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Soulbyte for Thursday February 20, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Life has its ups and downs, its everyday challenges, and yet it continues along always presenting more. It doesn’t stop presenting duties, needs and wants that must be completed in order for things to run smoothly. The inner life is equally demanding but in often subtler ways, asking without words, prodding you in strange ways that you may not notice as your spirit, for the spirit speaks its own language. Outer life and inner life both vie for your attention. Keep this always in mind and strive to give them equal attention, equal time and equal opportunity for creative exploration and expression. Inner and outer balance is key to a good life.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Wednesday February 19, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Focus your attention inward more often, getting to know not only how your body speaks to you but also how your spirit speaks to you. Often it is easy to override both body and spirit with ideas that are habitual, unrealistic and perhaps even harmful. If you ask your body to respond to a question it might give you the opposite answer than what your mind, your ego, or your emotions think. Likewise, your spirit may have totally different answers as well. Get to know yourself, all your parts, those you can see and those you can’t see. Wholeness involves such knowledge. For how can you be whole if you do not know what makes you whole?

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Tuesday February 18, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Focus on the good in your life, the abundance of things that go right each day, that unfold perfectly, that you don’t even have to think about. Get into a positive frame of mind as you realize just how perfectly things function and how wonderful it is to contemplate all that is well. When negativity arises, thoughts of lack, old ideas, immediately replace them with thanks and gratitude for all the abundances that are so apparent yet so forgotten. Immediately put the self into a frame of mind that beholds the world with wonder and with a child’s innocence knows that there is more abundance to come.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Monday February 17, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Focus on your own life and the care of your own problems, for as part of the greater whole any work you do on yourself will not only affect you but also the greater whole. Discover why you act and think in such repetitive ways, why you have the tendencies you do and what makes you tick. Everyone comes into life with magnificent abilities and possibilities, with the prospect to grow and flourish, to succeed and prosper. Find your way forward to that magnificent self a little bit more each day and try to discover your true mission, your true purpose but, most importantly, your true, authentic self.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Friday February 14, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Take care of yourself by taking responsibility for your thoughts and actions, by keeping yourself in good mental and physical prowess, and by taking care of your inner self so that life is in alignment with spirit. When you are aligned with your spirit you know it by a certain calm contentedness, by the feeling of peace within and by the lack of friction around the choices you make on a daily basis. Turn inward and ask: Am I in alignment with myself? With spirit? Taking care of the self involves loving the self, valuing the self, thanking the self for the complicated journey you are on, but also taking responsibility for getting to know the self and supplying the self with all that you need, especially within. Take time to take care.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne