All posts by Jan

Soulbyte for Monday May 19, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Reach for the stars they say! Reach for your highest potential! Everything is possible! Well, the truth is that all of those saying are absolutely true, the only caveat is that you have to put your own energy behind them, your own faith and trust in yourself in order for them to work for you. No one else can give you the energy you need to propel your forward. You have to instigate it within yourself. Yes, someone can certainly inspire you to change, to move in a new direction, to go for it, but only you can bring forth the energy that will sustain you and the belief in yourself that is so necessary to move forward in life. Part of the process involves acknowledging and resolving what keeps you from achieving what you desire. Look at the flower that blooms, that struggles from deep inside the earth, a tiny seed. Notice how it does not stop. It does not have thoughts of lack or depletion, it simply strives for what it knows belongs to it; the sunshine that will nurture it, the rain what will feed it, the earth that will support it. It does not ever doubt or think negatively; it just grows. So too are you a creature of the same world and so too will you be fed, nurtured and supported, if you believe it.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Friday May 16, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

It won’t be long before you have mastered your own mind! Every day as you remind yourself of your commitment to strengthen your power of thought by using the power of your own mind to step away from the usual banter, the chatter within yourself, you strengthen your spirit and its ability to lead and guide you. Every time you say no to the chatter of worry and failure and lack and loss and turn instead to the language of thanks and gratitude, to the prayer of peace and the stillness of heart, you step away from the old. Every time you stir the imagination to think positively, you bring forth new life. All of this is possible within yourself, by the words you say to yourself and the thoughts you elect to think. Change your thinking today and see what happens to your mood and your emotions, to your blood pressure and your heartrate. Give yourself a health cure, simply by thinking differently. No need to go to a spa, just change your words from the old negative to the new positive.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday May 15, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

How is it that time seems to stand still when you are busy doing something you love or something that takes all of your attention? Have you noticed how time ceases when your mind is off yourself, off your worries, and off your personal tragedies? With the mind occupied elsewhere, time ceases and all that time carries with it ceases as well. Busyness is one of the best ways to absent the mind of its worry. Take your mind off yourself for a while and see what happens. You might discover that everything you think and feel about yourself disappears. You might have to question if they were ever real to begin with? Thoughts do have great power of persuasion, both good and bad.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Wednesday May 14, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Forget your worries for another day, they will always be there when you think of them, but give yourself permission to forget about them. Think instead of all the things that make you happy, all the things that you are grateful for, all the things that bring a smile to your face and a lightness to your heart. Surely there are more things than you know. Is not just the sun shining on the windowsill something to be grateful for? Is not the chirping of birds something to be cheerful about? Is not the fact that you have made it this far in life enough to be thankful for? Is it not wonderful to breathe, to smile, to sit in the stillness of the morning, or the evening, and drink in the wonders of a day to begin or a day gone by? Think on these positive thoughts throughout the day, between morning and evening, whenever worry slips in. Turn your face from worry and remember the sun on the windowsill that brought you a moment of joy.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Tuesday May 13, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Let your inner calmness upon waking stay with you for longer than usual. Before you stir your mind awake with all the things you have to do and all the things you have to worry about, plan for and undertake today, hold onto the stillness you awaken with, where everything is calm and peaceful, where everything is equal and nothing needs attention. Step into the morning in this calm frame of mind and hold onto it for as long as possible. Each day from hereon in lengthen that calm state, holding onto it intentionally for another hour, and then another. Each day make this your first priority, to lengthen your inner state of calmness and peacefulness. Hold onto it for as long as possible.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne