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		<title>Chapters of Our Lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a chapter or book is completing, we FEEL it.  Something that we once had great interest or passion for has begun to diminish and a new interest begins to come in.  Each chapter seems to include a letting go of something at the ending and a stepping into or amping up something in the new.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Each one of us is a book.  Some of us may even be a series:)  If we were to look back at our lives we would be able to see pretty clearly where each chapter or book started and ended.</p>
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		<title>How Do You Keep Yourself Inspired?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 01:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times, however, when I am ready for "more".  I am a life long learner.  I love to learn and study whatever it is I am interested in at the moment.   I do a lot of it on my own but there is a time when finding a teacher is what I need.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>I just spent 4 days studying yoga at the <a href="http://www.yogahouse.net/">Yoga House in the Edina </a>with <a href="http://miamilifecenter.com">Tim Feldman</a>.  Inspirational, exhausting, transformational&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;I loved it.</p>
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		<title>Are You Playing Tooooo Small??</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 02:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Playing small is playing right where we are at OR maybe JUST a bit higher.......we start to get uncomfortable or can't even IMAGINE something grander.......in terms of our relationships, our jobs, our dreams, our level of wellness or health, etc.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Hi everyone!  I took last week off as I was on a 5 day mini vacation:)</p>
<p>I have been studying the Law of Attraction the last several months and REALLY realized yesterday how COMFORTABLE it is to play SMALL!!!</p>
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		<title>Where is Your Fear?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just start with a baby step.  We do not necessarily have to throw out the baby with the bathwater!  At least acknowledge where your fears lie.  Maybe there is a small one you could deal with.  That will give you confidence and more strength then to look at the next one.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Are you aware of what your fears are?  Clearly aware?  Do you know they are there but you just keep them on the edge of your thoughts?</p>
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		<title>Feeling Worse Before We Feel Better!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we begin to work with greater consciousness on healing our mental/emotional bodies, debris begins to move.  Sometimes it is just feeling small irritations or a bit off and sometimes we can feel VERY off.  Our physical body also clears as we do this work so all kinds of things can show up in the physical body as the energy is breaking up old patterns.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>As we begin to work with greater consciousness on healing our mental/emotional bodies, debris begins to move.  Sometimes it is just feeling small irritations or a bit off and sometimes we can feel VERY off.  Our physical body also clears as we do this work so all kinds of things can show up in the physical body as the energy is breaking up old patterns.<a href="http://melaniejwilliams.com/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2403" title="Louise Hay.........teacher of &quot;you are what you THINK&quot;" src="http://melaniejwilliams.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Louise-Hay-pf2.jpg" alt="" width="310" height="224" /></a></p>
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		<title>What Are You Telling Yourself is &#8220;Hard&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I catch myself at times saying, "wow, this is HARD!"  or "this is going to be so HARD!"  

Ever hear of "self fulfilling prophecy?"  That is what that is.  We say something often enough and we make it come true.  We look for the "evidence" that it is true.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>I catch myself at times saying, &#8220;wow, this is HARD!&#8221;  or &#8220;this is going to be so HARD!&#8221;</p>
<p>Ever hear of &#8220;self fulfilling prophecy?&#8221;  That is what that is.  We say something often enough and we make it come true.  We look for the &#8220;evidence&#8221; that it is true.</p>
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		<title>Beginning Anew</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each time I present the Chakra material, it is a feeling of "beginning anew", of taking another look at the "root" of my life.  Each time I gain something new.  What a perfect time to be doing this as Spring is bursting out everywhere around us.......beginning anew.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Hello!  Last week I could not access my web page so no blog was written!!  Here I am again, ready to &#8220;begin anew&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>Is This Absolutely True???</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our thoughts are colored by our past experiences.  If we were abandoned by our father at an early age, we will have a deep fear that important men will  leave us.  If we were ridiculed or shamed in our childhood we may choose to keep our distance from people.  If we experienced a traumatic event, we will have  difficulty trusting, always waiting for the shoe to drop.....]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Dear Readers:) </p>
<p> I have been working with the Byron Katie &#8220;The Work&#8221; material for several years.  I would suggest that you check her out at <a href="http://www.thework.com/index.php">http://www.thework.com/index.php</a>.</p>
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		<title>Personal evolution&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The  fire and pressure .....that forces us into a new way of being.    This is what I am feeling these days.  It is uncomfortable.  I feel unmoored, restless, a deep pressure building from the inside.  I find myself restless, unable to get started on new projects.... I keep asking myself, "what time is it?"  And it seems like just feeling all this energy is the time I am in.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>&#8220;We&#8217;d like to believe that evolution takes place in gentle ways, in gradual steps, but that&#8217;s never how it happens.  A piece of coal becomes a diamond when tremendous heat and compression are applied.  Likewise, when fire and pressure are applied to our lives, it forces us into a new state of being.  It also spreads, and an undeniable and unstoppable momentum begins to build.  This is what we are seeing now&#8230;&#8230;.&#8221;  James F. Twyman  from &#8220;The Proof&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Meeting ourselves and others where we are at!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much can you accept where you are at in any given moment?  Do you want to push away the current feeling or can you surrender and accept your present moment? ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>How much can you accept where you are at in any given moment?  Do you want to push away the current feeling or can you surrender and accept your present moment? </p>
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