Transcend Negative Energy

Dear Feel Love Now Community,

When we dwell on others’ harmful behavior, we unintentionally bring that same energy into our own hearts. Swami Shankarananda reminds us that true strength is choosing clarity, peace, and light—even in the face of pain or injustice. Loving ourselves means not carrying enmity, but staying connected to the light within. When we allow every experience to deepen our connection to that light, even worry begins to dissolve.

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

“[Swami Shankarananda] He says, if I'm focusing on someone else's filthy behavior, unintentionally, I'm bringing filthiness into my own energy field. I'm bringing filthiness into my own consciousness, and so I love myself so much that I will have the awareness.”I will keep the wisdom, I will keep the clarity. I will keep the ability to be present and engaged and to nobly share light using my talents and my skill sets in the way that the Divine wants to share light through me, and I will respectfully decline to carry enmity around in my consciousness. And I will respectfully decline to carry anything other than light around in my consciousness. And so no matter what it is that we experience, if we allow all things to help us go deeper into light, worry will melt away."

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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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