Integrating the Spirals: Gathering Materials and first session announcement

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

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. 

I invite you to check out my new 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 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

After Tuesday night Reiki circle: March 7th

Blessed and Grateful


(I’m singing) I am so glad I am so blessed. I am so grateful for all that I am. I am so blessed.

That’s usually the song we sing at the end of every Reiki circle. So that’s why (I said what I said before) about last week when Victoria played the song “You are so beautiful” (it really struck a different chord with me). Tonight, I asked her who sang that. Whose version of that song was that? And she said, Jordan–a man. It’s a gentleman singing it but she said you wouldn’t know, would you? And I said no, I was thinking it was Christina Aguilera. Or, Adele singing that song. I just knew it was a person I hadn’t heard before. I could not place the voice. And no, I have not heard of the gentleman named Jordan Smith.

I found it on YouTube and here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVlKRRjMhVc

I tell you every Tuesday night Reiki is just a new experience. It feels like I know part of that’s because we have new folks that come sometimes the same people don’t come every week or every circle. And we won’t be back now for two more weeks. We’re now moving to a new schedule of every week. We’ll meet on the first Tuesday of every month and the third Tuesday of every month. So all right, well, and again, I’ll post the link to meet up so that you have that if you’re anywhere in the St Pete Bradenton Sarasota area of Florida, or within a reasonable drive. I know sometimes five miles through Bradenton, Sarasota, and Palmetto can take a lot of time. It just depends on traffic. (Not that I am complaining as we love to see new people moving to Florida.) We are grateful.

More people moving to Florida

I am so grateful for more people moving to Florida because that’s just more people to connect with, exchange and share ideas with, and learn from. Victoria gave me a beautiful blessing tonight and implanted a thought in my head about starting a new business and having clients so and while most of you know that I did run a program a couple of years ago during the ‘demic times I had put together something called, Integrated Spiral but now I’m renaming and rebranding it, Integrating the Spirals because it’s more than one spiral.

Going round in spiral circles to learn lessons

We often go round and round the circle until we learn our lessons and break patterns. We have to repeat certain things in our life It seems like several times before we get them. So that’s part of where this comes from, as well as integrating because we’re always balancing. We’re dancing with nature and the universe and you know, the religious upbringing that we don’t always agree with 100% of the time, I don’t think I’ve talked with anyone who subscribes to us a particular religion or a specific church or faith that agrees with 100% It’s just like politics. You pick the people that you like, based on usually at least some of the topics of the issues of the day, right that you’re on their side. But you may not agree with 100% of who that person is and how they behaved things. They say stuff they tweet, you know.

We often have our issues with politics and religion and don’t agree with everything they believe in

So we all have our issues and we have our issues with different people, different religions, different issues. Yeah, I mean, it could be anything right? It could be the country you live in the state you live in the city you live in. I mean, it seems like there’s no perfect fit. It’s not like we’re Goldilocks, or we might be Goldilocks, and we run around trying on different things. But that’s why I tend not to use the word perfect or perfection because I really don’t believe in it. I don’t think that would be a utopia and this world. This earth is not meant to be a utopia. This is a school where we all have an opportunity to learn. Unless we’re a captive, you know, we have an opportunity to learn, and even a captive.

I’ve often thought what’s the worst thing that could ever happen to me in my life? And people have asked that question, you know, icebreakers and stuff like that and I always go to being held captive or in bondage or tortured that kind of thing. Because, obviously, a person in that situation and I pray for those every single day you know, that’s, that’s always like a mission like a bottom line prayer. I’m gonna say every single day that I’m alive and I’m free because I value freedom so much. I’m always praying for the releasing of the hostages releasing of those in bondage releasing of those that have been kidnapped and you know, that kind of thing. I just have a heart for anybody that’s trapped and I know exactly where that comes from because my mother for many years felt trapped. So that was something that she worked on in her life, you know, was released that and for her, the end anyway, of her life was Alzheimer’s. So she just let go of her mind. And she wasn’t trapped anymore, right? Because she didn’t have the mindset around being trapped. Um, but anyway, I know that was a spiral thought.

I value FREEDOM

I value freedom (and choice) above every other value I have. Every other virtue I can think of, because I’ve already come to terms with the truth and lies, and I see those as the yin and yang, the black and the white, the right side of the coin, the left side of the coin, you know, everything is truth, if you turn it round enough times and you change your perspective on it, and that’s why in Integrating the Spirals I have classes where I teach little tips, tricks, tactics if you will, strategies for doing that and it can really help you, at least mentally and logically, think through some issues and be able to release a lot of tension,release a lot of aggravation, and release a lot of judgment. And in fact, you won’t even judge it anymore once you work these processes and especially if you practice them. Releases come as we with the mirror ball.

As we work with the mirror ball there’s a specific process I take folks through on how to work with it to look at a situation from many different perspectives. And in the end, it’s really cool, but I won’t give it away here. And then one of the other tools we work with is a kaleidoscope and I’ve been starting to hear some people mention kaleidoscopes in their work and in their programs just in the last couple of years.

Putting it in the zeitgeist

So I definitely think it’s in the zeitgeist. I think a tool we played with as a child, we put it down. Most never picked it up again. I never did until my eldest granddaughter asked me when she was very young for a kaleidoscope. I had forgotten all about it too. But now I’m using it in the sessions that I have with Integrating the Spirals. And I’ve got to tell you that it’s so profound and powerful this work because we all have some sort of like at the bottom of all of our fears and phobias and anxieties and distrust and doubts and negative self-talk and all of that is always like this feeling of unworthiness or being broken.

When you work with the kaleidoscope, you realize that all of these broken pieces, and I’m giving you a nugget here from the sessions, that’s one of the realizations that you have all those broken pieces are what you’re able to use and different ways to look through that kaleidoscope and see different patterns and some of the neat things that you may perceive and take away from that work is that we’re play if you will, is the fact that there’s always a different pattern. And none of those patterns are wrong because art is always imperfect. There’s no perfection in art. Another thing that my eldest granddaughter taught me when she was about five I think. Yeah. And again, it just confirmed and validated for me why I didn’t use the word perfection.

No Perfection in Art

I’ve never used that and have never been hung up on it. But I know a lot of people who have and so working with the Kaleidoscope and the mirror ball and some of the other tools that I have one of which is communing with trees as well. Getting getting you back to nature even if you’re divorced from nature, and you hate nature. You know there’s still a way to work with nature and commune with the trees. Of course, I developed this after we got back from Ireland in 2019. So I have a lot of tools at my disposal and now with Reiki and completing my master’s and Reiki this April. I do feel that I have a lot to offer. And I don’t know if it will replace my current daily income. But I know that it’s something that my heart it’s my heart’s desires to really help people. If possible, we can at least release some of the items and issues that we keep repeating in our lives and you know, hopefully, these tools, tips, tricks, techniques, and strategies. These classes will help you release and let go of some of those. I don’t think we ever get out. You know, having accomplished it all. Abraham Hicks says, you know, we’re always happily incomplete. We’ll never get it done. And that is supposed to help us release some of this efforting and some of this feeling as well, we have to get everything done on our task list before we leave the earth. Abraham just says that’s not going to happen–getting it all done. So if you can just work on one today–great! Just release that, let it go and be the “I am” in this moment, utterly grateful, happily and blissfully–incomplete. Namaste.

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

Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.

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.

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. 

I invite you to check out my new 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. Plus, I documented how I naturally reversed 30+ years of chronic asthma in my holistic health book, Take It Upon Yourself to Live a Wholly Vibrant Life, that’s available on Barnes and Noble with the second edition coming out soon on Amazon.

Connecting…

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeonyour

After Tuesday night Reiki circle: Feb 28

Driving home from Reiki circle Feb 28th. Our circle is a free Tuesday night healing session–you can find out more about it on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/spiritual-mastermind-reiki-meditation-group-swfl/events/291647928/

Quite the spiritual experience

I had quite a spiritual experience. So Reiki tonight was so exciting because there was another Sheila there and I love her already. Just her energy. You know, it was just amazing. She’s originally from Brooklyn, New York. And you know, that has nothing to do with it. Right? (I’d spent time working there in 2000). It’s spirit all the way (guiding this) and I’ll explain why.

So we always have almost a little Meet and Greet at the beginning of each evening. That’s how we can learn about each other just a little bit, introduce ourselves. And we talk about a particular topic tonight.

Topic: What does Reiki mean to you?

It was What does Reiki mean to you? So to each person when we introduced ourselves, we talked a little bit about what Reiki means to us what we think it is, how we interpret it, if we feel anything either, while we’re giving or receiving Reiki, and so forth.

Then we have a little break and people can snack, go to the restroom, whatever. And then we go into meditation. And we have meditation and Reiki and Victoria our Reiki master walks us through a meditation those of us who are giving Reiki have a process that we go through and then we work on the person now during the break, the people who are receiving Reiki have to pick a practitioner, they will because practitioners don’t want to like force themselves on people. So that’s, that’s how it goes.

Alright, so that said, Sheila picked me to work on her. And that was beautiful. You know, I was like, great. And so as I’m working on her. I’m picking up a little bit more feeling like every time I practice Reiki and every time I give Reiki to a person this distance Reiki I feel a little bit more or I feel different things sometimes I’m feeling in my body which I figure because I’m an empath, right like I feel God bumps for sure. Like strong usually write when I start so that to me, it’s signaling or letting me know you know that God’s Spirit is with me. Right and the Reiki is on, in other words, so that’s how I interpreted it anyway. And so that happens. And then I’m usually directed to do certain things with my hands above the person’s head and then I put my hands on their head. And so it’s like giving a blessing. And then on their shoulders and then go into the whole Reiki practice.

What I receive during Reiki

Sometimes I get a vision of something, or like a picture of something. It’s not like a movie. You know, it’s not like I’m watching a movie. It’ll be just like a flash of something or an outline of something, or an image of something. Almost like if you’re turning pages in a magazine just quickly, so I got a flash of a guardrail because Sheila had told me that she’s a mom, and she had her daughter. And as mothers, most of us mothers are enmeshed in our children’s lives, no matter how old they are.

I won’t go into her specific details. But to say that there there was an issue and so she’s kind of enmeshed in that issue with her daughter. And so, you know, through the filter of my lens, I see that as concern and worry. Yeah, just care overall, as we care about our children. And what’s happening in their lives. Um, so I just had that as the issue or the need, right? It’s just to kind of like help her. As I’m doing the Reiki just asking for the or setting the intention of asking the energies to just like kind of help her feel better, right? And just like, easy about it all and let it go, let it go. You know, that kind of thing. So what was coming to me with this flash of the guardrail was like, to let her know just be there when your daughter like when she starts to go off the edge of the road, kind of like the guardrail is there but the guardrail doesn’t completely stop the car. And the guardrail doesn’t like isn’t part of the cars, journey or drive past it. If you can get my analogy here, the guard, it’s not like you’re playing bumper cars with the guardrail, right? The guardrail is just there. The guard rails are there. It’s almost like it’s a safety device, you know, but it’s not interfering.

So that’s that was what I was getting was like this is the mother’s role now in the child, the grown adult child’s life, just be the guardrail, you know? But I didn’t go into all that with her. I just said a couple of words to her. After that, I didn’t want to like have her mind grab onto my words and then just take that I just wanted her to rely on the receiving of the Reiki, right? I’m not there to implant any thoughts or ideas in someone’s mind.

Here’s where it gets cool. So as I’m finishing up with Sheila, I am, I go to sit down after I’m complete. And as I go to sit down, I see. I looked down and I see that on her left wrist, she had it this just occurred to me it was a spiral you know, it’s one of those things like you carry your keys on. That’s a little bendy. A jumper is like a spiral springy thing, so I thought it was a bracelet actually, when I saw it on her until I began recording this. I’m realizing it was more of the springy rubber but I can’t even think how to describe it. It was a spiral. And it was been bendable and springy. And maybe it was plastic. I’m not sure. But at the time when I looked down, all I saw was a bracelet and it was blue and it was the exact color blue that I wrote blue eyes about for Christina (my sibling who lived less than a day). Spiral thought: I used to always say Christina was my unborn sibling but she was born she just lived less than a day (that’s all explained in the book Blue Eyes: Ethereal Messages of Connection).

So as I sit down then of course I have this blue color in my mind, so to be scientific about it, you know there I was. I did see that and then I closed my eyes and I went right into meditation with Victoria for the rest of the meditation part of session. And as I’m meditating, I get what is just normal to get for me to see my field of vision turn blue with my eyes closed and it does its full dance. It’s almost like watching the smoke rise above the fire. That’s kind of what I get. And that tells me that Christina is with me. So I already knew she was with me. And now I’m seeing that, if you will a manifestation of it, just with my eyes closed, you know, a visual of her energy with me.

I don’t know if that lasted five or 10 minutes, but I was already really kind of caught up and just oh you know gratitude. Like I was just filled with immense gratitude. Thank you. Thank you. I did a few more things with my hands. I know I sent some emotional healing over to Sheila still sitting right next to me and to myself. You know just asking for Reiki energy just Yes, continue to work on us. And even though I’m done like physically standing behind/beside her and doing these actions, you know, just leave Reiki on and just continue to be. Our minds as mothers, you know, who have grown adult children.

The woo-woo part of the spiritual experience

So anyway, here’s where it gets, like whoo, whoo, I guess.

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A new song

Victoria has never done this before. Out of all the sessions I’ve been to, she’s never put on a particular song, a different song. We always use the same song and we always sing. And we do um, and that. Okay, so tonight she didn’t do that she used a completely different song. It was a female voice. I do not know who the singer was usually I’m good with it. You can ask my husband. He’s always helped. If I hear a song, I haven’t heard that. 30 years. I’ll know who the singer is by their voice. I just have an ear for singers and voices. You know, like, I’ll know was Whitney Houston? It could have been when they used them but I never heard her sing the song. So the song was You are so beautiful. It could have even been Christina Aguilera because I know she’s saying it but I haven’t. I may have only heard her sing it once so you know, it could have been a different version of her singing maybe I didn’t recognize her voice. But typically I’m good with picking out who the singer is. I have no idea who was singing for us. But the closest I could imagine would be Whitney Houston or Christina Aguilera. But, you know, I give it up for whoever it was because she did an amazing job and sang beautifully. And so as I’m hearing the song though, the imagery comes to me that Christina is singing this to me. And it’s my sister’s voice and maybe that’s why I don’t know who the real singer was right? But it was my sister’s voice Christina’s voice singing it to me singing the song to me. You’re everything I hoped for. Do you know? And I mean just every piece of the lyrics.

It goes deeper

It just kept going deeper and deeper in me and I’m crying now reliving this it was 10 minutes ago, but I was crying like tears. I was bawling. But I mean, I was like tears started streaming from my eyes. And I was like, I don’t want this to end because it was so loving, you know, and then before the song ended, I was singing it to Christina. So I was telling her I was looking at the blue. I was seeing her blue energy dancing behind my closed eyes. And I was singing a song back to her. Then it was the two of us singing it to our mom and dad and me realizing I’m always saying my mom, my dad, my sister. Well, our, and I don’t think I’ve ever done that before. I’ll have to look in the book. Did I even ever write it that way in the book, our mom and our dad, you know what I mean? So when we were announcing it to them, you’re you were so beautiful. You are so beautiful to me. And we were singing that to each of our parents whom we picked. But as I tell in the book, she chose not to come. She chose to go back, you know, and we all have this conscious choice.

Frequency

So during the healing session, one of the flashes that I had. I’m not saying I’m good enough to know if it was for Sheila or me right? But, yeah, one of the flashes that I had was that this issue of choice and of fear, too, and that fear. We just that’s just a word. Okay. But what that is, is a frequency. Right. And so everything that happens to us in spirit, and of course as in Christina’s case, in my sibling’s case, she was a fetus you know, an egg and sperm and fetus and baby, right? So, in those months of developing in our mother’s womb, see, again, I started saying my mother, our mother’s womb. So she was picking up all of the frequencies around her. If you can imagine, you know, when you swim in the water, how sound you know, if somebody calls your name, and you’re not underwater, you hear it one way but if they call your name while you’re underneath the water, you hear something that you hear differently, right? So imagine that baby in the womb picking up all these frequencies. So when she told me this was years ago, I remember it like it was yesterday.

Fear

So while I was in the hypnosis session with Patricia McGivern, and, and while I was meeting Christina, she was telling me because it was like, Why didn’t you come you know, why didn’t you call I loved you. I know I loved you. I was a baby too. I was less than two years old. At that time when she was born and subsequently died. But you know that my mom and dad like my mom so sad that she lost Christina and that, you know, they loved her and they wanted her she was so wanted, you know, why would she choose not to come? Because she said no, I chose not to. Well, then it was the issue of fear. I won’t give it all away because of the book but suffice it to say it wasn’t so she let me know tonight it wasn’t that she used the word fear and maybe not even in the same like definition as we would understand that term now. But we’re all looking at life through our lens through our perception of everything that we’ve lived. And so each step of the way in our lives, and that we wouldn’t have gone wouldn’t have had that obstacle or taken that step. We wouldn’t have been faced with certain challenges in our lives if it wasn’t for a reason. And so, part of that is that we are navigating this like a sea of frequencies. And so she was just in her baby state, navigating the sea of frequencies and fell off to her, you know, and so, she gave me the word fear, you know, all those years ago, but it wasn’t like a fear like Boo. It wasn’t like fear. Like, you know, you’re running from the bad man or you know, whatever, right? It wasn’t like any kind of like scary horror, fear, it was fear. She used the word fear, just to let me know it was the different frequency of energy, and that’s what felt after her.

Babies can make choices

And so she’s a baby. And she made that choice. She made that distinction in that decision. So she was discerning even as the spirit in this baby’s body like in that space of liquid you know that the baby’s in. So, I mean, it’s all very deep. But then again, it’s simple too so it’s sort of complex, but convoluted. But I think that every time I’m in meditation, she gives me a little bit more. It’s just she’s helping me step by step to understand how it’s not complex and complicated. It’s just that I don’t have an understanding that she has, you know because she’s seeing the broader, much broader universal picture of everything from her perspective, versus mine.

Limited perspective

I’m in a limited, I have a limited view of things and limited perception, even though of course, I’m always working to expand my consciousness and educate myself and look at life from myriad and multiple perspectives and that’s why I love teaching, the things that I do share the kaleidoscope and the mirror ball and all the different tools and tips and techniques that I use when I have sessions with people because yes, there’s it’s just nobody has all the answers. It’s just because we’re we are a fractal of omniscience, looking at life through a very limited lens, even if we have many, many, many years of experience and education, and all different kinds of degrees. and whatnot. Alright, I’ll leave it there for now. Happily, incomplete.

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

Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.

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.

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. 

I invite you to check out my new 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. Plus, I documented how I naturally reversed 30+ years of chronic asthma in my holistic health book, Take It Upon Yourself to Live a Wholly Vibrant Life, that’s available on Barnes and Noble with the second edition coming out soon on Amazon.

Connecting…

Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeonyour

After Tuesday night Reiki circle: Feb 21

Driving home from Reiki circle tonight. Tonight’s circle is a free Tuesday night healing session.

Each week we discuss one subject

Every time we sit in a circle and each time there’s a specific topic.

Spiral thought: I love to record (while driving) obviously for my blog but for myself even too. So I remember and I kind of go ahead and imprint that into the cells of my body, the subject that we spoke about.

So the subject tonight was spirituality. Huge subject I know and one that of course, I can ‘spiral thought‘ about it in all kinds of ways I don’t even recall exactly what I said. Because when we had our turn to speak about what the word meant to us, we introduced ourselves first, and then we could mention why we were there or how we came to be in the circle. And how we met our Reiki master Victoria, or anything else we want to share, and then talk about what the word means to us. Well, tonight, of course, the word is spirituality. I didn’t want to have any preconceived notions on what to say.

Spiral

Probably had I given it very much thought I would have said the spiral symbolizes spirituality for me especially now after 2019 and coming to know more about the petroglyphs, markings, and engravings on the walls of the ancient burial temple/burial chamber of Newgrange but also the rocks, giant boulders–the huge neolithic stones of Newgrange and Knowth.

So, the spiral is one of the most ancient symbols and to me, the word spiral is encased and enshrined in the words spirit and spirituality. I know that that’s where they take spires from as well and there’s usually always a spire on top of a cathedral or a church, a house of worship. So there’s that.

When I say spiral thoughts about spirituality, I can go off in many different directions with it. Its spirituality can be a belief system. A way of life. It’s how you interact with what’s external to you. So you may believe this idea that we’re spirit and we’re clothed or wrapped in human tissue. We’re Spirit coming to earth to live and experience life in this earthly body or vessel or temple. And so we’re constantly aware of our environment and surroundings. We’re aware of nature. We’re open to nature. And I know that I spoke about being open which was one of a part of my answer about what I think spirituality is. Or how do I view that turn spirituality it’s also about learning and growing and practicing, because I can read about something all day long, but if I never bring it in, if I don’t open to it and allow it to come into me, and become intimate with it and integrate it into my physicality. I’m not experiencing it. And so to do that, for me, it becomes a practice or it needs to become a practice.

An example, breathwork

So breathwork is an example. Spirit is breath. Breath is Spirit. This is the ether that surrounds us all. It’s like if you were fish, the water would be what surrounds you, but we’re, we’re air-breathing creatures, mammals. So the air is our ether. It’s what surrounds us. So we’re breathing spirit in with every breath. And then as we exhale, we’re exhaling chemically something different compounds, you know, breathing in oxygen, nitrogen we’re breathing out carbon dioxide. So technically what we’re breathing in is different than what we’re breathing out. And just remember from elementary school that trees were the opposite. They would breathe in, what we breathe out, and then they would give us or add to the oxygen in our environment.

Symbiotic nature

So we’ve got this symbiotic nature. Sadhguru says that trees are the other half of our lungs. For that very reason. Right? So I breathe in. What the tree breathes out, the tree breathes then when I breathe out, pretty cool. So we’re interacting, or we’re the yin and yang. with nature. And specifically trees in my example, but you know, it can be any living thing and I believe even the rocks are living. Because I’ve experienced a real I’ve had relationship with various rocks and stones crystals. So it’s not just the things that have a pulse that is alive. Or the things like trees that have Sapt running through them.

So it’s not just about blood, water, a liquid something inside of something that makes it alive. But I do think there’s a consciousness involved in all living things. I don’t think my opinion is that if something isn’t alive, there’s no consciousness. So I know part of my answer tonight was expanding consciousness.

If we are alive, and we’re always in this interactive dance spirit, by the act of breathing, then spirituality is us becoming conscious and aware of the dance of the symbiotic relationship. So we can keep this minimal or we can go as deep with this as you want. But I would be curious about what you write in the comments. What your idea of spirituality is, you know, is it a philosophy? Is it a practice? Is it awareness? Is it consciousness? Do you agree that yeah, we can decide to close off from it if we want to, you know, out of fear some people do?

Let’s say when you’re a child, and you’re scared of the dark at night, and the monster in the closet, that kind of thing, the monster under the bed, you know, there’s still adults that won’t sleep with because I’ve had this experience myself where as an adult, I wouldn’t sleep with my hand overhanging over the edge of the bed. I mean, that just seems like such a silly fear to have. But there’s still some element to something being under the bed. I mean, the stuff of scary movies, right?

Fear is in the mind

I don’t know why it’s almost like as a human, we have to, if we’re not scared of things where we don’t have fear, then we go about doing things to create it. And so whether that’s an action of the mind so that there’s always the yin and yang there’s always the push-pull. There’s always contrast in our mind to keep the brain working and alive. I don’t know. But it wouldn’t surprise me because it seems like a lot of times we make up unfounded fears, just to keep ourselves on our toes, and to keep our senses or to keep ourselves challenged.

Spirituality

I’ll come back around to Spirituality. When we are with a group of people agree with, ah! What a feeling! We agree that spirituality is more than religion. It transcends religion. You don’t need religion as an organization of thought, or structure or ritual, ritualistic practices, certain dates on the calendar, things like that, which puts structure around spirituality. But spirituality in and of itself is just like the act of breathing. It’s just there. It’s always there. In hours of meditation I learned that spirit was all there was at the beginning of time at the beginning of creation. It is said if you have a void and then you have something created within the void, I mean, the void by definition is void. So how can matter exist in it? Just popping into existence in a void doesn’t happen scientifically anyway, so they say well, it was the spirit, spirit input, a spirit entered the void.

Spirit put the first matter into that space, which is the dot. You know, there was the one, and the one split and became two, and then the two forms and there were three. It’s like the first cell. When the first cell split and then create from the two, they create the third and so on.

Yeah, like I said, I can have spiral thoughts about spirituality because I see it as internal breathing in, so I’m internalizing spirit. I am spirit. And then I am externalizing spirit, by my growth, by my awareness of witnessing my growth and also being committed to a series of practices that exemplify or that display. My spirituality might be putting my hands in prayer position, lighting a candle, saying a prayer, singing a praise song. Performing an act of kindness, random act of kindness, or giving, donating something, tithing. You know, all those are outward gestures of the inner spiritual belief system and the inner spirituality. I mean, I can have a belief system all day long, but if I don’t believe in my belief system, and I don’t act from it, then I’m not you know, portraying or displaying my spirituality, right? So my spirituality might be completely different than what my religion is, or, you know, the tactics that one says that I’m supposed to use to be quote-unquote, “be good,” whatever the religion is, you know, a good Catholic, a good Christian, Muslim a good Buddhist whatever, right?

In closing

So I thought I’d share this tonight with you and get some feedback from you and see what your thoughts are about it and open this can of worms I know that I’ve written a lot about omniscience before about God about different religions that I do or don’t agree with. So spirituality is much more free-flowing. Yes, we shall say free flowing and just like the breath, there’s an ebb and a flow to it. And you can observe it or you can choose to run from it and hide from it. if it’s something that you fear. Just like the sun, it’s always there. we just may have our back turned toward it. And as the Earth vows to the sun eastward, I bow to the east, every morning and give thanks for the sun for you and our connectedness.

And with that, I will close. Much love, many blessings, and always Peace.

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

Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.

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.

The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.

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Going deep with Integrated Spiral

The following was transcribed by Otter during a one hour personal Integrated Spiral session:

Raw audio file of this blog post.

Integrated Spiral session introduction

Hello everybody, my name is Sheila Murrey and I run a specialized kind of DE-Program called, Integrated Spiral™. And I would like to take you through an example of what I do in that program and how I work it personally for myself and then at the end, I will give you some information about the DE-Program and if you feel led to become involved, or take part, or give this loose framework (as I call it) – how you can give it a try.

So to begin with, this program is really good for people who struggle with accomplishing a fairly large task, like writing a book, or developing a program or a course, or even starting a business (where you have to) put together a lot of information.

Perhaps you’ve collected many books that you want to draw upon the information from those books. And you want to do that in a proper way so that you’re not plagiarizing from those books, and you want to cite your sources and put together an index and cross reference and things of that nature.

Laying it all out

So in your idea (in your mind) of writing a book, it becomes a very large task. It is in fact a project! And being that I have worked in the information technology arena as an IT consultant, a business analyst and a technical writer, I certainly have the business skills that I can put to use here and help you. But beyond that, my love and my passion is personal transformation and growth. It’s helping people. And if I can help you feel better about organizing your information, putting it into a structure that will facilitate you accomplishing your task, whatever that task is, maybe it’s that you are organizing an upcoming wedding. It can be anything literally. It can be buying a house; I’m trying to think of examples folks have brought to me, but primarily I’ve worked (the Integrated Spiral™ DE-Program methods) with folks who are healing their body of a chronic illness.

Spiral sidebar about healing

Now, let me give my disclaimer right up front. I’m not a doctor. I do not work in the medical profession and I’m not a mental health professional. But I have helped people lessen to some degree, their grief, or depressive thought patterns.

We’ve seen chronic ills improve. I won’t go as far as to say healing of other people’s health situations. But I have Healed my body–the body that my spirit inhabits. I have healed it of asthma. I’ve healed it of an ovarian cyst that if I had let my GYN my female doctor gynecologist try to resolve, she would have cut me open and taken everything out. I would have had a full hysterectomy because it was a painful ovarian cyst, but it was one that liked to play tricks and hide. So I had all kinds of different ultrasounds and every time we looked it would either change positions or it would disappear, reappear or hide itself; she wasn’t sure what was going on, but we knew (it was there somewhere) because I had pain. And we could feel something there. But we couldn’t necessarily scientifically see something was there without going in and physically seeing it through surgery. So, that was her proposition to me and I refused to do that. I went back to an acupuncture physician in Orlando, Florida that I knew whom had been the teacher, the trainer for acupuncture to a previous acupuncture doctor I had seen, so it was almost like going to back to the source.

In my opinion, I trusted her and had done quite a bit of acupuncture when I was healing of the asthma: getting off of five different asthma and allergy medications and easing my allergies, seasonal allergies; all kinds of things have vastly improved ever since I did that in 2005. It took six months (to heal) and I write about this in my book, Take It Upon Yourself to Live a Holy, Vibrant Life. In that book, I explained that whole process so I won’t go through that again here. But suffice to say in six months, I was off of five (5) pharmaceutical medications. My oxygen levels improved. I was breathing much deeper, more fully and speaking clearly. It even improved my speaking voice so here we are now. To this date, it’s 2022, so (I healed this body) over 15 years ago!

Because I believe my body healed, I believe any body can heal.

I am the LIVING EVIDENCE of TRUTH, of the body’s ability to HEAL!

If you cut your finger you can watch that cut close up and heal over the course of two or three days, depending upon your body’s rate of healing. But everybody is different. That (healing) is something you can witness for yourself. I’m not saying to (go and) cut your finger. I’m saying IF you cut your finger or something like that, you can watch that heal. I’ve also healed and watched moles fall off my body. I have literally used essential oils (to heal these) and either twist or just lightly rubbed the surface of the mole and within four or five days, up to three weeks depending upon what the mole is and how deep its roots go and things like that. It will literally fall off my body. I have I and some of the ones I’m still working on. I have shrank the mole in size–if I drew a circle around it and called it 100% initially, it would now be it like 25%– and it’s become much much lighter and much smaller in the height it stands up off the or from the surface of the skin. So I do believe the body can heal, naturally.

I’ve used I exercises and improved my eyesight! I have astigmatism and wear glasses for that. But my distance vision has definitely improved, so much so that when I go to get a new prescription and I only go every three years, they usually think that the previous one was wrong because they can’t accept the fact that I just turned 60 years old in January and my eyesight is improving because everybody else’s gets worse! But I maintain that the use of the prescription lenses are what actually weaken the eye. So I take my glasses off for large parts of the day. And I look out the window or I go outside and walk and I look off into the distance. When I’m working and I can’t get outside I look off into the distance and exercise my long distance vision without the prescription eyeglasses to help my eyes heal (get stronger). So I can give you example, after example, after example and I do that in my book. The point of this talk and the point of this blog is to give you details about how I would walk myself through the DE-Progam, Integrated Spiral™.

Why DE-Program?

Right off the bat, what do I mean by DE-Program? Well, as I’ve just explained, I believe the body can heal itself and THAT pretty much runs contrary to what you hear on anything mainstream, especially now. It’s all this reliance upon pharmaceutical medications, vaccines, anything and everything. From the outside in. I believe in stimulating what’s inside my body by acupressure, acupuncture, herbs, essential oils, things like that. And yes, those are put on the outside of the body but I’m stimulating what’s inside the body (to actually DO the healing work). One could argue that the pharmaceutical drugs and the back scenes doing the same thing, but I am using means that are more natural that are less, that there’s less money behind and that there’s less chance of manipulation of, so nothing’s perfect. At least most things are not going to be perfect, in my opinion. But this is the way that I choose to tackle it instead of relying upon something that’s driven by billion dollar industry and that can be politically manipulated, charged (extreme amounts of money for), or withheld.

What I do and how I approach healing of the body is something that once learned, no one can ever take away from you. No one can ever stop you from healing in that way, even if it is simply by means of meditation, which is probably the first and foremost (uncontrollable methods). Prayer and meditation are probably the best forms of natural and holistic healing that we have, but many, many people will not turn to those FIRST, they’ll turn to those last (if at all–because they’ve been “programmed”).

This is a different paradigm

You can see the different paradigm in which I’m coming from right off the bat. That’s why iIntegrated Spiral™ is a DE-Program because I’m taking you through a loose framework and a structure and a process that helps you to release a lot of the anxiety causing and fear based (underlying) tactics the mainstream uses to threaten you really, and and make you feel like you have no hope but their medicine and their outlook, and their diagnosis, and prognosis (their dogma–and yes, Science definitely has a dogma associated with it).

I say, look within and what I talk about my modus operandi, our mantra is, heal thyself. Let food be thy medicine. And if it can’t hurt, why not (at least try it).

Now, I’m not advocating that you go take snake venom or something that’s a known toxin to your body in order to stimulate your body to heal (though what the hell is chemo and radiation???).

I’m advocating that simply by eating good, clean, whole, local fresh food and herbs and knowing how to use them in the proper amounts can work wonders and they can still work fairly fast.

You know, one of the tenants and the reason that a lot of people turn to Western medicine or allopathic medicine, is that they can take the pill for every ill and it and it resolves the ill fast like an aspirin for a headache, but that used to be true. But now it seems like if you take too many aspirins, you end up with an ulcer or you end up with some other side effect that if you had just went to and tried to identify or detect what the root cause was of your headache, maybe it was drinking diet soda. You quit drinking diet soda your headache goes away. It can be that simple. Maybe you have dry eye, you drink more water throughout the day, and your dry eye symptoms disappear. Magic poof, go figure. All right.

Why call it a Spiral process?

To get back to the subject, again, one reason why this is called Spiral is because I tend to spiral off into different topics of discussion, in an effort to just help paint you the larger picture. But sometimes I do go down the spiral rabbit hole.

Spirals carved into ancient stones of Sacred Site: Newgrange (Boyne Valley, County Meath, Ireland)

When I started working on the project (that is a new course within Integrated Spiral™), I thought I really need to walk through this and take all the information that I’ve been gathering on three and a half by five (3.5 x 5) cards for months and months and also some handwritten notes that I had, and there was a lot of disparate information and thoughts. And so that’s where this deprogram can really come in handy. For more information, see my previous post: https://sheilamurrey.net/integrated-spiral/

When to use Integrated Spiral™

Integrated Spiral™ can come in handy if you just have a pebble in your shoe and you want to know how to get out of that painful situation; (exit) a toxic relationship or such too. But you can use it as a structure for managing a project, as it’s also very beautiful because of its elegance (and spaciousness). It can help to take some of the pressure off.

So let let me walk you through this example.

Organizing notes and references in a loose spiral formation

An example of Integrated Spiral™

So in the middle of the spiral, it’s very tight. In fact, it starts with a dot. But if we were to take a microscope on to that.we, may very well see that within that dot there are spirals as well. So just to say the inside of the spiral is where we’re going to start on this process. And it’s very tight.

An Integrated Spiral™ map

If you were drawing it out on a picture, you would draw a diagram drawn a spiral out. So that’s where the majority of the information that I had was, in the middle of the spiral and it was very tight, meaning there wasn’t a lot of space in between. I had a lot of little bits of information that I couldn’t really very nicely categorize. That’s why they’re in the middle.

As we start to move outward, where we have more space in between the arms of the spiral, that’s where things start showing up as larger and larger categories. So think in terms of middle of the spiral, lots of little categories, even just a sentence or two of information. And then as we move out the spiral, larger bodies, or better defined categories of information (are grouped into one pile/point along the spiral).

How to stack each group, IF you have to move it during the process

That’s really the process.

I’m taking physical action and moving my notes and 3.5 x 5 cards and putting them together in specific categories (or by subject matter). The notes (or pieces of paper) are placed on a bed, table, or on the floor in a spiral pattern. And this is going to help you when you start organizing them to actually get them into either a, a book format, a manuscript format, or say a spreadsheet or something before getting the information into whatever tool you’re going to use (computer or such).

If you already have the information, say in your phone, or on your computer or laptop we handle it in a similar fashion, but it just wouldn’t be printed out and we wouldn’t be physically laying it out. I do have tools that I can suggest to you. Or you can google and find tools that will look like a sticky note. And you can do mind maps or clouds where you can put that information in forms, and then you can move them around in the same way. But the Integrated Spiral™ process may not serve you as well as if you have physical notes, because part of the benefit is to allow the physical motion of putting your information INTO the spiral layout INFORMS the mind and eases anxious thoughts about tackling such a project, which is why you haven’t accomplished the project til NOW.

Mind Map software tool to organize your digital notes, references, etc.

The physical mess is usually what I’m trying or is usually what I’m best at helping people pull that information from their physical sources. Get it into their digital electronic processing, or spreadsheet form forms.

So, here’s what I have that we’re going to use as the example. All right, what is the level, amount of calls, or steps?

  • Sentence 1: About
  • Sentence 2: DIY one month, 4-week course
  • Potential name. WordPlay. It includes a 15 second video
  • Culminates in new deeply authentic content for your blog, newsletter, book, course program, etc.
  • My three teaching points are:
    • Listen intently for active listening to be heard and understood
    • Get still do your inner work
    • Track, log, record what comes up through you

After (voicing this into Otter or other similar transcription tool or typing it into a computer), I rip the paper, crumple it up, and it’s going in the trash (we don’t have recycling here).

So that was that was the first and second pieces of paper. Three phases.

Spiral side business note: Craft a targeted offer

Work backwards from whatever offer I’m going to make.

  1. My offer
  2. My design
  3. My target audience: spiritual entrepreneurs.
  4. Visualize and document my dream client: Someone who wants to shine their brilliance
  5. Set a date/time on my calendar for a “discovery session”
  6. My tagline: Be the best version of who you want to be –that’s already on my blog site at the end of almost every one of my blog articles (thus, I must have already implemented that note somewhere earlier along in my work–great!)

Next sheet of paper. Another business note: Let us promote you. Focus on what differentiates yourself. Efficiency customer satisfaction, home study. Group Program, okay, ripping this 1/3 sheet of paper.

Next? How would you love to be heard? Strike that. Move from feeling unheard to not only being heard but deeply understood. How would you like to come out of your contemplative inner work your meditation and prayer time to a place where you’re ready to share your deepest authenticity with the world question mark. All right, what do you get from that?

So the question is, so that you can fill in the blank in this example. Of course it’s so that you can put together your own project in an easier way.

Alright, we have completed the center of the spiral. We’re just now taking one step up and out. It’s still very close to that very tight center of our spiral. So moving up and out card one, God bumps!

Spiral side business note: 50/50 split with my partner

A simple contract 50/50 split can be renegotiated (with my partners).

Check in with how we’re FEELING

There’s a feeling of accomplishment that comes from doing the ripping in the in the wedding paper up and three and a half by five cards to just as an aside so it’s already helping me mentally kind of feel like I’m getting more space in my brain. I’m definitely getting more space on the bed, the floor or the table where these were laid out.

I’m feeling a bit of a feeling of accomplishment right now. And I’m feeling a mental ease. So already I’m seeing a benefit to this DE-Program philosophy and this framework.

Next card: love or fear, meld, balance, shift, duality, polarity and I drew the yin and yang symbol. So, you have white on the top and black on the bottom with a wavy line in the middle. You have both the white and the center of the white and the dark in the center of the black the white have written beside a bit love and the dark is fear. Sit with your fear, embrace it, love it. On the back of the card I have written “enter family reunion or soul reunion.” (That’s also great, because we bring in and honor our ancestors as a central tenant of working the Integrated Spiral™ process.)

Next card: no judgment, no fear. Take risks.

Next card: There’s a few names on this one, so I’ll just say Ash, Pattie, Terri. Underneath the names I have written marketing branding. As we hide our spirituality in business.

Next card: Viscerally feeling tingles on top of the head and Dr. Joe Dispenza. Okay, that one’s done.

Moving in a clockwise motion. This spiral continues out and up to the top right. I have a card with an energy line drawn under the word, fire. Learn how to listen helps us teach in a humble way. How does humility help us spiritually? It helps us listen. And listening helps us know how to ask questions. Put yourself aside. Put ourself aside. Something stirred in my spirit = GodBumps as we listen through our heart. Back of the card: Testimony has MONY in it and why? How to listen to trees listen to people the same way as wind blows through the Jack Pine Tree in the dark. Sounds like empathy. We can love spiritually with the heart, even if we don’t like the person.

Integrated Spiral™ subprocess

New point on the spiral. This is actually a process WITHIN Integrated Spiral™. (So, yes, I’m letting you ALL in on a bit of a secret! Shhhh… haha!)

Perform the DAILY Gratitude F-L-O-W consisting of:

  • Bow flow, sweep hands together – from the outside in
  • From the inside tap or pat, hug and swipe the body
  • Think/Consider: Ancestors. Breath. Water. Spiral blood flow. Foods that nourish.

This is the morning gratitude ritual. Breathe with the movements. From and with an open heart in all directions. Movement starts from the inside. Turn, turn turn in the image of the spiral. Food starts from the outside. Gratitude for all inside and outside. “We can choose the thoughts we dwell on” Les Brown. That’s a quote. Think: Listen to what I tell myself. How am I doing? Scale radius units human ratios universe. Observational units unified physics, energy mass surface to volume, ratio relationships, effects (Nassim Haramein) and the division of space and space memory. Electromagnetism diverging opposite of gravity, converging one attracts, one repels. Divergent and convergent. SMART goals: specific measurable, attainable, realistic and timely.

That’s one whole process. So, I’m going to leave those cards together because in the group, we work through that and I may update that again, as I see now that I may need another bullet on the spiral.

Moving a bit further out to the right. Giving a little bit more space I find another process. It’s called, “How to integrate” and I have some things about what I am calling these tools or sub processes that we’re going to integrate in. So, that would be the tree of life (the story tree) and then find the ripples, distracting others, coping mechanisms, or challenging the negative.

I found one I will put on the back burner about a methodology that helps connect you with a feeling of power that inspires.

Okay, that was a note to myself, so I don’t need that card anymore.

Next card: If you’re driving pull over and don’t close your eyes. Allow your body to wiggle and adjust to a comfortable position. Sounds like this was part of my meditation class. I can use that.

Next card: Air made up of more 78% nitrogen than oxygen which is 21% plus argon. Trees provide us with 28% oxygen but 70% of oxygen comes from marine phytoplankton microscopic algae.

Next card: Breathe. Circle your eyes with your fingertips. Yes, some of these cards got mixed up. (This will go with one of the previous and be used during my meditation class.)

Next card: Use this time to detach. This was part meditation class and also part of my “Communing with TREES” class (where when we observe our mind thinking, we let the thought float away on a fluffy cloud). I got rid of these cards and moved to the next point on the spiral.

Next card: Balance time between social media and actually doing stuff. Understand the dopamine instant gratification hit of addiction. Climb the mountain and learn patience make an impact purpose stay focused on our purpose.

Next point on the spiral path: “Just BE.” This points to real conversations within Integrated Spiral™ of unmasked conversations. Short and sweet.

Next card: How did you start the film festival? Isabelle could tell us her story. Two months before it opened she got stuck, yet it all unfolded. Isabelle is my 83 year old friend in Sarasota who will join us in the program the DE-Program and those who join will get a chance to ask her life questions from her amazing wisdom.

Next card: Trust and doubt or trust over doubt, inviting uninvited words versus attention grabbing. Practice: when I start to doubt, ask what am I inviting? Invite is the “opposite.” Use turnarounds. Reference The Work of Byron Katie.

Next card: short conversations. Just be real Isabelle-isms. 15 minutes of healthy self gestures for 30 seconds. Essence.

Okay, next point on the spiral: It’s going to be down at the bottom. It’s going to be down at the bottom. Looks like we have okay card center of spiral meditation, contemplative prayer or contemplative prayer.

Rest in the spaces between and the thoughts grow larger with practice, mind my own energy or manage my own energy. We are each a fractal of Omniscience.

Spiral side note: Minding my Energy

I designed a t-shirt minding my energy and in a few months my son and his girlfriend invited my husband and I to move to their off grid property for a 90 day test trial run (yes, the Universe really did put me to the test on that! Haha!).

Spiral side note: During the lockdowns

What we couldn’t have known then was that COVID lockdowns would prevent us from doing fun things in the new area or be able to move to another campground in two or three months if we didn’t like like it and we had issues. I’ve already written about all that in another blog article. A tropical storm hid the sun from our solar panels for seven to 10 days we felt like we were on a sailboat with no wind for our engine.

This is what you find out when you start working on your project that you’ve already used these notes for something else and it’s already done. You really don’t even need them. Yeah, because the next card goes into some more about that with our generator. Our first generator died within six weeks. Its replacement, the second one died at the end of the 90 day warranty period. We did get our money back and then we bought a bigger more expensive generator with auto start and a remote which was great. And I remember the day that happened because I had so much ease that I could just lean towards the window while I was working and press a button and turn on the air conditioner–which was amazing. Because I had been working with sweat running down my from my armpits down the side of my body for many days. And it was difficult. I do not know how people lived in Florida 100 years ago without air conditioning. Now, that’s a spiral thought for you.

Continuing on next point in the spiral because I’m going to just go ahead and throw away the next two cards because they’re all about that story, which I’ve already told in another article.

Alright, so the next point on the spiral is we can start coming around up to the left and go on upwards. Conversation with Elena 12 steps four noble truths Eightfold Path trauma, release and Kundalini for elevate elevation. Breathe, root, take into action and accountability. I think this was about the time I started on clubhouse and I was speaking with a lot of really smart folks who gave me more ideas of things, tools and practices that they were using, and they were integrating into their spiral process.

Peace. Pleasure. BLISS!

How, with all the distractions, do we get to stay in this state?

That’s something else we talked about in Integrated Spiral™.

By the way, as ANOTHER side note, I do not have all the answers. This is why it’s a group process. Group program group DE-Program, but it’s an intimate group of either four, six, or eight people, depending on who’s drawn to the work. But so far, we haven’t had more than eight and I think any more than eight might not be manageable. We will probably keep each group between four and eight souls and we will do just create new groups if we have more people interested at one time than that, but so far that’s been manageable for me because I still work full time job.

Okay, so next card: Mother Earth resets herself; make self care a priority. If we don’t, it will manifest in another way. One of my participants said, “Trust ourselves, find what works for you in nature, earthing and grass…” we’re overseeing (in this DE-Program) because again, everybody’s bringing in their tools and processes. We incorporate those tools when when it makes sense, and where we can, because it’s about taking the first step to getting that project done, or that new habit set, and then later as the spiral allows and affords us more time and space, we can integrate MORE in.

As we complete things and get things done, we can add in some new things like say a new book or something to read or to use as a source, but that’s when the project is nearing its completion. And so if it makes sense to add something new in if you were planning a wedding, it might be you want to add a couple new songs in and you want to contact the DJ and get the those things lined up. And if they don’t work, have a backup, just giving another kind of example there.

But for a health program, it might be you were doing yoga and someone told you about Feldenkrais and so you decide to find a Feldenkrais practitioner and add that in as a modality that you’re going to use. It could be things like that where you’re healing a chronic ill that you’re going to be continually adding in, and layering in, different modalities to help support what you’re doing.

Spiral side note: Alternative Health

Again, you can see that’s another reason why people won’t go that route (of alternative health) because they want everything to be covered by their health insurance. Well, sorry. Alternate and natural healing and holistic healing methods typically are not covered by health insurance. You’re very lucky if you get some that are and please take full advantage of those because anything added as an adjunct is is very good for you and very supportive for you in my humble opinion from being someone who has healed my body that way. I have spent THOUSANDS of dollars healing my body, but I believe that it’s been to my benefit. I have not relied on my health insurance. I went many years without health insurance. I know this is another aside another spiral thought, but I just want to put that out there. If you’re just relying on your health insurance you are your health is being dictated by your health insurance company. Not your doctor. Newsflash.

New point on the spiral: Spoke about trees, Mother Nature, what’s real, we exist, miraculous and crazy. It seems miraculous and sometimes people think we’re crazy. My friend Pradeepika. She’s from West India. And when it’s 11:30pm there, it’s 2pm here so that was just an aside note for me that I don’t need anymore because I started getting scammed by people on Clubhouse. And unfortunately, I chose to throw the baby out with the bathwater and just leave (that app) altogether. It was just becoming a toxic environment for me. I still have friends on Clubhouse though and they still love it. They established and maintain very tight boundaries–and I’m all about the ALL (as I bet you know by now!). They are very very careful about who they let in to their groups. If you’re on Clubhouse, I can connect you with them. But otherwise, that’s all I’ll do in that regard.

Next point on the spiral: We’re maybe sort of nearing the end. There’s a dosha or this is the name of the modality; it may not be scientific. Start imagining everything has a spirit; everything is one thing. Care about feeling better. Your own feelings inside get deeper. Good flow–when you feel a good flow. You’re on a natural high. Okay. Oh, let’s see.

This was another point on the spiral. And this was the beginning of a talk that I was writing that I didn’t finish. So, if it’s possible to weave it in to this particular course I will but if not, I will kill the baby (it’s actually, “kill your darlings”), so to speak. I don’t know that’s like a writing term (journalism term). I’m not even thrilled about that.

Portion of my “Talk”

Before I kill myself, let me talk with you for a few minutes. I literally have talking points. Yeah, I’m not sure I like that at all. To me that feels negative now and see? That’s another benefit (of this DE-Program process work) because now, you’re going back through looking at things with a different mind. Like Einstein said, you can’t solve a problem with the same mind that it took to create the problem.

And no, I’m not about to hang shoot or otherwise physically harm myself. So, hang up the phone if you have picked it up to call 911 for or on me, this is my way of a dramatic opening. Okay, you can see where I was going with that and why it’s not necessary. Certainly if you’re listening to this now or reading this and you’re in a depressed state, I would want you to call 911 or a suicide hotline and I would advocate every day all day long for that. Put on some Yanni or that song, Hold On. If you are familiar with that older song. I mean, stay with us. Tomorrow is a brand new day and you don’t know when you walk out your door who you’re gonna meet and what might happen next. And I am all for experiencing the universe as very surprising with a sometimes ironic sense of humor, so please, I would beseech you to contact a counselor 911 or suicide hotline if you have feelings headed in that direction to do your self harm because you are needed. You’re loved. You’re worthy. And that’s one of the biggest things that we fight in the personal transformation genre is that people feel they go down the deep dark hole and they feel like nobody cares nobody loves them. They’re not worthy. They’re powerless. And that’s a belief system. So, you know what we call belief systems? BS! BS = Belief Systems. And it’s all BS.

You’ll see when we finish this up because the last card explains that so hang with me. That’s probably not a good word to use. Stay with me.

Spiral side note: healthy eating

Next card: A look at all the things I do to support my health; point out the ingredients.

  • I care about what I put in my body, which is why I don’t take drugs, pharma medicines. Don’t do coke. I don’t drink Coke either. I don’t drink soda. Don’t smoke pot. Nor do I smoke cigarettes.
  • I care about you and YOU is in all caps. I share these videos, blogs, write books, etc. Because I care.
  • I want to utilize my skills talents. education experience over 30 years to help people spiritually physically and in their especially in their family relationships, but in all relationships, because we are all connected. And if you don’t know the story about why I believe that that’s my mantra. There’s an there’s a whole page on my blog dedicated to we’re all connected, please read it.

Spiral side note: Ancestral and new Energies

Next point on the spiral: We’re pretty much on the top again, coming around. I have notes about the Cherokee, Dr. Eric Pearl, and a few others. (In terms of ancestral Energies mixing with the “new Energy” Dr. Pearl talks about.)

I learned to honor my Native American ancestry in particular to Ceremony and social interactivity. And to honor the fire in the center as part of our ancestral ways, and how this lives in our hearts. On a mountain in North Carolina dancing at night eagle feather leads. We are all connected to the fire. Yes, the Native Americans believe we are all related. And apparently this particular person I was listening to and taking notes about said we’re all connected to the fire. So that’s how that got picked up and put in my stack of note cards. There’s a water ceremony that connects people all over the world. The Cherokees got their ballgame from the Choctaw tribe. Do our very best without hurting others fasting, feasting and then medicine to make our lives better. They use turtle shells women wear and to carry the dance rhythm and small drum. We play small drums for the Creator to hear as women shake shells. We dance. And everything is about Thanksgiving.

This is a framework. frame work. Our spirituality provides this connection. It’s a connected tradition. Good stuff is passed down orally (as we learned about the old ways and Celtic Energies in 2019). All of the stories in Ireland were passed down orally and the folks who are passing down those stories took great pride and care to make sure their stories were passed down accurately.

In Ireland, the children and grandchildren would repeat the stories over and over and then be corrected or guided or coached by the grandparents. The Native American elders also guided their listeners to retell accurate stories (and keep many secret).

So engaging in play is part of ceremony for us. This is still with the Native Americans here. We believe our body and spirit are tied together.

  • Practice mindfulness
  • Put our phones away
  • Be IN gratitude every day
  • In the shower, list things we’re grateful for
  • Practice balance and sobriety
  • Our spirit talks to us
  • Ground using running water
  • Take care of ourselves so we can serve others
  • Speak Cherokee daily
  • Keep the youth engaged (let them shake shells while the elders dance–in the past, only the older ones did that)
  • Dance during the different phases of the moon

Next point on the spiral: First 30 minutes of our DE-Program. And on every call ask, “How did it go for you last week from what we learned or discussed”?

Spiral side business notes: Overwhelm & promotions

In 2008 I was too scattered how too much at people and overwhelmed. Throw too much at people and it overwhelms them. “Schizophrenic entrepreneur” is an actual thing. Focus on one thing to become an expert and grow and manage from there. Use database lists three to four hours straight at the computer, get more clients. Use a press release. Grow Your Business build your brand. These are business notes promoting other people. I’d love to communicate audio visually. And blog for others. And sing original songs. I use music to ease my anxiety and stress. We could create animated videos, so far my hubby is my only happy client for those. I can offer digital works such as press releases, blogs, social media promotions, communicating, and connecting (via social media). Case in point, my husband just created his own brand new music website and all he needed to know was how to change the title in the header in the HTML. I helped him with that and it was a two-second fix (as any of you know who work on websites and do HTML). So he was happy about that. And I felt grounded.

Spiral side note: More rabbit holes

Next point: The spiral grounded, real and skeptical. These are all points that Dr. Eric Pearl has talked about as an authentic person the progression of integrative medicine. List of some people’s names who promote human energy and living universe energy. Everything at every level is alive in the universe, remembers, and evolves. Homeopathy; survival after death; and psychic abilities. Sounds like several rabbit holes.

Next point on the spiral: Discussion topic the toilet lid. Toilet has a lid for a reason. Put the lid down before you flush; when you flush, all that stuff goes up into the air and spreads out around your bathroom.

Next point is road rage. And the spirit of “Taking it personally.” Shakespeare: All the worlds a stage – Control = Ego. Fairness justice come from the Ego; Ego is everything other than pure essence ego. “What are we pretending not to know?” Marianne Williams.

Next point on the spiral: Meditate, set my route. Oh, this was from Stonehenge.

So, the meditation at Stonehenge had me sitting my root chakra next to the blue healing stone buried in the ground and began to thank Omniscience in and for all ways. That was deep.

Mindfulness and Yoga

Next point on the spiral. Start with mindfulness awareness, presence time, prioritize stillness, breathe connection. Be here now. Morning gratitude ritual. Opposite multitasking nourishing with food and grace before meals. We are all connected.

Next point: “Tune us the sitar neither low nor high and we will dance away the hearts of men.” That’s a quote that my yoga teacher, Dr. Ronald Porter uses when he teaches yoga in St. Pete. Let’s see I think this is my quote. Let me read it. There’s a little something more to it other than just being told that deep breathing as another alternative modality to relieve a health issue. Otherwise, we’d all be healthy and feel good with the amount of quality and knowledge that abounds in this information age. I have my name attached to that. So I’d have to look and see if that comes from my blog or I pick that up somewhere.

Next point: Yoga puts us in touch with the sun, subtleties way of life, which is not equal to religion. Yoga is not a religion, but it can be. Anything can be a religion IF you turn it into ritual (by “practicing it). More people do yoga for the body in the US than in India.

Next point on the spiral: What feels good to you?

Spiral side note: Do something new!

Next point: Do something new. Or release something, per Sherry Frost 2008. And I have a bunch of key words here fitness well being robustness, stamina, vigor, tone, top form wholeness, fine feather constitution. Palliative release is cure deliverance, solace, comfort, remission, consolation, cheer, breathe, help assistance. Alleviate, mitigate, lightening, rest, respite, happiness, satisfaction, analysis, medicine, therapeutics, and healing. Use the heart close rather than the hard close, especially in business. We are all in – and that was the business coaching comment. More tags intuitive, uncontrolled, common, ordinary, universal, regular, Natural Alternative, organic, Holistic Health Wellness modalities remedies therapy treatment relief prescription free drug free non toxic primitive, vital prime primal necessary fundamental essential original integrated, comprehensive full total energy strength, vitality, hardiness and bloom.

Next point: where are my wishes? This was part of a talk can only help it can’t hurt but the universe doesn’t hear no. So I wanted to rephrase that. Non toxic native to the body. I don’t have all the answers, but my allergies have reduced. Now I’m working to help my granddaughter’s I connect to others for answers and learn. I’ll keep those because those cards seem to really stand out in a speech.

Spiral side business note: Want to grow your brand?

Next point: Do you want to grow your brand, or your client list? You can see a lot of these things are gonna come out of the spiral though because they just don’t fit. One of these things is not like the others. That’s what we’re looking for. I can do all your online work for you. Highlight differences, no prescriptions needed drug free options. I can consult with you to build your email list. Send regular updates, offer coupons and specials, and promotions. And send out communications. But that may not mean anything to a therapist or mental health person. They need a website. They need help when they say, “I’m going to pull my hair out.” For those of you who are avoiding having an online presence, losing sales will be the result.

Spiral side business note: Continue learning & side hustles

Okay, next point: Neural network pathways fractals. Alana held on to the tree for dear life. Fractals, kaleidoscope, mystical power, infinite space, ineffable experience, one dose of magic mushroom can cure anxiety and depression. No fear of dying. Recalibrates view of death, quest on and we’ll learn together. It took a hypnotist a year to build her email list to 972 or so people. Joint ventures. Alliances work if you have 1000 emails and they have 1000 emails. Partners will be more willing to share their list with you, etc. if you both have similar size businesses. Say you send out an e-zine twice a month to build a relationship with chatty kind of people. And you write with personal tone, but they’re not all targeted for this type of information. You will sell 2%, 3%, or maybe 5% from your list; 20 to 50 sales from 1000. That’s your tipping point and it’s all a numbers game. I think that’s what I got from business coaching. Get the right people on your list! It can be fun to cross each 100 email address milestone while list building. Manage your contact list somehow. Yeah, there’s ideas about that which I don’t recommend anymore.

A college degree used to be near guarantee of finding full time permanent work, yet now, you may want to consider supplementing your income and build work experience with public exposure for those without a formal degree or second job. Seniors are supporting themselves while attending college, per data source: National Center for Education Statistics. Hopefully that’s the end of the business stuff.

Goal of Meditation

Next point: The goal of meditation is to release resistance release resistant thoughts then the thoughts that do come will be useful to you. Write or speak into a recorder, which is what I’m doing right now with Otter. Thank you very much. All right. Here we get to the crux of something.

Spiral side note: My history

Okay, Mom and Dad were opposites. How could that happen?

Mama always said opposites attract. We materialize our thoughts law of attraction or not. I’m glad you look for patterns. One of my friends loved these kinds of groups for two and a half years. Self Mastery is important ignorance versus knowledge. Ignorance is expensive. Again, with the beginner’s mind, well, that’s the seven habits. Stephen Covey. Not all who fight were alcoholics, right. I kept telling my counselor that. For years he thought every time I walked into his office, that my parents were alcoholics. And no, my parents were not alcoholics. But they still argued. They had just a high level of passion. They either were passionate and touchy, warm and fuzzy, or all lovey dovey. Or they were at each other’s throats. And it was a war.

Next point: From class participants I learned: About imagination. Love, how you engage with your senses; smelling sagebrush; staying in the race; planning everything. One said we wake up to miracles from angels when we least expect it. Reminded me of when I met Richard. Another participant suggested vision boards. I’ve used vision boards. I’ve used the list making as well, which is what I did prior to meeting Richard. One suggests awakening to a new perspective. One participant had a pattern of running away from relationships and school life; she allowed herself to be in that box though. Allowing is huge. She didn’t like the cards she was dealt. She looked at her patterns and felt the need to be perfect and for years I have told people I do not believe in Perfection.

Spiral side note: Don’t get caught up in who’s right

Because nothing’s perfect except a drop of water. You take a drop of water on the tip of your finger and watch it fall into the cup. You see that? Immediately the waterfront forms a perfect sphere. And I think in the natural world that’s built off of its perfect natural healing another point on the spiral energy medicine connected consciousness Why are you poisoning your family how know your how old natural foods alternative healing biofeedback clinic techniques, belief how you heal and just don’t get so caught up in the religiosity or the need to be right as so many things can be proven wrong at a later point in time. Remove the interference and the body will heal itself. Sure words never spoken. Now we’re about 90%. So another point on the spiral. SARS Cove two is not a childhood disease. Anyone who’s healthy with a good strong immune system will look likely survive COVID.

Spiral side note: Sacred Science Herbal Detox

And triphala which is T R I P H A L a is an herb if you take it every day and moisturizes the stool, you can take a half to five grams nightly around bedtime and I was taking that every day and have stopped. So that’s something I can do again. Note to self Kanwar, veggies, millet, fish fruit, mung beans, double water to rice and beans cook for 20 minutes eat three times a day that was part of my that was part of my sacred science herbal detox that I did last year which I will do again. The liver is the main blood filter and does a ton of things so purging through the bowels is good and kidneys purify water, any soluble toxins you can pee them out. At and here’s the information about that cyst that I was talking about earlier, fat soluble pesticides, some of those turn into cysts tests and labs will prove or provide information about what symptoms you’re What if you have symptoms and you have tests and labs done. They can point you in a direction to us to either heal or or detoxify. Help your practitioner know what you need to detoxify from.

Finishing up the outside of the spiral

Next point: Exogenous is from the outside in. Chemicals are exogenous and there are Xenoestrogens like plastics. Pesticides, endogenous is from the inside such as, cellular waste and toxins, poisons like bee venom, and pollution.

Next point: Sleep is a brain tonic per Dr. Perlmutter. Learn something new that you’ve never done. I use some clever tricks to shut off my mental chatter before bed. One is breathwork. I count my in breath. Then I hold my breath and then I exhale for more of those counts than the total of the in and hold count. In other words, I breathe in to a count of five. I hold my breath to three and then I exhale for eight because that would be five plus three.

Next point: Never get in my own head about this. We never know what someone is going through.

Next point: Do you want me to keep you in the loop?

Spiral side note: Health tests

I had some information about the Dutch test which is a urine strips that tests for hormones. You can also do hair analysis. Alcohol depletes magnesium magnesium for magnesium you can use a lotion. If your metabolic type is slow, sometimes very high calcium drops potassium in the cells. Just I have a lot of information on the very tiny card so I’m just I couldn’t keep them and I do recommend a magnesium lotion called Ancient Minerals seems to have worked very well for me and some others so you might want to check it out, if you haven’t heard of it. And if you need magnesium estrogen issues related to excess copper and cells and tissues stored in liver and brain. That’s that one.

Next point: Christina Reishi. Elderberries syrup she’s working on her new website with a friend and may need assistance with SEO. The natural products industry is very competitive. Yes.

Spiral side note: Current work

Next point: 9/20-21 I began learning government proposal writing. This doesn’t fit in at all with what we’re talking about. So, I can put this aside it’s for my career job/work. I have a card with some names on it. And how several people remembered me, and I wrote their names down to remind myself of my accomplishments in my “work” history. I didn’t just go out and find each job that I worked, which if you look at my holistic resume, you can see how many companies I worked for. And each of those was because somebody remembered me and that was just a thank you type card to myself for all the people that I have to thank for being in the career that I’ve been in for over 30 years.

Completing the spiral, for now

We’ve now drawn out our spiral for this and ready for what comes next… (see next blog article: https://sheilamurrey.net/2022/06/26/wrap-up-session-using-integrated-spiral/).

I know you’re heartbroken that we’re done, but this blog article is sooo long! Ha! We need to end it now. The next article will tell you what the next steps are–I promise.

At this point though, you have everything organized and laid out in the spiral form (or stacked to put away for the moment). Give yourself a big hug from me, and feel the feelings of accomplishment!!!

You’ve decluttered and organized the big pile of convoluted chaos that you started with. And now you’ve got all of your thoughts and ideas in a loose framework structure where you can begin to weed out (we already did some weeding) as we got rid of cards. And we put cards aside if we thought we might need them for another project.

This process is kind of like cleaning out your closet. Or when you’re downsizing and you’re going to live a simpler lifestyle. It’s the same kind of processes!

Yes, this Integrated Spiral™ method could be used for downsizing as well. I didn’t even think of that until talking through this. So, thank you! Thank you for reading and/or listening, if you’re listening to this audio. (You can probably tell I spent HOURS editing this! Ha!)

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Many blessings to you in ALL ways. Amen. Namaste. OM

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A bit about me, your Spiral Sister

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I never used to be a symbol person

A couple years ago, especially after visiting Ireland, England, and Scotland (on our Sacred Celtic Journey with Patricia McGivern), I found myself using symbols daily in one way or another—mostly as my signature in social media comments.

My signature symbols ❤️🦋🌀〰️

Why?

Perhaps due to the spiral symbols of Knowth and Newgrange informed me sooo much (and reconnected me to the Reiki power symbol I use when sending love and healing vibes to someone (or myself). Or because of my natural spiral curly hair! Ha!

Spirals

Spirals of Newgrange, Ireland.
Spiral at Faerie Glen, Scotland.
Triple spirals engraved into the interior rear stone of Newgrange chamber.

Some of you remember I treated myself to this energetic Celtic pendant that I have worn everyday since I bought it in Dublin, Ireland. That’s when we took our second trip to Ireland (a few months after the first trip), because I had won the Newgrange lottery to go into the chamber for Winter Solstice 2019—also, by the way, the last days the public has been allowed in the chamber!

Closeup of triple spiral pendant bought in Dublin, Ireland (Dec 2019).

Now, since I may never get back to Scotland again, I have Connected with a wonderful new friend who lives in Edinburgh Scotland and makes these beautiful pieces: Enya James.

Handmade neck torc by Enya James, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Closeup of spirals (on the back) of the torc I ordered from Enya (a birthday present to myself).

Enya, kind soul she is, also included a bracelet! you can follow her on Instagram and Facebook too!

Handmade Enya James spiral bracelet.
On the arm. Spiral bracelet. 🌀

Churches

Today, I was cleaning a PartyLite church I had bought from my daughter (back when she used to sell PartyLite stuff), and the thought hit me:

“I don’t even like most church buildings or temples, etc because WE humans ARE THE CHURCH!”

So, why don’t I just clean up this statue = graven image and give it away?

Hmmm.

And I sat with this thought while I went back to work on some documentation.

A couple hours later, a thought (or Aha moment) dropped into my mind:

“Because it reminds me of my daughter, my past experiences while attending the church ⛪️ of my youth with my family, my grandfather and uncle building churches, AND the chapel at Rosslyn!”

I will let it go. And I will know the right time for me to do so. And I will gift it to someone with lots of love attached, instead of my current vibration of, “I don’t like church buildings.”

You may remember some of my previous church rants/posts like this one. Enough said about that.

I actually have more recent notes about stuff I just learned that also pisses me off about how some church buildings are built by the congregants financial contributions (and hands on TIME), but then when the building is SOLD, the head church or corporate church or whatever you want to call it, KEEPS ALL THE MONEY!!! Grrr. S

“Sheila, quit your bitching!”—is what I have to tell myself. All those contributions of money and time were given freely of the people as a tithe or service to God. But then what does the world church do with the money? Grrr! “Sheila, Let it Go.” ❤️🦋🌀〰️🔥🙏☯️

Front of PartLite church
Side of PartLite church
Back of PartLite church (where the tea-light candle goes).

It ALL belongs to God.

Right.

And Omniscience SEES ALL.

God will deal with the money grubbers.

Okay.

Hmmm

Blessed BE.

It’s not up to me to resolve the injustices of the world. Hopefully, those churches will feed the hungry and clothe the naked. God knows they don’t want to house them (in their locked churches). ❤️🙏🤦

Perhaps the stones are more my “church” anyway? Stonehenge sure Connected me. Inner heaven to the peace on Earth (during my meditation there). And I am eternally grateful. ❤️🦋🌀〰️🔥🙏☯️

Meditating inside the stone circle of Stonehenge. Photo credit: Patricia McGivern. 2019 https://www.patriciamcgivern.com/