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"I believe that within each person is the ability to reach inside themselves to find long sought answers to life questions. I believe in the majesty of every individual and in my seminars I attempt to create a safe and sacred space where that majesty can unfold" ~ Denise Linn

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

ROCK YOUR WORLD: LAUGHING OFTEN, LAUGHING MORE!

News from Denise and Summerhill Ranch

Denise shares her experience about her dog Sadie who “cried wolf” (pardon the pun!).  She also shares about her interaction with a virtual assistant at a company she dealt with – she discovered that she was live chatting to a computer software program!!

Laughter and vibration:

Laughing more, laughing often, laughing louder can really help you to overcome blockages.  This raises your vibration, and difficulties are easier to overcome when your vibration is up.

Laughter therapy through history:

· 400 Years ago, Robert Burton said:  “Humour purges the blood, making the body young and lively and fit for any manner of employment.” 
· Plato and Socrates also talked about the benefits of laughter.
· In the 13th Century, it was used as an anaesthetic for surgical procedures (since anaesthesia didn’t exist then) because it decreased the pain. 
· In the 16th Century, laughter was prescribed to prevent colds and flus, and when someone had a disease or depression, laughter was prescribed so that the disease/depression could be overcome more quickly. 
· In medieval times, a jester would appear after meals because it was believed that laughter aided indigestion (which it does). 
· Freud and Darwin said that laughter relieves tension and stress.

Benefits of laughter:

  1. Immune system – when you laugh, there is immediately a release of disease killing cells (gamma interferon and T-cells mass multiply), and stress hormones such as cortisol start to decrease.  Even “fake” laughs work!
  2. It can lower blood pressure.  It was found that people with heart disease are 40% less likely to laugh – there’s an inverse correlation between laughter and heart disease.
  3. Laughter oxygenates the blood and you get an “internal workout” – your diaphragm, abdomen and respiratory muscles get a “massage” because of the laughter.
  4. It increases your brain capacity – a study at Johns Hopkins revealed that when a teacher uses humour during lessons, there is a dramatic increase in test scores. Laughter improves alertness, creativity and memory.   A study at Stanford showed that laughter is one of the few activities that engages the whole brain, and so all your systems are more balanced.
  5. It’s contagious – it brings people together and creates community.
  6. It triggers endorphins (natural painkillers).
  7. Humour works in less than half a second – electrical impulses surge through your whole body.
  8. It builds relationships – smiling begins the relationships.  Even if your smile/laugh was fake at first (because you wanted to “act as if”), it’s a beginning and can start a genuine relationship. 

  9. It can change a threat into a challenge – laughter makes things less threatening and more positive.  Learning to laugh can allow you to develop strategies to overcome that challenge or blockage.

How to laugh if you don’t feel like laughing:

  1. You Tube videos – look up funny commercials/videos on You Tube.  Find humour that works for you.
  2. Faking it – so what if it’s not sincere.  You’re still increasing your immunity, overcoming blockages, etc.  There comes a point when it becomes genuine because laughter is a behaviour conditioned response.  How do you fake it:  go into a room by yourself and start chortling!  Keep doing it.  Try different kinds of laughs (the evil laugh, the stupid laugh, etc.)  You have nothing to lose!!  It might shift your life.
  3. Download movies or rent DVD’s that are funny.  There have been stories of people with life-threatening diseases who were able to shift their health by continuously watching humour.
  4. Do fun things that will make you laugh – push your parameters eg.  roller-skate, go to Disney World, etc.
  5. Make a timeline of your life – it chronicles your life.  Imagine that you’re the director of the movie that is your life – how could you make a comedy out of your life?  How could you look at the events in your life so that they are funny?
  6. Take a time of adversity in your life (eg. when you were victimized) and dramatize that event in your life, then role-play this with your friends.  But then do it again as a comedy!  By shifting the way that you view this event, it becomes less ingrained in you and all the beliefs and decisions that you adopted at the time (that have remained with you) begin to dissolve.
  7. Laughing yoga – this is a class where you just laugh.  This might feel fake, but there is a shift (a behaviour conditioned response) and you begin to create new neural pathways of joy and happiness in you.
Denise’s Wisdom of the Week:

“The hero is defined by the size of the dragon (opponent/adversity).”

“Find the good now instead of waiting for the good stuff to happen”.

“When you shift your energy field, miracles begin to flow into your life.”


Further Tips from Denise:

When you think the odds are against you and you don’t feel like laughing or don’t know how you can get through it, just think:  “Bring it on!”
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

ROCK YOUR WORLD: STANDING GLORIOUSLY STRONG

News from Denise and Summerhill Ranch

This being the 10yr anniversary of 9/11, Denise talks about her prophetic dream the day 9/11 happened.  She also talks about the power of prayer, and as for Summerhill Ranch, it seems that Morke (her rooster) had a “girlfriend” who unfortunately seems to have dumped him!!

This series is about how you can expand and step into your potential more – how you can take it up to the next level and increase your vibration.  Standing gloriously strong no matter what is happening around you:

Never judge yourself for being upset or hurt about something someone said or did – perhaps you’re just a compassionate person who feels things deeply and loves deeply.

Strategies to help you be stronger in this situation:

  1. Visualization:  Imagine you’re a duck – visualize “water rolling off a duck’s back”.  All bad behaviour comes from fear or ignorance – remember that when someone behaves badly towards you.  “Be like Buddha” – imagine the mantle of Buddha being over you or think of how the Dalai Lama would think about it.  .
  2. Do silent mantras:  eg.  “I am the light” or “Radiance and power surge through me” or “I’m a strong, powerful being”, or “I am loved and loving” or “all is well” – it drowns out the negativity.  If someone who you really care for does something that hurts you, you can sit down and communicate about it, but with others you may not want to invest the time to do this.
  3. Use your body – put your body in a strong position:  If you’re being victimized in some way eg. at work, go somewhere and shift your body until you feel strong – put your fists in the air or whatever body position makes you feel strong, and while your body is in this position, visualize yourself as strong and then do something physically eg. squeeze your thumb or  thumping your chest.  The action helps to anchor the feeling in.  Eventually, you can just do the action as a behaviour-conditioned response and you won’t need to go into the body position.
  4. The mirrored Sphere/orb:  Visualise a sphere around you which is filled with light and the outer surface is a mirror so anything that is negative coming towards you bounces back and anything positive and empowering filters through
  5. Power affirmation:  Put your body in the position where you feel strong, move your body (eg. take a walk) and shout your power affirmations.  Each time you say the affirmation, change the emphasis of the words so it keeps you present and it doesn’t just become a routine.  Then you can also add emotion and feeling.  You can also put the affirmation in the form of a question so that your subconscious mind believes this to be true eg.  how can I be even stronger? (the subconscious mind assumes that you’re already strong).  Change the emphasis of the words each time you ask the question.
  6. Go on an inner journey - move into the Spirit world:  imagine yourself in the Spirit world and see yourself as those in Spirit see you.  In the mind of Spirit, you see what an amazing, wonderful, remarkable, powerful being you are!!  Doing this allows you to have a depth of compassion and love for yourself that is unrivaled.  And while you’re in the Spirit world, send love and energy from Spirit to you – almost instantaneously you’ll begin to feel better.
  7. Visualize yourself being wrapped in the wings of an angel:  whatever is going on and whatever fear you’re feeling, imagine these wings holding you, loving you, cherishing you.  This makes a HUGE difference.
  8. Quotes:  Read or remember quotes that help with the specific situation eg.  Winston Churchill quotes:  “Never give up, never give up!” and “When you’re going through hell, keep going.”  Don’t listen to the “dream-stompers”.
  9. See yourself as a hero conquering a mighty dragon – “I am a hero.  This is my dragon and the bigger the dragon, the bigger the hero.”
The best strategy is to remember who you are.  Life is not always as it seems – remember who you are and as you do that, all of those challenges will start to drop away.

Denise’s Wisdom of the Week:

“Usually things we get upset about are reflections of things inside ourselves we haven’t accepted or haven’t owned”.

“Sometimes we get so caught up in this plane that we forget who we are”.

“The truth is you are infinite, immortal, eternal and universal.  The truth is that you have all you need within you now.  The truth is you are majestic.  The truth is there is a place within you that always knows what you need; that always has the capacity to embrace, to overcome no matter what your life brings.”

Further Tips from Denise:

· When it comes to your health and going into hospital: (eg. to give birth), visualize yourself going to the hospital, visualize the whole process from beginning to end as you would like it to be.  Visualize yourself coming home and being healthy.  Visualize this over and over.

· Finding your purpose/life’s work/passion:  Ask yourself what gives you the greatest joy.  Then look at the particular aspect of that activity that you like the most.  Keep going deeper and deeper into what’s your greatest joy.  Then when you find what the greatest thing is, ask yourself how you can participate in this in a way that really makes a difference in the lives of others.  You will find your greatest joy!

Friday, September 9, 2011

ROCK YOUR WORLD: LIVING LIFE WITH JOY

News from Denise and Summerhill Ranch

Denise talks about some of the challenges they’ve had on Summerhill Ranch - the “cannons” being fired in the neighbouring vineyards which scares the animals, and her goats being fed a large amount of grain which led to them needing treatment for this.  However, she and her family (both 2 legged and 4 legged) were able to overcome all these challenges and feel gratitude because of this.  Today, 6th September, is also Denise’s 5th anniversary on Hay House Radio – Denise thanks all her listeners.

About Living Life with joy

“No matter what’s happening in your life there’s always a reason to celebrate.” ~ Denise Linn

Celebrating, even when things go wrong, helps you shift your vibrational rate – we live in a vibrational universe.  When you have a low vibration, you will attract the same to you – it’s the law of attraction.

The higher you are, the more joy you feel and you’ll attract things that will solve the difficulty/make it easier.  If you’re in victim mode, you’ll pull things to you that will victimize you more.  If you find something to celebrate, you’ll shift yourself out of that.

Even in the worst situation, ACTIVATE JOY!!!

Steps to shift your vibration

  1. Ask yourself:  what is the problem?  Write it down.  Getting that clarity is a step towards moving out of the problem.  Then ask yourself:  how is this a problem?  Continue asking this question this until you get to what the REAL problem is. Eg.  your child going off to college – Q: “how is this a problem?”  A:  “I’ll feel lonely” Ask this Q again – A:  “I don’t feel good.”
  2. Ask:  Is this really a problem?? If it went away, what would life be like?   Eg.  A:  “No, I want my child to go off to college.  If she didn’t she’d live here all her life and that would be a problem”.
  3. Ask:  What’s the strategy?  Eg.  A:  “Take a new hobby, find things to do.”
  4. Find out what’s great about this, find something to celebrate -  Eg.  A:  “I have more time now.”   Sometimes you might have to be creative.

Denise’s Wisdom of the Week:

“What you resist persists.”

Friday, September 2, 2011

FABULOUS GLORIOUS ABUNDANCE – SPACE CLEARING FOR PROSPERITY



What is Space Clearing and what is its purpose?

Space Clearing is a term coined by Denise.  Space clearing is through ceremony and ritual with intentionality, shifting, clearing, opening and relieving blockages into space – energy blockages.  In ancient times, every culture did space clearing because it worked.  They’d do it before a ceremony or after something challenging, eg. a death, a battle, a sickness,  coming back from battle.

Denise has trained in space clearing with the Native Americans (she has a Native American heritage), the Maoris, the Aboriginis, the Zulus, in Hong Kong, Japanese techniques, Estonian techniques, ancient Hawaiian techniques.  The bottom line for space clearing is that it works!  If you want to shift the energy around your life and need help with abundance/prosperity or something in your life that’s not working for you, use space clearing.

Steps for space clearing in terms of prosperity:

There could be residual poverty energy.  If you have a poverty consciousness, you’re also creating poverty energy.  Clear out the old because if you step back into the old energy in your home, that energy starts to influence you and pull you down even if your mindset is positive.

  1. Clutter clear the space as much as possible – start with one room, your bedroom. If you have little time, clear one room.  Then clean it with intentionality eg. clean the windows with the intention: “I’m letting more light into my heart; I’m allowing the light of the Creator to illuminate the light in my heart so that I can create more abundance and love more deeply”.
  2. Do Feng Shui – create spaces that feel abundant and you will have more abundance.
  3. Think:  what is my intention?  Why am I doing this?  Get clear on your intention – write it down, figure it out, focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want.
  4. Decide what tools you’re going to use for your space clearing.   Traditionally, people used what they had around them.eg.  Aboriginis used Quick Sticks, Native Americans used drums, in China/Asia they used knives.  Use scarves, herbs (such as sage), incense, aromatherapy essential oils, flower essences, crystals, bells, gongs, chimes, tuning forks or fire.  The tool that will work best is the one you love.  If you have nothing, use your hands – you have a tool wherever you go, you can clap your hands and it will shift energy.   You don’t need many tools, you only need one.  And it doesn’t matter what tool it is, what matters is the connection and the love – any tool can work if you love it.
  5. Clean your tools eg.  wash your hands, cleanse your gong/bell, put your crystal in sunlight to cleanse it, beat your drum with the intention that you’re cleansing it.  Take time to honour your tool and don’t put it in the clutter drawer!  Name your tool, as they did in ancient traditions.
  6. Cleanse yourself – some have clothes just for space clearing, clean your body, wash your hair if possible, have clean clothes.
  7. Go into the room.  Have a tray that you put your tool on, perhaps with a beautiful cloth on it or a beautiful candle on it.  Make the tray into an altar eg.  put your bell on it with a candle and cloth.  Put it in a place of honour in the room.  Stand at the entrance of the room (the most prominent door if there are 2 doors) because this is where qi flows in from.  Stand still and get a sense of the energy – assess it:  what does it feel like?  Program yourself:  “I am now assessing this energy.”
  8. Be open to spiritual assistance – eg.  “God, angels, spirit guides, ancestors, totem animals, spirit of the house:  I ask for your help.”  As you put the prayer out there, help arrives and you’ll feel it.  Then pick up your tool and go clockwise (or the way that feels best) and go around the circumference of the room.  Qi moves like water – if you go around the outside, you will spiral the energy the same way you spiral water ie.  The outside/circumference will influence the inside.  Pay particular attention to the corners – debris/stagnant energy dwells in the corners.  Put an arm out and if it feels heavy, the energy is dense and you can ring the bell.  If you ring the bell and the sound is muted or colours are muted or corners are not sharp, it usually means stagnant energy.  Ring the bell so that the colours are brighter, corners are sharper and crystal clear, and so that you can breathe.  Continue around the room ringing the bell.   If you get ahead of yourself, stop, breathe, centre yourself and tune in.  Then ring the bell.  Even if you can’t feel the energy, have the intention that this bell is clearing, cleansing and opening the energy, and so it will be.  Continue to the point where you started, and at that point, make a figure “8”, the sign of infinity with your tool, to seal off the room – it seals off that cleansing cycle. 
  9. You then go around the room a 2nd time – the 1st time was to cleanse the old, the 2nd time is a blessing to invite new energy in.  Start at the door or in the East of the room.  Ask for blessings for the space eg.  “Creator, I ask that more abundance and prosperity flow into my life and the lives of my loved ones/others.  And I thank you for all that is given.”  Coming from a place of humble gratitude is important. Then go around with the bell and this time with the intention of calling blessings; being the blessing.  If you get ahead of yourself, stop and centre yourself.  At the end of this, use your tool and make a figure “8” to seal off the blessing. 
  10. Then be still and immerse yourself in that place of gratitude (as if the results have already happened).  You will find that the blockages will melt away.  Go to Denise’s website for more info http://www.deniselinn.com/ (her book is called:  Space Clearing A to Z).
  11. If you’re using your hands as tools, you can clap to clear the old energy in the corners until the clapping sounds clear, and you can also clap to call blessings.
Denise’s Wisdom of the Week:

“If you clear one blockage, it helps every aspect of your life.”

“Where intention goes, energy flows.”

“It’s not the tools that clear the space, it’s your intention!”