The Wikipedia defines procrastination in the following way:

“The act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of low-priority, and thus

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putting off important tasks to a later time.” I wonder how often we label something procrastination and beat ourselves up when it’s something totally different. There are many reasons we as human beings put off doing things and these reasons may not have anything to do with procrastination.

What if what we are putting off is because of a belief or judgment we have about ourselves or the task?

What if what we are putting off is not congruent with who we are an not in alignment but rather something we think we need to do that really is not moving us closer to what we want?

What if what we are delaying is simply in the realm of do do . . . we do live in a society that values doing . . .

What if what we really “should be doing” is Being?

Wikipedia also had this interesting piece about procrastination:

“Schraw, Pinard, Wadkins, and Olafson have proposed three criteria for a behavior to be classified as procrastination:

it must be counterproductive, needless, and delaying.”

When you put your story about how you procrastinate through this filter have you met all three of these requirements? If you have I would ask you to look at each and ask yourself the following:

Who thinks this is counterproductive? Is this a judgment?

Who thinks this is needless? Is it really needless?

What am I delaying by this “procrastination” and why?

What would happen if you looked instead at everything you have done and you patted yourself on the back and said good job? How would your life be different if you stopped beating yourself up for what you think you need to do and started aligning you doing with being?

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One of the signposts of a raise in consciousness is the shift in awareness from being identified with the stories of what’s happened to you; being the victim of others, circumstances, and events, to being the observer of life without taking the events of that life personally.

Eckhart Tolle speaks of this shift in his book A New Earth. He says, “Awakening is a shift in consciousness in which thinking and awareness separate.” He goes on to describe this as a process in which the new state of consciousness gradually flows into and transforms everything we do and becoming fully integrated into our lives.

This shift then moves the process of thought to being a servant of awareness. Tolle defines awareness as “conscious connection with universal intelligence”. Presence is another word that can be used to describe this state, “consciousness without thought”.

I remember about 5 years ago attending a workshop with a fellow who held himself out to be an expert in this area. He enjoyed taking people into a meditative state and during that experience would ask for a show of hands for how many participants reached a state of no thought. He would then say that those who dared show their hands were mistaken because we could not experience a state without thought.

From his viewpoint and level of consciousness this was his truth. That’s true for all of us. Truth is largely governed by our level of consciousness and angle of view. In this example, when this happened I felt less than. I had given my power away to this guy and didn’t realize it. It was more important to me in that moment to be accepted and to agree to his reality. I was measuring my value and my consciousness by an external reference; his approval. Fortunately my reference point is now internal and is not affected by the response or reaction of others to me.

If you think about a particular experience or event in your past, you may see that what it looked like then and how it looks and feels now are a bit different. Sometimes the charge remains and any charge we have, whether it be a judgment about something or someone or a bad feeling from an experience we have had, that charge will forever interfere with our rising vibration and consciousness. Disabling the charge is essential to our personal development and growth.

For each of us raising our vibration and embracing the shift in consciousness from taking things personally to being the observer are both a journey and a choice. We can facilitate or speed up the process by identifying and using Consciousness Shifting™ to eliminate the obstacles to this and the charges from past insults or events, or we can enjoy the journey in slo mo (slow motion). Dr. Joe Vitale say the universe likes speed and so do those of us who have embraced our consciousness shifting process!

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With love and gratitude,
Karen
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