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Soulbyte for Friday July 12, 2024

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Distinguish between desire and want, between what has passion behind it and what has lack behind it. Desire is passion on fire. Want indicates that something is lacking. Take care of wants directly by seeking to fill the lack with something positive. If hungry, eat food. If anxious, relieve stress. If lonely, seek fulfilling interaction. Give passion an outlet that is positive, for that is the only way it will be quelled. Envision what you desire and work passionately to achieve it. Pour all of your attention into what your passion is so that you become the best you can be. Make your desire work for you so that life is fulfilling and lack becomes but a word that no longer interferes in your life.

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The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Thursday July 11, 2024

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Remind yourself often of your ultimate goal so that it is never far from view. With it fixed firmly in your mind’s eye, hold it sacred and with determination so that your attention does not waiver from it. All goals and intentions require a certain amount of determined and focused energy, as well as discipline, if they are to be realized. Hone your attention each day to your goal, and with determination and discipline take another step forward. Before long the discipline will accompany you without your even noticing it because results will begin to flow toward you and your goal will seem readily available. In the beginning, however, stay the course with determination, discipline and an attitude of success achieved one step at a time.

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The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Wednesday July 10, 2024

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Keep the word gratitude uppermost in your mind. At dawn’s awakening call it forth and recall all that you have gratitude for. At noon’s high sun ask again to remember where gratitude has a place in your life. At day’s end pull up once again the pictures of gratitude in your mind’s eye. And finally, as you rest your head upon your pillow express once again the gratitude for a beautiful day lived and another to come. With gratitude, begin each day with a skip in your step and eagerness in your heart, for how can you not have gratitude for the simplest and most wonderfully satisfying of things, for life itself!

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The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Tuesday July 9, 2024

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Find your sweet spot, your place of perfect inner balance where your mind is calm, your body is calm and your heart is open. Let the calmness within you guide you to experience the world in a new way, as calm and open as you feel, as heart centered as you are. Resonance with the world around you brings you into alignment with nature and with the present moment so that all else disappears and all that matters is the now of it all, the simple solitary now. Hold onto that moment for as long as possible and remind yourself to replay it in body, mind and heart often throughout the day. Reconnect to the now of it all and re-experience peace, calmness and nature as it truly is, in each quiet moment, as it comes.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Monday July 8, 2024

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-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

Unearthing old feelings brings up more than just those old feelings. Everything attached to them is unearthed as well. Healing takes time and investigating what has been unearthed thoroughly and completely brings one closer to healing old wounds, old thoughts, whether true or not, and old feelings that may or may not show themselves repeatedly throughout life to be more cantankerous than supposed. To heal from the old is to heal deeply, and to heal deeply is the good work of the soul, for it is the soul’s journey that is just as important as the one physical life you are currently in. Healing is a multidimensional process best engaged in one step at a time, one day at a time, one issue at a time.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne