Notice the words you use to describe yourself when only you are listening. Notice the labels that automatically slip from your lips, the thoughts that arise unbidden, the unhelpful ideas of an unchanging self. Step one in making a change: Change what you say to yourself. Give yourself some positive feedback today. Change, it all begins with you.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
When negative thoughts about the self arise counter them with new practices. Use negativity as a catalyst to change. Rather than greet it as an old friend, send it packing like a bad guest no longer allowed to visit. Shove it out the door and then leave the door open, not so anything can come in, but so that you may feel the absence of your gnarly guest, the emptiness of yourself. If your next thought is negative get rid of it too, keeping the door open for longer, stretching the moments of emptiness. That should keep you pretty busy. Before you know it you’ll start to feel pretty good because emptiness is a fine friend. Cultivate that relationship.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Your physical body is your vehicle through life, housing so much of who you are. But don’t forget: you are so much more than your physical body. All else that you are has another means of travel, beyond the physical. Notice how separate from your vehicle you really are and yet how the two of you work together. Be a good owner and driver of your vehicle, but put it away every now and then and take an out-of-body trip on the cosmic highway. When you sleep ask your fuller awareness to move outside of your physical body and show you something important. You might be surprised at where you go and what you learn.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Is there some other reason you are where you are now, beyond the obvious, aside from family of origin, birth order, happenstance, misdirection, or fate? Why else are you where you are now? Is there anyone to blame? No, there isn’t. Only the self matters. Only the choices you make matter. For you are here of your own accord, your own intent, your own yearning for this very life. You are fully equipped with all you need, talents and challenges alike. The sooner you know yourself the sooner your journey through life can really take off. Every day is an opportunity to start off on a new phase of your journey. Take it.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
What do you fear the most? Does it show itself often? Or does it hide out beneath your skin, rarely seen? Converse with it. Ask it to reveal itself so that you may know your enemy. And then ask it to leave you alone. It will not be happy, but your own journey may finally become one of joy and beauty, of love and compassion, of fulfillment. A path with heart is not a fearless path, but it is a daring one, and to stay on it fear has to be dealt with every day.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne