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#624 You are the Choice Maker

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have a message for us today?

It is time to become fully responsible, holding the self accountable for all actions, progress, transgressions, and life’s unfolding. By accepting responsibility for your own life, every moment of it, you offer your self the gift of freedom of choice. Freedom of choice comes only with the fact of ownership of every aspect of self, unbeholden to others. By becoming fully responsible for the past, present, and future self, your power, spent aimlessly in the pursuit of outer recognition and blame, will return to its rightful place as your own trusty energy.

I advise much contemplation and absolution, it at all possible, over the next few days. I advise inward turning and inward acceptance of the self, of life’s events and problems, of all that now plagues you, for only in fully accepting the self will you resolve the issues of power and responsibility. Only in truly owning every aspect of the self will you advance, truly advance, in your soul’s journey upon that earth.

Are you feeling lost, stuck, uncertain, unsure of where to go next, what to do with your life, who to turn to? I advise turning inward for the answers to these and all other questions that may arise or that may remain brewing beneath the surface of your awareness, as yet unknown. Only in delving inward will you discover your answers, in the truthful speak of the inner self.

In order to do this deep inner work, this self-contemplation, you must be aware that it is necessary. You must accept your own role in your life as the most powerful one, fully responsible and fully in control. Control of your life and resolution of the problems in your life come from inside you, rarely from outside. Your outer world merely reflects your needs, desires, and issues, aiding you, offering you means of progress, teaching you what you must learn and in other ways showing you the possibilities that life offers. But, and this is the most important aspect of responsibility and control, you are the choice maker and by your choices will you grow, both externally upon that earth and internally upon your soul’s journey.

This is a time of forceful energy as it begins to build over the next few weeks, offering you the option of turning inward or turning outward. The old habits will attempt to override your inner process. The outer draws will be great. The inner process will remain calmly waiting for your return to its work on the self. Keep always in mind that each choice you make over the next time of energetic building is one that you alone must make. You are responsible. You are fully in control. You are powerful. Seek to use these most cherishable and energetic gifts. Seek growth.

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We intend to maintain our current channeling and blogging schedule over the holidays, though we will be taking a break from our psychotherapy and hypnosis work until after the New Year.

An energetic happy holidays to all!
Love from all of us,
Jan, Chuck, and Jeanne

AVATAR

We highly recommend the movie Avatar. An experience of energy and the interconnectedness of all things, of everything that Jeanne talks about, very Jungian, shamanic, environmentally and politically astute (and much more), thoroughly engaging, with a great and satisfying story this movie is not to be missed. Hopefully you can see it in 3D. This is not a movie for small children, though it will engage anyone on some level. We have not seen such a thoroughly satisfying movie in a long time.

#623 Like a Leaf Upon the Breeze

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
What message do you have for humanity today?

This is a time of shift, yet is it up to each one of you to engage in it, to partake of the opportunities that arise to further you along. You exist as a leaf upon a tree. When the winds come, when the time is right, you will be buffeted and loosened, knocked from your connection and sent swirling down from your perch. Will you allow the breeze to lift you and carry you afar on your true journey? Will you fall to the mulchy ground beneath the tree of life and merge with the undergrowth? Will you sit silently awaiting the call to move on, stumbling along the ground, a leaf on the wind that has come to carry you?

Your lives upon that earth are energetically spurred, attached, and set up so that you have many opportunities in a lifetime to awaken, become aware, and move on to new life. New life comes in many forms, both subtle and forceful, engagingly enticing and fearfully alerting, yet do you always have the option to flow or not to flow. Even the tiniest leaf upon the ground may tumble but an inch before it hunkers down among the dead and dying mulching leaves, electing no more engagement in adventure.

Do you see what I am proposing to you today? I am in the mood to suggest that awakening opportunities are present in every moment of every day. Even if you are buffeted by the wind, a leaf upon the breeze, are you aware that this is so? Are you aware of your journey, your own energy, and the energy outside of you pushing you along? Do you feel controlled by your life? Are you unaware that you have total control, if only you would wake up and engage in the energy that is not only present in your life but fully necessary, previously arranged so that you might grow?

Each one of you upon that earth has the opportunity to awaken at any moment to the flow of your life, on an energetic scale, as part of all energy, meant to be, but also eager to exist, if only you will allow for it. This is the final question I pose to you today: Can you allow your self to fully exist, as an energetic being on a mission of growth and evolution, energetically propelled and engaged? You are all energy beings. You are all capable of more fully engaging the energy around you.

During this time of shift and great potential for human growth, perhaps you will energetically protest your usual routines, habits, thoughts, behaviors, ideas, and rituals, and reengage in the fresh new energy that is calling you, asking you to notice what is really happening inside of you and outside of you. Find out how you are really feeling. State you truths and live by them. Decide to use the energy for a real shift and you will be supported greatly in your endeavors.

Find your calmness, your balance, your heart-centered goodness, and lift the edge of your awareness out of the place where you are caught and like a leaf upon the breeze allow your self to travel some place new, without fear, open to the journey ahead.

#621 Remain in Flux

Sorry this is a little late today. Due to extreme cold the internet has been down all morning. Have a great weekend!
-Jan & Chuck

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
What message do you have for us today?

Bring your energy inward now as the outer energy continues to pull at you. Remain centered, balanced, and in a state of flux, within and without, so that equilibrium and maturity of purpose and decision remain in tact. In turning inward, your work upon the self may continue unabated though your outer world may continually rev its engines. Your inner energy, to combat the outer engines buzzing loudly, must tune to a lower hum for this equilibrium to be achievable.

I cannot stress enough how important it is, especially at this time of year, to remain innerly connected. Find your balance and your inner place of calm so that you may flow now, uninterrupted, into holiday time, available to interact with dignity and mature grace, through this time of coming change.

There is little else you need attend to now. Stay focused on maintaining a steady inward gaze throughout the time ahead. This will aid you in holding your place in your inner work. Turn inward with heart-centered breathing, with calming mantras, and with mirrors of inner reflection, finding always the personal meaning of your outer world, asking the self, in an innerly manner, to ponder what is being shown outside of you. Your world reflects your deepest issues and this you must constantly contend with to truly remain in flux.

Enjoy your inward turning, not a chore but a path to enlightenment of self. This is the reason you exist, not only to live in that world, but to find the true reason you are in that world at this time. What are you supposed to learn? Your answers to that question must be taken from your outer life and answered in your inner life. To get to a place of deep inner work, to a place of true flux, is to accept responsibility for every step you take, every place you find yourself, every confrontation and challenge you encounter and turn inward in contemplation, without judgment or blame of self or others, but as simple fact that this issue is most important and necessary work at this moment.

To ask the self why is just the first step. The second step is to wait for the inner self to respond. Your answers will come, though perhaps not as you wish them, perhaps in an unusual or uncomfortable way, but no matter how they arrive, your next step is to receive them and take them back into your inner self and go deeper, asking what you are supposed to learn next. This is true inner work in flux with every day life.

Find your equilibrium and without fear or judgment allow the self to venture inward even as you move forward in your outer life, flowing and knowing that life and the universe expect you to keep challenging the self to fully grasp the true meaning of your existence. I give you this gift to ponder, as usual: the SELF!