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 value getting as many things done as possible above their feelings and wellbeing.

This can lead to chronic anxiety and stress, as well as cycles of depression and burnout if left unchecked.

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.

"I feel lazy when I take breaks."

This is week three of four in our four-week series on Your Daily PRPs.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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 ...

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.

‪Know this: You can be restful AND productive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Are you going to do some productive rest time?

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!

(Original post 02/19/2018)

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Feeling the urge to get away?

Ready for a change of scenery?

Still putting off that vacation you've been meaning to take?

Here's your periodic reminder -- it's time to go on a Retreat!

You give and give, and it's time to rest and refresh yourself.

Watch this week's 9-minute Love Letter to see if it's time for YOU to "re-treat yourself" ASAP!

"I'm feeling stir crazy lately."

I feel like I can see you through the camera right now. You look tired. No offense, but you look so tired.

Have you been feeling exhausted lately? Something about the energy lately just might have been feeling a bit heavy or sluggish.

Maybe you're just ready for a change of pace. Maybe it's been winter for a while and you're done. Maybe you've been working on this one project and you're just kind of done. Maybe someone's been staying longer than you expected them to. I don't know who I'm speaking to. I'm talking to you.

Something is ready to shift and release out of you.

You're ready for a fresh start, because we're just kind of tired of how things have been going lately.

You feel it. Your body feels sluggish and achy. You're having a hard time coming up with creative ideas, maybe where to go out to eat next, or maybe what is another fun thing to do with your partner. What's a better way to communicate with your team, et cetera, your kids?

Source says, "It's time for you to have your periodic reminder."

The alarm clock is going off. It's time for you to retreat yourself. Retreat yourself. This isn't like turn into a turtle and retreat from everybody. No, not exactly.

You're not retreating into your shell, but instead you're having a change of scenery.

Source says, "It's time for you to refresh the routine, refresh the status quo, and do a little creative shift of your environment by retreating yourself."

Now, what does that look like? What does that look like? Does it mean flying across the country, or picking up and leaving everybody and going across the world?

What matters most is how you feel.

If that inspires you and you're like, "Yeah. I can do that. I have all the systems in place to do it," go for it. Absolutely.

However, if picking up and flying out to London for a week, or picking up and flying out to Morocco for two weeks or something is not exactly something you can just do at the drop of a hat, you can retreat yourself right here by having a staycation. 

It's important for you to be a good steward of your natural energy. Your intuition has been calling out recently.

Your intuition, that inner part of you, your inner child's been saying, "I'm bored. I feel stir crazy. I'm feeling a little bit cooped up lately."

It's time for us to have a change of scenery.

Where will you go? Will you have a wonderful staycation where you make your home and space beautiful for yourself and you have no requirements, no responsibilities for let's say, three, four, seven days?

Is it a local bed and breakfast where you just shack up and enjoy yourself, enjoy not having to have to make the bed, not having to have to cook the breakfast, or enjoy the trees and the squirrels shouting at you through the window, whatever makes you feel joyful and free?

It's time for you to have a change of scenery and retreat yourself. You work so hard. You give so much. You're a natural giver. It's time to receive now.

Speaking of receiving, I'm hearing the oracle cards calling in the energy. The romance angels, yes. This is the love and romance deck. It's not just for partnerships, but it's for love and romance in all of life.

Yes, there are angels that are specifically dedicated to love and romance. Did you know that?

Angels cards, what do we need to know this week about retreating ourselves?

How can we retreat ourselves? Felt that. This is so good.

Healing family issues.

That hit the nail on the head.

Know this: Source says it's time for a change of scenery for you; time to go on a retreat!

"Your love life benefits as you forgive your parents." The angels just took this to a whole other level. "It's important for you to create sacred space for yourself to process some of your emotions," the guides say.

With the angels mentioning this specifically about forgiveness of your parents, periodically we need to go within, go on retreat, and clean up any residual early childhood issues that may be coming up in our current life.

They do. It's cyclical. Life is cyclical. All the time, my students come to me and say, "I already did that workshop. I already read that book. I already did that meditation where I forgave, and I cut the cord, and I let the bird fly out of my chest and all of that because of my parents and my childhood."

Yeah, do it again times daily for the rest of your life. How's that? It never stops. Learning never stops.

I know I'm being blunt, but I'm being honest with you. I don't want to sugar coat this, because it's actually the truth. The learning really does never stop.

It's important for you to create space for healing your family issues, whether it's "I'm just overwhelmed", "I feel like I've lost myself being mom." "I don't even have a name anymore." "I'm just mom this, mom that, mom this." "My husband doesn't even call me by my name anymore. I miss hearing my name."

It's important for you to retreat yourself to come to terms with that thought feeling sensation, to process that, and so that you can then open up and develop new strategies for how you can show up claiming back your identity, and arriving and being part of the family unit.

It's the healing process, but you need space for it.

Send me an email back or comment below. What's coming up for you?

What are you going to heal when you retreat yourself? Where are you going on your retreat? Is it to the beach, or is it to the woods? Is it to the lake, or is to the desert? Where are you going to retreat yourself? Is it going to be in the comfort of your own home? Are you going to couch surf on somebody who you love, who is great at giving you space, or house sitting for them?

Let me know. I'm excited to hear how you retreat yourself this week, ASAP. You got it?

All right, I'm watching you, remember? I'm sending you so much love.

All right, I'll see you next week in the next love letter. Subscribe on YouTube so that you get it first. Ready? Bye.

In Love and Light,

Victoria.

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We are coming to the end of the first month of 2014, and how does that feel? By now, you are probably just barely getting back into the swing of being back to work and out of "vacation mode," even fighting off some feelings of depression and fatigue.

Did You Know?

Healthy vacations operate in 3-week cycles: 1 week to wind down and detach, 1 week to actually vacation and enjoy it, and 1 week to recover and wind back up to get back to work.

So if you are not quite on the ball, or even feeling low and slow, be kind to yourself, and instead notice that you're going through a very natural and temporary recovery cycle.

This inspired my new newsletter series:
Be Kind to Yourself (#BK2YS)

Other News!

• If you don't believe money is spiritual, this one is for YOU. On Feb. 22nd, I'll be teaching for the first time about healthy money energy at my dojo. RSVP now for my Money Mindset Makeover - a financial healing day retreat designed to remove blocks from attracting more money into your life on the physical, mental-emotional and spiritual levels.
• Lastly, I'll be donating my yearly Reiki Level I Group Certification Class at Interweave in Summit at the end of February. To learn more about this and other classes, visit their website at Interweave.org.

Relax. Recharge. ReGroup.

Monday & Thursday 7:00PM Group Meditation

Are you meditating regularly?
Come and practice here at the dojo!
$20 per evening or $80 per month.

Don't forget - you can attend in person or online via Google Hangout.
(Gmail required. RSVP by 6:00pm same day by sending $10 to vnwhitfield@gmail.com on Paypal - CLICK HERE to RSVP).

Upcoming Events & Retreats

Jan. 29      FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Google Hangout Internet Meditation @ 7pm
Feb. 12      Reiki Share at My Dojo in Westfield @ 7pm
Feb. 22      Money Mindset Makeover Retreat at My Dojo in Westfield @ 10 am
Feb. 23      Reiki Level I Group @ Interweave

In Love and Light,

Victoria.

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