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		<title>Love Letters &#124; Busy-ness Self Sabotage &#8211; Part 5 of 5</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Are you, or is someone you know, a workaholic? Worried that if you say "no" when people who ask for help, that you'll be mean or they won't like you? Drowning in projects and things to manage, at work AND at home? It's easier to just give in and say "yes" and be seen as [&#8230;]</p>
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<h2><em>Are you, or is someone you know, a workaholic?</em><span style="color: #800080;"><em><br />
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<p><em>Worried that if you say "no" when people who ask for help, that you'll be mean or they won't like you?<br />
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<p><em>Drowning in projects and things to manage, at work AND at home?<br />
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<p>It's easier to just give in and say "yes" and be seen as helpful, than to stand your ground and say "no" and be seen as possibly selfish.</p>
<p>But when we do that, we add another project on to our already overwhelmed plate of "helpfulness" - perhaps this is more than just being helpful, perhaps it's now an addiction.</p>
<p>Watch this week's 15-minute love letter for the fifth and final installment in our 5-week deep dive on self care versus self sabotage to send healing to our relationship with (personal and professional) help-a-holism.<span style="color: #008080;"><strong><br />
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<p style="text-align: right;"><em><b>"I never feel like I'm doing enough."</b></em></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We've been on a five-week-long deep dive into the dance that we empaths do between self-care and self-sabotage. All the different ways that we stand in the way of shining our light to our fullest potential. I'm really grateful. I just want to thank you for tuning in for week five. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I want to thank you for all your support over the years, of the love letters, my gosh. What? We're going on four or five years straight of love letters. I just want to thank you for your continued support.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> This week in particular, we're going to focus on self-sabotage around workaholism and help-a-holism, fix-a-holism. Helping, and fixing, and putting out all the fires, and working all the limbs all day. Those of us who are highly sensitive individuals who are naturally empathic, who are naturally intuitive. Last week we discovered your call to be a healer, your call to healing leadership. You're sensitive for that reason.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> But this week is the dark side of that, where you can be so driven to help, and to fix, and to take care give, and to take responsibility; but you lose yourself. Not only lose yourself, you may even hurt yourself.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Be kind yourself, if this is you. This last one, baby, is for you. This is our swan song, yes? </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Workaholism, guides say that the soul craving behind that, or that the hidden feeling driver behind helping everybody, and fixing everything, and working constantly. The addiction to work, and projecting.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> Not just projecting stuff, we're projecting people, like in your relationships, yes, yes? Maybe this isn't you, maybe we're talking about somebody else. We can pretend. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">But, maybe let that obsession with being everybody's caregiver, taking care of everybody and everything. What's the hidden driver behind that? </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">And the guides say that it is the feeling of, <em>"I'm not good enough. I'm not doing enough. I am good when I am doing. I am only good when I am doing." </em></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> Doing good, doing stuff for other people, pleasing others, when I'm gaining approval. Yes, yes? When I'm gaining recognition, I am worthy based on my output ... which is faulty. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Yes, it is good to do good things and to help others. This is not to say that you shouldn't be helping other people, and that you should be like, <em>"All right, screw you all, I'm going home."</em> Right? Pulling a Cartman. No, that's not what we're talking about here.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> As much as that sounds fabulous to one of you ... I just heard someone in the energies saying, <em>"I want to tell everyone, 'Go away.'"</em> If that's you ... Bear with me, we're going to make it through this. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">But, what's also coming up behind that, as your working, working, working and saying yes to everything; the flipside is the fear of saying, "no." Our lack of boundaries is fueling this relentless need for approval and affirmation. In the workplace, or in the eyes of someone that you helped, or getting to see their transformation so you feel worthy, because they had an outcome or you had an impact on them.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong> What happens, however, when there's nothing to do, no one to save, nothing to fix? </strong>The big question is, are you still worthy? Are you still lovable? Are you still acceptable? Are you still good? Are you still okay, as a person if you don't have something to do, something to do, something to do? This is a big one. When we have this addiction, this also expresses as a lack of boundaries. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> What are boundaries? This is the million-dollar word for every single empath like, ever: boundaries. Boundaries are the invisible lines that separate what is you and what is not you; what is yours and what is not yours. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Now, from a spiritual perspective, yes, there is the universal law of oneness, which says, "All that is, is one." But that doesn't mean you have to do everything all the time, or that everything that's yours belongs to everybody else, or that you don't have any selfness. You don't have a worth because you don't have a self.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> No. That's not what that is saying. Instead, that's just to appreciate the interconnectedness and interdependence of all of life, and all that is. However, we're talking about this turning into co dependence. Codependency is when you depend on someone or something outside of you for a sense of emotional security, to give you your emotional security, or even your identity. You're depending on them.</span></p>
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<h2 class="p1"><a href="http://ctt.ec/K9al1"><strong><span class="s1">Know this: Codependents need to DO stuff to feel worthy. Who are you without your projects?</span></strong></a></h2>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> Workaholism, for example, my dad was a lawyer, I'm a lawyer, my kids are going to be a lawyer. If I ever lose this job, I don't know what I'm gonna do; where your job defines your personality. That's a codependent relationship. That means that you are at risk of losing yourself if that thing shifts at all. You've given all your power over to the thing that you are dependent upon. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> Be kind to yourself if this is speaking to you. I don't know who this message is for, but I'm sharing it anyway, following spirit's guidance. With that, also, where we have the sense of addiction to getting things done and putting out fires, putting out fires putting out fires. Whenever we put out a fire, we get that little bit of,<em> "Yay, I did it."</em> And that, <em>"Yay,"</em> is what we're addicted to, of winning and the feedback loop of, "I'm putting out and I'm receiving, putting out and I'm receiving."</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> That's why so many men end up becoming not present at home, because the job is what gives them recognition and affirmation constantly, and you come home to a wife that is just not paying attention, and not able to give you that feedback. It is, unfortunately, natural to become addicted more to work, where you're recognized, and you feel like you have an impact in the relationship more with your job than your own partner. Scary. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">That happens to women, too, I'm not just talking about men, okay. I hear my guide saying, "This happens to the ladies, too," where work or the kids become more important than their partner, because there's something to work on. There's always something. The mom-ness becomes the identity rather than yourself being your identity, becoming codependent to the children.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> Be kind to yourself if this is you. Now, this week in particular, the guides are saying, <em>"How do we get out of this?"</em> This addiction to working and losing ourself without our boundaries. Well, is to have values. This week in particular, you want to focus on writing out a list of what your core, desired feelings and your most prioritized values are in life. Allow your schedule to be according to what you prioritize most, what you value the most. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> First things first, as they say. I believe that's in the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Put first things first. Is family really important to you? If so, where is family in your schedule? This week, we want to put, "What are your core desired feelings?" I want to feel free, I want to feel abundant, I want to feel loved, I want to feel sensual. Where are those feelings in how you spend your time each day? Rather than letting the thing that you are co dependently addicted to, such as the work or the caregiving, et cetera rather than letting only that determine how you spend your time.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1"> This is going to shift your relationship with your workaholism. Your addiction is going shift. If you can just get clear on, <em>"What are your core, desired feelings, and what are your most prioritized values?"</em> </span></strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We forget, we're in that tunnel of, "I'm doing stuff, I'm doing stuff, I'm doing stuff. I'm so productive, I'm so busy. I'm doing all this busy stuff." There's a difference between being busy and actually being in business. There's a difference between being busy and actually being focused.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> This, our core, desired feelings and our most prioritized values are what are going to help us clarify that. To end, Doreen Virtue, Angel Therapy; yet another one of our Doreen Virtue decks. Angels, what we need to know this week? To round off our five-week deep dive into the dance between self sabotage and self care.<em> "Listen to your intuitive feelings."</em> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Listen to your intuitive feelings. Your body is receiving accurate messages from the divine. This is perfect, given what we're talking about.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> One of the main reasons why we can get stuck in, or create stuck-ness in a codependent, workaholic, fixaholic relationship is because we'll drown out the sensations of our body. We're not in touch. We're not in touch with ... <em>"Oh, my neck is starting to hurt because it's 10:00 PM and I'm still at work."</em> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We'll just keep going, going, going. Or, you know what? I actually ... I'm not really hungry for that extra candy bar, as we talked ... The second week was food. I'm not actually hungry for that chocolate candy bar. Actually, I'm craving love and affection. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong> Instead of shoving a chocolate candy bar down my throat so I can stay working at the computer all the livelong day, instead I'm going to reach out to receive some physical touch, or love and affection from a loved one. Listen to your feelings.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Your sensitivity is your strength here, and it's the gateway to your next level in life. Send me an email back, comment below. Let me know what's coming up for you around this, and how has this series been for you? </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"> Are you liking the multi-week deep dives? Let me know, let me know. </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Source has been telling me that you and I have got to develop a deeper relationship, and go deeper into the information, rather than just doing one idea a week. Nah, let's go there. Let's go there together, okay? </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Make sure you subscribe on YouTube so that you get your love letters every week, and I'll see you next time. Muah, bye</span></p>
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<h2><strong>Just for Today...</strong></h2>
<h3>Put first things, first.</h3>
<h3>Write a list of your core values and core desired feelings, and see if you're spending your time each day accordingly.</h3>
<h3><em>Notice how you feel at that moment - you're already healing!</em></h3>
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<p><strong>Well, you're in the right place, at the right time.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Right now it's Mercury Retrograde, which has to do with reviewing, re-visiting, and reinvention -- the Energy is on your side!</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>All this month, May 9-20th, happiness life coach and author Stacey Curnow is sharing the wisdom of 10 powerful women of purpose on the topic of the "Heroine's Journey." </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>You may be familiar with Joseph Campbell's description of the Hero's Journey, which basically outlines exactly how his greatest challenges in life can become his greatest lessons and gifts to the world around him:</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>And I'm so honored and humbled to be part of this event celebrating and discussing what I believe is the Divine Feminine Lightworker's life path, aka. the Sacred Heroine's Journey. </strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<div><strong>This month's livestream meditation class topic is "Cultivating Clarity."</strong></div>
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<p>Life can often get cluttered and confusing, and when that happens it's hard to be clear on what we need and what matters most.</p>
<p>We end up feeling scattered and ungrounded, but&nbsp;meditation is a powerful practice for coming back to peace and clarity.</p>
<p><strong>Log on and practice cultivating clarity with Sensei Whitfield,</strong> and feel the healing energy flow through you during your meditation, from the comfort of your own home!</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2015 13:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Is it hard for you to take compliments because you doubt people's sincerity? Resistant to others offering to help you, thinking&#160;you'll appear weak or that you "should" do it all yourself? Avoiding calling back that great contact&#160;you just met or even that friend you miss, and don't know why? Though we often ask Spirit for [&#8230;]</p>
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<h2><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Is it hard for you to take compliments because you doubt people's sincerity?</em></span></h2>
<h2><em>Resistant to others offering to help you, thinking&nbsp;you'll appear weak or that you "should" do it all yourself?</em></h2>
<h2><em>Avoiding calling back that great contact&nbsp;you just met or even that friend you miss, and don't know why?</em></h2>
<p>Though we often ask Spirit for abundance--not just of money, but also of friendship, love and health, etc.--we can be resistant to&nbsp;receiving what we asked for when the opportunity finally comes our way.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, it's because we're actually afraid of getting what we want. Yikes!</p>
<p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Watch the above video to start learning to receive abundance without fear!<br />
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<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #800080;"><b>"Be careful what you wish for--you just might get it."</b></span></p>
<p>We've all heard that phrase before.</p>
<p>It sums up the inherent fear we all have about receiving abundantly.</p>
<p><b>With that popular phrase, we learn to avoid abundance because we learn that 1) our own judgement is not trustworthy, and 2) life will be harder when we get more of x, y or z. So don't bother.</b></p>
<p>Let's continue to look at this limiting, negative mindset&nbsp;for a bit--the syndrome of "why ask for more?" or "why bother?"</p>
<p>Isn't it just "safer" to live on crumbs of love, ghosts of friendship, and paycheck to paycheck?</p>
<p>Rich people are mean anyway, people who have lots of&nbsp;friends or who claim&nbsp;they are "happily married" are fake, and being healthy is impossible because our genetics and the food and pharmaceutical companies are stacked against us because of a grand conspiracyzzzzzzzzzz...</p>
<p><strong>YIKES! Fear is a slippery slope of sludge and slimey energy. Yum.</strong></p>
<p>Didn't you enjoy that sludge slide? Bet you were ready for more, right? LOL!</p>
<p>We all have patterns in our energy to create excuses to justify not asking for more, dreaming bigger, taking risks and imperfect action, being vulnerable and making mistakes--basically all the good stuff that makes life, well, REAL.</p>
<p>These patterns of thought and belief aren't there because they're reality, they're there for your protection.</p>
<p><strong>Feeling resistant and fearful in the face of growth is just your Ego letting you know your out of bounds; She is trying to protect you from Her enemy: the Unknown.</strong></p>
<p>You can always find Love in fear. You just have to look with intention.</p>
<p>To see the Love in your over-flagellant Ego, Spirit is saying to picture it this way:</p>
<p>Imagine you are driving a top-of-the-line luxury car on a very long road trip. The car has all the bells and whistles, including something called "Lane Assist" -- that new technology that keeps your car from drifting out of the lane on a highway, to prevent collisions.</p>
<p>Now, you've been using Lane Assist with the Cruise Control on a particularly long stretch of highway that you had to go. But the GPS says your exit is up next, so you begin to switch lanes. Since you forgot to shut off the Lane Assist, all the alarms go off saying "warning! you're drifting out of the lane!" because the computer doesn't know why you're turning.</p>
<p><strong>The warning alarm was to protect you, but it no longer applies now.</strong></p>
<p>And the same applies here with your Ego flaring up.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>The Ego sends resistance and fear up to warn you that you're departing from who you WERE, because She isn't "programmed" to notice who you ARE right now or who you are about to BECOME.<br />
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<p>Your Ego is designed to preserve you (as you WERE) and protect you through sending warnings in the form of emotional avoidance and resistance.</p>
<p>Giving in to this resistance and avoidance though reinforces your status quo; if you are happy with that, great! But if not, then we need to allow things to change.</p>
<p><strong>The key is to recognize when you are resisting or avoiding something, especially if it's a good thing.</strong></p>
<p>Your Ego doesn't resist just the new or possible bad stuff, She resists the new or possible good stuff too, because She's defending you against the Unknown because She believes (read: you harbor a limiting belief) that all Unknown is Unsafe.</p>
<h3>Know this: <span style="color: #008080;">Affirmation: I am open to receiving more love, truth and support. It is safe for me to be abundantly happy. #gratitude #success #love<br />
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<p>Notice when you are resisting&nbsp;receiving a new good thing or taking a new good action; once you notice your resistance, you become conscious of your Ego overreacting, and that gives you the ability to choose how you feel and what's your next move.</p>
<p>The more you consciously choose how to feel and what to do, the more abundance you'll receive.</p>
<p>In truth, the Universe is ready and willing to deliver what you want to manifest--more love, friendship, money, health, free time, etc.--but She needs to see that you're conscious enough to <em>choose</em> to receive it.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>The key, however, is to start small: notice resistance to small good things, like compliments, for example.<br />
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<p>If you reject, repel, avoid or refuse to accept compliments, it's two things: 1) your Ego is overprotecting because she's repelling positive feedback, and 2) you're not conscious enough to&nbsp;<em>choose</em> to receive positive energy, even on a small scale.</p>
<p>Source will never send more than you can bear. So if you can't bear to receive positive, abundant energy on a small scale, she won't send it for bigger things--like love, money, cars, etc.</p>
<p><em><strong>Watch this week's video for the Oracle Card of the Week, which shows one fun and easy action you can take to fast-track your ability to receive abundance without fear, now!</strong></em></p>
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<p><strong>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>Start small with receiving abundance.<br />
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<p><strong>When someone pays you a compliment or offers to help you, pause, smile, and simply say "Thank You."<br />
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<p><strong><em>Notice how you feel at that moment - you're already healing!</em></strong></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Do you have a hard time saying "no" to people? Always end up kicking yourself afterward, because you're too quick to say "yes" when others ask you if you can do something for them? Wondering why you have trouble knowing and respecting your own boundaries? Chronic people-pleasing behavior comes from our core human desires for [&#8230;]</p>
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<h2><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Do you have a hard time saying "no" to people?</em></span></h2>
<h2><em>Always end up kicking yourself afterward, because you're too quick to say "yes" when others ask you if you can do something for them?</em></h2>
<h2><em>Wondering why you have trouble knowing and respecting your own boundaries?</em></h2>
<p>Chronic people-pleasing behavior comes from our core human desires for significance and approval.</p>
<p>It's natural to want to feel significant and approved of, but it's a whole other can of wormy worms when you're dependent on others to feel emotionally secure.</p>
<p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Watch the above video to embrace the fact that your yes actually means no sometimes, and what to do about it!<br />
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<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #800080;"><b>"Can you do this for me? -- YEAH SURE!"</b></span></p>
<p>It's like a knee-jerk reaction.</p>
<p>The YES! comes flying out before you can check your schedule, before you have considered your current workload and commitments, and before you can even blink.</p>
<p><strong>And we wonder why we feel so overwhelmed lately...</strong></p>
<p>All of a sudden your workday is jampacked, you're wearing 5 hats in the office, and then when you get home you're putting out fires, going to parties with people you're not really interested in to keep up appearances of being "social" and "normal," the dishes and laundry are piling up, your socks have holes in them and your shoes and underpants are falling apart....</p>
<p>Meanwhile, everyone around you says you're a "good friend," a "good mom" and you "work hard" and that they love you for "always being there."&nbsp;In fact, whenever they hear that someone needs something done, they'll send them to you to do it for them, too!</p>
<p>That's quite beautiful on one hand to be so connected, involved and loved, however sometimes being so over-committed can catch up with you.</p>
<p><strong>Your health and self-care are the first to go. Suddenly you've found that you're exhausted all the time, and you're not sleeping at night because you just can't turn off your mind.</strong></p>
<p>Thoughts are racing through your head late at night when you should be sound asleep&nbsp;about the next thing that you "have to do" or "has to get done" around the house, at the office, or for so-in-so up the street, etc.</p>
<p>To stay organized and create some sense of order, you write up lists on sticky notes and pieces of paper and revel in the juiceyfulness of CROSSING OUT tasks when you finish them. YES!</p>
<p>And sometimes, when no one's looking... you'll even add a few tasks on to your existing lists just so you can cross them out immediately and feel EVEN MORE&nbsp;accomplished...</p>
<p><strong>Is this sounding familiar yet? Maybe I'm the only one. 😉</strong></p>
<p>Believe it or not, being addicted to solving other people's problems is actually a form of controlling and avoidant behavior.</p>
<p>Here's how it goes: if you can crowd your life with other people's issues and opinions, you can</p>
<p>1) "have a hand in" (read: "control") part of their lives, and that will make you feel personally significant--even if that significance is temporary and externally determined or artificial, and</p>
<p>2) you can also avoid confronting and healing your own internal insecurities and deep-seated emotional wounds, because you're too busy dealing with other people's stuff.</p>
<p><strong>Having a Savior Complex therefore is an emotional Get-Out-Of-Jail-FREE Card! YAY!</strong></p>
<p>Now, I'm not saying you should never help people and turn into a selfish, angry hermit crab. No.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>However you should learn to honor YOURSELF and YOUR NEEDS when making a decision to lend a hand or get involved with others' projects.<br />
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<p>You see, you don't have to save everybody who comes across your path.</p>
<p>Read any comic book or watch any movie about superheros, and that's one of the biggest lessons they have to learn too--you can't save everybody. It's about teamwork AND facing your own inner demons in the process, too.</p>
<p><strong>One way you can combat overwhelm or caregiver's fatigue is by studying and practicing using a magickal two-letter word: "No."</strong></p>
<p>You actually already say No now, while you're saying Yes--internally, that is.</p>
<h3>Know this: <span style="color: #008080;">Saying NO to you is saying YES to me. #selfcare #boundaries&nbsp;#love<br />
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<p>Ever had the experience of your boss or a client or someone asking you to do something, and you said "Yes" out loud, but you felt uncomfortable in your body while doing it?</p>
<p>THAT is an example of when your Yes really means NO.</p>
<p>You see, your body never lies. And your emotions express themselves constantly to you through the sensations of your body through what is called your "gut feelings" or "listening to your heart"--notice the bodily organs: heart, gut.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>Where we get lost is when we tune to and value other people's feelings moreso than our own--our own point of view gets lost in the sauce.<br />
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<p>The "sauce" of empathic overwhelm, that is. And that's when our mind-body sponge becomes saturated by other's thoughts and feelings so much that we can't hear our own anymore.</p>
<p>Most people describe empathic overwhelm as "I need to get rid of all this negativity" or "I need clarity" or "I'm just so stressed out, I can't think straight" -- it's all the same.</p>
<p><em><strong>Watch this week's video for the Oracle Card of the Week, which shows us what's the spiritual reason for WHY you're saying "yes" when you really mean "NO!"</strong></em></p>
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<p><strong>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>Notice if you are aware of your needs and how you feel the next time someone asks you to do something today. You are nobody's servant and nobody's slave.<br />
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<p><strong>When someone asks you to do something today (that isn't about a life-threatening situation), buy yourself some time to check in with yourself and say "Let me see. I'll get back to you on that." And set a time later on, after you've tuned in to YOUR schedule, needs and feelings, to update them...<br />
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<p><strong><em>Notice how you feel at that moment - you're already healing!</em></strong></p>
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<h2><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Want to stop being a doormat but don't know where to start? Tell me!</strong></span></h2>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Hearing about Reiki more and more these days, and still left wondering just what is it exactly? Curious if Reiki is right for you or not? Are you a Reiki practitioner that's struggling to describe Reiki to others, changing it every time? Reiki is powerful and deeply meaningful to those who experience it firsthand, and [&#8230;]</p>
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<h2><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Hearing about Reiki more and more these days, and still left wondering just what is it exactly?</em></span></h2>
<h2><em>Curious if Reiki is right for you or not?</em></h2>
<h2><em>Are you a Reiki practitioner that's struggling to describe Reiki to others, changing it every time?<br />
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<p>Reiki is powerful and deeply meaningful to those who experience it firsthand, and most people recommend trying it above having to explain exactly what it is, shying away because they don't have the words to convey it clearly.</p>
<p>However, it's essential to have a clear definition of Reiki, and what it is not, because clarity itself is healing. When we as Reiki channels are unclear in communicating what Reiki is, it affects our ability to maintain the healthy state of flow, balance and centeredness that supports the best health of our clients and students.</p>
<p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Watch the above video to enter the discussion around "what is Reiki?" and to find out exactly how to answer that question with confidence and clarity!<br />
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<h2 align="center"><span style="color: #800080;">OVERVIEW: What is Reiki?</span></h2>
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<div><img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-158 alignleft" src="http://66.147.242.192/~victoti8/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/reiki.png" alt="reiki" width="135" height="300" srcset="https://victoriawhitfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/reiki.png 248w, https://victoriawhitfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/reiki-135x300.png 135w" sizes="(max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px" />Reiki is a system of Japanese techniques for stress reduction and relaxation. It is an internal alternative healing art for the cultivation and management of health and energy, similar to qigong and pranayama. The word "Reiki" in Japanese translates as "universal life-force energy."</div>
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<div>A basic explanation of how Reiki works is this: the Reiki Practitioner's hands heat up and are then placed on or nearby specific areas on the client's body so that the heat--or energy--transfers into the body, thus relaxing it. However, Reiki energy heals and relaxes more than just the physical body. Many people have experienced profound emotional and spiritual healings from this holistic technique.</div>
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<div>Reiki facilitates a person's process of Self expression by relaxing the body, clearing the mind &amp; spirit, and releasing any physical &amp; nonphysical energy blockages. The meditative state observed during a Reiki session encourages self-awareness and peace, thus allowing receivers to self-heal.</div>
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<div>Practicing Reiki is the transfer of universal life-force energy between a channel (the Practitioner) and a receiver. As it is just energy transfer, Reiki requires no belief in any religious system at all; it does not even require that people believe in Reiki for it to work for them.</div>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><span style="color: #800080;">There are million and one ways to describe Reiki </span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><span style="color: #800080;">to someone who's never heard of it.</span></strong></p>
<p>"Reiki is&nbsp;a form of natural energy healing or 'energywork'."</p>
<p>"Reiki is a spiritual healing art; it feels like an emotional and spiritual massage."</p>
<p><strong>"Reiki is 'universal life force energy' that promotes healing in the body."</strong></p>
<p>And still more versions.&nbsp;"Reiki is a form of 'palm&nbsp;healing' through the 'laying on of hands' and it is neither massage, prayer, yoga nor meditation." Or&nbsp;"Reiki is like qigong or pranayama. It's an ancient form of alternative healing rediscovered in Japan by Japanese Buddhist Mikao Usui in 1922 and he taught that zzzzzzzzzzzzz..."</p>
<p>And after you say all that to the person who just asked you a "simple question," the person looks at you like:</p>
<p><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-1425" src="https://victoriawhitfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/wait-what-thumb.jpg" alt="wait-what-thumb" width="450" height="336" srcset="https://victoriawhitfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/wait-what-thumb.jpg 304w, https://victoriawhitfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/wait-what-thumb-300x224.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" /></p>
<p><strong>That awkward moment when they don't know Reiki/energy/newagey jargon...</strong></p>
<p>Yeah. ...LOL!!</p>
<p>I've had the pleasure of this awkward moment quite a bit over the years! I've been asked the "what is Reiki?" question hundreds of times, from people of all walks of life who I meet at the fairs, festivals, seminars, speeches and classes I do.</p>
<p>This awkwardness is tough for both sides: I as the Reiki "Master" am garbled and confused, reaching for words to convey the value and power of Reiki to change someone's life, and the person listening is confused and straining to make sense of something completely new that their intuition is pulling them to faster than they can figure out what the heck it is.</p>
<p><strong>So, to avoid this awkward feeling, most energyworkers--myself included--often choose to&nbsp;avoid a definition, and instead go for a demonstration. But awkward moments are signals for imminent healing.</strong></p>
<p>To my energy people: look, I get it. You don't want to look stupid or unknowledgeable, so to&nbsp;avoid the rough spots and go with the&nbsp;<em>path of least resistance</em>, and&nbsp;either avoid defining what it is you do altogether, or you throw spaghetti on the wall and hope it will stick without regard to the other person because you "know" what you do, right?</p>
<p>Well... when you sidestep taking a good look at this issue, you miss out on gaining clarity for yourself. And clarity is healing.</p>
<p>You see, underneath this question of "what is Reiki?" and our struggle with answering it is this: a&nbsp;Throat Chakra imbalance.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>Allowing awkward conversations shows that you have the courage to clear and balance any Throat Chakra issues you have.<br />
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<p><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-1427" src="https://victoriawhitfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/throatchakraauracacia.jpg" alt="throatchakraauracacia" width="400" height="532" srcset="https://victoriawhitfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/throatchakraauracacia.jpg 236w, https://victoriawhitfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/throatchakraauracacia-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /></p>
<p>Throat Chakra issues include: issues with communication, listening and self-expression. When it's depleted, the symptoms are fear of speaking up and expression oneself for fear of criticism, rejection or "sticking out", and when it's excessive, the symptoms are talking to hear yourself talk but not listening, or talking for fear of silence or fear of unworthiness.</p>
<p>Defining what you do and communicating it clearly is a key step in your soul's evolution as an energyworker and lightworker in this lifetime, whether you do Reiki or something else as your healing modality (entrepreneurship, parenting, art, teaching, etc.).</p>
<p><strong>And when you find your light and shine it clear and bright, you give others permission to do the same.</strong></p>
<p>Consider how on the other side of the fence, it is very healing for the person seeking clarification to witness someone being clear and grounded. This, therefore, is exactly why speaking in and of itself if a form of healing energywork.</p>
<h3>Know this: <span style="color: #008080;">Clarity is the biggest challenge for energyworkers and lightworkers. Accept and rise to it. #reiki #throatchakra #communication<br />
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<p>Remember: you do not have to be perfect, all you have to ever be is Honest.</p>
<p>Now, I notice that this article has ended up being more for the developing energy and lightwork practitioners, but what about the rest of us that don't know what the heck Reiki is? Are you going to tell us yet, Victoria??</p>
<p>Sure. Here goes:</p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>Reiki is a system of techniques for stress reduction and relaxation. It comes from Japan.<br />
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<p>Bam. There you have it! Fifteen words and done.</p>
<p>But what about all the other spiritual, intuitive, juicy stuff that Reiki is? And is it right for me?</p>
<p><em><strong>Watch this week's video for the Oracle Card of the Week, which shows you how to tell if Reiki is right for you and why!</strong></em></p>
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<p><strong>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>Embrace exploring a similar clarity or "existential question" challenge (like "what is Reiki?") in your life, such as defining "what is health" or "what is happiness" for you.<br />
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<p><strong>Grab one sheet of paper and brainstorm an answer for a few lines. Then see if you can whittle it down to a definition that fits on one line or less.<br />
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<p><strong><em>Notice how you feel at that moment - you're already healing!</em></strong></p>
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<p><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>SHARE THIS! You’d be surprised how many people you know right now are in desperate need of healing and could use this information to change their life. If you can read this, you know someone who needs this Love Letter!</strong></span></p>
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<h2><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Want to gain clarity and experience Reiki for yourself? Tell me!</strong></span></h2>
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