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Soulbyte for Monday January 9, 2023

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-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

Relax your mind. Relax your body. Relax your hold on thinking you have to do everything. Relax the tension in your muscles, and then go deeper than that. From your toes to the top of your head, and everything in between, relax. Life is not out to destroy you but to support you. Life is not out to stop you but to push you. Life is not out to punish you but to encourage you. Life is full of lessons, but the biggest one may be to learn to just relax and wait for life to show you what comes next rather than thinking you have to have it all figured out ahead of time, or that you have to direct it. There may just be another approach you haven’t thought of. Maybe you just need to relax, let down your guard and just experience it. It might be that simple. Indeed, there may just be another way after all.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Friday January 6, 2023

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-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

Strive to remain connected to your inner self, to know this inner self at the deepest level and to try and figure out what it is trying to tell you. It speaks in its own voice and language and acts in its own unique way. Sometimes it is direct, sometimes subtle, but always it seeks integration so that body and soul may know the bliss of union. Your body is the vehicle for your journey through life, and your spirit, that deepest inner you, is both the driver and the passenger. Make sure you are driving with alertness and awareness, keeping to the road that lies before you. There are many ways to travel through life but to travel with awareness is certainly preferable!

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Monday January 2, 2023

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-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

New beginnings mark the passage of time but also the passage of human inclinations, desires, and promises. To hold oneself to a promise of change is a noble thought but to act upon it is a challenge that over the passage of time may prove impossible. Far better to make no strict promises but to live every day in the moment, learning to stay aware of what is important and what isn’t, to act instead of promise, to do rather than say, to be alive in each breath as much as possible. Rather than mark a beginning, mark an ever-evolving moment in time.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Thursday December 1, 2022

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-Illustration © 2022 Jan Ketchel

Let not fear, complacency or habit keep you from greater exploration, experience and expression of life. Find a happy medium where nothing rules or overrules you but everything has its place. Turn inward more often to achieve the balance you so desire. Turn on your creativity and allow it a place in your life so that you are actively participating in a way that is nurturing to your soul. You have so much you want to do, say and create. Why not just do it? What have you got to lose? The only loss is to yourself, in the loss of your self-expression, and such loss inhibits your growth and explorative possibilities. It might just be time to go full force into that which you really want to do, for your own sake this time.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Soulbyte for Tuesday November 29, 2022

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-Illustration © 2022 Jan Ketchel

Remain grounded in knowing that your life’s mission is revealed every day in the things you are presented with, challenged with, and forced to face, the little incidences that bother you and the big proposals that stump you. Your goal in life is to face life and embrace life, to overcome your fears and undo your entanglements so that you may fully live in joy and contentment but always eager for life’s next challenge. Fulfillment is not material but spiritual, the sense that you have done what you came to do and done it well. Concentrate on that, doing it well.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne