Mindful Breath

Mindful Breath

Focus on the breath,

meditate on it

breathing in the infinite love and light

of the Universe, of God,

of all that is Holy.

Exhaling any, and all things

that no longer serve

the higher purpose

of why you chose

to come into physical form.

Breathing in

the love and light

that you are.

Exhaling all that clouds your perceptions,

clouds you to the reality of your being.

Breathing in love, light, compassion, joy, bliss:

exhale and surrender all that keeps you

from remembering your source.

Breathing in the love

that you are,

the love that is you.

Exhaling releasing all that no longer serves

the spiritual nature of you.

Breathe

witness the gift of physical life

with your spiritual eyes.

Breathe

embracing the gift

and rejoicing with the spiritual nature

of the love that you are.

Breathe in,

breathe out.

You are more than the physical.

You are Eternal.

You are Love,

You are Light,

You are Compassion,

You are Joy,

You are Loved,

and

You Are Home.

All My Love Always, Keith

Loving Place

Loving Place

There is a loving place

deep inside you

that never changes.

Your heart center

is always there

patiently waiting.

Waiting for you

to turn inward to it.

Loved beyond measure You are

for that unfathomable love

is the very essence of who you are.

Turn within.

There in lies

what you seek. 

All My Love Always, Keith

Preconceived Perceptions

Preconceived Perceptions

Preconceived perceptions,

as my Spiritual Journey has unfolded,

I've found this to be true

of things I initially thought were

impossible or this can't be.

I've found myself needing

to challenge my view of reality.

Only to watch that view broaden,

to be more inclusive,

more wondrous,

and expanding in ways

I could never have imagined.

May you challenge yourself today

to view things with the eyes of a child,

with an openness,

dropping or at least being willing

to suspend preconceived notions

about something

and letting a more profound meaning

or understanding of it

evolve in your consciousness.

All My Love Always, Keith

Metta

Metta

I first heard of Metta

using the Calm meditation app back in June.

It’s a Buddhist term for loving kindness,

benevolence, or universal love.

It was introduced to me

as a meditative spiritual practice

where you are kind to yourself first,

an as within so without a type of thing.

With a sincere, loving intent you repeat

some phrases like a mantra.

Feeling into the words as you say them.

May I Be Happy,

May I Be Well,

May I Be Safe,

May I Be At Peace.

Repeat them a time or two.

Then shift your awareness and intent

to someone else, someone you love and repeat

May You Be Happy,

May You Be Well,

May You be Safe,

May You Be At Peace.

You alternate between the verses

as long as you desire.

Sit with it how does it feel?

Then you can even see how it feels

to shift your intention to someone

you have an issue with or don’t particularly like

and try it with them. 

Which brings us back to the definition

of the Pali word Metta in that:

it is loving-kindness,

benevolence, or universal Love

that is the very essence

of this reflective practice.

I write of this today after finding myself drawn

to use these phrases again and again

in my meditative practice these last few months.

I leave you today with Metta

I Wish For You To Be Happy

I Wish For You To Be Well

I Wish For You To Be Safe

I Wish For You To Be At Peace

I Wish For Your Heart To Feel At Peace.

Make them your own,

phrase them the way it seems to fit You.

Phrase them in a way that allows you to feel them.

May You Enjoy Practicing Metta.

All My Love Always, Keith

Shift Happens

Shift Happens

Shift happens;

I've been on a Spiritual journey all my life

even before I even knew I was.

It indeed opened much more

when I lost my first wife back in 2010.

One of my earliest downloads from Spirit was to share.

I went through a series

of three dramatic healings

in the last few weeks.

I was encouraged by one healer to write.

"Just three pages a day," she said, "whatever comes."

So I share today's

yes it's very personal

and yes I feel Spirit led me to write this

and share it so here it is. 

Thank you, Raven,

for the inspiration to write each day.

Thank you, Debra and Tammy,

for the healings of Jane E.

As we sat and joked around last night

telling stories of her

I noticed such a lightness in the air,

a difference in the feel

of mentioning her name.

Thank you, Mary Jo, for being you

and following your dream.

And now I feel I can learn

with Tammy's help

to follow mine.

Channeling play with it

comes to mind this a.m.

Wake up thinking of the channel yesterday

and learning to appreciate them.

I've also thought over the last few days

about a piece I wrote on

Self-Worth and Self-Confidence.

Are these writings and channels meant for me 

first to listen to and absorb into my being,

to live from them?

That's when the appreciation comes in,

is it not?

We give you these gifts,

and you share them so freely.

Now we ask you

to share them with your heart

and appreciate the love

we are showering you with.

Yes, we told you to share,

and in the beginning,

you were buoyed by the messages

you brought through.

We wish you to find that personal joy

you had in exploring your Spirituality again.

May you realize

it's not all about helping others

it about helping yourself grow too.

You light the candle;

you open with your prayer

embracing Oneness, Us.

Embrace yourself,

Love yourself,

Appreciate yourself.

Those acts, dear one,

will go far in allowing you to realize

Self-Worth and Self-Confidence

are your birthrights as a Soul,

not as a human

but as a Soul,

an innate part of you.

Just as you study enlightenment

and hear you are complete,

already what you seek.

We tell you your job

in this human form

is one of uncovering

that which you already are,

that which you have forever been!

Yes, we know

the humanness kicks in

with your "yeah buts"?

Now, what has

your meditation practice

taught you?

Are not the "yeah buts"

just thoughts?

Can not you just let them

drift on by?

Embrace yourself,

just put your pen down

and put your arms around yourself

and feel the boundless love,

we, Spirit, the Universe,

God, Jesus,

The One, The All That Is

have, yes, for you!

Drop the pen do it NOW!

Feel That!?

God bumps washed over my arms,

my scalp, my lower legs, down my back.

I became awash in all my being with them.

Loved by Spirit no conditions,

no have to be at this point;

just being is enough!

Shift happens,

dear ones,

and whether you know it

or not you are in it!

ALWAYS!

Now rest in this

and yes share it with your group.

It's a new day

when you see Us

behind the clouds of your humanness.

We are always there for you,

always loving you,

always encouraging you,

always supporting you.

With a Love that is endless

just as you've expressed

for your son.

Endless Hope,

Endless Light,

Endless Love

now dear one

give it to yourself!

We so Love You!

All My Love Always, Keith

EndLess Hope

EndLess Light

EndLess LOVE

Writing For Answers?

Writing for Answers?

Can writing

be a meditative experience?

I’ll let you decide.

I sat after my meditation this morning

pondering a relationship issue.

So I took up my pen

and just let the words flow

out of me

as I wrote page after page,

allowing the energy of it

onto the paper.

I had set the intention

to write three full pages

in this flow.

As I neared the end

of the last page,

this flowed out of my pen.

Send them Love,

Be Love,

and stay in the Spiritual,

loving ways you have.

Be patient

in letting this unfold

and accept however it flows,

no resistance to it.

Be the witness

see it from

our higher selves perspective.

Always send Love.

Know your loving energy

is being received

even when it is not

acknowledged.

Be Love,

Send Love,

hold this whole relationship

in Love and Light,

and just Let It Be.

All My Love Always, Keith 

Let Today Be The Day

Let Today Be The Day  

Let today be the day

I shift my awareness to Spirit

and actively sense All with my heart.

Let today be the day I step back

from my physical senses

and open to my Spiritual senses.

What higher purpose

could I live for today

than to be 

the LOVE that I AM

and to express that love

wherever I go? 

All My Love Always, Keith

Beacon

Beacon

Be The Beacon!

Sense what someone needs.

Send them Optimism.

Radiate Optimism.

Be The Beacon!

Sense what someone needs.

Send them Empathy.

Radiate Empathy.

Be The Beacon!

Sense what someone needs.

Send them Understanding.

Radiate Understanding.

Be The Beacon!

Sense what someone needs.

Send them Inspiration.

Radiate Inspiration.

Be The Beacon!

Sense what someone needs.

Send them Compassion.

Radiate Compassion.

Be The Beacon!

Sense what someone needs.

Send them Hope.

Radiate Hope.

Be The Beacon!

Sense what someone needs.

Send them Enthusiasm.

Radiate Enthusiasm.

Be The Beacon!

Sense what someone needs.

Send them Strength.

Radiate Strength.

Be The Beacon!

Sense what someone needs.

Send them Confidence.
Radiate Confidence.

Be The Beacon!

Sense what someone needs.

Send them Courage.

Radiate Courage.

Be The Beacon!

Sense what someone needs.

Send them Healing.

Radiate Healing.

Be The Beacon!

Sense what someone needs.

Send them LOVE!

Radiate LOVE!

You can do this from anywhere:

the grocery store,

when you're driving in your car, 

from your desk at work,

during a conversation

with someone.

Be The Beacon!

Sense what someone needs.

Send them  . . . .

Radiate  . . . .

All My Love Always, Keith

Legacy

Legacy

An excerpt from Oprah Winfrey's
2018 USC Commencement speech.

You build a legacy
not from one thing
but from everything.

I remember when
I just opened my school in 2007,
I came back and I had the great joy
of sitting at Maya Angelou's table.

She hadn't been able
to attend the opening in South Africa.
And I said to her, "Oh Maya,
the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy
that's going to be my greatest legacy."

I remember she was standing
at the counter making biscuits
and she turned, she put the dough down,
and she looked at me and said, 
"You have no idea what your legacy will be."

I said, "Excuse me?
I just opened this school
and these girls, and it's going to be..."

And she said,
"You have no idea
what your legacy will be, 
because your legacy
is every life you touch.
Every life you touch." 

That changed me.

All My Love Always, Keith 

"Know You Are Loved"

"Know You Are Loved"

Remembering a dear friend

Brenda Bollman Baker

who’s still right here

in my heart

even though she transitioned

on May 9th, 2018.

She embraced her journey

of exploring her Spiritual side

so much in life,

you couldn’t meet her

or interact with her

without knowing you are loved.

She raised our awareness

of the love that we all are in life.

Now that she has transitioned

she has made her Spiritual presence

known in so many ways

to so many of us.

This Transitioning

to the Other Side,

or Across the Veil

as we’ve often called it.

She’s given us

a new name for it.

The Everywhere.

Yes, dear Brenda

has gone to The Everywhere.

Now she’s raised our awareness yet again.

No, she’s vastly expanded our awareness.

When you become

Your Love Light

the very essence

of the love that you are

You can be everywhere at once.

She’s made it abundantly clear

in the many ways, she’s contacted us

since her passing

that she’s still right here.

Or as her sassy-self

has come through

and told us

“I didn’t go anywhere!”

In that way, she still is our teacher.

She still is exploring

her Spiritual nature.

Just on a different plane.

That seems distant

yet so very close.

When your awareness

becomes awestruck

by the messages

and communications

she’s still sending us.

As I lay there asleep last night

Every time I stirred

I heard a line from a song

they played often as she slipped

from our physical presence

"Know You Are Loved."

May you all know that today.

Whether you believe this tale

Or not:

"Know You Are Loved."

For dear Brenda

serenaded me with it last night

of that I am sure.

That was her way

to lead you to

the realization to

"Know You Are Loved."  

All My Love Always, Keith