Choose Happy with Swami Nityananda

How to Stay Loving in Difficult Relationships

Dear Choose Happy Community, Sometimes the deepest pain comes from the people closest to us. And when someone continues behaviors that hurt us, it can feel impossible to find peace. This teaching offers a different kind of freedom: the realization that healing does not always depend on the other person changing first. The moment we choose to stop carrying resentment and reconnect with love, something inside of us begins to soften and open. That doesn’t mean ignoring harmful behavior. It means refusing to let pain define the state of your heart. Liberation begins when you choose peace within yourself, even before external circumstances change. Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video: “ Someone said to me, I think this was maybe last summer, ‘I’m ready to liberate myself’ in relation to unresolved pain that they had in relation to a parent. And the parent is still present in their life and engaging in these behaviors that are painful. ”And so this person made a conscious choice. No matter what, unconditionally, to stay in the energy of love, and to stay in the energy of kindness, to stay in the energy of...They didn’t use these words, but it’s, ‘I thank you for the gift of life which I received through you. And I choose to respect you unconditionally for the gift of life which shared through you. I choose to stay in the energy of love and appreciation unconditionally for the gifts which have shared through you.’ “And they are now free. They have freed themselves. They feel only love in relation to their parent’s behavior. So it has transformed their relationship with their parent, even though their parent is still engaged in the painful behaviors. So this person liberated themself even without the other person transforming or changing.” We also shared this video on YouTube [https://youtu.be/B73yq098d8s], 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 Expansion Within Expansion by clicking here [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-expansion-within-expansion]. 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. 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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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How to Stop Resisting Change

Dear Choose Happy Community, Change can feel overwhelming, especially when it affects your relationships, your work, your family, or the world around you. This teaching reminds us that fear and resistance are not the only ways to meet uncertainty. There is another possibility: remembering that even in the middle of change, you still live in a universe filled with guidance, love, wisdom, and support. When we stop fighting change and begin opening to it, something softens inside of us. We become more steady, more creative, and more able to meet life with clarity instead of fear. You don’t have to control everything to feel supported. Sometimes peace begins with remembering what you’re already connected to. Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video: “ Just notice, check in with yourself, ‘Have I been resisting change?’ And if so, one of the solutions to that is, ‘I open to realize I live in a universe of infinite genius, abundance, guidance, and love’. “How much more fun does that feel? And so you’re acknowledging I’m facing this change, or my family is facing this change, or my country or the world is facing this change, you’re acknowledging it, and you’re saying, ‘And, I live in a universe of infinite genius, abundance, guidance, and love.’ “What is going to help you meet change more gracefully? Being in the energy of fear and resistance, or being in the energy of ‘I'’m open because I live in this universe of genius, abundance, guidance, and love’?” We also shared this video on YouTube [https://youtu.be/qJhEsasON3w], 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 Expansion Within Expansion by clicking here [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-expansion-within-expansion]. 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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Let Go and Open to Possibility

Dear Choose Happy Community, Sometimes the mind becomes so full of stress, stories, worries, and attachments that we can no longer feel clarity or possibility. This teaching offers a different approach: instead of trying to force answers, become empty enough to receive them. The yogic teachings remind us that infinite energy and creativity are always available when we loosen our grip on who we think we have to be. Letting go doesn’t mean giving up. It means making space for something deeper to move through you. Peace, insight, creativity, and healing often arrive when we stop clinging and allow ourselves to simply be present. Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video: “So infinite energy is like a well, right? It’s bottomless. It’s used, but never used up. All that we can see is that infinite energy, and it’s never used up, ever. It’s like the eternal void filled with possibilities. “Now, that almost seems like a paradox, because by definition, a void is empty, right? But it is filled with possibility. So the teaching is telling us basically to be empty vessels. And from that place of emptiness, that’s where infinite possibilities flow. ”All of those ideas and all of the solutions are there when we’re not attached. That’s what being empty means. It means to let go of all of your stories, identifications, attachments, and just let what is, be.” We also shared this video on YouTube [https://youtu.be/1NPlgcAhI1k], 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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Your Thoughts Shape Your Reality

Dear Choose Happy Community, The way we speak to ourselves matters more than we realize. This teaching reminds us that our thoughts don’t just pass through us—they shape the energy we live in every day. When self-criticism or self-rejection becomes constant, it disconnects us from the light, peace, and goodness already within us. Healing begins by becoming aware of the thoughts we are feeding and gently choosing something different. More kindness. More compassion. More truth. The more we reconnect with the light within ourselves, the more available we become to bring that same light into the world around us. Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video: “ The Buddha makes it very, very clear that the effect of my thoughts follow me as surely as my shadow follows me. I am going to be the first one who experiences the effects of my thoughts. “So what thoughts am I thinking? Am I thinking thoughts that are sweet-smelling, that are conscious of the divine light that is at the core of my being, that are conscious of the divine light that is at the core of that person who is so suffering?His words, ‘What peace can I have from God who hath taken from me peace and every good thing, and hath made me all rotten and stinking? I stink so greatly that I cannot endure my own self.’ “So that’s the energy of self-reviling. And so for each of us to heal and cleanse any energy of self-reviling that we have, because that keeps us from being optimally available and present and of service wherever divine light wants to be present and of service through us.” We also shared this video on YouTube [https://youtu.be/cE5Novwy8cs], 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 Expansion Within Expansion by clicking here [https://awakeyogameditation.substack.com/t/series-expansion-within-expansion]. 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 Stop Feeding Drama

Dear Choose Happy Community, It’s easy to get pulled into drama—our own or someone else’s. But this teaching offers a powerful reminder: where we place our identity matters. When we identify with fear, conflict, or reactivity, we strengthen those patterns. When we identify with the light at the core of our being, we create space for wisdom, courage, and healing to emerge. This isn’t about ignoring what’s difficult. It’s about meeting life from a deeper place. The more we stay connected to the light within, the more we can respond to challenges with clarity instead of getting lost in them. Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video: “ For all of us to just be open. We’re continually surrounded by wisdom. And the Divine is speaking with such joy and courage through everyone that we encounter. And so to just be present and to listen to the way the Divine is speaking through everyone that we encounter. “And this is back to that teaching: you cannot have enlightenment and drama at the same time. You’ve got to decide what’s more important to you. So you’re choosing to identify with the light rather than the drama. It’s not a matter of suppressing, it’s not repressing, it’s not ignoring, it’s not denying. It’s just saying, ‘I identify with the light that is at the core of my being,’ and that allows me to look with love and wisdom and courage and honesty at the drama and to bring healing consciousness to myself. And if anyone else is connected with the drama, to allow healing consciousness to share through you silently.” We also shared this video on YouTube [https://youtu.be/mQGFNpx0ZtI], 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]