Every time you look up, remember to bring the two selves together and breathe! – Photo by Jan Ketchel
Here is this week’s channeled audio message. Stay tuned in and aware of the self as we approach the end of this Mercury Retrograde, which sure has brought a lot to light and is pushing change in many lives!
As always, retrograde time asks us to pay attention and tackle life, and all its vicissitudes, in fresh new ways!
Each day brings new light and new definition to life and the path we walk on… – Photo by Jan Ketchel
Here is the channeled message for this week. As Jeanne says at the end of the channeling, Good Luck as you discover what your mission is all about!
It might not be clear until later in life, but know that everything that comes to you is significant. Everything is meaningful. Everything is showing you your path.
Buddha is a mirror… reflecting the calmness we also have within! – Photo by Jan Ketchel
Here is a calming message from Jan and Jeanne to begin the week.
Lots of crackling wood stove sounds in the background of the recording. You may even hear the winds howling as it is very rainy and windy this morning in Red Hook, reflecting our times of energetic change! As Jeanne suggests: Stay grounded!
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison. His ability to find contentment and meaning throughout those years prepared him to come to power in his seventies and transform a nation.
We are all in our private prison, contained within the four walls of our private karma, the central meaning of our life. The limitations imposed by our deepest challenges may prevent us from experiencing joy, safety, freedom and love. Our private prison, like Mandela’s prison, may severely limit our fulfillment through the most fruitful years of our lives.
We may find ourselves caught in swirls of sorrow, doubt, depression and deep self-pity. These are all necessary encounters, reminders of the transpersonal spirit that seeks to fly freely beyond the prison walls of our discontent. Our deepest sorrow is the song of the bird of freedom that beckons us to sing its tune.
When we recapitulate, we squarely face our karmic fixation. What happened in life that separated us from our spirit, that sent us into the desert of our discontent? Reliving, recollecting, and reprocessing the experiences of our lives ultimately releases us to the freedom of our spirit’s fulfillment. And this process, like Mandela’s, might take decades; no easy road to freedom.
But we needn’t attach to the outcome of our recapitulation process. Instead, we can focus on contentment in this moment, in every moment, through the breath. Buddhist meditation uses the breath. Yogic meditation uses the breath. Shamanic recapitulation uses the breath.
Simply focus awareness on the breath in this moment. Passively observe it without interference. Direct it at will. Gently deepen it. Focus it on the throat, on the solar plexus, on the perineum, on the big toe!
Count, to rhythmically align with the breath. Hold the breath; release it. Bring it to the tensest part of the body and allow it to gently penetrate and soften. Breathe rapidly if that feels right, fully releasing energy that has long been held in. Or breathe ever so softly, with loving tenderness.
Emancipation is but a breath away! – Art by Jan Ketchel
Placing awareness on the in-breath, on the inhalation of air—prana/life force/spirit—allows it to fill the body with its energy and vibration. Releasing the old stuck energies deeply stored in the body as we exhale brings contentment to each moment of our lives. The more we breathe with awareness, the deeper we breathe with awareness, the more we realize our deepest intent—to advance our spirit beyond its karmic containment into new life, full of contentment!
Simply breathing,
Chuck
As Bob Marley sings in Redemption Song: “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds.
That calm inner flame is in there somewhere… Breathe into it and let it warm and balance you… – Photo by Jan Ketchel
Here is today’s message from Jan and Jeanne. May it assist you in achieving some much needed balance and calmness today and throughout the week. In mindfully breathing, one stays more fully present and open to the magic in life. Enjoy breathing!