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Soulbyte for Friday November 3, 2023

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-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

Charge yourself with staying accountable for the events and circumstances of your life, those under your control as well as those out of your control, for surely some part of you has a hand in everything that happens to you. Some part of you has a greater plan, as it takes you down roads you had no intention of taking. Some part of you is always in control. Accept responsibility for where you are today. Be grateful for all that you are offered and for the people in your life who support and uphold you, including that part of you that is really in the driver’s seat.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Thursday November 2, 2023

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-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

When times of great change arrive it is the wise person who accepts them and learns how to work with them. There are pivotal points in life when a sense of never-going-back becomes clear. Such times are marks of deep rather than subtle change, both within and without, and a determination is made that has profound and lasting effects. The world you live in is going through such times now and each individual is feeling it in some way. No one escapes the effects of worldwide change. Note how your own life is changing and make adjustments that are helpful, beneficial and internally positive, even while you face the deeper meaning of the outer world’s problems. No one is alone. Where one suffers so do others. Remain in a positive frame of mind that keeps abreast of the change and changes too.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Wednesday November 1, 2023

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-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

You have the innate ability to shift yourself, to change yourself, to advance yourself. Whether you need some kind of healing or some kind of motivation, you have within you the knowledge and energy to take on the task. In quiet inner work, in looking to the self rather than to others, this innate ability will emerge. Your own wisdom is all you need. Sit quietly and breathe. Let the mind be still by emptying it constantly of patter; eventually it will be calm. With practice your inner journey to wisdom, healing, insight and new vitality will not only begin but, before you know it, you will be well on the way to the change you need and desire. It all begins within.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Tuesday October 31, 2023

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-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

Misunderstandings occur when there is a failure to communicate accurately. This can lead to devastating consequences, both in the world between any two or more people as well as within the self. The only way to overcome misunderstandings is to be truthful, but being truthful is often a tricky proposition, for there is often a lack or inability to be truthful within the self. How then can truth be told outside of the self? Seek to be truthful, as you face your own dilemmas, and seek first resolution within. The truth can be a hard truth or it can simply mean taking a look from a different perspective. Either way, some form of acceptance will be required, within and without.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Monday October 30, 2023

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-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

Go with the flow. Rather than fight, swimming against the current of life’s unfolding, acquiesce to the forces of nature that urge you to change, that confront you with new knowledge about yourself, and that will aid you as you go with the flow. Be open minded as you watch how things unfold and as you accept where you are now. Be open hearted too, as you look on with awe at the great unfolding of the realities of life, for you personally and for the world around you. Remain in awe.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne