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Chuck’s Place: Calm the Self, Calm the World

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Acceleration Fatigue might aptly characterize the mind’s reaction to the  energy of now. Future Shock has become daily shock. Saturated with awful, we can absorb no more. Herein lies the opportunity to: Calm the Self and Calm the World.

Every day offers opportunity for calm reflection…
– Photo by Jan Ketchel

Begin by refusing the attraction to new news. There’s always excitement to be found, and excitement has its definite place, but too much of anything leads to exhaustion. Save your attention for your breath. Softly breathe in calm, gently melt away tension in soothing release.

Consider the many lives of self, coexisting at increasingly subtler levels of spirit, supporting the body in these rapidly changing times. Allow the messages, teachings, and adjustments from faraway dreams to innervate the self of daily life. Feel the love and support of wholeness of being as it reflects itself throughout the day.

Suspend judgment. Treat the march of events as they arrive at your shore with deep curiosity. Who are these visitors? Do I need to purchase their offerings? Why have they come my way this day? Don’t be offended by their intrusion. Remember, you have total charge of where you place your attention. Choose wisely, choose lovingly.

Love. Love the body, the physical being of this dimension. Love the mind, the spirit partner to the physical self. Love the consciousness that spirit affords. Love the spirit that journeys with all spirits, all parts of the same magnificent whole. Love all thy neighbors as thyself.

Have love for the ego; it’s saddled with self importance. Nonetheless, it remains the ground zero general of this dimension. Realize it must face its petty tyrants in its struggle to be free. And what is freedom? Freedom is serving the true needs of self beyond the veils of illusion. Tall order. Love it well.

Wait patiently. All things change in time. But for things to truly change the time must be ripe. Be with the changes of now, however painful, as precursors, milestones of greater change to come. No need to overly suffer in these suffering times. Be in truth. Eat, drink, and find joy in even these darkest of times. The darkest hour is just before the dawn. A change is gonna come, be patient.

Be like the rainmaker who brings rain when she restores herself to the Tao. Find your way to calm and it will calm the world.

Peace,

Chuck

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Soulbyte for Friday October 26, 2018

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Let your mind be free of worry and constraints. Let your heart rest, knowing that all will be well. Let your body experience what life brings, and yet guide yourself forward in all manners with a combination of discipline and daring, restraint and freedom, care and abandon, for life, in all its vicissitudes, requires both certainty and uncertainty, sharp concentration and the ability to release from constraint when necessary. Life is not a straight path but one that takes many sharp turns, dips and drops, that diverges and shifts without a moment’s notice. And so the human being must be prepared for what it brings, for what it entices with, and for what it curtails with. Knowing all this, embrace life with open arms, for no matter what happens, or has happened to you, you are well prepared for it. For it is your soul’s intent to live the life you are in, but it is also your soul’s intent that you confront and conquer all that your present life entails too. Your soul’s intent is that you evolve and do so with full consciousness, in alignment with where you are, who you are, and what you have been given. It is all your soul’s intent. And it is all your own intent too! Recognize this and half the battle is won!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Thursday October 18, 2018

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At the dawning of every new age there is chaos and turmoil, there is darkness and even despair, and yet there is always light showing the way. Focus on the light. Though it may be far in the distance, hone in on it and draw yourself forward towards its tiny pinpoint in the distance. That tiny light is what you seek, the time of coming out of the darkness, the time when all will be different. Make the journey through the darkness an experience as rich as what you hope for when you reach the light. Savor its riches, for indeed it is the greatest time in any lifetime, the dark holding far more riches than imaginable. It is a time of learning about the powers within the self, about the mirror of light within the self reflecting outside of the self in that pinpoint of light in the darkness, for it is you that has placed that light in the distance. It is you that makes the journey. You are the journeyer, the journey, and the journey’s end too. You are all that you experience. You are the creator and the created, the light and the dark, the pain and the joy of this journey to the new age you seek. Keep going toward the light. Let the journey unfold. You’ve already dreamed it; you’re just remembering now.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Wednesday October 3, 2018

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Your struggle matters too, but do not let it rule you. Do not let it define you. Do not let it become your entire life. Deal with what you must deal with head on in order to heal yourself, but do not let it hold you back from experiencing the fullness of life and all the magic that life on earth holds for you. Resolve your issues without shame and blame. Accept them for what they are, your truths, so that you may embrace the joy, the love, and the wholeness that wait in the wings for you. Yes, you! The magic is waiting for you too. But you will never know it is there if your struggle overwhelms you. Face your struggle down and free yourself. Let your burden down and let love heal you. Let every breath be a healing breath. Let every breath be a loving, healing breath.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne