Dear Feel Love Now Community,

With so much anger and judgment circulating in the world, it’s easy to absorb it without even realizing. But what if that very emotion is what’s blocking us from feeling the full embrace of divine love?

This teaching invites us to ask an honest, spiritually powerful question: Am I holding myself back through resentment? When we choose self-love, awareness, and discernment, we move from fight to light—and into the peace that’s already here.

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

“The Divine is telling all of us and all humans on the planet, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.

“And so the question is, am I holding myself back by anger and by resentment and by judging my sisters and my brothers in whatever capacity? It could be your family, it could be the world, it could be workplace.

“But am I holding myself back from being embraced fully by all the love in the universe by allowing myself to feel anger, and to feel resentment. And I think this is a really honest question to ask ourselves right now. It's a very spiritually appropriate question to ask ourselves right now. It's observable that there's a lot of anger and resentment circulating in the world, so it's very easy.

“You know how that is? Like, if you have a friend who laughs, it's very easy to laugh with your friend. So energy and emotions, we can feel them when other people feel them. You could say that they are contagious. Anger and resentment are the same. And so if you are aware of other people's anger and resentment, practice scrupulous self-love and discernment.

“Do I choose to energize anger and resentment in myself, in my body, in my energy field?"

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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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