As a blogger, writer, internet marketer and online business, I need to create quality writing on a regular basis. What you may not know is that I am frequently visited by writer’s block the size of the iceberg that sank the Titanic. The foot soldier of writer’s block is Procrastination, the fine art of putting the dreaded activity off.

Procrastination can sink your work, internet marketing and online business success.

 

Yet, there’s an important secret value to procrastination you must know.

First, let’s look at procrastination. Procrastination can assume various guises to accomplish its sabotage of your work and online business success.

 
There is the Ever More Research tactic- one that gets me most times. If I’m feeling stuck, I figure I might be able to push off that iceberg with more information. More information naturally seduces with calls for more details and related sidetracks and blind alleys. Before I know it 2 or 3 hours have passed with nary a word on the page. Even more seductive is that I now have more ideas for more writing which may or may not ever see ink. To be fair, occasionally the research tactic does lead to a writer’s block breakthrough.

 
Next, there’s the Things I Have to Do First before I write tactic. This can include anything from a complete re-organization of the office to email reading and replying (a favorite time sink of so many people), a post office run, “just a short phone call”, or reading the fine print on a cereal box. Somehow the morning or day has slipped by and the bow of the Titanic has slipped closer to the sea.

 
The Battle of the Mind usually comes next. All the self defeating mental chatter  of your psychologist’s warnings surfaces and shoots torpedoes towards your day’s plans and best work attempts. No, you can no longer do this, the chatter says (even though you’ve been doing it for years). It’s no good, it won’t work, it won’t sell, on and on.

 
Where did this mind mutiny come from? Wherever, it is one of the most dangerous guises of procrastination. It can sometimes be countered by frequent reminders that this negative self talk is only an evil spell and not real.

 
After such a day- researching, racing through To Do lists that include everything except the writing, battling my own brain- I’m wiped out. So, as I sit at the computer pleading and teasing the writer’s muse to surface, Neptune sends the Sands of Sleep to complete the job. I ride wave upon wave of sleepiness. Never mind that a spin in the garden or a walk along the local beach would rouse me. No, I begin to sink beneath the sea of work. Maybe a marine archaeology team will find me in a hundred years.

 
How, you ask, can there be any value to procrastination? Isn’t it simply a mental sabotage set to sink your goals and derail your online business success?

There is great value to procrastination. This secret is vital to your work and online business success.

Procrastination is a valuable warning sign, somewhat like radar or a tsunami warning system.

 
Procrastination tells us something is wrong here and now.

 
If you want to increase your work and online business success, your job is to find out what that something wrong is.

 
So, rather than fight procrastination as an evil villain, welcome it. Ask it to sit down and have a cup of tea. Let it (and you) relax a few moments. Then, ask it what the problem is.

 
What is the procrastination trying to protect you from?

 
Because that’s what procrastination is. It is a protection device. It is trying to help you. It may take a while, but gently asking a few times will usually begin to get some answers.

 
Move beyond “I don’t like it” and “I don’t want to” to “Why?” What about it? What if I did it or didn’t do it? What does doing it or having done it or not done it make me feel like?  And so on. Let the questions come.

 
Answering these and other questions can lead you to discover what you need to do the task more comfortably (e.g., help, chunk it down, go slowly, make it safer, bargain with yourself with rewards for tasks accomplished etc.). You may find you need to do something else first to get more comfortable doing the task.

 
You may find in some soul searching that this is not the path you want to pursue after all. Something else may be more satisfying.

 
So, listen to yourself and your procrastination. Incorporate what you find. Then, move forward with smoother sailing for your internet marketing, online business success and other work activities.

 
How do you handle procrastination?

Please tell us in the comment section.
 

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Val Lovejoy
Helping you thrive in life, business and health
www.ThriveNaturalHealth.com

Intuition- Our natural guide to right action

 
Intuition can be a valuable guide to help you know what you want, make good choices in your life, improve relationships and have optimal, natural health.

If you are like most people, you sometimes feel you’re living in the dark or a fog of uncertainty. We can become confused about our way, whether from fear of the future or not making the ‘right’ choice or because we have conflicting information or a lack of clear information.

  
What decision to make? What choice to take?

 
We can’t see the future outcome, but we can open to the guidance and messages from our heart and spirit, that still small voice we hear somewhere deep in our mind. We can listen to the messages our body sends us- a tension here, an open feeling there, a shrinking, a pull towards. These are all signs from our intuition, spirit, heart’s desire, subconscious mind. Go for it, wait, don’t do it. If we listen to ourselves, we can gain clarity on our path. We can begin to know the next right action.

 
Is our intuition ever wrong?

 
Yes and No. Our intuitive feelings are never ‘wrong’. They are extremely accurate messages and guidance that are very important to heed. That said, sometimes our intuition is clouded by our past experiences and present desires. Sometimes our intuition is based on partial information and would be different if we had a more complete picture.

 
Sometimes we misinterpret our feelings for intuition because we want something so badly or we are afraid. Sometimes intuition is distorted by our past or by our desire to please, influence or conform to someone else.

 
If you want something badly, are very scared, or feel the influence of others, sit quietly with your self on more than one occasion. Allow your intuition to speak at its own speed and in its own way.

 
Use your intuitive information as one more tool in your toolbox of emotional intelligence. Be humble. 

  
Couple your intuition with ongoing feedback and guidance from your body, mind, spirit and your ever changing environment. Check in with yourself frequently to see if anything has changed.

 
Act. When you act upon your intuition, watch the results like an observer.

Does this action have a right feel? Does it move you forward? Does the universe seem to support that action? Do things start to fall in place? Do interesting coincidences start to happen?

 
If your answers are ‘yes’, congratulations on a great intuition-world match. If your answers are ‘no’, you might want to consider revisiting your intuition for more information. It may also be that you are simply not in the right time or place for a match between your intuition and the world. Another time or place might be more effective or you might want to consider a different approach and set of actions for your situation.

 
You can also give yourself  more energy to take those actions, if you are feeling low energy, tiredness, inertia or blocked.

 
Here is a reiki blessing to help increase your intuition.

  
Actual reiki healing energy is being sent to you right now by a reiki master (Val Lovejoy) in the words of this reiki blessing.

May you be blessed with the light of your wisdom
shining a clear path.

May you be blessed with your heart’s knowing
the next right step.

May you be blessed with the courage to take it.

And so it is.

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How do you experience your intution? How has your intution helped you in your life?

Share with us in the comment section.

Reiki blessings for your best natural health and happiness,
 
Val Lovejoy
Chi Energy and Reiki Master
www.ThriveNaturalHealth.com

Reiki Blessing for Energy and Vitality

Do you sometimes feel fatigued and too tired? Feeling in need of increased energy?

Of course you should see your licensed health care provider, but there is more you can do to help yourself feel your old energy and vitality again. Alternative medicine and natural health methods like reiki can be a powerful support for you health. 
 
Here’s a reiki blessing to encourage your increased energy today and every day. You can feel more energetic, more vital, more able to do what you want to do and feel good doing it.

 
There’s reiki energy embedded in each word. Reiki is an ancient, natural health healing energy and alternative medicine. It can be powerful and is always harmless. The reiki master can send reiki energy over time and distance.

I am sending reiki to support your higher energy level for you now. Enjoy.
 

May you be blessed with the energy
of the hummingbird zipping

May you be blessed with the vitality
Of the wild cat springing

May you be blessed with the flow
Of the evening wind whistling

 
How do you boost your energy? What ways do you use to revive yourself when you are tired?

Tell us in the comment section.

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May you enjoy your increased energy and best natural health,
 
Val Lovejoy
Chi Energy and Reiki Master
www.ThriveNaturalHealth.com

May this reiki blessing light your way.

May you be blessed with
calm serenity
for whatever troubles you will pass.

May you be blessed with
confident security
for your spirit is loved and eternally free.

May you be blessed with
heart lifting hope
for your dreams are in process of realization.

And so it is.

What gives you hope?

Please share with us in the comment section.

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May you have full and beautiful natural health,

Val Lovejoy
Reiki and Energy Master
www.ThriveNaturalHealth.com

Reiki healing energy is contained in the reiki blessing words.

Here is a reiki blessing for joy for you.

Words are healing- this blessing contains the healing energy of joy.

May you be blessed
with the joy
of a playing puppy
pouncing on a red ball.

May you be blessed
with the gleeful chuckle
of the stone tumbling stream
while ferns wave their cheers.

May you be blessed
with the summertime
wild abandon
of children dancing
through laughing drops
of a lawn sprinkler.

And so it is.

Reiki healing energy is contained in the reiki blessing words.

 

 

 

How do you experience joy?

Tell us in the comment section!

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May your days be filled with joy and your very best natural health,
 
Val Lovejoy
Reiki Master
www.ThriveNaturalHealth.com

Have you ever wondered where your inner intuitive voice has gone? 

Usually, that little inner voice of knowing clams up right when we need it most! Why? Often because we’re too scared, confused or worn out to hear it.

Do you ever wish you had a little more strength to get through a difficult time?

At these times we need a boost to our inner strength and a reminder that our inner voice is still within us and still talking to us all along.

Natural health reiki healing energy can bolster your strength and open your intuitive channel.

Here is a reiki healing blessing designed to do just that.

May you be blessed with the solid strength
of ancient mountain mysteries
in new day fog.

May you be blessed with the power
of the spring rushing river and
the wisdom of its whispering pebbles.

May you be blessed with the calm knowing
of the full midnight
moon reflected lake.

And so it is.

Reiki healing energy is contained in the reiki blessing words.

 What brings you strength? How do you experience your intuition?

Leave a comment below – I’d love to hear from you!

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Many reiki blessings and healing energy for your natural health,

Val Lovejoy
Reiki Master
www.thrivenaturalhealth.com

Here is a reiki filled blessing for you. This reiki blessing will open your channel for happiness. Read it whenever you are tired or discouraged or just want the joy of it.

May happiness shower upon you like cherry blossoms in the spring,
 
May happiness grow beneath you like fresh green grass,
 
May happiness fill you like fir scented mountain air.
 

And so it is.

Reiki healing energy is contained in the reiki blessing words.

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What brings you happiness?

Please leave a comment below and share with us.

  
 May you be filled with joy and natural health,
 
Val Lovejoy
Reiki Master
www.thrivenaturalhealth.com

Here is a reiki blessing for you to increase your abundance and prosperity.

May you be blessed with abundance as bountiful as the miles of rich ripe grain rippling in the wind.

May you be blessed with prosperity filling your life like rain. The tiny drops tap-tap on parched soil and turn into chuckling streams, fast flowing rivers, full lakes to slake your thirst.

And so it is.

Many abundance prosperity reiki blessings to you,
Val Lovejoy
Reiki Master
www.thrivenaturalhealth.com 

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Reiki healing energy is contained in the reiki blessing words.

May you be blessed with
light to find your way
along the dark and scary paths,
light  to lift the spirit and heal all wounds,
light to shine your precious spirit forth.

Many reiki blessings,
Val Lovejoy
Reiki Master
www.thrivenaturalhealth.com

Note: this reiki blessing gift is sent with actual reiki healing energy in the blessing words themselves. Please read and enjoy in good health and pass along to anyone you think might benefit from it.

May you be blessed

with the joyful spring

growth of the daffodil,

the energy of the ruby

throated hummingbird,

and the home

of a robin’s new nest.

Many reiki blessings to you,

Val Lovejoy
Reiki Master
www.thrivenaturalhealth.com

Note: this reiki blessing gift is sent with actual reiki healing energy in the blessing words themselves.

Please read and enjoy in good health and pass along to anyone you think might benefit from it.