Chuck’s Place: Growing Out Of The Beliefs That Rule Us

Shattering old  beliefs…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Our time will surely be remembered as one of a rapid shift in ruling beliefs. The shamans of ancient Mexico characterized civilization as a fixation point of assembled beliefs that are agreed upon by the collective human race and hence deliver us to the consensual reality we live in.

At present, that fixation point has been dislodged, as the world currently reflects The Tower card of the Tarot deck, where an all-consuming fire burns away all previously established order. As we live through this time of great transition, we are shown daily how rapidly new beliefs can materialize into physical reality.

Beliefs are the prime movers and building blocks of reality. Tremendous efforts are evident in social media to fixate our attention upon new beliefs that support living in a new reality. Television stations incessantly present points of view that justify their version of a new reality. All these influences upon the mind of the consumer seek to enlist its divine power of creation to build and fixate upon this new proposed reality.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, a healer in Maine during the 1860s, came to the understanding that humans were gifted with the godly power of creation in the thoughts they attach to as core beliefs, which then, from the center of the magical subconscious mind, materialize into physical reality.

Quimby never questioned the truth of a patient’s symptoms or physical ailments. Belief does generate physical reality. Nonetheless, he realized that one could potentially become dislodged from a belief that generated ill health, and become attached to a new belief of health, that would, in turn, generate a cure. This is evident in the power of the placebo effect.

Quimby once worked with a soldier, who suffered from the phantom pain of an injured arm despite it being amputated. When the soldier was cured of his disbelief that he had lost his arm, the phantom pain disappeared. His initial belief that he still had his arm required the very real experience of its continued physical pain. Once in acceptance of the loss of his arm, he was freed from the need to create the pain that had accompanied the injured arm.

Our core beliefs are formed in early childhood, where we are largely socialized by our family units. Although, as we enter adolescence we begin a powerful period of individuation, defining ourselves as individuals separate from our families, many earlier beliefs about ourselves, lodged in the subconscious mind, become foundational and influence us throughout life, despite our later maturity.

The other day, I was assigned the task of dismantling a kid’s Hot Wheel’s Track. I was left completely alone to complete the task and then join up for other activity. Within a very short period of time, I was recapitulating my young self, feeling abandoned, overwhelmed, and frustrated by a monumental task I felt inadequate to perform.

These beliefs generated an anxiety and sadness that overshadowed my effort, though my present self was quite present to the struggle and determined to have a different experience of mastery. Then I broke a piece of the structure, which nearly sent me into a familiar childhood depression. Nonetheless, I stayed present, with patience and persistence.

Eventually, Jan appeared and I shared my experience. Sure that she would know immediately how to dismantle it, she in fact became more befuddled than myself and suggested we just throw out the cheap piece of sh..! We then went on to Google the problem, only to discover that dismantling that track was a major human challenge!

This experience brought to the surface a childhood belief of inadequacy with regard to physical reality, which was suddenly challenged in a big way. In fact, I had managed, with my own intelligence, to successfully separate several difficult pieces.

While recognizing a lack of early childhood parental support and collaboration, I nonetheless am able to dislodge an earlier belief of inadequacy. In fact, a new belief has emerged. Though my expertise is in the science of the soul, and not one of a physical engineer, I nonetheless have basic competency in figuring out the basics of physical life.

I was fascinated and grateful for this opportunity to further grow out of a long-buried limiting belief. Often, we are treated with opportunities for recapitulation that bring to consciousness the power of old beliefs in generating our present physical reality.

Many people struggle with manifesting their dreams, despite ardent efforts at positive suggestions to the subconscious mind. I suggest trusting that the subconscious mind will provide synchronistic guideposts and triggers to the elixir of transformation, recapitulation of fixations in negative beliefs from past life. Be okay with them and use them to your advantage. It’s all part of the journey!

Growing up,
Chuck

Soulbyte for Tuesday December 2, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

It is often hard to understand the actions of others, especially those whose actions negatively affect the many. It is equally hard to understand the actions of those who follow those whose actions negatively affect the many. Let go of any attempts to understand and just get into the flow of energy that says that everything is in alignment with what is right, that everything is on a journey to wholeness. Who does not wonder how those who are born with or born into challenging situations make their lives so incredible. Who does not admire those who overcome adversity. “How do they do it?” you might ask. They do it with the energy that knows that life has no boundaries and limitations, that it is only in the mind that limits and boundaries exist. They know that anything is possible. Innately, you know this too. Keep it always in your mind and in your prayers for change. Keep in your own mind the power of the words: Anything is possible.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Monday December 1, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Keep an attitude of gratitude wide open and ready for whenever you feel yourself falling into old thoughts, despairs or depressions. Give yourself uplifting mantras or short prayers that you can say to yourself, such as: “Thank you for my health. Thank you for my beauty. Thank you for my good heart. Thank you for all that I am given. I am grateful for this day. I am grateful for my friends. I am grateful for the sky above me and the ground beneath me. I am grateful for the opportunity to breathe. I am grateful for all that I am given.” Being grateful in word and thought, giving thanks in word and thought will return to you in abundance all that is good and beneficial. Your words do not go unheard.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Friday November 28, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Undo your old thinking that someone else is at fault. Undo your old thinking that you need to vent and blame someone for what is wrong in the world. It’s so easy to find a scapegoat, but that isn’t really fair, is it? A scapegoat offers nothing, except perhaps a delay in facing the truth. The truth can be scary, but it is far better to seek the truth than to seek to cover it or to avoid it. Everyone who is alive now on the earth plane has a karmic reason for being there. What is your reason? Why are you in the life you are in? What is the issue you must resolve in this lifetime? Everyone is in the same boat, even those you find most disturbing and most destructive. It all comes down to making new choices that lead you out of the darkness and into the light, into a transformed state, freed of the karmic load that you came into life to solve. Place more focus on your personal issues so that you may find your way into a new pattern of living that allows for you to see the greater picture and opens your heart in ever greater ways.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday November 27, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Though things continue to be in chaos, and though leaders seem to be at odds with what is best for all, each one of you whom place your faith in the energy of change for the greater good are having an impact. How could it be otherwise? You already know that when you change something in your own life, you feel the impact immediately. You already have proven that being kind and loving reflects back upon you. You already know that when you are in a positive mood your world is totally different from when you are in a negative mood. You already know that when you ask for help from us in the spirit world, you are heard. You already know that great change takes great change. You are in the phase of that great change now, experiencing it every day.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR