks ago1h 4m
How to Embrace Change
Dear Choose Happy Community,Starting over can feel uncomfortable, especially when you’re unsure what comes next. But what if this change isn’t just something you have to get through? What if it’s an opportunity to let go of old patterns and make room for something new?Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:“ Another teaching that I love is from the Tao Te Ching, and this is from chapter 22, ‘The bent will be made straight. The empty will be filled.’ And so that’s an opportunity to meet change with openness, to allow transformation to come to us, and allow it to help us empty out any sense of separateness. ”And the teaching actually says if we’re open in that way, and we’re letting go of any sense of separateness, that actually opens us to fullness.“And so again, ‘The empty will be filled.’ And so if you meet anything that happens in your life as an opportunity to let go of any sense of separateness, often that’s called ego in the yogic tradition, you’re just letting go of any sense of separateness and you’re saying, ‘Okay, Divine Grace, here too you are with me, and how may I be of service? What would be helpful in this time and in this place?’”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.Having it on Substack makes it easy for you to see any other podcasts, videos, articles, or full meditation services that might be available in the Truth, Love and Justice by clicking here.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 MeditationEverything available to a paid subscriber. Are you one yet?This is a free post made available to everyone. If you are not yet a paid subscriber to Choose Happy with Swami Nityananda, consider becoming one today to receive exclusive audio talks, articles, meditation service replays, access to the archives, and so much more.Podcast Episodes*: All EpisodesDarshan Articles*: All ArticlesFrom the Founder Series: All Series • Mantra Series • St. Francis Prayer SeriesLive Meditation Replays: All Services • Index of All Services by Series • Sunday Meditation Services • Tuesday Darshan Meditation Services • Friday Night Healing Meditation Services • SatsangsBook Excerpts**: All Excerpts • Satsang with Swami ShankaranandaWorkshops (formerly eCourses): All Workshops • The Spiritual Art of Intentions: Creating a Life You Love • Pillars of Self-Realization: 50 Days with Swami Shankarananda • Love: The Eternal Flame of Life Within You • Wisdom: Discovering the Peace in Our True Nature*Also available to Free S
- Oct 1, 202634 min
Choose Love, Even When It’s Hard
Dear Choose Happy Community,It can take practice to recognize the patterns that keep us disconnected from our deeper truth. This teaching reminds us that beneath fear, limitation, and human pain, there is a capacity for unconditional love, compassion, creativity, and wholeness. We don’t have to pretend difficult emotions aren’t there. Instead, we can meet them with honesty and ask the source of unconditional love to guide us toward a different choice.Choosing truth and love is a practice we return to again and again. And each time we choose it, we create more space for healing, connection, and wellbeing to move through us.Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video: “If I’m in contact with the pure love of my being, which is unconditional, it’s universal goodwill, it’s compassion, it’s generosity, it’s creativity, it’s the energy of wholeness and healing, it sees the human pain that humans experience, and it also sees deeper than that to their potential to come into contact with self-remembrance, with wholeness, which is present with and within them always.“It sees the ability of everyone to wake up from delusion and to remember that’s not the truth of my being. Truth is the truth of my being. And it’s actually so much more fun not to build a relationship by saying lie to me. It’s so much more fun by building a relationship in truth and in love and in honesty and in compassion and generosity and forgiveness and creativity and wellbeing.“And, you know, also I will acknowledge, I hear from a lot of people, and it takes practice. It takes willingness day after day to say, ‘I’m here. I’m here for this. I’m here to keep choosing unconditional love in the times when that’s easy and in the time when that’s really challenging, and I’ll just keep.’“If I’m having a hard time choosing unconditional love, I’ll ask the Source of unconditional love to choose through me, and that will happen. That melts away any human patterns of thought or feeling or thinking or behavior that are limiting my ability to allow the Source of unconditional love to share unconditional love 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.Having it on Substack makes it easy for you to see any other podcasts, videos, articles, or full meditation services that might be available in the Healing Consciousness by clicking here.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 MeditationEverything available to a paid subscriber. Are you one yet?This is a free post made available to everyone. If you are not yet a paid subscriber to Choose Happy with Swami Nityananda, consider becoming one today to receive exclusive audio talks, articles, meditation service replays, access to the archives, and so much more.Podcast Episodes*: All EpisodesDarshan Articles*: All ArticlesFrom the Founder Series: All Series • Mantra Series • St. Francis Prayer SeriesLive Meditation Replays: All Services • Index of All Services by Series • Sunday Meditation Services • Tuesday Darshan Meditation Services • Friday Night Healing Meditation Services • SatsangsBook Excerpts**: <a target="_blank" href="https://awakeyogameditation.substa
- Sep 24, 202634 min
Your Kindness Matters More Than You Know
Dear Choose Happy Community,It’s easy to wonder if the small things we do really make a difference. A kind word, a moment of support, or simply showing up for someone can feel insignificant when the world’s problems seem so much bigger. But this teaching reminds us that we rarely see the full impact of what we share.When we choose kindness and service, the effect can travel far beyond the moment we’re in. We may never know whose life was touched by something we did, but that doesn’t make the ripple any less real. Sometimes, making a difference begins with simply choosing to be of service right where you are.Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video: “There is always positive ripple effects created by the kindness that we choose, by the support that we share. And that’s what Swami Shankarananda is talking about as well.“He’s saying when you share support, when you are of service, it goes out. And it doesn’t just stay in your immediate neighborhood or your immediate environment, and you have no idea how many people it touches and the lives that it moves and transforms.”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.Having it on Substack makes it easy for you to see any other podcasts, videos, articles, or full meditation services that might be available in the Healing Consciousness by clicking here.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 MeditationEverything available to a paid subscriber. Are you one yet?This is a free post made available to everyone. If you are not yet a paid subscriber to Choose Happy with Swami Nityananda, consider becoming one today to receive exclusive audio talks, articles, meditation service replays, access to the archives, and so much more.Podcast Episodes*: All EpisodesDarshan Articles*: All ArticlesFrom the Founder Series: All Series • Mantra Series • St. Francis Prayer SeriesLive Meditation Replays: All Services • Index of All Services by Series • Sunday Meditation Services • Tuesday Darshan Meditation Services • Friday Night Healing Meditation Services • SatsangsBook Excerpts**: All Excerpts • Satsang with Swami ShankaranandaWorkshops (formerly eCourses): All Workshops • The Spiritual Art of Intentions: Creating a Life You Love • Pillars of Self-Realization: 50 Days with Swami Shankarananda • Love: The Eternal Flame of Life Within You • Wisdom: Discovering the Peace in Our True Nature*Also available to Free Subscribers**Select posts also available to Free SubscribersConsider makin
- Sep 17, 202641 min
Forgive Yourself and Heal
Dear Choose Happy Community,Some pain stays with us long after the person or situation is gone. This teaching offers a powerful shift: healing may begin by forgiving ourselves for carrying the impact of what happened and giving ourselves the love and understanding we need.It doesn’t mean denying what hurt you or pretending it didn’t matter. It means turning toward the part of yourself that still needs care. As we meet ourselves with compassion, we can begin to release the pain and navigate our relationships with greater wisdom, strength, and love.Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:“ If you have any pain in relation to any humans from the past in your life, does that sound familiar to anyone? He’s saying you’re forgiving yourself, for allowing yourself to have been affected by them adversely. I know it’s a really interesting formulation, but it’s reminding each of us, ‘I have the freedom to heal myself the moment I decide to forgive myself for having been affected by anyone else adversely. I have the freedom to fill my heart with such love that then there is just a natural arising of forgiveness.’ “There is a natural letting go of pain in relation to, it seems to have been that the pain was connected to another person, and what he’s really saying here, it’s not actually ever about the other person.“There’s always some aspect of yourself that you’re being invited to give understanding to, give connection to, give caring to. And then the situation, if it does involve another person, will resolve itself, as you’re coming from caring, you’re coming from connection from within yourself. And then you’re free to navigate with love, with wisdom, with affection, with good humor, compassion, courage, strength in relation to yourself, and then also in relation to others.”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.Having it on Substack makes it easy for you to see any other podcasts, videos, articles, or full meditation services that might be available in the Healing Consciousness by clicking here.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 MeditationEverything available to a paid subscriber. Are you one yet?This is a free post made available to everyone. If you are not yet a paid subscriber to Choose Happy with Swami Nityananda, consider becoming one today to receive exclusive audio talks, articles, meditation service replays, access to the archives, and so much more.Podcast Episodes*: All EpisodesDarshan Articles*: All ArticlesFrom the Founder Series: All Series • Mantra Series • St. Francis Prayer SeriesLive Meditation Replays: All Services • Index of All Services by Series • Sunday Meditation Services • Tuesday Darshan Meditation Services • Friday Night Healing Meditation Services • SatsangsBook Excerpts**: All Excerpts • Satsang with Swami ShankaranandaWorkshops (formerly eCourses): All Worksh
- Sep 10, 202648 min
How to Stop People Pleasing
Dear Choose Happy Community,How often do we put ourselves last in order to make everyone else happy? People pleasing can lead us to ignore our own needs, sacrifice our rest, and even mistreat ourselves in the process. Sometimes, the pressure isn’t even coming from others. It can come from our own fear of disappointing them.This teaching invites us to pause and ask: Who am I trying to please? When we practice honest self-awareness, we can begin choosing kindness toward ourselves without believing we have to earn love or approval from everyone around us.Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:“ Who am I seeking to please? Who am I seeking to please? That which is internal or that which is external? And again, going back to that source of people pleasing, man, we can contort ourselves, mistreat ourselves, be unkind to ourselves in order to please other people. ”How many of us are the person or know a person who will put themselves on the back burner? Health is unwell, not getting rest, totally stressed out in order to please other people who may or may not be making those demands. Who may or may not be making those demands. So it’s just something for us to self-reflect on.”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.Having it on Substack makes it easy for you to see any other podcasts, videos, articles, or full meditation services that might be available in the Truth, Love and Justice by clicking here.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 MeditationEverything available to a paid subscriber. Are you one yet?This is a free post made available to everyone. If you are not yet a paid subscriber to Choose Happy with Swami Nityananda, consider becoming one today to receive exclusive audio talks, articles, meditation service replays, access to the archives, and so much more.Podcast Episodes*: All EpisodesDarshan Articles*: All ArticlesFrom the Founder Series: All Series • Mantra Series • St. Francis Prayer SeriesLive Meditation Replays: All Services • Index of All Services by Series • Sunday Meditation Services • Tuesday Darshan Meditation Services • Friday Night Healing Meditation Services • SatsangsBook Excerpts**: All Excerpts • Satsang with Swami ShankaranandaWorkshops (formerly eCourses): All Workshops • The Spiritual Art of Intentions: Creating a Life You Love • Pillars of Self-Realization: 50 Days with Swami Shankarananda • Love: The Eternal Flame of Life Within You • Wisdom: Discovering the Peace in Our True Nature*Also av
- Sep 3, 202630 min
Why Anger Makes Us Feel Separate
Dear Choose Happy Community,Anger can rise quickly and make us feel completely caught up in the moment. This teaching invites us to see anger as a wave that arises within us, rather than something we have to become. Through self-awareness, we can pause, observe what is happening, and remember that we have a choice in how we respond. When we stop identifying with the wave, we create space for anger to settle and for peace to return.Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:“Anger is a wave that rises in the ocean of us, if we take these teachings seriously. Anger is a wave that arises in us if we’re allowing ourselves to be in the bucket of discontent. And by the bucket of discontent, Swami Shankarananda doesn’t say this, but this is my understanding, it’s identifying with feeling separate, right?“I can only be angry if I’m identifying with feeling separate. If I’m remembering that all of this is the Tao, as all of this. All of this is pure consciousness, all of this is perfect love, as all of this non-contentiousness naturally establishes itself and anger melts away. “So with self-awareness, if a wave of anger does arise in our consciousness, we gain the ability to choose. ‘There’s this wave that has arisen, and I can watch it, and I can allow it to dissipate.’”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.Having it on Substack makes it easy for you to see any other podcasts, videos, articles, or full meditation services that might be available in the Healing Consciousness by clicking here.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 MeditationEverything available to a paid subscriber. Are you one yet?This is a free post made available to everyone. If you are not yet a paid subscriber to Choose Happy with Swami Nityananda, consider becoming one today to receive exclusive audio talks, articles, meditation service replays, access to the archives, and so much more.Podcast Episodes*: All EpisodesDarshan Articles*: All ArticlesFrom the Founder Series: All Series • Mantra Series • St. Francis Prayer SeriesLive Meditation Replays: All Services • Index of All Services by Series • Sunday Meditation Services • Tuesday Darshan Meditation Services • Friday Night Healing Meditation Services • SatsangsBook Excerpts**: All Excerpts • Satsang with Swami ShankaranandaWorkshops (formerly eCourses): All Workshops • The Spiritual Art of Intentions: Creating a Life You Love • Pillars of Self-Realization: 50 Days with Swami Shankarananda • Love: The Eternal Flame of Life Within You • <a target="_blank" href="https://awakeyogameditation.substa
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