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You are NOT “enough”. You are PLENTY. Never settle for less than plenty.
~Susan K. Morrow
What your favorite color says about you – White
Welcome back to my continuing series about the colors of energy. The first four paragraphs explain the process, then we’ll get to this post’s color.
You may know that I work a lot around the colors of energy. If you’ve had a reading from me, you know that I give you a “color snapshot” that tells you what color is primary in your life energy at the moment, and then I explain what that means. Similarly, I read auras (even though I don’t call them that) and I relate what I see in colors, shapes, and location around your physical body. This all helps me to interpret for you just what you need to know.
I understand and work with color so well that I decided to help you understand it better too. This is why I have written this series, What Your Favorite Color Says about You.
It’s as the title says; however, I realize that some people don’t have a favorite color, and some people have more than one. That’s okay. Here are some ways to determine what color or colors pertain most to you and your life:
- If you have an actual favorite color, well, there you go.
- If you have a secondary and tertiary favorite, those will pertain to you too.
- Look in your closet: What color/s are most prominent in your wardrobe?
- What color is your car? This is applicable even if you did not choose the color of your car, maybe even more so. I notice that people often wear the color/s that are present in their energy, and that their cars and other belongings tend to have them too.
- If you really, really don’t have a favorite or un-favorite or a strong opinion, you’re a rainbow!
Each color has a “light” side and a “shadow” side, or positive and negative. (Note: This does NOT mean good and evil! Everything is useful and there is no devil! But that’s another story…) I’ll call them “bright” and “dark” because we describe colors that way. You may consider the “dark” version of the color to be your un-favorite, but either or both may apply to you. See how you identify with the following.
This time, our color is white. If white is your favorite color or your un-favorite color (or otherwise present in your life; see above), here are the ideas and values you are concerned about:
A special note about white: It can overlap with purple, which we covered last time.
White overview: Spirituality, connection to God/Universe/Higher Self (or “GUS”), divine inspiration, your soul category/s; physically, white(or purple) is the color of the entire body and/or any whole system, can also show pain; healing energy; angelic energy.
Bright white: Spirituality is very important to you, whether through your religion or other means–and remember, “spirituality” and “religion” are two very different things, but they can overlap. You feel there is something much greater than yourself, a powerful creative force that is everything. You may meditate and/or pray regularly and engage in spiritual activities, whether that means going to church or going to yoga or another spiritual activity, such as singing, enjoying nature, etc. Healing energy is white, so healers have white in their energy. You may have heard of “white-lighters”–this is why they are called that!
Dark white: White may show up for you as physical pain. I once saw a woman at the pharmacy who was trying to get migraine medicine, and she had a swirling white tornado on top of her head (in my mind’s eye). I’ve often heard that migraines, for example, are due to blocked psychic energy, and I can attest that mine began to lessen in frequency and severity when I started working as a professional psychic. You may also deny the existence of God or be angry with God. As with purple, I’ll advise, to head back to the bright side, try just reading one book by me, Wayne Dyer, Neale Donald Walsch, Deepak Chopra, Louise Hay, or any other spiritual author who appeals to you–well, appeals to you at least a little bit! You will also benefit from watching “The Secret” and/or “What the Bleep Do We Know?”
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If it means something to you, it MEANS something to you. Don’t dismiss something because others disagree.
~Susan K. Morrow
What Has Changed Since My Personal Crash
I had a flash of self-insight the other day during a conversation with my mom. We were talking about my upcoming move to a cheaper apartment, and she said, “You’re going to miss this place, aren’t you?” This with regard to the apartment I’ve lived in with my younger daughter for the past two years.
I said, “Actually, I’m really looking forward to the new place. It’s got a little more space and it’s cheaper. It’s not as ‘fancy,’ but plenty of other things make up for it.”
Then I added, “I’m not like I used to be, all, ‘I have to have THIS house, and I have to live HERE, and my daughters HAVE to get THIS for Christmas, etc.’ I guess I’m more flexible now.”
And it was just after that that I realized how much I have actually changed since my world crashed and burned a couple of years ago. For a long time, I only felt as though I had given up and sacrificed a great deal, and put my daughters through difficulty I didn’t want to have to share with them, and that I had lost my access to the “good life”.
Don’t get me wrong–I’ve never have been what anyone would call rich–always somewhere between “getting by” and “pretty comfortable”–and we haven’t starved since my Big Crash. But the way that my younger daughter and I live now is very different, definitely a step down from any way we’ve lived before. (The older one is married and living overseas with her Marine husband–another huge adjustment!)
And in telling my mom about this upcoming move and how much I am looking forward to it, I finally got it: It’s not a matter of my being willing to accept wherever I am, but one of actually living in this place, this now, and being very happy with it.
The two and a half moves-from-hell we suffered through in 2010 don’t frighten me anymore. Oh, sure, I don’t want to talk about it and give it any energy, but I am eager to move this time, eager for a new adventure that will, in several ways that are obvious to me, be better. Even the move is going to be “good”, with friends pitching in, and very little expense to move, because we are moving less than a mile away! We even have an extra day to finish up without extra rent–by magical happenstance!
I still look forward to being wealthy and successful, and I work energetically (and physically) to bring that into my NOW. I look forward to building a nice comfy house to call my own, and a husband to share it with, but HERE and NOW are GOOD–even when I don’t know how I am going to pay for anything. I have learned to trust that the miracle always comes through and we do manage, by hook or by crook.
And this is one of things that have changed for me since 2010. Now I start thinking, “What else will I change and for what reasons?” I am eager to find out!
What your favorite color says about you – Aqua
Welcome back to my continuing series about the colors of energy. The first four paragraphs explain the process, then we’ll get to this post’s color.
You may know that I work a lot around the colors of energy. If you’ve had a reading from me, you know that I give you a “color snapshot” that tells you what color is primary in your life energy at the moment, and then I explain what that means. Similarly, I read auras (even though I don’t call them that) and I relate what I see in colors, shapes, and location around your physical body. This all helps me to interpret for you just what you need to know.
I understand and work with color so well that I decided to help you understand it better too. This is why I have written this series, What Your Favorite Color Says about You.
It’s as the title says; however, I realize that some people don’t have a favorite color, and some people have more than one. That’s okay. Here are some ways to determine what color or colors pertain most to you and your life:
- If you have an actual favorite color, well, there you go.
- If you have a secondary and tertiary favorite, those will pertain to you too.
- Look in your closet: What color/s are most prominent in your wardrobe?
- What color is your car? This is applicable even if you did not choose the color of your car, maybe even more so. I notice that people often wear the color/s that are present in their energy, and that their cars and other belongings tend to have them too.
- If you really, really don’t have a favorite or un-favorite or a strong opinion, you’re a rainbow!
Each color has a “light” side and a “shadow” side, or positive and negative. (Note: This does NOT mean good and evil! Everything is useful and there is no devil! But that’s another story…) I’ll call them “bright” and “dark” because we describe colors that way. You may consider the “dark” version of the color to be your un-favorite, but either or both may apply to you. See how you identify with the following.
Note: I had planned to do BLACK this time, after the last post on white; however, Aqua nudged me and wouldn’t leave me alone, so I am following my inspiration and going with AQUA!
This time, our color is aqua (or blue-green). If aqua is your favorite color or your un-favorite color (or otherwise present in your life; see above), here are the ideas and values you are concerned about:
Aqua overview: Somewhere between self-acceptance (green) and self-expression (turquoise) lies aqua; money and finances; the ability to allow money into your life.
Bright aqua: You are good at making money or at least good at having it in your life. You don’t have to worry too much, because your material needs are generally met. You may enjoy shopping as a creative activity, you might like to balance your checkbook or do other self-accounting work, and you probably have a good head for figures all the way around.
Dark aqua (or blue-green, aquamarine): You can see this coming, can’t you? It means you are likely to struggle to earn money or allow it into your life, you may have problems with debt, live paycheck to paycheck, always worrying about how to pay the next bill. Or it may not be that bad, but you are not where you want to be financially. You don’t necessarily have a head for numbers (although some on the dark side do!), and money can be baffling for you in general. To head back to the bright side, meditate on aqua, surrounding yourself in aqua light, and study up on Law of Attraction.
Acceptance
I worked in a t-shirt shop when I was in high school. It was called the Top Shop, and we used big square irons to stick on transfers and letters to all kinds of things. I got the job when I was 15, because the owner, Mr. Smith, was a life-long friend of my parents. One day, he called up my mom and asked if I would like to come to the store and hang up shirts for a few hours. For money! Of course, I said yes, and then, because I did an okay job, and I was a good student, Mr. Smith hired me as a regular employee. I worked there for two and a half years. And I had an impressive t-shirt wardrobe to show for it!
Mr. Smith was a pretty funny guy. One of his favorite sayings was, “Don’t expect anything, and then you won’t be disappointed.”
While this sounds very cynical, especially to me, the original Pollyanna (yes, before the original original, there was I), but there’s some truth to it.
You know that Law of Attraction teaches that you must expect what you want, that you have to believe as if you have received, and that “believing is seeing”, not the other way around. Refer to any modern spiritual teachers or philosophers, such as Deepak Chopra, Abraham-Hicks, Dr. Wayne Dyer, and others.
But it’s also important to accept what is, here and now. Check out Byron Katie’s book, Loving What Is. I’m not saying you shouldn’t be optimistic. Like I said, I’m a cock-eyed optimist, and for me, hope springs eternal. But there is something to be said for looking at your current situation and saying, “Yes, it is.” And then go on to imagine and feel and attract what you love, or, if you like where you are, to attract even more of that.
Several years ago, my friend Mollie was finishing her degree in psychology, and she told me there had a been a study done on people who lived to be 80 years old or older. The most important thing these people had in common was an ability to accept loss and move past it.
Acceptance, in other words, increases your life expectancy.
And when it comes to relationships, romantic or otherwise, acceptance is usually more important than understanding. (For a video in which I expound on this idea, click here.) I try to live by this, accepting others as they are, and I appreciate being accepted and/or included, as well.
I realized not long ago that “inclusion” or “acceptance” is kind of “my thing”–“my Pollyanna thing”–and I started doing it consciously, catching myself if I judged someone or wanted him or her to behave differently.
Think about acceptance–and remember to accept yourself as you are, too! Love yourself and others as they are, and your life will be far better!