Dear Choose Happy Community,
Fear often grows when we become attached to an outcome we cannot control. This teaching reminds us that we can still act with love and give our best without carrying the weight of knowing exactly how things will turn out. When we dedicate our actions to serving the highest good, we create space for greater freedom, joy, and peace. The outcome may not always be in our hands, but how we show up can be.
Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video:
“‘There’s always the fear of loss. You know that. We’ve all been there. Fear of loss of job, position, honor, health, fear of losing a loved one.’ He [Swami Shankarananda] says, ‘You don’t fear losing an enemy. Performing everything as an act of worship’, or if you don’t like that phrasing, performing everything as an act of being of service to highest good. He says that frees you from attachment to outcome. That frees you from worrying. That frees you to do everything with love.
“And when you’re back in that energy of: I’m here just to be of service to highest good, to do everything with love. And the outcome is not always in my hands, but I can still be in this energy of fullness; I can still be in this energy of joy; I can still be in this energy of light, no matter what the outcome is, and that’s melting away fear as well”
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In loving service,Awake Yoga Meditation
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