Our Messages from Jeanne category began as a platform to bring our channeled messages to a wider audience. The earliest messages were written missives, so if you go back in the files you will find hundreds of written messages. Later we went to an audio format so more recent messages are spoken. To search by theme or special interest, use the search button in the navigation bar. Our hopes are that all of the messages, no matter the format, offer helpful guidance in navigating the waters of life.
Does the caterpillar blame itself for where it finds itself?
Keep in mind that to struggle is human. Keep also in mind that a struggle is just that: a struggle. No judgment or blame, no condemnation or shame need be attached to the human struggles, for no need of such domination by the mind exists. Accept struggle as a human condition, yet also as the spirit in conflict with the human world. The greater advantage of struggle is that it eventually leads to growth.
Without harm one may struggle and advance, without fear for self or others, for all struggle has at its core the needs of the spirit to grow. For this is the essence of struggle within the human condition: fulfillment of the needs and the purposes of the spirit—to evolve.
Life is a teaching tool. Investigate how your own life teaches you each day. Accept your lessons and without blame learn from them, so that eventually you may move along at a quicker pace toward greater balance and openness to the evolutionary meaning of your life.
Acceptance must be learned, how to accept the self and the world you live in must be achieved, and then will you be led to a new level of understanding about the self. But only in being able to accept where you are now as the place you need to be, will you learn from your situation, understanding that it is most necessary for you at this moment in your life. Struggle, you will find, will guide you if you let it.
You are all students, your life and your higher self your teachers. You are student and teacher both. You see? Everything is perfectly set up for you to learn the most valuable lessons for now, for who you are and who you are to become. You are in the perfect seat in the classroom.
Embrace the wholeness of the self to guide you, as you ponder what to do next. Accept the lessons of the good teacher that you are, but also learn to be a good, attentive student as well. And that means learning to pay attention in the everyday classroom of life. Without judgment of self and others, without blame or self-defeating thoughts, accept your struggles as your daily lessons. But the main thing now is to wake up and notice that you are in the right class, the only one you could possibly attend at this moment. Wake up class!
Channeled with love and appreciation for all struggling beings.
Today is a day of reconciliation within the self; a day for reflection on all you have learned about the self over the past days, weeks, months, and even longer, for the energy of change has been in motion for quite a long time.
Awareness of self at all times remains key. Awareness of self entails keeping abreast of the changing self, of the changes that have already taken place. With those changes in your cognition, make new choices in alignment with the constantly changing and growing self. Awareness entertains all possibilities, but it also remains fixed on the path of growth that you chose a long time ago.
All who exist upon that earth already chose a path of growth. Life asks you to wake up to this fact, and to force negation of life away, as you embrace the positive aspects of your life. Life is energy and how you view, use, interpret, and allow that energy to flow through you and unfold is really up to each one of you. As an individual you do have ultimate control over your life and so that is what the energy of now asks you to fathom and take responsibility for. The energy of now asks you to proceed on your life as if you were in perfect control, accepting everything as necessary, asking that each day’s tasks and unfoldings be totally acceptable and necessary as well. However, choices matter, and this is where your power lies, in making choices that lead you along your evolutionary path.
You know what is right. Be what is right for you to be. Be open to the energy that now aids and abets you as you take your journey. With awareness, make positive choices as you work your way out of your old self and into your new self. The energy of now fully embraces you on your journey.
Every step of your life is meaningful. Keep this in mind as you continue your journey today and every day. Greet life with the same openness with which it greets you. Deeper work now awaits, yet does it gift you greatly to deal with all aspects of life that still hold you to an old routine.
Break away from the old self and open wide to the new self. You already know who that is. Don’t be afraid to live this new self. There is no reason to hold back. It’s your life after all! Don’t you want to live it to the fullest? Approach it gently, thoughtfully, compassionately, but do embrace this energy that now seeks to release you from your old self and catapult you to a new self.
Each one of you must make personal decisions now. That’s just the way it is. Every little decision is important—know that. Each step, each day, is meaningful. Find the truth of that and you’ve found the key to life.
Be aware. Make choices in awareness of the greater meaning of your personal journey, reconciled with the truth that you chose that life and that journey. That is how to evolve.
Change is happening now. Don’t you see it? Don’t you feel it? In your own lives change is happening.
If you decide that you are stuck, then you will miss the exuberant energy of change that has come to visit you. However, if you decide to embrace the energy of change, no matter where it may take you or what it might mean in the long run, you will be greatly surprised and relieved of your constant issues of discord.
Discord, of spirit, comes with being human, for human body and spirit will fight each other, even to the death. Yet, keep in mind that spirit and body both never give up, for they are married to each other until a new level of understanding is reached. Only then will they relinquish their grip upon each other, a grip that is both loving and adversarial. This is an ancient bond that will determine the evolution of each one of you.
Do you fight your spirit?
Find the means of communicating with your spirit throughout the day. Ask it to guide you. And yes, your own spirit will guide you; speaking to you in terms you will understand. The only thing you need to do is listen. Pay attention often enough and finally you will get the clear messages that are being directed through your human self, your body, for this is the language your spirit speaks: Body Speak. Once you understand this, it will become easier to communicate with your spirit, and you will understand your body/spirit discord as your greatest asset.
Keep in mind that spirit self resides in body self, so most often spirit will speak through body self. This means that you must start listening to how your body reacts. Investigate what it tells you. Take your first assumption, which will most likely be a mind/thought/worry/fear reaction—perhaps even full of self-loathing or deeply self-effacing—and go deeper, beyond the mind and into the body alone. Eventually you will get the deeper meaning of the signs your spirit is communicating through your body.
For instance: If you eat too much you might get a tummy ache, bloating, gas, etc. This might make you feel bad about yourself, leading to thoughts of gluttony, inability to control desire, neediness, self-hatred, etc. But what is your body really telling you? It is really telling you that it speaks to you! In very simple language that you can actually feel!
What does your headache tell you? What is your spirit telling you by your inertia? What is your spirit trying to alert you to in your vigorous energy today? What is your spirit trying to tell you, as it speaks through the wall of your human body?
Some Body Speak is easier to understand than others, such as sleepiness, hunger, thirst, but there are deeper signals behind each and every sign you receive.
Take sleepiness for instance. Okay, my body tells me I’m tired. What do I do? Fight it? A good reaction would be to pay attention and get some rest; without resentment, anger or worry, simply acquiesce. Take it to another level as you acquiesce. With care of self in mind, allow rest to be what it should be: rejuvenating. Ask spirit self to let the body rest for so many hours. Ask dreams to guide you as you sleep. Ask awareness to remember dreams upon awakening. Use sleep time on many levels, with the first intent being care of body, and second being spiritual work.
This is what body and spirit desire in human beings: constructive cooperation, enthusiasm, and commitment to growth. This is what life itself desires, life as an evolutionary project, for each one of you is a work of art. Each one of you is the inspiration and the artist, and the project itself. Each one of you has all that it takes to create a beautiful artistic creation: The Self.
Requirements for such creative work are simple: willingness, perseverance, and openness to the possibilities that you are constantly being offered to do the work of the self. All of you have the materials and tools within.
Don’t be so afraid of life. Life is yours; within you it seeks expression. Begin there. Stop looking for it outside of you and look inward. This is where your creative energy awaits, where spirit resides, in your own body. The two, spirit and body, are inexplicably aligned, even when you don’t think they are.
Ask them to teach you, and then wait, with the sure knowing that they will. Be ready to receive your guidance. Learn how it comes. It may take some time to figure it out, but just remember this: everything is meaningful. Do not dismiss anything that comes to you, for you may be missing the guidance you so desperately seek.
Life itself shows you the way to enlightenment, fulfillment, wholeness, connection, and all else that you seek. Be open. Be kind to self and others. Learn impeccability. Learn these things and what they really mean each day that you live your creative inner life.
Work on the self is the most unselfish of acts. Find the means to begin a new project: evolution of the self, ergo evolution of the world. Resolve the discord between body-self and spirit-self, for the self and for the greater good. You can’t go wrong. Listen to your Body Speak.
The praying mantis smiled and we smiled in return!
Do not get caught in waiting for things to happen, but take action every day on behalf of the self, on behalf of the self as both a human being and as a spiritual being. Evolutionary advancement involves becoming fully aware of your greater potential, and such awareness will only come to fruition as you work on the self.
Work on the self involves not only deep inner work, but it also involves being fully present as a human being in the life you live. No matter what your circumstances may be, there is always great potential for change and growth, for a more fulfilling life, and for a person to be happy, healthy, and contented. Life upon that earth does indeed present challenges, there is no denying that, but nothing is too great to handle. Challenges must be recognized and accepted as evolutionary opportunities and dealt with every day in order for both human enjoyment on earth and spiritual enlightenment to take place.
It is advisable to determine your core issue and challenge, and then, in unwavering commitment to the self as an evolutionary being, deal with what comes to guide you and lead you to resolution of that core issue and the challenges that arise as a result.
If you refuse to confront the meaning of your life in this manner—by facing your personal inner issues—you will not advance into greater fulfillment. It rarely happens that the world alone provides enough, for even the most successful people in the world are not truly happy if the inner self has not been attended to. Yes, your life may be quite livable and comfortable, but does it really tend to your spirit? It is time for all upon that earth to tend to the spirit now. For all the spin in the outer world, the needs of the inner self will not be addressed there.
The inner self must be recognized for what it truly is, a force of power, unique in itself, and ready to evolve, to be more fully present in life. Yet it has been relegated to a quiet corner for the most part, left alone to wither, to contend with its own negligence, and yet it stirs often enough, sending messages that it too has much to offer.
For those who are in the midst of deep inner work, for those who not only acknowledge their spiritual self, but also engage and invite it into the world, be advised to stay the course of such work for it has far reaching effects, within the self and without. Your struggles will result in change, and once change begins to happen take note, and revel in its expression in your life as it aids you in your process. Take note also of its unfolding in the world around you, as the energy of personal change confronts the outer world and makes inroads that will not cave or be erased.
For those as yet asleep, fearful of what it means to do inner work, fearful of change, unsure of what it means to answer the call of the spirit’s knockings, look to your daily life for messages, to your dreams for guidance, and to the people in your life for direction. And then look into the self; listen to the ego self, the fearful self, and the inner voice that speaks the wisdom of your heart. Pay attention to how these selves operate and ask them to align now, to live life in synch more often, to walk hand in hand, giving and taking with kindness, gentleness, and compassion for the self, and others as well. Begin to notice that all beings seek what you seek.
Address what you need innerly, resolve it, and allow your true self expression. Smile and you will be smiled upon in return. Try this simply act and see what happens! Then let your spirit guide you from there.
Expansiveness of spirit, to self and others, will open many new doors, within and without. Be real. Be kind. Smile!
There is a great propensity for success, for change to happen now on a greater level, for real change to take place upon that earth and within a great many individuals as well. For it is only with change within the individual that change on a mass level will occur, as you well know. However, one must be alert to the choices being made. Too often the dullness of everyday life wins out over the magic of the work and possibilities that lie within.
Be aware of your personal choices. Watch how they affect your physical and mental prowess. Be alert to the moment when decisions arise, when you are asked to direct your energy.
What is the proper use of your energy? This is the question to not only ask mentally, but physically as well. Direct the self to be thoughtful and careful and—with concern for the delicate balance between the world without and the world within—choose wisely how best to use your time, your energy, and your life. With concern for duration of life upon that earth as your sobering first thought, choose how to use that finite time to your best advantage.
Present advice is to urge humanity toward remaining alert, for the dullness of life so easily sweeps over the masses and then, no matter how hard some individuals work at changing themselves and the world, there will unfortunately be no greater mass change. And, as you all know, mass change is now necessary.
Mass change, in the right direction, is what the world needs and those who are really awake and aware of this necessity must stay awake. Choose to walk the razor’s edge of awareness, staying alert to the machinations of the mind as well as the energy outside of you. Be alert to what, how, and when it pulls you in one direction or another and make wise personal choices.
Remain balanced through this time of decision-making. Precision of timing is crucial; attention to choice and the best use of personal energy are the most important factors now. Awareness must be honed and kept in good working order for progress to stick. Good Luck!
