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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Not sure if you're making the right decision? Having a hard time knowing what you want? Annoyed that your goals are not manifesting fast enough? Getting things done is different than getting the right things done, and it all depends on your ability to prioritize. How do you know the difference between what's important and [&#8230;]</p>
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<h2><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Not sure if you're making the right decision?<br />
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<h2><em>Having a hard time knowing what you want?<br />
</em></h2>
<h2><em>Annoyed that your goals are not manifesting fast enough?<br />
</em></h2>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Getting things done is different than getting the right things done, and it all depends on your ability to prioritize.</span></p>
<p>How do you know the difference between what's important and not?</p>
<p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Watch this week's 9-minute Love Letter video to learn how to align first before you do anything else, and why you should!</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="color: #800080;"><b>"What are my values?"</b></span></em></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This week, Source wants you to focus on making sure that you align first. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">Focus on aligning yourself first before you do anything. This can be not only a physical alignment but also an emotional alignment. Mental alignment. As well as a spiritual alignment.</span></strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Now it looks different of course, in different realms, but what matters most is how you feel. Especially when you get ready to take any action of some kind or to make a decision then to take any action of some kind.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>Alignment is actually something that we tend to take after the fact. Or, we'll begin out of alignment and then,&nbsp;"I'm out of alignment, let me try to work my way into it", as we're running, for example.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We will just take off on the treadmill, you know whatever, and then you start to feel the different creaks and achy things in your body and you're like: </span></p>
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<li class="p1"><em><span class="s1">"Let me lean slightly forward"</span></em></li>
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<li class="p1"><em><span class="s1">"Let me make sure that I'm going completely through the run on the full part of my foot"</span></em></li>
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<li class="p1"><em><span class="s1">"Let me swing my arms more." </span></em></li>
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<p><strong><span class="s1">All right, so, there is a sense of course correction. Not that there is anything wrong with course correction, it's just that, I'm hearing very strong from the guys to tell you, it takes more energy if you don't align first.</span></strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">There's always going to be course correction. It's good, we're in the flow, we're making sure that we're being exactly who we need to be in the moment to moment as we experience what we're doing. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>However, it does take a lot of energy. Especially when you start out of alignment.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">If you go to dead lift anything you want to be in alignment first before you pick up that weight because you're body, you will be able to better respond to pulling and the adjustments necessary to lift whatever weight you're dead lifting.</span></p>
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<h2 class="p1"><a href="http://ctt.ec/pOtiI"><strong><span class="s1">Know this:&nbsp;Your energetic alignment affects your productivity. #selfcare</span></strong></a></h2>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>That's physical alignment, what about emotional or mental alignment? This has to do with centering.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Becoming aware, before you begin, in an emotional alignment, what is your core desired feeling? Danielle LaPorte, The Desire Map, by the way, that book and Danielle is superb! Go get, go follow, go work that book if you really need to know: <em>"well, what are my core desire feelings?" </em></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>That is the feminine way of saying what are your values?</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Finding your internal emotional alignment and then making sure that you are emotionally clear on where your home space is before you are proceeding forward.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">In a mental sense, being aligned first, is seeing the vision and knowing what is most important to you. It's being, how do we say, prioritized? Having your priorities straight in a mental construct. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Being clear on who you are and who you are becoming. What you are moving towards is mental alignment. It's important to align first.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This week in particular because Source says you are going to have to make a big decision that is going to stretch you. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>If you aren't aligned to your highest vibrational physical, emotional, and mental selves, all together that's spiritual alignment. If you aren't aligned you may miss out on making the best decision.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">You may run because you get intimidated by the stretching energy. Stretching is just growing and that's perfectly fine. Be kind to yourself if you are stretching right now. It's a sign of growth.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>I'm hearing in the energy the oracle cards coming for the week.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This week it is the Messenger Oracle cards deck to weigh in on aligning first. It's more of a shamanic earth energy deck. One of many that you could play with if you come here to The Dojo.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Guides what do we need to know right now about aligning first? Ooh!&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>Know you belong.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I love the fairy energy, the magical energy of this card in particular. The guides say read number 19. Okay they're telling me pause, before I even read what this card says they're also saying talk about the meteorological significance of the number 19.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">One represents individuality, insight, internal energy, mental energy, singularity and being rooted and clear. Stationary. Nine represents moving through because completion has occurred. All right. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">So there is this sense of identity formation and turning of the karmic wheel. Moving on the the next lesson is what 19 represents. You add them together 1+9 is ten. So it's even more, a zero behind anything, like 10, 20, etc, means amplify whatever comes before it. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>So, one, this is a very strong identity moment where you are stating who you are, rooting who you are, specifically in your decision this week. It's even more paramount.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I don't even need to read, they're yelling at me, <em>"read the card Victoria"</em>, but, with that it's important to align yourself first before you proceed forward because this is going to be a big week for you stepping out authentically in a whole new way.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><em>"Know you belong. You have place. You have purpose. You are special. Do not change who you are just so others might accept you."</em> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span class="s1">This is amazing. </span></strong><span class="s1"><strong>I don't know who this is for.</strong> </span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><em><span class="s1">"Do not dishonor your truths by allowing someone else to tell you who you must be right now. Change made just so you fit the expectations or social criteria of a clique&nbsp;or group does not honor you. You do not need to change in order to belong. You are a blessed child of Guya and great spirit and belong simply because you are."</span></em></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">There's where we'll leave off. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>The guides are saying, you have permission to be just as you are. Accept yourself. Accept her as is.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">You belong by default. The real you, the highest version of yourself. Your highest vibration, your healthiest, your brightest energy belongs. It's allowed. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span class="s1">Yes you are allowed to be yourself and you have to consciously choose that this week in particular. The way that you'll do it, is by aligning first.</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Comment below. Send me an email back. Let me know what's coming up for you around this topic.&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;">You know, is this right on time? I want to hear it. I'm curious.</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 if you're ready for it, get ready! Muah! I'll see you next time! Bye!</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>Journal about what are your top 3 core values or core desired feelings, and distill them down to 3 words. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Before you go to work on your next task, say, visualize and feel those three words, first.</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; Making Massive Change in Record Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Making Massive Change in Record Time Tired of the same old routine? Amazed how certain people can make BIG changes quickly? Wishing you could, too, but don't know where to start? Most people think making big changes entails a long, arduous process. However, the Energy has shifted - in fact, there are specific ways to [&#8230;]</p>
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<h2><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Tired of the same old routine?</em></span></h2>
<h2><em>Amazed how certain people can make BIG changes quickly?</em></h2>
<h2><em>Wishing you could, too, but don't know where to start?<br />
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<p>Most people think making big changes entails a long, arduous process.</p>
<p>However, the Energy has shifted - in fact, there are specific ways to speed up the process that you can implement immediately.</p>
<p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Watch the above video to learn how to make massive change in record time!<br />
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<p style="text-align: right;"><em>More Love and More Money - Video Series on Increasing Authentic Abundance</em></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800080;">Ready! Set! ...Ready!<br />
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<p>When is it going to be GO time, finally?</p>
<p>Perhaps as you're reading this blog post, you've come to that inevitable point in&nbsp;life&nbsp;when the day-to-day routine becomes stale and a big shift is past-due for you.</p>
<p>Business as usual. Status quo. Standard procedure. Same old, same old. ...Ew.</p>
<p><strong>It just doesn't do it for you any more.</strong></p>
<p>More and more you see people losing the weight, rocking in their business, getting married, transforming their relationships, graduating, retiring or taking amazing vacations and you begin to feel even more unsettled with how things are in your life.</p>
<p>Intuitively, you know that you can do it too, but the idea of adding one more thing to your to-do&nbsp;list however sounds just too overwhelming.</p>
<p><strong>So you end up going nowhere instead of just getting started.<br />
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<p>Isn't it funny how once we start to feel ready to change - especially in a BIG way - our minds just pile on more and more thoughts about "oh I have to do this, this, this and then omg that means I have to do this and this and this..." - and so on?</p>
<p>Well, this happens because your mind, body and energy have been long accustomed to reinforcing the routine you have, even if it's stale; so when you get ready to shift, the ego throws you into an overload&nbsp;<em>on purpose</em>.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>Yes, it's just good old-fashioned self-sabotage - but push through it! Why?</strong></span></p>
<p>Because the same old thinking produces the same old results.</p>
<p>Making massive change starts with <b>CLARITY</b>.</p>
<p>Clarity can be quite uncomfortable, but also, it could be just the thing you need. How can you expect to get what you want if you don't make a decision?</p>
<h3>Know this: <span style="color: #008080;">If you want it all, you'll get nothing. Decide! #MLMM<br />
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<p>Creative, sensitive and spiritual types like us become our own worst enemies because we overload ourselves with possibilities. All. The. Time.</p>
<p>However, when it's time to shift, this habit of doing it all and having it all that worked before and impressed others before becomes painfully insufficient.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>Remember: A jack of all trades is a master of none. 🙁<br />
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<p>For example, when using a garden hose, the water comes out gentler on the shower setting because it's scattered, and comes out with force when on the nozzle setting because it's focused. Which setting would you use to quickly clear away caked on gunk from your car's tires?</p>
<p>Massive change in record time doesn't come from being scattered or trying to juggle it all. It comes from deciding to focus with all of your mind, body and energy on doing ONE thing, and that's what breaks through whatever is in your way.</p>
<p><em><strong>Watch this week's video for the Oracle Card of the Week, which introduces the secret to supercharging your ability to shift quickly!</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>Make a decision.<br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong>Write in 8 words or less the one thing that you want to change in your life today.<br />
</strong></p>
<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 get mental, physical and spiritual clarity so you can attract more abundance?</strong></span></h2>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Hello my loves!</p>
<p><strong>It's the holiday season again and you know what that means - FOOD!</strong></p>
<p>So I just want to take a moment and write to you about Thanksgiving; whether or not you celebrate it, the emotionally-charged energy of food and binging is very strong now - it's just plain hard to avoid.</p>
<p><strong>Thanksgiving is never just a little food, it's an explosion of fatty, salty, sugary, heavy comfort foods.</strong> But also, it's a time for family, friends, vacation and relaxation - or on the flipside, it's a time for confrontation and arguments, long lines at the stores, crazy traffic and good ol' fashioned STRESS. 🙂 Sound familiar? Painful, right? Ugh.</p>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>I have to say, this is a strange holiday.</strong> We all force ourselves to sit around a table and gorge past the point of exhaustion, usually on "comfort foods" to feel all warm and cozy - very few of us health nuts will binge on just healthy foods. Either way, there is this sense of a ritual saturnalian "stuffing" that has been attached to the holiday.</p>
<p><strong>My question is this, though: why does being thankful and appreciating all the blessings or wonderful people in our lives have to equate to stuffing our face, our stomachs and our colons dangerously full of food?</strong></p>
<p>Well, I received an unexpected answer from Spirit just now as I'm writing this...</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>It's because we equate food with Love.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And we all need Love, in fact, we <em>crave</em> it.</p>
<p>Especially this time of year. The weather is getting colder, most businesses and schools are in full tilt, pushing for the end of year deadlines, and also, the holidays remind us the most of relationships - loved ones we've lost, draining partnerships, or the pain of loneliness.</p>
<p><strong>But what happened? Why do we equate food with Love?</strong></p>
<p>The Energy is telling me it's for several reasons:</p>
<ul>
<li>The act of eating is sensually pleasing - taste, texture, smell, sound, looks. It appeals to and massages all 5 senses</li>
<li>As children, our parents often rewarded us with ice cream, sweets or some other tasty treat</li>
<li>Because cooking is an Art, we associate certain dishes with our loved ones as their Artwork, so preparing and eating the dish invokes that person's energy</li>
<li>Social conventions of giving food to show one cares - Valentine's Day chocolates, soup for the grieving, etc.</li>
<li>And last, but not least, food is understood to be one of the basic, primal human needs for physiological function and survival</li>
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<p><strong>Ok, that's nice so why do we <em>gorge and binge </em>on food, and how can we break free of this cycle?</strong></p>
<p>Well, this question and others are the exact things that this month's retreat at the dojo will be about:</p>
<h1><span style="color: #008000;">Food Energywork: Enlightened Eating for Empaths</span></h1>
<h2><a href="http://senseivictoriawhitfield.fullslate.com/services/134"><img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-897 alignleft" alt="The-Zen-of-Broccoli" src="https://victoriawhitfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/The-Zen-of-Broccoli.jpg" width="318" height="377" srcset="https://victoriawhitfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/The-Zen-of-Broccoli.jpg 318w, https://victoriawhitfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/The-Zen-of-Broccoli-253x300.jpg 253w" sizes="(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px" /></a><strong>Sunday, November 23rd</strong></h2>
<h2><strong>10:00am - 3:00pm</strong></h2>
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<li>Topics Covered at this Retreat:</li>
<li>Sacred Body Image</li>
<li>The Healing Purpose of Fat</li>
<li>Emotional Un-Stuffing</li>
<li>Empathic Decision-Making Technique</li>
<li>Food Feng Shui</li>
<li>And More!</li>
</ul>
<p>Click on the red button below for a full description and to reserve your spot at the retreat.</p>
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<p>See you there,</p>
<p>Victoria</p>
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<p><strong><em><a href="https://victoriawhitfield.com" target="_blank">Sensei Victoria Whitfield</a> </em></strong><em>is a holistic stress management expert; she teaches emotionally overwhelmed professionals how to continue to serve the people they need to while taking care of themselves, first. A Certified Master-Teacher of Usui-Tibetan Reiki and Holy Fire Karuna Reiki, she regularly teaches Reiki and Meditation classes at her private dojo space in Westfield, NJ. Like her on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/senseivictoriawhitfield" target="_blank">Facebook.com/SenseiVictoriaWhitfield</a> and follow on <a href="http://www.instagram.com/senseiwhitfield" target="_blank">Instagram @senseiwhitfield </a></em></p>
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