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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

Peace On Earth & Good Will to All

-Artwork © 2023 Jan Ketchel

Our Daily Soulbytes and weekly blogs are on pause while we pull inward after a year of beautiful interaction with the many people we are privileged to be in contact with and as we enter into a time of deep, soulful contemplation. If we are right within ourselves then our world also has the opportunity to get right as well.

First postings in the New Year begin on Monday January 8, 2024. We look forward to reconnecting then.

Peace on Earth and Good Will to All.

Love,
Jan & Chuck