Choose Happy with Swami Nityananda

How to Heal Anger and Fear

Dear Choose Happy Community, Fear, anger, and insecurity can leave the mind and body feeling tense, exhausted, and out of balance. This teaching reminds us that healing doesn’t come from fighting those feelings—it comes from turning inward and reconnecting with the natural flow of love already within us. When we open the heart to kindness, peace begins to return to the body, the mind softens, and clarity becomes possible again. Love is not weakness. It’s the energy that helps us remember the truth of who we are. Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video: “ It’s not pleasant to be in that energy of fear. It’s not pleasant to be in that energy of anger. It’s not pleasant to be in the energy of insecurity. And now, if you say, ‘I go within and I open the door of my heart to the natural flow of kindness, which is the truth of my being. I open my heart to love.’ “In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the translations says, ‘To love is to know the Divine.’ So opening my heart to love allows me to know the Divine. Opening my heart to love allows me to enter into the truth of divine being. The truth of divine being is already here. “And now notice how your body is feeling. ‘I’m in the energy of love. I’m in the energy of knowing the Divine. I’m in the energy of the truth of my being.’ And notice what happens to the parts of your body that can feel discombobulated or dysregulated, out of balance, if you’re in the energy of anger, if you’re in the energy of fear, if you’re in the energy of insecurity. So choosing to heal anger, fear, and insecurity is so freeing and healing and empowering for us.” We also shared this video on YouTube [https://youtu.be/F9Is50dudjw], 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 Living Inner Truth by clicking here [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-living-inner-truth]. 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 Meditation Everything 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. 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It also allows the community to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). The presiding teacher for Awake Yoga Meditation is Swami Nityananda. Consider making a financial contribution to Swami’s Bowl As the presiding teacher, Swami Nityananda selflessly offers her wisdom without taking a salary from Awake Yoga Meditation. Your gift honors her giving and ensures she can continue to share her invaluable teachings. The tradition of meditation communities like Awake Yoga Meditation is to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). All of the other myriad expenses of life are offered from student to teacher through Swami’s Bowl. Choose Happy with Swami Nityananda is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. 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The Secret to Inner Victory

Dear Choose Happy Community, No matter what you’re facing externally, there is still an inner victory available to you. This teaching reminds us that fear, anger, jealousy, or frustration do not have to define our state of being. Even in moments that look like loss from the outside, we can remain connected to something deeper—peace, love, and truth within. Spiritual victory begins when we stop waiting for the outside world to change before allowing ourselves to reconnect with the light already present inside us. Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video: “Whatever the external circumstances, whatever feels like an oppression to you - it could be internal anger, it could be frustration, it could be jealousy, it could be fear. Whatever that thing is for you, there is internal victory accessible to you in the midst of that. And then Christ goes on to fulfill that and make that even more visible, because we can see that his crucifixion is an external loss. That is not an external victory to be mutilated in that way. However, in the midst of that, he was in contact with internal victory. ‘And so that never changes. Whatever our experience, even if we feel as if we are in the darkest pits of our own misunderstanding, internal victory is accessible to us, and the way that we access that is we let go of attachment to the external victory” We also shared this video on YouTube [https://youtu.be/6HLJKMPZq7k], 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 [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-truth-love-and-justice]. 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 Meditation Everything 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 Episodes [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/podcast] Darshan Articles*: All Articles [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/darshan-articles] From the Founder Series: All Series [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/s/from-the-founder-series] • Mantra Series [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-mantras] • St. Francis Prayer Series [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-the-st-francis-prayer] Live Meditation Replays: All Services [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/s/full-meditation-services] • Index of All Services by Series [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/p/live-meditation-series] • Sunday Meditation Services [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/sunday-meditation-services] • Tuesday Darshan Meditation Services [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/tuesday-meditation-services] • Friday Night Healing Meditation Services [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/friday-meditation-services] • Satsangs [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-satsangs] Book Excerpts**: All Excerpts [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/excerpts] • Satsang with Swami Shankarananda [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/excerpts-from-satsang-with-swami] Workshops (formerly eCourses): All Workshops [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/p/workshops] • The Spiritual Art of Intentions: Creating a Life You Love [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/ecourse-intentions] • Pillars of Self-Realization: 50 Days with Swami Shankarananda [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/ecourse-pillars] • Love: The Eternal Flame of Life Within You [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/ecourse-love] • Wisdom: Discovering the Peace in Our True Nature [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/ecourse-wisdom] *Also available to Free Subscribers**Select posts also available to Free Subscribers Consider making a financial contribution to Awake Yoga Meditation Your generosity makes it possible for AYM to share Kriya Yoga, meditations, and teachings of truth with people around the world. It also allows the community to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). The presiding teacher for Awake Yoga Meditation is Swami Nityananda. Consider making a financial contribution to Swami’s Bowl As the presiding teacher, Swami Nityananda selflessly offers her wisdom without taking a salary from Awake Yoga Meditation. Your gift honors her giving and ensures she can continue to share her invaluable teachings. The tradition of meditation communities like Awake Yoga Meditation is to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). All of the other myriad expenses of life are offered from student to teacher through Swami’s Bowl. Choose Happy with Swami Nityananda is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. 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How to Heal Negative Energy

Dear Choose Happy Community, It’s easy to get pulled into anger, judgment, or resentment—especially in a world that often feels divided and reactive. But this teaching invites us to pause and ask a deeper question: Am I willing to heal? If we want peace in the world, we first have to allow peace to take root within ourselves. The moment we stop feeding the fire of negativity and open to peace instead, something begins to transform. Peace doesn’t just surround us—it can move through us. Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video: “ Am I energizing any hatred, animosity, judgment, prejudices, bigotry? And then the question that I’m asking is, ‘Am I willing to heal? Am I willing to energize the solution, so that instead of fanning those flames, those embers, that fire that doesn’t go out, that fire that keeps burning, am I willing to look to the energy of the solution?’ “And I’ve been sharing a series of teachings, but if peace is what I want to create, I create it first in myself. I create it in consciousness first, and then it expresses through me. So there’s a really beautiful prayer: ‘May absolute peace pervade the whole universe. May absolute peace manifest through us to bless the world. May absolute peace abide in us as we abide in it.’ “And so for each of us then, if I am feeling any of those things: ‘I open to absolute peace. I open and I allow anything other than peace to be transformed so that I can allow peace to share through me.’” We also shared this video on YouTube [https://youtu.be/AzIfp1jidx0], 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 Living Inner Truth by clicking here [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-living-inner-truth]. 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 Meditation Everything 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 Episodes [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/podcast] Darshan Articles*: All Articles [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/darshan-articles] From the Founder Series: All Series [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/s/from-the-founder-series] • Mantra Series [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-mantras] • St. Francis Prayer Series [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-the-st-francis-prayer] Live Meditation Replays: All Services [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/s/full-meditation-services] • Index of All Services by Series [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/p/live-meditation-series] • Sunday Meditation Services [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/sunday-meditation-services] • Tuesday Darshan Meditation Services [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/tuesday-meditation-services] • Friday Night Healing Meditation Services [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/friday-meditation-services] • Satsangs [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-satsangs] Book Excerpts**: All Excerpts [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/excerpts] • Satsang with Swami Shankarananda [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/excerpts-from-satsang-with-swami] Workshops (formerly eCourses): All Workshops [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/p/workshops] • The Spiritual Art of Intentions: Creating a Life You Love [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/ecourse-intentions] • Pillars of Self-Realization: 50 Days with Swami Shankarananda [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/ecourse-pillars] • Love: The Eternal Flame of Life Within You [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/ecourse-love] • Wisdom: Discovering the Peace in Our True Nature [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/ecourse-wisdom] *Also available to Free Subscribers**Select posts also available to Free Subscribers Consider making a financial contribution to Awake Yoga Meditation Your generosity makes it possible for AYM to share Kriya Yoga, meditations, and teachings of truth with people around the world. It also allows the community to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). The presiding teacher for Awake Yoga Meditation is Swami Nityananda. Consider making a financial contribution to Swami’s Bowl As the presiding teacher, Swami Nityananda selflessly offers her wisdom without taking a salary from Awake Yoga Meditation. Your gift honors her giving and ensures she can continue to share her invaluable teachings. The tradition of meditation communities like Awake Yoga Meditation is to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). All of the other myriad expenses of life are offered from student to teacher through Swami’s Bowl. Choose Happy with Swami Nityananda is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

You Are Loved—No Matter What Happens

Dear Choose Happy Community, When the world feels heavy—filled with conflict, injustice, or pain—it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or disconnected. This teaching offers a steady truth: even in the midst of everything, you are still being loved into existence in every moment. That love isn’t distant or external—it’s alive within you, guiding and sustaining you. When you reconnect with that, something shifts. You’re not alone in what you’re facing—you’re supported in every breath. Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:  “ No matter what wars I have known, no matter what tragedies I have known, no matter what inequities I have known, no matter what discriminations I have known, racial, religious, or otherwise, there’s not been a single moment of my existence when I have not been loved into existence, loved into form by the source of all the love in the universe. “And so if you’re actually able to know that, what happens is you also know the love that loves you into form. That energy of pure life, pure creativity, pure potentiality, that loves you into form, knows exactly what you need, every moment, every moment. Can you feel how incredibly joyful and whole and complete that is? “So there’s nothing that the Divine is giving you from outside. The Divine is flowing in and through you, and whatever appears in form is the Divine as that. So whatever you need, it’s like this amazing call and response across the universe, this amazing song of the beautiful and perfect God.” We also shared this video on YouTube [https://youtu.be/w8cUkhqJYoQ], 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 Living Inner Truth by clicking here [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-living-inner-truth]. 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 Meditation Everything 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 Episodes [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/podcast] Darshan Articles*: All Articles [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/darshan-articles] From the Founder Series: All Series [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/s/from-the-founder-series] • Mantra Series [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-mantras] • St. Francis Prayer Series [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-the-st-francis-prayer] Live Meditation Replays: All Services [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/s/full-meditation-services] • Index of All Services by Series [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/p/live-meditation-series] • Sunday Meditation Services [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/sunday-meditation-services] • Tuesday Darshan Meditation Services [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/tuesday-meditation-services] • Friday Night Healing Meditation Services [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/friday-meditation-services] • Satsangs [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-satsangs] Book Excerpts**: All Excerpts [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/excerpts] • Satsang with Swami Shankarananda [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/excerpts-from-satsang-with-swami] Workshops (formerly eCourses): All Workshops [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/p/workshops] • The Spiritual Art of Intentions: Creating a Life You Love [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/ecourse-intentions] • Pillars of Self-Realization: 50 Days with Swami Shankarananda [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/ecourse-pillars] • Love: The Eternal Flame of Life Within You [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/ecourse-love] • Wisdom: Discovering the Peace in Our True Nature [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/ecourse-wisdom] *Also available to Free Subscribers**Select posts also available to Free Subscribers Consider making a financial contribution to Awake Yoga Meditation Your generosity makes it possible for AYM to share Kriya Yoga, meditations, and teachings of truth with people around the world. It also allows the community to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). The presiding teacher for Awake Yoga Meditation is Swami Nityananda. Consider making a financial contribution to Swami’s Bowl As the presiding teacher, Swami Nityananda selflessly offers her wisdom without taking a salary from Awake Yoga Meditation. Your gift honors her giving and ensures she can continue to share her invaluable teachings. The tradition of meditation communities like Awake Yoga Meditation is to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). All of the other myriad expenses of life are offered from student to teacher through Swami’s Bowl. Choose Happy with Swami Nityananda is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Turn Within and Find Peace

Dear Choose Happy Community, No matter what is happening around you, peace is still available within you. This teaching reminds us that external circumstances do not have to define our inner state. When life feels uncertain or heavy, you can turn inward and rest in the deepest part of yourself—the place where the Divine is already present. Strength is not always pushing forward. Sometimes strength is learning to repose in what is steady, rich, and true within you. Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:  “No matter what the external circumstances are that you’re aware of, no matter how you’re feeling in relation to yourself or your life, turn within and allow yourself to repose in what is deepest inside of you. ”And right now, just turn within. Allow yourself to repose in the deepest and richest part of you. And know that that is the Divine in you. That is how the Divine is greeting you.” We also shared this video on YouTube [https://youtu.be/SKQhN6Dq1po], 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 Living Inner Truth by clicking here [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-living-inner-truth]. 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 Meditation Everything 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 Episodes [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/podcast] Darshan Articles*: All Articles [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/darshan-articles] From the Founder Series: All Series [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/s/from-the-founder-series] • Mantra Series [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-mantras] • St. Francis Prayer Series [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-the-st-francis-prayer] Live Meditation Replays: All Services [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/s/full-meditation-services] • Index of All Services by Series [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/p/live-meditation-series] • Sunday Meditation Services [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/sunday-meditation-services] • Tuesday Darshan Meditation Services [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/tuesday-meditation-services] • Friday Night Healing Meditation Services [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/friday-meditation-services] • Satsangs [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-satsangs] Book Excerpts**: All Excerpts [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/excerpts] • Satsang with Swami Shankarananda [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/excerpts-from-satsang-with-swami] Workshops (formerly eCourses): All Workshops [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/p/workshops] • The Spiritual Art of Intentions: Creating a Life You Love [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/ecourse-intentions] • Pillars of Self-Realization: 50 Days with Swami Shankarananda [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/ecourse-pillars] • Love: The Eternal Flame of Life Within You [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/ecourse-love] • Wisdom: Discovering the Peace in Our True Nature [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/ecourse-wisdom] *Also available to Free Subscribers**Select posts also available to Free Subscribers Consider making a financial contribution to Awake Yoga Meditation Your generosity makes it possible for AYM to share Kriya Yoga, meditations, and teachings of truth with people around the world. It also allows the community to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). The presiding teacher for Awake Yoga Meditation is Swami Nityananda. Consider making a financial contribution to Swami’s Bowl As the presiding teacher, Swami Nityananda selflessly offers her wisdom without taking a salary from Awake Yoga Meditation. Your gift honors her giving and ensures she can continue to share her invaluable teachings. The tradition of meditation communities like Awake Yoga Meditation is to support the presiding teacher’s Dakshina (reimbursement of basic living expenses for housing, transportation, and insurance). All of the other myriad expenses of life are offered from student to teacher through Swami’s Bowl. Choose Happy with Swami Nityananda is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]