Keith Braselton

I call it ... Engage Love.

     I believe that it is the goal, the purpose, and indeed the destiny of each of us to learn how to think, act, and react in love, moment by moment, every moment of our lives, in every situation ... in essence, asking "What would LOVE do?"

KEITH BRASELTON
1959 - 2007

     My life began in Georgia in 1959, and during the first ten years of my life my loving parents moved to Florida, Georgia, Washington D.C., Florida, Texas, and California. I became familiar with new places, new people and new experiences. As an adult I lived all around the San Francisco Bay area for 9 years and have called Fairfield, California home for the past 30 years.

     I have been married twice and am the proud father of my son Seth(28), daughter Krishauna, (27), son Cameron (22) and son Shane(4). First marriage 12 years. Second marriage 12 years. I am presently enjoying the fullness of being single and very active in the HAI community. For the past 27 years the financial portions of my life have been primarily provided by literally painting my world. I am a registered Color Consultant, Faux Artist, and High Quality Painting Contractor, and what I love most about the work is the dramatic change that the right colors can evoke when properly selected and applied. If you want to know more, check out. KeithBraseltonPainting.com. It has been a business that has allowed me creative expression while providing my livelihood.

     My interests include reading, studying and learning, but when I'm playing, you might find me, hiking, snow or water skiing, rock climbing, boogie boarding, playing Frisbee, street hockey, racquet ball, or volley ball, dancing and just having fun. By any standard life is short, and I recommend fun!

     Throughout my life there have been powerful spiritual experiences that have served to awaken me and bring me closer to what I call my God Self, the part of God that I carry inside and reflect to the world.

     At the age of nine I felt a calling and took Jesus into my heart. It was a deep movement in which my heart and soul were filled with radiant love. It felt as if the heavens poured The Love of All That Is into my heart and allowed me, briefly, to feel it. I was fundamentally changed and I feel it endowed me with the gift of compassion. While hiking when I was seventeen, I was caught in a freak snow storm without adequate clothing and actually froze to death. I had the complete death experience and again felt Unlimited Love pour down upon me. I awoke just as I was going into the light, feeling more love than ever before. Upon awakening I found my body completely warmed while in the middle of the blizzard, and I recovered. My first thought was "I guess it wasn't time for me to die, there must be something else for me to do on this earth". I knew I would never again fear death, because the experience was actually so beautiful.

     At the age of twenty I began my formal spiritual education studying the Tantras, the system of yoga, with my guru Hitesh Yoshi. Dedication to the Tantric principles and practices led me to discover both a gift and a passion for making complicated issues easy to understand. At twenty-two I determined to dedicate my life to becoming a spiritual teacher. Through this determination I learned quickly and thoroughly. I mastered the art of keeping my mind silent whenever I wanted by time I was twenty-six. Hitesh then prepared me for a practice called ‘Generating. Generating was a method of channeling additional positive energy into my life. I immediately recognized this as an extraordinary tool and instinctively new that this method of channeling energy was going to be an invaluable tool to helping people grow in their spiritual path. I diligently worked to master generating. I found it most difficult to generate when I was engaging into conversation with people. By time I was 28 (1988) I would wake up generating, generate all day and go to sleep generating.

     Curiously, at the age of 28 I also started feeling a lot of pain in my life and Hitesh assured me that I was burning through a lot of Karma. It was my belief that when I moved through all of my Karma that I would become completely enlightened and so this information just gave me fuel to generate stronger and stronger every day, regardless of the pain.

     In 1988 I began teaching my first group of students. It was a growing and learning process for all of us, and I fully subscribe to the theory that we are all students, in everything we do in our lifetime. My second group in 1989 moved along progressing faster than the first class and after six month of classes they were ready to learn Generating. Two days before I was to teach that class in November of 1989, I experienced one of my greatest life lessons. While spraying a volatile primer at a job site, I forgot to turn off the heater and the pilot light ignited the primer. The house literally exploded like a bomb with me in the center and I received second and third degree burns on 33% of my upper body.

     The next sixteen days can only be described as the experience of hell. Two skin graph operations and no sleep for twelve of those sixteen days in intensive care. To my stead, I had lived a healthy life, a vegetarian who took no drugs, caffeine or alcohol. The health of my body before I was burned enabled me to leave the hospital after the sixteenth day. Normally it would have taken about thirty days. It took more than a year for my body to heal enough for me to return to my work as a painter and earn money again. The emotional scars ran much deeper, and I vowed not to return to teaching until I understood all that had happened to me. I was very spiritual, a very active father of three children and was one of the most loving people I knew ... I could not understand how something so horrible could happen to someone like me.

     As soon as I was healed enough I began generating again and expanding my education process, and for the next ten years I searched and researched life. I learned how to talk to my guides and I read hundreds of books. As I was doing all of this and raising my family I continued to generate as much as possible, thinking that I was burning through Karma and my life continued to be filled with pain daily. By time I was 38 I could no longer generate. I could not meditate anymore and I had lost most of my short term memory.

     One of the biggest life changing experiences that I have ever had came from the Anthony Robbins course called Thirty Days to Abundance where he teaches about the power of a loving smile. The moment that I learned the loving smile comes from an open heart, my whole spiritual life passed before me. I realized at that moment that the reason the fire experience happened to me is because I had been generating with my heart closed everyday for a couple of years. I wasn’t burning Karma. I had been creating it! I had been generating with my heart closed. I was creating my own pain through channeling energy reversed from love. It felt like I had almost generated myself to death. I was in so much pain and my memory was so hard to deal with.

     I came to see the fire experience as a kind of Karmic return or Karmic balance. After discovering the power of a loving smile, it took me a couple of years longer to smile my way back to real health. But I learned the lesson and now include generating with my heart open in my daily practice. I have included the principle in my teaching ever since. Now I call it Shining because that is what you do. You Shine love like a star.

     A couple of years after discovering about the loving smile and using it as much as I possibly could, I had an amazing healing experience with a man named Michael. You will find our story in the Loving Smile section on this site. It was so miraculous that it moved me to start teaching again. I wrote a couple of books and I taught people all around the bay area. I made trips to Ottawa, Canada every three months for a year.

     I spent five years sharing the powerful information on this website with hundreds of people. I taught them, and then excitedly watched as their lives magically transformed in the first few weeks.

     But then, within three or four months most of them would go right back to the ways they use to live. They couldn’t sustain the love. I realized it was true for me as well. I could not channel love for long periods of time. The more I tried, the more I found my life compounded in pain. The pain came in many different forms: depression, heartache, never having enough money no matter how well I ran my businesses, challenging hurtful relationships, and not being able to trust God or the universe. There was also daily pain in my body that was literally driving me crazy. I had been studying love, spirituality and metaphysics for twenty-five years and no matter how much I tried, I simply could not overcome the pain.

     Then, in November of 2006, I found two metaphysical principles. One of them creates unloving conditions within us that absolutely controls our lives. These conditions are our unloving core beliefs. The other principle shows us the unloving and troubled emotional energy left behind from our past. It then shows how we can heal these past experiences, change the core beliefs and reclaim the energy to put into manifesting what we truly want in life. I am so amazed and excited by what healing my core beliefs and reclaiming my energy has done for me.

With this new knowledge I worked on myself and also used it to help other people heal. After eight months and twenty four clients who had varying degrees of success, I realized there was still more that I needed in order to heal myself completely. I noticed I was working with the same core beliefs over and over. It was as if these beliefs were not fully healing. Although I understood these core beliefs, I simply could not break the unloving patterns of manifestation.

     Then, in November of 2007, I met John Hoyle. John has created a healing technique called VIA, voice integrated activation. Using VIA and his extraordinary knowledge of the metaphysical story of God/Universe/Creation, I started to heal.

     In anticipation of the intense changes to come, my body went into reaction two days before the first session as well as before the next five. It was in the second session that I came to see and understand the biggest block in my life. On every level, my life began to transform at an amazing rate.

     Excited and wanting to share this powerful method (tool?) with others, I started apprenticing with John. Working with the brilliance of his genius is exhilarating. Together we’ve accessed extraordinary information. What John discovered and shared with me is that any experience inside of us that is not love, be it anger, hatred, hurt, torture, anything ~ it all comes from misunderstandings. He calls it the physics of innocence. Through learning the physics of innocence I became free to channel love which enabled me to heal my pain. I’m experiencing states of peace, abundance, bliss, and even ecstasy in so many different ways, my life is becoming magical.

     There is no limit to this magic. Each of us is a unique, enchanting, and important part of Love. And as such, we are blessed with the right to truly BE that love, in as many ways and in as much of each moment as we are able. Each time we experience the Love that we ARE, we become stronger, wiser, happier, and more filled with the experience of Love and our ability expands.

     Has there ever been a time in your life when you knew you were truly in love? The whole world danced and sang for you! Colors were brighter, scents sweeter. Every day was an amazing experience where nothing troubled you. Even the biggest challenges became minuscule. If you’ve been blessed with this experience, you know it was not just in perception of your surroundings. The feeling was reflected in your body as well. It was a bounce in your step, you stood taller, and you found yourself whistling at the checkout stand. You felt abundant joy and could see it clearly reflected by others around you. In a word, it was wonderful!

     If you haven’t personally experienced this, try to imagine it happening to you. Surely it has happened to many people around the world throughout time. Imagine there is a way to put that extraordinary loving feeling into your life 24/7/365!

     Suppose that it was your choice to stay there?

     It can happen... if you make the dedication to choose to engage Love.


Credit where Credit is Due:

     I was gifted with many books and many teachers along the way and I would like to express my gratitude to them here by sharing with you a list of some of the volumes and some of their names, with hopes that they may cross your path some day and serve you as eloquently.

     Every book I could find about Yogananda, Sri Yuktswar, and Lahari Mehessia. Books about the Tantra philosophy, many many eastern teachers, some of the Bagavad Gita, all of the Seth Materials, The Right Use of Will books, and other channeled books, everything written from Krishnamirti, many different religions, the Bible (King James and other versions), books about the history of how the bible was created, lots of the Book of Mormon, the Koran, everything I could find on Ammachi (the hugging saint), Babaji, and Amma ( the one in Germany), and all of the Conversations With God books. Books like (and this is a small list) How to Win Friends and Influence People, How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success In Selling, The Greatest Salesman in the World, The Richest Man In Babylon, Nonviolent Communication, As A Man Thinketh, A Better Way to Live, Grow Rich While You Sleep, Who Moved My Cheese, Rich Man Poor Man, Success, Secrets of a Millionaire Mind, and fiction books like Stranger in a Strange Land, I Remember Union (I recommend this book to almost everyone I meet), The Aquarian Gospel-Jesus the Christ, The Lamb (this book is so funny), The Trilogy by Robert Heinlein and the latest book Radical Forgiveness.

John Beaudry

I am a teacher in training because I want to live more consciously. For me, living more consciously means living more out of creative intent and less out of my reactions to former wounds and societal agreements. I want to develop my abilities as a healer of people, society, and myself. The Engage Love Process is essentially a set of tools that help me to deepen my relationship with myself, and therefore with life; to engage with life through love.

My search for life’s deeper meaning began as a child. Fascinated with nature, I was curious about the massive oaks in our back yard that I already knew grew from tiny acorns. I imagined some incredible mystery lay behind this magic. In ninth grade I had a glimpse of that mystery during a drug overdose. I had an epiphany that became the foundation of my spiritual belief: we are all one, nothing is separate, and death is a time of return to oneness. My epiphany put me on a quest throughout my teens.

However, life and time distracted me and led me away from my quest. I returned to my spiritual search many times, drawn back by illness or frustration with my life as it was unfolding, but I would always get distracted again. I have walked many paths. I studied the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, worked with the Men’s Movement, trained as a Reiki Master and I have drunk deeply from the teachings of the Toltecs.

Engage love intersects with all of these paths and helps me to understand each of them better. Through teaching the Engage Love Process I get to share my curiosity of life with others in community.