Tag Archives: meditation

Soulbyte for Wednesday March 26, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Under normal circumstances you would say that everything is going along as it should, that everything that is happening is meant for the best, and that all events eventually lead to the right place and to the right outcome. Today, however, you wonder how you could possibly view the world outside of you as perfectly aligned with what is right. It seems that there is just too much going wrong. Sit again with your quiet self, in your quiet moment of meditation and relaxation, how and where that works best for you. Without judgment, just sit and breathe and calm your jangled nerves. The breath alone can do this. Long, deep breaths, in and out slowly. When you center yourself in this manner you center the world a little bit more too. When you breathe deeply and calm your jangled nerves you calm the jangled nerves of the world around you. When you are able to sit in stillness for just a few moments you add to your store of good and calm energy. This is a very good thing. No matter what is happening around you, find time to do this. Store up your good, calm energy.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Tuesday March 25, 2025

-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

Soulbyte for Monday March 24, 2025

-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

Soulbyte for Thursday January 23, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Anchor more solidly within the self on a daily basis through quiet meditation, walking in nature, listening to calming music, doing things that both turn you inward and bring peace of mind and body, whatever that might mean for you. By anchoring in this way, your thoughts about the world around you will quiet down too, the outer rhetoric will lessen and the harsh reality of truth will be less invasive. But the most important aspect of quiet mind is the ability to intuit and perceive life in a new and different way. As you anchor in quiet mind, distance and perspective change, point of view shifts, and a new paradigm is revealed. In this new paradigm new awareness exists and the bigger picture emerges. Give it a try. Seek quiet mind in the best way possible for you at this time in your life, and see what happens.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday November 7, 2024

-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

Training of the mind is just as important as training of the body. To hone the mind so that calmness is easily achieved will bring not only the mind into calmness but also the body and the emotions, and it will allow the spirit within you to be more easily heard. Your spirit yearns to speak with you, to guide you and show you the way. The best way to connect is to get the thinking mind, the busy mind, out of the way. Learn simple meditation tricks to relax the body and the thinking mind so that calmness ensues, even for just a few minutes at a time. It will do you wonders and your spirit will rejoice.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne