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Soulbyte for Wednesday May 21, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Underneath the hubbub of activity in the outside world is a great force that seeks to become known, the great force of spirit, within you and within everything that exists in the world around you. Everything is energy. You are energy. The person next to you is energy. The animals are energy. The trees are energy. The solids are energy just as much as the liquids are energy. You reside in a great hubbub of activity. Can you feel it? Can you feel it within your own body, the energy that gives life, that holds you together in your body? Ask it to give you all the energy you need for a wonderful day. Ask it to show you what is most important today. Ask it to be more present, and allow it to guide you to greater understanding and acceptance of yourself as a great force in the universe, just like everyone and everything else.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Tuesday May 20, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Take a deep breath and remind yourself of your beauty, your health, your happiness, your prosperity, and your harmoniousness. You are a part of all that is, of all that is beautiful and all that is happy. You are a part of the great force of life on Earth and that same great force is within you. Keep it alive with thoughts of positive measure and inner certainty that you are more than worthy of taking your place in the world, just as much as the next person. All that exists is there for you too.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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