Choice

 

Choice 01.13.21

 

Grateful and Thankful

I chose to read

this blog post

this morning.

https://youarelovenow.com/2021/01/13/a-choice-of-love-2/

I responded to it

with this:

 

The ability

to make a choice

is such a gift.

Sitting in awareness

and leaving that option

of choice open

is allowing yourself

the Grace To Be.

 

Do I allow myself

to be dragged

into negative thinking

by the ego,

or do I allow myself

to view all things

through the eyes

of the love I am,

that we all are.

 

During

the most trying moments

when my son

was in the ICU

after emergency brain surgery,

I was consumed

by all sorts of

negative thoughts.

I asked myself why?

I meditate all the time;

why isn't it helping

now?

 

At that moment,

I chose to seek

that stillness

I was so familiar with.

What came

immediately was this:

"Breath in Love, Exhale Peace."

It brought me home

to my center,

where Love resides.

It calmed

my monkey mind then.

It sustained me

for all the ensuing

difficult times

of his two year battle

with brain cancer.

 

And now,

as his first Angelversary

approaches,

it comes up

as a choice to make

yet again.

Again I lean on the mantra

that came

from the stillness

that day in the ICU.

I am continuing

to choose

to anchor myself

in it:

Breath in Love, Exhale Peace.

It always leads me

back to the Love

that birthed us all.

 All My Love always, Keith

Be The Light

Be The Light

Facebook brought me this

from their Share A Memory feature.

It is from December 3rd, 2015.

I thought all I was sharing

was the quote and image.

Since all that was all that displayed

in the Share A Memory box.

I was pleasantly surprised

by what I wrote back then.

It comes as a reminder

that it just may be more relevant

in these times of social distancing

and quarantines than it was then.

Here it is:

 

I sat with and an excellent read the other day.

Then during a discussion,

I was told to do nearly the same thing.

Spirit is always sending us messages.

If we but still ourselves enough

to recognize its presence.

You may be thinking now:

How am I to be the light?

Well, what resonated with me

from that book was this statement.

When you want to connect to Source,

whatever your name for it is.

Imagine a column of light

from your heart to Source.

I envision this beautiful

golden glowing umbilical cord

soaring into the heavens.

There it connects to the Source

of the infinite,

the unconditional love of the universe.

To the infinite, unconditional love

of All That Is.

The other thing?

Envision yourself standing there

with whoever you want to help.

Hold this vision

of both of your souls

standing there in front of you.

Holding hands with one another

face to face.

Envision this golden beam of love energy

moving energetically

back and forth between your souls.

Communicating whatever

it is you want to.

Be it healing, love,

or just to support them on a soul level.

I did that sitting

in church last Sunday.

I knew of two people

who required healing energy.

I sat there and held the connection

to infinite unconditional love.

I saw this golden heart sized

umbilical cord of divine connection

going from my heart to the heavens.

I also saw two streams

of that golden energy

connecting to my friends.

Joining them at their heart level.

Beaming in compassion,

love, and healing power.

It was like a visual

silent prayer for them.

Try being the light.

I know you'll love this new way

to pray for others.

 

All My Love Always, Keith

Global Healing Meditation

Global Healing Meditation
03/21/2020

Here's the audio YouTube link to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrc0ibUKdeg&t=174s

 Now I invite you to close your eyes.  Leave the cares of these days behind.  Feel a gentle warm wave of relaxation drift from your head. Slowly gliding down through your eyes, through your nose, through your cheeks, through your neck feeling any tensions easing.  Feel the wave drifting through your shoulders, through your heart, through your torso.  Relaxing you as it goes.  Drifting through your hips, easing through your thighs, through your knees, your calves, drifting through your feet.  Deeply relaxing your entire being.  Let the warmth of that wave of relaxation fill you and center you in your heart.

Breathe in, breathe out.  Long infilling breaths, long full exhales.  Breathe in, breathe out.  See your heart.  See it as a beautiful red book with golden edged pages resting on your spine.  Now ever so gently. Take the covers and open that beautiful red and gold book.  That book of your infinite unconditional love.  From its pages, golden beams of divine healing energy, of infinite unconditional love, compassion, and profound peace flow from your heart.  Flowing to everyone in need in this world.  Filling them with an unwavering love to take care of themselves, and for all who live here on this planet to help each other, to support each other in whatever way they can.

And now take another deep infilling breath.  Feel that infilling breath flowing ever so deeply into your lungs, filling them with the breath of life.  Filling them to overflowing with the divine healing energy of infinite unconditional love, compassion, and profound peace of the Universe.  Filling You to Overflowing.

So as you exhale.  You hold in mind all those in the world.  Hold them in mind with the intention.  That the divine healing energy of infinite unconditional love, compassion, and profound peace of the Universe is radiated from your being.  To each and every soul in the world, seeking out those who need it the very most.  Feel yourself filling with each breath and radiating love with each exhale.  Feel yourself filling with each breath and radiating that love with each exhale.  Radiating love to those who need it the very most.  Set your intention that this love will find those most in need.  Breathe in, breathe out.

With every breath, every exhale, feel the love of global community.  Flowing from you and the Universe to those in need.  As billions of golden thread-like beams of divine healing energy, of infinite unconditional love, of compassion, and of profound peace.  They flow from the Universe, from your heart, flowing to everyone on the planet.

As we gently come back, we thank the God of our understanding for being with us right here, right now.  And we take another deep breath.  We hold in mind the people in those places of power, be it political or medical.  And we see that they can effect change.  And we know a divine unfolding,   a divine understanding is unfolding in them.  We see a vibrant, healthy response being lovingly guided to encompass all those who live here, in the entire global community. 

And as we leave this meditation, we secure its messages in our hearts and carry them with us wherever we go.  Knowing we’ve set the intention to share them on a non-physical energetic level.  With everyone, we hold in mind.  Everyone we come in contact with.  This day and every day.  Now gently move your fingers, move your toes.  And come back.  Knowing You Are Love.  You Are the Love of the Universe. 

All My Love Always, Keith

I am grateful for Spirit's gentle guidance.  Over the last few days during my meditations and on my contemplative hikes, I've been led to revisit a healing meditation.  I did it for my church in 2014.  At the time, we were holding a weekly meditation intending to benefit our community. I knew I was to edit it for these times we are now in. As I awoke yesterday morning, I became aware it needed to be recorded.  I laid there thinking of what music to play in the background.  I had picked opening and closing songs. But the Universe answered that question when I walked into the kitchen and heard birds singing and our wind chimes beautiful notes.  The chime in the background is a gift from a dear friend for the son I lost in January; it plays the opening notes of Amazing Grace.  Please share this with anyone you wish.

All My Love Always, Keith

Metta Meditation - To All Beings

Metta Meditation Part Deux

02.12.2020

Family medical issues in the Spring of 2018

led me to struggling with my meditation practice

just when I knew I needed to keep it going.

To aid in whatever came next,

to not let fear become my master.

I wrote a blog post

about one of the meditations

that really resonated with me:

https://keithnoyesblog.blogspot.com/2018/09/metta.html

Today February 12, 2020,

the Metta meditation was again referred to.

It starts with:

May I Be Happy,

May I Be Well,

May I Be Safe,

May I Be At Peace.

Then shift the focus

to someone you love with:

May You Be Happy,

May You Be Well,

May You be Safe,

May You Be At Peace.

The last repetition

is with someone you have an issue with.

So today, it was revisited with a twist.

We were told

to open our hearts as we did this.

"Place your hands on your heart

with the intention

of opening your heart wide."

The final part

was expanded "to All Beings."

I Wish For All Beings To Be Happy,

I Wish All Beings To Be Well,

I Wish All Beings To Be Safe,

I Wish All Beings To Be At Peace.

This time the meditation moved me even more

than the many times I have done it

over these last few years.

So touched I was

that I listened to the guided Metta meditation

a second time.

As I did,

it deepened my connection even more.

As it was concluding,

this filled my awareness,

"May I Love Myself As Much As the One Loves Us All."

A dear friend writes a blog.

Her blog today is "A Hand Of Love"

https://youarelovenow.com/2020/02/12/a-hand-of-love/

As I read my friend Sandy's post,

I was struck by

how much it was like an answer

to my meditation experience.

"let your Soul's knowing rise up to greet you…

…see with your heart, as your Soul rejoices."

At lunch, I told my wife about my meditation.

That Sandy's message today

was an apt description of how I felt.

This feeling that we all are connected

to something so vast

and so very loving was palpable.

Tears of joy graced my eyes,

my arms were awash with truth shivers.

I, too, was rejoicing with my Soul

over the connection we made this morning.

All My Love Always, Keith

Full Moon Symbolism

Full Moon Symbolism

Have you ever contemplated

the significance of the full moon?

May the full moon show you

how you always return to wholeness;

the wholeness of you,

the spiritual nature of you.

The realization that

you are a spiritual being

having a human experience.

That at your core,

in your heart of hearts,

you are pure love,

plain and simple.

Even on the days,

you don’t feel it,

those new moon days.

At least for me sometimes 

I feel so very connected

so in touch with my true nature of love,

it’s like the full moon phase.

Then other times

I’m in differing aspects of it.

Waxing and waning

into and out of my true nature.

I wake up realizing

I need to capture these words

that come flooding to me

in the middle of the night,

like bright moonbeams

during a full moon

on a clear, crisp night.

What phase are you in?

Is it like me?

Do you seem to drift

in and out of step

with your true nature,

the love that you are?

The love you have always been?

There are those times

when I doubt and question myself.

As if my spiritual life is waning.

And there are those times

when I see connections

and feel them building,

waxing, into the full moon glory

of the unconditional love

that lives at the core of me.

When it blossoms

into its complete fullness

and feels so self-evident and true.

May the cycles of the moon

remind you of the boundless love

that lives in your soul.

May you realize that even

when you feel less than

or not enough

these are the human experiences

you came here to grow through.

The adventures of life

that as you work through them

enhance and expand

your true nature of love.

Your true nature

is to shine

in the fullness of the love

that you are.

Shine that love,

be that love,

and express that love,

that you innately are

and forever will be.

All My Love Always, Keith

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