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Chuck’s Place: The Truth About Relaxation

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Relaxed Reflection…
-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

The truth about relaxation is that there cannot be relaxation if we are not in the truth.

If we tell a white lie, even if exquisitely justified, we will experience an excitement to the nerves that innervate our eye muscles, which will in turn throw our eyes slightly out of focus.

In fact, if we mistakenly misstate our age, with no intent to deceive, our eyes will be thrown out of focus. If we then state, or even just think our true age, our eyes will be restored to normal immediately.

The subconscious mind is responsible for this glitch. It knows the truth and cannot help but register a reaction, however subtle, to untruth. This is not from the place of morality or judgment; it’s simply the subconscious mind’s unswerving loyalty to the truth.

The subconscious mind is wired to do the right thing. This is how it keeps our physical body alive. Nonetheless, it is a true servant to the suggestions it receives from the conscious mind. It exercises its creative power to manifest anything we want, even if what we want serves not the true needs of the self. It will fully manifest a life of error, if that is what we choose to explore.

However, every thought and every action have an effect, which is often called karma. If our thoughts and actions misalign with the truth, the body will register a reaction that indeed, keeps the score.

Our thoughts and actions are constantly straining our central nervous system, often resulting in various states of dis-ease. Often this can manifest as physical symptoms that are erroneously thought to be physical problems, when in fact they are actually but feedback mechanisms from the body that reflect the disordered effects of our current state of mind.

Relaxation requires a quiet mind, where thoughts do not impose themselves upon the body.

The eye, like all senses, is a passive sense. Light waves impress themselves upon the retina, reflecting what is in the world outside of the eye. It does not see from the inside but is only impressed upon, like a small reflecting pool. Seeing is a completely receptive, inert state.

If we squint and try to see, we completely contort the eye and interfere with its receptive ability. To see best, the eye must be left alone, completely relaxed, to receive its impressions. To trust the eye, is to completely relax one’s grip upon it.

Taste is another sense that requires complete passivity to deliver a true flavor. If the mind decides to think and talk when we eat, we hardly taste our food at all. We cannot make ourselves taste.

The sensory capacity of our taste buds passively receives impressions from the food. It requires of our mind to relax its thinking, and passively be present and attentive to these sensations, to know the fullness of the flavors of what we eat.

Even touch is a passive sense. Although a massage therapist might be quite active in giving a massage, they must really be quite passive in order to receive the true state of a client’s musculature, which allows them to truly connect and know how best to touch.

Relaxation requires trust in the body, and trust in the subconscious mind.

If we passively let go of trying to control the non-activity of our senses, they will operate most efficiently.

If we center our attention on our eating, refusing thinking and talking, we will have a pleasurable and fulfilling culinary experience. This includes not listening to podcasts when we eat!

When we touch another, if we take our mind off our thoughts, we can, in the experience of sympathy, register the truth of that other person’s state of being, and instinctively deliver the right touch. And yes, when we actively touch, we are taking action, but it is action informed by the truth passively received.

When we act in alignment with truth, we are, and deliver, calm.

A path to relaxation is to intend that the conscious mind stay in alignment with truth. That truth is best known through passive presence that follows the guidance it receives from its senses and the natural wisdom of the subconscious mind.

Beyond the senses is the wisdom that all guidance arrives when we are calmly, passively available to receive it. If the mind is actively fretting about what decision is right, it is too distracted to take in the myriads of signs from spirit, often arriving through the subconscious mind, that point to the right path, the path of true knowledge.

Ego, for all its valiant efforts to anxiously do the right thing, is at its most mature when it waits, gets calm, and truly listens and receives the truth, from which naturally flow its true marching orders.

Get calm and really listen, effortlessly,
Chuck

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Chuck’s Place: A Pain In The Back

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OW!!!
-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

A day with nothing required to do, hence the beginning of a creative cycle. I decide to tackle splitting some wood that has been waiting.

I drive my pickup truck to the pile of logs. The first thing I notice when I open the door is that there is no annoying buzzing, which always happens when I leave the key in the ignition and open the door.

I’m dumbfounded! Fourteen years with this truck and this has never happened before. Several times I reinsert  the key, open and close the door, and the same anomaly repeats—no noise!

Little did I realize that this key event was prompting me to become lucid, as I was being ushered into a journey of non-ordinary reality. I next grabbed my maul, walked over to, and stared at, the wood to be split. Suddenly, my back, at the level of the sacrum, seized, as if struck by a giant weight! The pain was excruciating and I was afraid to move.

My mind knew that I had done absolutely nothing to cause this experience, but the excruciating pain I was gripped by sure was physically real! I immediately turned to my trusty first-aid mantra to my subconscious mind and incessantly repeated, “My back is healing, my back is healed.”

Nothing doing, nothing changed. I lumbered to the truck and drove back to the house, recounting the experience to Jan. When I went to demonstrate the magical key in the truck ignition, the magic was gone; the annoying buzzing returned, along with my aching back.

I questioned the obvious psychosomatic possibility that my body was just telling my mind that it wasn’t up to the splitting task I’d assigned it. The truth is, however, that my body had been in terrific shape and I was not pushing it beyond its energetic capability.

I considered a number of physical remedies but came to the very clear realization that this was not a physical problem, as had been clearly shown to me. I did absolutely nothing to cause the physical ailment, however real the physical symptoms were. I chose to meet the spirit behind the symptoms head on, on spirit terms.

So many times over the years, clients have had acute, powerful physical symptoms that have warranted a trip to the ER. On some occasions this resulted in a much needed physical treatment, however, in many cases the final diagnosis was a panic attack.

We came to discover that, often, the precursor to recovering a new memory during the process of traumatic recapitulation is, in fact, panic—a natural defense that warns of the coming intrusion into consciousness of disturbing material, often associated with physical pain. So? Was I in the midst of a traumatic recapitulation?

Jan did remind me of similar symptoms I had grappled with several years ago. At that time, I realized I was energetically incapacitated by allowing myself to assume responsibility for burdens that were not my own. That realization had ultimately lifted the extreme weight I had experienced, in dense form, in my back.

Subsequent to that realization years ago, I had firmly programmed my subconscious mind to refuse outside suggestions that could be harmful to me. I knew that we energetically live in a completely interconnected universe, where the thoughts and actions of others are subtlety detected by, and can impact, the subconscious mind. So, how could this hurtful energetic suggestion from without have slipped through now?

The answer is obvious to me. My subconscious was infiltrated because somewhere I was colluding with the outside energy, thus actually inviting the experience I had. My overriding suggestion to my subconscious mind has always been to live in truth. In this case, I was led to an issue I had to more deeply examine and adjust my attachment to.

The back journey I was on was orchestrated by my High Self to help me become aware of this impediment to growth. Sometimes we have to learn the hard way.

Are you wondering if my back has healed? The answer is that there was nothing physical to heal.

This experience has been an energetic dialogue, along with an emotional process, that was initiated by and resolved with Spirit, which momentarily took possession of the flesh.

I have to end now, as I go attend to outdoor tasks.

Stay well,
Chuck

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Chuck’s Place: Journey To The New Mind

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Belief through experience…
-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

Notably, a mirror on the world of now reflects a vast difference of opinion, between a pope and a politician, as to Jesus Christ’s judgment about the use of war.

The real war of now is the evolutionary shift of the human mind away from its materialistic underpinnings into assuming spiritual responsibility for the greater good of all.

Jesus was a teacher and a healer, who introduced a technology for that evolutionary shift in human consciousness that we are currently growing into, as we travel deeper into the New Mind of our Aquarian Age.

This technology highlights the divine power of the human mind—through the relationship between conscious and subconscious minds—to create and heal, with abilities previously ascribed only to an outside deity.

Actually, these abilities have always been present and exercised by the human mind. The difference now is in the actual knowing that what one thinks and believes creates physical reality. The challenge is to use these abilities for the greater good of all.

Beliefs are the core agents of suggestions, which literally construct our physical lives through the power of the subconscious mind. Assuming responsible use of this power is at the heart of the challenge of now.

 Belief is the key ingredient to activate the divine power of spiritual healing. Absent the belief that we can be healed by the power of our subconscious mind creates a blocking belief that nullifies healing through autosuggestion or the outer suggestion of a healer. The power to heal rests within the power of our own inner belief.

Belief, in this context, is not about religion. It’s actually about a powerful certainty, built upon the science of an inner knowing, gained through personal experience.

Carl Jung was asked, point blank, if he believed in God. His response: “I don’t believe—I know.”  (Here’s the YouTube link to his response.) This is a belief that comes from the inner knowing of direct experience. This is not a belief that harbors doubt. This is the optimal belief, needed to approach, and successfully attract, the power of the subconscious mind. 

The subconscious mind never questions the verity of the suggestions it receives. However, if the conscious mind says one thing but believes another, the subconscious mind will act upon the more powerful autosuggestion.

The confidence that leads to a knowing belief can be accrued. I have, in various blogs, described my own experience of using a repetitive phrase, such as, “I am healing, I am healed”, when confronting a physical circumstance where one might expect an experience of discomfort or pain.

Each time one gets a positive result from such an exercise, the conscious rational mind starts to value the utility and fact of its experience. Over time, rationality expands itself to incorporate the wisdom and legitimacy of this spiritual power. Here, confidence leads to belief, based upon genuine knowing.

People are advised to not share these personal successes, as they invite overt, or telepathic, counter-suggestions from non-believing others, which subsequently might undo the healing achieved.

The subconscious mind is constantly subjected to an ocean of suggestions, both from the conscious mind as well as suggestions from the collective subconscious of the human race—particularly the thoughts of others focused upon one’s self.

The shamans of ancient Mexico were particularly schooled in this fact, which is why they typically kept an anonymous profile that shielded them from the impact of the thoughts of others upon their own subconscious minds.

The phenomenon of distance healing is a positive instance of sending a healing intention to another person, through a suggestion to the subconscious mind of that person. Of course, the subconscious mind of that person remains in control as to whether it will take in that suggestion.

The highest level of distance healing is to send healing intention to another without their knowledge, and without attachment to the outcome. Here, one avoids all negative counter-suggestions, as well as the interference of self-importance on the part of the healer.

The journey to the New Mind, with all its latent powers to serve the greater good, for self and the world, is deeply coming online in this time of destruction and transformation. The phoenix rising from the fire of destruction is indeed the spirit of Aquarius rising with the collective New Mind.

Keep the faith,
Chuck

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Chuck’s Place: Take Charge Of Your Mind Now!

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Come into your true power…
-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

The fundamental dynamic of our New Age is the intentional use of the conscious and subconscious minds to manifest reality. The inherent power of this creative relationship of dual mind has always been there, but until recently its divine powers of manifestation were largely unknown, or innocently disowned.

In the New Age, we are claiming and exercising these divine abilities, which were previously projected onto divine beings above and beyond the human self. The key to using these powers resides in the volitional use of suggestion, or command, to the subconscious mind to physically, emotionally and mentally create the outcome one intends.

Suggestions can be delivered intentionally to the subconscious mind, from the conscious mind, through planned and often repeated autosuggestions.

Unintentional suggestions might also impress themselves upon the subconscious mind through the incessant internal dialogue of thoughts, beliefs and judgments that constantly play in the background of the mind.

What we think, believe and state, consciously or unconsciously, we become. The phenomenon of placebo is hardly an aberration. It reflects the normal divine action of the subconscious power in the human mind. As we believe within, so we create without.

Suggestions can also be delivered to the subconscious mind from sources outside the self, which impress themselves upon the subconscious mind with powerful emotions, manifesting in how one sees and relates to the world.

World leaders are presently demonstrating this power of influence in their incessant, redundant words that act as suggestions that impress themselves upon the subconscious minds of the masses. They become an actual interpretation of reality, often in spite of proven facts to the contrary.

The divine power of the human subconscious mind is that it will accept, as fact, what it is told, if the suggestion is powerful enough to impress itself upon it. That accepted fact then becomes expressed as physical reality.

The subconscious mind will never question a premise it is given. Stage hypnosis readily demonstrates this fact. A hypnotic human subject, who is told they are a dog, will bark and pant as if they genuinely were one, in full acceptance of this suggestion, by the hypnotist, as being the absolute truth.

The phenomenon of trance, which facilitates suggestion being delivered to a hypnotic subject, is actually universal. Contrary to an early psychological misconception, which defined and limited trance and hypnotic states to pathological expressions of hysteria, it turns out that hypnosis is one of the most normal, fundamental states of the human mind. It’s a natural brainwave state that we enter frequently, allowing our thoughts to reach and impress the subconscious mind.

When driving a car, most people enter a state of trance called highway hypnosis, where the mind is in two places at once—both driving the car, with an automatic awareness, while simultaneously off on a thinking adventure. Similar trance states are entered when we are tired, particularly before sleep.

Even in fully aware, active beta-brainwave states, the drone of the internal dialogue creates a neural pathway to the subconscious mind that leaves it receptive to the thoughts one is thinking about. These thoughts manifest as moods and actual perceptions, as the subconscious mind creates, in physical reality, the essence of our thoughts and beliefs.

This effect is particularly enhanced by the excitation of the Central Nervous System (CNS) by the mental ingestion of postings from social media. The intent of outside messaging is to excite our CNS to impress the subconscious mind, while we are seduced into the addiction of excitement.

To navigate the flood of messages that deliver us daily to our identity and state of being, we do well to severely limit outside messaging. Such messaging, now aided by the power of AI, constantly infiltrates our thought space, honing its suggestions to fit our unique lifestyle and preferences, seeking to influence our subconscious mind to adopt its causes.

Instead, I suggest choosing activity that promotes inner calm and harmony. Calming music, calm breathing, meditation, and being mindful during all activities protects our brainwave states from exhaustion and takeover by outside energy.

Thoughts are also things that telepathically can invade our mind-space. The trick here is to not take the bait of excitement nor engage the intrusive thought in inner dialogue. Refocus attention instead upon thoughts of gratitude and love.

A thankful, loving focus raises our brainwave states to deep calm and contentment, as we become impervious to the agitation of invasive thoughts seeking to plant themselves in our nourishing garden of mind.

Furthermore, the subconscious mind will attract to us outer conditions that match our inner feelings and brainwave states. Like attracts like. Positive feelings attract a positive outer reality.

The malevolent matrix of now is an attempt to steal our mental energy for its own construction, but we are fully capable of freeing the mind and destroying the errors of thought that keep us temporarily waylaid.  Unleash, instead, the positive divine power of creation within the self.

Finally, take full charge of your our mind now! Take back its power and suggest, with utter confidence, that your subconscious mind deliver you to the world of your dreams, for yourself and your world, but also for the greater good of all.

Mind your words, with loving intention,
Chuck

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Chuck’s Place: Finding The Jewel In The Futility Of Now

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Rising of the Jewel…
-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

Our current world predicament gives rise to thoughts of pointlessness and uselessness, the very definition of futility. These thoughts activate feelings of powerlessness, defeat and depression, simply a state of generalized being that says, “What’s the use?”

Astrologically, futility is represented by the Moon in Aquarius. The moon is purely feminine. It represents the subconscious mind. I have written extensively on the divine power of the subconscious mind, that which brings to life, or manifests, all the conditions of our material world based upon the words and suggestions that impress themselves upon it.

However, the subconscious mind also keeps the score. Although it never challenges the suggestions it receives, it is bound to maintain the balance of the universe. Just as the moon never deviates in its phases, as the tides rise and fall in perfect order, so balance in nature also insists upon being restored. The subconscious mind both grants our wishes but must ultimately play out the effects of those intentions, thus the subconscious mind is also the keeper and completer of karma.

The cosmic season of Kali Yuga that we are now in is the ultimate release of the karma of all that has been suppressed for centuries. That which has been repressed to achieve civilization, with all its discontents, is now being pervasively and perversely unleashed upon our current world. This is a cosmic cleansing in the wickedest and raunchiest of forms.

It is abundantly clear to me that the unlived karma of WWII, and its outcomes, is fervently being unleashed upon the greater world. Retribution, entitlement and tribalism are shattering the agreed upon boundaries of civilization, be they boundaries of state or boundaries of civilized discourse, and, most basically, the fundamental right to life.

The subconscious mind is also the warehouse of deep habit and entrenched belief. The current wave of destruction has been particularly focused upon the most prestigious universities and the laws of science itself.

For example, previously unquestioned agreement upon medical diagnosis and treatments is now being seriously questioned, or simply eliminated. Opinion has largely replaced fact, yet consideration of perspectives previously forbidden have been opened for consideration.

The current breakdown of world order is thus a confluence of factors that include the breakthrough of collectively suppressed emotions, the payment of karmic debts, and the destruction of the previously governing constructs of reason and reality.  We are in the midst of a cosmic menstruation that is clearing out the old with unbridled ferocity.

The jewel of this universal cleansing is in the ultimate rising of Aquarius, like a phoenix from the ashes of now. As an astrological sign that defies convention, Aquarius promises a new breed of detached objectivity that is dedicated to the greater good. This is a zeitgeist that issues from truth and wisdom, above and beyond the errors of prejudice and self-interest. This is reality built upon fact and true need versus bullied opinion and greed.

The Aquarian ego, with its dedication to truth and wisdom, advances beyond the rigid fixation upon self-importance, the ruling dominant of our time. Rather than seek fame, fortune, and unlimited attention as its central goal for manifestation in life, it trusts the energy of the intent for the greater good as its chief source of influence. When the teacher is ready, the student will come; no need to hire an influencer.

The Aquarian ego deepens its relationship with energetic reality, where abundance and unlimited supply exist to manifest all things. The Aquarian ego, in alignment with serving the Higher Self, utilizes its divine power of suggestion, in consort with the subconscious mind, to serve the greater good of all. The effect, or karma, of such an intent is positive karma that continuously renews itself to fulfill the world’s deepest and truest needs.

The jewel, for us all in this time of futility, is in the encounter with our own most deeply held beliefs and secrets, which have overshadowed the truth and caused us to manifest errors in our lives. With the fuller knowing of our true selves we are released from the false beliefs that have defined and constricted our lives, and we are able to move into greater alignment with the truth of our Higher Selves.

The energy of the moon provides us with the truth and effects of our hidden selves, as Aquarius rises to lead us in this greater truth. Futility is actually the energy of Spirit working its way into manifesting this greater New Age. Futility rarifies the jewel.

Keep your knowing focused on the greater truth of now.

Refining the diamond in the rough,
Chuck