Here is today’s Soulbyte. We will be posting an audio channeled message later in the day. And yes, Jan’s computer is back up and running. Hurray!

Creating the life you want is an art. It is also a process conducted on a daily basis requiring honest assessment of habits and behaviors that stand in the way of your endeavors. If a process is to be alive it requires constant attention. Like a fire, new fuel must constantly be added; air is necessary, and proper outlet is required.

Consider the self like a well-tended fire. Give proper fuel. Breathe. Offer appropriate outlet for that which must be released. Pay attention to what you add to the flames and what you decide to hold onto. Make choices that you can live with, but also that are growth-oriented. You do want to change, right? How you go about it is as important as wanting it. Your new creative project: Constructing a new self.

Health of body, health of mind, these two must be attained if one is to live life freed of problems and so that emotional and spiritual balance may be attained as well. This is the quaternity of the human condition: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. In balance of these aspects all beings will attain a new level of understanding of their place in the world and the health of the planet. All humans in personal balance will bring the planet into balance. This is the new paradigm, the new model of health. Each human being is responsible for the health of the planet by becoming healthy within the planet of self. There is no other greater charge upon the human race.

Stay in alignment, even as you are taken to great heights and great lows, even as you are teased out of balance by your usual habits and behaviors, by your insidious petty tyrants and your growth-oriented challenges. Remember: everything that happens to you is part of your journey, set up for you to learn something about yourself and to grow. You are also challenged to discern between what is personal and what is not. Some incidences are yours to consider and some belong to others. In other words, watch what you project and what gets projected onto you. Do your own work, even as you must let others do theirs.

To stay in alignment is to stay aware and make your decisions matter. May they carry you onward, each step balanced as you move forward on your path of heart.

Is there magic in reality? If one decides to live a life of magic one will be approached by the magic in life, by the playing of opposites against each other, by the alchemy of life in constant flux and change. There is magic within the physical self as there is constant change and growth, as cells shift, grow and slough off, as blood pulses, heart beats, and muscles move. Is not this magic?

To assume the magical is to be open and ready to receive the magical. To assume the magical is to take on life with vigor and readiness for all that arrives to lead one forward. To assume the magical is to go beyond the limitations and constraints of one’s present life and be open to the freedoms and possibilities of a life of fluidity.

To fully embrace the magical, resolution of all that restricts one must first be addressed. In so doing one will little by little begin to really experience what it means to live a magical life in a magical world where your fortune is in alignment with the turning of the wheels of your own process.

Luxuriate in the good feelings you have worked so hard to attain. Allow the self to have them, to use them in your inner world and your outer world. Allow them to become part of the new framework of your existence. It’s okay to feel good.

As you work so hard to change, you must begin to make allowances, not in a negative or passive sense, but in acceptance and utilization, acting upon and acknowledging how much you have changed, becoming more of the new you graciously and without judgment.

As you create a new self and a new reality your decisions to fully embrace this newness will be your prerogative, but remember that to act upon what you learn is crucial if you are to feel good and advance, if you are to fully be who you have the potential to be. Remember also: the possibilities for newness and change are as endless as your imagination!