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		<title>Love Letters &#124; Evolutionary Visibility &#8211; Part 4 of 4</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Are you uncomfortable receiving compliments? Is it weird for you to ask for *and* to receive help from others? Feeling out of place in your new position at work, like you don't deserve it? Being seen is always uncomfortable; that's why we tend to hide our gifts, rather than share them openly and often. But [&#8230;]</p>
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<h2><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Are you uncomfortable receiving compliments?</em></span></h2>
<h2>Is it weird for you to ask for *and* to receive help from others?</h2>
<h2>Feeling out of place in your new position at work, like you don't deserve it?</h2>
<p>Being seen is always uncomfortable; that's why we tend to hide our gifts, rather than share them openly and often.</p>
<p>But positive discomfort can also be a sign of growth and good changes happening, if you know what to look for.</p>
<p><strong style="color: #008080;"><span style="color: #000000;">Watch this week's 10-minute Love Letter, the final installment in our 4-week exploration of the Power of Positive Community, to harness the healing power of Evolutionary Visibility in your life and business!</span><br />
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<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em>"Sometimes I feel like I don't belong."</em></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This is our fourth and final week of a deep dive into the power of positive community. So if you haven't seen the previous installments, I highly recommend them. Stop, go back, and watch them on YouTube, or on my blog at victoriawhitfield.com. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This week, for our fourth and final installment, where we're going to land the plane of our journey through the power of positive community is what happens when you actually are in positive community, what you can expect. And it is ... Drum roll please, evolutionary visibility. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Evolutionary visibility. It is so powerful, and this phrase came straight from my guides. I've tried to read more on it, and I haven't really heard of it. So you heard it here first. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span class="s1">Evolutionary visibility is the true essence and power of being in positive community. </span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> Last week we covered the lions and the kittens, right? Where's your mindset at? And we covered the concept of the lioness who grew up around cats, so that finally when she was come of age and fully-formed, it was a bit of a surprise and a shock feeling completely out of space. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">What would happen if she finally got around a pride of lions? This is where we're going this week in particular. Are we ready for it? So evolutionary visibility is the experience of others seeing you as your true self, your higher self, and because of that, they hold you to that standard and call that out of you. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">And with all of that support around you, you evolve into your full and highest self. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #000000;"> It takes two parts, however. When we are first the lioness, that grew up around cats and kittens, we have a certain self image of ourself. We are a cat. We are a kitten, yes? And then when we get around lions, there's this fear, a sense of, I don't belong. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Maybe you have experienced this in your business because you've enrolled in group coaching or you joined a networking group or association. Or maybe you moved your business to a more premium area. Or you may have even rebranded at a higher vibration, right? </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">And there's this kind feeling that you have where "I'm a fraud. I'm a fraud. I am not what that says I am. I am not what you say I am. I am not what the branding and those ... I'll never be enough. I'll never be enough." </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>That fraud and not enough-ness, our inner-achiever, comes out with a vengeance, especially when we're growing.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> This is a sign of growing pains, however. And especially if you're feeling discomfort. It's extra important for you to be surrounded by lions who will champion you and celebrate you in your power and say, "Yeah. Bring out those claws. Yeah, let your mane shake out. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="s1">You're brilliant. You're gorgeous. You're fabulous. You're an expert. You're the best of the best." Those type of cheerleaders and champions cause us to evolve. They're like a mirror, a cosmic mirror. All brilliant loving people are cosmic mirrors, and when they stand in front of you, they reflect your greatness back to you.</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> With that, the power of positive community is allowing yourself to be seen in that light. There's an element of vulnerability that comes being seen as brilliant. If you think of the light, like the lamp back there, when you first turn a light on, there's a bit of an adjustment in your eyes, if you're sensitive to light.</span></p>
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<h2 class="p1"><a href="https://ctt.ec/0c9t6">Know this: All brilliant, loving people are Cosmic Mirrors. When they stand in front of you, they reflect your #greatness back to you. Allow yourself to be seen as brilliant by your #positive community.</a></h2>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Or even especially if you've been in the dark for so long. It hurts at first, but then you adjust. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">That pain is the opening of your eyes, the relaxing of your ocular muscles to allow for more light to flood in. The same thing happens to us emotionally and mentally when we open up about our life purpose, or we open up around, this is what I really want to focus on, or this is who I really am. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">There's a vulnerability in that opening. But when you're around positive community, if and when you open vulnerably, it is powerful. And those cosmic mirrors of those loving people will reflect back to you the brilliance that you are. Your mindset may be a couple light years behind you, but if you stick around that positive community long enough, you will adjust and relax into your greatness. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span class="s1"> So this week in particular, the guides are asking you to bring more evolutionary visibility into your life. Being safe and vulnerable and open in your brilliance and in your power, and because others are reflecting that and championing it and celebrating it in you, you can evolve and step fully into it. </span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="s1">I'm hearing the oracle cards calling in the energy. </span></span><span style="font-size: inherit;">It's the fairies. Healing With the Fairies by Doreen Virtue. Okay. And I'm always accepting donations if you have an oracle card deck that you would love to donate to the dojo, go to my "About Me" page. There's a "Give Back" link, and there's all the information that you'd like for donating. Thank you, by the way, in advance.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> Fairies, what do we need to know right now about evolutionary visibility and positive community? Stepping into our greatness and positive community. Don't shuffle anymore, they said. Ooh. New opportunity. This is where we're going to leave off for this week. Really exciting. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">So the fairies are bringing forward a card that says, <em>"You have, within one degree of separation of you ... "</em> Moi, right here. <em>"You are directly connected to the opportunity of stepping into positive community and evolutionary visibility being in that community."</em> Are you aware of that? Be on the lookout. There is a new opportunity coming your way to be part of a next level positive community. A next level space and group of people who see you and celebrate you in your power and in your brilliance. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> I highly recommend that you go and check out my visionary shaman circle at victoriawhitfield.com/jointhetribe. Go there, read through it. That is the next level tribe that we have here at the dojo of lions and lionesses who are championing you in your high vibrational presence. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #000000;">But what's your new opportunity that's coming through? What positive community are you going to commit to join? <a href="https://victoriawhitfield.com/join-goddess-visionary-shaman-circle-membership/">Is it my Visionary Shaman Circle? </a></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Go ahead and send me an email back or comment below what comes up for you around this. Do you want to be held in that brilliant space of evolutionary visibility? Curious to hear it.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> So that's it for this week's Love Letter video, and for our four week deep dive on the power of positive community. Make sure you subscribe on YouTube so that you get these Love Letter videos first every week. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">And remember, if there's any way that I can help you balance your mind, body, and business, just let me know at victoriawhitfield.com/contact. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We'll see you there. Bye.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em>(Original post 04/23/2018)</em></p>
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		<title>Love Letters &#124; Are You Too Nice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2016 12:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Wish you could speak up for yourself in difficult situations? Constantly trying to make everyone else happy while you're drained and exhausted? Worried that if you aren't "nice" enough that people won't accept you as you are? &#160; Being able to resolve conflicts is an important skill in life. However there's a fine line between [&#8230;]</p>
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<h2><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Wish you could speak up for yourself in difficult situations?</em></span></h2>
<h2><em>Constantly trying to make everyone else happy while you're drained and exhausted?</em></h2>
<h2>Worried that if you aren't "nice" enough that people won't accept you as you are?</h2>
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<p>Being able to resolve conflicts is an important skill in life.</p>
<p>However there's a fine line between being helpful and being a people-pleaser -- and we often tend to blur that line.</p>
<p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Watch this week's 6-minute Love Letter video to find out if you're being "too nice" and what you can do about it!</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="color: #800080;"><b>"<em>How can I tell if I'm being 'too nice?'</em>"</b></span></em></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This week, Source wants to ask you:<em> Are you being too nice? </em></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This a rhetorical question by the way!&nbsp;</span><span class="s1">It's more to raise your awareness around the fact that you are being too nice. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">Let's just cut to the chase. </span><span class="s1">Recently, maybe you've been feeling some of the following scenarios:</span></strong></p>
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<li class="p1"><span class="s1">You want to speak up in a certain situation and you just don't because you want to "play nice," &nbsp;"keep the peace" or make sure everyone feels okay. </span></li>
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<li class="p1"><span class="s1">There's something that you want, but because you want someone else, or everyone else, to feel comfortable and have what they want or because you don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, you keep it to yourself or hide it.</span></li>
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<li class="p1"><span class="s1">Or better yet, you don't freely express what you want in general, so when people innocently ask what you want because they want to support you, you've been holding back expressing what you want for so long that you don't even know what you want, and so you just draw a blank.</span></li>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">When someone you care about asks, <em>"What do you want?" or "</em></span><span class="s1"><em>Where do you want to eat tonight?" or "What would you like to do?"</em>&nbsp;for example, you shut down.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span class="s1">Perhaps we were raised or socialized to "politely" shut down like this, or perhaps you just decided at some point to believe that when you're a nice person, you make concessions and let others go ahead and make the decisions, always. </span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">It could be under the guise of having a servant's heart. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">It could be under the guise of being gentle, compassionate, giving, loving, even. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">But here's the thing: what matters most is how you feel.</span></strong></p>
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<h2 class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">Know this: <a href="http://ctt.ec/DT7HV" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">You can tell if you're being too #nice according to how you feel. #motivation #feelings @senseiwhitfield</a></span></strong></h2>
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<p class="p1">How do making concessions and being indecisive feel?</p>
<p class="p1">How does hiding your true wants and desires feel?</p>
<p class="p1">How does holding back like this feel?</p>
<p class="p1"><strong>Source is saying you're hiding your anger.</strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Here's the thing: hiding your true feelings&nbsp;to be "polite" is only hiding from yourself, and that's a sure-fire recipe for anger and resentment.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">When you want to be a good person, that doesn't necessarily mean that your blood should be boiling in the background all the time, putting on a nice front in order to make others feel comfortable and more safe in your presence. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span class="s1">That is inauthentic and moreover a symptom of being ungrounded. </span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">It's about becoming aware of the difference between:</span></p>
<p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong><em><span class="s1">Not knowing what you want because you're hiding it from yourself, and by extension hiding it from others and appearing politely indecisive</span></em></strong></p>
<p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong><em><span class="s1"> versus </span></em></strong></p>
<p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong><em><span class="s1">Knowing what you want and how you feel, and having the communication skills and courage to be truthful and meet others halfway </span></em></strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">They're completely different arenas, completely different emotional experiences.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #800080;"><strong>Especially when we're sensitive, empathic, intuitive beings, we tend to take on others' emotions. And we absorb the energies of environments and that will even more push us to want to be extra nice.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Because if we can only contribute positive energy and only appease (read: people-please) others, then that will create a comfortable exterior environment which then, once that happens, then we can on the interior feel comfortable. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>So, as empaths we're unfortunately used to being defined by our circumstance.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span class="s1">That's a</span>&nbsp;serious problem, because this<span class="s1">&nbsp;complex issue of being "too nice" sets you up for Enabling codependency, disempowerment, self-sabotage and living a very small, confused life. </span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">So Source in the energy, She is simply asking for you to notice if you are being too nice at all this week. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">She wants you to notice if you are losing your point of view and your identity in order to appease others. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>This week in particular -- you clicked on this video blog now, so you need to be vigilant <em>this week in particular.</em></strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I'm not talking about all the time, but Source says something's going on this week where you're going to need to be extra vigilant. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="s1">And I'm hearing the Oracle Cards calling. It's the Indigo Angel Oracle Cards deck.</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Let's ask the angels, "what do we need to know right now about possibly being too nice? Could we be being too nice?"</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong>Archangel Michael.</strong></p>
<p class="p1">Archangel Michael comes forward with his fiery sword.</p>
<p class="p1">If you notice, that's his back on the card. The message is: he's got your back.</p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Sometimes we can be overly nice in people-pleasing as a protection and a coping mechanism.</strong> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Don't sacrifice your personality, your preferences, your desires, to simply fit in or appease others. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span class="s1">Your point of view is worthy. YOU are worthy.</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Send me an email back, comment below, tell me what's coming up for you around if you're being too nice or being curious about it. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">If you want to ask me about a situation, I always respond. Let me know, and I'm happy to mastermind with you through this situation, okay? </span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Until next time, don't be too nice. 😉&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="p1">See you next week. Bye!</p>
<p><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>Stop being "nice" at the expense of your integrity and inner truth.&nbsp;</strong></p>
<div><strong>Boldly ask yourself, "How can I be kind&nbsp;AND&nbsp;lovingly honest right now?"&nbsp;</strong></div>
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<div><strong><em>Notice how you feel at that moment - you're already healing!</em></strong></div>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Wondering exactly how you can create a happy, healthy life, sooner rather than later? Feeling anxious and unsafe, as if you're constantly worried that other people or circumstances are going to steal your joy? Do you know that you need to have stronger boundaries to better protect your positive energy, but don’t know where to [&#8230;]</p>
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<h2><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Wondering exactly how you can create a happy, healthy life, sooner rather than later?</em></span></h2>
<h2><em>Feeling anxious and unsafe, as if you're constantly worried that other people or circumstances are going to steal your joy?</em></h2>
<h2><em>Do you know that you need to have stronger boundaries to better protect your positive energy, but don’t know where to start?</em></h2>
<p><em>When we as spiritual seekers, sensitives and empaths start exploring psychic self-defense, it’s usually because we’ve experienced being overwhelmed or drained energetically, and we want to protect ourselves from that happening again.</em></p>
<p><em>But protecting yourself is very different than shutting down or shutting everyone out; mastering your energy entails more than taking the “all or nothing” approach to spiritual and emotional energy management.</em></p>
<p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Watch the above 11-minute video to learn how balance protecting your energy WHILE staying open!</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="color: #800080;"><b>"<strong>My precious! My PRECIOUSSSS!” – Gollum</strong>"</b></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Hi! Sensei Victoria with you here from victoriawhitfield.com for your weekly love letter. It's my last day in Negril, Jamaica at <a href="http://www.jackiesonthereef.com/">Jackie's on the Reef</a>&nbsp;and this week we are picking up on last week’s discussion of protecting your joy.</p>
<p><strong>It's very powerful to be in your joyful space, but you have to protect your joy.</strong></p>
<p>What does that mean? The first image in the energy that I get from off of the Tribe is,<em> "Well, you know, I'm not going to pay attention anybody else but me!"</em>&nbsp;Whoa there!</p>
<p>We have an impulse to block out others, or to avoid all negative stuff.&nbsp;We go overboard, thinking: <em>"I can't talk to that person, because they're crazy,"</em> or, <em>"I can't go outside, because everyone's going to steal my joy." </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>Let's be clear. Protecting your joy doesn't mean isolating yourself.</strong></span></p>
<p>To do so, as we said last week, the first step is to learn about what exactly is your joy and what it looks and feels like, second is to engage it actively throughout each day, and third is to apply your joy to counteract low-vibe situations and experiences.</p>
<p>Those three steps, Source is saying, are how you protect your joy, just by having an active engaging relationship with her.</p>
<p>You don't have to put her in a box and hide it in the corner, obsessing like Gollum <em>"I'm protecting my joy! My precious, my precious is safe!"</em> No, no, no, no, no.</p>
<p>The way that you protect your joy is by being with her, or being with him – however you gender your joy. (By the way, I prefer using gendered pronouns over the use of “it” because it person-alizes your relationship with each noun. Send me an email at <a href="mailto:SenseiVictoriaWhitfield@gmail.com">SenseiVictoriaWhitfield@gmail.com</a> if you want to know more.)</p>
<p><strong>Now I'm hearing the Oracle cards for this week calling in the energy.</strong></p>
<p>Whenever I travel I always have at least one oracle cards deck with me, and this one is <u>Wisdom of The Hidden Realms</u> by Colette Baron-Reid. It's a wonderful deck, very direct guidance, beautiful illustrations; I highly recommend it. This is a personal deck of mine, so I'm so happy to get to share this with you.</p>
<p>As always, to use oracle cards we first pray over the cards and ask Source, Spirit, and Nature to tell us what do we need to know, knowing that we are open to receiving guidance, and then we shuffle the cards.</p>
<p>I enjoy the fact that I am not the best shuffler ever; it doesn't have to be blackjack style and all that. It's a natural intuitive practice that is meant to be imperfect, and not a performance, lol!</p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>The card that is coming through for this topic is “The Metal King.”</strong></span></p>
<p>This is so appropriate, because he has to do with having and cultivating discipline, armor, and boundaries.&nbsp;Here’s the accompanying reading from the book:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Metal King is strong and arrives to lend you his impenetrable shield of protection.</p></blockquote>
<p>Protect your joy! Well, I wonder why the Energy has drawn out this card? What a "coincidence." 😉 By now, you should know there's no such thing as coincidence!</p>
<p>So let's read more:</p>
<blockquote><p>No matter who sends you criticism or jealousy, you will not be hurt. This ally --</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh, someone in the Energy just stopped me there.&nbsp;Those are another two things that tend to steal our joy: being preoccupied with other people's criticism and other people's jealousy.</p>
<p><strong>Here’s the thing: if someone is critical of you, or jealous of you, that means that they notice you.</strong></p>
<p>Let's just turn that around for a second. It's OK if someone is trying to be critical of you – we're not condoning their criticism if it is harmful – however, we have to notice something in this that could increase your joy.</p>
<p><strong>Criticism and jealousy received means that you are doing something big and noteworthy.</strong></p>
<p>Use this idea as your take-away from the criticism, instead of taking on their crap, and it can cultivate and increase your joy.</p>
<p>Think instead to yourself: <em>"No, that's OK. I see that you see me, I see that you have an opinion. Go ahead over there with that. That has nothing to do with me, but I appreciate the fact that you are validating that I'm doing something big right now, or doing something noteworthy, whereas maybe you're not."</em></p>
<p><strong>Oftentimes people criticize or feel jealous of us because they don't have the drive or the confidence enough to do what you're doing, and it speaks to the insecurity within them and tugs at it.</strong></p>
<p>You're out shining brightly, whereas they're still hiding. Criticism and jealousy says more about the criticizer or the jealous person than you. So laugh, and let it go.</p>
<p>Let me continue the oracle card reading, then:</p>
<blockquote><p>This ally also prompts you to think about setting healthy boundaries. When you do, no matter how uncomfortable that task may be, everyone benefits. He asks you to make sure you know where you end and others begin. Other's emotions are NOT yours.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>By the way, that's a message straight to all of my empaths who are watching and reading right now: <em>Other's emotions are not yours.</em></strong></span></p>
<p>If you’re an empath, you may go out to places or speak to someone and then leave from them and still carry all of the energy and the emotion of that space. Let it go.</p>
<p>When you hold on to and analyze their energy in you, that's a waste of your time and energy, because our focus is on other people's problems that we're taking responsibility for emotionally and mentally.</p>
<p>Find a way to clear yourself, whether it's being outdoors, or taking a shower, or doing a mediation, writing in your journal, whatever your clearing ceremony is. If you need to know more techniques, then maybe email back or comment below, I'm happy to share.</p>
<p>The oracle card reading continues:</p>
<blockquote><p>Other's emotions are not yours, no matter how empathetic you may be.&nbsp;Another of The Metal King's messages is to remind you how important it is to have a healthy sense of self-esteem. It is a good time to shine and be proud of what you have accomplished.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>In the energy, Spirit is asking you to be clear about what self-esteem is for you. </strong></p>
<p>That's a bit of an overused term, I'm hearing, so let's reword that as self-awareness: a loving self-awareness, not a self-consciousness with the negative connotation.</p>
<p>You do want to be conscious, but not shrinking, putting yourself down or hiding yourself with your self-awareness.</p>
<p>Instead, draw your eye inwardly and do what we said last week: write that list out of what makes you joyful and begin interacting actively with that list.</p>
<p><strong>The act of writing that list is going to create clear boundaries organically for you, through self-knowledge.&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>And self-knowledge is always empowering.</p>
<h2><strong>Know this: <span style="color: #008080;">You don't have to shut people out in order to have healthy #boundaries. &nbsp;On the contrary, being who you really are creates clear boundaries!</span></strong></h2>
<p>So many of us sensitive, loving, spiritual individuals have terrible boundary issues. I've been working on mine, so I'm included in this bunch – I am right there with you!</p>
<p>We want to help, we want to fix everybody, or we're so afraid of being overwhelmed by other's energy that we want to avoid everybody to the point where we just scream <em>"I hate people!"</em> and go lock ourselves away for a while, lol! You know?</p>
<p>Hey, I’ve been there, done that, got the t-shirt. But that's not the master path. Instead, that's letting your sensitivity, which is a gift from Spirit, run your life rather than embracing it and becoming more a partner in the experience of that energy.</p>
<p><strong>Rather than being a slave to or a victim of your sensitivity, engage your joy, know your joy, and by doing so, you will protect your joy. And the earth needs ways more joy, way more.</strong></p>
<p>I can feel the trees and the ocean and the coral reef down here at <a href="http://www.jackiesonthereef.com">Jackie’s On The Reef</a> in Negril, Jamaica agreeing, saying: "Send more joy! We're doing our best, but you're joy generators; it's very unique amongst humans.”</p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>So, I'm curious to hear: what's your list of things that make you joyful? What are going to be the things that are non-negotiable that you feel are a daily prescription of things that make you happy?</strong></span></p>
<p>Share them with your TRIBE here, so we can encourage each other. Share it on the Facebook group, <a href="http://www.Facebook.com/SenseiVictoriaWhitfield" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Facebook.com/SenseiVictoriaWhitfield</a>, or you can tweet me at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/SenseiWhitfield" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twitter.com/SenseiWhitfield</a>, and I'm open to hearing what you would like to share.</p>
<p>Sending you a big hug and kiss, and I will see you next week, back in the States. Bye!</p>
<p><em><span style="line-height: 1.5;">&nbsp;</span></em></p>
<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>Re-evaluate how you go about protecting your energy.<br />
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<p><strong>Ask yourself: "Am I just shutting people out and avoiding the energy off and on, or am I creating a consistent sense of emotional and energetic safety, balance and flow for myself?"<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 protect your energy&nbsp;but don't know where to start? Tell me!</strong></span></h2>
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<h2><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Are you ready to give&nbsp;yourself permission to shift your state?</em></span></h2>
<h2><em>So many times as we go about our workday we’re focused on getting task, after task, after task done. </em></h2>
<h2><em>And before you know it, BAM! The sun’s down, everybody’s driving home, and you're left wondering what happened...</em></h2>
<p><em>If you're not careful, you could miss out on an entire season! </em></p>
<p><em>Is staying glued to your computer screen or chained to your desk all day every day really that important? It can and DOES take a toll on your physical and emotional health.</em></p>
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<p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Watch the above 9-minute video to understand how to shift your emotional and energetic state in a quick and easy way!<br />
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<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="color: #800080;"><b>"I'm too busy for that!"</b></span></em></p>
<p><strong>This week the spirit wanted to share with you the idea of giving yourself permission, specifically permission shift your state and to be out in nature.</strong></p>
<p>So many times as we go about our day we’re focused on getting task, after task, after task done that you walk into work and before you know it, bam! The sun’s down, everybody’s driving home.</p>
<p>There’s no time to be outside because you have to go home and cook dinner, you have to get the kids, etc.</p>
<p><strong>This creates a lack of a sense of body awareness, the Energy is saying.</strong></p>
<p>So, it’s only appropriate that energy would want us to tell you that while we are outside. If you can’t get outside yet, please by all means enjoy the wonderful nature energy in this week's video as I talk to you from <a href="http://www.jackiesonthereef.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jackie’s On the Reef in Negril, Jamaica.</a></p>
<p>What the energy is saying, first and foremost about this topic of giving yourself permission to be outside, is it’s time to increase your self-awareness, if only just for now.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>Close your eyes for a moment, take a deep breath in and notice how does your body feel?</strong> </span></p>
<p><em><strong>How are your shoulders sitting? How do your eyes feel? How do your hips feel, your thighs, your knees and ankles, your feet and hands?</strong></em></p>
<p>If you are not self-aware you’re not connected to where your body’s state is at right now, and without that awareness, there’s no way that you’re even going to get to the point of giving yourself permission to change your state.</p>
<p><strong>One of the biggest parts of energy management and emotional clearing is learning to actively change your states.</strong></p>
<p>That means your emotional, physical, mental and spiritual states. And one awesome, fast and easy way that you can do that is by simply going outside.</p>
<p>Now, how long do you need to be outside, I heard someone in the energy just ask? It depends. How much time do you have? You can go out for 5 minutes.</p>
<p>As always, you know I’m big on cell phone timers, so just hit the timer on your cell phone and just be outside for no reason other than being outside.</p>
<p><strong>Earth is alive.</strong></p>
<p><em>Even if you’re in the big city, or wherever you are, earth is still alive. As soon as you go outside the wind is going to speak to you, the trees, flowers, animals, even if it’s just someone walking their dog coming by you, or the birds – pigeons if you’re in New York, lol!</em></p>
<h2>Know this: <span style="color: #008080;">#Nature is a living, breathing consciousness. The more you immerse yourself in her, the more you become like her. </span></h2>
<p>Even if it’s just 5 minutes; this is what the energy’s been putting in my heart to share with you this week.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800080;">The Oracle Card that we pulled for the week, is called the Arrow Master.</span> The Arrow Master is all about focus; focus and hitting your mark.</strong></p>
<p><em>You have to have a mark in the first place, though, if you’re going to hit it.</em></p>
<p>So tune into yourself first, aim to hit the mental mark of “where is my state now?” and if as you tune in you notice it’s uncomfortable, fire! As in, decide to shift it.</p>
<p>It’s okay to do that. It’s okay to give yourself permission – and you do have permission – to hit your mark.</p>
<p><strong>So, what is the mark that you’re looking to hit? What we're really asking is: what’s a goal that you desire to achieve?</strong></p>
<p><em>Is there a certain way that you want to feel throughout your work day, or your workweek, or the month, or is there just a way you want to feel period? I’m talking in terms of not only physical feeling, but also emotionally.</em></p>
<p>Write it down. Get it clear. Don’t just hold it in your head.</p>
<p>Perhaps you observed it in someone else? Maybe a relaxing environment like being on the beach in Negril, Jamaica inspires you, and you think to yourself: “you know what? That’s a mark that I would love to hit. I would love to be in Negril, Jamaica, or I would love to just be outside, even for a few minutes just to ‘be’ and enjoy myself.”</p>
<p>Hold that goal, hold that focus in your mind, remind yourself often.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>Re-mind, as in reintegrate, repopulate, and re-seed yourself, as in planting seeds in your mind; re-mind yourself of what your mark is and it’s sure to happen.</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>How? By the universal Law of Attraction, which states: “that which is like energy is attracted.”</strong></p>
<p>If you vibrate with thoughts like: “you know what? I want to feel better. I want my body to be more peaceful, and I want to know what it’s like to have more freedom in my life,” and you re-mind and reintegrate that over and over, you re-seed yourself, continuously planting those seeds in your mental energy, then it all becomes part of your subconscious.</p>
<p><em>And your subconscious is what is really creating and dictating the events and experiences of your life.</em></p>
<p><strong>Remember be the Arrow Master this week.</strong></p>
<p>If you don’t hit your mark, I just heard that in the energy to tell you to be kind to yourself.</p>
<p>It may come to you in a way that was unexpected, or you may not be taking actions that spirit’s been putting in your gut to do, when spirit’s been saying “this is what’s the next step that needs to happen in order for you to hit your mark.”</p>
<p>I know exactly how that feels. It’s natural to be afraid.</p>
<p>One thing that works for me personally is that every time I’m nervous about taking an action, if I’m thinking, “Oh, I don’t know, that’s going to cost a lot of money,” or, “This is inconvenient,” blah, blah, blah – you know all those excuses that come up.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>First, I notice that all&nbsp;excuses are fearful, and fear-fueled.</strong> </span></p>
<p><strong>And then I shift my state by remembering that fear and excitement are 2 sides of the same coin. </strong></p>
<p>So I go right into that fear, I notice it, and I ask myself, “Well, hmm, how can I be excited about this?” and then we use that energy to move forward.</p>
<p>If this speaks to you, great! Comment below, send me an email back, or a video message response. I’d love to hear how this has inspired you.</p>
<p>If any of the messages we’ve shared inspired you, great, but honestly tell me: can you feel the water energy through the camera right now in the video?</p>
<p>It’s incredible here in Jamaica. I wish you were here. We’ll be back here in 2016, and I look forward to seeing you here. There’s more information coming in the next few months about that, but until then, big hugs and kisses!</p>
<p>I’ll see you next week!</p>
<p><em><span style="line-height: 1.5;">&nbsp;</span></em></p>
<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>Give yourself permission to go outside.<br />
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<p><strong>Set a timer on your cellphone for 5 minutes, turn it on airplane mode and just BE outside for the sake of being outdoors.<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>Create Calm Anywhere. Be The Eye of the Storm. Are you constantly "putting out fires" instead of making progress? Struggling to cope with free floating anxiety and stress? Wish there was a natural way to have a sense of inner peace and calm anywhere? Know this: How do you create inner peace? Be the eye [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Are you constantly "putting out fires" instead of making progress?</em></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Struggling to cope with free floating anxiety and stress?</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Wish there was a natural way to have a sense of inner peace and calm anywhere?</em></strong></p>
<h2>Know this: <span style="color: #008080;">How do you create inner peace? Be the eye of the storm. #H2LYS</span></h2>
<p><strong>Watch this video for a simple, nature-based technique to create a sense of calm anywhere!</strong></p>
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<p>You can shift your energy by taking responsibility for how you feel.</p>
<p>When I asked the Energy this week what do we need to know for our highest good I received an image of a hurricane, accompanied by the message "Be The Eye of The Storm."</p>
<p><strong>When you are feeling stressed out and overwhelmed at work or at home, it is because you have lost your Center.</strong></p>
<p>The eye of a hurricane is very calm, while hundreds of thunderstorms and millions of metric tons of water swirl around it for hundreds of miles.</p>
<p>How does this happen?</p>
<p>The spiritual teaching of the hurricane comes from how it is a vortex of organized chaos.</p>
<p><a href="http://pmm.nasa.gov/education/sites/default/files/article_images/hurricane_diagram_large.en.jpg">Check out this diagram of a hurricane.</a></p>
<p><strong>With organization and focus.</strong></p>
<p>The anatomy of a hurricane is The Eye, The Eye Wall, and then The Thunderstorms.</p>
<p>The Eye of the storm is only peaceful because there is a clearly defined Eye Wall, which is created by <em>descending</em> air in the midst of hundreds of storms of violently <em>ascending or inflamed</em> air - so what does this mean for you?</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Grounding and Centering yourself is the key. </strong></span></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Being in a continuous state of Grounding establishes your calm energy as the Center from which your life grows.</strong></p>
<p>If you are constantly looking for the next fire to put out, or constantly trying to "save" everyone else around you, you lose the calm in the eye of the storm.</p>
<p>In this week's video, I take you through one very simple breathwork technique I developed for creating calm anywhere and being in a continuous state of Grounding --</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #800080;">The Calm Down Breath:</span></strong></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>Inhale Calm</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>Exhale Down</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Do this 5 times.</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>It's that simple, and yet it's quite profound. 🙂</strong></em></p>
<p>It has a profound effect on your energy because when you take charge of how you feel, you create an inner calm that is unshakeable, regardless of what is going on around you.</p>
<p>This is especially important for people who are in the service and support industry, as we need to be calm and clear support for those we serve.</p>
<p>Give it a try and let me know what you think in the Comments Section below!</p>
<h2><strong>In Love and Light,</strong></h2>
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<h2><strong>Victoria</strong>.</h2>
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<h3><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>Just for Today...</strong></span></h3>
<p><strong>Challenge yourself to practice "The Calm Down Breath" when you look at the time throughout the day.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Take seeing repeating numbers in the time as a cue to stop and do this deep breathing technique 5 times.</strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Notice how you feel at that moment - you're already healing!</em></strong></p>
<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: #800080;"><strong>Want to know how you can get started creating more peace and calm in your life?</strong></span></h2>
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