Tag Archives: self regulation

Soulbyte for Thursday May 15, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

How is it that time seems to stand still when you are busy doing something you love or something that takes all of your attention? Have you noticed how time ceases when your mind is off yourself, off your worries, and off your personal tragedies? With the mind occupied elsewhere, time ceases and all that time carries with it ceases as well. Busyness is one of the best ways to absent the mind of its worry. Take your mind off yourself for a while and see what happens. You might discover that everything you think and feel about yourself disappears. You might have to question if they were ever real to begin with? Thoughts do have great power of persuasion, both good and bad.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Wednesday May 14, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Forget your worries for another day, they will always be there when you think of them, but give yourself permission to forget about them. Think instead of all the things that make you happy, all the things that you are grateful for, all the things that bring a smile to your face and a lightness to your heart. Surely there are more things than you know. Is not just the sun shining on the windowsill something to be grateful for? Is not the chirping of birds something to be cheerful about? Is not the fact that you have made it this far in life enough to be thankful for? Is it not wonderful to breathe, to smile, to sit in the stillness of the morning, or the evening, and drink in the wonders of a day to begin or a day gone by? Think on these positive thoughts throughout the day, between morning and evening, whenever worry slips in. Turn your face from worry and remember the sun on the windowsill that brought you a moment of joy.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Tuesday May 13, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Let your inner calmness upon waking stay with you for longer than usual. Before you stir your mind awake with all the things you have to do and all the things you have to worry about, plan for and undertake today, hold onto the stillness you awaken with, where everything is calm and peaceful, where everything is equal and nothing needs attention. Step into the morning in this calm frame of mind and hold onto it for as long as possible. Each day from hereon in lengthen that calm state, holding onto it intentionally for another hour, and then another. Each day make this your first priority, to lengthen your inner state of calmness and peacefulness. Hold onto it for as long as possible.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday November 3, 2022

                                   -Illustration © 2022 Jan Ketchel

Conserve your energy.  Make decisions based on how much energy you have for yourself and how much you are willing to give to others, to other causes, and to that which appears important. How important are you? Gauge your time and your energy so that you are not depleted but renewed and rejuvenated on a daily basis. You will do no good if you do not have energy to support yourself in your daily life, if you give it all away and have no time to renew it. Take good care of yourself, allowing time for rest and rejuvenation. Only then will you safely have time and energy for others.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Monday September 12, 2022

                                                     -Illustration © 2022 Jan Ketchel

Strive for balance in mind, body and spirit, allowing each to have its part but none too much. Moderation in all habits of mind, body and spirit will allow balance to be achieved. When any aspect is overdone or neglected the whole suffers. It’s a pretty simple concept to grasp but obviously a difficult task to achieve. That is why it can be the work of an entire lifetime, and a worthy endeavor indeed!

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne