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Soulbyte for Tuesday March 25, 2025

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-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Turn inward several times today and ask yourself how you are doing and feeling. What has you so riled up? What has you questioning the sanity of the world you live in? What has you asking so many questions but getting no real answers? When you go inward and sit in meditation for a few minutes you begin to gain a sense of the self as separate from all that is going on outside of you. You begin to sense the self as an observer of life and this allows you to step back, breathe and take a sigh of well-earned relief. You don’t really have to engage. You can step back and just be, wholly within the self, if only for a few minutes of respite from the great calamities and dramas of the world around you. Take time to do this today. It is more important than you know.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Monday March 24, 2025

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-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

To be offended is an offense in itself. Let go of such feelings in favor of just loving what is. There is no need to be offended by the thoughtless acts of others. It’s just a waste of your energy. Instead focus on yourself, on your inner needs, on those of your body and your spirit in sync with each other. If you focus wholly on the body, you will miss the messages of spirit. And if you focus wholly on the spirit, you will miss the messages of the body. Find the perfect balance that allows you to attend to both body and spirit. Try to meditate a little bit each day, even if only for a few minutes, in whatever way feels natural to you. There are no set rules that need be followed about meditation. It is just a quieting of the body and the mind so that relaxation may happen, so that centering within may happen, and so that alignment of true self with true spirit may happen. When you do this, you will soon realize that being offended is a waste of your time and energy.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Friday February 14, 2025

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-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Take care of yourself by taking responsibility for your thoughts and actions, by keeping yourself in good mental and physical prowess, and by taking care of your inner self so that life is in alignment with spirit. When you are aligned with your spirit you know it by a certain calm contentedness, by the feeling of peace within and by the lack of friction around the choices you make on a daily basis. Turn inward and ask: Am I in alignment with myself? With spirit? Taking care of the self involves loving the self, valuing the self, thanking the self for the complicated journey you are on, but also taking responsibility for getting to know the self and supplying the self with all that you need, especially within. Take time to take care.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Thursday November 14, 2024

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-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

The flow of life is no different than the waves of the ocean, sometimes calm, sometimes rough, sometimes gentle and predictable, sometimes stormy and unpredictable. How you navigate those waves of life is up to you. Calm and steady no matter the circumstances? Or panicky and tossed about? The Middle Way knows that life is unpredictable at times, that excitements ensue, that depressions tug at the heart, that the mind pulls first in one direction and then in another. But the Middle Way declares that with practice one learns to go with the flow in an undulating manner that neither goes too high nor too low, except when appropriate. Learning the Middle Way allows for body, mind and spirit to be in alignment as often as possible, and thus for life’s vicissitudes to be acceptable and navigable without attachment.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Friday November 1, 2024

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-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

Time has a funny way of telling truths, but waiting for those truths can be a little nerve-racking. In the meantime, making decisions that are heart centered and in alignment with spirit set things up to having a good outcome in the long run. Time won’t matter so much then because the right choice will have been made at the outset. Getting the self in good alignment with what is right, with what has heart, and with what has meaning that goes beyond the needs of the self, for the greater good, is the first step to being in alignment with what is right. Start there.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne