Maitreya: Focus On Your Heart’s Desire

A cluster of yellow and white flowers growing among dry leaves and pebbles.

Note: Lord Maitreya advises me personally in this message, and I thought it might be interesting to share with you as many of us have similar challenges. He has been very helpful in helping me to expand my practice locally, open an office, and meet lots of wonderful new people who share my curiosity and passion for spiritual growth. Another common theme he touches on here is exhaustion, which builds up, and then we need to slow down, or even, turn off and reboot. It’s all about balance: action & repose, care & self-care, pouring out & refilling… Spring is slow in my part of the world, but the cycle is surely turning: the first local flowers are blooming…so, Happy Spring everyone! Love, Jen

Jen: I guess I have a lot of questions about the best use of my time here [at my office] and the best use of my time in focusing for the next couple weeks while my son comes to visit, and the best use of my ability to channel, to reach out to Mom and to levels of her in ways that might be helpful to her at this stage [my husband’s Mom is 101 years old]. She has more and more confusion and makes less sense. But I know that that’s [on] the physical level, the personality level, and that on a spiritual level, she’s as whole as as any of us are. And so I want to speak to that level. 

So I don’t know whether Gabrielle, you’d like to speak through me now or Yeshua or Maitreya.  I’m just gonna go: “Eeny meeny, miny moe” or let you present yourself. 

Lord Maitreya: Yes, this is Maitreya. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to be a spokesperson for all three of us at this moment.  I have been close to you in these last few weeks as you have had some serious questioning about your role and your best use of focus and energy. This is a particularly sensitive time for you, as you do understand it, in a cycle of the depletions of winter, then coming into a more energetic space and not feeling necessarily filled-up or prepared or in the condition that you would like to be in to expand your work, your offering to the world. 

Let me be clear, what your heart desires to offer to the world is exactly where you need to focus. Because whether it is ultimately judged to be of value to someone else is not your concern. And this is true, whether it be for your mother-in-law or whether it be for a large audience somewhere scattered throughout the WordPress world—as you like to look at that map and see the different countries represented by readers.  

It is valuable for you to express from your heart that which is most dear to you, that which is welling up to be spoken, that which is helpful to you. 

If it is helpful to you to channel, then channel. If you sense that others may be interested in channeling by all means, invite them.  By all means, make this available to others. But it is not in any way meant to be an obligation or to be driven by the calendar. We know that you have had some doubts this month, particularly this month, especially, about the interest in your work, such that it be sustainable, to continue comfortably. 

This is just this bump that you yourself are finding yourself in. Shall we call it a little bit of a combination of a rut and a bump ? It is like your muddy roads in the Spring, in your part of the world, where you either sink into the rut or you are trying to drive on the high point in the middle of the road, so that you do not fall into the rut. 

It is a bumpy ride at this point, and you are very attuned to your seasons and to your brothers and sisters in your area, and to what they are feeling. Many feel the way you do— not a whole lot of energy left. 

Remember the image of the multiple candles reaching in all directions, each one of them lit through the fire of your passion, your dedication and your acknowledgement of the pure pleasure and fun of channeling. You have been burning all of these candles, and you are now down to the interior of the little nest of wicks, and it is one glowing and puddling and pooling “hot mess,” as you say… (laughter!). We are delighted this brings a laugh to you, to your heart. 

So. My encouragement to you would be to slow down, relax, enjoy each day, relieve yourself of any obligation whatsoever, reach for those things that give you the most sense of comfort and affection, support, alignment with those that you love. Certainly making time for your son is valuable to you. 

So slow down, relax, let the next month be another month, another way of looking at what you would like to bring forth.

This idea about [a weekly channeling for] your mother-in law is very, very generous given how depleted you’re feeling, but we were also feeling the words sweet and kind.  Your affection for your mother-in-law, in fact, your abiding love and commitment to her are precious to you. This would be an expression of this, but it would not serve you if it were a “should,” if it were an obligation, if it were a burden in any way. 

We suggest that you use your meditation time in the morning. Ask for a message. Begin speaking with [Archangel] Gabrielle, enjoy your connection, and then ask her. Ask her to speak a few words that you can share with your mother-in-law, Mary. She is a Mary too, just in a different stage of life. [Marys were priestesses in Biblical times.] [note: I asked Mom recently about her belief in angels and who she felt close to, and she said Archangel Gabriel, who is the Queen of the Angels]

Use your Otter [app]. It will make it more simple for you to type it up. We suggest, as you are seeing, just a paragraph, which, when you translate to a large enough print for her to read, you can see will fill most of a page. So a short message for her on a weekly basis would be a beautiful gift, a most beautiful gift, but it should not, as I said, be a burden to you, merely an offering from your heart, and it will be received with great love. 

You have often wondered about your connection to this one, and how you recognized her heart immediately in this life, and how valuable it was, and is, for you to spend this time in her later years, her last few years, together. There is a very strong heart connection, many different expressions of this in many different lives. You have often been connected through your spirituality, and these are the most precious of your connections. 

Sometime, if you wish to explore this in greater depth, again, use your meditation time. Focus and say, “I’d like to explore this,” and we will assist you in revealing the Akashic records that are relevant to your relationship —if this is of interest to you. Truly, what is most important is that you feel the connection. You know it is there, and you feel very happy when you have sincerely and cheerfully attended to this one, this very elderly one, who is most precious to you. 

Close-up of a sleeping cat, showing its nose and part of its face nestled in fur.
Repose… my cat teaches me balance.

So it is all about balance, the balance of your heart and its expression in the world, the balance of your desires and your energy. In every aspect of anything you choose there is the balance.  You cannot ride a bicycle without balance. You cannot do most things without balance. So it is the doing and the being. It is the feeling and the understanding. There are two wings to a bird, are there not?  This is balance. 

And it is not the duality of the third dimension which we are discussing. It is not the opposites. It is the balance within life expression, that there is an overarching connection between the inner and the outer, the above and the below, the within and the without —in each life expression. 

So thank you for allowing me to be the one to speak with you today, and we offer you the greatest love. 

Jen: Thank you, Maitreya. Thank you. 

Channeled by Jennifer Joy Donaldson, March 20, 2026.

Lord Maitreya: Lighten Up!

Photo “Copper Light” by Jennifer Donaldson, 2025

Jen:  My dear Lord Maitreya, would you like to comment on your generous role in my life and in all our lives and in this sense that we are living more and more now in the fifth dimension?

Lord Maitreya: This is Maitreya. I am very pleased to be invited to speak with you in this way, in this setting, at this time, and in answer to your questions. We see this breakthrough that you are feeling, and many will be feeling this, and many are feeling this. But if you are not yet feeling this, know that you will. 

It comes at a time when there is a convergence of energies which have been preparing for a long time to lighten up, brighten up, lift up. This is ascension. You are all in an ascension process. Your elevators are moving. Some are moving quickly. Some are moving slowly, but eventually your doors open and you step out and it feels like life is a little more wonderful. Life is a little more amazing. Life is easier. Life is gentler. 

It is because you are reflecting these things. You have learned to be gentle to yourself. You have learned to take things a little easier, and even if you have many plates in the air, as you like to visualize it, you are having fun with your plates. You are not feeling daunted. You are not feeling afraid that you will drop them. You know that they can, well, first of all, your plates are made of paper, so if they drop to the ground, it’s no big deal. You just pick it up, you see. So it is not the hardship that you have been committed to for so long. 

This new space feels brighter, lighter, softer. I spoke of the gentle aspect of it. I would use the word sweeter, but I do not mean the sugary part which all of you struggle with from your experiences of the toxicity of it. I speak of the sweetness of Life itself, the unexpected bursting upon you, the pleasure that you anticipate with anything — going for a walk and seeing a beautiful bird, the pleasure bursting upon you, it is as though your palate becomes your entire experience, and the sweetness of Life bursts upon your view, your sensations, your vision, your hearing. 

Now let us talk a little bit about this time of year. It can, as the leaves fall in your part of the world, go from being Technicolor gorgeous, to being a little dreary and drab. This has been your experience in all of the years on the planet in this part of the world. Ah. So how will this feel like a higher vibration to you? What will change in this next month and the month after that?  This will be a fun thing for you to discover! Your technique of saying to the world every morning, saying to the universe, saying to your guides, angels, your higher self, “Surprise me. I’m open to surprises today. I’m trusting that the surprises that will come to me will be joyous!”

Surprises will be interesting. Surprises will be unexpected in a way that opens up new understanding, new pleasure, new experience. You can say to yourself every day, “Oh, I’ve done this before, but I’ve never experienced it that way before!”  So, in your everyday occurrence, you are not suddenly transported to another universe. Your everyday experiences, that you are well familiar with, will become to you more rich in their offerings and in your ability to receive, to allow the wondrousness and to receive the new experiences. 

Every experience has value for you. This is why you incarnate. This is why you play the game. This is why you run the movie. Every experience has value to you, and so you stop in each moment and you sniff the air, “Oh, that wonderful smell of Fall, of Earth. The leaves are falling now, and they create a wonderful, wonderful aroma.”  

Okay, so you hear a sound that in the past, you would have said, “Oh, there’s that darn leaf blower again,” and I’m using gentle language. You will think instead, “Oh, I send ear protection to that young man carrying that monstrously noisy machine.  I hope that his ears will be safe and that he will find fulfillment from his work. That, in this period in his life,  running a leaf blower for a yard company be a good job for him, and one that helps him in many ways.” 

So you see, your experience of the leaf blower is entirely different than it was a few years ago, when you would say a string of angry words and put some headphones on, or get in your car and drive away somewhere where you did not have to listen to that.  You have asked for a gentler world, and it is moving in that direction. Yes, many people are converting to the quieter forms of leaf blowing. 

And you say, “Why not get out your rake?” Well, there are people who are reviving this too. Yes, there is something calming and gentle about moving a rake slowly across your lawn to find all those lovely leaves. And did your friend not just send you a wonderful video of raking her lawn with her grandchildren? And them lining up and, at the count of three, running forward and leaping into the leaf pile with laughter and smiles? What a joyful moment, and your friend sent it to you in the mail. She enjoys a leaf rake. Yes, they will revive. 

People will begin to realize that they have speeded up their lives to an uncomfortable degree, and they have a choice. They can move into something more comfortable, and step by step, they will do so. So we have elaborated a little bit on the qualities that you are beginning to notice, and we would take this moment indeed to affirm for you, to confirm for you entirely, that yes, indeed, you are moving into and living more in the higher dimension, of the fifth.  

You do not need to know exactly what all of the steps are, but you do know that there are twelve steps in each dimension, and you will experience each of those before you are ready to open the door of that elevator. You see?  And sometimes you stay in the elevator for a while, and it goes up and it goes down, and it goes up and it goes down, and you just enjoy watching the floors change. Yes, it is fun. Do you remember that story of the little girl in the big hotel in New York, Eloise? [by Kay Thompson & Hilary Knight]. She would ride the elevator up and down and up —and get off where she wanted and run along the hallway and find the the stairs, the physical stairs, and run up them and run down them. This is what is happening in your world right now, and there is a playfulness and a joyousness to it. All of the heavier energies are being left behind, when each of you is ready, and we honor the pace of every single one of you. 

[part 2 on Abundance, next week! ]

Great love to each one of you. This is Maitreya.  Until the next time. Farewell.

Channeled by Jennifer Joy Donaldson, November 7th, 2025