Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have guidance for us today?

Constant awareness is now not only called for, but is also necessary. How will you progress and grow if you do not maintain sustained alertness to all that is present in your world? The signs of life as energy are all around you, but you will not be aware of them if you maintain only a solid outlook on life. Energy fluidity is present. Energy fluidity is available. Energy fluidity is constantly being shown.

What does this mean? By fluidity, I mean several things. First, fluidity is energy in motion. You are so bent on everything in your world remaining solid and stable, so prepped and neat, so that you can trust it to remain perfectly present in form and content, the same each day. You wish to open your eyes each morning and discover the objects in your world exactly where they should be. I ask you to observe these objects of your affection differently now, as objects in motion, as fluid energy.

You may look upon them as rock hard and present to your touch and feel. But I ask you to stretch your thinking and use your creative abilities to “see” the world differently. Look upon it as energy in motion. Adjust your eyes to observe everything differently. Soften your hardened gaze that wishes to create perfection, which seeks only to see hard reality, and allow your softness of heart-centered energy to become part of your outer perception of life now too. Begin to allow your own inner energy, that you feel but cannot see, to flow out of you by using your ability to perceive all else as energy too.

You feel your own energy. Can you not feel the energy outside of your as well? Can you allow what you see to turn into a feeling experience? This is where we take the concept of fluidity next. Not only is energy constantly in motion, but it is a feeling awareness. It is not tactile, in the solid sense of picking up a rock and feeling its weight as heavy, though energy is certainly felt, and it is certainly detectable much as an object is detectable. Am I confusing you yet?

Awareness of energy as fluid, as in motion, as emotion and feeling, are necessary understandings and concepts to embrace. When you feel or perceive what another person is expressing, simply by being next to them, you are feeling energy. When a person walks into a room you may feel their energy quite boldly, quite noticeably. It may be loud and blaring energy, or it may be quiet and calm energy. It may be bristling or it may be flowing energy.

Energy is constantly in motion, constantly fluid, constantly detectable. Your awareness must now begin to accept these facts and use them to perceive your world of solid objects, as well as energy of feeling and emotion, using inner self energy in a new way as well. This new way requires training your awareness, but it also requires a shift in ideas, long held beliefs, and a desire to allow the self to change. You will not be aware of the fluidity of all things, of energy, if you do not really want to give up your precious ideas and risk waking up one morning to discover that the world you had in front of you the night before is completely transformed. In order to evolve you must acquiesce to new ideas of energy, new concepts, and new definitions.

Your ultimate journey will be your journey out of that physical body and out of that solidly perceived physical world at death. At death you will be faced with just the prospect of transformation that I present. You will fall asleep in your rock solid world and wake up in a new world, a transformed world, where nothing is as you now perceive it. To wake up in a world of energy, without understanding it, may send you into quite a tizzy, and that is just what happens to so many energy beings who immediately elect to return, to reincarnate, to the familiar rock solid world. However, preparation for entering a world of energy is being offered to you every day, and this is what I now suggest you add to your process.

Begin today to loosen your control, your view, your need to see the world as you have needed it to be. For safety reasons, and for reasons of ego, you have needed the world to be solid. You have had to learn all about that world, for you must live in it while you exist on that level. But you are also being challenged to change your perceptions, to give up your control, and to acquiesce to the idea of everything as energy, everything as fluid, in motion, and able to be seen and felt as such.

Begin to study your world from this new perspective now. Feel and see energy differently using your own energy as your first subject of study. You have inside your physical body the perfect energy body, available to teach you what it means to be an energy being. I have more to say on the subject, but this will do for now.

Accept your self as pure energy by accepting your own feelings, emotions, and inner processes as energy in action, in motion. Understand that such energy is bound inside every other person walking upon that planet; bound inside every animal. Every object, every action, thought, deed, every idea, every incident, every sound is energy in motion. You have the ability to not only perceive it, but beyond that, to affect it, to use it, and to evolve as a result.

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have a message for us today?

Find now an increase in energy, but be aware of how you use it. There is a tendency to go outward with energetic enthusiasm rather than inward, and I guarantee, if you do that, you will find your stamina quickly depleted. Yes, it is a time of outer growth and outer accomplishment, but the seed of that growth and development lies within.

Apply your knowledge of inner contemplation to this inner process of energy and budding growth. Use your tools of meditation, imagination, prayer, and focused intent, to attain a new level of awareness. Use your innate creativity, which burgeons forth, seeking form and realization in your world. Allow this energy to come forth, not in wasteful manners, but with meaning and with intent focused on your spiritual path, your inner enlightenment manifesting outwardly.

In order for your changing self to truly embrace the prospect of newness that has been proposed and is now energetically available, so must you remain focused on meaningful expenditure of energy and meaningful living, conscious, at all times, that everything you do affects everything else upon the planet.

It is no longer either appropriate or acceptable to be selfish, or to consider the self above even the most insignificantly noticed form of life. All life is sacred. All creatures are part of the greater plan, and all must be afforded admiration and respect for the journeys before them. Your life, though supremely important and significant to you, must also be seen in the greater context of all life. You are as important as, and no less important, than the bugs that buzz about your head, reminding you to focus on your awareness. Notice how even such tiny creatures can produce an energetic response from you.

Use your awareness of all life as interconnected to bring your own life into better balance with your outer world. Maintaining your inner place of calm in order to access your inner creative wellspring is now a very appropriate next step in your growth. You may not yet understand how you will use your creative spirit and that is not where your focus should be now. Your focus should be on removing the blockages and springing open the gates that have been locked and neglected for so long. Your focus should be on allowing your creative spirit to enter your life, or reenter your life. Some of you have been in denial of such energy, while others have relegated it to certain pastimes, but I am asking you to allow it to flow into your every moment of existence and become one with your awareness.

This combination of creative spirit and spirit of knowing awareness is your innocence unleashed, active, and participating in your life. Awakening your creativity will once again allow access to your ancient self, to your creative innocence. This will further aid you in your recapitulation process, if you are not afraid to let it be actively present, but it will also aid you in your evolution. Your next few months and years upon that earth will grow and change significantly if you allow your creative innocence to enter your daily life. If you follow its natural emergence, and openly flow with it, so will you find that your access to your innocence is near at hand, closer than you think. If you dare to accept that you are a creative genius, you will find that your wonder and your desire for new life will automatically be fulfilling, and your future more meaningfully connected to your true spirit self.

Who are you really meant to be? All of you are truly meant to be creative spirits, set free of the dungeons and the demons of the past, free-flowing with the awareness that all creatures are interconnected; without question aware of your place, at each moment of each day, because you have elected to grow within the self.

This creative energy is now bubbling inside you. Go to it. Become friends and traveling companions with this innocent creative energy. Allow its delight to seep into your life. Use it to show you how to live. Do not control its direction, except to keep it innerly so that it may further awaken and teach you. But let it also blossom forth outside of you, for that is where you will find your fulfillment of expression and your ultimate manifestation of innocent and true self, in the interconnected world.

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
What message do you have for us today?

Continue contemplation of the wholeness of the self and of the oneness of the self, not as an individual, ego-bound and ego-driven, but as pure energy, interconnected to all else upon that earth, and beyond. If you are, in essence, pure energy and can contemplate the self in this fashion, can you not accept that all else is but the same? If you are attributed the qualities of energy, the light and dark of energy, can you not understand that such energy can go out of balance? If you are out of balance you may be more attuned to negative energy to the detriment of positive energy, and vice-versa.

Today, I wish to speak of balancing your energy so that you have an equal and steadily maintained beaker of energy, negative and positive, in balance inside of you and outside of you. You need both to survive and you need awareness of both in order to evolve. Even as you may wish to consider the self only comprised of positive energy, I contend that this is impossible. You would not exist at all if you did not have to do battle with negative energy inside of you.

It may be more acceptable to you to admit that negative energy exists outside of you, and this I fully understand. As an energy being who is seeking to evolve, your job is to undertake the study and maintenance of all energy inside the self in order to be in balanced existence. Your place in the world outside of you will also benefit greatly by truthful understanding of your own inner negative energies, often arising when you least expect them.

Can you give us some examples of negative inner energies?

Yes, I can. You may notice quite blatant ones, which you control, but there are many negative forces that are not so easily controlled and are also not so apparent. First, I speak of world hatred, inconsideration of the rights of all beings, and the need to speak of differences as being negative. Then, I suggest that the common inclination to separate the self from others and place the self above all other beings as being more enlightened, more advanced, more in tune with the world around you, is an aspect of negative energy. Ego-bound energy wishes the self to be above, looking down upon the creatures of earth as lesser beings, whether in mental, physical, or spiritual capacity. With such ego-driven imbalance the spiritual self is relegated to a place of superiority as well, for the ego desires companionship in its place of gloating and hatred. Watch carefully how your own ego understands and explains the world to you.

I contend, also, that though the inner self may be highly spiritually attuned, driven to seek enlightenment, it may not be in balance. Is the inner self in balance with your outer world, or do you wish to ignore the outer world, turn only inward, and consider the outer aspects of life as mere distractions? This is also negative activity within the unbalanced self.

Does the self wish to consider the children of the world as lesser beings, the uneducated, the poor, the disabled, the evil, the warring tribes, the fundamentalists of the world, as overtly negative or incomplete in a spiritual and enlightened manner, as struggling separate from the self? I realize that I am asking you to consider the self as no more enlightened than the person you find to be the least enlightened in your world. I ask, next, that you consider the creatures that reside upon that earth, those of energetic composition, living purely guided by this energy: the animals, the insects, the creatures who crawl and who fly. Contemplate the birds who appear so free, yet do they accept the complicated challenges that life has proposed to them in order for their survival to be certain.

All right, so you may observe negative energy outside of you quite readily. You may wish to protect or hide your self from it, but until you accept and understand your own negative qualities, and negative energy, there will be no true balance of self. In order to understand the self more fully, I ask that you begin this new week upon that earth by hoisting your self out of your stagnancy, your complacency, and your ingrained and practiced ideas, and offer the self a new outlook, a new perspective, and a new awareness of energy, both positive and negative.

First, accept the self as comprised of negative and positive energy.

Second, accept the truth of the necessity of these polarities and what they truly mean: that you are no more or less than even the tiniest and most insignificant being upon that earth.

Third, imbue a new sense of wonder into your self today, a wonder at the complicated energetic dynamics taking place all around you as outer energies seek to feed off inner energies, and vice-versa.

Fourth, ask the self to energetically step down to a place of humbleness in light of the power of the energy outside of you and inside of you.

Fifth, charge the self to change the way you see and think about the world outside of you in order to shift the way you see and think about your self. Are you truly any more enlightened than the creatures of the air, or of the sea?

Sixth, push the self to accept the darker secrets of the self, acknowledging the negative thoughts, words, and judgments that arise from within. Rather than shoving them aside, as not truly coming from the self, accept them as spoken truths, coming to teach you.

Seventh, ask the self to be truthful at all times, no matter if you are confronted with the beauty of the inner self or the darkness of the inner self. It is most necessary to not only accept these aspects of the self, but to own them as ever present aspects.

Eighth, know the self. Know that you are fully capable of acting as irrationally, as spitefully, and as haphazardly as the next person. Know that you are as impetuous and foolhardy, as thoughtless, and as cruel as any you may see outside of you acting in a manner that you may regard as unenlightened.

Ninth, know that you are also capable of innocence. Know that your innocence, your purity, and your beauty are as readily available as your anger, your judgments, and your certainty that everyone else has so many more problems than you do. Know that your innocence is not afraid of you, though you may be afraid of it.

Tenth, know that you are fully capable of processing and maintaining balance of the negative and positive aspects of self, innerly and outerly, by accepting the truths of these aspects of self, and the truth that they are present at all times, forever, as you make your journey upon that earth.

These negative and positive forces are your life forces. They are energy. One cannot exist without the other. You cannot exist without the presence of both negative and positive energy inside of you and outside of you. They counteract, they merge, they guide each other to engage in life and in the world. They constantly keep you in motion, alive, and aware. Respect your darkness as much as you respect your light.

To conclude this message, I ask that you continue your inner work with much more awareness of your own energy as equal to all other energy you come in contact with. How else will you truly and fully understand interconnectedness if you do not understand oneness of all beings? Energetically speaking, every creature upon that earth is comprised of negative and positive energy. Every creature has the innate ability to connect with every other on a vibrational level. Keeping your personal vibrational level balanced is one thing, but to do so with truth and honesty, aware of your most negative aspects is part of your challenge. This truthful balance will aid you in gaining access to true enlightenment, interconnectedness, and oneness of self as part of the greater world.

Do you seek balance, health, and spiritual goodness? In order to access your positive aspects of self, so must you seek your negative truths as well. When in balance you will gain understanding of all energies, all creatures, all connections, and greater awareness of what it means to be in balance.

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have a message for us today?

This is inner turning time now. Even though you may be drawn outward, I suggest that a concerted effort be made to turn down the motors of your enthusiasm for life outside of you. Instead of seeking to progress at a more rapid pace, I suggest that you turn down the motors of your enthusiasm to a calm hum. Turn down your pushing desires to a quiet acceptance that it is now a time of inner conservation and reserve. Save your energy that so desires to burst forth for your inner healing work.

If you insist upon outer expression, your efforts will be in vain during this time of inner contemplation. Far better to accept this fact and use your energy wisely, for inner work. And what do I mean by inner work? As always, inner work is energy work on the self. But, during this particular time upon that earth, inner work is also the process of observing, understanding, and participating in energetic interconnectedness between the inner self, energetically and spiritually, and all else in your world.

It is a time of awareness and clarity; a good time to more fully release old ideas of the self and accept new possibilities, simply because there is no better option now. Do you wish to remain stuck, revolving in your old world, never quite able to turn off the motors of your mind, your habits, your behaviors? Or are you ready to turn off the old switches, remove the keys from the old vehicles you have traveled in, and look for a new mode of travel?

In terms of personal growth, in terms of spiritual growth, and in terms of healing, there are many new ideas, new opportunities, and new paths to take. New vehicles of transport await you. New means of achieving clarity and awareness await you too. But the key is to turn inward now and to look inside the self for the ultimate key to change and growth. It does not lie outside of you, but buried inside you in your inner abilities of self-knowing, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-truth, self-love, and self-daring.

As you begin your day today, do not forget to TAP your self into your body, bringing your attention back to your physical body self, your first vehicle that needs attention. As you pay attention to your physical self, draw your attention next to your heart center. Do HEART-CENTERED BREATHING to ground you in your inner self. Once calmly attached to your inner energy allow your thoughts to participate in your process, turning them into new thoughts by changing them from the initial idea that arises to a new positive one for the inner self.

If your first thought is: I am tired. Change it to: I am full of energy. If your next thought is: I am sad. Change it to: I am open to happiness. If you think: I am so angry at so and so. Change that thought to: I can release my anger and allow myself to take back my energy for myself. You see, there is always a way to change your thoughts.

As you do this body, heart, and mind exercise today, begin to notice what happens to your inner energy. Begin to notice that you will find your inner resources are definitely present and available to you for personal and spiritual growth, beginning with your own inner energy. As you begin this shift from outer distraction and old ideas of the self to inner contemplation and conservation, shifting to new ideas of the self, so will you begin to feel the energetic interconnectedness of the self to all things. You are interconnected on an energetic level. Removing your projections, your dependency on your usual habits, thoughts, and pre-programmed patterns of behavior, will allow you to use your inner energy for YOU. And that is what I suggest will enable growth, healing, and new life.

Why not give it a try? You never know where an inner shift may take you. It is not an outer change or shift that matters, but an inner decision to allow the inner self priority and fuller acceptance into your life. See where this idea takes you next. If you seek calm and balance in your life, I contend that you have the resources inside you, fully ready and waiting for your acknowledgment of them, your acceptance, and finally your full attention to the possibilities that await. Establish a new practice of paying homage to this inner self more often.