Live Without Fear: Cultivating Calmness, Courage and Faith

This four-week series, based on Paramhansa Yogananda’s How to Live Without Fear, explores practical ways to transform worry, nervousness, and anxiety into calmness, courage, and faith. Yogananda taught that fear arises when we resist life as it is. By learning to accept circumstances with equanimity and attune ourselves to divine grace, we begin to meet life’s challenges with clarity and peace.
Each class will combine lecture, meditation, guided practices, and discussion, offering tools to strengthen inner stillness and confidence. Together we will reflect on how calmness and courage arise naturally when we live in harmony with higher truth and the assurance that we are “safe behind the battlements of God’s eternal safety.”
Weekly Themes

• Week 1 – Overcoming the Habit of Worry (Ganga): Understanding worry as misplaced energy and redirecting it toward faith and purposeful action.
• Week 2 – Overcoming Nervousness (Aryavan): Developing calm energy through breath, awareness, and inner centeredness.
• Week 3 – Cultivating Calmness (Premi & Navashen): Exploring the power of calmness as the foundation of strength and joy.
• Week 4 – Cultivating Inner Strength & Courage (Kshama): Deepening attunement with divine strength as the source of true courage.

Whether you seek freedom from worry’s grip or wish to deepen your capacity for calm courage, this series invites you to embody the truth: “In the center of life’s storms, I stand serene.

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