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		<title>I’ve Been Featured in Law of Attraction Magazine!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelley Hawkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an evolutionary entrepreneur or professional, you know that growing yourself—the inner landscape of your business—influences your business decisions. The alignment you develop within yourself influences the way you relate to clients, staff, money, and the whole of your business. Would you like to have a connection with the outer and inner focus of what [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:none;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fblike' data-shr_layout='button_count' data-shr_showfaces='false' data-shr_href='http://www.theselfconnection.com/ive-been-featured-in-law-of-attraction-magazine/' data-shr_title='I%E2%80%99ve+Been+Featured+in+Law+of+Attraction+Magazine%21'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><img src="http://www.theselfconnection.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/loa_soulatwork200.png" alt="loa_soulatwork200" width="200" height="267" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1764" />As an evolutionary entrepreneur or professional, you know that growing yourself—the inner landscape of your business—influences your business decisions. The alignment you develop within yourself influences the way you relate to clients, staff, money, and the whole of your business. </p>
<p>Would you like to have a connection with the outer and inner focus of what you’re here for that moves with you&#8211;even if you changed businesses tomorrow? Would you like to connect with an organic alignment, unique to you and deeper than your mission or purpose, as a plumb line for all your decisions that flourishes you and the outer elements of your business? </p>
<p>My recently published article, <strong>“Your Soul at Work”</strong>, <em>in the Law of Attraction Magazine</em>, touches on some of the work I do with clients in discovering what they are really in the business of and their soul’s unique impulse for having them in business. You’ll find the magazine at Barnes &#038; Noble, Target, Costco, Walmart and more.</p>
<p><strong>‘Your Soul at Work: Once you discover and live from your soul’s unique impulse, your work&#8211;and all areas of your life—will become more connected, directed, meaningful, synergistic and fulfilling.’</strong> By Shelley Hawkins, MS</p>
<p>Have you ever felt inner resistance standing between you and your desire, your business, a next step, a relationship, or your mission? Of course you have. You’re human&#8230;(to read more, find the magazine at your local outlet).</p>
<p><strong>In addition:</strong><br />
March 8-9 you can learn live and go through the process of discovering Your Soul in Business—the outer and inner elements—plus additional aspects of your relationship with money, and your inner landscape of belief, stories and patterns that are supporting or obstructing the flourishing of you and your business. </p>
<p>There are only 15 spots at an amazing price that may not be available again. To learn more or register visit: <a href="http://www.theselfconnection.com/speaking">http://www.theselfconnection.com/speaking</a>.</p>
<p>To coach privately with Shelley, Find out more here! <a href="http://www.theselfconnection.com/coaching-2/">http://www.theselfconnection.com/coaching-2/</a></p>
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		<title>What to Do with What Your Business is Reflecting Back to You</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelley Hawkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filters, barriers, obstacles, walls, problems. Whatever you call them, they are the lenses we look through for what has materialized and what has yet to materialize in our lives. I recently spoke with a business owner who is frustrated that her staff is people, which for the most part, don’t even consider that their lives [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:none;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fblike' data-shr_layout='button_count' data-shr_showfaces='false' data-shr_href='http://www.theselfconnection.com/what-to-do-with-what-is-looking-back-at-you/' data-shr_title='What+to+Do+with+What+Your+Business+is+Reflecting+Back+to+You'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><strong>Filters, barriers, obstacles, walls, problems.</strong> Whatever you call them, they are the lenses we look through for what has materialized and what has yet to materialize in our lives.</p>
<p>I recently spoke with a business owner who is frustrated that her staff is people, which for the most part, don’t even consider that their lives could be different, what their potential is as individuals, or how who they become contributes to the lives of the people they serve through the company. </p>
<p><strong>How does she translate her vision to people who walk through their lives without the curiosity to ask of life</strong>, what if “this” was possible? How could I&#8230;? What if I could change&#8230;? I want to create&#8230; What if I’m capable of&#8230;? How would that contribute to&#8230;?</p>
<p><strong>This same scenario could be overlayed to relationships or other areas of our lives.</strong> Either way, the pattern &ndash; and the solution &ndash; are the same.</p>
<p><strong>Inner barriers, filters, obstacles.</strong> The world reflects back how we are being, giving us the opportunity to close the gap between what we&#8217;re experiencing and what we want to experience, if we wish. </p>
<p><strong>The business owner wants to see her staff flourish in their potential</strong> and her company and the clients they serve flourish as well. What she opens in herself, will open that door.</p>
<p><strong>To close the gap between you and your vision is the heart of your evolution.</strong> The inner barrier is the problem AND the solution wrapped together. To liberate the energy it holds within you is to open yourself to a bigger version of you that will evolve you&#8230;and your business, and your relationships, and&#8230;you name it.</p>
<p>One of my clients had visions for her business for 20 years that she had not been able to materialize. When we transformed the energy of the filters and obstacles she was looking through, her business changed. The pieces of her vision started falling into place easily. <strong>Now she lives in that vision and her next frontier is formulating.</strong></p>
<p>Changing the filters another client had been creating from meant she was able to quit her second job to make room in her life for the love and life partnership she manifested.</p>
<p><strong>Liberating the energy of the filters you are looking through is to literally transform the neural connections</strong> that keep you creating in the same groove day after day.</p>
<p>When you use what is looking back at you from the outside world as a catalyst of for changing the filters within that you’ve been looking through, the world, your business, the relationship field you operate in will reflect back to you accordingly. <strong>It is the quantum of creation.</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It takes as little as one percent of a population to create positive change, and I believe that if 100 million people underwent a personal transformation in the direction of peace, harmony, laughter, love, kindness, and joy, the world would be transformed.&#8221;<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<cite>~Deepak Chopra</cite></p></blockquote>
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		<title>How Intention Changes You—And Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelley Hawkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What was said to the rose to make it open, was said to me, here in my chest.&#8221; ~Rumi I wonder what it would feel like to be eye to eye with a wishie? You know, the puff ball left behind when a dandelion goes to seed? There is a tradition of blowing these seeds [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:none;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fblike' data-shr_layout='button_count' data-shr_showfaces='false' data-shr_href='http://www.theselfconnection.com/how-intention-changes-you-and-your-business/' data-shr_title='How+Intention+Changes+You%E2%80%94And+Your+Business'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><blockquote><p>&#8220;What was said to the rose to make it open, was said to me, here in my chest.&#8221;<br />
<cite>~Rumi</cite></p></blockquote>
<p class="normaltext"><strong>I wonder what it would feel like to be eye to eye with a wishie?</strong> You know, the puff ball left behind when a dandelion goes to seed? There is a tradition of blowing these seeds into the wind with a silent wish, whoooo. Hence, the technical term &#8220;wishie.&#8221;</p>
<p class="normaltext">I watched with curiosity one morning while a quail stood eye to eye with one of these perfect orbs. Pecking it for food, he took what he wanted sending the rest of the seedlings into the air, no doubt to my neighbor&#8217;s consternation. <strong>At this level would I feel small? Or would my world seem even more expansive?</strong></p>
<p class="normaltext"><strong>Last week a client was celebrating the power of intention and energy transformation.</strong> One moment she called her Love to celebrate what had just happened in our coaching call and the immense freedom she felt.</p>
<p class="normaltext">Literally 45 minutes later she called him back to say she was fired from her job—and still celebrating.</p>
<p class="normaltext"><strong>Why?</strong> She saw the direct correlation between getting fired, what she had just unleashed in herself in our call, and the intentions she designed for her new work—a perfect manifestation with more to come. <em>When we design our intentions, we really have no idea how they will be created or the infinite combination of details that will come together.</em></p>
<p class="normaltext"><strong>Like the quail, we can stand eye to eye with what we know without any idea of where the seeds of our intentions may land.</strong> What we do know is that when we truly set ourselves free internally, energetically, our intentions will manifest in ways beyond our visions, to move us out of who we thought ourselves to be into our next greatest version—soul potential.</p>
<p class="normaltext"><strong>Another client asked, so what is the percentage of responsibility I have with Infinite Intelligence, this quantum field, in manifesting my intentions?</strong> Is it 50/50, 60/40, what? It is more like 90/10 or even 99/1, while really being 100/100. We give our all, yet it is cradled in the <strong>most powerful act of all, surrender, detachment</strong>. What we &#8220;do&#8221; is such an infinitesimally small percentage of what takes place to materialize a dream.</p>
<p class="normaltext"><strong>Intention is more than a goal.</strong> In its best form, it is taking responsibility for your life at such a deep level to be on the leading edge of co-creativity with this cosmos of energy. By aligning yourself with it in all things energy—thought, feeling, freeing yourself of past conditioning or other inner obstacles, you breathe life into new form.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;What propels us forward is the amplitude of our intentions being stronger than the reality of the physical world&#8230;<br />
<cite>(<a href="http://www.drjoedispenza.com" target="_blank">~ Dr. Joe Dispenza</a>)<a href="http://www.drjoedispenza.com" target="_blank"></a></cite></p></blockquote>
<p class="normaltext">&#8230;we are currently immersed in—from the way we see ourselves to the environment we live in each day. <strong>If we want change, we must organize ourselves around our intentions</strong> so our world can rearrange itself within and around us.</p>
<p class="normaltext">Applied to your business, your profession, your intimate and professional relationships, and everyday happenings, what do you feel compelled to change? What do you want to manifest? What is holding you back? <strong>You are standing eye to eye with the wishie.</strong> What are you sending out with your intentions?</p>
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		<title>How Do I Live From My Heart?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelley Hawkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My coach challenged me, “what are you in the business of?” It couldn’t be the 30 second speech, or a diplomatic, textbook, or perfectly crafted, professional answer. It had to come straight from the heart, sending waves of energy through both of us when I said it. I let it sit. For a few weeks [...]]]></description>
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<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1402" title="quantum_heart" src="http://www.theselfconnection.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/quantum_heart.png" alt="Quantum Living" width="301" height="261" />My coach challenged me, <strong>“what are you in the business of?”</strong> It couldn’t be the 30 second speech, or a diplomatic, textbook, or perfectly crafted, professional answer. It had to come straight from the heart, sending waves of energy through both of us when I said it.</p>
<p>I let it sit. For a few weeks actually. Completely ignored it. Then it arrived like flashes of insight do when you run for pen and paper from wherever you are. <strong>“I am in the business of liberating the human spirit into quantum creations.”</strong> It’s what I’m here for.</p>
<p><strong>At 5,000 times the magnetic field of the brain, living from the heart is hardly cliché or a “soft” idea.</strong> The heart’s extensive neuronal system is sophisticated enough to be called a “heart brain,” a brain of its own with the ability to decide and perceive independent of the central nervous system.</p>
<p>When I came from my head, the answers to what I’m in the business of were as flat as a poorly timed punch line—anti-climactic, cerebral and dull. Literally, I tried different answers on my colleagues and I got blank stares. Scratch that one. <strong>From my heart, the answer had visceral impact and meaning, like the surprise of your favorite person walking into the room.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The complex, self-organized system of the heart maintains a continuous two-way dialogue with the brain and the rest of the body.</strong> When you put your focus on developing the coherence you have here, you are training your brain according to your heart. And here, you <em>amplify your ability to change your reality, shift the fulcrum point of your life, and experience quantum creations.</em></p>
<p>To liberate the human spirit is to free it from previous conditioning, emotional memory and identities we carry to create the energetic space for new realities; then to rapidly form new neural networks for living in that reality, bringing it into physical existence.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1394" title="love_gratitude" src="http://www.theselfconnection.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/love_gratitude.png" alt="How do I live from heart?" width="300" height="271" /><strong>“How do I live from my heart?”</strong> someone asked? “I’ve chased the money, the accomplishment, the relationships, and I know what is important to me now. I’ve worked hard to change my relationship with my dad (or fill in the difficult relationship).</p>
<p>Yet I’ve still been living in a protected state that cuts me off from the fulfillment, the connection, the passion for life that I deeply desire, and the impact I know I can have. <strong>How do I live from my heart, from the core of who I am? How can I wake up that passion, to feel connected with others and myself, and love my life?</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Living from the heart is more than a positive state of mind. It is a deep integrity of being; a state of coherence you develop between your body and mind by unlearning identities you took on unconsciously.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>When the head leads your life, you are making decisions based on what you see, what you “know,”</strong> the physical world, pros and cons, logic, what you might lose or gain, and the addictions you live by—the protected states you’ve memorized, people, substances, emotions and ways of thinking.</p>
<p>95% of the mind is analytical, logic, reasoning, subconscious, habit, and ego. Its job is to protect, to remind you of &#8220;what happened when.&#8221; It is not designed to help you create change, to create new realities, to create a business or relationships aligned with your soul.</p>
<p>Here heart withers; and we wonder what happened to our passion? It exists behind the off-switch of our unconscious feelings. Deciding to live from the heart is the courage to turn the feeling back on and intentionally engage and lead your life—from the heart not the head.</p>
<p><strong>When the heart leads, you are tapping into a magnetic field 5,000 times larger and 60 times the amplitude of the brain.</strong> You are tapping into a &#8220;heart brain&#8221; capable of perception beyond what the brain &#8220;knows&#8221; or has memorized. From the heart, you are making the unseen primary regardless of how the physical world may appear. You are moving from a focus on solving problems to actually creating a new reality and infinite possibility.</p>
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		<title>It is Now Safe To Be Happy-er</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What comes to mind when you think of happiness? What level do you experience right now? Does it pervade your life? How deep does it go? Is it easily disturbed? What makes you unhappy? Or where d you limit its presence in your life? No matter how self-aware you are, ironically increasing levels of happiness [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:none;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fblike' data-shr_layout='button_count' data-shr_showfaces='false' data-shr_href='http://www.theselfconnection.com/it-is-now-safe-to-be-happy-er/' data-shr_title='It+is+Now+Safe+To+Be+Happy-er'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><strong>What comes to mind when you think of happiness?</strong> What level do you experience right now? Does it pervade your life? How deep does it go? Is it easily disturbed? What makes you unhappy? Or where d you limit its presence in your life? No matter how self-aware you are, ironically increasing levels of happiness can feel like a threat to the security of familiarity, perceived control, how much you are willing to receive,, and old ways of growing, struggling and making decisions.</p>
<p><strong>If we’re honest, happiness scares us.</strong> Not the basic happiness that rolls off the tongue without thinking, but the happiness we intentionally engage that keeps growing, going deeper and higher beyond our imagination with intentional and evolutionary choices, and quantum internal transformation. We can see ourselves in the life we desire to create, yet something keeps us in the realm of fantasy until we create the internal bridges to letting it get “that good.”</p>
<p>When we consistently say “yes” to our own thriving, it changes the criteria we live and decide our life by. <strong>Just imagine how it would change your relationships with your employees, your kids, with money, the new friends you desire, your health, and your business, if you were dedicated to your own thriving—regardless of the level of happiness you experience now.</strong> Are you willing to open yourself to more? This is your evolution.</p>
<p><strong>No matter how self-aware we become, we can find ourselves reluctant to experience more happiness.</strong> It feels further to “fall,” as my clients have put it. We wonder if it can really be this good, or if we deserve it as we explore our next potential. We watch for the catch, wonder what we must release of ourselves this time, look for the control button, and wonder if we can trust ourselves with that much goodness. Are you smiling with familiarity at this point?</p>
<p><strong>It is easy to say, “you must choose to be happy.” And though it’s basically true, the choice is more than a positive outlook.</strong> It will change your life deeply and completely—if you really mean it. Deep and authentic happiness is a coherence we cultivate between our thought, feeling and actions—past, present and future&#8211;transforming energetic patterns that hold us in disconnection to patterns that connect us with ourselves and the force of Life.</p>
<p><strong>Most of us have heard and internalized ideas like not getting too excited because we might be disappointed,</strong> or being careful not to stick our necks out, get our hopes up, expect “too much”; or fear of being undercut somehow as if happiness sets us up for a great fall, or to maintain a somberness to prevent ourselves from relearning painful lessons from our personal histories. </p>
<p><strong>Authentic happiness, however, is grounding.</strong> It is trusting ourselves with the power of our own lives. It is having your feet rooted and planted firmly on the earth with heaven in every cell. It is claiming your full power as a conscious human being to intend, create and be in command of your life while living in the detachment that all is well.</p>
<p><strong>Happiness is an essential quality for unfolding your destiny.</strong> To cultivate it is to walk yourself out of old identities and ways of being and into new identities, higher potentials and ways of being yourself that are likely to be out of your current imagination. If you are stuck, on a plateau, or in a swirl of turmoil that has you mystified, you are pressing up against an old identity. Our visions set potentials, possibilities and new probabilities in motion and they are always—always—more than we could imagine them to be.</p>
<p>Lastly, <strong>happiness is unpredictable, part of living in your soul potential.</strong> From “this” side of happiness or a sticking point in life, the outcome of your transformation looks like it will go one way—often a black or white idea. But that is looking through the filter of your current identity, your current perspective, and the choices you are currently making that will give you more of what you have. </p>
<p><strong>Your lenses will continue to clear and change as you dare to energetically dissolve the filters back into the quantum field opening to your next potential and version of yourself.</strong> This kind of happiness fills your choices with a new kind of wisdom, plugging your security into the unseen and taking you beyond the predictable path of your current choices. It is now safe to be happy-er.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelley Hawkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The soul of all existence is to grow and thrive. If our definition of what we need is hanging out at neutral, or even at a basic functioning or survival level, while our creative impulse or hunger for life is to thrive, we’ll experience a constant conflict with ourselves. If we start the question of [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:none;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fblike' data-shr_layout='button_count' data-shr_showfaces='false' data-shr_href='http://www.theselfconnection.com/your-needs-wants-are-vital-to-your-potential/' data-shr_title='Your+Needs+%26+Wants+are+Vital+to+Your+Potential'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><h2>The soul of all existence is to grow and thrive.</h2>
<p>If our definition of what we need is hanging out at neutral, or even at a basic functioning or survival level, while our creative impulse or hunger for life is to thrive, we’ll experience a constant conflict with ourselves.</p>
<p><strong>If we start the question of what we need on whether it is necessary in our lives, we will come to one level of answer, that will most likely be a lateral improvement.</strong> If we start with a vision of what we want to create, experience and be in our lives, and look at need in that framework, we will come to a very different answer. </p>
<p>From there our needs are driven by an internal impulse toward our potential. It helps us to see the world as not so much divided between the material and unseen, but from a vibrational perspective the way our soul sees it. </p>
<p><strong>Every invention required someone to want or need a different, more effective way of getting something done, and experiencing life.</strong> The discovery of new worlds, whether a next door neighbor or across oceans, required the desire for exploration, something outside what is necessary to function.</p>
<p><strong>We are inherently creative.</strong> What happens when that is shut down in the name of not being necessary? Individual taste aside, we could live without the music of Bach or Bonnie Raitt, but would we want to? In their purest form, wants and needs come from an internal impulse to create, to be ourselves, to belong, and to contribute with meaning.</p>
<p><strong>Our deepest needs and desires must be fulfilled to become fully ourselves.</strong> A glass half full cannot overflow into other glasses. So our relationship to and our responsibility with our needs and desires is essential to the experience of our soul potential—potential drawn from who you are and who you become. </p>
<p>Our needs and wants are directly related to the vastness we perceive internally and externally. <strong>By learning to relate to goodness as infinite, we learn to dwell there and create more of it.</strong> It builds self-trust with our needs and wants and that they will not lead to a fest of narcissism, but the expansion of ourselves and the good we contribute to the world through who we are and what we do.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 15:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with concepts like self-love is they become interwoven into our common vernacular before their meaning is fully absorbed. Something so vital as loving yourself has become almost cliché-ish. We can talk a good game of self-love before we have realized it in our lives. Yet is central to everything else we become. The [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:none;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fblike' data-shr_layout='button_count' data-shr_showfaces='false' data-shr_href='http://www.theselfconnection.com/love-yourself-into-your-next-evolution/' data-shr_title='Love+Yourself+into+Your+Next+Evolution'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><img src="http://www.theselfconnection.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/withlove2.png" alt="I love myself project" title="withlove2" width="264" height="233" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1313" /><strong>The problem with concepts like self-love is they become interwoven into our common vernacular before their meaning is fully absorbed.</strong> Something so vital as loving yourself has become almost cliché-ish. We can talk a good game of self-love before we have realized it in our lives. Yet is central to everything else we become. The conversation is ripe for an evolution of where we go with it next.</p>
<h2>Loving yourself is moving into a new era&#8230;</h2>
<p>Grown up from its psychological and personal development beginnings in the mid twentieth century. We’re demanding a deeper meaning, <strong>a deeper “why,”</strong> a deeper self-care, even if we haven’t acknowledged it to ourselves. <strong>We want to know more about what loving ourselves will really do for our lives, our businesses, our relationships, our impact; to evolve it beyond its simplistic roots</strong>, the adrenaline rush of determined personal development, or the other-world-ness of the meditation corner. </p>
<p>Even the online thesaurus still references self-love with egotism, narcissism, arrogance, and over developed pride. <strong>There is a vortex of sorts still dissolving with false associations to loving the self, as if we cannot trust ourselves with it.</strong> Dare we cross the line into more?! </p>
<p><strong>The good news is states of true arrogance or narcissism are merely another form of self-loathing, or feelings of inadequacy, not self-adoration.</strong> We hold them to protect ourselves from being seen, trying to hold up a self we think the world is looking for. </p>
<p><strong>There’s more good news.</strong> The fruits of <strong>true self-love generate states of peace, depth, prosperity, vision, stability, generosity, joy, courage, bliss, and creativity.</strong> Is there really a limit to such qualities, or such a thing as too much? </p>
<p>Logically, we talk about loving yourself  “first” in order to love others and cultivate more love in the world. I imagine a staircase with two choices, up or down, and a third non-choice of static ambivalence. <strong>But does love really grow in only a linear, polar opposite direction for self or anything else—either on or off? </strong></p>
<p>I imagine deep self-love is sparked in a spiral movement gathering momentum, tools, and focus along the way and drawing into the spiral of our lives according to how we relate to ourselves. <strong>Here the deep value of self-love reveals itself spilling over into what we bring to the lives of others. </strong></p>
<blockquote><p>“What is it we are questing for?”,<br />
<cite>asks Joseph Campbell in Pathways to Bliss.</cite></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>“It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There is nothing you can do that&#8217;s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, become a realization of your own personal myth.”</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>To love yourself to greater and greater depth is really to end the battle with ego</strong>, integrating that part of you in such a way that you see through the eyes of soul without fear of “too much self-love.” As a reader of this article, you are likely part of a small percentage of humanity that can pioneer this new paradigm of loving ourselves into an awareness that we unfold as our own destiny. To do this, <strong>loving ourselves is essential.</strong></p>
<p>Why then is loving yourself so important to unfolding your destiny, to a truly fulfilling life, relationships, and business? Here are five impacts of increasing and integrating a new paradigm of Self Love for yourself:</p>
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<li><strong>Changes how you see your place in the world.</strong> If you have been struggling to bring your gifts forward, to be visible, to make an impact, the many facets of self-love transformed and developed within you will end this battle and make it into the destiny you now live and unfold.</li>
<li><strong>Increases your ability to listen and act on your intuition</strong>, to live from soul. When you are building your business, your relationships, and your life intentionally, learning to relate to your intuition is essential. Self-love, esteem and regard determine your willingness to act on it. Self-trust is the core of a soul-centered (and therefore streamlined) life.</li>
<li><strong>Open your relationships to vulnerability.</strong> Self-love that penetrates to the depths of who you are and then expands into a world through your unique perspective moves on the channels of vulnerability. Dissolving what internally holds your authentic self hostages the masks, the fears, the not-enoughness, this opens you to a new relationship with vulnerability. To learn more, watch <a href="http://www.theselfconnection.com/the-power-of-vulnerability/">Brene Brown’s You Tube videos on vulnerability</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Connects you with all of Life</strong>, Life Force, self, others, nature, meaning. Self-love connects you with deep belonging to all of Life so you can realize your meaning beyond the superficial ups and downs of daily living.</li>
<li><strong>Energizes you</strong> physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. <strong>In very practical terms, self-love, really vibrant self-love, gives you energy for daily living.</strong> This translates into goals accomplished, intentions manifested, a body that is alive, choices that propel you forward.</li>
<li><strong>Supports choices on your own behalf.</strong> With big visions, lots of creativity, and big hearts, a common sticking point is over giving, serving beyond your means. Self-love dissolves these into the ability to make choices for wise-selfishness.</li>
<li><strong>Connects you with your deep value.</strong> When you’re connecting with a deeper and deeper sense of your value, the choices you need to make for your next business vision, your next life step, in relationships, how you relate to money, how you eat and care for your body all draw from the deep rootedness in the previous impacts in this list. <strong>The inevitable outcome coupled with powerful intention propels you into your potential, your unique soul potential.</strong></li>
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		<title>The Responsibility that’s Really at the Heart of Your Destiny</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The soul knows that solving problems only in the world of form is a waste of energy, that working with vibration and frequency can shortcut evolution and make transformation magical and nearly instantaneous…the soul holds the paradox that nothing needs to change and there are things that are important to do. ~ Penney Peirce Navigating [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:none;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fblike' data-shr_layout='button_count' data-shr_showfaces='false' data-shr_href='http://www.theselfconnection.com/responsibility-that/' data-shr_title='The+Responsibility+that%E2%80%99s+Really+at+the+Heart+of+Your+Destiny'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><blockquote><p>The soul knows that solving problems only in the world of form is a waste of energy, that working with vibration and frequency can shortcut evolution and make transformation magical and nearly instantaneous…the soul holds the paradox that nothing needs to change and there are things that are important to do.<br />
<cite>~ Penney Peirce</cite></p></blockquote>
<p>Navigating the nuances of what responsibility really means runs at the heart of your destiny, of my destiny. If you are a person who wants to evolve, to break through into new perspectives of life that elevate your joy, momentum, relationships, and meaning, inevitably you will face a new relationship to responsibility.</p>
<p>It’s probably not the change you expect. Even “good” perspectives of responsibility can be stifling, keeping us at arms length from each other, unwittingly paralyzed in perspectives that atrophy our creativity, will, relationships and our passion. Responsibility may tell us to “get things done,” while our soul is knocking on the door of a new direction. We wonder why “it” is not working and the soul wonders why “you” are not listening.</p>
<p>Like many of the paradoxes of transformation, though inherently good, responsibility can leave us suffering just as rigid and paralyzed in a situation as the most negative and limiting perspective. </p>
<p>A friend remarked from her own experience, “feeling responsible for someone else’s creation cuts their own divinity out of the picture.” If she could only take responsibility for her (older) son’s creation then she could make it better and keep them both from suffering, right? But the problem couldn’t be solved from there. Her realization is a poignant reminder of what it takes to navigate the balance of rugged compassion.</p>
<p>To unfold destiny, old structures of responsibility eventually meet with a creative destruction. Destruction that actually builds in a direction you may not have expected. A project you think you should finish; a business system you think you should be able to make work; a relationship that should be able to heal; a body that should be healthy; may all have different purpose from the soul’s perspective. To solve them requires a new relationship to yourself that takes you further into your potential, your destiny. </p>
<p>To consider your relationship to responsibility, ask yourself if the responsibility you are currently standing in catalyzes movement, expansion, and beauty—within yourself, others or the world around you. Does it maintain status quo or open you up? Does it respect the divinity in another person and increase your ability to relate? Is it supporting your life or stifling it? Is it focused on fixing or creating? Does it utilize chaos for evolving forward or keep you spinning? </p>
<p>Living life from the soul takes you out of the world of black and white, challenging your perspectives, and into the world behind what you see. It is subtle. It will streamline your life and it doesn’t mind taking you through chaos to do it.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The work I had done with other coaches were exercises in awareness, energy-esque, but at the end of the day they didn’t change the relationship. They all required effort to maintain.” ~client comment A client with a coaching business drew a metaphor for me the other day to explain her experience in our work combining [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:none;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fblike' data-shr_layout='button_count' data-shr_showfaces='false' data-shr_href='http://www.theselfconnection.com/its-even-easier-than-mindset/' data-shr_title='It%E2%80%99s+Even+Easier+than+Mindset'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><blockquote><p>The work I had done with other coaches were exercises in awareness, energy-esque, but at the end of the day they didn’t change the relationship. They all required effort to maintain.”<br />
<cite>~client comment</cite></p></blockquote>
<p>A client with a coaching business drew a metaphor for me the other day to explain her experience in our work combining deep energy transformation with intuitive coaching. In her business the self-critic reigned with determination as its master. She focused on strategy, willpower, accomplishment, and did all the work and exercises she was told to in previous situations. </p>
<p>She set huge goals and pushed herself to achieve them. That is, until she reached a place where she couldn’t push anymore. Her passion and desire to build her business, to create, to thrive was alive. But something in her couldn’t go any further. It scared her. She needed income, she needed creativity, she needed energy, she needed clarity, and she didn’t know how to break through.</p>
<blockquote><p>This work is very organic, innate, she commented. I realized it wasn’t more strategy that I needed. I needed a new relationship to myself that included compassion. It was time for me to direct my accomplishments rather than feeling driven by them.</p></blockquote>
<p>In her metaphor, she described it like this: On the surface it looked like we were working with mindset, but the outcome was completely different. It’s as if all my life I’d been turning right until I realized that turning right was keeping me from what I really wanted to create. </p>
<p>I used mindset and awareness to change it, to focus on turning left, because this is what I knew I needed to do to create a different outcome for my business and myself. But it took a lot of effort to maintain and set me up for more struggle. </p>
<p>Now turning left is effortless and that was in just one of our calls. I don’t have to “remember” to turn left. I don’t even have to think about it. It’s as if the right turn option isn’t there. This wasn’t a single belief, it was an entire pattern of how I was being and it is gone. Transformed. I feel so different. I feel peaceful, powerful, and compassionate with myself. My business is growing with so much less effort.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelley Hawkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Don’t be embarrassed to be idealistic; it’s your highest vision vibrating through you.” ~ Penney Peirce The question on the table during a mastermind one evening was, “why do people fear change?” The goal is to share ideas for discussion rather than come to a conclusion among a diverse group of people. Comments related to [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><div class='shareaholic-like-buttonset' style='float:none;height:30px;'><a class='shareaholic-fblike' data-shr_layout='button_count' data-shr_showfaces='false' data-shr_href='http://www.theselfconnection.com/power-of-your-choices/' data-shr_title='How+to+Increase+the+Power+of+Your+Choices'></a></div><div style="clear: both; min-height: 1px; height: 3px; width: 100%;"></div><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><blockquote><p>“Don’t be embarrassed to be idealistic; it’s your highest vision vibrating through you.”<br />
<cite>~ Penney Peirce</cite></p></blockquote>
<h2>The question on the table during a mastermind one evening was, “why do people fear change?”</h2>
<p>The goal is to share ideas for discussion rather than come to a conclusion among a diverse group of people. Comments related to the safety and familiarity involved in not changing, no matter how painful; the fear of the unknown appearing as a greater risk than to stay in the same pattern; we warm and sensitize to new ideas as we are exposed to them; the fear of what is at stake—relationships, finances, self identity; and a large percentage of the population does not realize they have a choice to make a different choice.</p>
<p><strong>Choice evolves us, moving our power in any given direction.</strong> As Carolyn Myss says, “the greatest power in the world is not love it is choice. It is through choice we choose how to love, when to love, if to love…” By choice, by a never-ending-string of choices, we have the opportunity to awaken and unfold who we are. </p>
<p>The internal reference points we draw from for our choices become very meaningful when we realize they determine whether our choices create real change or merely cycle us through a different version of the same ones. This is true in the macrocosm of humanity and the microcosm of your life.</p>
<p>From the studies of neuroplasticity of the brain to epigenetics, we are realizing just how malleable our experience is, <strong>how vast our choices are to deliberately change our experience internally and in the world at large.</strong> </p>
<p><strong>Energy transformation changes your reference point.</strong> It changes what drives you and the subconscious “files” you access for any given choice. You have probably had the experience of making different choices, changing your thoughts only to have a similar outcome. Until we change the reference points from which we make our choices in any given area, change remains slow and can be more an exercise of musical chairs.</p>
<p>Approximately 95 percent of our actions are driven by the subconscious mind and only 5 percent by the conscious mind. When we make choices, we’re drawing primarily from our subconscious programming, often related to survival, protection, habitual, or instinctive life and how we catalogued our life experience&#8211;identities and stories we are used to living within. </p>
<p><strong>Energy transformation can be very specific from simple beliefs to broad patterns.</strong> Though a simple conscious mental shift is technically a form of energy movement, deep energy transformation changes the subconscious files of experience you draw from for choices that evolve your business, your relationships, your life, and the world. Freeing up resources and effort for deliberately creating your life, as one client said, “It’s like the glasses have been taken off.” </p>
<p><strong>Deliberately changing our internal reference points of choice frees us into more of who we are, a soul reference. We cannot hold a state of creating and protecting at the same time.</strong> The more we transform the no-longer-necessary protective response, the more we draw from a new well of creativity, the well of the soul. </p>
<p>Here we begin to see choices we didn’t know we had, options we couldn’t see before, resources that show up unexpectedly, directions that previously seemed impossible, and a way where there was none.</p>
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