Mind-Body – Page 49 – Integrating the Spirals

March 1, 2023August 22, 2026 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Connections, Expanding Consciousness, Mind-Body

Driving to Tuesday night Reiki circle: Feb 28

Hey everybody, just thought I’d give a quick check-in and let you know that I updated one of my older posts, https://sheilamurrey.net/2022/10/22/couple-of-thoughts-while-i-drive/ because I felt like it needed some help with subheadings and a different picture. Oh, and I changed the title of it too. I think when I wrote it, I was probably in a hurry and had reused a picture from just a couple of blog posts earlier. Yeah, so I found a picture of a queen. Well, the queen who passed and I put that in there. If you would rather listen instead of read, play the audio:

Recycling

The point is this word I’m sitting with right now because I am driving and I just passed a gentleman who was on his bicycle. So this word dropped into my mind of recycling, I guess from cycling. I stopped. He was at a pedestrian crosswalk and I don’t know legally if I’m supposed to stop for a bicyclist at one of those crosswalks but I did. And then I realized there were two other cars behind him trying to turn into this particular park. There was a slew of people trying to get out of this park.

There was nobody behind me so I didn’t have to stop and they would have had their chance to go as soon as I passed, but I went ahead and stopped. I waved him on because I assumed he was turning left and he was! I let the other couple of vehicles to go ahead and make their left turn and then I noticed a couple of people coming out and turning, right and that kind of thing. So I thought, Who knows how long they’d all been sitting there waiting? But I was obviously at the end of the line of the thread of cars that had been by there.

I reused rose petals when they began falling off our anniversary flowers. I placed the petals around a candle on an antique pineapple ashtray of my mom’s I’ve had for years.

So I’m on my way to Reiki and I had this idea of recycling. And again, these thoughts sometimes it’s just one word. Sometimes it’s a whole phrase and it will just “drop in“–I learned about drop in thoughts years ago from working with Dr. Alison J. Kay, which if you’ve been subscribed to my blog for many years, you will know who she is. Previous post: https://sheilamurrey.net/2016/01/10/what-happened-after-attending-your-sensitivity-is-your-power-teleseries/ where I speak of her gifts and talents.

Spiral thought: She’s still practicing energy medicine. She’s a life coach. She’s a yoga teacher and physical trainer. She wears many hats. But most often I think you will find her doing running Theta healing sessions. She’s traveling a lot. She goes to the UK a lot. She goes to sacred sites a lot. Interesting. that she would be traveling to sacred sites of UK and Ireland as before she’d always been going to Asia.

Alison and Patricia

I didn’t realize she may have started the UK travel about the same time I became interested in traveling with Patricia McGivern.

After we went to England, Ireland, and Scotland and 2019 I saw that Dr. Alison was also going to Glastonbury and the sacred sites in the UK. So I thought that was pretty cool. It’s just interesting that and they’re not necessarily running in the same circle. They may or may not be. I don’t know how well or if they know each other. But I know I seem to be joined to Patricia, at the hip because of everything that’s happened synchronistically in our lives.

Richard and I, having moved back to Merritt Island a few years ago for him to return to work (after having been retired for six years) for two years. And that’s where Patricia grew up (Merritt Island). She went to Merritt Island High School. So she was, you know, really, of course, interested in seeing everything that I posted (on Facebook) from her hometown. And then we became interested in living in Dunedin where Patricia used to have an office for years (her and her husband), but since the pandemic, they have worked from their home.

The point is we just seem to be kind of crossing each other’s paths and of course, she has been instrumental in not only my awakening to the messages that have come to me from the Other Side, not just messages that dropped in when I’m meditating, which was where I was going with all Dr. Alison taught me, who was one of my meditation teachers and taught me that concept of when the thought drops in versus when it’s churned from the mechanization of the mind. That’s the difference, but you know, I went into the past life regression and hypnosis (with Patricia) which I did not do with Dr. Alison. So that’s the difference (for me) between these two wonderful ladies, teachers, mentors, and friends. Patricia is a hypnotherapist and a past life regression author. Dr. Alison is an author as well.

I’ve been very drawn to authors for many, many years because…

Saw myself as a teacher

I always saw myself as a teacher. In fact, way back to when I was in school. And given that I’m going to come back to recycling for many years and other spiral thoughts here many years ago when I was in school, I could just see myself teaching. And I could see myself teaching even when I was in my first career job at RadioShack.

I was teaching customers how to use their first computer and things like that. I was doing a lot of instructional things, just hands-on and practical and pragmatic type of teaching. And then when I was a district trainer out in Texas for a year I was writing curriculum and doing adult learning classes and years before that. I had been doing some teaching when my boss couldn’t do his nighttime college classes. I was teaching adult learning classes–basic computer application operation 101 and those kinds of things. A lot of older folks at that time were learning about computers. I subbed for my boss. He asked me and I worked for him during the day, so I mean, it was kind of like I couldn’t say no, but I loved it.

I always love getting that opportunity to teach. Yeah, the odd thing is I never wanted to go to college to become a teacher. I have family who did that they became teachers and in K through 12, but I never wanted to do that. I never saw myself teaching children. I always saw myself teaching adults even as a child.

I matured very early and always was included in adult conversations with my parents, mostly my mom and her friends and family. So I sort of don’t remember a whole lot of being a kid you know, I was always hanging out with adults and or a few of my friends who were also very mature (for their age). So I always felt like I was better with adults. I always felt like I could show adults the stuff I was learning in school and bring something new to the conversation.

There are many ways to Recycle

Okay, so this word recycling drops in and here I am recycling. I’m recycling memories. I’m recycling. This whole concept of who I want it to be. And the universe just dropped it in my lap essentially. And so I got a lot of joy out of all the times that I was able to teach people. The recycling comes in and makes me think about what comes in and needs to go out. There you go! Recycling easy definition. I don’t just buy something, pick it up, use it, and then throw it away. I recycle it. I reuse it or I use it in a different way which would be innovative, right? I’m now an innovator because I’m taking bringing something in and I’m then using it but then I’m recycling it and reusing it differently. Maybe completely different than what it was intended to be used for.

A friend of mine (from school days) posted yesterday (on Facebook) where she took an old silver teapot and repurposed it as a planter. I asked her if she put rocks in the bottom. I was thinking perhaps she had a hole drilled in the bottom. I thought especially for an indoor pot you would have to have a hole in the bottom and she said no, she just put some rocks in the bottom. And so far the plant was doing fine.

So I love things like that and (the recycling of) thoughts the same way. Like if you’re an artist and you paint a picture or you draw a picture, gift that. Keep it around as long as you want to enjoy it. And then you repurpose it. Recycle it. Re-gift it to someone else. It was a gift to you right because Spirit brought that into you or the model who posed for your drawing or whatnot. So let’s say somebody gives me a gift and I use it and I learned something from it. My Kaleidoscope or my mirror ball or something like that, right? I use it. I suck out all the juiciness of that gift. And I learned as much as I could from using it, from sitting with it, from looking at it, and from letting it inform me right? And then I recycle it and gift it to someone else. I’ve done that a lot with books. So not only do they get the gift of the book, but my notes in it as well. The things I underlined. My thoughts about certain topics within the book. So I just think that’s a good thing to do.

When we learn something we bring the information in. Let’s think about recycling that information. Let’s think about how we can spin it back out into the world you know, and maybe even send it with more love and attention, and intention. Right. And action. Attach something to it. Very cool. All right.

Transcribed by https://otter.ai and grammar-checked using Grammarly.

What can you recycle?

Let me know what thoughts may have dropped in for you while reading this. What might you recycle? What item or information might you re-gift to someone? Share your talents. I’m interested!

p.s. I had drafted this post late last night but didn’t get a chance to edit and add the tags, etc. til this morning. I was going to put it off until later. But something compelled me to do it NOW. Do you know what compelled me? Checking Facebook and seeing the following post from a spiritual friend:

The image caught my eye because it looked so much like how I saw myself in a past life (as presented in this blog post: https://sheilamurrey.net/2022/08/28/continued-past-life-regression-workshop-notes-from-group-session-with-patricia-mcgivern-27-aug-2022/) and the text of the post jumped out at me when I saw the word, RECYCLED! I mean, WOW! Was that not the Universe speaking to me or what??? Haha! (and giggle giggle as my friend Nikki Payne would say). Are we having fun yet?

We really are recycled butterflies and ALL of that!

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February 26, 2023August 22, 2026 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Connections, Mind-Body

Teaser from the second edition of Take It Upon Yourself to Live a Wholly Vibrant Life (renamed, Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life

This is a teaser from the 2nd edition of my 2018 self-published book, Take It Upon Yourself to Live a Wholly Vibrant Life (to be renamed, Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life). If you would rather listen instead of read, play the audio:

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

Quite simply, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) cured my addiction/habit of finger skin-picking/chewing. And I believe my story might help others, so I feel compelled to share it. You might wonder what I mean by “picking my fingers.” Years ago I quit biting my fingernails, but I only traded that habit for something less. The main cause of the “picking” had not been addressed.

I bought a book called, Tapping the Healer Within because my acupuncture doctor had told me about it, and because I had tried everything else. I found that book a bit convoluted and besides, it mostly dealt with phobias and anxieties – neither of which I thought I had. More importantly, it was difficult for me to hold the book and try to tap on my body with my other hand. Or maybe that was only my excuse – but the book, though interesting to me, wasn’t enough to help me.

A few weeks before my personal EFT visit with a local therapist, my encouraging hubby and I watched a mind-expanding show on TLC called, I Can Make You Thin. One of the episodes showed the host using EFT to help people overcome their food cravings. Because I had also tried everything to lose weight, I decided that I really needed some one-on-one personal guidance with that, as well as my finger skin-picking habit.

At about that time, I met an EFT practitioner named, Janice Cunningham (Health Quest Titusville, Florida). I was eager to get in for an appointment. During a 2.5-hour session (on a Saturday) with Janice, I described both of my issues fully. By the time we’d wrapped up our session, I found a total resolution to some deep-seated wrong mental programming, and amazingly, I had the best night’s sleep that I’d had in years that night! I guess I had not even realized that my sleep pattern had also been an issue.

My appointment with Janice also greatly helped me to release the finger skin-picking addiction. Janice and I spent nearly two hours going back into my past, into my former marriage, teenage years, and finally, childhood years. I realized that I had picked up my habit of fingernail-biting at the same time asthma began – when I was six years of age. My mom had always been a terrible nail-biter, biting right down into the quick, so I knew I’d picked up the habit from mom, I simply had not realized how much of a connection there was between that habit, my asthma, and my mom.

Example of finger picking on side of my ring fingernail. Yes, sometimes it still occurs when I watch something too intense in a TV show/movie–so perhaps I am not 100% “cured” but I have a LOT more awareness around it and do not continue to pick once I become aware that I’m doing it.

I realized fully during my session that when my mom’s father died, my grandfather, the sadness surrounding his death deeply affected me. When I was six years of age, coincidently, I received an asthma diagnosis. You’ll recall I had explained earlier that my grandfather had died at home after being in the hospital for cancer surgery. They sent him home with the understanding that the doctors had done all they could do. At least my grandfather died at home.

As an aside, one of the things my mother always said was to stay away from hospitals if possible. I think she had heard about people who went to the hospital and died from some infection (like Sepsis) or had the wrong procedure done! My mother’s fear of the hospital was not lost on me. The important thing about that experience for me though, was that even though I was a child, I had a deep connection to my grandfather’s passing, mostly due to how upset my mom was during that time. And because I was thoroughly connected to my mother emotionally.

My mama was very upset about losing her father. She and I, at that time, felt that death was the end. And though our religious belief was that we would see him again in the afterlife, we suffered greatly at the time of his death and for weeks after. I vividly recall believing if she could lose him, I could lose her. And there was no way I could live – I wouldn’t be able to breathe, in fact – without my mom. Knowing what I know now, I hard-wired that grief right into my lungs, because of the emotional charge involved in that event, due to my vivid recall of it.

My EFT session felt like counseling and hypnosis (though I was awake and totally aware of what was happening) as though Janice was talking to me on a deep level. During the session, Janice recommended I take some notes, both of the things I was becoming aware of and how to run through this process again on my own. The following is an account of the written notes I made:

I couldn’t breathe without my mom.
I always had tried to “save my mom.”
I am not my thoughts.
My perception influenced my thoughts but my perceptions were wrong.
The genie is out of the bottle.
I do not need the old thoughts.
Am I the thought or the awareness?
Am I “this” thought, or am I the awareness of “this” thought?
Who sent “this” thought? (My pain body)
Examine “this” thought. It will probably be a limiting thought, a no-win thought, and one that would eventually bring pain.
To let go of “this” thought: 1) focus on the feeling of my breath in and out, 2) be the observing presence.
When I only observe, I suspend space.
Inspiration = In spirit, and inspiration fills me, lights me up from the inside – the same as when someone is in creative mode you feel the creative energy inside, in your heart/chest not in the head area.
The Aha moment is when the head agrees to the inner knowing.
My habit of biting my fingernails = my fear and anxiety linked to my feeling of not being able to fix/help/save my mom.
Something that can trigger asthma in my body is when I face something I can’t do anything about; when I feel a sense of powerlessness.

Through this experience and the many more that followed, I learned we tend to hold fear as a sort of security blanket. I don’t know why, as I think that is the root cause of most of our suffering. And the Buddhists and Taoists believe and teach that also.

This is also a reason I bring up the topic of God and spiritual things in this book. Our beliefs—whether we have hope or not and if we believe this Universe is friendly or not—have a lot to do with how each of us feels bodily.

You may not think fear is the same as a person who is negative all the time, but I would wager that a person who is consistently afraid of this thing or the other, is a person who puts a lot of emphasis on protecting what they think belongs to them. Some might call that kind of person a control freak. They may be a person who lives for “things” and is a pack rat or hoarder. They may also be the kind of person who suffers because of all the things and people to whom they are attached. There’s a lot of healing in letting go, of people, places, and things. And you can’t take any of it with you when you transition (or pass away) from this life to whatever comes next.

The Bible in the book of Philippians has a verse that instructs us to think about whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, excellent, or praiseworthy. And the author of those words, Paul, said that as we think these thoughts the God of peace will be with us. I used to encourage my mother to focus on these things—and during her last two or three years, if not more, she did, because she was always in gratitude during our last visits.

Janice used EFT in a compassionate and caring way. The end result of the two hours for my fingers was every difficulty my mom had ever had, in her marriage, health, etc. I felt as though I needed to help her, or ‘SAVE’ her. Though mom had a very strong faith in Jesus, it was always something I had felt – that I needed to save her. Once we broke this down and got to this deep-seated REASON for my habit, so many other things lifted within my mind and body as well. I can’t say enough wonderful things about EFT. If you think you’ve tried everything to find relief from anxiety, depression, weight issues, nerve problems, etc. I implore you to seek out an EFT therapist in your area. You do not need to “believe in it” for it to work for you. And what do you have to lose?

Over the years, I took the words attributed to Jesus in the Bible about “saving people” to mean, “love people.” For I am not responsible for saving anyone else or even making them happy. However, the cells of my body hold me accountable for making myself happy (it feels good when I align with my Soul) to keep my Temple (Mind and Body), healthy. I can love my enemies, but I don’t have to live with them!

Thus, because I am a super responsible person – I’m supposed to do something. (This is the conflict that causes the habitual negative behavior). And because I have an analytical mind, I often find my thoughts at odds with the evidence-based medicine that is predominantly used in hospitals, as I believe the evidence of healing I’ve experienced is true too—anecdotal experience is real and is true!

I relied on prayer, EFT, breath work, reflexology, and all kinds of alternative methods to calm and help myself think clearly when my husband was in the hospital in October 2022. I was dumbstruck how little the hospital staff communicated with each other, even though they wheeled a computer into the room with them each time! I found myself telling each doctor, intern, resident, specialist, and nurse who came into the room to see my husband most all of the same things because they did not relay the information to each other. Since I am a business analyst in Information Technology by trade the lack of appropriate information handoffs I witnessed was alarming!

p.s. I used to teach EFT at a Wellness clinic in St. Petersburg, Florida and I have lectured on the benefits of EFT at several events. I am planning on offering some general introductory EFT sessions via Zoom if anyone is interested in participating–let me know in the comments.

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