Stop Adding Mental Anguish to Your Pain

Dear Choose Happy Community,Pain and discomfort are part of being human, but sometimes our minds add another layer of suffering. One difficult experience can become a spiral of mental anguish when we keep identifying with the thoughts and stories around it. This teaching invites us to notice when the mind is piling more suffering onto what is already difficult. With awareness, we can create space between the experience itself and the additional suffering our minds may create.Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:“There is suffering in the world because the mind creates suffering. That’s what the mind does. And as long as we are identified or attached with maya, with the mind, then we can also create suffering, and also experience suffering deeply, emotionally. “And so it’s not that in the realm of time and space we won’t know pain or discomfort. That is a part of being human. But if we are identified to that which changes, it becomes a keen emotional pain, a keen mental anguish, that we do not need to experience. We don’t have to add to what is already human experience of which we will experience discomfort. But sometimes by our choices, we pile it on.“It’s like something shows up and I’m uncomfortable, and then the mental anguish begins, and then that mental anguish can spiral, and then we can be mentally anguished for years.”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 Fl