Each poem acts as a meditation or lesson, focusing on themes like:
Personal Empowerment: e.g., The Path, The Decision, Assertiveness
Emotional Healing: e.g., Hurt, Loneliness, Guilt, Abandonment
Spiritual Understanding: e.g., The Purpose of Life, The Illusion of Form, The Awakening
Universal Love and Unity: e.g., Love, Your Heart, Your World, Enlightenment
Mindfulness and Presence: e.g., Silence, The Mind, Now
The tone is compassionate, gentle, and encouraging—aiming to guide readers toward self-awareness and inner transformation.
Key Takeaways and Benefits for Readers
Emotional Clarity and Healing - The poems help identify and understand emotions like fear, stress, guilt, and loneliness, offering loving and nonjudgmental pathways to heal.
Spiritual Growth - For those on a personal or spiritual path, this book offers accessible insights into oneness, mindfulness, and the soul’s purpose.
Empowerment Through Choice - A core message is that we create our experience through our beliefs, and by changing those beliefs, we reclaim our power (The Game of Belief, Your Choice).
Encouragement of Self-Love and Acceptance - Readers are reminded that they are already love, worthy, and whole, helping release the need for external validation.
Meditative and Reflective Practice - The poems can be used daily as affirmations or meditative readings, offering grounding, peace, and inspiration.
Non-Dogmatic Spiritual Insight - While deeply spiritual, the book avoids religious doctrine, making it accessible to readers from various backgrounds who seek personal truth.
Ideal For Readers Who:
Are going through emotional struggles or transitions.
Seek inner peace or spiritual clarity.
Appreciate reflective, poetic language.
Want guidance that feels intimate, loving, and empowering.
Enjoy journaling or meditating on spiritual texts.
Messages from the Love Within was written using a method referred to as automatic writing. Automatic writing is a natural and easy process where it seems the words just write themselves. There is no need to think you simply write and when it is time to stop, you just seem to know. The process is so different to normal writing that even though it is all my original work, I have handwritten every word and I own the copyright it doesn’t feel like it is my work, nor my creation. Therefore automatic writing means that as an author my personal knowledge, training or qualifications are far less important than they would be in the case of other self-help authors where their experience and knowledge is critical. The main skill I needed was the ability to write, spell and accept the words as they came and not change or try to improve them so they fit my ideas or beliefs.
For those who are interested in a little about me, I was born in Sydney, Australia, number six in a family of ten children. My father was a Medical Practitioner and my mother owned and managed a real estate agency. I was raised a Catholic but as an adult soon realized I was more suited to the individual spiritual and meditation path more than a structured religious one. In the mid-1980s I embraced the new age movement exploring different ideas and concepts, different religions, spiritual teachers and teachings and traveled on a number of occasions to India.
It was following one of these trips in 1995 that I started to write down my thoughts, thinking one day sharing my experiences and insights may help others. After doing that for a few weeks I had an unusual dream. During that dream I felt a surge of energy move through the palms of my hands, I then saw myself collapse on the floor. Next, I remember seeing myself sitting at a desk, writing on a pad and saying out loud, “I understand, I now automatically write”.
A few days later I thought I would see what happened if I sat at a desk with pen and paper as I had seen myself in the dream. Almost immediately I started to write. Words flowed easily, effortlessly and very quickly. They came in a poetry style format covering many different topics and I found if I needed to think of what to write next it was time to stop, as the truth of the message may be distorted by my personal perception of what should be. This process continued for the next few months and again in 1996. The result is this book.
I can be contacted via email: messagesfromthelovewithin@