Uplift Yourself From Within

Dear Feel Love Now Community,

What if peace didn’t depend on things changing around you? This teaching reminds us that our power lies in how we direct our energy—not in what others do or what life looks like on the surface. Even anger can be transformed into creative force when guided by love. As Swami Shankarananda teaches, your connection to infinite light shapes your reality more than anything outside you. Happiness is already within—it’s who you are.

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

“Anytime you find your human self feeling something like anger notice and just say, I choose to direct that energy with my creative consciousness for highest good. I choose to direct that energy in ways that uplift myself and make upliftment available for anyone who resonates with upliftment the way that it shares through me.

“And he [Swami Shankarananda] also says, no one has the power to take from you your ability to acquire anything for which you have the capacity to acquire. And so what this means is far more powerful than anything in time and space is the connection that each of us has with infinite light and supreme love. That is what creates what we experience in time and space.

“So I think we often flip it. We often think things have to change in time and space for me to feel happy, for me to feel successful, for me to feel at peace. The yogis reverse that. They say from within yourself, happiness is here. It's natural to each of us."

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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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