Dear Choose Happy Community,

Sometimes we carry the past like a weight, and we look toward the future with fear. This teaching invites us to release all of it, even just for a moment, and return to the light that is always present within. Even our identification with the body can soften when it is met with love and the vastness of heart. In presence, there is peace. In peace, there is clarity.

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

“ If I’m identifying overly much with my body, that’s an indicator that I’m sort of identifying with what’s temporary rather than what’s eternal. And so if that’s something that’s true for you, then offer your body consciousness to the light within you and just say, ‘my heart is so vast it gives me ability to love even my body consciousness, even the way I’m identifying myself with my body’.

“And I open to be aware of that in me, which is eternal. And what happens then is you’ll just be fully present in your daily life. And I know this sounds so simple, but if you just, as a practice right now, just say, ‘I let go of the past’.

“So if you feel like you’ve been carrying around heavy pain in relation to the past, just for this moment, ‘I let it go’. ‘I let go of the future’. So if you’ve been carrying around a lot of fear in relation to the future, just for this moment, you let it go, and you say, ‘I’m here in the present and in this moment I stand in the light and I just allow kindness to fill my heart and I just allow light to fill my heart’. What remains? What remains in that moment?”

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In loving service,Awake Yoga Meditation

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