I've had a rough couple of weeks. It's true--the woman known as the Cheerful Mystic and Happy Medium (couldn't resist) occasionally runs into rough waters. And it sucks. Fortunately, these moments don't last, and yes, I DO work on getting them to end faster!
Some folks (maybe you) feel like it's always rough. Their lives feel like they are not their own, and they feel like they don't have any control over what happens to them. Believe it or not, that is not true. YOU are the creator of your life, whether you like what you've created or not!
Here's what I have been doing lately to get out of my funk:
1) Forcing myself to "think happy thoughts". I'm not kidding. I consciously embrace fantasies of trips to Disney World, my dream house (which is coming soon), and fun encounters with others. I find that fantasies are better than memories, not because they are any different to your brain or the Universe, but because they can be perfect, and with perfect thoughts come perfect feelings of joy, ultimately resulting in a shift in your energy and a better day.
2) Asking myself, "What was I thinking before this all started?" This can be more complicated, but you can think about what your thoughts were and connect them to what's going on now, what you've created with those thoughts. Don't dwell, just understand. Sometimes it helps to know "Why did I create THIS???"
If you need help with this type of exercise, something that will change the results of your constant CREATING... You know where to find me!
Until next time,
y'all be good!
Susan K. Morrow
http://SusanKMorrow.com
512-257-2737
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Channeling Money
As a modern mystic, capable of all manner of surreal tasks, I channel messages from my clients' angels and guides, on the clients' behalf. (Want your own Mystic Mail? Find out about it here.)
One recent such message was so profound and timely that I feel it is really important to share. In fact, when the message started to come through me, I had the feeling that it was for a much larger audience than the client. Her question was about money and how it was her biggest concern at the moment.
Here's the answer from her angels and guides:
Our dear, everyone's biggest concern is money. Yes, it truly is. The man in the 3rd-world country wants to feed his family and the woman at the top of the stock market wants to buy a new Mercedes. Money makes the world go around. So rather than looking at money like a problem, like something you wish you didn't have to think about, embrace it. It's just like eating, sleeping, and pooping, Everybody's gotta do it every day. So what do YOU need to do? Keep doing what you're doing, but do it with love, change your attitude to one that says, "I love me, and I love the people I love. I work at this because I love me, and if I don't love this work, then I am not loving me, so I will do other work." When you want to change your work, you ask the right people and you find out what other work to do. If you don't want to work at all, then set your sights on that. You don't have to plan it, like "I want this much money, so I can go this long without working and live in this way". But you can say, "I want to have freedom in my life!" And that will find its way to you. Embrace money not as a necessary evil or as something that has always eluded you, but as your friend, your partner in creating a life that you love and want every day. It's not that you want to look past it, or to forget anything you have learned, not at all, but you are using everything you know, and now you know more. You know that it is your friend, so invite it to tea. Say, "Hello, money, I love you, and I need you, and guess what--you need me too, so let's be friends and let's have fun together. Thanks for being there for me." It may not feel true today, but it will be true tomorrow. We could just shake you until this sinks into your head. But you can do it yourself. Believe us, we're true. True blue!
And I will leave you with those thoughts, along with your own angels and guides.
Until next time,
Susan K. Morrow
Susan@SusanKMorrow.com
http://susankmorrow.com/
512-257-2737
One recent such message was so profound and timely that I feel it is really important to share. In fact, when the message started to come through me, I had the feeling that it was for a much larger audience than the client. Her question was about money and how it was her biggest concern at the moment.
Here's the answer from her angels and guides:
Our dear, everyone's biggest concern is money. Yes, it truly is. The man in the 3rd-world country wants to feed his family and the woman at the top of the stock market wants to buy a new Mercedes. Money makes the world go around. So rather than looking at money like a problem, like something you wish you didn't have to think about, embrace it. It's just like eating, sleeping, and pooping, Everybody's gotta do it every day. So what do YOU need to do? Keep doing what you're doing, but do it with love, change your attitude to one that says, "I love me, and I love the people I love. I work at this because I love me, and if I don't love this work, then I am not loving me, so I will do other work." When you want to change your work, you ask the right people and you find out what other work to do. If you don't want to work at all, then set your sights on that. You don't have to plan it, like "I want this much money, so I can go this long without working and live in this way". But you can say, "I want to have freedom in my life!" And that will find its way to you. Embrace money not as a necessary evil or as something that has always eluded you, but as your friend, your partner in creating a life that you love and want every day. It's not that you want to look past it, or to forget anything you have learned, not at all, but you are using everything you know, and now you know more. You know that it is your friend, so invite it to tea. Say, "Hello, money, I love you, and I need you, and guess what--you need me too, so let's be friends and let's have fun together. Thanks for being there for me." It may not feel true today, but it will be true tomorrow. We could just shake you until this sinks into your head. But you can do it yourself. Believe us, we're true. True blue!
And I will leave you with those thoughts, along with your own angels and guides.
Until next time,
Susan K. Morrow
Susan@SusanKMorrow.com
http://susankmorrow.com/
512-257-2737
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Bands That Are Past Their Expiration Date
(Oh, sure, I usually talk about my woo-woo stuff, but this eponymous blog is a good place to talk about anything I like. So there.)
Ah, music. It hath charms, no? I love almost all of it, except jazz and rap--and I even like some forms of jazz and some hip-hop. I'm pretty inclusive, BUT I have recently noticed my newly-developed distaste for certain bands.
At first, I thought maybe I was just getting old and didn't like that "young whipper-snapper" music. But it's not the modern stuff that I don't like. It's music from my childhood and youth that is starting to gross me out and gag me with a spoon. (Graduated high school in 1981. Sorry.)
Here, in no particular order, are the bands and artists that have begun to turn me off, along with their offenses:
**The Who: I actually stopped liking The Who a long time ago, and I still don't like them. I think I mostly only liked them because they were cool and because I went to their concert at the AstroHall or the AstroDome or the AstroSomething in 1982. Disliking this band might be an indication that I am getting old, but I don't care. I'm tired of the the screaming and the long guitar solos.
**The Doors: Oy vey, if I have to listen to that interminable organ solo in "Light My Fire" one more time... Great for stoners, maybe, but not for me. I will still listen to "Touch Me" at least, but I won't light their fire. Or let them light mine.
**Fleetwood Mac: Now, this one surprises me, because I used to love Fleetwood Mac. But I never liked Stevie Nicks, either personally or vocally, and now I find her husky near-ruined voice almost unbearable. Again, there are exceptions: Earlier Fleetwood Mac songs have a better chance of being liked, plus there are one or two Stevie Nicks songs that I might slightly enjoy. "Edge of 17" comes to mind.
**Cyndi Lauper: Talk about a surprise. Cyndi was definitely cool in her heydey, and maybe her recent demi-comeback is still cool, but when I hear her old songs on the radio, I am just turned off. This one I chalk up to a definite "heat of the moment" issue--I liked it in the heat of the moment, but the moment has long since passed.
**Elton John: Okay, maybe I still love Elton, but if I do, it's becoming more and more of a secret to me. Unlike Stevie Nicks, he still seems like a person I would like if I knew him, but I think I'm just plain tired of his music. Plus most of his best songs ("Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding", to wit) don't get played on the radio. So I will give him a B- and consider listening again someday.
I am excited to think about the bands I will add to this list as they start to disgust me. Stay tuned!
Until next time,
Susan K. Morrow
512-257-2737
www.SusanKMorrow.com
Susan@SusanKMorrow.com
Ah, music. It hath charms, no? I love almost all of it, except jazz and rap--and I even like some forms of jazz and some hip-hop. I'm pretty inclusive, BUT I have recently noticed my newly-developed distaste for certain bands.
At first, I thought maybe I was just getting old and didn't like that "young whipper-snapper" music. But it's not the modern stuff that I don't like. It's music from my childhood and youth that is starting to gross me out and gag me with a spoon. (Graduated high school in 1981. Sorry.)
Here, in no particular order, are the bands and artists that have begun to turn me off, along with their offenses:
**The Who: I actually stopped liking The Who a long time ago, and I still don't like them. I think I mostly only liked them because they were cool and because I went to their concert at the AstroHall or the AstroDome or the AstroSomething in 1982. Disliking this band might be an indication that I am getting old, but I don't care. I'm tired of the the screaming and the long guitar solos.
**The Doors: Oy vey, if I have to listen to that interminable organ solo in "Light My Fire" one more time... Great for stoners, maybe, but not for me. I will still listen to "Touch Me" at least, but I won't light their fire. Or let them light mine.
**Fleetwood Mac: Now, this one surprises me, because I used to love Fleetwood Mac. But I never liked Stevie Nicks, either personally or vocally, and now I find her husky near-ruined voice almost unbearable. Again, there are exceptions: Earlier Fleetwood Mac songs have a better chance of being liked, plus there are one or two Stevie Nicks songs that I might slightly enjoy. "Edge of 17" comes to mind.
**Cyndi Lauper: Talk about a surprise. Cyndi was definitely cool in her heydey, and maybe her recent demi-comeback is still cool, but when I hear her old songs on the radio, I am just turned off. This one I chalk up to a definite "heat of the moment" issue--I liked it in the heat of the moment, but the moment has long since passed.
**Elton John: Okay, maybe I still love Elton, but if I do, it's becoming more and more of a secret to me. Unlike Stevie Nicks, he still seems like a person I would like if I knew him, but I think I'm just plain tired of his music. Plus most of his best songs ("Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding", to wit) don't get played on the radio. So I will give him a B- and consider listening again someday.
I am excited to think about the bands I will add to this list as they start to disgust me. Stay tuned!
Until next time,
Susan K. Morrow
512-257-2737
www.SusanKMorrow.com
Susan@SusanKMorrow.com
Friday, October 23, 2009
The Good Teacher
Mrs. Jett was one of my favorite teachers in high school. She taught both French and Spanish, and I took both, so I got to have her as my teacher for two years. As a linguaphile, I admired her linguistic skills, of course, but Mrs. Jett was more than a language teacher.
Mrs. Jett was divorced, probably in her 30s at the time (and I admit it was a while ago!), may or may not have had children. She had a pretty poor fashion sense--which I always forgive in a teacher, because teachers are so woefully underpaid--but I didn't care, because she was one of the most caring people I've ever met.
I realize that the above paragraph sums up all I knew about Mrs. Jett. So why was she so memorable to me?
She listened. She didn't judge. She smiled. She helped. She was kind. And she liked me too. I felt that I could trust and confide in her. Not that I was a degenerate or particularly needy or troubled as a teen. But knowing which teachers are on your side, regardless of your situation, is a comfort during the emotional idiocy that is high school.
I also learned a lot in Spanish I and French I. I enjoy recalling the time that I answered a French question in Spanish. Mrs. Jett's eyes grew wide. "En francais, s'il vous plais!" she admonished me. It was actually good news for me, because I was learning French by translating it into Spanish, instead of English. And that meant that I had already learned to think in Spanish, and that's how you learn a language.
Now that I am a teacher--an Intuitive Life Teacher, if not a schoolteacher--I like to think that I am similar to Mrs. Jett. Trustworthy and trusting, knowledgeable in more than one area, kind, understanding, and always a friend and confidante.
The classroom door is open. What would you like to know?
Until next time,
Susan K. Morrow
www.SusanKMorrow.com
512-257-2737
Susan@SusanKMorrow.com
Mrs. Jett was divorced, probably in her 30s at the time (and I admit it was a while ago!), may or may not have had children. She had a pretty poor fashion sense--which I always forgive in a teacher, because teachers are so woefully underpaid--but I didn't care, because she was one of the most caring people I've ever met.
I realize that the above paragraph sums up all I knew about Mrs. Jett. So why was she so memorable to me?
She listened. She didn't judge. She smiled. She helped. She was kind. And she liked me too. I felt that I could trust and confide in her. Not that I was a degenerate or particularly needy or troubled as a teen. But knowing which teachers are on your side, regardless of your situation, is a comfort during the emotional idiocy that is high school.
I also learned a lot in Spanish I and French I. I enjoy recalling the time that I answered a French question in Spanish. Mrs. Jett's eyes grew wide. "En francais, s'il vous plais!" she admonished me. It was actually good news for me, because I was learning French by translating it into Spanish, instead of English. And that meant that I had already learned to think in Spanish, and that's how you learn a language.
Now that I am a teacher--an Intuitive Life Teacher, if not a schoolteacher--I like to think that I am similar to Mrs. Jett. Trustworthy and trusting, knowledgeable in more than one area, kind, understanding, and always a friend and confidante.
The classroom door is open. What would you like to know?
Until next time,
Susan K. Morrow
www.SusanKMorrow.com
512-257-2737
Susan@SusanKMorrow.com
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Taking Care of the Caregiver
If you are a woman, a mom, I know this will hit you where you live. And if you are a man, you will probably dig it too. It's about taking care of others, yourself, and the world!
In recent weeks, it seems I have done nothing but take care of other people. Several family members have needed my assistance or presence during and regarding medical and health issues, plus as you know, my daughters have both moved and the younger one has made a huge adjustment in starting college. It seems like all I have done is drive and drive and drive on my way to take care of others.
Like you, I'm sure, I don't mind doing this. On the contrary, I love taking care of my loved ones and I appreciate that I am able to help when needed. BUT--and you know this BUT--I knew I was going to get sick from all this, sooner or later.
I did try to take care of myself, paying attention to my needs, getting enough rest, giving myself a pedicure, and so forth. It just wasn't quite enough. Last week, I came down with a really nasty stomach virus. Dehydrated and exhausted, I asked my daughters to take me to the ER. They stayed with me for the whole long afternoon, while I received IV fluids and returned to myself.
It cost my college girl a day of classes. It cost my older girl an afternoon of work (and pay). They sacrificed without complaint, and I received their loving care without guilt.
Here's the message for you and me both: Ask for help when needed, and accept help when offered. You were not built to take care of the world and get nothing in return. Try it--no guilt, just care between people who love. You'll be GLAD YOU DID! ;o)
Until next time,
TAKE CARE,
Susan K. Morrow
www.SusanKMorrow.com
susan@susankmorrow.com
512-257-2737
In recent weeks, it seems I have done nothing but take care of other people. Several family members have needed my assistance or presence during and regarding medical and health issues, plus as you know, my daughters have both moved and the younger one has made a huge adjustment in starting college. It seems like all I have done is drive and drive and drive on my way to take care of others.
Like you, I'm sure, I don't mind doing this. On the contrary, I love taking care of my loved ones and I appreciate that I am able to help when needed. BUT--and you know this BUT--I knew I was going to get sick from all this, sooner or later.
I did try to take care of myself, paying attention to my needs, getting enough rest, giving myself a pedicure, and so forth. It just wasn't quite enough. Last week, I came down with a really nasty stomach virus. Dehydrated and exhausted, I asked my daughters to take me to the ER. They stayed with me for the whole long afternoon, while I received IV fluids and returned to myself.
It cost my college girl a day of classes. It cost my older girl an afternoon of work (and pay). They sacrificed without complaint, and I received their loving care without guilt.
Here's the message for you and me both: Ask for help when needed, and accept help when offered. You were not built to take care of the world and get nothing in return. Try it--no guilt, just care between people who love. You'll be GLAD YOU DID! ;o)
Until next time,
TAKE CARE,
Susan K. Morrow
www.SusanKMorrow.com
susan@susankmorrow.com
512-257-2737
Monday, August 24, 2009
Why Don't I Get What I Want?
Just a quick note about this:
As children, we are subject to our parents' situations. When they are in the habit of not getting what they want, they teach us how to not get what we want too. This is how we learn that "you can't have everything you want."
Truly, when you are aware that desire is simply an acknowledgment of contrast between what IS and what you would PREFER, then the corresponding energy is guided toward your preferences. But when what you desire is simply regarded by you as something YOU DON'T HAVE, then the corresponding energy is guided toward that, what you don't have.
Until next time, y'all be good!
Susan K. Morrow
512-257-2737
www.SusanKMorrow.com
Susan@SusanKMorrow.com
As children, we are subject to our parents' situations. When they are in the habit of not getting what they want, they teach us how to not get what we want too. This is how we learn that "you can't have everything you want."
Truly, when you are aware that desire is simply an acknowledgment of contrast between what IS and what you would PREFER, then the corresponding energy is guided toward your preferences. But when what you desire is simply regarded by you as something YOU DON'T HAVE, then the corresponding energy is guided toward that, what you don't have.
Until next time, y'all be good!
Susan K. Morrow
512-257-2737
www.SusanKMorrow.com
Susan@SusanKMorrow.com
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