Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Can you offer us guidance to wrap up this week and lead us into the coming weekend?

Today, I offer first a synthesis of what you have learned over the past few days and even weeks. You are learning that you are energy beings, that you can TAP into your own energy, that you can utilize it innerly and outerly and, best of all, that you are in total control of your entire life by the choices you make, the directions you take, the options offered, and the decisions to do what you do. You may dispute this last fact, but, I dare say, if you allow your self to be honest you will acknowledge that yes, you are in complete control because only you say yes or no, only you say perhaps or maybe, and only you say now or later. Only you decide, and only you take action. (At this point in the channeling I had the clear insight that the events of our childhood, when we may feel that we did not have a choice, are the result of the choices made before we entered this lifetime, and may perhaps be our greatest challenges of this lifetime, in essence our core issues to resolve before we can evolve.)

You may wish to blame others for your place in life, for your current situation, for your dilemmas and your problems, but I contest the process of blaming others, and ask all of you to take responsibility for your journeys, for your choices, and for your own progress in life.

Keep in mind, at all times, that you are energy beings. As energy, first and foremost, you have the ability to enter many situations and make many contracts for reasons that may not be clear to your mental and physical self who may protest greatly at the imbalances in your life. But think about your energetic self as your true decision maker and allow that self to lead you to places that will challenge you to grow. Can you accept that although you may be unhappy in your life that you are, in fact, there for a very good reason that your energetic self is fully cognizant and aware of?

Are you ready to accept that your energetic self is showing you the truth of your path, pointing you in the direction you must take, in order for your life to unfold and evolve? Do you accept the next point I make, that you are fully capable of tapping into this energetic self, and finding the reason for your situation? Are you ready to do that? Are you ready to hear the truth?

The truth is spoken to you over and over again, throughout your life, and on a daily basis. But you might notice that you elect to ignore it, often, because the truth requires that you face the challenges of change and transformation that the truth reveals to you in its messages. I speak of acceptance of these truths, energetically presented and utterly known, with certainty. Yet do you choose to ignore them, while you continue your common habits and behaviors of burying your words of truth under mounds of fear?

Fear is always the greatest challenge. It appears at every step. It is the human challenge, the invader who enters your life to do battle with your energetic self. Your truth, clearly spoken, and revealed by your very innocent and honest spirit self, is then confronted with the voice of fear saying, well, what if? How can I possibly do that? I can’t do that! When, in fact, you can decide to go with your spirit, confronting your fear, seeing it as just another energy, a negative energy that teaches you as much about your self as your spirit energy does.

So, you see, these are your two complications, your competitors, in a standoff for much of your life, your spirit energy vs. your fear energy. Now, I also contend that you are in total control of both of these aspects of life’s battles. Yes, you are!

In order to access true control, you must be willing to acquiesce the fear control that has dominated thus far. Fear keeps you safe. Fear keeps you alert. Fear protects you, but it also stifles you, hides you, and keeps you stuck in a place of reluctance to listen to the truth spoken by your energetic self.

It is wise to turn the tables on your fear, but you must first know what your fears are, and that is the next lesson I wish to advise you upon, know your fears. This is the next step to take and the next part of the process of evolving. If you do not know who or what your energy is, how can you wage a good battle? Your fears reveal themselves quite often, but they are often as deeply hidden beneath your daily patter as your truths are, residing side by side with your energetic truths, beneath the oblivion of control that has thus far been your mode of operation.

I challenge you to make a list of your fears, from the greatest to the tiniest. And then I ask that beside that list you make another list of your energetic truths. You might find that your fears are many and your truths few, but you might also notice that your truths are grounding, mature, noble, and worthy of your attention, while your fears may be old and tired, worn out, and energetically depleted or sorely bruised from years of use and abuse. You might find that your truths do shine more brightly than your fears, yet have you still not accepted them as your guiding truths, but for fear of what?

As I mentioned the other day, your purpose and meaning in life is to live from your spirit self, allowing this aspect of self to override all fears, allowing it to challenge you and bring you forth into greater acknowledgment of and access to your self as a being comprised of energy, ready and willing to embrace the true self.

So, ponder who your fear-driven self really is. And ponder also who your innocent spirit self is. Allow them to face each other. Look honestly at these two halves of the self and begin a systematic dismantling of the fear aspects of self in favor of the spirit self emerging and participating in your life. Good Luck!

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
We have all been enjoying your messages of guidance. Many people are finding that you are speaking directly to them and to their situations, so your offerings have been very appreciated and highly useful. So, on behalf of your readers I say, thank you! What do you offer us today?

Today, I will speak on strategy, on the importance of planning, and the need for concentration of energy and skills in order to achieve your spiritual goals. Although I offer guidance, it is only in the act of processing and utilizing it that it will have true impact and meaning to you. Simply reading and understanding will not get you anywhere. In other words, no matter how good or appropriate the guidance, if you do not put it to practical use it will have no effect on your lives.

By remaining attached to old habits, old ideas of the self, and old patterns of behavior, your growth will be minimal at best. Today, I urge all of you, My Dear Ones, to address your own personal situations. Look honestly and truthfully at your daily habits and, first, determine where your easiest and simplest change can be made. Then take action! Take action against or for change in your life or against and for change.

Perhaps your first action will be a move toward elimination of something and your second action a move toward adding something meaningful. Perhaps your first action will be as simple as taking time to do your TAPS exercise that I recommend as awakening activity. If you do this simple action it may allow for greater action to take place that will be growth oriented.

1. First, take action by assessing your self.

2. Then step back and determine where your first change is going to take place.

3. Determine next how you will make this change.

4. Then do it, make the change.

5. After you have made this change, by taking action for or against it, step back again from your list of self and allow your self to feel the energy of self after having taken this action.

6. You may feel a loss or emptiness, but if you allow your self to push through that loss and sadness, you will find that your emptiness is but a gain in energy of self, of spirit self.

Continue your self-assessment, each day taking action. Perhaps you will need to address the same action over and over again until you have created a new habit of simply taking action, and this may be quite helpful in training your awareness in how you act and how you revert to tendencies that are energy-wasteful and deprive your spirit of its true energy.

Allow your self to continue taking action each day by addressing the areas you wish to change. Ask for guidance, seek guidance, turn toward outer guidance, but turn also toward inner guidance and inner strength as you plan your strategy for a new self-image and a new spiritual self.

Keep your focus concentrated on spirit, on creating the true spirit self by pushing aside and taking action against the aspects of the ego self that keep the spirit self hidden and unused. Inviting your spirit self to participate in your life is now your main action. It also must become your main attraction. This is where all of your mirror work is ultimately leading you, to acceptance of spirit self as the main attraction in your life.

Do you love your spirit self, your inner self? Do you allow your inner self to be loved by you? Do you allow your ego self to be honest and truthful with who appears in the mirror, so that your innocent loving spirit self may one day appear in balance, a true apparition of who you are?

Today is a good day to begin taking action for and against emergence of your inner spirit self, seeking better alignment, more acceptance of, and allowance of future participation by this self in your life. This is the self who will lead you along the path you so desire, the path that you can barely see in the distance, the path that will reveal itself to you as you take action to save your spirit self with honest planning, truthful strategies, and mature actions.

Feel the resonance of the energy you give back to your self as you take your first action today. This is the energy that you seek. It is the self revealed and innocently asking for your participation in allowing it to become a part of your life.

You see, My Dears, the purpose of your life is to live from this place of spirit self, in mature balance with your adult knowing. It is this spirit energy that will show you your truthful place in the world. Don’t be so afraid of it! It can’t hurt you, though you may feel much pain and discomfort as you access it, but that is just the pain and discomfort of release, of letting go of the old self, and the entry of the new self taking its rightful place. This is what you seek, release of old energy and re-entrance of your true energy, meant to be contained, utilized, and enjoyed.

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have some guidance for us today? We have enjoyed the tapping exercise from Message #485!

Be alert now to your own desire for change, even as change happens outside of you. Pay attention to your inner desire to shift and grow, to bud and blossom, to awaken and re-live, in a new fashion. Even as the outer energy pushes for great change, so does your inner spirit self push as well, asking you to pay attention to its own words of promise for new life.

I speak today of steady focus upon this path of change, for only in remaining cognizant and aware of the need for true change will you be able to maintain your progress. Look outside of you with clarity of vision, using your inner knowing to strengthen your truth-speaking inner guidance. Although you look outwardly for such guidance, this outward glancing is but a glimpse into a mirror. What you see outside of you is merely a reflection of what is going on inside you. I know that you are aware of this, but what do you do with such awareness so that you may continually grow?

Awareness alone is not enough. It is like having the ability to read, but unless you actually read you will not learn much that is new or offer your self the opportunity to discover new connections in life. It is like having great talents, yet never using them to stimulate, excite, or beautify your life. It is like having great love stored in your heart, yet never daring to express it. It is like having much desire in your innermost self, yet never acknowledging such desire for life, for love, for knowledge, for beauty, for connection, or for growth.

If you simply acknowledge that you have such gifts and do not use them so do you disappoint your evolving spirit self. I urge now a concerted effort to remain in solid alignment with the inner truths of the self, based on the glimpses of these truths in your outer world. Some of these truths may be quite pleasant and enjoyable, while others may be abhorrent and despicable. But all of them, no matter how they make you feel, are your deepest truths. In order to change, to become an active life participant, must you learn acceptance and acquiescence to both your bounty and your bitterness.

Truth does not come to fool you. It comes to enlighten you. Truth does not treat you with disrespect, but it treats you as worthy of its gifts. Truth does not show you anything that you are not ready to handle. Truth does not whisper of complacency and falsehood, but only words of clarity and honesty. Truth, though strangely unbecoming at times, is your greatest guide, your greatest admirer, your greatest focus, and your greatest companion, leading you forward, asking for your participation in life as a mature, acknowledging, spirit-driven being, who is finally ready to acquiesce to all the gifts you are being offered.

Truth is your greatest gift giver. And who is this truth speaker? Who is this, who dares to utter words that shake you up, that sends you headlong into pain and fear, that professes to love you? I think you know who this truth-speaker and bearer of gifts of change is. Yes, you do. It is your quiet inner self, deeply attached to you and your journey, while simultaneously distant and detached from all that you hold dear, to all that you cling to. Your inner spirit self asks you to evolve.

I have given you many mantras and awakening exercises, such as the body tapping from the previous message. It is up to you to participate in more fully aligning with the inner self who so resonates with and acknowledges this guidance that is available. Accept the gifts that are given, but your next step is greater action, fuller participation, more fully daring to unblock access to this spirit guide within. Each one of you, My Dear Readers, is being challenged to maintain your mature adult self in balance with this spirit self. You are being prodded to maintain your awareness of these two selves as your guides, remaining focused on the truths you are offered, the gifts of truth that are offered as your personal guidance.

You are awakening! Now it is time to begin each day by:

1. getting up out of bed,

2. awakening your physical self with tapping exercises,

3. aligning spirit with physical self,

4. looking into your truth-speaking mirror,

5. accepting its gifts of direction, knowing that this is what your spirit wants you to work on, in alignment at all times, with that spirit self.

You cannot go wrong, if you allow this alignment of inner and outer truths to guide you each day. I speak from personal experience of truths being presented, and learning to acquiesce to them, but also to accepting them as my greatest guides.

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have some guidance for us today?

I offer these practices of balance and steadiness in order for you to continue evolving and progressing in your lives upon that earth. Begin each morning with ritual tapping.

1. Tap upon your head, opening your crown to guidance and awareness.

2. Tap upon your forehead for clarity of vision.

3. Tap upon your cheekbones for wisdom and vitality.

4. Tap upon your chin for energy.

5. Tap upon your throat for truth.

6. Tap upon your shoulders for stamina and balance.

7. Tap upon your heart center for self-love and inner guidance.

8. Tap upon your hips for the strength that is in you to come forth and guide you.

9. Tap upon your knees for swiftness and agility.

10. Tap upon your ankles for enabling the good energy of earth to flow unhindered into you.

11. Finish by tapping upon your hands for knowledge and creativity to guide you.

These practices will aid you in your growth, reminding you who you are, where you are going, but most of all, bringing forth your innate abilities, your connections within the self, and your interconnection to energy outside of you. Give your self permission to do this tiny and simple tapping practice each day, as part of your morning ritual. Slip it into your daily preparations. Even as you now prepare your self in other ways, so may this focus on the body self, the inner self, and the energy outside of you, offer you just enough grounding to align you in a positive and open manner.

This simple tapping practice, tapping once, twice, or thrice, as you choose, will stimulate your inner vision, wisdom, and creative powers and aid you as you make your decisions, find your way, and allow for interactions on all levels.

Do not be afraid to open the self in such a manner. It is so natural to be in alignment with the self, outer and inner energy combined, that eventually will you be asking your self how you ever got along without doing your morning tapping exercises.

I do not mean to burden you with yet another process, but you must admit that you do each need a grounding program that is simple and easy to do to send you off on your day. You might even offer your self this mantra as you do this exercise:

I tap myself awake.

I tap myself into awareness.

I tap myself into alignment.

I tap myself into the joy of life.

I tap myself into my body.

I align, and I am alive!

Thank you!

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

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

Now is a time of walking upon that earth, drawing forth its energy, asking it to aid you as you make your way. Now is a time of earth energy, of balancing and steadying, even as you may feel pulled in the opposite direction by the planets and the moon as they tug at you. Find your focus at your feet more often now, out of your thinking head, down into your faraway legs, and the protuberances you call toes. Even if you have lost your feet or your legs for some reason, so can you still receive the energy of this mothering time. Use your imagination. Use your intuitive inner self, and your innocent self to bid the energy of Mother Earth herself to enter your own energy path.

As you walk upon that earth remind your self often to bind your awareness to that of the ground upon which you tread. Allow earth energy to siphon into you through your feet, using your innocence to accept this gift. In walking meditation roam the earth over the next few days, grounding your self upon its supple back, but also receiving its bounty of energetic balance.

It is blossoming time, a time of awakening and renewal, a time of rejuvenation and return to life. Accept such energy as your own and do not leave it to nature alone. Man must accept that he too lives and dies many slumbering deaths upon that earth, and is offered the same opportunity to birth again as the months do change and shift is called for.

Now is changing and shifting time. Do not be afraid to partake in the energy of such a time. You are offered the opportunity to participate in new life and, in practical terms, that means that new energy is available to you. As dense and heavy as you may feel in your body after a long winter’s slumber, so is there plenty of energy available to each of you. You may feel the vibration of it in your own body during quiet walking meditation upon that earth. You may feel it when you least expect it. Or you may simply know it by the lightness in your heart.

Do not dismiss this energy as being unavailable to you, for it exists, and is available to all who ask for it. That remains the key to receiving, and the key to accepting the gifts that are readily available. You receive by asking, and you accept by your innocence asking you, the adult in the world, to step aside for a moment and allow for energetic resonance to become a part of your life.

The greatest gifts do not come unbidden. They come when innocently asked for. Use your time of new life to seek new life for the self. Use your body for walking and, in each step you take, ask for energy, for guidance, for clarity, for awareness, for compassion for self and others; ask for love to fill you and love to flow out of you; ask for the breath of self-love to inhabit you and guide you on your journey.

Now is a time of great shift, as I have spoken of, but your continuing journey requires that you participate in the energy that is available during this time of shift. Today, I offer you a means of beginning your journey anew, with fresh steps, new prayers of reception, and new balance, in order to remain open and ready for what life is asking of you right now. Live as if you mean it. Live as if you have but one day, for that is all you really ever have, one day of life at a time.

Accept the gifts of the earth and trust the innocence of your inner self as you walk with truth in your heart, compassion on your sleeve, and energy seeping into your feet. The energy of earth is pure, and you are worthy of its bounty. Give your self this gift of balance and alignment with nature, as it struggles to remain vibrant and alive each day, one day at a time. This is the way to live.