Considering the mind resides outside of the body (science has yet to prove where consciousness resides. See Magnetoencephalography). I explore how we’re Connected to our spirit and soul. This category shall focus on the mental portion of one’s Being.
Introducing a DE-Program course I developed in 2020 and am offering again now, Integrating the Spirals™. If you would rather listen instead of read, play the audio:
Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, wherever you are in the world.
Gather your materials
Before we begin the DE-Program Integrating the Spirals we want to gather our materials together. Find a tote, bin, box, or table where you can put all of the previous self-help things you’ve bought in the past. Put them in this place. And on your computer, create a new folder for these things, or multiple folders within one larger folder. For a list, refer to the previous post about Prerequisites.
Join me next Sunday 6/11/2023: Integrating the Spirals session
Our first Integrating the Spirals Zoom call will be next Sunday from 1pm to 3pm Eastern time zone (New York USA time). If you want to join, let me know. I am offering these calls for free and if anyone wants to tip that will graciously be accepted via: PayPal.Me/SheilaMurrey but no more than is comfortable for you, recognizing we are all in a different place financially. I’ll send you the Zoom call info when you register by sending your email to me at: sheila(dot)murrey(at)gmail(dot)com – I think you know how to replace the (dot) with a period and (at) with the @ sign to make that work, right? I don’t want spammers sending me email.
Our focus for the first session
Begin moving out of fear and struggle
Easing out of need to Control the actions of others
Honoring our selves (what we really want) and looking at what we bought gives us clues into this
Honoring our ancestors (lineage, homeland)
Listen to ourselves (to find understanding, self compassion, and healing)
Connecting
Working the Integrating the Spirals™ DE-Program Session 1 will be all about how to get started integrating what you’ve already bought, and connecting with our ancestors (and what do if you don’t know who your ancestors are).
Integrating the Spirals: Fibonacci sequence of a shell
It’s a big topic, and why we need two hours. But don’t worry, We’ll do three 40-minute calls to keep Zoom happy and to have nature/restroom breaks. Depending upon how many want to join, I may buy Zoom again (I used to have it but class sizes dwindled), thus they hold me to 40 minutes. Usually people start to get tired after 40-minutes anyway. Again, we’ll see how this goes.
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to all of his songs at: http://listen4music.com
I would love to speak at your bookstore, crystal shop, acupuncture/chiropractor office, natural health foods store, art fair, music, or yoga festival. I support healthy lifestyle businesses.
I’m an Amazon bestselling author of two co-authored books: “Transform Your Life Book 2 Inspirational Stories and Expert Advice” and “Energy of Receiving” available on Amazon.
For more on the DE-Program course I developed in 2020 and am offering again now, Integrating the Spirals, follow us on TikTok “Spiral Sister” and on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeonyour
Introducing a DE-Program course I developed in 2020 and am offering again now, Integrating the Spirals™. If you would rather listen instead of read, play the audio:
Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, wherever you are in the world.
Make a list of anything you want to work on: incorporating more movement into each day, following through on your To Do lists, getting out of overwhelm, stop procrastinating, break habits, set goals, write a book, organize your closet, move, downsize, live off-grid, rid yourself of anxious thoughts, sleep better, feel less lonely, and so on.
Pull all of your previously purchased books, programs, current recurring subscriptions, and favorite authors (list them), favorite speakers (spiritual/motivational/philosophical)
Make a commitment to this process and set everything else aside (put current courses on hold if at all possible). We will be working on prioritizing our projects and commitments in this DE-Program so a clean slate is advised (at least for the first two weeks)
Our goals
Move out of fear and struggle
Ease angst and the need to Control the actions of others
Honoring our selves (what we really want)
Honoring our ancestors (lineage, homeland)
Listen to ourselves (to find understanding, self compassion, and healing)
Listen to others intently with presence to learn how you can serve them
Drop self criticism and blame (and offer that gift to others as they are open to receive)
Organize our own thoughts and priorities to sleep better at night and accomplish more each day
Release overwhelm and unworthiness
Bloom where we are planted or move to where we are celebrated (Be the Change)
Nurture yourself and Nature (Plant a tree or something, walk barefoot)
Ease apathy
Live in Gratitude
About the Integrating the Spirals meetings
Let’s do these Integrating the Spirals Zoom calls on Sundays from 1pm to 3pm Eastern time zone (New York USA time) and see how it goes. If you want to join, let me know. I am offering these calls for free and if anyone wants to tip that will graciously be accepted via: PayPal.Me/SheilaMurrey but no more than is comfortable for you, recognizing we are all in a different place financially.
Connecting
Working the Integrating the Spiral DE-Program, lifts us out of negative self-talk, breaks us of some of the triggers that get us riled up, brings in more calm and ease, and connects us with others of like-mind.
Connecting with our ancestors, will improve the relationships that we have because we’re gonna get a lot more peace and understanding and gratitude in us for our ancestors. We wouldn’t be here without them. This will also help you feel totally supported. You’re never alone because your ancestors are always there always in your blood. So in a sense, they’re always around you even if you don’t or can’t or won’t see them spiritually yet.
The universe always has your back because you live in it. You’re part of it. You’re a layer of the onion within the onion.
Omniscience God, God Omniscience
You’re a fractal of Omniscience because you’re always a part of something bigger. You are not separate from it. Your Connectedness to yourself and All-There-Is Omniscience is Holism. We use the directions. We use the elements. We will use what we have and learn how to integrate it INTO our daily lives.
This isn’t a course it’s going to try to sell you other stuff.
You’re going to walk away with epiphanies each time. One recent attendee said, “this course opened something inside of me.”
This DE-Program course is a combination of counseling, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), body movement, breathwork, meditation, and process management. One could say it’s a holistic, 360 degree full circle time management course. Or a holistic organizational behavior course. One could call it different things because it is more about opening you to YOU than other programs that, well, PROGRAM you!
Integrating the Spirals: Integrating Nature
Imagine this:
You are a seed planted in the dark earth. Little by little things around you begin to inform you. Everything you hear, smell, taste, touch, and see. Yes, as a seed you have physical senses!
You grow and expand day by day until you eventually burst up and out through the dirt into the light!
Every time you got fertilized (shit on), it served you. Every one of these things stimulated your becoming, your growth. These triggers could have pissed you off or make you mad. And without understanding the cause of those events, you grew up but without a clue as to how or why. You only knew you did. And that you exist.
You knew up was warm and bright. You knew down was dark and cold. You knew nothing else. But still you grew.
You are still growing as you read this, and here’s the key. We all are still growing. And everyone grows at differing rates of speed.
Did you appreciate the dirt? In the winter the seed experiences the opposite. Up is cold and bright. Down is dark and warm!
Can you take a 360 degree view of your life NOW from that perspective and allow your observations to expand your consciousness a bit?
That’s what this course does. It opens you for expansion. Are you ready?
We Are ALL Connected and the decisions of others can and do tug, push, or pull us to the degree we ALLOW. I still believe in personal responsibility because if I influence someone to higher or lower frequency level—I am culpable. Each of us are a layer within the onion, not the whole onion. We are a fractal of Omniscience–and Omniscience knows ALL.
What do you think? Let me know in the comments.
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey (p.s. We’re on TikTok! Search for Spiral Sister)
Have you heard our new smash hit? Let me know what you think in the comments.
In The Mirror, original song by Richard Murrey
Spiral thought: My 4th book is out now, on Amazon. It’s available in paperback and Kindle ebook. It’s on Kindle Unlimited (free to read if you’re a member):
Paperback book cover for Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally–click the cover to go directly to the book on Amazon.
Integrating the Spirals to release anxious thoughts and angst
My online Zoom video course, Integrating the Spirals is helpful now more than ever because I think we could all use more peace and calm in our daily lives.
I’m not a salesperson nor do I believe in stuffing things down anyone’s throat. YOU can let me know if you’re interested in the Integrating the Spirals course. It’s ALL YOUR choice. Wink! HUGS!
As an empath I strive to ease suffering and raise hope. I want to uplift others by practicing what I have learned, till the inner soil with breath—many times, every day—to instill peace and calm. Ahhh…
Be the best version of who you want to be–because if you’re reading my words your soul is probably beckoning you to align with it and live up to your highest ideals. Not perfect because who is perfect? Most stagnate or ‘get stuck’ while on their way to being whatever they think perfection is. Making progress is enough. Carrying your Karma lightly is enough. Be kind to yourself while living responsibly. Who you ARE affects us ALL. We Are All Connected.
Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to all of his songs at: http://listen4music.com
I would love to speak at your bookstore, crystal shop, acupuncture/chiropractor office, natural health foods store, art fair, music, or yoga festival. I support healthy lifestyle businesses.
I’m an Amazon bestselling author of two co-authored books: “Transform Your Life Book 2 Inspirational Stories and Expert Advice” and “Energy of Receiving” available on Amazon.
For more on the DE-Program course I developed in 2020 and am offering again now, Integrating the Spirals, follow us on TikTok “Spiral Sister” and on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeonyour
Introducing a DE-Program course I developed in 2020 and am offering again now, Integrating the Spirals™. If you would rather listen instead of read, play the audio:
Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, wherever you are in the world.
Video introductions
I wanted to include in this post a video that I just shared on Tik Tok. I created this DE-Program and its accompanying introductory video in 2020. It was the pandemic time; It was COVID lock-down time. We were living off-grid in the RV that we owned at the time. We’ve since sold. I was out walking barefoot in the sand. I’ve also posted that video. I guess I can include that as well on this. Just to show you what I was doing. And I was doing this almost every day. Barring the rain, or when the idiot (who you will hear in this video) decides to roar his engine and big truck tires down our dirt road. Imagine hearing that noise on a dirt road, I mean–craziness! But whatever, right? Live and let live. And yeah so when he wasn’t interrupting or when he wasn’t out… he almost hit me one day (that’s really why I’m triggered by him probably more than the noise) and just thinking that he’s the only one in the world. Nobody else’s lives in the neighborhood, or matters. There he goes in his big old pumped up (jacked up) 4×4 pickup truck and goes roaring down the street. Sometimes several times a day, sometimes only a couple times a week.
So anyway, I would just rest on my Faith, right? Not be in fear that I would get out there and walk barefoot in the sand and this is one of the results from those walks. I call it Integrating the Spirals now it was integrated spiral when it first dropped into my mind but the talk goes something like this I’ve shortened it to a bit too–since the 45-minute video that went on Facebook in 2020, almost nobody responded to. So the talk goes like this: (Sorry, WordPress wouldn’t allow me to embed a .MOV file, so I had to embed it from TikTok and hope you can watch it whether you have a TikTok account or not).
Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt held back from sharing your innermost thoughts and feelings on social media. And raise your hand if you’re open to learning simple ways to naturally attract your ideal clients and fans. Sharing your truths is key here and Justin Spencer of chaos and kindness is a prime example for this (the band name is Recycled Percussion if you’re familiar with any of those names). Justin is a prime example. In the area of WoW, motivation entrepreneurship working his ass off since he was 14 or 15 something like, or maybe even younger. And mental health he’s a huge advocate for helping people with their mental health. But like me, he’s not a doctor or a practicing medical professional. So we can only do what we can do right if you need to hear your stuff from a 10-year. schooled Pharma indoctrinated person professional, have at it. But they’ve only caused me issues in my life. I’ll just put it that way. It’s the nicest way that I can possibly say it.
Moving out of fear and struggle
I’m here to share with you how to move out of fear and struggle. I’ve been married three times I’ve raised two children. They’re adults now both in their 40s believe that or not? Yes, I started young. But mostly as a single mom. I got them grown up–whatever you want to call it. I was always working. I was always going to school. I held a mindset, though of struggle. And I was challenged by my second ex-husband who had so many issues he was he’d been fired a gun in my direction one day. And yeah, he was an addict. But through all that, I got to go to a lot of self-help recovery-type programs, group therapies, and such. So you know, always a silver lining.
Dark night of the soul
At one point I nearly committed suicide because I kept making poor choices, and I could hardly make my way out of that spiritually dark place. Even after that, years later, I was faced with a job loss and health crisis previously mentioned about how I lost my faith in the medical profession. The traditional one. That was back in 2004 and 2005. It challenged everything I knew about medical doctors working for corporations and even the law-our justice system is so screwed (thinking back to my cousin’s murder last year).
Honor your innermost being
The teaching point here is to honor your innermost being your inner think inner versus the outer world. Listen, listen to yourself, listen to your body. Meditate. Focus on that breath in. Bring it into as many places and spaces in your body as you can muster. Hold it when you’ve taken in every last little eek bit of air. Just hold it for a few seconds count if you like and then exhale, but exhale for longer than you breathe in. So you would take your breath, let’s say to a count of four, five, or six, whatever you like. Hold it for three, maybe then exhale for 7, 8, 9, 10 and the experts, whether we call them Yogi’s gurus or whatnot, they say if you can make your exhale as silent as possible, you’ve mastered it. You want to make your breath as silent as possible.
Integrating the Spirals
Speak to yourself
So, speak, talk to yourself, record yourself. If you don’t have a partner to talk with. So why might you want to take integrate the spirals? Why might you want to take this course Why do you want to work with me? You don’t know me, right? Even if you know me, do you trust me? Well, for more than 30 years, I’ve been a business analyst means that my brain is always working. I’m always analyzing stuff. It means simply though, I listen. And I ask questions and then I document what I hear back and I run that back by the folks that I just interviewed. And then make sure I captured things correctly, make changes as needed, et cetera. It’s a process. I’m really good at processes. I elicit responses. I’ve been asked in interviews. Well, how do you do that? Well, a lot of it is asking pertinent questions, and staying in the flow of the conversation so that you’re not asking some silly stupid question that doesn’t make a hill of beans worth of sense. To somebody who’s just poured out their heart to you, you know, you want to stay on point on the topic. Be with them and be present. That’s really the key to that.
Listen to yourself and others intently
Be so good at listening, that you can pick up the repetitive words people use. That’s so key. Listen for the repetitive words. I know those words tell so much of what that person is thinking. I know we can ascertain different outcomes by changing these words because we SAY what we THINK. It’s in us. There’s that inner world stuff again. Right? We’ve been saying these words to ourselves, for the first four years. You know, who is that observer in you? Who’s that person that’s in that voice in your head that that’s in there talking all the time, right? That person that’s saying, I don’t know if I want to do that. I don’t know if I want to go there. You know those words. That person (talking in your head) is the judging person. It’s your inner critic. People have said it’s the dark angel on your shoulder, versus the light one. The Light Angel is suggesting good things, positive stuff, uplifting stuff for you to do today. Well, that Dark Angel, that’s the one that’s saying he or she or you, is an idiot. Don’t call yourself that. You’re just unlearned at that moment. Even when I call the loud driver, the guy in the truck an idiot. That’s because I’m triggered that’s coming from a lower point in my vibration. So he’s really not an idiot person. Let’s hope not anyway because he got a license somehow. We assume so. And he’s driving. So he has hands and feet that work right–even though he tried to run me down.
Criticizing and judging never works
Anyway, all that criticizing and judgment stuff. That will never work. It’s just not helpful. That I can’t when I make poor choices, dammit. To Die For. How many times you hear people say, “This is so good; This food is so delicious it’s to die for”? Don’t say that. Just don’t do that. Stop that. And when you hear people say this phrase what? When they say, “Who do they think they are?” We’re your inner critic saying that to you? Who do you think you are? Right? You’re, you know, a pretty smart person. And you have options and you have choices and the world is your oyster kind of thing. Right? So all those words that are stuck inside of you, it becomes overwhelming. Who do we think we are? Well, I’ll tell you who I am. I’m spirit wrapped in an earthly plant. Based body.
What are we made of?
I am really plant nature-based (in this body) whatever you want to call it. I’m an animal, I guess I’m part animal, part plant, but I’m definitely part of the plant world. I’m part of the natural world. I wasn’t machined in a factory. So I’m natural. This body that I inhabit is natural. I am a spirit. I’m from somewhere else. The great Yeshua or Jesus the Christ or the person that you know of whom I’m speaking the man from Nazareth in Galilee, who walked and talked and taught people 2000 years ago. He said that to be in the world, not of the world. And that used to be as a child one of my favorite scriptures to meditate on at night after the nighttime prayer. I would just lay there thinking what does that mean that only differences a couple of very short words and in you know, be in it, but not have it like you’re not of this world? You didn’t know, it’s a very deep vast chasm. When you fall into that thinking and meditate on that. What does that really mean?
When stuck in overwhelm or unworthiness
So, if you’re stuck in overwhelm if you’re stuck in unworthiness, that’s a big one, everybody at those AA meetings and recovery-type meetings is always unworthy, always feeling unworthy. unworthiness is always at the bottom of everything, every place where they get to eventually, there’s always guilt or shame, one or the other, both. But all the shit they did that they felt bad about. Probably shouldn’t have done it, but they get stuck in victimhood, too. That’s a big one, right? Victimhood, blaming stuff on everybody else because why? You don’t want to change. You don’t want to do anything about it. You want to remain just as you are and make the whole world around you change. Yeah, that’s what all the wars are fought about. Or imposter syndrome. Impostor Syndrome. That’s, that’s good too because that’d be like me writing a holistic health book. Right when I’m not a doctor. Am I an imposter? Apathy, apathy is huge. Goes back to that. I don’t give a shit attitude and I don’t want to change but I want the whole world to change to suit me. Never going to happen, folks. Wake up. Big lightbulb moment for you there if you thought you were gonna try to control anything around you.
Apathy
How about the “F-U-C-K that,” right? How about that? That’s right, walking hand in hand with apathy. They’re right. Just not giving a shit; not giving a crap; not given a care, right? And I’m not saying hey, there’s right and wrong to these things. Sometimes it’s good to sit with some of these things. It’s healing you know, you’re letting your feelings rise, cry, let it out. Heal. So all we’re doing we’re all we’re doing is excavating here running a big bulldozer or ditch witch or whatever kind of machinery you’re familiar with a shovel is over you and your mind and your mindset so that you can shake things up and get rid of some you know, just shake the dust off the dirt out, unclutter your mind and help you gain more sense of purpose and balance. help your body heal when you can really some of these negative critical thinking thoughts critical as in you being critical of yourself.
Bless it!
So what might change for us in our lives in our businesses, if we said God bless it instead of Damn it, you know, or I love it instead of effort. Right? Just bless it as God bless it that guy and big loud truck this will all makes sense when you watch the video on town. Yeah, I didn’t have it. planned. I didn’t pay the guy. He was right on cue. It was the synchronicity I mean, it was just so undeniable that that was a synchronicity. It felt right in line with what I was talking about being triggered, and, and he was a trigger for me. I admit it. I have. I have no guilt or shame in admitting that.
Blooming
We can bloom where we’re planted. That’s a good phrase to say to oneself every day I can bloom where I’m planted. One I’ve been saying to Richard a lot lately is, “We’re gonna go where we’re celebrated, not tolerated.” Because I have a feeling that some people just quit caring and you know, they were just tolerating us (for the money we spent while we were out with them. Maybe?). So that’s okay. You know, everybody’s got their own gig, right? Go where you’re celebrated, baby. I mean, let’s spin it to the positive. Every challenge is a barometer. That’s what it is. Look up what a barometer does, when you’re when it’s reading the weather, you know? It’s gonna show us if we’re living our truth, that’s what all these words are doing. They’re showing us if we’re living our truth, and if you’re not thinking first you’re reacting. Okay?
About the Integrating the Spirals meetings
So Integrating the Spirals. I’m thinking about doing these Zoom calls on Sundays from 1pm to 3pm. Tuesdays from 5pm to 7pm, although that’s our dinner time. We’ll change things up one day a week (as for our dinner time) so I have time for this. This DE-Program, if you like that particular time frame, these are Eastern Time Zone times. Or Fridays from 6pm to 8pm. Or I could do anytime on Saturdays.
Let me know in the comments if you’re interested in joining me for this course, initially, since we’re essentially beta testing this right now, I’m thinking there won’t be any charge to it. If you’ll do me a favor. Can you spread the word, share this out? Share this message and tell some people about it. That’d be great.
I also think I want to do a sliding scale in the future when I do charge for this. Let me know what you think about that too. I’m thinking we’ll charge maybe $10 a session, or $25 to $60 for the whole course (but pay as you feel led or what you can afford). And it’s probably going to be take four sessions, but I’m thinking of making it five or six and spreading it out a little because it’s a lot of information. And the whole point is to integrate it in. I just don’t want people to buy things or spend any money at all. Don’t send me one dime if you’re not going to integrate this because that’s the whole point.
We do this course because we all have the books! (And the programs, and the coaches, etc.) I’ve downsized as much as I possibly felt I could but I still have a library of two medium-sized Rubbermaid totes full of books, and then a few more on top of that, so I probably have 30 or 40 books still in paperback and hardcover. I’ve moved as much as I can to Kindle and my Books app. I’ve always got between six and 12 books that I’m reading in progress at any given time, mostly for research for writing the blog and for my books in progress/planned.
Connecting
Anyway, let me know about Integrating the Spiral because this is useful as a book writing process as well. Just learning the DE-Program, getting out of the negative self-talk, and breaking some of the triggers that get us riled up, to bring in more calm and ease and connecting. I didn’t even talk about this yet. Connect. Connecting with our ancestors, will improve the relationships that we have because we’re gonna get a lot more peace and understanding and gratitude in us for our ancestors and we wouldn’t it be here without them. So feel your pulse feel. Know that their blood runs through your veins this will help connect you and it’ll also help you feel totally supported. You’re never alone because your ancestors are always there always in your blood. So in a sense, they’re always around you even if you don’t or can’t or won’t see them spiritually yet. The universe always has your back because you live in it. You’re part of it. You’re a layer of the onion within the onion.
Omniscience God
God Omniscience. You’re a fractal of omniscience because you’re always a part. You’re always a part of it. So it doesn’t exist separate from you. And your connectedness to yourself. That inner critic, the inner being inside of you, your spiritual nature, your soul that’s in your blood, all of that is key, and it’s really holism that’s what I’m teaching is Holism we use the directions we use the elements. We use crystals that you don’t have to use any of that because once you know it, and once you know about it, you can go anywhere and walk anywhere and do anything and these things will either be presented to you or pictures of them or humans. They’re just going to be there. They’re going to be out in nature. So don’t worry about that. This isn’t a course it’s going to try to sell you other stuff.
You’re going to walk away with epiphanies each time. It’s a kind of combination of counseling, and EFT the Emotional Freedom Technique. I used to teach that for a very long time at a Wellness Center. So you get some of that. You get me as a shaman or a witch doctor or however you want to look at me. We’re going to talk about holistic lessons on how to improve our life and our health. I just codified my lessons learned from life, from work, and I let my spirit totem butterfly push me out of my cocoon to live a wholly vibrant life.
A seed was planted in the dark earth imagine it starts to burst up and out through the dirt into the light, so every time you get shit on, somebody triggers you, somebody pisses you off and makes you mad. They’re stimulating you. They’re stimulating your growth. Imagine the dirt, the manure, whatever you want to imagine, around you as the little seed and all you got to do is just be you just be the seed, and when the light warms up the ground, you know where the light is versus going into the cold darkness of the deeper Earth. You’re gonna rise UP, you’re gonna rise to the occasion and reach for that light for that warmth. And you’re growing. We all are and we all grow at differing rates. of speed. I say that a lot.
Here’s the thing about integrating if you change one habit daily, think about that one habit. I didn’t just say do something once a day, but you’re changing a habit every day that’s 365 days in the year 365 new habits Who do you think you’ll be at the end of the year? So this course encourages you to make additional healthy choices. Even if you make 300 By the end of the year, even if you made 200, or 150 new habits. Who are you going to be at the end of the year? So think about it. Watch the video. Let me know what you think.
We Are ALL Connected and the decisions of others can and do tug, push, or pull us to the degree we ALLOW. I still believe in personal responsibility because if I influence someone to higher or lower frequency level—I am culpable. Each of us are a layer within the onion, not the whole onion. We are a fractal of Omniscience–and Omniscience knows ALL.
What do you think? Let me know in the comments.
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey (p.s. We’re on TikTok! Search for Spiral Sister)
Have you heard our new smash hit? Let me know what you think in the comments.
In The Mirror, original song by Richard Murrey
Spiral thought: My 4th book is out now, on Amazon. It’s available in paperback and Kindle ebook. It’s on Kindle Unlimited (free to read if you’re a member):
Paperback book cover for Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally–click the cover to go directly to the book on Amazon.
Integrating the Spirals to release anxious thoughts and angst
My online Zoom video course, Integrating the Spirals is helpful now more than ever because I think we could all use more peace and calm in our daily lives.
I’m not a salesperson nor do I believe in stuffing things down anyone’s throat. YOU can let me know if you’re interested in the Integrating the Spirals course. It’s ALL YOUR choice. Wink! HUGS!
As an empath I strive to ease suffering and raise hope. I want to uplift others by practicing what I have learned, till the inner soil with breath—many times, every day—to instill peace and calm. Ahhh…
Be the best version of who you want to be–because if you’re reading my words your soul is probably beckoning you to align with it and live up to your highest ideals. Not perfect because who is perfect? Most stagnate or ‘get stuck’ while on their way to being whatever they think perfection is. Making progress is enough. Carrying your Karma lightly is enough. Be kind to yourself while living responsibly. Who you ARE affects us ALL. We Are All Connected.
Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to all of his songs at: http://listen4music.com
I would love to speak at your bookstore, crystal shop, acupuncture/chiropractor office, natural health foods store, art fair, music, or yoga festival. I support healthy lifestyle businesses.
I’m an Amazon bestselling author of two co-authored books: “Transform Your Life Book 2 Inspirational Stories and Expert Advice” and “Energy of Receiving” available on Amazon.
For more on the DE-Program course I developed in 2020 and am offering again now, follow us on TikTok “Spiral Sister” and on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeonyour
So, I had three fraudulent charges show up on my credit card this morning, which triggered a text message to my phone and woke me up. If you would rather listen instead of read, play the audio:
The fraudulent charges
In the early morning hours on Friday someone fraudulently charged my credit card for nearly $600 worth of stuff at Verizon Wireless via the internet.
The $1 charges were a test to see if the card worked. Then they ran it for the large amount of around $564 and change.
Pexels code image
What could have caused this?
I have recently added the TikTok app to my phone and a couple other apps. Kicking myself over that as I had removed all superfluous apps from my phone a year or more ago when we were hacked twice in a year! Ugh
Could it have been related to a disgruntled Instacart driver? I had put in an order for groceries on Wednesday night to have them delivered between 8-10am on Thursday, and they have always been on time or early! But nooo… not this time. They sent a message at 9 saying the shopper just got my order and would deliver at 11:15am! Normally, that would be okay but Thursday we had to walk to my husband’s doctor appointment!! Grrr! So, I chatted with the shopper and said no, and explained I had put the order in the night before and we were not going to be home. She was short with me (rude) and eventually told me I would have to contact Instacart to reschedule. I did but whoever I talked with didn’t do her job right and an hour later, another shopper started shopping our order. Again I said NO I rescheduled for 2pm!! She said they couldn’t cancel and I had to call Instacart AGAIN. Now, I am pissed. So, I called and the gentleman I spoke to apologized and changed or order to 3:30-5pm. Now, we wouldn’t have our lunch but at least frozen fish wouldn’t be left outside our door to melt. Ugh.
We walked to the doctors office and I worked on my own mental attitude to “let it go.”
The funny thing was the wonderful lady shopper who delivered our groceries at 4pm spent time explaining she could see all the former texts between the earlier shoppers and me. I apologized but she said, no, they should have apologized to me because I did nothing wrong and both the earlier ones were lazy! She said they CAN remove or shift an order though both told me they couldn’t. And that there was a glitch for her to see the texts that day. Normally, they can’t see the texts between previous shoppers and the customer, which then stuck in my head when the fraud charges happened! What else could they see?!? They scan our drivers license when we have wine delivered!
This is how my mind works.
Removed several apps from my iPhone
So, I removed about 6 apps from my phone and will use my laptop for everything except Uber and Lyft. I may owe my career to Bill Gates and technology but I am getting to the place of hating it due to cyber crimes! And Cyber is HUGE business!
Spiral thought: this is what aggravates me about some in the health field. They can’t admit when their industry is wrong. I admit technology has its evils. I have desired to leave tech for a very long time!
Back to the issue of Cybersecurity though.
Connections
I am sooo thankful our niece is studying for her Masters degree in Cyber Security!
I needed to calm down and put my angst into something actionable so I texted my sister-in-law to relay a message to her daughter that if she had time we had been hacked. She did and not long after, our niece chatted with me (and I sent her screenshots) of what happened. I also explained what my credit card company told me as well as the business involved, and she agreed it sucked to have this happen but to try and just let them work through the process.
First, one puts a freeze on the card. Then you report the fraud charge and report the card lost/stolen. Now, my card wasn’t lost or stolen but my account number was, so I don’t know how someone got that, along with my zip code and security code, expiration date, etc. But I am quite sure the financial institutions can figure it out.
Whoever bought something through Verizon Wireless online (because the stores were closed when the charges occurred), would probably use their real name and address, just my card info to pay nearly $600 for whatever, new service, phone, or such.
In the meantime, the credit card company will remove the charges on my account, but it still means that I can’t use my card for up to 10 days, as they have to change my account number and mail me a new card! Ugh!
And when I get my new card I will have to update all the places I use it for recurring charges. Ugh!
But I know we can’t kill all the hackers. (And yes, that’s always the extreme version of the thought process and how wars get started. The human need or drive for vengeance, justice, or CONTROL—we will just call it what it is).
We Are ALL Connected and the decisions of others can and do tug, push, or pull us to the degree we ALLOW. I still believe in personal responsibility because if I influence someone to higher or lower frequency—I am culpable. Omniscience knows ALL.
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey (p.s. We’re on TikTok! Search for Spiral Sister)
Here’s our newest song, which I feel is destined to be a smash hit! Let me know what you think:
In The Mirror, original song by Richard Murrey
Spiral thought: My 4th book is out now, on Amazon. It’s available in paperback and Kindle ebook. It’s on Kindle Unlimited (free to read if you’re a member):
Paperback book cover for Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally–click the cover to go directly to the book on Amazon.
Integrating the Spirals to release anxious thoughts and angst
My online Zoom video course, Integrating the Spirals is helpful now more than ever because I think we could all use more peace and calm in our daily lives.
I’m not a salesperson nor do I believe in stuffing things down anyone’s throat. YOU can let me know if you’re interested in the Integrating the Spirals course. It’s ALL YOUR choice. Wink! HUGS!
As an empath I strive to ease suffering and raise hope. I want to uplift others by practicing what I have learned, till the inner soil with breath—many times, every day—to instill peace and calm. Ahhh…
Be the best version of who you want to be–because if you’re reading my words your soul is probably beckoning you to align with it and live up to your highest ideals. Not perfect because who is perfect? Most stagnate or ‘get stuck’ while on their way to being whatever they think perfection is. Making progress is enough. Carrying your Karma lightly is enough. Be kind to yourself while living responsibly. Who you ARE affects us ALL. We Are All Connected.
Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to all of his songs at: http://listen4music.com
I would love to speak at your bookstore, crystal shop, acupuncture/chiropractor office, natural health foods store, art fair, music, or yoga festival. I support healthy lifestyle businesses.
I’m an Amazon bestselling author of two co-authored books: “Transform Your Life Book 2 Inspirational Stories and Expert Advice” and “Energy of Receiving” available on Amazon.
For more on fraudulent charges, cybersecurity, triggers, and text messages (kidding!), follow us on TikTok “Spiral Sister” and on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeonyour
I sent the following list to my Reiki group when my Reiki teacher asked one of the others to find out why I wasn’t coming to the Reiki Masters weekend class that NOW they want to have June 17th/18th.
The class date has already changed multiple times—and one was due to my request from having to work one weekend. Thus, I was flexible and canceled our vacation, which was to be this week when the class was set for June 3rd/4th. I say this to admit the lens of irritation I am looking through at the moment.
In the order of importance, my reasoning for not attending is:
1) I can no longer leave Richard for a whole day (much less two days in a row)
2) I have no car and taking Uber/Lyft is too expensive, hassle of riding alone (Richard always goes with me anywhere in Uber/Lyft when/wherever I have to go)
3) No one has came to see us/visit, etc. Not just from Reiki but the other friends we have had here for 6 years and I am feeling effects of that – the yin/yang and push/pull kind of energy disturbance. Now, I am distancing us from others as I perceive this whole flux of energy—be it right or wrong; that’s what it is
4) I know my Reiki master teacher and other friend there are probably enjoying the avocado trees I brought over when we had a rental car, (neither could visit us to pickup the trees, so we went out of our way to drop them off a month or so ago). No one has sent me any updates or pictures, thank you’s or what not of the trees. And yes, little things like that add up to me. Actions speak louder than words. If I hadn’t started making this list, because someone couldn’t accept No as a complete sentence, I probably wouldn’t have realized this annoys me, but I guess it does. I realize everyone is busy and that the trees are small things. But I put a lot of money, time, love, and Reiki energy into those. And I am human. And now, yes, by choice, homebound. So, the lack of any updates is magnified.
5) I am running a Power of 8 group now via Zoom, so I think my desire of group Connection is fulfilled
6) I am running another course, marketing books, music, and still working my job, which keeps me busy – so my mental plate is FULL and I don’t feel it is necessary anymore to complete the Masters Reiki. No one is taking me up on my offers of prayers or Reiki support either. Or at least, not many, and my other health business is taking off.
7) I miss several others from our earlier Reiki circles (the Tuesday nights) and thankfully, one has reached out to me for other reasons than why I am choosing not to attend the masters training. I really am not feeling pity for myself. I humbly remain in Gratitude for ALL.
Thanks to James Young (Facebook friend) and alex elle for this exquisite meme: “there will be moments in life when showing up for yourself will mean leaving behind the people who don’t.” –alex elle
Updated Blue Eyes: Ethereal Messages of Connection
I had a few small items to correct in the ebook and that is done. I have to update the paperback version as well.
Joined new writing group on Facebook
I am now in an Akashic Records writing group on Facebook. It’s a paid private group that meets twice a month for about an hour each time, on zoom.
Started writing a new book!
I have a name for the new book and have started getting my notes together in Scrivener for it! Curious of its name? It is something I have blogged about and say many times. Let me know in the comments.
Decluttering laptop
Checking off moving tasks
Uship – setup moving request in draft
Found a Uhaul place in Ocala near one of the possible apartment communities in case there’s any issues with Uship
I feel I can do most of the move myself if need be but I will take a week off to do it
Have three potential apartment communities to call to get final availability on June 15th for August 20th move-in – one called today and sent us two potential unit numbers to check the community map to see which we might like
Started packing our bedroom this past weekend
Ordered more totes from Thirty-One for organizing/packing
Using up food stored in the kitchen so we will have less to move
Seeking a way to travel to New Hampshire this summer
We don’t want to fly, but we are open to traveling by train (though to reach our destination will require us changing trains three times or more, plus still renting a car and driving a hundred miles or so for the last bit).
I think it would be lovely to travel with a group of like-minded friends and add some sacred site stops in along the way! I have a list of places we could see and fantastic AirBnB places to stay as well. Anyone interested in that? We could make the trip 10-14 days in length. Florida to New Hampshire and back. Let me know in the comments.
One of my cousins called and offered to fly to Florida and drive us in a rental RV or van to NH. We are thinking about it.
Finding ease within responsibility
We Are ALL Connected and the decisions of others can and do tug, push, or pull us to the degree we ALLOW. I still believe in personal responsibility because if I influence someone to higher or lower frequency—I am culpable. Omniscience knows ALL.
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey (p.s. We’re on TikTok! Search for Spiral Sister)
Here’s our newest song, which I feel is destined to be a smash hit! Let me know what you think:
In The Mirror, original song by Richard Murrey
Spiral thought: My 4th book is out now, on Amazon. It’s available in paperback and Kindle ebook. It’s on Kindle Unlimited (free to read if you’re a member):
Paperback book cover for Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally–click the cover to go directly to the book on Amazon.
Integrating the Spirals to release loneliness and suffering
My online Zoom video course, Integrating the Spirals is helpful now more than ever because I know people are feeling lonely and suffering all sorts of things. I’m not a salesperson nor do I believe in stuffing things down anyone’s throat. YOU can let me know if you’re interested in the Integrating the Spirals course. It’s ALL YOUR choice. Wink! HUGS!
As an empath I strive to ease suffering and raise hope. I want to uplift others by practicing what I have learned, till the inner soil with breath—many times, every day—to instill peace and calm. Ahhh…
Be the best version of who you want to be–because if you’re reading my words your soul is probably beckoning you to align with it and live up to your highest ideals. Not perfect because who is perfect? Most stagnate or ‘get stuck’ while on their way to being whatever they think perfection is. Making progress is enough. Carrying your Karma lightly is enough. Be kind to yourself while living responsibly. Who you ARE affects us ALL. We Are All Connected.
Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to all of his songs at: http://listen4music.com
I would love to speak at your bookstore, crystal shop, acupuncture/chiropractor office, natural health foods store, art fair, music, or yoga festival. I support healthy lifestyle businesses.
I’m an Amazon bestselling author of two co-authored books: “Transform Your Life Book 2 Inspirational Stories and Expert Advice” and “Energy of Receiving” available on Amazon.
A big irritation can cause us to make different choices. A little irritation can prompt a blog. As I work to let go of the bigness of the following story, I realize in the big scheme of things, this is a little irritation–though I will not use FedEx again if I have the choice. Writing about what happened helps me feel lighter and soothes the irritation I feel. But I also want FedEx to know they could provide better customer service.. It became glaringly obvious to me (through dealing with them this past week) that a shipper should not offer a pickup service without also providing a label– they are the ones that need the label and have it in their system!
To listen instead of read, play the audio (sorry about the pops in the mic. I’ll work on that for next time):
Reflecting on an irritating task that took all week
Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening.
I just woke up so I will take this moment to breathe in. Breathe in, breathe in. Breathe in with directed breaths. Breathing in a little more. A little more. filling all of my lungs. My diaphragm. My tummy. Directing the breath to the back of my lungs. Top, front, bottom, belly, hold, hold, hold the breath right up to the tippy top of my head and release the breath. Releasing the breath very slowly, even slower than I brought the breath in. Like I’m breathing out through a straw and very quietly, as quietly as possible. That’s how you know you’re doing it right. And just like my dogs used to shake, or stretch, do the downward dog, get the air into the body. Let all the cells of the body rejuvenate. And then stretch or shake.
What I’ve attempted to write about several times this week, and I haven’t yet–I’m going to give you now. You can’t make this stuff up. (laughing a bit) It’s really funny in retrospect, but at the time, it was frustrating. Isn’t that the way life goes? Sometimes.
So what happened was I had an issue with my work laptop and it needed to go back to the company. And my company deals with FedEx (for shipping). They have a corporate account with FedEx.
Monday
My company sent me an email last Monday. I woke up to that email, saying that FedEx would be here to pick up the laptop. Anytime that day, from like, 9:30 am to eight o’clock at night or something. Okay, but I had no previous notice of that. So I was sitting there reading the email thinking, well, that’s great, but I don’t have a printer to print this label that they’ve emailed me. I don’t have a box. I mean, the laptop originally came in a box that was like storage, a little storage box. It was kind of thin but nice, you know with a little bit of a molded insert in that box. It had a place for the little adapter and such. Right?
So I thought, but I can’t ship it in that. I’ll put it in that box, but I can’t ship it only in that box. I would still need a shipping box. And of course, we don’t have a car so I thought well, I’ll have to Uber or Lyft over to the UPS store to get a box to print the label that was kind of what I was thinking. And then I thought well, you know, let me just let my company know. That I’m just reading the email at 10 am on Monday. And FedEx could be here at any time but I don’t have a printer and I don’t have a car.
So I wrote them back. I thought let me try the Easy, easy way first right? Never known to ask, have not because you asked not most of the time. I emailed this gentleman back who had sent me the email with my company. And I just told him that I said you know I don’t have a car anymore and I don’t have a printer to print this label email me. I appreciate this but I’m just now reading your email. They could be here any time. What do you suggest?
Had I known about a day before a couple of days before whatever. That’s what I would have done right? Go to the UPS store which is a mile away. It’s a little too far for me to walk and print the label and I’d have been prepared in other words, right? He writes me back and said, FedEx probably has a way to print the label–when they pick it up and I believe they even have packaging on the truck. You know that you can pack it when they get there. So I thought okay, cool. Silly me was thinking why else would they have pickup service if they couldn’t help people to package their stuff? Wrong! I’ll get into it in a minute. I decided not to worry about it. We’ll see what happens when they get here.
So that afternoon, I think it was between noon and two o’clock. Nice. FedEx drivers. She stops, lady. Real nice lady. Very informative, and very educational. She takes a look at the laptop. In the box. I had it in the box and everything so she could see exactly what I was shipping back and she said well let me let me go the truck get you a box. Do you have your label I suppose they emailed me a label. I don’t have a printer. Oh, well. She said I can’t print the label. They have to when they put the order in. They have to specify that the driver printed the label. She said there’s a way to do that. And if they do it that way, then I can print the label. She said because I’ve done it for other people but she checked she was on our little handheld machine and she said I can’t print your label. But I’ve printed labels for other people because it comes in from FedEx, from corporate FedEx in a different way. Whatever that means. Right? Now I’m not looking at her machine. How do I know and such but she said hold on let me go and get your box at least you have it boxed up and ready. And then all your company has to do is resubmit for pickup and check the box or fill in you know whatever they have to fill in on there and for me to be able to print the label. So I’m like okay, so I didn’t want to argue the point with her. I’m not gonna tell her how to do her job, nor would I know how to do her job right. But as a systems person, I could imagine that Yes. She was probably right that there was probably a checkbox or the directions or something that when you fill in to have them do the pickup, you can ask the driver to print the label. Mean It only makes sense, right? Why in the world, would FedEx have a pickup service but expect people to have a box and a printer at home to mail their package? It just doesn’t make it’s not logical to me and seems quite ridiculous that they would expect somebody to own a printer if you don’t have a car or a means to go and take the package to a FedEx store.
So that was the first cause of irritation. me thinking through their process and what it should be if you consider customer service and if you consider logic. That’s the way it should go right?
So I put the laptop (she even stands at the door) in the box and she said, “Oh, okay, well does it fit? Is it gonna fit?” I was like yeah, you know, I think if I put this in first and that in next, turn it this way, whatever and she’s like, oh, yeah, and then the box can even pouch out a little bit if you need it to for the AC plug the electrical plug. Because you know those things are a little bulky. Yeah, so I got it in there. She’s like, okay, great. That looks good. So yeah, just have them read and she tells me everything. Again, you know, like I’m an idiot, but whatever. So I listen to that. It’s like a 5-10-minute little chitty chat at the door. Right. And I think or and you know, she’s happy goes, walks away. I’m relatively how much happy or could I be because I’m still dealing with the laptop, right?
So I go back to my new work computer. And I email work and I tell the gentleman, this is what just happened. So he goes to put in a new request. To have them come back the next day to print the labor one he sends me screenshots of what he’s filling in and he said so Sheila, I don’t see where I should be making this request. LOL You know, like he’s trying to have fun with this situation. So I wrote him back and said, Well, what about this area? Can you click there and take another screenshot so that I can see what’s behind it, you know, a little drop-down arrow and stuff like that? So we go back and forth in our email several times. Meanwhile, the lady that I work with, she’s chatting with me and sending me emails too, because I have like regular work to do as well as this (laptop) stuff going on. So I’m kind of handling you know, I’m juggling my tasks, I’m handling things and kind of trying to direct him to which I’ve never requested a FedEx pickup. It was the first time I’m seeing it too.
So I said, “Well, hang on and let me get back to you.” I looked a little bit further. I didn’t Google it or anything like that, which I guess I could have done that would have probably helped. But as I said, I was busy doing other things. So I went back to the label a few minutes later, and I said “Oh, look, here’s a field, which was what I was looking for initially, that you could fill in with text character field.” And it was limiting you to 25 characters, but I thought well, that’s fine. We’ll just say driver, print label. Print upon pickup or something like that, right? It was a free-form text field. So let’s make up something that’s short but descriptive for the driver, right? Or for the company to know to be able to do whatever they need to do on FedEx and to get the driver to understand they need to print the label. All right. So that’s what we did. I suggested to him what to type in that box and sent him the email and thought, okay, great, that’s handled. That’s all we need to do, right?
Again, any rational person logical person would think that.
Tuesday
So, Tuesday, nobody shows up.
Wednesday
Wednesday, nobody shows up. I thought, “If they don’t show up by five o’clock on Wednesday. I need to email the company back and say that FedEx hasn’t shown up again. So I don’t know. (I might ask him) “Did you hit the Submit when you sent that request again”? Do I need to take an Uber or Lyft ride over to the FedEx store and just take care of this? I mean, I didn’t want to sit on it all week. I didn’t know how fast they needed the old laptop back. Like I said, it had problems with it. So it wasn’t like it was a brand-new laptop I was sending back anyway. It’s gonna have to be refurbished.
Thursday
So Thursday morning, I get an email saying they’re gonna be here to pick it up. Presumably with the printed label, right? Between I think it was like 4 and 6 pm or something and I thought, okay, that’s weird. And then the more I looked at that label, that was something that had Monday’s date on it (the previous Monday). I laughed to myself and thought, “This is probably not right. You know, it’s probably not going to happen.” So I went ahead and priced what it was going to cost to take the Lyft ride or the Uber ride–Lyft was a little bit cheaper–over to the FedEx store.
I went ahead and did some legwork. I called the FedEx store and the Walgreens store. Because I’ve I just have this thought that well, they are maybe I better just double check. Maybe they won’t print the label at Walgreens because the closest FedEx drop-off store or point for me would be the nearest Walgreens. I know that sounds weird as Walgreens is a pharmacy but they also do photo print at Walgreens. I think I’ve even had photos printed there in the past so of course I’ll just print the label there. slap it on the box, and that’ll be it. I could almost walk there. But against like, right on the edge of being a little too far to walk. So I called them first because I could just have this vision of me being with the Uber driver, you know, or whatever or the Lyft driver and them saying, no, they couldn’t help me or whatever, you know something going wrong, so I thought I better just call double check. I did and I’m glad I did because she said Walgreens said they cannot print the label and I thought well that’s ridiculous too I mean, where’s their customer service if you’re dropping off a package and let’s say you’ve even got it in a box, but you don’t have the label and somebody’s emailed you the label? You know, somebody needs to be able to print this label. And I said well don’t you print pictures anymore? And she said, Well, yeah, but they can’t print the label. I mean, it just makes no sense to me whatsoever. So I said, “I’m glad I called first. Thanks.”
You know, so then I called my UPS store because that’s traditionally where I go. That’s why we don’t have a printer because we print stuff something like once a year why would I even have a printer? And if I don’t have a car Why would I have a printer? I mean, that doesn’t make sense either. So oh my goodness. I go ahead and call them and they’re like, Well, yeah, so I can go to the UPS store to print the FedEx label and then walk it across the street to the Walgreens store to drop it off. That’s what I was gonna do. Thursday, by the way, and they still didn’t have the label printed after all of that. And I suppose my company requested specifically that you print the label we filled in the form and said driver print label. No no, and she was adamant. This one was a different lady, adamant that they don’t print the labels, and almost seemed irritated with me. So I was just like, whatever you know, and just let her walk away. I didn’t even try to you know go over it several times. Right. That was Thursday.
Friday
Friday morning I woke up thinking, “Oh, I could go to my community office” where we live in this 55 Plus subdivision. They don’t offer many amenities here but they have a pool they have a pool table. They have a couple of us pieces, workout equipment, and they have a business office and there’s usually one or two ladies there all day long. Except for lunch. And they do. I don’t know accounting or whatever they do when people buy a unit in here they help them they have paperwork and application you have to fill out you have to they have to do background checks on people, you know that kind of stuff, right? So they’re a little mini business office if you will, but there’s no and this is key. There’s no open area business office like you see in some apartment communities because we’ve been looking at the apartment communities and they’ve all shown us where you can go and sit and use their computer and their printer and all of that they have an open business office for residents, but we don’t have that here. But I thought being that they have a little office area behind one of those half doors where the tops open and the bottom is closed, you know, their little safe and secure in there. I thought they would probably be able to help me it’s one piece of paper by the way. I mean, how difficult is one piece of paper to print? Right?
So I walk to the community center business office. And I asked them nicely, “Can you help me? Is there a way that I can get a piece of paper printed?” I had it both on a thumb drive and my phone as an email thinking one way or the other. Right if they don’t want to put a USB drive into their computer because they’re afraid of getting a computer virus. Understand that I was doing everything in my power to head off any potential issue. Okay. Now, she said we don’t do that anymore. She went further and said we’re not allowed to do that anymore for people for residents. Because she knew I was a resident because I had to have a special key to get into the building. Yeah, that’s another thing. But no, so she couldn’t help me. She could not print one piece of paper. So I thank her for nothing, right? I didn’t say that. But that’s how I felt.
I turned around and I walk away and I walk back home. And on the way back home. Yes, the thought. Hit me and this is why I probably said enough and sold the car. And you knew that that was probably coming right? Yep, that thought dropped in. Okay, Sheila, but how often do these kinds of things happen?
You know what? (thinking to myself) When you sold the car you told yourself and Richard this is, you know, the money that we’re saving every month not having the car if you have to take the occasional Lyft or Uber ride and it’s 20 bucks or whatever it is. Just do it and don’t complain about it. Don’t fuss about it. It’s just part of life, the right things happen. So I go ahead, come back. And I just said since I’m dressed and I’ve already been out I’ve already had a nice discussion with somebody. I will go ahead and just do it now. Now mind you, it’s Friday morning, this past Friday. I’ve been dealing with this all week. And I was done. I was just over it–having made those phone calls the day before.
I thought even though the Walgreens UPS Store combo was closer, I thought, “Why don’t I just go to the actual FedEx store,” right? I thought let me just do that. It’s further than Uber. That Lyft will cost more, but at least I’ll know that I can do it in one place. Go to the proverbial horse’s mouth right? Surely nothing could go wrong there. They’re FedEx. I have a FedEx email label. I have Yeah. Right. I have it in the FedEx box from the driver. What could go wrong? I didn’t even think about what could go wrong. So imagine my surprise when Richard and I (because he didn’t want me to go alone). We get the Lyft driver. All of that goes beautifully. Well, wonderfully well. We enjoyed the conversation with our Lyft driver. She was lovely. Pleasant lady. Good.
Get over to FedEx. I even check on the Lyft app that they’re allowed to wait for you for five minutes. I was like, Cool. I get up to the door. There’s a little older man kind of trying to beat me to the door at FedEx, you know, and I thought well, that’s okay. You know, let him go. He opens the door for me. I thought what a nice surprise. He opens the door. I say thank you. I go and he lets me go first. The clerk is now just becoming available. There were two clerks there.
I put the box on the counter and said I have a number for the label and my phone. I pull up the number. At first, I misspoke I said it was a return because, in my mind, it is a return but to them, it’s not a return. So I quickly amended my statement. I have a shipping label in my phone. Also. I had taken the extra step of getting the little number that they send you because if you’re going to an actual FedEx store, you can let them know in advance and they send you a number and the number corresponds to your label that you already have and that of course that I had emailed to me and in my phone as well. So she is already a little bit put out with me. I don’t know why, but I think just because I said that statement a little bit differently than she was expecting right off the bat. But she asked me again about the number. I tell her and she puts it in and then she goes to another computer. And she kind of looks back at me from a little bit further away and asks, “What’s in that?” And I said, “It’s a laptop.” And she said, “That box isn’t big enough (for a laptop) How thin is it? It’ll get damaged.” So, I stand there for a minute thinking FedEx gave me the flippin box, you know, I mean, the woman looked at (it when we packed it), so then that’s the next thing out of my mouth. I said, “Well, the delivery driver has stopped by twice this week to get the package and they’re the ones that gave me this box and watched me package it so I think it’s gonna be okay.” and “It is inside another box. So, you know, believe we’re good.” She’s like, “Well, you’re gonna have to take responsibility for any damages.” The company is paying to ship it back. Just put it in another box. You know, like I want it to get snotty at that moment say if it makes you happy. Put it in a bigger box. I’m sure they’ll pay for it. That would be another charge for a box. I don’t care. You know, I mean, I was still smiling or in my kind kindness t-shirt. Still smiling very aware. And also very aware this nice older man who led me in the door first is waiting behind me.
I want to hurry this process along. I got Lyft outside waiting. I didn’t want this to be an exchange at all. Just print the label. Give me a receipt. Let me out the door, right? So then she already now is printing the label and walks back over and just start slapping these labels onto the box. The same box I had the laptop in brought it in that she was complaining about right? She’s now slapping labels on it. So I just smile at her. Look at her. She’s like, I’m just letting you know that you’re gonna be responsible for any damages. Okay, fine. You know, like, I think I just said okay, I mean, what was I supposed to do? She had already printed labels. She already slapped the labels on the box, but she just had to lord it over me or whatever. She just had to be the queen of the universe at that moment, like balls in her court. Do you know? What was I supposed to do–grab it back from her? I don’t think so. Not after the week, I’ve had with this silly laptop in this box–trying to get it shipped out. Strike three for FedEx. Absolutely the worst customer service (and process experience) from the standpoint of them coming by twice (at that point) to pick it up and not being able to print a label.
Like I said, you just can’t make this stuff up.
So the clerk gives me the receipt and tells me it won’t be picked up till 5pm. Mind you, it is 10 am on a Friday. She says it won’t leave that store till 5 pm that day. Again, I thought to myself, “That’s ridiculous.” Then she adds, “Your company won’t get it back till Tuesday.” Okay, I did thank her but I’m sure in my mind it was more of a “thank you for the very little you did.”
I get back in the Lyft. We have an enjoyable ride. I didn’t even talk about it. Richard asked how the drop-off went. I said, “It’s off. It’s being shipped. It wasn’t, the best experience but I’ll tell you when we get home.” I didn’t want the Lyft driver to hear me complaining and what are ya gonna do. Right? The thing is done. I just wanted to forget about it. So we ended up having a very pleasant ride home. There was some Rogen started showing driver had to take another little detour route, that kind of thing, but we just had a little chitty chat with her. She played her music at a very low level, but it was Christian music, so that’s fine. We enjoyed it.
And yeah, we get back home and about three or four hours later. Ding dong. It’s FedEx. They were coming again to pick up the laptop. I said, I already took a Lyft over to your store. Oh, okay. It was yet another delivery driver too, by the way. And that person didn’t have a label in their hand either.
So, you know, I can imagine how that was gonna go but yeah. Interestingly, as well, my company had sent me yet another label and said that it would be picked up. So I wrote them back and said, It’s okay, it’s gone. I took it to the store. It’s all done and it’s on its way back to you. But I certainly wasn’t expecting anyone to stop again on Friday.
Finding ease
So yeah, that was a surprise. Four different delivery drivers, wasted stops, essentially. And then the kind of (I don’t want to call her) snotty or rude (behavior) but just very lacking in customer service skills from the person at the FedEx store. And early in the morning too, you wouldn’t think she was already having a bad day–unless she got up on the wrong side of the bed that morning. Who knows, right? But you always gotta figure we never know what the other person’s dealing with. Maybe she just got jilted or something. Maybe she had a sick family member. I mean, you just never know. Right? She could have a million things going on in her life. So I gotta breathe and offer her Grace and be kind., As kind as I can muster anyway, at that moment.
We Are ALL Connected and the decisions of others can and do influence, push, or pull us to the degree we ALLOW.
What do you think? Let me know in the comments.
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey (p.s. We’re on TikTok! Search for Spiral Sister)
Here’s our newest song, which I feel is destined to be a smash hit! Let me know what you think:
In The Mirror, original song by Richard Murrey
Spiral thought: My 4th book is out now, in the paperback version on Amazon and I’d love if if you would pick up a copy, or read the Kindle Unlimited ebook for free (if you’re a member):
Paperback book cover for Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally–click the cover to go directly to the book on Amazon.
Integrating the Spirals to release loneliness and suffering
My online Zoom video course, Integrating the Spirals is helpful now more than ever because I know people are feeling lonely and suffering all sorts of things. (I’m not a salesperson nor do I believe in stuffing things down anyone’s throat. YOU can let me know if you’re interested in the Integrating the Spirals course. It’s ALL YOUR choice. Wink! HUGS!
As an empath I strive to ease suffering and raise hope. I want to uplift others by practicing what I have learned, till the inner soil with breath—many times, every day—to instill peace and calm. Ahhh…
Be the best version of who you want to be–because if you’re reading my words your soul is probably beckoning you to align with it and live up to your highest ideals. Not perfect because who is perfect? Most stagnate or ‘get stuck’ while on their way to being whatever they think perfection is. Making progress is enough. Carrying your Karma lightly is enough. Be kind to yourself while living responsibly. Who you ARE affects us ALL. We Are All Connected.
Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to all of his songs at: http://listen4music.com
I would love to speak at your bookstore, crystal shop, acupuncture/chiropractor office, natural health foods store, art fair, music, or yoga festival. I support healthy lifestyle businesses.
I’m an Amazon bestselling author of two co-authored books: “Transform Your Life Book 2 Inspirational Stories and Expert Advice” and “Energy of Receiving” available on Amazon.
For more about how big irritations can cause us to make different choices and little irritations can prompt blog articles, releasing and easing little irritations and how as powerful creators we always have a choice. And how writing makes me feel lighter, find us on TikTok “Spiral Sister” and follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeonyour
A lot of something can be a poison; a little, a medicine. In the physical, our eyes are limited and we see through the veil darkly. And fractals. Always uncovering the fractals to reveal many layers and play with the patterns that emerge.
To listen instead of read, play this (you’ll get a surprise if you do, I sing a line from a song you may recognize that inspired this):
A Sunday meditation (examining thoughts)
Alcohol. Used to make tinctures, tonics, and medicine, or to cook with, can be good. But to an alcoholic that same small amount can trigger a binge. People have died from drinking too much alcohol. Thus, it is a lethal substance, yet legal (in most places in the USA).
Water. Too little can kill; too much can kill. Air carries tiny droplets of water we call, Humidity.
Air. Breathwork is beautiful. Hyperventilation can cause someone to pass out. Humans can only go so many minutes without air though. Our physical reality literally depends on a mixture of invisible chemicals we call, Air.
Dirt. I remember a story about a Russian woman who lived to a long age by eating dirt. We need a little dirt, I recall hearing as a child–for the minerals. When we die, we are buried beneath four to six feet of dirt. When we buried my parents the cemetery owner told me the “six feet under” thing was a fallacy. They typically only dig the hole down into the earth about four feet.
Minerals. A little mercury? Too much is certain poison. A little dab will do you (maybe?) of this earth element that is a combination found in the environment of cinnabar and metacinnabar. But at some amount, mercury is toxic. Who was the first person to discover this? What suffering did that person experience?
Driving. When drivers follow the rules, traffic seems orderly. Remember leisurely Sunday drives? I do. But recently I chose to give up driving because it stresses me out. Or perhaps, I ALLOW crazy drivers to stress ME out? Even when I practice Reiki and turn my spiritual Reiki light on, the hassle of driving was something I didn’t feel I needed anymore–plus the financial costs of buying, maintaining, fueling, and insuring a car when I only went short distances once a week.
What stresses you out, physically or chemically that you can choose to “let go of” in order to live freer?
I left my home state at 22 years of age because I couldn’t breathe there. Physically, the area I was born and raised in was called, The Chemical Valley. And I was diagnosed and treated with asthma from the time I was six years of age. When I was about eight years old we visited Florida, due to a death of a close family friend, and I found I could BREATHE free and clear for the first time in my life. And I loved the beach and palm trees. I told my dad, “I want to live in Florida”! And my wonderful Dad helped make that a reality for me, though it took many years. Mom only moved because she had to. Mom loved our home state.
We Are ALL Connected and the decisions of others can and do influence, push, or pull us to the degree we ALLOW.
Layers levels doses degrees fractal meme by Spiral Sister
Finding Truth
Have you examined something so intricately that while on the surface looked uninteresting or untrue, but then upon digging further you found hidden truths?
Perhaps finding truth simply means examining the levels of life and layers more closely. I think most people don’t want to work that hard. They don’t want to keep digging to uncover the truth because it might mean they’ll have to change something about themselves or how they live life.
Why do myths persist?
There must be at least some truth to the “old wives’ tales,” no?
We can study life in a matter of degrees; too hot, too cold and too much or little information. ALL of life comes down (can be explained) by working through the layers, levels, doses, and degrees.
The unexamined life is not worth living, right?
Let me know in the comments.
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey (p.s. We’re now on TikTok! Search for Spiral Sister)
Here’s our newest song, which I feel is destined to be a smash hit! Let me know what you think:
In The Mirror, original song by Richard Murrey
Peace. Out.
Spiral thought: My 4th book is out now, in the paperback version on Amazon and I’d love if if you would pick up a copy, or read the Kindle Unlimited ebook for free (if you’re a member):
Paperback book cover for Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally–click the cover to go directly to the book on Amazon.
Integrating the Spirals to release loneliness and suffering
My online Zoom video course, Integrating the Spirals is helpful now more than ever because I know people are feeling lonely and suffering all sorts of things. (I’m not a salesperson nor do I believe in stuffing things down anyone’s throat. YOU can let me know if you’re interested in the Integrating the Spirals course. It’s ALL YOUR choice. Wink! HUGS!
As an empath I strive to ease suffering and raise hope. I want to uplift others by practicing what I have learned, till the inner soil with breath—many times, every day—to instill peace and calm. Ahhh…
Be the best version of who you want to be–because if you’re reading my words your soul is probably beckoning you to align with it and live up to your highest ideals. Not perfect because who is perfect? Most stagnate or ‘get stuck’ while on their way to being whatever they think perfection is. Making progress is enough. Carrying your Karma lightly is enough. Be kind to yourself while living responsibly. Who you ARE affects us ALL. We Are All Connected.
Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to all of his songs at: http://listen4music.com
I would love to speak at your bookstore, crystal shop, acupuncture/chiropractor office, natural health foods store, art fair, music, or yoga festival. I support healthy lifestyle businesses.
I’m an Amazon bestselling author of two co-authored books: “Transform Your Life Book 2 Inspirational Stories and Expert Advice” and “Energy of Receiving” available on Amazon.
For more about a little is medicine, a lot is poison. How physical eyes limit us; we see through the veil darkly. And fractals. Always uncovering the fractals and patterns that emerge. Find us on TikTok “Spiral Sister” and follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeonyour
Wholly Integrating Spirals 