#265 Enact Change

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have a message of guidance for today?

Unearth now your deepest desires for growth and transformation, and allow your life to be lived by them. Inculcate a new transitional period by living more fully now your spirit guided life. Do not hesitate in this endeavor, for the sooner you begin your new version of living upon that Earth, the sooner will change happen, not only in your own life, but in all life.

The simplest concept is all it takes to begin a process of change, and that concept, basic and easy though it may be, is so often neglected in thought and deed, and is considered unreliable by those who push for drastic change. That concept is: that all energy affects all other energy, that your actions affect all other actions, that your inner intent has affect outside of you.

To demand change will have little effect, but to enact change will have great effect. It is as simple as that! Begin by shifting your own intent, using your energy in a positive, transformational way in your personal life. Allow your own inner spirit to guide you in your outer life more often and more fully now, and see what begins to happen in the world around you. Shift negative thinking, and ideas of worldwide despair to a positive transitional energetic momentum, beginning within your own body and your own inner self. Express your inner spirit self now, immediately, in some fashion, and see what happens.

Today is a day of change, and you can urge that change in a positive direction by participating in the energy of change from your inner spirit self. Use your intent, from your deeply searching inner self, to energetically begin a new life. Begin from your inner place of calm, with a balanced perspective on who you now are, a being who is headed for evolutionary life. Use all that you know, and all that you aspire to experience to aid you now, as you continue your journey.

Today is a day of change. With focus on the positive, with good for all of mankind, an awakening that will shift that world into a new transition, based on spirit experience and spirit intent, is perfectly possible, acceptable, and desirable. Your own wish for shift and change is echoed by many. Allow your energy for truth, and for spirit-driven actions, to be part of the new force for change. Allow your calm inner quiet, your meditations, and your prayers to escape outward now from your inner self to engage the energies seeking resonant, reciprocal energies.

Turn your heart-centered breathing outward now, from your heart, into the universe of other heart-centered energies, and become part of the greater energy for good, and for change. As you breathe your heart-centered breath, as you warm your heart chakra, and allow it to soothe and invigorate you in your inner work, begin to shift it outward, reversing your breathing intent so that you turn your energy outward, into the greater world, sending your heart-centered calm and self-loving breath out to meet the calm and self-loving breaths of others on the same path of growth, transition, and evolution. Then take it back again, into your self, back into your own heart chakra, your center, strengthened now with the intent of energetic convergence, and watch the mighty effects of such gentle persuasion.

Direct your intent outward in order to stir up positive change now. You are all ready for this, capable of participating, and fully prepared for a different day. Make it be different by your own shift now. Do not allow the change to take over your life, but instead use the energy of change for your own positive good and that of the world around you. Take over control of this inevitable aspect of change, and allow it to release its energy in a new way. Don’t wait for it to roll over you and knock you down. Harness it instead, and put it to work, making good use of it. You may be surprised by how much power you really have to enact change in your life. I dare you to shift today, out of your seat of complacency and non-action, and really take over your energy, driving your vehicle now from your innermost source of power, and see where that takes you!

NOTE: Jeanne is referring to Heart-centered Breathing originally offered in Message #77 and listed in the sidebar under Guidance on this channeling page.

#264 I am a Student of Life-I am My Own Teacher

Dear Jeanne,
What message do you have for us today? Can you also tell us what the energy over the next few days will be like as we go into the weekend?

Do not look too far outside of the self for pleasure and for compromise. Do not attach to what is happening around you. Do not soften your inner work, but keep it going in a balanced and calm way. To compromise that, at this time, for attachment to outer pleasures would result in stagnancy. I advise continued work on the self even though the tendency is to reward and retire from the busyness of the work week.

Remain focused. Try to use your time wisely even though your routine does change at the week’s end. Incorporate all that you are learning now into your activities beyond the self, as you interact with others, and as you accept offers of conjugation.

Be aware that the energy does continue to offer challenge, and observe that your own ability to read the energy is now enhancing, even incrementally, as you take in the content of these messages. Be aware that the intent of this awakening is being spread, and many are waiting to discover it in you in order to not only recognize it in them selves, but in order to allow it to gain importance in their own lives. Although there may be much talk of awakening, do you already know that the only true awakening is the inner awakening.

Do not look too far outside of your self now for recognition or significant resonance in others. Remain innerly focused. Note, with your own inner work, that yes, there is a new feeling, and a new awareness of spirit, and of energy, but do not get drawn to it too heavily. Allow it to be present, for it will have impact where an awakening is necessary, but your own inner work must not get sidelined.

Use the weekend energy to remain steady, balanced, and calm. Stay innerly quiet and focused. Retreat from too much outer activity as you allow your self the seclusion necessary in order to remain on a contemplative and deeply questing streak. Your inner work is of utmost importance. Continue turning to that as you get drawn outward by the energy, and the frenzy of the energy that continues to swirl, and invite, and even possibly captivate.

All in all, does it not matter what the energy does to you, or to others. What does matter though, is that you remind your self often to go innerly; to return to your quiet; to allow your self the luxury of continued self work; and that you do not fault the self for the steps you choose to take. If the energy entices you, and you accept its invitation to play in its buoyancy, so be it. But remain aware that the energy has the tendency to take over, and you may get swept up in its delight at having found you to be a tasty morsel. If so, when it spits you out after chewing upon you for a while, allow your self to study the experience, and chalk it up to energetic oblivion. Recognize what that means. Use it to teach your self.

That is all you need to do, be your own student and your own teacher. Go into your classroom continually, and write on the blackboard: “I am a student of life. I am my own teacher. I learn my lessons so I can graduate into new life.” In so doing, do you give your self permission to experience life, learn from your experiences with your inner knowing as your guide, and continue to seek your evolutionary path.

So, as this week does shift for many of you, accept your self for who you are now, where you are now; and know that you are an evolutionary being, full of energy, and eager for life to continually unfold and teach you what you need to learn. Allow your self to be aware of the energy, to feel it, see it, smell it, and have the experience of it. But mostly, pull in to your inner sanctum with all that you interpret in your life, and learn from it. Life is your greatest teacher. The energy is your lesson. And you are the pupil.

Good Luck, My Fine Travelers! I look forward to hearing from you all as you make your way through the energies that seek to teach you about your own energy. That is what you should remain focused on in order to not lose your well-earned progress.

#263 Your Fears Seek to Lead You to Your Proper Destination

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have guidance for us all today?

Do not harbor fears of the unknown as you take your journey, for the unknown is but the next step yet to be revealed, and there is no reason to be afraid. Each step is but your life opening up before you, the unknown becoming real. Accept your journey, all aspects of it. The mysteries of the past, and the mysteries of the future are yours, the parts of you that make you whole. If you own both the known aspects of the self and the unknown aspects of the self, why then do you fear anything? You already have everything inside you. Your journey is but a step-by-step revealing of your truths. Your participation in the journey is all that is necessary. By taking your journey with awareness, and unbiased acceptance of every thing you encounter, is what makes it an evolutionary journey.

In order to truly evolve is it essential that you remain aware of every step along the way as equally important. Pay attention to your fears, for they seek to lead you to your proper destination, pointing out the confrontations you must have in order to stay upon your path. Do not stay attached to the fears in your life, for then do you but remain stuck, and unable to proceed. If you allow fear to take you by the hand, will it lead you into its dark cave alongside your path, and keep you to itself, rather than allow you to progress. Fear wishes to keep you bound to itself, for its own comforts, making you think it is protecting you from your own discomforts, but in reality is it but feeding off your energy. It implies protection, yet is it in fact deceiving you, and keeping you off the evolutionary track.

When fear arises is it a flag, signaling work and challenge ahead. When fear arises is it time to buckle down, and study the self, and figure out why the flag of fear has been raised. It is the moments of fear in your life that present you with your greatest potential to grow.

Tackle fear with the courage and the skills of an evolutionary being. Take upon you the abilities you have been learning, and look at every aspect of that fear from as many different angles as possible. Do not take the conventional road when addressing your fear, for then do you stay upon the route that fear lurks along, and it knows every curve in that route, and every roadside hideout. Be unconventional, and you will trick it, and win at its own game. Fear does not easily give up. It is a sore loser and prefers to win at all costs, so expect it to be tricky, conniving, and relentless.

The energy of now supports fear in its many characteristics, allowing it to stay active, yet hidden. It is working to capture you at this very moment, even though you are not aware of is presence. This energy holds much that is not visible. If you are to use this energy that now circulates, must you remain keenly aware that there are other forces seeking your attention, wishing to draw you from your concentrated work on the self. But most of those forces are but aspects of the self that must be confronted and dismantled. They do not know that you are aware of this. They think you will fall into your old habits and patterns of behavior. They think you are as predictable as ever. But you have now in fact learned that they are not your friends. They do not wish to aid you on your journey, but keep you to themselves for their own needs and desires.

Do not reveal your knowledge, but knock them dead as they approach you. Confront your fears, and your hidden agendas that seek to sabotage your progress; and keep plowing ahead, without them now. You will find that your energy is flowing more easily as a result of your battles against them; that your spirit is enlivened, and your outlook on life fresh and inviting. Continue your progress today. Confront your fears from a new angle. Avoid your old habits, and take on your journey now with new eyes, and new weapons, as you meet your challenges.

This is good for now. Look beyond this one day, to those ahead. Remain focused on the journey, as an evolutionary one, full of opportunity and fraught with change. For that is what you seek, to change!

#262 Open Up to the Truth of Your Innocence

Dear Jeanne,
What’s up with the energy today, and what should we be aware of?

A new turning and aligning is taking place, rousting old vulnerabilities, with the tendency for spitfire retorts, so be aware of your inner conflicts arising to the surface and being presented when you least expect them. Seek to understand what the inner self is trying to say to you as it allows truths to sneak out of you without your permission. Now is a time of uncompromising innocence, so keep that in mind also as you go about your day.

What do you mean by uncompromising innocence?

By that I mean that innocence will not back down, nor should it any more. It will seek to alert you to what you must learn about the self, even though it may be unpleasant, or even life threatening, to life lived as you now know it, which may need to change in order to incorporate your innocence into your life. There will be no backing down now, for innocence must rule in your own life, and in the world. Don’t worry; it will all be good.

Your innocence lies just below the surface of your control. It seeks to alert you often to its presence, though most often do you skirt past it to the big baby, where you prefer to snuggle up with the familiar smells and needs of that aspect of the self. However, the big baby is attached to the ego self and the desires of the world outside of you, and thus is not the true self. But, it is the self who must be examined thoroughly, cleaned up, and put to rest. It is the self who constantly cries out, “What about me? Pay attention to meeee!” That is the big baby ego, the victimized poor me aspect that is exceedingly unattractive and unable to make the evolutionary journey. Unattractive in that it seeks to take over the journey, and is not conducive to growth.

Today you may find the big baby crying out, and your attention will surely be drawn to comfort, treat, and placate this part of the self. But that would be a disaster. Do not identify with this aspect of the self. Or if you find that your vulnerabilities appear to be attacked from outside of you, perhaps by another person, or by events in your life, do not allow this big baby to feel sorry for itself. Shift your attention instead to your adult, aware, and deeply seeking inner self who knows, without a doubt, that identifying with the big baby is big trouble.

As you continue your journey today, be aware that the energy is volatile again, conniving still, and eager to sabotage your progress. It would love nothing more than to capture you in an old place and feed off your baby food. So don’t feed your own big baby. Do not give it a bottle, or any of that mushy baby food, because if you do that you will merely be feeding and attracting the energy that is looking for fodder.

As you encounter your own big baby, or the big baby in others, step away from the mewling and the crying that it uses to entice you to placate it. Step back and use your awareness to question why. Then open up to the truth of your innocence that the big baby is hiding from you. Innocence is pure truth, and pure energy, with no attachments to anything. Innocence plays, for the energetic experience of it, but asks for nothing in return. Innocence seeks connection with the truth of you, and accepts every uncovered aspect of the inner and outer self as it is revealed. Innocence does not judge, nor does it covet, nor expect anything in return. It desires only that you seek acceptance of this aspect of the self, and allow it to become part of your life because it is important for your evolutionary journey.

Do not hide today from your innocence. Do not run and hide from that big baby either. Recognize the big baby, and remember that you are an evolving being. Everything is meaningful, and everything is a necessary encounter in order for you to understand who you are. Give the big baby a pat on the back and send it back into slumber, but take what it has pointed out to you as a message, and know that it is an aspect of the self that must be addressed; not as a baby, but as a seeker of truth.

Allow your innocence to come out now and become part of your process of growth and discovery. When the time is right, you will need to have that innocence available more often. So get to know who that is. As the world changes, will innocence lead the way to join in that changing world and become a life partner, full of guidance and truth.

Now is the beginning of change that involves speaking of truths. Do not allow the old rants of the big baby to continue to rule your life, or the world around you. This energy now upon that Earth does ask you to examine your past habits that have kept your wheels spinning in place. It is time to recognize where the glitches are in your life, and to remember that you have been stuck in them before. Recognize the repeating of patterns, and seek to shift now, with the energy, into a new habit of self-questioning that focuses on change, on trusting of the inner self, and on acknowledging the innocence of that inner self.

Your tendernesses, your vulnerabilities, your pure intentions to grow, and evolve, and be able to live from that inner aspect of the self, rather than the old outer self, are all well-supported now. Even though the energy may throw you into old darkness, do not run from the truth of it, but learn all that you can about the self as you sort your way through your revelations as they are being presented, and take with you only the truths revealed. Put the big baby to rest once it has shown you what you need to know, and then accept your truths, your innocence revealed, and take that with you into the world. See what happens as you allow your innocence to join you on your journey. Only good will result. I guarantee that is the only way to evolve, and it is what the greater world around you needs too. Allow innocence to guide you and show you the way, first to your true self, then to your true place in the world, and then to the truth of the changing world outside of you. It isn’t easy, but it is going to be worth it.

#261 The Way to Engage the Outer World is With Meaningful Resonance Coming From Deeply Inside Your Core

Dear Jeanne,
What is your message about today?

I am not inclined to go too far from my recent missives, to remain cognizant of the surrounding energy, but also to keep your focus inward. The outside energy will seek you as luscious fodder, for that is its habit, and its delight, but if you remain inward turned will your back be less appealing than the tastiness of your vulnerable heart. Continue to allow your self to explore your inner needs and desires. Find the direction you must now take in your life, for this is a time of change, and it does call for all upon that earth to wake up and make some very heart-felt decisions that will exert power in the world. By this I mean that your energetic change within the self, and in your own world, will have effect outside of you.

In order for change to happen, however, must you remain aware of what is going on outside of you, and how it is affecting you on the inside. Your inner journey must remain the main focus, even as you are pulled outward by the dramas of the world around you. The energy will seek to feed off you, but that does not mean you should step out of your inner sanctuary and wave at it, or call it to you. Do not tease that energy that now seeks sustenance. It is not the playful kind, but instead is it volatile, hungry energy that will knock you off your feet if you allow it to get too close.

Ward it off by remaining innerly focused, but be aware, at all times, of its presence. Remind your self often to turn inward, and contemplate and investigate your inner questions, even if they at first appear to be outer questions related to that energy and the potential it has to wreak havoc in the world. Turn from the negative power of it, and become inwardly focused on your inner dilemmas, for only there will you be able to solve the riddles and the problems in your life. You carry within you all the solutions, all the answers, and all the responses that you need to grow and evolve.

The outside energy is present to aid you as you do your inner work. Keep focused on that and you will do well. And don’t forget that, the way to engage the outer world is with meaningful resonance coming from deeply inside your core, finding it as you do your inner work, and then testing it in the world outside you, as you seek to find the true meaning for your life. In order to do this must you recognize the negative, hungry energy, slip past it, avoiding its feasting eyes, and eager lips; and swiftly skirting past it, seek only energetic convergence now that is right for you. This involves seeking resonance in all aspects of your life, not only in your relationships, and your jobs, but with everything you encounter, from the food you put into your body, to the books you read, to the way you drive, the means by which you determine your days’ activities, and who you choose to interact with, and in what manner you speak, think, feel, and act. All aspects of the self, and the life you live, should now come around to involvement in your greater journey, your heart-centered journey of Self, and of Evolution.

So when seeking resonance, do so not only to avoid the intensity of the outside energy that is not conducive to growth, but do so for the right reasons; for growth, and change. Make your choices for the reasons that truly matter. And in this way will you begin to notice that you are not as drawn to the negative energy, but that you automatically begin to seek out resonant energy, because it is the only thing that feels right. Trust your feelings about the energy more often now. Test them, and you will find that turning inward becomes so natural that what is going on in the outside world slinks away from you as you become less tasty to it, and your own centeredness becomes a staunch barrier to its seeking of easy prey.

In this manner of seeking resonant energy, by focusing always on your inner right knowing, and right action, will you discover your way in life, with true inner resonance as not only your guide, but your intuitive, knowing partner, acting upon it without question. As you become more centered, and as you seek your true place in that world, will you understand how the energy outside of you truly works for its own sake, but also for yours, if you know how to use it.

This is good for now. Watch your energy, keeping it close to you in your heart-center, in the palms of your cupped hands, warmly close to you, protecting it, as you notice what comes calling for it, wanting its tasty morsel upon its platter. Keep it to your self!

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR