Can the Love Within You Heal Your Pain?

Dear Feel Love Now Community,

In moments of crisis, something deeper than fear often takes over—love. This meditation reminds us that the energy of love can move us beyond limits we thought we had, even when our bodies or minds say we can't.Inside each of us is a strength the mind often overlooks, but the heart knows it's there. When love leads, we often find we are more powerful than we believed.

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

“I saw this little video clip. It’s a story I checked out this morning that happened about two years ago. It’s a true story. It happened in Philadelphia. A man got a phone call from his sister saying that their Mom was in her high-rise apartment building—19-floor apartment building.”She’s on floor 15. There’s a fire in the building. She can’t get out of the building. So the man rushes to the building and he tries to go in the door and the police and the fire department won’t let him in. They say the elevator’s not working.”He says, ‘That’s fine, I’ll take the stairs.’ They say, ‘I’m sorry, sir, you can’t do that.’ He goes up 15 floors on the outside of the building. He climbed 15 floors up the outside of the building. When you talk to him later, he says, it was my Mom. Of course I was going to do what I needed to do to check and make sure that my Mom was okay.”Earlier that day, he had fractured his hip. He climbed 15 floors up, checked out his Mom—she was absolutely fine. By that time the fire was contained. He had to climb 15 floors back down. There was an understanding officer who said to him something like, ‘Sir, if you stay, I will be obliged to arrest you. If you leave I will not.’ ”Then later, the clip showed him with his Mom and they had their arms around each other. His Mom was like, ‘I’m not surprised. He does what he needs to do.’ This is the energy of love that is within each of us. We have so much strength that our conscious mind usually does not allow us to be aware of.”

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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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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