MYSTIC TRADITIONS: THE SACRED CRYSTAL CAVE

News from Denise and Summerhill Ranch:

  

It is a rainy day in Paso Robles, California.  Denise’s goats do not enjoy the rain.  They’re not particularly fond of the wooden enclosures that David, Denise’s husband, built especially for them to have shelter in this type of weather – they’re rather drawn to the plastic dog houses.  And since they seem to enjoy being together, they all get into one dog house!!

Our reality and other dimensions:

· It is so easy to get caught up in this reality and to think that this collectively shared reality that we’re in is the only reality.   In truth it is only one station in that great radio station of Spirit. 

· There are dimensions co-existing with our dimension, and they are just as real. 

· There are times when there is a thinning of the veil between one reality and the next.  When that happens, you can step beyond this reality into another realm/dimension.  Denise’s intent today is to co-create a thinning of the veil and if you so choose, you can step into those other realms.  There is value to do that, as a soul, because it expands your being, your parameter; it loosens the hold that your identity has on you. 

· One often associates one’s identity with accomplishments, possessions and similar things, but once you take that step you discover that you’re infinite, immortal, eternal and universal. 

· The form that you occupy is only one perception of the vast universe that you are.

Wisdom from Denise’s mystical experiences:

· Listen to this show to find out how Denise discovered her Spirit name of “White Feather” and also about the mystical things, including a time warp, during Denise’s time in Bali.  She shares this to illustrate the fact that there is a direct connection between you and the Creator/Spirit.  It’s simply a matter of opening your heart/believing it is real. 

· During this time in Bali, Denise received a physical affirmation that said that things are not as they seem; that there is a Realm of Spirit; that you can interface with Spirit.  There is a reason and purpose for your life.  There are Guides from the Realm of Spirit working with you.

Mystical experiences and caves:

There is a reason that many mystical traditions happen in caves – when you are in a cave, you are in the womb of the earth.  You are in the womb of that pulsating, rhythmic, passionate, living energy of the earth.

Denise had a mystical experience while she was in Australia learning from the Aborigines - in a cave which went down into the earth, she shape-shifted into a lizard.  When she arrived home, an acquaintance told Denise about a dream she had had about being in this same cave and shape-shifting into a panther.  Although this woman had only had a dream, her hands and feet were raw and oozing when she woke up, and the dream had occurred at exactly the same time as when Denise had her cave experience.  It seems to Denise that the woman had on some level, stepped through that veil and they merged and melded for a while.

The overlapping of realities and the value of this:

In the Inner Realms, there is no separation between us; in the Inner Realms it is simply a matter of intent – you can travel from one dimension to another with ease.  It allows your farthest horizons to expand.  When this occurs, you can expand those horizons in this reality, and your ability to manifest and create becomes even deeper and more profound.

There are times when our reality and other realities overlap, eg. someone talks about seeing an alien.  As you begin to explore other dimensions and these overlapping realities, it opens the door.

Denise’s Wisdom of the Week:

· “In Bali, there is a mystical energy in the land and the air, and the water.  It’s harder in the West because the veil is thicker and deeper, because the collective unconsciousness is attached so deeply to this reality.”

· “It is true there is a reason for your life.  It’s true there is a purpose for your life.  It is true that there are those in the Realm of Spirit working with you, supporting you, loving you, honouring you.  It is true that the experiences of your life, whether you like them or dislike them, were absolutely a part of your destiny, were absolutely necessary for you to become who you are.  It is true that you can stop and that you can step beyond this realm into the next.”

JOYOUS, SPARKLING CONFIDENCE AND SELF-ESTEEM: DAMN, I’M GOOD!

News from Denise and Summerhill Ranch:

Denise and her daughter, Meadow, are working on the book they’re writing together (this book is about the sacredness of food).  They’ve been working furiously since their deadline is fast approaching.  However, Denise still has time to show her wonderful sense of humour – such as when David mistook a piece of plastic in the kitchen for a dead mouse! 

The “Damn, I’m good!” mantra:

· To increase your confidence, for the next week, embrace what is by doing this mantra/affirmation:  “Damn, I’m good!” 

· Say it with expression, passion and real meaning.  Celebrate all your thoughts, feelings and actions with this mantra. 

· What you focus on expands, and the more you celebrate what’s great about your life right now, the more these things will expand.

· Scan your last 24hrs and think about situations where you can apply this mantra.  If you can’t find anything, it is not a reflection of the state of your life, but a reflection of your ability to step into what is good/great.

· There is always something great.  Forty percent of people in the world don’t have running water, toilet facilities, or even clean water.

· If you do this for the next 7 days, it will change your life. 

  

Denise’s Wisdom of the Week:

“We come here [to Earth] to learn and grow, and if everything were perfect, we probably wouldn’t grow as much.”

JOYOUS, SPARKLING CONFIDENCE AND SELF-ESTEEM: THE IMPORTANCE OF WHO YOU HANG WITH

News from Denise and Summerhill Ranch:

There has been a drought in the Paso Robles area and finally there has been some rain.  While this was a blessing, the four goats had chosen to take shelter –all four of them were found in the dog house!!

The people you spend most of your time with:

· The 5 people whom you spend the most time with affect your sense of self, your self-worth, your sense of who you are. 

· If you hang out with dream stompers (those people who don’t believe in you or your dreams, and they don’t see the best in you), then it is very difficult to see the best in yourself. 

· If you have dream stompers in your life and you can’t get them out of your life because they are your family, find strategies to mitigate the effect they have on you. 

· If you want to expand your parameters in life and “step it up” so that you can increase the abundance in your life, you need to either move away from the dream stompers or find strategies so that when you’re with then, it’s not going to pull you down or affect your vibrational rate/energy field.

How do you know if a relationship works for you?

You can tell whether a relationship is good for you, because after you’ve been in someone’s company and you feel better, you know that it’s a relationship that’s good.  If you feel dragged down/depressed after being with them, then it’s not a good energy in your life.

Stategies to mitigate the effects of dream stompers:

· If, for example, a relative causes you to feel dragged down and it’s not possible not to be in their company, ask your relative to take a walk with you while she talks.  This way you can get fresh air, look at the clouds and have thoughts you want to have while still fulfilling your family obligation of being there for your relative.

· If someone is saying something negative to you, you can be shutting their words out inside your head by singing a song silently (as if you had an ipod on).  Don’t take in what the person is saying – the instant that you accept that bad feeling/energy, your energy/life diminishes.

· If you really want to have people who believe in you, see the best in you, and inspire you, become the kind of friend that they would like to have – be the kind of person that those people want to hang out with.  Look inside yourself.  If you want someone to support you, support others.  If you want someone to believe in you, believe in others.  If you want someone to celebrate your success without being jealous, celebrate the success of others without being jealous.

· If you want to work on yourself, go to Denise Linn’s website:  www.deniselinn.com and find a Soul Coach to help you – Denise Linn has trained all the Soul Coaches personally.  Soul Coaching can also be done by phone.

· If there’s no one positive around you or you’re having difficulty with someone, and there’s no way to shift the relationship, do this exercise.  Imagine this beautiful sea shore – it’s the shore of Infinite Love.  You’re walking on this shore, relaxed and feeling good about life.  Walking towards you is your nemesis – that person who stomps on your dreams or depletes your energy.  From a spiritual point of view, they are immortal, eternal, infinite and universal – from a spiritual perspective, that person has a big, beautiful soul.  Imagine that both  you and that person are coming towards each other as your Higher Selves.  Imagine that from the centre of your heart, you’re forming a heart connection; the Higher Self to the Higher Self (not the personalities or identities.  It could be that this particular person is in your life to allow you to learn and to grow.

Denise’s Wisdom of the Week:

“We come here [to Earth] to learn and grow, and if everything were perfect, we probably wouldn’t grow as much.”

  

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JOYOUS, SPARKLING CONFIDENCE AND SELF-ESTEEM: LIMITING CORE BELIEFS

News from Denise and Summerhill Ranch:

Denise and her family have realized it is time for them to leave Summerhill Ranch.  Sometime in the next year, they will be moving to a new home.  They lost their court battle with the oil company that wants to drill for oil very close to their property line.  While this has been a time of grieving for Denise, it has also been a time of learning and growing.  The support she has received from all her listeners through Facebook and the support that the Soul Coaches have shown, is deeply appreciated by Denise.

Limiting core beliefs and confidence:

· Confidence is something deep and silent – someone who accepts who they are and what they are; someone who understands themselves and doesn’t judge themselves, and sees the best in who they are. 

· Often what keeps us from feeling confident isn’t our conscious thoughts, but those deep beliefs that are in the dark recesses of our soul. 

· Those core beliefs can come from things that were told to you as a child, eg.  your parents might have said something negative to you or about you regarding your abilities – those beliefs go deep inside and continue to radiate out even though you may not remember what was said.

· Because of these deep beliefs, you will actually create circumstances that are repetitive patterns to validate those subconscious beliefs, even though, consciously, you keep affirming something positive.

· If you want to know what your subconscious/core beliefs are, look at your life – your life is a reflection of what you subconsciously believe, eg. if you’re struggling in life, there may be some deep core belief that says that life is a struggle.

· Some core beliefs can come from society, your religion, the media, your friends, co-workers, your ancestors, or past lives.

Unweaving the core beliefs:

· Discover what your core beliefs are and examine them.  This brings them up to the surface.  No matter how deeply ingrained these core beliefs are, you can release them!

· First, start writing down any core beliefs you think you might have.

· Write down the names of anyone you have had a relationship with in your life, eg. parents, grandparents, relatives, friends, co-workers, aquaintances

· Next to each name, write down what you know/think this person’s beliefs are about self-esteem – all the energy of the person gets absorbed into your energy field, eg.  perhaps the person thinks that confident people are egotistical.  Look at the person’s sense of self-esteem.

· Even if you didn’t know your great grandparents, write down what you imagine to be their beliefs about confidence and self esteem.

· Then also write down your religion growing up and your current religion, the society and culture you grew up in.

· Begin to look for patterns.

· With each of these beliefs, ask yourself:  is this true about me?

· Hone in on the most potent core beliefs, eg.  is there anyone you know (or even a public figure) who is confident and who isn’t egotistical?  You are slowly undoing those limiting core beliefs.

· Now think of an affirmation that is in direct contrast with each limiting core belief, and so begin to erase the core belief so that you have a new way of being.

· Going back into past lives can also be a way of beginning to unweave some of those beliefs you’ve taken lifetime after lifetime.  You can use Denise’s book, Past Lives, Present Miracles, or Denise’s past lives meditations on iTunes or hayouse.com.  The latter can even be used at bedtime and will work in your dream state to help unweave those core beliefs.  Denise’s CD, 33 Spirit Journeys, also includes a meditation to reprogram your subconscious and relinquish these beliefs.

 

Denise’s Wisdom of the Week:

· “Times of testing come when you are at that point of stepping up to the next level.”

· “The better you feel about yourself, the better others feel about themselves around you.”

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JOYOUS, SPARKLING CONFIDENCE AND SELF-ESTEEM: THE SECRET OF PHYSIOLOGY

News from Denise and Summerhill Ranch:

Because of the many gophers on the Linns’ ranch, the coyotes from surrounding areas have been visiting regularly, with the result that the goats have been in danger.  Listen to the show to hear about Denise’s ingenious way to protect her goats!

Also, Ghandi, one of Denise’s goats (who is also known as Chewey), has taken to chewing on Denise’s hair.  The other goats have cottoned on to this habit, so Denise now has to tie her hair up when in the goats’ company!

Using your body for self-esteem

The way you hold yourself sends subconscious messages deep inside of you and those subconscious messages can be positive or negative.  Even if you have a negative self-image, you can use your body to shift out of it – if you do it on a continuous basis, it can permanently shift you out of that place.

How do you do this?

· Imagine a time when you felt really confident.  If you can’t think of such a time, imagine that you do, in the future, feel really confident.  As you get that image, how do you hold your body?  How do you hold your shoulders?  How do you breathe?  How do you speak?  How do you hold your chin, or your forehead?  How do you stand or sit?

· As an exercise, you can compare 2 positions:  first put your head down, slump in your chair and take shallow breaths – notice how you feel.  Now get into the next position:  shoulders back, arms above your head, look up and smile, and take deep breaths.  Notice the difference in how you feel now.  In the latter position, it is impossible to feel like a “loser”.

· You can change your emotional state simply by using your body.

· For the next 7 days, shift your position – stand as if you were confident, as if you were a strong, radiant person; stand as if nothing anyone says could hurt you.  As you do this again and again, it becomes a habit.  As these messages continue to flood into your subconscious mind, your subconscious mind starts to believe them.

Other ways to use your body to increase confidence and self-esteem

· Find out who you want to be.  What kind of person do you want to be (a peaceful person/a wise person/an uplifting or joyful person) and what type of energy do you want to project to the world?  Get clear on that and adjust your body so that this is who you become.

· Eg.  if you want to be a peaceful person, imagine the way in which a peaceful person would hold their body.  How would they walk/move/breathe?  Now adjust your body until you get into that exact position and feel it – you’re anchoring that feeling into that position.  As you move your body into that position again and again, you reinforce that you are a peaceful person.  It’s simply a matter of shifting your identity.

Denise’s Wisdom of the Week:

“The way you hold yourself sends subconscious messages deep inside of you.”

A reminder to join the fun:

Denise has an additional Facebook page called:  Fabulous fun, funky factoids – join the Fun Factoid Family and share some fun factoids if you know some!!

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JOYOUS, SPARKLING CONFIDENCE AND SELF-ESTEEM: MAGICAL AFFIRMATIONS AND VISUALIZATIONS

News from Denise and Summerhill Ranch:

After discovering that Denise wasn’t happy about him hanging around in the house, and after an unsuccessful attempt to hang out with the dogs, Mork, Denise’s resident rooster has finally found his “people” on the ranch – the goats!!  He goes walking with them in the morning and doesn’t mind that they nibble on his feathers.

What is visualization and what is an affirmation:

· An affirmation is something that you say, think or write over and over again, that affirms something you desire. 

· A visualization is where you use your imagination to literally visualize, to literally imagine, that truth or dream that you desire, as if it were so.

Why would you want to do visualizations:

· According to research done, mental practices of eg. a sport has the same value as the physical practice – simply visualizing it can develop the skill almost as much as doing it.  Studies regarding this include: 

· The same brain patterns in weight lifters who were actually lifting weights and those weight lifters who visualized themselves lifting weights

· An exercise psychologist from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio compared to groups of people – one group that went to the gym and the other group that visualized themselves exercising.  Both groups experienced increase in muscle strength and the latter group’s muscle strength remained for 3 months after the mental training! 

· In other studies, it has been shown that one can increase the blood flow to a particular part of the body simply by visualizing it.

· A man in prison for 9 years visualized himself playing a chess game in spite of the fact that he didn’t have a chess set or an opponent to play against.  Eventually, after he got out of prison, he beat the world chess champion!!

Using visualizations and affirmations together:

· When you use an affirmation together with the visualization, it deepens your ability to impact your body and your consciousness. 

· If you’re dealing with health issues, here is an affirmation – Denise uses it:  “I have legendary healing abilities!” 

· Visualizations and affirmations can increase your immune system. 

· But it’s not enough just to say it – your subconscious mind will not register it as a truth unless you feel it to be so.

Tips to step more into joyous, sparkling confidence:

· Start with an affirmation – think it, speak it and write it down.  Use an affirmation that works:  it has to be something that’s real and that your subconscious believes, eg. if your affirmation is “I’m a millionaire”, your subconscious doesn’t find that believable and sabotages you.  Instead of saying:  “I’m a confident person”, say:  “I’m becoming more and more confident”.  So you’re activating something that’s occurring now – whatever your confidence level, you’re becoming more and more confident.  Then think it, speak it and write it down.

· Be present with the affirmation every time you say it – you do this by changing the emphasis each time you say it, eg:

“I am becoming more and more confident.”

“I am becoming more and more confident.”

“I am becoming more and more confident.”

· Imagine it to be so; feel it to be so.  How would you hold your body if that were so?  How would you sit if you were really confident?  Scan your past – when in your life did you feel really confident?  Find that time, activate that memory.  Do the affirmation over and over, but really feel it each time.  It’s as if you’re creating a new path through the grasses of your mind and whenever your mind wants to go back to the old path, you’ve got to make this new path through the grasses of your mind, over and over – and let the grasses grow over the old path.

· Say the affirmation in the present tense, not in the future tense – the future never comes, it’s always in the future!  Use the present continuous tense:  “I am becoming more and more confident.” 

· Visualize what your life would look like if you were more confident.

· Use your emotions – there has to be an intensity to your affirmations; feel it!  Feel confident – feel how exciting it is to feel confident.

· If you apply all these techniques together, it works!

Denise’s Wisdom of the Week:

About goal-setting:  “Shift the focus from what you want to do to what you want to be; how you want to feel.  When you focus on how you want to be, how you want to feel, and how you want to experience life around you, the things you want to do and have start to flow out of that much more easily.  The more joy you activate, the easier it is to create the life you desire.”

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Miracle Box for a New Year

News from Denise and Summerhill Ranch:

The goat platform, a.k.a. goat tree house, that David (Denise’s husband) is building her for Christmas is almost complete!  After researching on the internet, Denise found that she is not the only person who has a goat tree house, nor is she the only person who is passionate about goats – there are 25 “goats in trees” calendars on Amazon with rave reviews by customers!!

The magic of 2012:

So many people view 2012 as a pivotal year that whether or not it is astrologically “pivotal”, there is a powerful collective unconsciousness focusing on 2012 – that alone will make it a pivotal year.  So get ready for it; prepare for it.  In doing so, you are creating a vitality and an energy for the coming 12 months.  Hold the intention that this year is your year – that this is the time when all those challenges turn around and things change for you.  You can create the space for this to occur, part of this is to clutter clear and also create a miracle box and a God box.

Clutter Clearing:

· If you want to set the energy in place for 2012, clutter clearing is modern day alchemy – go through your stuff.  In no small way, your stuff is defining your destiny!! 

· If you do not love it or use it, get rid of it.  If for some reason you can’t get rid of it, put it in storage, otherwise if you haven’t needed it in a year, get rid of it.  Find a home for it.  If you want the memories, take a photo of it – you don’t need to keep the thing.  By doing this, life begins to change in almost magical ways. 

· Look at the reasons that you’re keeping something – if it is to please a relative who gave it to you, ask yourself if it is worth it to keep something in your space for days/weeks/years when you do not love it.  If the relative is deeply connected to your soul, she’ll understand.  Take a stand for your own bliss!  Take a stand for your own future and your own destiny.

· If you’re keeping something because you think you’ll need it some day, that’s a negative affirmation and you’re affirming lack in the future – throw it out.

· If “they don’t make it like this anymore”, think of having balance – is it worth keeping something for that reason if you don’t love it or use it?  It’s pulling down your energy.

· Start clearing the drawers in your bedroom.  Hold the intention that you are clearing space for the New Year – “I am doing this with the intent that I am creating the space for an AWESOME, INCREDIBLE 2012!!!”  Where intention goes, energy flows.

Creating Miracle Boxes:

· A miracle box gives form to the formless – you are giving form to your dreams and desires.

· Get a box – it can be a shoe box, a wooden box, a box from the craft store, or any sturdy box.

· Take some time to first focus and become still.  Ask:  why am I doing this?  What is my intent?  Connect to the deeper, underlying energy.   Your intent could be for an incredible 2012.

· Decorate the box inside and out.  Before decorating the outside of the box, write on all 4 sides, on top of and underneath the box:  “Thank you”.  Then decorate on top of that.  So underneath the decoration, there is this feeling of gratitude .  When you come from a place of gratitude, that works like a spiritual magnet to pull even more to you.  So as you write “thank you”, really feel a sense of gratitude to God/Source/Creator for the immense blessings in your life.

· You can decorate the box in any way you want.  Denise uses cards that people send her – she likes the artwork and the energy of the cards which have come with love.  You can use paint, ribbons, stick on gems with a glue gun, fabric – anything that makes your heart sing.

· On the inside cover of the miracle box, write:  “All that is in this box is so.”

· Decorate the inside of the box too.  Denise uses images that are intimate and hallowed.

· Then take a moment to be still, hold it to your heart and fill it with your heart energy; fill it with your love (love of the connection you have to Spirit, love of the goodness of the Universe); fill it with your passion and gratitude – let this energy radiate from your heart into this box.

· Cut little strips of paper.  Write a desire on each strip – don’t write it as if you’re asking, write as if it already IS.  Eg.  if you’re having trouble with your neighbour, write:  “all my relationships with my neighbours are strong, beautiful, loving and well”.  If you have a challenge with your child, write: “my relationship with …… is excellent and every day we’re making great strides to becoming even closer”. Write as if you’re already feeling satisfaction – if you want to buy a new car, write “thank you for my new car/I’m so grateful for my new car”.

· Roll up each strip of paper and tie it up like a little parchment scroll, then put it into the box.  If you’d like to, you can put crystals in your box as Denise does.

· Close the box, hold the box up over your head and offer it to Spirit, saying:  “Thank you, Creator.”

· Then put your box away and don’t think about it or open it for 4 months.  When you do open it, you’ll be amazed at what has come true.  In some cases, those things that haven’t come true are the things that you no longer desire.

God Boxes:

· A God Box contains the issues that you want to turn over to the Creator – those challenges which you’ve worked on and tried every strategy you know, but nothing seems to have worked. 

· Write down the challenge and write that you’re turning this situation over to God/Creator/Source – use whatever words work for you.  Communicate as if you were talking directly to God/Source/Creator.

· Put the strips of paper in the box and close it.  Do this with the energy that you’re really just handing this over to God.  You may want to put the God box (and even your miracle box) on your altar.

· Periodically go through this box – you will be amazed at how these seemingly impossible challenges are resolved.  That’s the power of surrender.

· The Creator dwells within you – you are handing this over to that place inside of you that is infinite, immortal, eternal, universal, that place of infinite love and infinite wisdom.  You’re not giving it to something outside of yourself – you are surrendering to that hallowed, holy place within you.

Denise’s Wisdom of the Week:

· “If you want to set the energy in place for 2012, clutter clearing is modern day alchemy – go through your stuff.  In no small way, your stuff is defining your destiny!!” 

· “What really creates miracles is when you feel it as if it were already so – when you can feel it emotionally, feel it in your body.  Feel it as if it were already so.  It is at that point where miracles start to happen.”

Affirmations for the New Year:

· “I love deeply and fully and I receive love deeply and fully.”

· “My ability to manifest my desires expands exponentially.”

· “My ability to make a difference in the lives of others, to give deeply and fully and to make the world a more beautiful place, expands exponentially this year.”