Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Balancing perspectives, Connections, Expanding Consciousness

Integrating the Spirals: Have you heard of Xania Monet?

I popped up out of my writing hole for a few minutes the other day to read this article about Xania Monet the other day because the subject hit close to home for us as songwriters who used to rely heavily on having our original songs produced in Nashville, TN. Here’s the article (and embedded video interview) that I recommend you watch, especially if you’re an ‘AI hater’:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meet-the-woman-behind-chart-topping-ai-artist-xania-monet-i-look-at-her-as-a-real-person/

Creator of AI artist says there’s “a real person behind Xania” amid controversy: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meet-the-woman-behind-chart-topping-ai-artist-xania-monet-i-look-at-her-as-a-real-person/

Xania Monet is an AI songstress co-created by Telisha “Nikki” Jones and Suno AI. And we use Suno AI (my husband uses the paid version, and I use the free version), to create songs we wouldn’t otherwise be able to produce, physically or financially. In our opinion, the music studios have priced themselves out of existence!

Yes, my husband has spent over $100,000 in the last twenty years, no exaggeration, to have his 400+ original songs demoed in Nashville, TN. And I’m not complaining. We have an astounding collection of REAL songs thanks to those studio singers and musicians. But since my husband had a stroke in October 2022, and since I retired in December 2023, he cannot play guitar and bass like he used to and we simply cannot afford to send songs to the top music studios anymore.

Before we learned of Suno AI we sent some songs to musician friends who did the best they could to demo our songs–in their home studios and on their timetable (which tended to be a bit too slow for us). Some of those songs turned out good, but they weren’t of anything like the quality we had been used to receiving back from our favorite Nashville music studio. And I won’t even get started on how much we were paying top talent singers who kept raising their prices to sing each song! Ugh.

So, go figure. We spread as much wealth around as we could for as long as we could. Now, we just don’t have it.

Enter Suno AI. People can hate Artificial Intelligence all they want. I used to as well! After all, I’d had 35 years in Information Technology as a Business Analyst and Technical Writer so why would I want to use more tech when it came down to our soul passion of songwriting and producing? I sing and feel it in my soul when I sing, and when other incredible talents, like Adam Cunningham hit deep. I get it. We love Adele too! We want to be moved by incredible singers. But there’s a place for AI. And I do NOT understand why people are fighting it.

Here’s the thing. When one has no other choice and the choice (as it turns out) is this good, sometimes you just gotta give it a go!

My husband embraced Suno AI and has been churning out several songs a day using it since February 2025. It’s given him a certain vitality back and zest for living too! And that’s priceless to me.

I used my Integrating the Spirals process to ease me over my “hating AI” bumps and began using the free version of Suno AI to get some of my poems set to music (and I’ve used some on my YouTube channel to help share information about my Integrating philosophy too).

I can’t say we’re making any money yet from our AI generated songs, like Telisha “Nikki” Jones is with Xania Monet, but the process has been instantly gratifying and that’s not too shabby!

To get some idea of the kinds of music my husband creates, check out his YouTube channel and remember anything before Feb. 2025 was produced by high dollar Nashville studios, and anything more recent (even his redo’s) were produced by AI. Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey

To wrap this up, here’s one of the comments I posted on Xania Monet’s YouTube videos:

Integrating the Spirals

I’m encouraging those “over 60” to open to lifelong learning (observe and gently question their pre-conceived beliefs, aka ‘Programming’), become more aware of their thoughts and emotions, consistently move their bodies (too many are stuck in their heads and physically unhealthy), become strong, and resilient in spirit, soul, mind, body. And to question EVERYTHING!

Link to my YouTube channel where you can see the videos: https://youtube.com/@spiralsister

Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

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 many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey

Here’s a video of us performing on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

My books on Amazon

I have four books on Amazon. The two most recent are: Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally and Blue Eyes: Ethereal Messages of Connection.

Connect with us

Here are the social channels where I am most active:

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Balancing perspectives, Connections, Expanding Consciousness

Integrating the Spirals: Halloween Trick-or-treating in New England

I’ve been soooo heads down in writing this 5th book that I completely forgot I was supposed to edit this video and send it to my friend and fellow blogger, Linda! See her blog at: https://creativeartworksblog.com My apologies for my lateness, but here’s the link to it on YouTube (as WordPress won’t let me upload videos here without paying more money).

Link: https://youtu.be/f96HI1LLRWc

Also, WordPress is not embedding my YouTube links correctly, so yes, you’ll have to simply click or copy that link to go watch the video. Sorry! I don’t know what’s happening lately on this platform. Ugh.

Thanks for bearing with me. I also owe Dave Ruch an apology (see his blog at: https://soundday.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/november-7-turntable-talk-43-walkin-on-the-streets-at-night/comment-page-1/#respond – an excellent post about a song that would totally fit the show, Only Murders in the Building. I was supposed to write a little something for Dave’s Turntable Talk blog for Halloween and I forget all about it until Michael (see his blog at: https://peacefulrampage.wordpress.com), mentioned it to me on our Zoom call, just now. Apparently, I’m not integrating all I have to do very well as of late.

I’ve got a couple other blog posts in draft to follow this one, so hopefully, I’ll get those pushed out in a couple days. Thanks everyone! This has been an exciting time around our house!

Integrating the Spirals

I’m encouraging those “over 60” to open to lifelong learning (observe and gently question their pre-conceived beliefs, aka ‘Programming’), become more aware of their thoughts and emotions, consistently move their bodies (too many are stuck in their heads and physically unhealthy), become strong, and resilient in spirit, soul, mind, body. And to question EVERYTHING!

Link to my YouTube channel where you can see the videos: https://youtube.com/@spiralsister

Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

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 many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey

Here’s a video of us performing on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

My books on Amazon

I have four books on Amazon. The two most recent are: Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally and Blue Eyes: Ethereal Messages of Connection.

Connect with us

Here are the social channels where I am most active:

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Connections, Expanding Consciousness, Spirit

January 6th – Challenging the status quo

It’s January 6th, 2024; Things typically come in threes for me. First, my son-in-law’s Bengal kitty of 19 years passed, then my son had something going on in his hand/arm and thought it was a small stroke, now we hear it is degeneration in his neck; last night our brother-in-law had to go to a hospital for a-fib (he’s now out of the hospital, thank God).

As for the music today, I woke up thinking about how I challenge the status quo while living warm and comfortable in our one-bedroom ‘suburban luxury’ apartment. I know we have it better than many and I do NOT take any of this for granted. Yes, I went to school (for YEARS), and had student loans too, but I always worked one, two, or three jobs and this past year, paid off my loans early and thanks to a little hint from my uncle, and us choosing to sell our car, we paid off the only credit card we had so we’re out of debt. I can tell you, that my life has not been easy, but there have been these constants that have helped me ‘rise above’ ALL challenges.

Constants

I have always had a strong belief in myself and in God. My views have changed over the years about God though, as written previously, and I still meditate, read voraciously on ALL things spiritual, and meet in book clubs with others to expand my faith and consciousness. Now, there are few whom I can’t talk with about God because of the expansion in me that has taken place.

I’ve always been strong-willed. I’ve never denied the power of God within me. I am a huge believer in self-help, self-growth, personal responsibility, and taking back our individual power (if we have ever mistakenly given it over to others). Self-sovereignty is another way to say it. No Ego, but an emptying of that sense of Self and allowing Spirit to pull me along, which is where my integrity comes from versus following a set of rules, which may have been mistranslated or skewed by others to suit their agendas.

I’ve always questioned authority (those who think they have power and control over) and stood for FREEDOM. I have never expected anything to be given to me.

Music

Here’s the sixth new music post for 2024 as I consistently present you with our originals (written by my extremely talented husband, Richard–music and lyrics). And strive for consistency by setting up self-challenges, such as writing these music blog articles every day.

I’m secretly hoping some radio stations play these radio-ready tunes–as I grew up on radio! As a youngster, I couldn’t afford to buy many records, but I did make mix tapes for myself off the radio when I got my first cassette recorder! Ha! Filmmakers, podcasters, and such are also invited and encouraged to use our original songs in movies, TV shows, video intros, and more. I’m sharing the songs on Tumblr (automatic feed from WordPress), Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, Alignable, and now, Truth Social (in that order).

Darwin’s Rosary is one of my favorite songs because it questions a lot and puts forward some consciousness-shifting ideas:

We have over 400 original songs and most folks haven’t heard them! If you love a song, please share the song (or this post) with your friends.

If you like this image, it’s available for t-shirts, mugs, stickers and more at: https://www.teepublic.com/user/takeituponyourself

Speaking of Connecting

If you’d like to keep up with what’s happening with my new book project, our new songs, or receive the occasional newsletter–send a note to my new email address: info@sheilamurrey.net

I’m eager to continue expanding my consciousness, and yours, while Connecting with many more of you–now that I’m retired! WOO-HOO!

Yours in expanding, FREEING, revolving, spiraling consciousness,

To our better health, ease, and sustaining lives of JOY!

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

Quotes I’m known for

Carry your Karma lightly. Be kind to yourself while living responsibly. Who you ARE affects us ALL. We Are All Connected.

Energy/Omniscience (Omnism) governs ALL. Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.

My online Zoom video course, Integrating the Spirals is more timely now than ever because I know people are suffering. (Let me know if you’re interested in working through the Integrating the Spirals course.)

As an empath I want to help ease suffering and raise our vibration to offer hope. I want to uplift others and expand our collective consciousness. I teach breath work and meditation so we appreciate the value of Detachment. We till our inner soil with our breath to calm the amygdala and institute peace. Meditation is an easy way to Connect us with spirit, higher selves, Omniscience God, and receive non-programmed personal guidance.

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

Here’s a video of us performing on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

About me, your Spiral Sister



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. 

My 4th book is on Amazon and the link where you can check it out (Kindle has the purple cover and the paperback has the yellow cover, but the content is the same): Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally

I invite you to check out my metaphysical book–Blue Eyes: Ethereal Messages of Connection. There are two versions (Kindle and paperback) on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3WV68KF

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.

Connecting…

For more spiritual and esoteric updates, new music, who we’re connecting with and more, follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeonyour

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Connections, Mind-Body

January 5th – Goes circular

It’s January 5th, 2024; I’m thankful my son is out of the hospital and the rest of my family is well.

I continued reading through some of my collected research this morning (for my 5th book that’s in progress). Following along on my post from yesterday, my book research circled back to family relationships. I delved into some intrigue too, when I watched a very curious video from Tucker Carlson (that was just released 15 hours ago as of this writing), of his interview of Mark Epstein. I was struck by how important it is for a family to stay in touch, though again, one can never really know someone (as yesterday’s post pointed out). Mark said he had not seen his brother in 7 years (prior to Jeff’s death in federal prison).

An original song about curious relationships

Here’s the fifth new music post for 2024 as I consistently march to the beat of the self-challenge and share an original song every day this year (to all my social channels).

Radio stations feel free to play these radio-ready tunes! Also, filmmakers, podcasters, and so on can use these songs in movies, TV shows, video intros, and more. I’m sharing the songs here first, then pushing over to Tumblr (automatic feed from WordPress), Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, and Alignable (in that order).

This lyrically witty mandolin music song focuses on relationships in a small town and the circular way some partners change. It’s a sort of tongue-in-cheek look at the dating scene within a small town.

We have over 400 original songs and most folks haven’t heard them! If you love a song, please share the song (or this post) with your friends.

In this age of “see something-say something,” and while some of us still feel the effects (either physically or mentally) from the COVID years, let’s not forget to stay connected with those we say we love.

We Are All Connected

Speaking of Connecting

If you’d like to keep up with what’s happening with my new book project, our new songs, or receive the occasional newsletter–send a note to my new email address: info@sheilamurrey.net

I’m eager to continue expanding my consciousness, and yours, while Connecting with many more of you–now that I’m retired! WOO-HOO!

Yours in expanding, curious, revolving, spiraling consciousness,

To our better health, ease, and sustaining lives of JOY!

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

Quotes I’m known for

Carry your Karma lightly. Be kind to yourself while living responsibly. Who you ARE affects us ALL. We Are All Connected.

Energy/Omniscience (Omnism) governs ALL. Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.

My online Zoom video course, Integrating the Spirals is more timely now than ever because I know people are suffering. (Let me know if you’re interested in working through the Integrating the Spirals course.)

As an empath I want to help ease suffering and raise our vibration to offer hope. I want to uplift others and expand our collective consciousness. I teach breath work and meditation so we appreciate the value of Detachment. We till our inner soil with our breath to calm the amygdala and institute peace. Meditation is an easy way to Connect us with spirit, higher selves, Omniscience God, and receive non-programmed personal guidance.

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

Here’s a video of us performing on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

About me, your Spiral Sister



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. 

My 4th book is on Amazon and the link where you can check it out (Kindle has the purple cover and the paperback has the yellow cover, but the content is the same): Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally

I invite you to check out my metaphysical book–Blue Eyes: Ethereal Messages of Connection. There are two versions (Kindle and paperback) on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3WV68KF

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.

Connecting…

For more spiritual and esoteric updates, new music, who we’re connecting with and more, follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeonyour

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Connections, Mind-Body

January 4th – Examining who we know

It’s January 4th, 2024; I’m thinking about my son (who happens to be in the hospital at the moment) and what it means to give birth to a son and daughter (I have one of each).

I started my day off reading about Charlie Rich and how his hit song, Behind Closed Doors, made him a household name for a time. I always loved his voice, but that was a groundbreaking song during my childhood and helped me form an early opinion on the fact that “We never really know someone.” Decades later, I’d see that emerge again on one of my favorite pay TV shows ever, Six Feet Under, when the character David espouses the statement, “You can’t ever really know a person. If you think you can, you’re living in a F…ing dream world.”

Six Feet Under quote–Credit: HBO

I also read a very stirring account of a person confined to prison (for 27 years) and how I cannot begin to imagine the isolation they feel and how glad I am that (in their words) writing reconnects them with their humanity.

An original song that furthers this topic

Here’s the fourth new music post for 2024. I chose to do a self-challenge to share one of our original songs each day of the year, to see if it helps any gain some traction. Radio stations feel free to play! Also, filmmakers, podcasters, and the like can also use these songs. I’m sharing the songs here first, then promoting the blog articles over to Tumblr (automatic feed from WordPress), Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, and Alignable (in that order).

We have over 400 original songs and most folks haven’t heard them! If you love a song, please share the song (or this post) with your friends.

This song is about observing and asking ‘Who do you know’? In particular, in this age of gender acknowledgment, pronoun selection, and body autonomy/sovereignty. No judgment here either, just a way to help some of us old farts flow with this ‘ever-changing world in which we live in’ to quote another one of my favorite songs from Wings.

Who Do You Know, by Richard Murrey

Stay connected

As with any online marketing strategy, building a specific email list for projects is important. And though, I unsubscribe from as many email lists as I find new ones to subscribe to, if you’d like to keep up with what’s happening with my new book project, our new songs, or receive the occasional newsletter–send a note to my new email address: info@sheilamurrey.net

I’m eager to continue expanding my consciousness, and yours, while Connecting with many more of you–now that I’m retired! WOO-HOO!

Yours in expanding, observing, revolving, spiraling consciousness,

To our better health, ease, and sustaining lives of JOY!

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

Quotes I’m known for

Carry your Karma lightly. Be kind to yourself while living responsibly. Who you ARE affects us ALL. We Are All Connected.

Energy/Omniscience (Omnism) governs ALL. Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.

My online Zoom video course, Integrating the Spirals is more timely now than ever because I know people are suffering. (Let me know if you’re interested in working through the Integrating the Spirals course.)

As an empath I want to help ease suffering and raise our vibration to offer hope. I want to uplift others and expand our collective consciousness. I teach breath work and meditation so we appreciate the value of Detachment. We till our inner soil with our breath to calm the amygdala and institute peace. Meditation is an easy way to Connect us with spirit, higher selves, Omniscience God, and receive non-programmed personal guidance.

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

Here’s a video of us performing on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

About me, your Spiral Sister



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. 

My 4th book is on Amazon and the link where you can check it out (Kindle has the purple cover and the paperback has the yellow cover, but the content is the same): Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally

I invite you to check out my metaphysical book–Blue Eyes: Ethereal Messages of Connection. There are two versions (Kindle and paperback) on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3WV68KF

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.

Connecting…

For more spiritual and esoteric updates, new music, who we’re connecting with and more, follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeonyour

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Connections, Mind-Body

January 3rd – Time for James Bond

It’s January 3rd, 2024 and I’m thinking about James Bond. Why? Oh, I am enjoying retirement and scanning the streaming services to see if I’ve viewed every James Bond movie ever made. Haha! No, I’m not bored already, just investigating to see what’s available. It also helps to introduce today’s original song!

Original Song

Here’s the third of my new music posts for 2024. This is how I’ll share more of our original music for you to get to know us better and hear songs you’ve never heard before. I’ve figured out a good strategy for sharing the songs in my blog first, then sharing the blog articles over to Tumblr (automatic feed from WordPress), Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, and Alignable (in that order).

I’m aiming to get more eyes and ears on our songs–since we have over 400 originals and most of you have never heard them! If you find some you love, we would love it if you’d share the song (or this post) with your friends.

Here’s a song that pays tribute to many (not all) of the James Bond movies. Perhaps, if we’re lucky, it could get picked up and used in the next Bond flick! Wouldn’t that be a hoot?

Be my James Bond tonight, by Richard Murrey

New email address

I’m adding more folks to my email list for personal communications about the new book project, new songs, and an occasional newsletter. (If you aren’t a follower of my blog but want to be on my email list, send a note to my new email address: info@sheilamurrey.net

I’m eager to continue expanding my consciousness, and yours, while Connecting with many more of you–now that I’m retired! LOL YIPPEE!!!

Yours in expanding, musical, revolving, spiraling consciousness,

To our better health, ease, and sustaining lives of JOY!

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

Quotes I’m known for

Carry your Karma lightly. Be kind to yourself while living responsibly. Who you ARE affects us ALL. We Are All Connected.

Energy/Omniscience (Omnism) governs ALL. Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.

My online Zoom video course, Integrating the Spirals is more timely now than ever because I know people are suffering. (Let me know if you’re interested in working through the Integrating the Spirals course.)

As an empath I want to help ease suffering and raise our vibration to offer hope. I want to uplift others and expand our collective consciousness. I teach breath work and meditation so we appreciate the value of Detachment. We till our inner soil with our breath to calm the amygdala and institute peace. Meditation is an easy way to Connect us with spirit, higher selves, Omniscience God, and receive non-programmed personal guidance.

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

Here’s a video of us performing on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

About me, your Spiral Sister



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. 

My 4th book is on Amazon and the link where you can check it out (Kindle has the purple cover and the paperback has the yellow cover, but the content is the same): Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally

I invite you to check out my metaphysical book–Blue Eyes: Ethereal Messages of Connection. There are two versions (Kindle and paperback) on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3WV68KF

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.

Connecting…

For more spiritual and esoteric updates, new music, who we’re connecting with and more, follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeonyour