How often do you experience fear on a daily basis? Realistically, how can angels help you deal with fear?
I still remember my first day of school. I was so excited about learning and looking forward to having a new adventure. I remember my mom walking me to school, holding my hand. I knew I was safe and walked into that classroom with my head held high. I was so happy about being in school I smiled as my mom left. Most of the other children were crying and I remember the teacher asking me why I wasn't crying too. In hindsight I wasn't crying because I felt safe and viewed school as a big adventure.
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Paul Shirley on Haiti Earthquake - where is the love - on both sides?
ESPN has already fired Paul Shirley and it seems as though he brought the wrath of the multitudes down upon himself. Judgment abounds on both sides. I personally think his comments and the response to them is a wonderful example of the basic problem we faces as a species.
Here is the part of his blog post that most people are reacting tot:
Here is the part of his blog post that most people are reacting tot:
Dear Haitians -
First of all, kudos on developing the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Your commitment to human rights, infrastructure, and birth control should be applauded.
As we prepare to assist you in this difficult time, a polite request: If it's possible, could you not re-build your island home in the image of its predecessor? Could you not resort to the creation of flimsy shanty- and shack-towns? And could some of you maybe use a condom once in a while?
Sincerely,
The Rest of the World
Friday January 15, 2010
Fearless Fridays: why do bad things happen
I so often hear these type of questions: "Why do bad things happen to good people? Why does God let a child die needlessly, a natural disaster kill or displace millions? Why does God allow violence? Why did God allow the earthquake in Haiti?"
Life is God's unconditional gift to us, the rest is just part of living here on planet earth and all of the events in life are incredible gifts. I believe we can use every event to either deepen our experience of oneness and our connection to the divine or enhance our filter system. A vengeful God that believes there is only one path to salvation or one that punishes people is one way to maintain our limiting beliefs and deepen our sense of isolation from the divine.
Let me explain ......
Life is God's unconditional gift to us, the rest is just part of living here on planet earth and all of the events in life are incredible gifts. I believe we can use every event to either deepen our experience of oneness and our connection to the divine or enhance our filter system. A vengeful God that believes there is only one path to salvation or one that punishes people is one way to maintain our limiting beliefs and deepen our sense of isolation from the divine.
Let me explain ......
Thursday January 14, 2010
Earthquake in Haiti and Pat Robertson
I am sure the people of Haiti are surrounded by the loving presence of thousands of angels comforting and helping all beings great and small. A natural disaster like that is so overwhelming. I will hold Haiti in my thoughts and prayers.
To the best of my ability I try to love everyone and judge no one but an article on CNN is testing that resolve. Pat Robertson, who claims to be a Christian, says the Haitian people made a "pact to the devil" in the 1800' to obtain their freedom from the French. He claims the devastating earthquake in Haiti is a result of that pact. Such cruelty in the face of such human suffering goes beyond my ability to 'not judge.'
To the best of my ability I try to love everyone and judge no one but an article on CNN is testing that resolve. Pat Robertson, who claims to be a Christian, says the Haitian people made a "pact to the devil" in the 1800' to obtain their freedom from the French. He claims the devastating earthquake in Haiti is a result of that pact. Such cruelty in the face of such human suffering goes beyond my ability to 'not judge.'
Tuesday January 12, 2010
Angels and happiness
There are countless studies that show the profound relationship between attitude, spiritual connection and happiness. People that believe in angels are simply happier than people that don't and people that take sometime each day to pray and meditate are even happier.
Angels are always filled with love and compassion. They are never stressed or overwhelmed. Perhaps we could learn from them how to be happy and live a life filled with ease.
Angels are always filled with love and compassion. They are never stressed or overwhelmed. Perhaps we could learn from them how to be happy and live a life filled with ease.
Monday January 11, 2010
Angel cards
Years ago a friend of mine gave me a deck of angel cards. They are simple, cartoon like pictures of angels that have words on them like faith, joy, surrender and forgiveness.
Monday January 4, 2010
Categories: Angels, Communicating with Angels, Conscious Creation, Joy, Kindness, Love, Meditation, Miracles, Prayers
Angels and demons
This weekend I watched the movie Angels and Demons. This weekend I watched the movie Angels and Demons.
Monday December 28, 2009
Ordinary angels: real people making a difference
Here are a few articles I found about people that could easily be called angels. I enjoyed reading them so I thought I would share them with you.
Friday December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas 2009 Hawaii Style
My your holiday be blessed with great joy, love, peace and happiness. Here is a video of Bing Crosby singing Mele Kalikimaka.
Friday December 25, 2009
Categories: Angels, Beliefs, Communicating with Angels, Conscious Creation, Joy, Kindness, Love, Magical Life
A letter from God
Merry Christmas! On this Christmas Day 2009 I am forwarding you a letter from God
Thursday December 24, 2009
Meaning of Christmas
Angels certainly play a pivotal role in the Christmas story. What would you do if an angel came and talked to you personally? A physical, in the flesh, so to speak, angel talking directly to you? What do you think your reaction would be?
Monday December 21, 2009
The Miracle of love
A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. One was love the other two wealth and success.
Monday December 14, 2009
Holiday blues: Monday Monday
The holidays in and of themselves create neither joy nor sadness, they are emotionally neutral. The holidays are an event, then we tell ourselves a story about the holidays and then we create our emotional response based on that story.
Thursday December 10, 2009
Categories: Angels, Beliefs, Communicating with Angels, Happiness, Invocation, Joy, Kindness, Love, Prayers
7 Ways to overcome depression
Over the next few weeks I will be writing a series of posts to help put joy back in the holiday season, relieve stress and just help everyone have an angel filled, magical holiday season.
Tuesday December 8, 2009
Depression and the holidays
Depression and the holidays often go hand and hand for some people. Joy to the world seems allusive at best so how can angels help?
Sunday December 6, 2009
Categories: Angels, Beliefs, Conscious Creation, Ease, Happiness, Hawaii, Joy, Kindness, Love, Magical Life, Meditation
Susan, Sunday and the divine inner child
I'm very excited. Today I am going to speak about the Divine Inner Child. I am going to try to record the talk and if I succeed I will post an MP3 of my talk.
Saturday December 5, 2009
Random acts of kindness: act 2
A promised here is the contest. The first five people that share recent acts of kindness they have committed will get a free, personally autographed copy of my most recent book on Spiritual Healing.
Thursday December 3, 2009
Random acts of kindness: a great way to relieve stress
Actually the most effective ways to avoid holiday stress is to change your thinking and the way you feel about life. The best way I have ever found to do that is by committing random acts of kindness.
Tuesday November 24, 2009
Thanksgiving 2009: history and a prayer
Here in the US we are getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving 2009. I offer you a short prayer and some interesting facts about Thanksgiving.
Monday November 23, 2009
Be a Thanksgiving angel
I think gratitude is a wonderful spiritual practice and dedicating a whole day to gratitude is awesome. I challenge you this week to commit at least two random acts of kindness.
Friday November 20, 2009
Fearless Fridays: what's your greatest fear?
Aloha,I was quite amazed when I was doing research about the top ten fears. They were: long words (that being first really amazed me), flying, clowns, heights, death, being alone, the dark, public speaking, commitment and intimacy. Of course, no...
Thursday November 19, 2009
Acts of compassion: Amma the hugging saint
Recently I was introduced to Amma the hugging saint. I was deeply moved by the love she shows. She will spend up to 22 hours a day hugging and blessing people, an amazing act in and of itself.
Wednesday November 18, 2009
Wordless Wednesday: Joy
This week's theme for me has been love, joy, compassion, prayer and meditation. Today I will share images of people in my groups that share those feelings.
Thursday October 29, 2009
The power of prayer and angels
When I look at the world today what I see is a hunger, a hunger that can only be filled with a deep and profound connection to our spirit. Last night I had an amazing dream in which I was talking to some people about the power of grace.
Tuesday October 20, 2009
Angel love: Archangel Chamuel
Chamuel’s name means “He who seeks God.” He is often described as “pure love in a winged form.”
Thursday October 15, 2009
Angel Tree Program
I just noticed that the Salvation Army is starting to take applications from families in need for this coming holiday season. Many years ago I went to the mall around Christmas and there was an angel tree. I bought shoes for a family.
Tuesday October 13, 2009
Kindness and love
Aloha,I just removed several comments that were, to say the least unkind, racially prejudiced, and downright unacceptable. For some reason, I didn't get a copy of them when they were posted or you can be assured they wouldn't have stayed...
Monday October 12, 2009
The Words Behind the Words
When my mother was a young girl, she wanted to be a poet. Her teacher made fun of her poetry and my mom believed her. Based on her teacher’s opinion, my mother gave up her dream.
Monday September 28, 2009
Categories: Angels, Communicating with Angels, Happiness, Hawaii, Joy, Kindness, Love, Magical Life, Spiritual Guidance
Love, connecting with angels and laughter
People often ask me how to connect with angels so I thought I would share the story of my birthday hike and how the angles let me know they were there.
Thursday September 24, 2009
Heaven on earth
Here is a teaching story I wrote years ago. The Grandmother and the children sat at the edge of a large stand of tall pine trees. She looked out over the land.
Thursday September 17, 2009
Angels, a view of heaven and our thoughts
Aloha, Today I received an email from someone who had a direct experience of the divine. She had literally seen heaven and felt the unconditional love of the .angelic realms. She was writing to me because she was in tremendous...
Thursday September 10, 2009
Be an angel exchange
The other day I talked about the power and the gift of being of service. Perhaps you could create a 'be an angel exchange' within your own group of friends.
Tuesday September 8, 2009
Categories: Angels, Beliefs, Communicating with Angels, Conscious Creation, Happiness, Joy, Kindness, Love, Magical Life
How could God let this happen?
When a child dies or someone is murdered they ask why God let it happen. Personally, I don't believe God causes suffering. God only creates perfection, love, peace and joy.
Thursday September 3, 2009
Categories: Angels, Communicating with Angels, Conscious Creation, Happiness, Joy, Kindness, Love, Magical Life, Meditation, Prayers, Spirit Guides, Spiritual Guidance
Angelic affirmations
Affirmations are a very powerful way to change both our thinking and the circumstances in our life.
Tuesday September 1, 2009
7 Reasons to be grateful
Gratitude has the ability to return us to that childlike nature where we are amazed and excited by all of life and are connected to God in a concrete and constructive manner.
Sunday August 30, 2009
Categories: Abundance, Angels, Communicating with Angels, Happiness, Joy, Kindness, Love, Pets, Spiritual Guidance
An angel-filled new day
As I watch the dawn I am once again reminded that each day is a new beginning, a story yet to be written and I can write anything I want on the pages that follow. I say a prayer and ask to be guided so that all my thoughts and actions are loving.
Tuesday August 25, 2009
The gift of giving
When we give without any thought to receiving miracles do occur in our life. That is what angels do all the time.
Monday August 24, 2009
Categories: Angels, Beliefs, Books, Communicating with Angels, Conscious Creation, Joy, Kindness, Love, Magical Life, Spiritual Guidance
I am off to Lithuania
I am off to Lithuania for the month. I absolutely love going there and have fallen in love with the country and the people.
Saturday August 22, 2009
Today is "Be an angel day"
Today is your chance to be someone's angel by committing an act of random kindness! August 22 has been the official Be an Angel holiday since 1993.
Friday August 21, 2009
Fearless Fridays: ordinary angels
The third Friday of the month is dedicated to ordinary angels. This month I honor Soldier's angels, people that save the life of a badly wounded horse and share pictures and angels swimming.
Thursday August 20, 2009
Be an angel week: why do angels attract you
Why are people attracted to angels? Let us count the ways.
Tuesday August 18, 2009
Categories: Angels, Communicating with Angels, Conscious Creation, Happiness, Joy, Kindness, Love, Magical Life
Be an angel week: 7 ways to be an angel
used to have a bumper sticker that said, "Commit random acts of kindness and senseless beauty." Here is a list of 7 ways to be someone's angel.
Friday August 7, 2009
Fearless Fridays and the Tao
Explore some of the ancient wisdom of the Tao to help you learn how to live fearlessly in the face of fear.
Monday August 3, 2009
A real life angel from Queens, NY
A real life story of an angel who lives in Queens, NY. This school bus driver's acts of love and compassion touches hundreds of people's lives.
Tuesday July 28, 2009
Categories: Abundance, Angels, Beliefs, Conscious Creation, Ease, Happiness, Joy, Kindness, Love, Meditation, Prayers, Tips
Abortion, angels, and the economy
What do dreams, miscarriages, abortions and the economy have to do with one another? Susan explains how to live life in a limitless fashion.
Tuesday July 21, 2009
Categories: Angels, Conscious Creation, Ease, Happiness, Joy, Kindness, Love, Magical Life, Meditation, Tips
Something different
Aloha everyone,I just uploaded the latest episode of my podcast Food for the Soul and thought some of you might enjoy listening to it. It is all about the power of allowing for possibility and how we can avoid, what...
Sunday July 19, 2009
Categories: Beliefs, Conscious Creation, Happiness, Joy, Kindness, Love, Magical Life, Transformation
Heart Hugs
Aloha everyone, A student sent me this story, telling me he heard it on a wonderful CD by Dr.Wayne Dyer. This makes you think harder about choices. Two Choices What would you do?....You make the choice. My question is: Would you...
Friday July 17, 2009
Fearless Fridays
Aloha everyone, We are either in faith or in fear. When we are connected with that divine spark within, we see life differently and enhance our ability to love others. Today I thought I'd share some of my favorite quotes...
Tuesday July 14, 2009
Categories: Angels, Beliefs, Communicating with Angels, Ease, Happiness, Joy, Kindness, Spiritual Guidance
We see what we believe
Aloha everyone,It is amazing how powerful what we say ourselves and how much the words we speak to ourselves matter. I remember hearing a joke about a man who found himself stranded on his roof during a flood. He was...
Saturday July 11, 2009
Sounds of silence
Aloha everyone, Hope you are having a great weekend! I just thought I'd share one of my favorite songs, With love and aloha, Susan...
Thursday July 9, 2009
Categories: Angels, Beliefs, Communicating with Angels, Happiness, Joy, Kindness, Love, Magical Life
A sacred image
Aloha everyone, A friend of mine e-mailed me this image as part of a chain letter. I have always disliked chain letters with their veiled threat that if you fail to pass them on, something bad will happen, but if...
Thursday June 25, 2009
Fearless Fridays
Aloha everyone, Sometimes fear can get a bad reputation and we begin to think it is a bad thing. Granted, choices made based on fear often lead to results we aren't wild about, but fear in and of itself is...
Wednesday June 24, 2009
Categories: Beliefs, Conscious Creation, Joy, Kindness, Love, Prayers, Spirit Guides, Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday
Aloha everyone,Here is an image from my recent retreat in Sedona that really moves me. Sit quietly with her until you can feel her presence.With love and aloha,Susan...
Friday June 19, 2009
Fearless Fridays
Aloha everyone,The third Friday each month, I will share stories of real-life guardian angels.One of the most profound questions I ever answered for myself was, "Is this a safe universe or a hostile one?" For many years, I believed...
Thursday June 18, 2009
My Dad died on Tuesday
Aloha everyone, My dad had Alzheimer's and I had arranged for hospice the day before I left for the mainland. I hurried home after finishing the retreat in Sedona and was able to spend two days by his side...
Monday June 15, 2009
Be someone's angel
Aloha,How are you doing today? Have you taken time for yourself? Have you allowed yourself to be loved by the host of celestial beings surrounding you? If you haven't, why not take a long, slow deep breath right now...
Monday June 8, 2009
Allowing yourself to be 'Touched by an Angel'
Aloha Everyone, I used to love the TV show "Touched by an Angel." When the angels would reveal themselves and talk about god's love, I would often get teary eyed. Many of my readers have expressed the desire to meet...
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About Angels on Your Shoulder
Susan Gregg is the author of eight books including the award-winning "Mastering the Toltec Way" and "The Encyclopedia of Angels, Spirit Guides and Ascended Masters." She has been exploring spirituality since the early 1970s and completed an apprenticeship with Don Miguel Ruiz. Her greatest passion is showing others how they can be happy and this passion has resulted in her "Food for the Soul" podcast.
Currently, she lives on the Big Island of Hawaii where she is an avid gardener, hiker, and writer. She often spends time playing with the four-legged friends she's rescued or swimming with the wild sea turtles and dolphins.
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About the Art
The angel image in the header art above and the Pele image below are from Susan's book, "The Encyclopedia of Angels, Spirit Guides and Ascended Masters." The images are used with permission from Fair Winds Press.
About Pele
Pele is the Hawaiian goddess of the volcano as well as the goddess of transformation, passion, vitality and creation. Pele is a powerful force on the Hawaiian islands. Shortly after I moved to Hawaii, a friend suggested I have my property blessed. I asked Pele if I could live and work on her land. She graciously agreed, so I always take time to thank her and ask for her blessing in my endeavors.
About Pele
Pele is the Hawaiian goddess of the volcano as well as the goddess of transformation, passion, vitality and creation. Pele is a powerful force on the Hawaiian islands. Shortly after I moved to Hawaii, a friend suggested I have my property blessed. I asked Pele if I could live and work on her land. She graciously agreed, so I always take time to thank her and ask for her blessing in my endeavors.
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