Messages from Jeanne

#416 The Times Call for Getting into Shape

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
What can you tell us about the energy today, and what can we expect from it?

My Dear Ones, your progress is rooted in your awareness. The process of opening the channel to your awareness is continual. Your keenness is growing each day as you pay attention to what is happening all around you. But do you get it? Do you get the bigger picture? Are you aware that you are significant? Are you aware that everything you do, think, and act upon is significant and as meaningful as what you expect in return? Are you aware that not only are you a player of importance in that great picture, that playing field of life, but every move you make affects the entire game of life?

Live your lives not only with awareness, but live your lives with knowledge that you do make an impact. Your presence upon that earth makes a difference and you are of significance. This greater awareness may appeal to you, as you go about your busy lives, for you sometimes forget that you are playing an important role. I know that it is so easy to fall into complacency and forgetfulness of the bigger picture, but I warn you, today, that there is no time to forget this. During this time upon that earth, there is a great need to be aware of your significance, and the need to take action, to remain an active participant in life upon that earth. As I have said, you are living in a time of great significance and of great proportions, when everything, even the tiniest, most insignificant aspect of life, has great meaning and potential. Do not dismiss your self so easily from the equation, as you may have done in the past, even for a second.

Look upon your selves, My Dear Ones, as most important for the future. For progress to continue on a positive, spirit driven level, must all of you wake up to the fact that you all play a role, now more than ever. The times call for polishing your uniforms, getting out onto the playing fields, and getting into shape to live life differently now.

Taking on the challenge of approaching life with new tactics is not a burden, but a gift. Do you see? It offers you the opportunity to shift, a reason to become who you truly are, for the times call for truth of spirit self to reign over the old means of expression and ego driven self. In the old ways, your spirit driven self was kept hidden, present, but left quietly sitting in the shadows, in the background. You went about your lives doing what was expected of you, fulfilling prophecies that had little to do with your truths, except that every move you made gave you the opportunity to discover those truths.

Now do I offer you these new means of living your lives with a new perspective. The times call for change and this is how to change your self-perspective, so that you may be an active player on the field of a changing world:

1. You are a being comprised of energy, an energy being.
2. You have an important role to play in life.
3. Your every move impacts the world.
4. You are truth driven, a seeker of truth, and
5. You are unafraid now, for there is no time for fear.

Give your self the permission you need to fulfill a new prophecy that is based on your spirit driven, truth seeking, and truth expressing self. Allow your self to accept the fact that the world expects and needs your participation. It needs your spirit driven energy in order for the energy of good to take over and sweep across the playing field of life, with everyone using their energy for purposes of spirit, truth, and positive impact.

The world will stay the same if you do not participate in changing it. The energy of change is being offered, but it requires participation for it to truly happen. Can you accept your own significant role in the game of changing the world? That is your challenge, but also your awakening duty, you know. You are beings of energy, placed upon that earth to evolve, but to evolve with meaning, with significance, and with impact. Every step of your journey has meaning, significance, and impact. Get it?

Your challenge is to truly accept what this means. Keep doing your inner work, for that is the self who knows what I am talking about, the one doing the evolutionary journey of significance and meaning, impacting the world, every step of the way.

News and Notes

Australia; The Movie

If you haven’t seen the movie, Australia, yet, we would like to recommend it for many reasons. Many of the concepts that Jeanne talks about in her messages and that Chuck has discussed in Chuck’s Place are presented in this thrilling epic. Synchronicity, shamanism, intent, intuition, the shadow, good vs. evil, initiation, the unfolding journey, the parallel with our own time, and more, are all covered. The idea of needing a story to define your life, as Carl Jung said and which Jeanne presented to Jan in her message regarding entering other worlds, is stressed in a very compelling manner. If you haven’t quite figured out what your own story, myth, or archetype is, perhaps this movie will give you some insights into how to define a life story. Bring the kids too. It’s a little complex in the beginning, trying to figure out who is who and while the premise is being set, but once into it you don’t even notice the 2 hour and 45 minute length. The vastness of the Australian continent, the intricate weaving of events, the people, and the love story are all very entertaining.

We also watched one of our favorites again this weekend, The Celestine Prophecy. If you haven’t seen it in a while, you might find, as we always do, that no matter how many times we watch it, it always offers something new, especially now during this time of transition and as regards the recent messages about being energy.

Thanks for all your recent messages. Keep going! And keep saying yes to your own thrilling journey.
Jan and Chuck

Messages from Jeanne

#415 The Great Unfolding is Taking Place

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
I would like to ask you to offer us guidance for this week. What can we expect energy-wise for the week ahead?

Continue to focus your attention on maintaining balance in both your inner world and your outer world. This balance will become more important as the week goes on. There is energy now that wishes to stir, and to stir deeply, the insecurities of you as individuals and as a nation. In order to maintain sanity of mind during such times, it is wise to remind your self often that every step of your journey is necessary, whether it be your individual journey or your collective journey.

I do not like to predict. I wish instead to simply offer this reminder of keeping balance at all times, for it is the best training you can practice. It will aid you, no matter what comes to greet you. Practice inner calm and inner balance at all times, so that as life unfolds you will be well-versed in how to achieve a state of calm pragmatism, for that is what life calls for now, during this time on earth.

Await not disaster, but do await change. Go into your week fully expecting that some changes will take place; that situations will arise that need tending to; that your concepts of life may be shattered, broken, or forced into new perspectives. But keep always in mind that these shifts are necessary maneuvers on the part of universal desire for growth and change.

You are living in times of unusual proportions and circumstances. Nothing can compare to the amount of support being offered either, and this is greatly due to the fact that more and more of you are receptive to the ideas of collective and universal, support, guidance, and cooperation. These principles, though widely disputed, are known to those of you who have had experiences of such phenomena. I ask that you continue to trust your experiences and that you look forward to more of them, with an openness that defies reason, for that is the best method of connection. Use your heart rather than your head now. Use your inner knowing, your uncovering inner self, to lead you and guide you to this openness that is having effect all over the world you live in, and in other worlds as well.

Your time upon that earth holds so much potential. You are beginning to understand this and accept that you are there for many reasons. But the greatest reason for being there is to release your self from the bindings that have held you fast there in reincarnation after reincarnation.

Allow your knowing inner self to be freer now to accept your life as it has been unfolding. Be gentle and kind to your self as this opening and accepting process is unfolding too. As your life unfolds, as you allow your trust in your life to unfold, so do you allow your trust in that which is outside of you to unfold, as it will, too. Do you see that all you really need to do during such times is to trust what presents itself, what occurs, and what is shown inside and outside of you as all being part of the great unfolding, taking place all around you?

Solidify your place upon that earth today. Firmly plant your self in that life for reasons of evolutionary growth. Whether or not you grasp the full meaning of your existence, at this moment, is not important. But your continual openness, trust, and availability to the experiences of life are important. Accept your appointment with life as it continues to unfold. Trust your journey and the journeys being taken all around you. Use your new knowledge to guide those in your care, and in your nearness, with compassion and love. Allow your opening process to also be used outside of you, for greater good, for purposes of compassionate intent that all may resolve their issues, accepting their journeys without judgment, but with mature, balanced ownership of what life offers them. Be responsible citizens of your own lives, but also responsible citizens of the world you live in.

Your energy is given to you to advance from that world. But do not leave that world without leaving your mark. Make it a mark of meaning; a mark of truth; a mark of new openness, new perspective, and great change, so that others may learn from you.

Teach what you know. Follow the signs in your life as they come to show you what it means to live a life of fulfillment and significance. You are guided, but so must you also learn to guide others, with compassionate non-judgment. This is your challenge during the times you live in, for these are the things that will be tested. Your ability to pass beyond holding onto your judgments of life, and others, is being tested, as you learn what it means to develop a new perspective on life as it unfolds in unique and stirring ways.

Be prepared to be challenged. Be prepared to be tested. Be prepared to have your socks knocked off, in one way or another, as this time of unfolding continues to ask you to change your thoughts about every aspect of life as you have thus far lived it.

Look ahead now to universal change. Look ahead now to opening your hearts. Look ahead now to being asked to trust the journey you are on more deeply than ever before. And remember always, the original proposal I made, to stay in balance, but a balance of openness to all things, to all events, people, and ideas, for all are valid. All things will shift now, as change continues to open doors and ask you to participate in life upon that earth differently now.

As doors open before you, open your selves too. That is how you will flow with this new life that is already upon you in great force. And keep in mind that you are energy, first and foremost, and everything else is too.

Chuck's Blog

#414 Chuck’s Place: The Awareness Log

Welcome to Chuck’s Place, where Chuck Ketchel expresses his thoughts, insights, and experiences!

No songs today. Last night, in a dream, someone I respect very much was ardently flipping through the pages of my personal journal, to my extreme discomfort. What might he discover? The dream, on one level, points to the topic that has been churning in me all week, sharing the awareness log, which I now use as the format for my own journaling. For years, I have kept journals as a reflective tool, focused on events which have already happened and my activity in them. My current focus is greeting the meaning of events in real time. And so, today’s message is guided by such a greeting in a dream.

Jeanne has proposed that everything is meaningful. This proposition takes synchronicity to the ultimate extreme, essentially viewing all the unfolding events of oncoming time as meaningfully related to the soul’s journey. The soul’s decision to incarnate in this world presupposes its intent to enter the dense energy region of earth school to participate in a needed challenge for its evolution. Based on our soul’s original intent, we can understand the families we are born into and the specific circumstances of our lives, as the manifestation of a necessary context within which to encounter the required challenge. Understanding our life from this perspective frees us from victimhood, alternatively viewing our challenges as necessary, personally tailored stepping stones to our evolution. Furthermore, we are then able to align our conscious intent to evolve with our soul’s original intent, which allows us to more clearly view the synchronicities of oncoming time as signs, clues, and guideposts to our evolution.

I offer the following practice to support this approach. Begin an awareness log. Divide the pages of your journal into three columns. In the first column, note the events of oncoming time that catch your attention in any form, as they are encountered. An odd meeting, encounter, phone call, sighting, etc.; the possibilities are endless. Don’t get obsessive or overwhelmed. Just note a few. Use the criteria or reaction, “Wow, that was weird!” as your guide.

In the second column, freely associate to the event as you would to an object or event in a dream. Note what spontaneously emerges in your conscious mind as you focus your awareness upon it. Do not over think; allow for spontaneous, unthought associations. To think is to engage the ego, which will lead you down ego paths and to ego conclusions, which will choke out the language of synchronicity. If nothing comes, set it aside, offering it to your unconscious, asking it to lead you to meaning through its own processes, such as, a fixation on a word, or a song, or a person, which exposes the missing association. This process might actually coincide with the illumination of the meaning of the synchronistic event.

The final column is reserved for the illumination, that AHA! moment, which may come long after the synchronistic event. However, it may shed significant light on the decisions and actions of the current moment. With practice, our ability to decode the synchronistic guidance can occur instantly, becoming the true guide in our lives. This will come as the ego acquiesces, impeccably, to its true purpose, which is to ascertain and take action in accordance with the soul’s intent to evolve. Once the ego adopts this stance of being in alignment with the soul’s intent, the full scope of guidance being presented synchronistically can be appreciated. We are treated to a powerful connection with this constant companion, our soul.

My message today is my gesture of acquiescence to my own soul’s urging. My intent is to offer a tool to appreciate life as a waking dream, filled with golden messages, awaiting our awareness.

Messages from Jeanne, Questions for Jeanne

#413 Can You Accept Your Self as Pure Energy?

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Today, a reader asks a question as a follow up to the previous message.

Dear Jeanne,
Your last message really resonated with me as I have experienced some great shifts in my personal life over the past couple of months. As a result, I have made some pretty big, life changing, decisions. As I have been making changes, I have been acutely aware that these are all but small steps, leading me towards something else, and although I do not yet know what that is, I have a sense that this has been in preparation for something so much greater. So, I’d like to ask if you could expand upon this further, especially in reference to the phrase, “… this is your first challenge beyond your own inner work, to utilize this awareness of interconnectedness in your daily lives…” Could you give some examples as to how we can use this in our daily lives and more specifically, how can I better utilize this awareness?

Thank you for your guidance and love.

My Dearest Reader, when I suggest that you use your awareness, so do I mean that you train it in all aspects of life, while doing your inner work, but also while navigating your life in the world. Furthermore, I request that you go beyond your self, that you go beyond your intense scrutiny of self, to become a part of the greater universe. Your ability to use awareness and intent should not be in question. For as I have stated, you are energy. If you can accept that hypothesis as fact, then you can do anything you intend. You see?

Intent is your fuel, but energy is your means of achieving your goal. Your inner work must be fueled by intent or you would not move beyond your comfort zone. As you state, you have been taking many steps toward change, but you have also dared your self to discover your own energy potential too. Your work on the self, though at times stubbornly confrontational, has also been your catalyst to discovering your energy potential. Have you not been discovering that your journey has been fueled by your intent to grow and evolve? Have you not gotten to where you are now by energetic means? Have you not been taking steps, your entire life, that have been of energetic proportions and energetic incredulity?

I do always request that you use your intent as you do your inner work, but I also request that you transcribe your inner process and apply it also to your outer life. The lessons learned in the inner process must be applied outside of you in order for completion of that life to take place. Your inner work must translate into an aware being who is not afraid to reveal this aspect of self. Your inner self has had so many experiences of awareness and intent to grow, but you will not notice them unless you begin to see them as such.

Your abilities to use your awareness are directly linked to your inner work, for without your inner work would you not be gaining in awareness. You would simply be stuck in your old patterns. So as I did mention, your first challenge is to use the awareness you are gaining about your own world, your inner world, and begin to apply it to your outer world. How do you do that? Well first of all, remain aware of the fact that you are an energetic being. This is at the core of who you are in that world and for all eternity. You are energy, whether you inhabit a body or not. As a body, in human form, your first challenge is to hold onto this fact, for it is a fact, though you may find this hard to fathom at first. But your potential lies in this fact, so begin to get used to it. In order to highly attune your awareness must you connect it to your energy self, your energy body.

Imagine being in an out of body state, perhaps in a flying dream. I’m sure you can recall such a dream experience. Now allow your self to accept that such energetic possibility exists at all times, not just in dreams. This is your first awareness of your energetic composition and potential. Is it not thrilling? If you can fly around in dreams, while your body lies sleeping upon your bed, do you not grasp the further possibilities that this energetic self is showing you? In dreaming, are you in fact being offered a glimpse, an awareness, of your energy body. With this acceptance of energy self, your awareness and your intent can be allowed to grow within a focused format, something that you have in fact experienced. Whether you can recall a dream or not, all of you have had out of body experiences in some format. Trust me on this.

If you can accept your energy self while doing your inner work, and in your dreaming, can you not extend that awareness to your physical self as well, in the “real” world you inhabit? Can you allow your awareness to have this potential granted to it? Now your next training comes in intending, but also in noticing your awareness abilities, or your psychic abilities as they are more commonly called.

You mentioned taking small steps leading you somewhere unknown, and that is a perfect example of what I am attempting to describe to you. For as you have been doing much work on the self, trusting your process, so have you allowed your self to take baby steps, even though you do not know, as a baby does not know, what comes next. You are beginning to allow your life to unfold, as it desires, without your resistance and control.

I suggest that you continue to remain open to what life offers. That you do not think so much about how to do anything, but that you allow your energetic self to lead you to understanding just what it means to be aware of the interconnectedness in your daily life. You are being offered examples of it all the time. Are you not? As you grow, and when you are ready, so will your energetic self show you the way to using your intent for more expansive purposes. You may find that your process leads you in a direction that I could not possibly propose to you at this point, for you may not be prepared at this time for what lies before you, but you may not also be accepting of it, until you have fully accepted your own energy self.

Awareness of your self as pure energy, as you do your recapitulation, will grow. As you work through your shadows, as you swipe aside the veils that hide your truths, so will you begin to have further experiences of your self as not only energy of good, but you will find that your intent to utilize your newfound energy self will activate, and your participation in the universal principles of interconnectedness will expand, because you will be ready for such participation.

So, I answer your question by offering you this question: Can you accept your self as pure energy? That is all you need to be aware of. Cultivate that potential in your daily life. Acceptance of this fact of self will solve many problems, issues, and dilemmas; mental, physical, and spiritual; allowing you access to your psychic self, your fully aware self.

Keep taking your baby steps, but allow awareness of the energy self to be present each step of the way. As you allow this energy self to be present, so will you discover that you do in fact know where it is all leading you. You will be fully able to accept the journey before you because you will recognize it as the right one, finally.

Trust your journey. It is meant for you. Can you accept that? Every step of it? That will be your next awareness!

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR