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Meditations for Thanksgiving

Jan’s Quartz Crystal Labyrinth

Here are some useful practices to engage in for the coming week. We wish everyone, and our entire world, a beautiful peaceful Thanksgiving and beyond. We will return to our normal weekly postings on Monday December 2, 2024.

First, take a calming walk (12 mins.) around Jan’s Quartz Crystal Labyrinth in the woods on our property. Turn the volume up so you can hear nature in all its glory. Walk the Labyrinth Note: If you want to watch the video on your phone you will have to get the Dropbox App. Once you sign in just skip through all the prompts and then come back to this page and click the link and it should open in Dropbox. If you watch on a computer or tablet it should open immediately in Dropbox.

Listen to some healing handpan meditation music. Definitely soothing! Healing Frequency (1111 Hz) by Malte Marten & Lynxk

Wake up to each new day (or at anytime) with an enlivening 35 minute Morning Meditation with Joe Dispenza

Listen to a playlist from the Monroe Institute of Meditation Music.

Practice Jack Schwarz’s Autogenic Breathing practices to achieve different brainwave states and control your central nervous system by breath alone:
*Beta: Breath in and out normally.  Do not hold air.
**Alpha: Inhale for 8, hold for 8, exhale for 8, hold for 4.
***Alpha-Theta: Inhale for 4, hold for 8, exhale for 8, hold for 4.
****Theta: Inhale for 4, hold for 8, exhale for 16, hold for 4.
*****Delta: Inhale for 4, hold for 8, exhale for 32, hold for 4.

Soulbyte for Friday November 22, 2024

-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

Stay positive and attract positive vibes. The more you talk about fear and failure the more those negative vibes embed and interact in your life. Negative talk breeds negative outcome. Keep your focus on what is positive now, in the present, and avoid talking about what may or may not happen in the future. When you stay focused on reality, on what actually is, and look for the positive in it, there is no doubt that you will experience a positive shift. There is alway something good to say about a person, an event, an object; you just have to focus on finding it.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday November 21, 2024

-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

Calmness within brings forth calmness without. As within, so without. If you concentrate of keeping the central nervous system in a calm and relaxed state you will naturally exude an outward calmness as well. And when you do, those around you will automatically be affected by your calm demeanor. One person’s emotional state does affect those around them. If you are agitated others will feel it, sense it, and absorb it. A depressed parent doesn’t realize how they affect other members of the family, especially children. Continue to do the good work that will bring you to a calm inner state. In this small way, you alone can affect the world in a good way.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Wednesday November 20, 2024

-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

Spend some time alone in quiet contemplation to discover something new about yourself. The usual routine is fine for keeping you focused on what must be done, but quiet time, time in silence, time in nature, time just looking up at the sky, day or night, offers a different perspective and the opportunity to perhaps discover what’s been missing. All humans have a deep longing and for each it may seem like something different, something personal, but for the vast majority that longing is for the same thing, a connection to spirit, to the other self who carries all the answers. Look for that other self in quiet ways and ask it directly for help. It will find you. And if you listen carefully you will hear its answers.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Tuesday November 19, 2024

-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

Stand your ground and with determination that is unbending continue upon your path of change no matter the affairs of others or the affairs of the greater world. All things are set to change. It is a natural law. You have already changed so much and have an incredible amount of change still to enact in your personal world, in your body, and in your mind. It’s never-ending. Your part of the changing process is best attended to by your frame of mind, your attitude and your outlook on the future. Keeping a cheerful frame of mind, a grateful attitude and a positive outlook on the future will enhance the journey so that you will be affected only minimally by what is going on outside of you, for you will have the secret, that the human spirit is stronger than anything outside of it.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne