Our Spiritual Journey: Finding Our True Selves

We have a tremendous power within ourselves to create the inner experiences that we want to have.  It isn’t always easy at first, but few things that are worth our time are easy.  As we create these new inner experiences, we become a gift to everyone’s life that we touch. ~Karin M. Keyes

    "Anyone who has ever told you that you are not  a unique and beautiful spark of the Divine,  does not truly see you." If no one had ever had any thoughts about who you are, who would you be? If no one ever told you anything about yourself based on who they are or their own personal perceptions of the world, how would it have freed you to discover your own truths? We did not start from this place. We have each been around for eons. We are our own individual spark of God, having our own point of awareness that has nothing to do with anyone else. Know that everyone who has ever had an opinion of you that doesn’t sit right with you, or doesn’t resonate with your own personal truth, is probably wrong about you. Anyone who has ever told you that you are anything less than you are is wrong. Anyone who has ever told you that you are not a unique and beautiful spark of the Divine, does not truly see you. ~Karin M. Keyes

After a lot of work, time and love, I’m happy to announce that my new book Journey Into Awareness: Reclaiming Your Life is out and available for purchase on Amazon.  I began writing this book a couple years ago, writing about different realizations I was coming to about life during a major turning point in my own. I found that the things I had been carrying for much of my life were becoming too heavy to continue to carry and, through my private practice, I was seeing that many other people were feeling the same way. We were all beginning to question, on a deeper level, all the things we had been told and all of the things we had been telling ourselves. We wanted more. We all did. We wanted to be happy in our lives. We wanted to feel peaceful. We wanted to enjoy good relationships with the people around us. We wanted to move toward our dreams unafraid. We wanted to release our anxiety and feel safe in our own bodies. We wanted to learn how to open our hearts and to approach life fr...

         We have a choice to make about how we choose to feel every single day. We don’t necessarily get to feel however we want to at any given moment, but we have a say in what we choose to feel.Turning our attention to gratitude instead of focusing on hardship brings us into an entirely different place. Choosing to be strong instead of weak transforms our experiences. Being positive and seeing the good all around us puts the rest in a different place and we can see it from a higher perspective.  "Whichever emotion we choose to feed  strengthens in its life-force energy." Whichever emotion we choose to feed strengthens in its life-force energy. It is not enough to think positively, to act in a strong way, or to feel gratitude instead of self-pity once. We need to make it a regular practice. We need to be conscious of our thoughts and to notice when our thoughts are carrying us in the wrong direction, and to move our attention to who we want to b...

Everything we want in on the other side of fear. Think about what frightens you. What are you afraid of? Now, look at the things that frighten you as golden opportunities, a vision of what you need to overcome to get to where you need to be. In doing this, you open to the potential of becoming your highest expression of yourself.  "Look at the things that frighten you as golden opportunities, a vision of what you need to overcome to get to where you need to be." Rarely do our fears have nothing to do with where we actually want to go. Rather, fear generally has a great deal to do with what is in our hearts to do. Fear says we aren’t good enough, prepared enough, and so on. But, there is the essential question, good enough for what? What is it that you mind keeps going to, again and again, that you are telling yourself isn’t possible or practical, that could lead to your ultimate failure? Answers to those questions have the ability to transform your life.       ...

             People will let you down.   They will fall short of being their best selves. They will be selfish and mean and manipulative and deceptive. They will use you, even if they care for you, in order to get what they feel they deserve.   They will walk away from you even when you are being your best self.        Don’t take this personally. It is not a reflection of you. It is their way of continuing to navigate their way through the darkness because they are not in touch with what it means to unconditionally love.   Our ability to move into a place of pure love didn’t come easily for us either.   We battled our way through the darkness, as well. We did not have evil intentions. We simply didn’t know. We knew we were looking for something better but didn’t know what that was. We have been in survival mode, too.   None of that had anything to do with anyone else.     It was our own search...