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		<title>Love Letters &#124; Creative Mind &#8211; Part 4 of 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2019 05:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>﻿ Do you love being First? Are you a highly competitive person, especially with yourself? Constantly on the lookout to see where you can always be improving? Healthy competition is inspiring, motivational and gets things moving. And yet, competition requires you expend energy, and that can lead to you working harder than you have to. [&#8230;]</p>
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<h2><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Do you love being First?</em></span></h2>
<h2>Are you a highly competitive person, especially with yourself?</h2>
<h2>Constantly on the lookout to see where you can always be improving?</h2>
<p>Healthy competition is inspiring, motivational and gets things moving.</p>
<p>And yet, competition requires you expend energy, and that can lead to you working harder than you have to.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #008080;">Watch this week’s 12-minute Love Letter video, the fourth installment in our 5-part exploration of transitioning “From Me to We”, to shift your mindset from being competitive to being creative.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="color: #800080;"><b>"I always feel like I have to be in first place."</b></span></em></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">So this is week four of five our deep dive exploring the transition between me mindset, thinking everything is up to me, right? Feeling singular, compressive, small to the we mindset of opening up to receiving and allowing help and the love and support of others on our journey. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Now I'm talking primarily on your professional journey but I know there are loves who are watching these love letters who are just watching for personal growth and development. And yes, you don't have to go anywhere. To you too, all are welcome here.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong> So this week in particular, the guides are talking about transitioning. So another transition step on the way to move from the me mindset to the we mindset is moving from what Wallace Wattles calls the competitive to the creative mind.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Or if you've ever seen that lovely infograph that goes the lack mindset versus the abundance mindset. Of course these are similar comparison paradigms that we're setting up here. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span class="s1"> In the Science of Getting Rich written by Wallace D. Wattles, he composes a theorem over the course of the entire book. It's a word equation for creating wealth and riches and one of the powerful turning points of the book is when Wallace Wattles describes the difference between having a competitive and a creative mind.</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> Last week we hinted at the issue of having conditional love and approval of ourselves and see the types of results that can create when we're working with a limited amount of energy. This week continues that because when we are operating from the competitive mindset, this is conditional. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">The competitive mindset is dependent on the ability to press against that which we are competing with. Okay, there's this other person. All right I'm going to compete against them. I'm going to be first. It's dependent upon. It's conditional. Your success within being competitive is having someone to compete against.</span></strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> Now for those of us who've been on the personal growth and development train for quite some time we think well I compete with myself. And at the same time you're still comparing. Let's be honest, we're still comparing to this part of me is not good enough. This part of me is not good enough. Got to push against. Got to make it better. Got to improve. Got to innovate. Always, always, improving. Be kind to yourself if that's you. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong> This is a push approach to making progress. Right? And with that it takes so much more energy. By the way as a side note, this is what I call being the hard work hero in your life story. Now I outline my whole theory around being the hard work versus the smart work hero and heroine in your life story. In my webinar The Abundant Business Lifestyle Webinar.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">So if you haven't seen that, there should be a link somewhere magically placed by my wonderful monkeys for you so that you can really go deep around not being the hard work hero in life anymore.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong> So suffice to say when we're pushing to make innovation that's expounding a whole lot more energy than going with the flow of nature. And nature is the word actually is synonymous with creation. Right? So we're going to shift from the competitive to the creative mind and in shifting from needing to push against something, the progress is contingent upon, it's dependent upon, it's conditional upon something to push against.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Instead the creative mind is a constant flow. It's a constant flow between you and source. There are solutions to your issue at work or at home that are outside of a conditional box for you to relax and meditate into.</span></p>
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<h2 class="p1"><a href="https://ctt.ac/_f3OL">Know this: Cultivating your Creative Mind is smart work in #business because it aligns you with the flow of Nature; you are naturally a Creator, not a Competitor.</a></h2>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong> If you're not used to relaxing and meditation and receiving guidance, I'm right here. Pick me, pick me. Go ahead and reach out to me at victoriawhitfield.com/contact and let's get you set up with your natural intuition program so that you can tune into your intuition.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">But suffice to say the creative mind is smart work. You're harnessing the flow of your natural state as a creator. That's our purpose here. On earth in this lifetime is to be creators. And the more that you can stand in your own unique creative vision, not necessarily wearing bright scarves and dresses and things with goddesses on the wall. You can be creative in your own right. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong> So be kind to yourself. If you also tell yourself a story of I'm not a creative person, that is actually a story you created so by definition, by default you're actually creating and saying you're not a creator at the same time, right? Be kind to yourself if that's the situation that you are currently in.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">And I'm hearing the oracle card calling in the energy to weigh in on the topic of shifting from the competitive mind of that push and hard work to the creative mind which then pulls us towards our greater future.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong> Let me come in a little bit closer. I love doing that. So I tell my peeps to do things to put themselves in the vortex. That's one of mine. So again, the Life Purpose Oracle Card deck by Doreen Virtue is what we are journeying with. And angels, what do we need to know right now about shifting from the competitive to the creative mind? How can we embrace our creativity more?</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> So good. Here's where we'll leave off for the week. You are a healer. You have the spiritual gift of healing and a desire to share it with others. So my guides are coming in and saying two things in particular about this card. For one, you are a healer. Let's honor that and celebrate it and stand in it and come out of your healing closet around the fact that yes, you really are a healer, right? You create a healing presence. You have healing hands or your gifts and your creativity are a healing presence in your soul aligned community.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1"> On top of that, in order for you to connect to your creative flow, healers need healing too. It's time for you to reach out and connect with an energy healer so that you can shift from the competitive to the creative mind. I have intuitive healers for myself and always have and I am one. Especially for you as spiritual and empathic entrepreneurs and business owners and leaders, right? You have unique issues that I'm happy to support you with.</span></strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> So go ahead and reach out. It's time for you to connect with an intuitive healer so that you can get back into your creative flow. Go ahead and comment below. This is meant to be a two-way conversation. I send you love letters but you could send me some back too. Always open to receive. I've got like tons. Tons of love letters and that's just like one of many walls. To those of you who have sent me love letters, thank you so much. But go ahead. Send me an email back. Comment below or write me in the mail victoriawhitfield.com/contact. My mailing address is there. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong> What's coming up for you around shifting from the competitive to the creative mind, right? Standing in your healer. Make sure that you subscribe on YouTube so that you get these love letters first every week.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">And if you know someone who is an empathic entrepreneur or spiritual business owner, forward them this lovely little love letter so that they know that it's time for them to get the support that they need in their professional healing journey.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> All right, we'll see you next week for our fifth and final installment. Bye. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em>(Original post 05/21/2018)</em></p>
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<p><strong>It’s time to come out of the closet and be The Healer that you are.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Connect with another intuitive healer (like me!) to support you in clearing out the old vibration of being a Competitor and open to receiving the new you as The Creator.</strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Notice how you feel at that moment - you're already healing!</em></strong></p>
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		<title>Love Letters &#124; Restful Productivity &#8211; Part 3 of 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2019 05:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Do you seldom feel truly rested? Is it hard for you to relax, because you secretly think it’s a waste of time? Wish you could increase your productivity and your wellness, instead of trading one for the other? Type-A personalities tend to have a hard time really resting and feeling relaxed because they’re wired to [&#8230;]</p>
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<h2><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Do you seldom feel truly rested?</em></span></h2>
<h2>Is it hard for you to relax, because you secretly think it’s a waste of time?</h2>
<h2>Wish you could increase your productivity and your wellness, instead of trading one for the other?</h2>
<p>Type-A personalities tend to have a hard time really resting and feeling relaxed because they’re wired to value getting as many things done as possible above their feelings and wellbeing.</p>
<p>This can lead to chronic anxiety and stress, as well as cycles of depression and burnout if left unchecked.</p>
<p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Watch this week’s 10-minute Love Letter video, the third in our 4-week series on Your Daily PRP’s, to put an end to this vicious cycle and instead adopt a practice of restful productivity.<br />
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<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="color: #800080;"><b>"I feel lazy when I take breaks."</b></span></em></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This is week three of four in our four-week series on Your Daily PRPs.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1"> If you don't know what PRP stands for, stop the video now and go back to week one where we explained exactly what PRPs are and why you need them. So, without further ado, if you do know what's going on, this week in particular we're going to cover the second letter in that acronym PRP, the R which stands for "Rest."</span></strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> The reason why we get our daily PRP nutrition in is so that you have the energy and the stamina to pursue your passion and purpose for the long haul. This, when you implement is as a proactive regularized practice, whether it is on a daily basis or weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, right? However you schedule it in for yourself, it will stave off or even put an end to cycles of burnout, being overworked, feeling cranky, overwhelmed, and pushing yourself past your limit.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong> In particular, this week that we're talking about with rest is having restful productivity. I know that kind of sounds like an oxymoron, if I have any of my type As watching. Yay. All my creepy control enthusiasts, all my perfectionistas, yes, yes, where everything has got to be perfect. Be kind to yourself if that's you.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">You might be burning the candle at both ends by adopting the type A, get it done perfectly as fast as possible, as efficiently as possible all the time. There's a way to be restful and productive at the same time.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1"> Now, my guides have given me a four-step process to share with you this week in particular so that you can get to implementing restful productivity, so that you have the stamina to pursue your passion and purpose for the long haul. You ready for it?</span></strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> Number one, unplug. Write this down, by the way. Get a pen and pad or open up another window, whatever you guys do or ... inscribe it on your brains. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>Number one, unplug. In order to rest but also to be fully productive, your ability to focus, not just on a mental level but also a physical level is called for and unplugging is necessary. What does that mean? No TV, phone, tablet, laptop, computer, no plugging into technology. The less technology period you can be around ...</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1">I was just talking about stuff that makes you connected to the worldwide webs-y things and cables and stuff. But if you wanna go completely native and have candlelight and all of that, the campfire, great. But, for those of us who are not able to do that, just unplug. Make it a point to unplug so that you can be focused on being restfully productive.</p>
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<h2 class="p1"><a href="https://ctt.ec/ev46r">‪Know this: You can be restful AND productive.</a></h2>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong> Secondly, and this takes courage, it's time for you to rage. So, how are you going to rage? For some people it's getting at that heavy bag, and pow, pow, pow, pow. Let that bag have what it had coming! But, I also highly recommend that you use a written medium for your rage. So, have a rage journal. I have a rage journal, by the way.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Or, grab a piece of toilet paper and start writing on that, all the things that you hate, that annoy you, that make you angry, and cranky and frustrated. Write it out, write it out, write it out. Or, all those extra brown paper bags, time to write all over them. Write of all the things that you wanna get out of you and rage about. This is cathartic clearing. So, that's really going to help you be restful but it's also productive because you're bringing stuff up and out, getting it out of you.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span class="s1"> Thirdly, is to release. The way that you release this practice is you can close the journal and leave it behind for a little bit, if you are okay with that. Or, if you need ultra secrecy take that toilet paper, flush it down the toilet. Let the crap go where it's supposed to, down the toilet pipes, right? Or, with your brown paper bag, rip it up into tiny pieces or even throw it in the fire pit and watch it burn. Bye-Bye! Right? Burn that crusty crap away.</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> So, release all of that energy that came out of you. Then leave it be. That you could do it for an hour, leave it be for an hour afterward, or even entire day, or week, who knows? What's important is the fourth and final step, and this is what makes it super productive, is to review. What came out of you, what you raged about, what makes you angry is actually what I call a dark gift, meaning a gift that comes in a darker kind of, not very attractive package, right? It's a learning gift. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1"> So, the things that you raged about are signs and hints at where your boundaries are being overstepped. If you have any boundaries with love, right? Where you need more support in your life, in your business, or in your relationships. Where your desires are not being met. There's so much clarity that comes from raging and releasing and the review, that's fourth and final step, is essential for you grounding and receiving all of the gifts that came out of this restful productivity process at the end.</span></strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> So, this is how to find your way through the resting process. Those of us who are type As, we tend to go on vacation, or enjoy the spa or have downtime and we're being as productive and go, go, go, as possible. We can't seem to turn off, can't seem to let go, because we gotta do everything on the list that we said we were going to do.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong> The reason why that happens is because you have pent up rage that you haven't released yet. So, this is your four steps process to be restful and productive. And you can do this. You can work it in, in many ways on a daily basis, in a little bit bigger ways on a weekly basis, more of a significant time space on the monthly or quarterly basis or once a year. Give yourself a bunch a time to really enjoy the sacred process.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> So, I'm hearing the oracle cards calling in the energy. This month in particular we're journeying all month with the romance angels, another Doreen Virtue oracle cards deck. Thank you for your donations. Always welcome to receiving more. So, angels, what do we need to know right now about restful productivity as our daily PRP? Calling in your soulmate. Calling in your soulmate. Your prayers, affirmations, and visualizations help bring you together. This is where we're going to leave off for the week.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1"> The reason why calling in your soulmate is coming up, is because when we clear our energy, when we clear all of that rage and inflammatory thoughts and feelings, when we release our emotions, we create the space to receive our divine partnerships. First with ourselves! Remember, all of this is really about your relationship with you. But, also, for those around us we're more receptive to their love and their support, whether it's in personal or professional relationships.</span></strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> So, calling in a partner who's able to meet those needs that you discovered weren't being met yet, starting with you being that partner for you. Comment below, send me an email back. What comes up for you around that? </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span class="s1">Are you going to do some productive rest time? </span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Let me know how that goes. Make sure you subscribe on YouTube so that you get your love letters first every week, and we'll see you next time. Bye!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em>(Original post 02/19/2018)</em></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Tired of keeping up with the Joneses? Wish you could just be yourself with people, but are too scared of what they'll think? Hiding your pain and exhaustion behind your smile more than you'd like to admit? Popular culture and educational systems teach us that it's our level of performance that determines our worth. Unfortunately, [&#8230;]</p>
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<h2><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Tired of keeping up with the Joneses?</em></span></h2>
<h2><em>Wish you could just be yourself with people, but are too scared of what they'll think?</em></h2>
<h2><em>Hiding your pain and exhaustion behind your smile more than you'd like to admit?<br />
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<p>Popular culture and educational systems teach us that it's our level of performance that determines our worth.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, living a life of high-performance doesn't lead to self-acceptance and fulfillment; instead, quite the opposite happens.</p>
<p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Watch this week's 10-minute Love Letter video to explore why we overperform so much, and how you can start to break free from this vicious cycle!<br />
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<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="color: #800080;"><b>"I am so drained. I feel like everything is falling apart."</b></span></em></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This week, Source has got two words for you.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Stop performing. Stop it. This is not a performance. You're not putting on a show. Your life is meant to be lived authentically, okay?</strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Let's get into this. When we are performing, we feel like we're pushing to get others' approval, or pushing to be productive, or pushing to get recognition, or pushing to be accepted, or we're trying to be good, or we're trying to be healthy, or we're trying to make everyone feel comfortable. There's this sense of artifice, and energy that's expounded, and really shoved out of us, this performance. It's go time.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span class="s1">Performance is really meant for spurts. It's not meant to be a lifestyle. </span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I'm telling you, who's watching right now, you've created a lifestyle of performing:</span></p>
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<li class="p1"><span class="s1">You perform for your kids, as mother.</span></li>
<li class="p1"><span class="s1">You perform for your clients.</span></li>
<li class="p1"><span class="s1">You perform for your boss, as star employee.</span></li>
<li class="p1"><span class="s1">You perform for your parents as the perfect son.</span></li>
<li class="p1"><span class="s1">You perform for your community as the perfect person, or the best, the go-to guy.</span></li>
<li class="p1"><span class="s1">As grandma, you're just always there, filling this role that either you've created for yourself, that you have to live up to, or it's been placed upon you.</span></li>
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<p><span class="s1">Oh, you're really good at this. </span><span class="s1">Let's put you on this pedestal, so that you have to always operate at that level.</span></p>
<p><strong><span class="s1">I'm vibing very specific with you right now. I feel it very strongly, of how tired you are performing, performing, performing, trying to be someone that at the end of the day, you're just drained, pushing at that level, or really trying to make something work that is falling apart.</span></strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Maybe you're trying to make it work, and you're the only one trying to make it work, and putting on a happy face for others, so that no one knows all of the pain that is behind that performance mask, that has become your face.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>There's so much more for you. Beaming love and acceptance at you. And this week in particular, we have to accept who we are, is what Source is saying, specifically by stopping the performance.</strong></span></p>
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<h2 class="p1"><a href="http://ctt.ec/a4BR7"><strong><span class="s1">Know this: Worry will die when you increase your faith. Go for it this week and trust yourself! @SenseiWhitfield</span></strong></a></h2>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Performance is over. Curtain call. Yay. Everyone's clapping. Okay, you're done. What happens?</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>I'm starting to hear the oracle cards calling in the energy about who are you when you're not performing?</strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This is a journaling. This is a conversation having kind of topic. This is not one specific, one love letter, and you're going to figure this one all out. No.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span class="s1">This is a journey in and of itself, finding out, who are you when you're not performing, into the role, or the mask, right, that you've created for yourself, or that you've inherited.</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The Oracle Cards that want to weigh on this, so who are you when you're not performing is the life purpose oracle cards deck by Doreen Virtue.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Can you even imagine? Angels, help us imagine, who are we when we stop performing, and really start stepping into being authentic?</strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Maybe at work, maybe even in our homes, and our private lives, who are we? Hmm.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span class="s1">School. The answer that you're seeking involves going to school, and this is where we're going to leave off this week in particular.</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This is about learning more about yourself, so perhaps you are currently in school right now, or you've been to school in the past, you've studied before, majored in a certain area, or have had certifications in a certain area.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Look to what inspires you the most in your self education. At school, there are certain subjects that you vibrate with the most.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">If you're currently in school, maybe art class is something that really just flows out of you. You don't have to perform when you're drawing. You're just in the moment, or writing, or theater, or perhaps in debate, you're just flowing. You don't even have to perform. It's just part of you. You love that intellectual stimulation, right, of debate, or history.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>If you are not currently in school, what have you been looking at going back to school for recently?</strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">What would you study simply for the love of it, where you know that at 3AM, if you had to do a project for that specific field of study, you'd be over the moon.<em> "Oh, my gosh. I would love to be up at 3AM writing about this, or studying and practicing for this."</em></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>The guides are pushing you towards education to really help you see, who are you when you're not performing?</strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">It's a bit ironic, because we tend to associate school with performance, right? If you get an A, then you're acceptable. A does not mean acceptable. Wrong, so if that's what's coming up for you, by the way, if you're watching, let that one go.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Instead, what would you study simply for the love of it, if there was no grade, if you were just in school for the love of it?</strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">For me, it's meditation and Reiki, world religions, parapsychology, metaphysics, manifestation, and all of that yummy, juice, vortex-y goodness. Right? That's who I am when I'm not performing, and I happen to have integrated that personally into my work. What is it for you? Look to your education.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>Post below in the comments. Let me know, what do you find out? What would you study for the love of it? What are you doing in your free time, and studying in your free time, Googling constantly about? That might be a clue as to who you are when you're not performing. I'm here for you.</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Make time to get clarity: journal about what you do simply for the love and pleasure of it, especially listing things that no one knows.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Then write down how it feels when you're doing these things, versus when you feel like you're performing or trying to appease others.</strong></p>
<div><strong><em>Notice how you feel at that moment - you're already healing!</em></strong></div>
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<h2><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Do you feel like you don't fit in?<br />
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<h2><em>Tired of standing out because you're so different from friends, family and colleagues?</em></h2>
<h2><em>Wonder when you'll figure out how to live your purpose?<br />
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Being unique can feel like a blessing and a curse at the same time.</span></p>
<p>This week, Source wants you to know that you're not weird, you're actually a PLATYPUS, and that means you're awesome!</p>
<p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Watch this weeks 8-minute love letter to embrace your platypus-ful magnificence and love yourself just as your are.</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="color: #800080;"><b>"<em>I feel like I stick out like a sore thumb.</em>"</b></span></em></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">This weeks Source wants us to talk to you about the Platypus Complex.</span></strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I'm sure you've heard of different kinds of complexes such as the Platypus Complex and the Electra Complex. This is not that. This is a little bit different. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>Platypus Complex is when you are feeling like you're out of bounds in your life right now.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Let's talk about that for a second.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Perhaps you've been feeling off lately, off your game, uncomfortable, like you don't fit in. Especially, maybe it isn't just recently, it might have been maybe all your life, or for quite a season. When things are going awry or don't feel like they fit together well, right, is the Platypus Complex.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>We have all these wonderful gifts and nowhere to use them or we stick out like a sore thumb because in our family, or in our team at work, or in our team at school, or in our class, in our friend group because they're just so different.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">You're not really one of the pack or part of a clique necessarily. Perhaps, you've even started your own groups because you're so much of a platypus.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>I know that there's an another expression, you know I'm hearing in the energy around black sheep energy. However, a black sheep, although she stands out, she's still one of the sheep.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Whereas platypus, if you see her, you are like, <em>"Oh my God. Are you a duck? Are you a beaver? Are you like a turtle? I don't know what you are, but you're so cute. I don't know what to do with you."</em> Right?</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This is speaking to people in particular, calling out in the energy. Those who have multiple interests and multiple goals, but are having a hard time staying focused because your energy is so creative. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>I don't know who this is, but source wants you to know that having a Platypus Complex means that you're seeing your creative breadth as an issue when it's actually on purpose.</strong> </span></p>
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<h2 class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">Know this: <a href="http://ctt.ec/9qn5E">The message of the platypus is to honor &amp; accept your sensitivities as they're your greatest gift. @SenseiWhitfield</a></span></strong></h2>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">You have a tremendous gift that you are here to bring the world with. Your built to synthesize your many different facets of who you are. Your many different talents. You're meant to synthesize them in the way that only you can. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">That brings a healing gift to our community.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>Now the guides are telling me particularly this week to read out of the Animal Spirit Guides book by Steven D. Farmer about platypus energy.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I didn't read this yet. I just turned to the page.<i>&nbsp;</i>See if this is talking about you:</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><em>"If platypus shows up, it means this is a time of heightened sensitivity, so pay close attention to the cues that your body gives you.&nbsp;</em><em>Time to discover the layers of meaning behind any significant encounters you're having, rather than trying to adapt to others demands or their pace. Stay in tune with your own internal rhythms and move with those accordingly."</em></span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">The guides are telling me to stop for a moment and say you may feel like because you're so different that you have a hard time keeping up with social conventions, expectations, or what you think you should be doing traditionally or homogeneously speaking. </span></strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">You march to the beat of your own sacred drum.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><em>"The situation before you, ahead of you requires you to have an absolute faith in the process and go with the flow, neither resisting, nor being passive or non-responsive. Your clairvoyance is increasing and you'll find that you're more readily trust your inner vision. When you do this, include food in your diet that's grown underground, such as potatoes and carrots."</em></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Platypus energy is coming to you, this week in particular to say stay focused on your lane. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>This is about pace and not race. You're meant to be unique. It's okay for you<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>to standout and march to the beat of your own drum.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Also, go with the flow that you're feeling. Trust your gut because your unique view point and vision is what's needed to really bring the best outcome, this week in particular.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I'm going to pull&nbsp;an oracle card too, just as a bonus because the Goddess Guidance deck said that she wanted to encourage all our platypuses out there. From one platypus to another, I feel you. We all feel you here at The Dojo.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Goddesses, what do we need to know this week in particular?</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Goddess Maeve&nbsp;comes forward to talk about cycles and rhythms. Again, reinforcing that you have your own beat and you need to honor the cycles of your body, energy levels, and emotions. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span class="s1">When you feel like it's time for a rest or that you need to have a schedule moving forward that allows more time for strategic rest, listen to honor and move forward with implementing that because when you're well-rested, when you're in your flow, you're able to bring us the gifts that only can come through you in this lifetime.</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">If you think you are a platypus, comment below. Send me an email back. Let me know if that's you.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Honor that Platypus Complex. Don't let it dominate you. Okay? This is a gift. I believe in you and I'll see you next week. Bye. Mwah.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong style="line-height: 1.5;">In Love and Light,</strong></p>
<p><strong>Victoria.</strong></p>
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<p><strong><em>Just for Today...</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Don't write yourself off as weird or scattered. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Imagine what would be possible if you merged your many talents under one umbrella for the greater good. </strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Notice how you feel at that moment - you're already healing!</em></strong></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Tired of keeping up with the Joneses? Wish you could just be yourself with people, but are too scared of what they'll think? Hiding your pain and exhaustion behind your smile more than you'd like to admit? Popular culture and educational systems teach us that it's our level of performance that determines our worth. Unfortunately, [&#8230;]</p>
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<h2><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Tired of keeping up with the Joneses?<br />
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<h2><em>Wish you could just be yourself with people, but are too scared of what they'll think?</em></h2>
<h2><em>Hiding your pain and exhaustion behind your smile more than you'd like to admit?</em></h2>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Popular culture and educational systems teach us that it's our level of performance that determines our worth.<br />
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<p>Unfortunately, living a life of high-performance doesn't lead to self-acceptance and fulfillment; instead, quite the opposite happens.</p>
<p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Watch this week's 10-minute Love Letter video to explore why we overperform so much, and how you can start to break free from this vicious cycle!<br />
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<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="color: #800080;"><b>"<em>I am so drained. I feel like everything is falling apart.</em>"</b></span></em></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This week, Source has&nbsp;got two words for you. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Stop performing. Stop it. This is not a performance. You're not putting on a show. Your life is meant to be lived authentically, okay?</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Let's get into this. When we are performing, we feel like we're pushing to get others' approval, or pushing to be productive, or pushing to get recognition, or pushing to be accepted, or we're trying to be good, or we're trying to be healthy, or we're trying to make everyone feel comfortable. There's this sense of artifice, and energy that's expounded, and really shoved out of us, this performance. It's go time.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span class="s1">Performance is really meant for spurts. It's not meant to be a lifestyle.&nbsp;</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I'm telling you, who's watching right now, you've created a lifestyle of performing:</span></p>
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<li class="p1"><span class="s1">You perform for your kids, as mother. </span></li>
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<li style="list-style-type: none;">
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<li class="p1"><span class="s1">You perform for your clients. </span></li>
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<ul>
<li style="list-style-type: none;">
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<li class="p1"><span class="s1">You perform for your boss, as star employee.</span></li>
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<li style="list-style-type: none;">
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<li class="p1"><span class="s1">You perform for your parents as the perfect son.</span></li>
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<li style="list-style-type: none;">
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<li class="p1"><span class="s1">You perform for your community as the perfect person, or the best, the go-to guy. </span></li>
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</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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<li class="p1"><span class="s1">As grandma, you're just always there, filling this role that either you've created for yourself, that you have to live up to, or it's been placed upon you. </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span class="s1">Oh, you're really good at this. </span><span class="s1">Let's put you on this pedestal, so that you have to always operate at that level. </span></p>
<p><strong><span class="s1">I'm vibing very specific with you right now. I feel it very strongly, of how tired you are performing, performing, performing, trying to be someone that at the end of the day, you're just drained, pushing at that level, or really trying to make something work that is falling apart.</span></strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Maybe you're trying to make it work, and you're the only one trying to make it work, and putting on a happy face for others, so that no one knows all of the pain that is behind that performance mask, that has become your face. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>There's so much more for you. Beaming love and acceptance at you. And this week in particular, we have to accept who we are, is what Source is&nbsp;saying, specifically by stopping the performance.</strong> </span></p>
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<h2 class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">Know this: <a href="http://ctt.ec/Tpt4I">Know this: Self-acceptance starts where performing ends. #loveyourself @SenseiWhitfield http://bit.ly/295Gf4K</a></span></strong></h2>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Performance is over. Curtain call. Yay. Everyone's clapping. Okay, you're done. What happens? </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>I'm starting to hear the oracle cards calling in the energy about who are you when you're not performing?</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This is a journaling. This is a conversation having kind of topic. This is not one specific,&nbsp;one love letter, and you're going to figure this one all out. No. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span class="s1">This is a journey in and of itself, finding out, who are you when you're not performing, into the role, or the mask, right, that you've created for yourself, or that you've inherited.</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The Oracle Cards that want to weigh on this, so who are you when you're not performing is the life purpose oracle cards deck by Doreen Virtue. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Can you even imagine? Angels, help us imagine, who are we when we stop performing, and really start stepping into being authentic?</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Maybe at work, maybe even in our homes, and our private lives, who are we? Hmm. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span class="s1">School. The answer that you're seeking involves going to school, and this is where we're going to leave off this week in particular. </span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This is about learning more about yourself, so perhaps you are currently in school right now, or you've been to school in the past, you've studied before, majored in a certain area, or have had certifications in a certain area.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Look to what inspires you the most in your self education. At school, there are certain subjects that you vibrate with the most. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">If you're currently in school, maybe art class is something that really just flows out of you. You don't have to perform when you're drawing. You're just in the moment, or writing, or theater, or perhaps in debate, you're just flowing. You don't even have to perform. It's just part of you. You love that intellectual stimulation, right, of debate, or history. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>If you are not currently in school, what have you been looking at going back to school for recently?</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">What would you study simply for the love of it, where you know that at 3AM, if you had to do a project for that specific field of study, you'd be over the moon.<em> "Oh, my gosh. I would love to be up at 3AM writing about this, or studying and practicing for this."</em></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>The guides are pushing you towards education to really help you see, who are you when you're not performing?</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">It's a bit ironic, because we tend to associate school with performance, right? If you get an A, then you're acceptable. A does not mean acceptable. Wrong, so if that's what's coming up for you, by the way, if you're watching, let that one go. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Instead, what would you study simply for the love of it, if there was no grade, if you were just in school for the love of it?</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">For me, it's meditation and Reiki, world religions, parapsychology, metaphysics, manifestation, and all of that yummy, juice, vortex-y goodness. Right? That's who I am when I'm not performing, and I happen to have integrated that personally into my work. What is it for you? Look to your education.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>Post below in the comments. Let me know, what do you find out? What would you study for the love of it? What are you doing in your free time, and studying in your free time, Googling constantly about? That might be a clue as to who you are when you're not performing. I'm here for you.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Contact me if you want to set up a session, so that we can clarify that. I do hour long sessions, as well as half hour sessions on a regular basis, because having regular accountability makes all the difference, okay? </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Make sure that you subscribe on YouTube, so that you get your love letters first every week, and we will see you next time!</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><strong style="line-height: 1.5;">In Love and Light,</strong></p>
<p><strong>Victoria.</strong></p>
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<p><strong><em>Just for Today...</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Make time to get clarity: journal about what you do simply for the love and pleasure of it, especially listing things that no one knows.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Then write down how it feels when you're doing these things, versus when you feel like you're performing or trying to appease others.</strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Notice how you feel at that moment - you're already healing!</em></strong></p>
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