While need for metta is endless, it is particularly appropriate to focus metta on a particular group- even more specific than simply 'all Katrina Victims'. Focusing the practice upon a specific recipient or group encourages a deeper opening of the heart. The mind, according to Buddhism, lives in the heart. When the mind is focused, the energies of the heart open more freely.

Remember when sending metta to channel metta towards yourself first. This ensures that you are giving from an overflow, not from a deficit.

Remember also that everyone, even those who seem to be most nefarious, need metta.Clearly the poor, the disenfranchised, the displaced, the dying, and the grieving need metta. But in reality, everyone needs metta, even those individuals you cannot tolerate, those who make you cringe when you hear of their greed, their myopia, their oblivion- they are undoubtedly suffering deeply, perhaps more deeply than those who suffer at their hand. So send metta to everyone. Send metta to Pat Robertson! Send metta to George W.! Don't stop with your friends! Send metta to the ones you fear the most! And then follow up with clear and determined activism.

May I be free from danger.
May I be happy.
May I be healthy.
May I live with Ease.
May we all be free from danger.
May we all be happy.
May we all be healthy.
May we all live with Ease.

send metta requests to kelly@blaserco.com, they'll be posted here