#200 Keep Your Inner Fire Well Tended

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Sincerely,
Chuck Ketchel and Jan Ketchel

Here is the message for today:

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

Pay attention now, with absolute focus, to the energy around you and what it offers and expects of you. There are always two sides to every force upon that earth. Do not dismiss the fact that there exists a negative side to the positive flow of energy that now assists you on your journey. Do not get caught in your enjoyment of progress so that you lose awareness of that which seeks to disrupt your complacency.

At times of energetic high, when things are going well, when all is right, and there appears no disruption, still maintain alertness, because this scenario is but a false notion. Although such time of energetic high is to be accepted, and utilized to the fullest, do not let down your guard. If you begin to let down your guard do you open the door, even if but a crack, to other energies that do not intend to aid and assist you, but do intend to feed off your growing and bounding fuel. Keep your inner fire well tended. Be alert to what is needed in order for it to continually blaze. Be aware of the weather outside you, and the cold seeping in, and attempts to sabotage your cozy environment.

There exists now an energetic high, that if tended properly, will guide and aid you in your growth. If you let down your guard, and simply ride it, without awareness, are you setting yourself up for a long cold winter, and eventually you may find yourself knee deep in snow, without proper garments, and no shovel to dig your way out, your fire gone out, and your inner glow but a tiny ember ready to snuff out at the next puff of cold air. This is a very significant time upon that earth, especially in the United States, where holiday frenzy does captivate the greedy heart, and even the best laid plans for solitude and detachment from the commercial beast may suffer if alertness and awareness are not kept foremost in your energetic presence.

Yes, ride the energy. Yes, enjoy the holidays. Yes, feel the growth, and feel good about your progress. But do not allow your awareness of the truth of every day to slip from your view. Do not allow the truth of the world around you to melt before your eyes. Remain in your own truth, and keep the truth of all else before you now as you go forward, with eyes wide open, into the energy that does invite you forth, to engage it, to live it, to learn from it, and to test your prowess in it. Do not allow your awareness to be dulled, strained, tired, so that you lose consciousness of your path. Keep your path cleared, so that you always know where you next will place your foot, while tending your inner fire, and looking, looking, with keen awareness, all around, ready to block, to stop, to thwart attacks on your energy.

So, in this time of emotional attachment to old ways, to family ways, ancient ways, remain alert to the strength of the energy that does pull you forward to enjoyment of this time. Seek to change your attention to these old details, saving a portion of your attention for your continued growth, so that by the time the energy has finished its whirlwind through your life you will not find your self suddenly lying stunned upon your path, wondering how you got there! Do not lose touch with your inner work, your evolutionary focus, or your intent to change. The energy is available for much to happen now. It is up to you to decide how to use it. Where will your focus be placed? Staying upon your path? Or drawn outward, where you risk losing your balance and your inner glow? Be careful.

#199 Offer Your Own Questing Innocence Up To The Altar of Life

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have a message for us, to begin this new week?

Remain aware of the energy that does remain but a ripple below the sea of awareness. Although the strength of its interference has decreased to a minimal level, feelings of release may hide that which continues to produce small instances of diversion. Do not attach to these attempts to consume your attention, but be aware that they are so miniscule that you may not even notice their presence.

This is now how the energy will ride, over the next few weeks, freed of inhibitions, and less attached to distractions and fears of old, but underneath will there remain the presence of the possibility of it sneaking in to your domain and waylaying you if you are not alert. Your training now to be aware of even such sly and sneaky energy has been sharpened, and this sharpness must you keep honed. Do not allow the freedom of release from energetic confusion and infusion to thwart your progress. Do not allow your attention to waver from your focused path. Continue to pay attention, to be alert to the world around you even as you continue your inner work on the self. These guidances do not change but remain your innermost meaningful mantras: to remain aware of outside energy, and to remain innerly balanced and calm, are your most important reminders as you continue your journey. From inner calm comes clarity, and with clarity comes knowing, and with knowing comes certainty of direction, and with certainty of direction comes further awareness as you experience your own life, and open to possibilities that are perhaps unfathomable until you actually experience them, and allow yourself to accept them as pure energetic experience.

Yesterday we watched the DVD of The Celestine Prophecy, which we had watched last spring, and we were once again affected by the message of energy, among other things, delivered in the film, so similar to your own mission. Are you aware of this film? What does it mean that your mission is so similar to the one described in this film?

I am not aware of such a film, but as Jeanne Marie Ketchel did I read books of the same name, for at a time did they impress me with their descriptions of energy usage. My message is not new. This we have discussed, but it is, in fact, being transferred by many of us, through many channels, you being but one. Throughout the world are there those who speak of energy in similar fashion. You know that my mission encompasses awakening not only to the realities of the world you live in, but the ability to perceive that which is to come. This is not at all a revelation, but in the times, such as they are, is this seen as revolutionary because it has been so buried by time and dissuasion by other ideas. Many do not trust our talk of energetic experience until personal exploration begins, and intimate experience is felt. Only by bringing awareness to “the possibility of everything” will such experience become acceptable practice and a new awareness of energy become not only acceptable but considered normal.

Your own experiences of synchronistic discoveries of energy talk is vital to the mission. Allow your own awareness to expand now beyond your own experience. This goes for all of you who read my messages. Do not hold it too closely hidden inside you, for in so doing do you keep it hidden from others who will benefit from knowing that their own experiences and yearning for experiences of energy are not in vain. In acknowledging your own work with energy do you open the door to others, offering them the opportunity to experience their own innocent knowing of energetic influence all around them.

By so doing, by opening your knowledge and your own experiences to others, do you participate in this awakening mission. By daring to speak of energy as real, as forceful and interfering, and as equally gentle and helpful, do you offer a great gift of awareness to others who struggle. All who exist upon that earth struggle with the dilemma of wanting answers for the questions not uttered. Why am I here? Where am I going? What is the true meaning of life? And what is the true reason for my life specifically? What is going to happen in the future? Where am I headed next?

These questions reside inside everyone you meet. Have no doubt about it. These are the questions that lie deepest, at the very center of every human existence. And yet, is there rarely discussion of such important inner talk. Bring now such talk out of the self, and begin to make it commonplace. Offer your own questing innocence up to the altar of life, and reveal your own truths, not as spoken by others, but as spoken by your own inner self. Place your innocence outside of you, and dare to allow it to speak your own barest sentiments, and in right resonance will reciprocal innocence respond, though it may not be immediately apparent that this is so.

Innocence seeks innocence, and beneath even the starkest exterior does innocence reside. Gentleness of spirit lies deep inside everyone, though fear and confusion often lie stacked above it, keeping it insulated, so that it does not hear the murmuring that it needs in order to awaken. Energetic murmurings do eventually penetrate even the toughest of exteriors, for all feel energy. Energy penetrates. This you have all experienced. The focus now is on learning to distinguish the different kinds of energy, learning to read it, and to know, impeccably, what it is saying to you, and then trusting that your direction is right and leading you on your energetic path to truth.

As you trust your own energy experiences, and as you find that your own innocence is awakening and speaking more clearly, so do I ask that you allow it to be spoken outside of you as well, in whatever way feels right. Test it, and see what happens. You may find that you offer energetic approval to someone who is ready to discover the inner self and the trust offered by such brave innocence, daring to not only wake up but to speak out. For who does not, deep inside hope for truth of their own innocence to be revealed to them, and to be experienced as real. Innocence lies at the root of human life, and human awareness, yet does it rarely dare to be so bold as to speak out.

Give your innocence back its ability to speak. Find its voice in your life. Find how it sounds, how it speaks, and how it wishes to energetically engage its awareness in order to become part of the energetic mission that is becoming so apparent to you upon that earth. Those of you who dare to pay attention to such beautiful displays of innocence are the next wave of growth, the next teachers, the next guides, as you use your own energy to connect with the seekers of spirit and truth.

So, do not hesitate to grow with this new energy that does offer speedy progress now, but remain alert to the fact that there are always present the feeders seeking your energy for their own consumption alone, and for no other benefit. Give your energy, but be also equally protective of it. Be cautious, but be brave. Be gentle, but be fierce. Be calm, but be alert. Be daring, but be wary. Be open, but be protective. Take one step at a time, testing as you go. If you go in pure, egoless innocence will you discover not only that you will meet resonant innocence, but that your own way will open with greater clarity, and further awareness will be revealed. Watch the signs all around you so that you know where to go. This is good for today and for this week ahead of you, as the energy does calm down and give this offer of guidance to aid you and others. See what happens as you dare to speak of energetic connection and awareness. It is the necessary wave of the future!

#198 The Coming Days Bode Well for Inner Quiet and Work on the Self

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Sincerely,
Chuck Ketchel and Jan Ketchel

Here is the message for today:

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

Find your equilibrium now as you settle down upon your two feet, firmly planted, as the silent flurry of the energy of the past few days and weeks wanes. Do not remain caught by that which attached to you during that time, but disentangle and detach your self from the sneaking disquiet of it. For it did lodge inside you as a result of unawareness and because it found an opening, but it does not necessarily belong to you or belong in you. Dispense with it now as you return to solid awareness and knowing, re-seeking your resonance, your inner hum of content, that you now recognize and desire; your inner self in calm balance.

That which perhaps has entered your vast system, seeking energetic consumption, and causing disruption, must now be put aside. Disperse it from your energy field by now taking in only calm energy, and by firmly connecting to your core inner self where only truth awaits. Allow doubts, disbeliefs, and disparate thoughts that leave only discomfort in your space of inner quiet to be released now as the energy passes into a calmer mode. The coming days bode well for inner quiet and work on the self. Land now firmly upon your feet, allow the dust to settle, and in calm resolve look around you with eyes wide open, taking in what you have learned, now discovered about your own seeking self, and contemplate the meaning of your life, and your experiences, from this day forth. Where is your resonance inside you? Where is its reply outside of you? Where is your center directing you to move next? What does your inner you say about your truths now, after you have encountered this last energetic push?

As I suggest, you will all do well to take time for quiet perusal of your inner being, and ask poignant and direct questions of meaningful content that your inner self is fully capable of answering truthfully now. Allow your ears to hear, your resonance to respond, and your ego self to accept the spoken truths that await your discovery and your acknowledgment.

Go steadily, calmly forward now, aware of your own progress, for even as you may have been confronted with displeasure or discontent so have you also been confronted with truth, and this is what you seek to discover. Underneath all that disturbs lies the truth. That is what you must find now. And then find out what it truly means as you continue your growth, and your evolution, and your true journey in that life.

#197 Be Sensitive to what is Seeking Your Attention

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Sincerely,
Chuck Ketchel and Jan Ketchel

Here is the message for today:

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

The energy does urge you to be keenly aware, for though it sits heavily, is it in hiding, not completely revealing itself to you as it sometimes does. Its actions are covert, and require alertness in order to avoid its distracting tendencies to invade and consume your own energy, and your focus and attention, stealing from you as a thief in the night does steal from you.

This kind of energy, though not outright destructive, does have a tendency to sit and await an opening, and once in can wreak havoc because you are unaware that it has entered your energy field until it is too late. Be sensitive to what is seeking your attention. Remain alert to your own tendencies of slouchy awareness, and negligence in paying attention to your surroundings. These surroundings include, not only your physical environment, but your ego self as well. This ego self encases you in a state of human desire that must be monitored so that you do not lose your ultimate state of balance that remains your most necessary attribute.

To remain in balance, fully aware of your ego self, your outer world, and equally attentive to the work of the inner self, is your challenge now. All of this is being played out on a very subtle level. Do not attach to fear, or the old habit of hiding from your challenges, but instead engage your new skills. Just be aware of the subtle, barely noticeable ripples of energetic discontent and hunger that now do circulate and seek attention and entry to your energy source.

By noting the presence of such energy, but remaining unattached to it, do you smoothly sail through this time of energetic confluence that so desperately seeks acknowledgment. But avoid looking at it for too long, avoid putting your attention upon it, and avoid being caught by it or surprised by it. Use you skills to rid your nearness of such clingy energy. Throw it off as soon as you realize it has attached. You are in charge of your life, and you are responsible for maintaining your balanced, calm state. I offer you this awareness of such energy, but then it is up to you to master it.

Good luck. Today, my dears, is the turning point. After this day, will things change for the better. Get through this unscathed, and feel good enough about your own progress to pat yourself on the back for a job well done!

#196 Be Observant and Aware

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Sincerely,
Chuck Ketchel and Jan Ketchel

Here is the message for today:

Dear Jeanne,
What is the message for today?

Continue your work upon the deeper meaning of life, abiding by the rules of conduct for a seeker of such clarification. Do not overload with too much thinking, but be observant and aware of your environment, both inside you and outside you. As I spoke yesterday, the energy lies but a little heavily upon your shoulders now, seeking entry in order to sabotage your good intent and your focus upon your path. Do not allow it to slip in the cracks, or through an open door, for once in will it wreak havoc with your attention and your energy. Maintain your focus upon keeping balanced, and focused on the work most suited to where you now reside in your life and inside your self. By this I mean, accept your place in life, and accept your self as you now are, so that you may be able to move on and grow.

Acceptance of the self first will enable you to be most truthful in your work upon the self. Your inner work requires much confrontation, and truthful encounters, and this is best done if in a state of acceptance, with the caveat that you are indeed on the road to change and growth, on a new road, where new adventures await because you have made the decision to embark on a new journey, fully aware that your job now is to be utterly honest and naked, standing in your truth, your place of vulnerability, and totally available so that no aspect of the self is left uncovered.

Be aware today, and for the next few days, that diversions await you at every turn, at every street corner, and at every step along your path. Pay not attention to the hungry beggars, the sorry souls who propose a variety of enticements, and who seek to engage you in conversations that will only lead to energy drain and loss of self. Remain steadfastly focused on your inner work, questioning your actions. Are they necessary? Are they growth-oriented? Are they absolutely the right actions to be taken now?

If unable to confront the self so boldly, then stop and regain your balance. Maintain a recognizable state of centering in order to hold your self firmly planted and ready to continue your work. Turn your back when necessary. Recall your physical movement of pivoting away, in order to avoid the distractions along your way. Do not only turn, but notice also the affect on your awareness when you do so. Study your own experiences now more clearly. Remember: Everything is meaningful. See what happens!

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR