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Soulbyte for Monday June 3, 2024

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-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

Embrace some new ideas today as a new day dawns. Start off on a new foot, in a new direction, if only in your intentions. Break old patterns, if only in taking a different route. Begin something new, if only in your thinking. Let yourself off the hook for something by doing something that may benefit others. Pay something forward. Each new day offers so many new possibilities. Just a simple change in attitude may begin a whole new cycle of change.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Friday May 31, 2024

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-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

Let old habits fall by the wayside as new doors open, as opportunities arise and as life’s changes emerge to show you a new direction. Keep a keen eye on what shows up, a keen mind on how to decipher the signs that come to guide you, and an open heart so that your path may be acceptable and without conflict. Look to nature to show you how easy it is to let things go; how old leaves drop from the trees and new ones sprout, how water in a creek flows by without a care, going its merry way, how the wind carries away fragrances and toxins alike on its stiff breezes. Turn to your own life now, even as big changes abound in the world around you, and clear the way so that each day you greet life’s unfolding with an open heart and a big yes!

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Thursday May 30, 2024

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-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

It’s not easy to change, to go through a process of real and lasting change. Mostly change occurs within and that can indeed be a slow and meticulous journey. Too much expression outwardly and the process may stagnate rather than accelerate, for release of the tension that creates the foundation for change to happen leaves one feeling empty and unfulfilled. It is in the tension itself that one finds the stimulus and the potential that fuels and gives change its meaning. Bearing the tension is thus a beneficial process. Change is happening all the time, even during those times when you feel it the least. Stay contained and let the process take its natural course. Each day something new will reveal that you are indeed on the right path.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Wednesday May 29, 2024

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-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

Changing times call for changing attitudes. The best medicine is often something totally outside of the norm, unusual and even the opposite of what you think might be needed. Strength, courage and a sense of humor may get you through the worst of times much better than any standard of care. A knowing heart may know what is best, an inner sense that something drastic must be done, a cure that does not require anything more than a deep soul search, an adjustment of direction, balance and yes, attitude. They often say that gratitude is the attitude that cures all, but more often than not it’s facing a truth and accepting it, with honesty. A new honest attitude toward the self may be all that is needed.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Tuesday May 28, 2024

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-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

Concern for the body is a natural issue but concern for the spirit is often forgotten, neglected, or simply an unacknowledged factor. The body, being so apparent, gets top billing. The rest of who you are needs attention too. Don’t forget that you are so much more than just a physical body, that there are more parts to you than meet the eye. Be in awe, every day, at how so perfectly aligned your spirit is with your body, so much so that you don’t even notice it, how subtly it figures into your daily life. Give it some thought more often. What does it need today? What does it want to do? How does it speak to you?

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne