9-Being Awake with Swami Nityananda

My guest in this episode is Swami Nityananda who is a university professor (under the name June Ellis), spiritual teacher, author of the book Awake: The Yoga of Pure Awareness, and leader of the Awake Yoga Meditation community. I absolutely love interacting with her because she has such an awake and joyful presence. She briefly explained how she came to be named a swami by her teacher Swami Shakarananda in 2014 and designated his successor. In this delightful conversation we talked a lot about living in a new way by allowing our True Self to radiate through as who we are. She defined being awake as expressing the energy of Awakeness which is the Divine awareness within you. And she said that self-realization is allowing universal love, wisdom, compassion, and light to show through us right now, right where we are. We both agreed that allowing is the key to awakening. Awakeness or divine awareness is what we already are. Pure love and light is what we already are. Heaven on Earth is what we already are. We only have to allow our True Self to express through us and as us. Now if we are blocked by a belief or feeling that we are unworthy, Swami suggested that we name and acknowledge those feelings, and then open to unconditional love (that is within us) and allow it to help/heal us. She is an incredible teacher by being an example and embodiment of the truth, love, and light that we are. She invited everyone to explore their website which is AwakeYogaMeditation.org and attend one of their free community meditations. (I've done that myself, and it is a peaceful and totally uplifting experience.)

Love yourself always, and choose to awaken!

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