Let not your worries confine you, nor your implanted ideas define you, for you are so much more than the constant chatter you hear in your head. Worries are just worries and ideas are just ideas and neither have any substance. What gives them substance and power is the constant repetition of them and your attachment to them. Open your mind to fresh ideas, release your worries to the wind, and let yourself be formed anew by eradicating the old and implanting something new. It’s never too late to start over, to begin again, to wipe the slate clean and sculpt a new you, within and without. But keep in mind that making an inside change will actually be more important and, in the long run, more substantial and lasting than any outside change you may desire. Go within!
You are not too much for yourself to handle. You are not too much for yourself to change. All that you are is enough for you to work with. Turn your energy inward now to work within yourself, to establish your priorities, to find your own path once again. For now is the time of universal transition and establishment of new priorities, new objectives, and new possibilities. Take yourself in hand and be your own guide now. There’s no time like now to join the energy of change and get going in a new direction. One step at a time soon makes a new path. And remember: Everything is possible!
When setting New Year’s resolutions don’t forget that what you consider to be your negative traits are as necessary and meaningful as what you consider to be your positive traits. What you consider negative about yourself may be having a positive effect on you. It all depends on how you look at it. For often a negative aspect of self is telling you exactly what you need to do in order to change, and that’s positive! The best method of setting intentions for change is to firmly and loudly declare them to yourself and to the universe. Simultaneously anchor them deeply and firmly within yourself and send them out into the capable hands of energetic intent, the same energetic intent that surrounds and supports all of life. Let them go. Without perseveration or self-deprecation let them become energy that returns to you in positive ways. For they will manifest if they are indeed truly desired and truly right for you at this time in your life. Intent!
Let love and joy surround you on this December day. Let the warmth of your own heart stir within you and bring you what you really need, for though it is a giving day it is most important to realize that the only one who can truly give you what you really need is you yourself. So don’t forget to grant yourself a moment of heartfelt love and appreciation for yourself and your unfolding journey to wholeness. For whether you are aware of it or not that’s what you really need and really seek. Wholeness within the self can only be granted by you and the journey you are on.
–From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
We are taking a much needed retreat from the world over the next few weeks, so although we will post our daily Soulbytes, and perhaps some other Facebook posts as the spirits move us, there will not be an audio channeling nor our personal blogs until next year, starting on Monday January 8, 2018. Until then, we send love and good wishes for safe and Happy Holidays to all of you! And much thanks and gratitude for a wonderful year past! -Jan & Chuck
We are all Magical Beings, journeyers in infinity currently enjoying a life on Earth. Many are born into this life still actively connected to the memories of their soul’s prior journey through infinity or interactive with spirit essences invisible to the adult world. Many parents recognize the advanced wisdom of their young children, calling them Old Souls. Many children have very clear recollections of past lives, even able to tell their parents of their own roles in those past lives, as well as relay in elaborate detail events from those lives.
Young children live in this world of magical possibility and adults largely protect and promote this early magical stage of life. In fact we soon approach the consensus day of magic: Christmas. Regardless of religious affiliation there is general world agreement that this day is an open channel for childhood innocence to encounter the magic of infinite possibility.
For the adult world solidly ensconced in rationality the magic of childhood is a long-forgotten lost paradise. Many find vicarious compensatory solace in a child’s sparkle of surprise when opening a gift. Many need to shun exposure to any trigger linked to the vulnerability of expectant hope as the vicissitudes of a lifetime of disappointment seem to necessitate powerful insulation from the live wire of the thrill of anticipation.
Ultimately all children are led to the guillotine of disappointment, a process known as “growing up.” Parents may strive to protect their children’s innocence and connection to the magic as long as possible but ultimately must prepare their children to live in the “real” world.
This process is known as socialization and all adults knowingly or unknowingly collude to insure that children perceive and live in the world in a unified way. Not to do so might land their children in a psychiatric institution, labeled schizophrenic, for their hallucinations and delusions as regards communications with spirit entities and beliefs in other worlds.
The Shamans of Ancient Mexico completely concur that this socialization that limits beliefs and perception is critical to being able to live and find stable grounding in this world. In fact they see it as a magical act that we are all capable of agreeing upon the same basic tenets of reality through the universal establishment of an ego-based rationality.
Nonetheless, the shamans do acknowledge that the fallout for this basic tenet of mental health, a strong rational ego, is as tragic as the magic of its creation: we become severely limited human beings cut off from our birthright, our magical connection to infinity. In a rational world magic is make-believe.
The dominance of rationality severely estranges us from our true natures. Though it serves us well in adapting to this world it leaves us deeply bored and unsatisfied. This is the ultimate reason for the profusion of substance abuse in our time. The use of substance dislodges the fixation on rationality and allows a fuller glimpse into human potential, unfortunately with often dangerous outcomes in dark or expansive journeys lacking the reasonable limits prescribed by rationality.
Truthfully, however, rationality alone rarely delivers fulfillment. Consider a relationship that appears perfect on rational grounds, and yet finds no attraction between its partners. Conversely, many relationships of attraction struggle with compatibility on rational grounds.
This dilemma reflects the deep split within all human beings, between their dominant rational ego and their deeper magical nature. Often we are really attracted to a partner, however inappropriate, that can deliver us from the stranglehold of our own rationality.
The Shamans of Ancient Mexico suggest a different approach to resolve this inner quandary: tend the magic within. Shamans suggest that we accept the basic polarity of our beings: I am both a rational and a magical being. I am both a physical and an energetic being. Rather than pit these two sides of the self against each other their approach is more synergistic.
When I am in the world of everyday life rationality is dominant as the magical self continues in the background to inform the ego of intuitions and perceptions of a parapsychological nature. When I am in the magical or energetic world rationality can serve as a helpful discriminating and orienting function that also offers grounding via a connection to some needed familiar definition of self. These two parts of self can complement each other’s functioning while enriching the depth of experience and fulfillment of our true human potential.
The truth is, however, that we cannot afford to tend the magic within until we have achieved a strong enough rational ego to make us bonafide adults in this world. The paradox of course is that this accomplishment of adulthood severely alienates us from the magic. And yet, without a strong ego we are ill-equipped to take the journey to recover our connection to the magic.
We are living through a time in human history that is severely rattling our security in the stabilizing power of rationality. Now is the time to use inner rationality to navigate this alternative reality we’ve all been thrust into. In a dark way our current world situation demonstrates the magic of alternative realities that exist in infinity.
Use your rationality to stabilize the self, yet tend also to the truth of the magical self that we all share in common. Tend the magical self within, with love, as we weather the radical shifts of our time. Nothing can take away the magic, let it shine.
