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Meditations for the Holidays

-Photo by Jan Ketchel

We wish everyone, and our entire world, a happy Solstice, a beautiful and peaceful Holiday Season and a most prosperous New Year. May we all carry the light of gratitude and love within us as we enter into the season of joy and giving, festivities and celebration, and renewal. And may we all walk into the New Year full of hope and promise each day, still carrying that light within, eager and grateful to embrace new life to come. We share some calming practices below and will return to our normal weekly postings on Monday January 6, 2025.

Sending you love,
Jan & Chuck

MEDITATIONS
For Setting Intentions

Wake up to each new day (or any time) to an enlivening meditation with Dr. Joe Dispenza.

Most Powerful Morning Meditation – 35 minutes
You are the Placebo Meditation – 58 Minutes

LABYRINTH WALKS
For Grounding and Centering

Virtually walk around Jan’s Quartz Crystal Labyrinth in the woods on our property. Turn the volume up so you can hear nature in all its glory, in summer, the cicadas and crickets and in winter the crackling of leaves.

Walk the Labyrinth Summer-12 minutes 
Walk the Labyrinth Winter-9 minutes

Note: If you want to watch the videos on your phone you will have to get the Dropbox App. Once you sign in just skip through all the prompts and then come back to this page and click the link and it should open in Dropbox. If you watch on a computer or tablet it should open immediately in Dropbox.

MUSIC
For Peace and Healing

Listen to some Tibetan Chanting, Healing Handpan music or a medley of meditation music from the Monroe Institute.

Lama Gyurme-Rain of Blessings
Seeds of Growth (1111Hz) handpan music by Malte Marten
Healing Frequency (1111 Hz) by Malte Marten & Lynxk
Meditation Music from the Monroe Institute

MANTRAS
For Manifestation
(Originally published in Soulbytes December 9 – 13, 2024)

Monday Mantra: I am whole and perfect, strong and powerful, kind and loving, harmonious and happy, prosperous and successful in everything I do.

Tuesday Mantra: I embrace my fearless beauty, my stunning intelligence, my wild creativity, and my open heartedness. I am safe in my beauty. I am safe in myself.

Wednesday Mantra: I am no longer willing to be comfortable in my discomforts. I am changing my mind, my body, and my life. As I change my thoughts and ideas about myself, I face my fears. I am now fearless in my new approach to life.

Thursday Mantra: I am beautiful. I am in tiptop shape from head to toe. My body is energized, synchronized and harmonized to a new level of energy that is healing and radiant, radical and brilliant, whole and perfect.

Friday Mantra: I step into my splendidly beautiful self and radiate beautiful energy throughout the day. I am whole and perfect, strong and powerful, kind and loving, harmonious and happy, prosperous and successful in everything I do. I am fearlessly beautiful, stunningly intelligent, brilliantly creative, and my heart is open to this stupendous adventure that is my new life.

Meditations for Thanksgiving

Jan’s Quartz Crystal Labyrinth

Here are some useful practices to engage in for the coming week. We wish everyone, and our entire world, a beautiful peaceful Thanksgiving and beyond. We will return to our normal weekly postings on Monday December 2, 2024.

First, take a calming walk (12 mins.) around Jan’s Quartz Crystal Labyrinth in the woods on our property. Turn the volume up so you can hear nature in all its glory. Walk the Labyrinth Note: If you want to watch the video on your phone you will have to get the Dropbox App. Once you sign in just skip through all the prompts and then come back to this page and click the link and it should open in Dropbox. If you watch on a computer or tablet it should open immediately in Dropbox.

Listen to some healing handpan meditation music. Definitely soothing! Healing Frequency (1111 Hz) by Malte Marten & Lynxk

Wake up to each new day (or at anytime) with an enlivening 35 minute Morning Meditation with Joe Dispenza

Listen to a playlist from the Monroe Institute of Meditation Music.

Practice Jack Schwarz’s Autogenic Breathing practices to achieve different brainwave states and control your central nervous system by breath alone:
*Beta: Breath in and out normally.  Do not hold air.
**Alpha: Inhale for 8, hold for 8, exhale for 8, hold for 4.
***Alpha-Theta: Inhale for 4, hold for 8, exhale for 8, hold for 4.
****Theta: Inhale for 4, hold for 8, exhale for 16, hold for 4.
*****Delta: Inhale for 4, hold for 8, exhale for 32, hold for 4.

Summertime Pause

-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

New Soulbytes and Blog postings are on pause until Monday July 8, 2024. There is still plenty to read on our website.

Daily Soulbytes can be found here.

Chuck’s weekly blog can be found here.

And All Posts offers all of our postings in chronological order.

For the experience of calming suggestions to the subconscious mind (and every time you listen, you will go deeper), listen to Chuck’s recently recorded blog here:

A Meditation for January 20, 2024

“The wounded frequently want to hurt others. Meanness is not always involved but an unconscious bitterness that wants to control. The worst wounds are not always physical. Some who have suffered psychological wounds are bent on full payment whether or not it is due. The pity of it is, the wounded is the only one that cannot escape. Pain and unforgiveness are replayed day after day—as though sadness is an honorable reason never to heal. Whole lifetimes are given to demanding respect and veneration—for no other reason than life has dealt them a wound, a wound that would heal if there were a little love.” – From A Cherokee Feast of Days, Volume 2, Joyce Sequichie Hifler