Soulbyte for Wednesday January 29, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Keep your intent strong in your own exceptional way as you push for change in your own world and within your self. Stay contained, focused and forward looking as you take new steps each day. It can often seem as if nothing new is happening but behind the scenes your guides and helpers are busy working on your behalf. Prepare yourself to receive the bounty of your desires, the products of your intention, for surely it is in the works! The main thing is to not give up. Tell yourself that giving up is not in the cards. People tend to give up just as it is about to happen and you are not going to do that, for what a shame that would be!

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck’s Place: Exercising The Hidden Power In The Hologram

Refinement…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Quantum physicist, David Bohm, came to the realization that the underlying fundamental truth of the universe is that we are all one interconnected energetic whole, as expressed in the qualities of a hologram. If you shine a laser on any individual part of a hologram, the whole hologram will appear. Shine the light of consciousness on any one of us, and the entire world will appear. As within, so without.

At the solid level of physical life we experience ourselves and our world as separate objects that function according to the Newtonian laws of classical physics. However, as the nagual, don Juan Matus, put it, yes, we are a world of solid objects, but beneath that we are a world of energy. We are both particle and wave. In particle form we are simply concentrated configurations of our underlying energetic essence.

The current state of the world is actually a war between these two dimensions of self. One dimension sees reality exclusively as a solid world of separate beings where the competition for the riches and resources needed for survival and pleasure are the primary goals of life. The other dimension sees the world as an interconnected whole, best served by the mental processes of reason and intuition.

This same opposition is reflected in the individual, in the relationship between the human physical body and its underlying energy body. The connection points between these two bodies are at the nerve plexus/chakra centers where these bodies connect and innervate each other.

The lower three chakras, located at the perineum, pelvis and solar plexus, house the primal, instinctual functions of our physical animal selves. They address issues of basic safety in rootedness, as well as sexuality, digestion, elimination and our experience of personal power.

For many humans, their world view reflects the survival imperatives governed by these centers. Intense passions and emotions such as anger, aggression, fear and desire can dominate life at this level.

As a consequence of this emphasis, the energy at these centers can tend to coagulate and solidify, which actually can result in excess weight concentrating at these centers. Life focused at these levels keeps one in vigilant states of anxiety and fear, with basic survival needs front and center in daily life.

At the higher centers of the physical body, such as the heart, throat, third eye and crown of the head, the world view broadens beyond the self, with emphasis on the mental functions of the rational mind and higher mind of intuition. The heart center, for instance, has the capacity to expand beyond the needs of self, focused at the solar plexus, to include the needs of others, beyond one’s self.

Sometimes people can be so focused on the upper energy centers that they lose touch with their physical bodies, get lost in thought, and struggle with a myriad of physical issues while the true needs of the body are neglected. Ideally, all energy centers are firing and flowing in a coherent, integrated rhythm.

To stimulate this kind of coordinated flow among all the energy centers, one can focus on mechanically initiating such a rhythm by literally squeezing the lower energy centers, with the intent of raising their stuck energy to flow into the upper chakra centers, where it is progressively refined to a higher energetic charge, which it then brings back down to, and revitalizes, the lower chakra centers.

For example, one could perform a Kegel exercise where the perineum is squeezed and held, while mentally calling for the energy at that center to rise to the crown chakra at the very top of the head. While holding the contracted perineum, one feels energy collect at the crown for as long as one feels comfortable.

Upon releasing the contracted muscle, the breath passively releases, as well as the transformed energy at the crown, naturally flowing down and dispersing through the entire body. The sensation is quite vibratory and relaxing, like the gentle flow of water downward from the top to the bottom of a fountain. Emotionally, one might experience that the prior heaviness and intensity of fear and anger has transformed into the lightness of joy, humor and love.

One can also include in that squeezing effort the  pelvis, stomach and all the glands and organs in the abdominal cavity. As these centers are contracted, focus on raising the energy from below to be refined and accumulate at the crown of the head. Upon release, allow that gentle waterfall of vibratory energy to descend and spread throughout the entire body.

These bodily movements and intentions perform an alchemical operation. The body serves as the sealed retort that allows no leakage of energy. The coagulated energy from below is transformed into a higher frequency of charged energy, which accumulates at the crown before it disperses, enriching the entire being.

Sometimes the intensity of energy might be such that one might decide to direct the energy accumulating at the crown to release through the opening of the door, at the crown, to the outside world. This release of accumulated tension might serve a better balance before sealing that door and doing the movements in a closed system, that transforms rather than simply releases the energy.

For those who listen to Joe Dispenza’s Morning Meditation, he utilizes inhalation to accompany this drawing up of energy to the crown chakra. I do encourage that one do a full exhalation that contracts the lower chakras in advance of the inhalation that brings energy to the crown.

One can experience this flow of energy as well by simply imagining the organs to be held in contraction, with the intent to rise to the crown and then be released downward.

Achieving this kind of energy flow within the body integrates body and spirit in a very balanced way. Spirit refines bodily emotions and appetites as body provides the fuel and instinctive energies to power the higher centers of the mind.

This kind of rebalancing, within one individual, cannot help but create shifts in the hologram of the self, which is also the hologram of the world. This is the hidden power of the hologram. Rebalance the self; rebalance the world.

Ultimately, Gaia, as the hologram of our world, is rising from her own fixation at the solar plexus to her heart chakra, which will land our collective hologram on solid footing for all. Empower yourself to join in this colossal shift of rebalancing the self, and the world.

Yes, we are the world. Be sure to see the outer world as a mirror of the self.  Seal off the alchemical self as you perform the movements and change the balance within the self, which is indeed the hologram of the world.

All in the hologram,
Chuck

Inspirations for this blog:
The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot
Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza
The Complete Illustrated Book Of Yoga by Swami Vishnudevananda

Soulbyte for Tuesday January 28, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Begin to change by changing your words, what you say to yourself and about yourself, how you address yourself, how you think about yourself. What words you speak and think have a big impact on your body, mind and spirit. Tune into a new frequency, a new program for living as you listen to what you normally say to yourself and as you seek new words, new actions, and new deeds. You don’t have to stay the same, within or without. You can volitionally change. Start with your words.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Monday January 27, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Remember that everything in life is temporary, that change is constant, and that everything changes eventually. Times change, people change, you change. Change can be sped up by intent, by action, by thought and by deliberate movement in a new direction. Whatever is going on around you reflects you in some way. Whatever is going on in the world around you reflects the whole. Everyone is responsible for the times that you are living through so everyone can change them, even you. Choose new thoughts, new words, and new actions in everything you do. Follow the signs in nature that show you the new roads to take and eventually those new roads will lead out of turmoil and into calmness. It’s the law of nature; change is certain.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Friday January 24, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Make one decision to change and act upon it today, one choice that is meaningful, in mind and action. Choose to do something that you have longed to do. And without fail follow through. Change really only happens intentionally when you deliberately take action, when you take the actual first step toward it, and when you do more that just dream. Take that first fearful step, and with a determined heart, allow yourself to begin to believe in yourself.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR