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Soulbyte for Wednesday March 20, 2024

-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

Keep mind attached to body so that you are aware of yourself at all times. With mind and body in alignment there is better balance than if mind goes off on its own, leaving the body to wander alone. With mind clear on its mission, to support the body in positive and healthy ways, there is a better chance that the body will remain in an advanced state of calm and contentment. An added bonus of mind and body in aware alignment is that spirit is also more noticeable and its actions more acceptable. With mind, body and spirit in synch all will be well.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Monday March 18, 2024

-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

Check your vitals. Are you calm and relaxed? Is your mind in a state of repose? Are your thoughts minimal and without charge? Is your heart center cool and empty while also warm and full? With your spirit present, your mind at rest, and your heart center open, declare yourself fit and full of vigor. These vital centers are as important as any technical vitals a doctor might check. Give yourself a checkup to start the day. If calmness and openness are not your present state, then work on yourself to get to a new state that will work in your favor and so that your spirit may emerge and be present throughout the day. Your calm spirit is the best doctor you will ever encounter.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday February 15, 2024

-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

Watch for signs that come to guide you. What have you been missing? What have you been misinterpreting? Sometimes a part of you will try to tell you something but you don’t get it. Sometimes a friendly helper will try to get your attention but you don’t see. When you are stuck in life and don’t know where to turn, remain open to the possibility of help from either outside of you or from inside of you; both options are highly available. You have a lot going for you. To become more aware remain open of mind and heart, and pay attention to what your body is telling you, for in both subtle and not so subtle ways it communicates on a daily basis.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Friday October 6, 2023

-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

Remain steady upon your path of heart, seeking always to maintain your balance so that your spirit does not suffer, so that your physical body does not suffer, and so that your mental and emotional selves remain healthy. Keep health in mind at all times. Keep these thoughts uppermost: What is good for my spiritual, physical, emotional and mental health? What is the best thing for me to do in this moment? Will it keep me on my path of heart? Will it keep me in balance? To be in balance is to be healthy in all aspects of self, and to maintain that healthy balance as often as possible is a goal well worth pursuing.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck’s Place: Relativity Of Mind

An integrated mind is a mind at peace…
-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

We might ask ourselves: “Who am I?”

The answer? It depends.

We are of two minds. One of those minds has an identity, an ego, that thinks, feels and knows who it is. The other mind is the subconscious, a far vaster mind that has access to all knowledge and has the potential to become anyone and anything. The subconscious mind has no ego or fixed identity. The subconscious simply becomes what is suggested to it.

When the ego thinks, the subconscious takes the suggestion of that thought and creates it in the physical body. The subconscious does not discriminate fact from fiction. If the ego imagines a frightful possibility, the subconscious treats it as real and armors the body to tense and prepare for clear and present danger.

The subconscious is the older of the two minds. It stores the evolutionary history of the body for its duration in physical life, as well as the historical journey of the soul that inhabits that body. Consequently, the subconscious lacks a specific identity, as its roots stretch way deeper than its current incarnation.

Without locking into any personality the subconscious reacts automatically and instinctively, in a way that has best served the survival of the species. Thus, it reacts to situations based on the suggestions of survival programs that automatically present themselves via association with a current challenge.

However, the subconscious is highly influenced by suggestions from many sources. The ego, or actual personality, exerts a powerful influence through its thoughts, beliefs and imagination. The ego thinks and reflects, which the subconscious does not do, and the subconscious manifests these dramas. Many a psychosomatic symptom or illness is directly the creative manifestation of a suggestion to the subconscious through conscious rumination.

The subconscious is also highly impacted by the free flow of thoughts in the universe, or by the points of view we expose ourselves to in news shows and social media. Political campaigns are judged by the size of one’s financial war chest, which is ultimately spent on suggestions to the subconscious mind’s of voters as to what they should believe and vote for.

Additionally, the subconscious is influenced by our divided selves. Beside our conscious identity are many parts of ourselves that live below the threshold of consciousness, in the region of the psyche that Jung called the shadow. These sub-personalities have minds of their own that constantly offer the subconscious suggestions that immediately register in the body.

I utilize a simple neurofeedback device that registers immediately a changed brainwave state should a background doubt whisper during a meditation session. The subtlety of sensitivity by the subconscious to become what is hinted at is extraordinary.

One does well to bring consciousness to these shadow ideas, that they reach levels of resolution to not unseat one’s conscious intent. This is the path of individuation where one enlarges one’s personality by truly reconciling the oppositions within the self.

Suggestions from such an integrated personality promote health, creativity and fulfillment where that which is within truly reflects that which is without. Such a mind finds duration beyond the relativity of time and space.

Beyond relativity,
Chuck