KinKeeping. It Matters.

• Right away, I knew that for me, Kin and KinKeeping were much broader terms than just family I was related to by blood, much more than just older female relatives. Kin were those folks who mattered to me in this world – all the way out to including fellow humans on the planet.
  
  

• Kin included those related to me by blood, those whose DNA I share.

We choose those we hold close to us. We choose our dear friends – and they choose us! And we choose all different kinds of KinGroups to belong to, based on values we hold and relationships we have built and want to build. These KinGroups can be any community of people with whom we are connected. They can be small and private, large and public. They are centered around many different things such as shared interests, skills, life season, career, belief systems, personal characteristics, education, backgrounds, abilities, struggles, etc.

1. When we are conscious, alert and present to the idea of the value of KinKeeping, we become so clear that we are NOT ALONE. People are connecting in ways small and large with us – all the time! We have places/people where we belong. We receive comfort when people care about us and take time and energy to connect with us.

2. We always have an option to reach out with a KinKeeping offer to those in our KinGroups – we can help them know they are NOT ALONE.  We can become a source of comfort to others!

3. When we have no one around us, in quarantine or some other circumstance that means we cannot be physically close to those we care about, we can sit back, take a breath, and use the time to KinKeep ourselves. We can always do breathwork, meditate, read, think, listen to our own hearts and feel at home in our own bodies. There is much joy in being fully present, tuned in to our own self.

4. As we remain physically distant from people in our hopes to contain the COVID-19 virus, if we still have patches of nature available to us, we can go barefoot in the grass, hug a tree, touch a rock – and receive that energy that comes from being “grounded.” The power of being KinKept by Mother Earth is a magnificent benefit that makes life possible – air, breeze, water, trees, plants – sustain us.

5. In those sheltered times, we can also focus on connecting with the mysteries of life on this planet – we can make choices to KinKeep our own souls by communicating purposefully with our higher power, whatever name we attribute to this Source of energy, love and light that has made us with hearts that beat and lungs that breathe.  Being connected to and having trust at some level in something bigger than us, beyond us, can calm our very souls.

KinKeeping Matters – to us and to the world around us!