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 13^th Century, it was used as an anaesthetic for surgical procedures (since anaesthesia didn’t exist then) because it decreased the pain. 

· In the 16^th 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. 
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   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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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!

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, 6^th September, is also Denise’s 5^th 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.”

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 2^nd time – the 1^st time was to cleanse the old, the 2^nd 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!”

FABULOUS GLORIOUS ABUNDANCE – FENG SHUI FOR PROSPERITY PART II

News from Denise and Summerhill Ranch

Denise got back from Australia I Can Do It event, and Mork was very excited to see her.  Read her August Newsletter (Mumblings & Musings) to know about Denise’s other meaningful and somewhat humorous experience.

An abundance tip

NB:  If you’re using the techniques mentioned on the radio shows, know that they don’t have to be perfect eg. your collage doesn’t have to be perfect.  Keep going and the energy you put out will come back to you.

About Feng Shui

Feng shui doesn’t give you wealth, but it will support you as you move in the direction of prosperity.

There are a lot of reasons you could be struggling with prosperity:  Past life Karma –  but you can change it, you are not stuck with the past.  It can be ancestral programming, childhood programming, programming from society, culture, religion, your astrology, etc.  All of this can be changed.

About Clutter clearing

Clutter clearing – if you want more flow of finances in your life, you need to have more flow in your home.  The more flow (qi, energy, life force) you have, the more finances can flow into your home.  Go room by room – if you don’t love it or use it, move it out of your energy field (home). 

Specific tips regarding your wallet/purse  and clutter clearing:

1. Keep it clean and don’t use it as a trash bag because this influences your financial flow.
2. Avoid wallet clutter – if you open your purse, and if you haven’t used something and don’t love it, clear it out.  You should not have the energy in your purse clogged  - clear it out.  Clear out extra cards and credit cards – keep only what you use.  A purse/wallet represents wealth.
3. When you go out, do not put your purse on the floor (especially the bathroom floor).  Treat it as if it’s a metaphor for your wealth.  Keep your purse elevated and don’t put it on the table you eat off – GERMS!!
4. Don’t disrespect the money in your purse – respect even the coins and put them in the coins section because lots of money starts with a small amount of money.  Honour even the penny or dime you pick up and give thanks because prosperity is flowing to you.  If you stop the flow in any area, even in a small area, it stops the flow in a big area.  If your bills are crumpled, uncrumple them and lay them in some order.
5. Feel abundant - Put $100 bill in your wallet/purse, hide it and don’t spend it.  This represents feeling abundant but also having financial reserves when you need them; it’s a metaphor.
6. NB:  Feng shui is a metaphor.  The most powerful Feng Shui is symbolic feng shui  Let your purse or wallet be symbolic of that
7. Energise your wallet/purse by doing blessings, spraying it with essential oils, putting it out in the sun and asking the abundant sunshine of our beautiful planet to energise it.  If you have an altar, put your purse on the altar for 24hrs, whatever feels energizing and abundant to you. 
8. Buy thoughtfully – when you’re buying that purse, make sure that you love it.  See how it feels on your shoulder – if it’s uncomfortable, chances are that from  a feng shui perspective, it’s going to be an uncomfortable journey to proseperity.  Make sure it has enough compartments and you don’t have to search through your purse to find things, because this can be a metaphor about how you have to find your way financially too and it’s not easy.  You must be able to find things in your purse easily.
9. Your purse should be secure, not open to the Universe.  It should have some way of fastening/closing to secure your wealth and abundance.

More Feng Shui suggestions (See Part I for more info):

The entrance to your home:

· The entrance to your home is a metaphor for your entire home and a powerful metaphor for prosperity.  Oil the door, make the entrance beautiful and comfortable.

· The pathway to your home should have no obstacles if possible.  It should be well lit and clean.

· The entrance is an “energy greeter” – it should have anything that feels symbolic of welcoming people who come inside.  You’re saying:  Welcome qi, welcome abundance/life eg.  have plants, buddhas or any beautiful, welcoming thing at the entrance.. 

Symbols as ornaments in your home: 

· The sailing ship representing abundance or the fat Buddha (see Part I)

· The dragon – symbolic of wealth/abundance.  Get a fat dragon full of energy and life force, and put it where it feels good.  Get coins and put the dragon on top of the coins activating the dragon energy into your home/life symbolically. 

The source of your money-making:

· Think about the way you make your money - eg.  Phone, computer, mail box, etc. 

· Make sure this particular place is clean, workable. 

· Tape some money or an affirmation under it.

The Kitchen:

· The stove burners are symbolic, so have them working and use them. 

· The far left back burner is a symbolic area of wealth – use it!

· Never leave an empty pot on a burner since this indicates a lack. 

· Kitchen should be clutter clear. (Also see Part I for more info). 

· Put things in your kitchen that represent wealth eg.  fill your spice bottles, have a big bowl of fruit, have affirmations above/behind stove.

Your Desk:

· Put your desk in the command/power position

· make sure you can see the door and it’s not behind you. 

· Do not have a window behind you – ideally something solid eg. mountain picture

Abundance Altar:

· The creation of an altar is a ceremony that honours the fact that you are opening to the flow of the Universe. 

· There is no scarcity in the Universe – the more you have the more you can give.

Water:

· Water represents financial flow (greatest symbol of prosperity).

· Inside entrance you might put a blue/black rug representing water/a river of opportunity flowing into this home. 

· The water must be coming towards you, not flowing away from you, eg.  waterfall poster as if water is flowing towards you. 

· When you’re working with water, have the intention (because intention is everything) that this water is activating even more abundance. 

· Ideas of water symbols:  Pictures of oceans,rivers, symbolic art, blue lava lamp with the intention of water, home fountains (have the intention that more and more abundance is flowing to you.).  Fish (goldfish or any fish that give you joy – in feng shui, 8 gold fish and 1 black goldfish is traditional ), a Zen aquarium, aquarium with plastic plants. 

· Don’t put the aquarium in your bedroom – put it anywhere else (you can use the 3 door gate or compass school feng shui system – see Part I) with the intention that you’re activating abundance. 

· Put a plug/shells over open drains – so that this water is not moving away from the home, symbolically blocking the flow. 

· Toilet seats should be closed for the same reason.

For a list of feng shui practitioners, go to Denise’s website, http://www.deniselinn.com/

Denise’s Wisdom of the Week:

“An altar gives form to the formless!”

“When life isn’t happy just embrace what is.”

Affirmations:

All that comes through this phone (or source of money-making, whatever it may be eg. computer) comes from a spirit of joy and enthusiasm.

FABULOUS GLORIOUS ABUNDANCE – THE SECRET POWER OF GIVING

News from Denise and Summerhill Ranch

Denise has been teaching in Sydney and Melbourne in Australia at the I Can Do It conference.  Denise thanks everyone who made her feel so welcome in Australia.

The power of a prosperity consciousness:

When we have a poverty consciousness, we want to hold on tight to what we have.  But from a metaphysical point of view, it stops the flow.  You want prosperity to flow in and in order for it to flow in, you need energy to flow out.  So shift that consciousness from holding on to just letting things flow.

Reasons to give:

1. When you give, it creates this positive feedback loop and makes you happier – the happier you are, the more likely you are to give, and the happier you are!  And the happier you are, the easier it is to create abundance.

2. Part of the reason you want to give is that it puts you into a positive mind state and when you’re in a positive mind state, it’s so much easier for those seeming miracles to flow to you because the things you desire can come in ways that you least expect when you’re open to it. So giving is one way to open your heart so you’re more open to it.  There are different ways to give (not just financial).

3. Giving activates the strength in you.  It also releases serotonin, dopamine and oxytocin (chemicals in the brain that make you feel good).  Giving also strengthens the immune system – there is a decrease both in the intensity and the awareness of physical pain.  There’s a reduction in negativity, chronic hostility and even things that damage the body (eg. walking into the wall).  There are all kinds of benefits to every system in the body – all the glands and organs are provided by the stress relief that giving gives.

4. There is the Helper’s High – a rush of euphoria.  They’ve found that not only is there an instant rush, but it lasts over time and gives you emotional and physical well-being.

What to remember when giving:

· Give in the area you want to receive – it gets the flow going, eg.  if you want a home, give to the homeless.  The giving doesn’t have to be financial – you can give of yourself/your time/your energy.  If you want a new car, volunteer to drive for people who are not able to drive.

· DO NOT GIVE AS A SACRIFICE!  If you do, it will not work to get the flow going because you feel like you’re giving up something and you may resent it.  Also, don’t give what you can’t afford to give (for the same reason).  Monitor your giving – give in an area that gives you joy and feed your soul.  The more your soul is fed, the easier it is for the Universe to just shower you with abundance.

· If you feel that you don’t have time to give, give with the attitude of:  the more I give, the more time I have.  Whatever attitude you give with, it will come back to you 10-fold in that area.  Do not give out of fear or out of sacrifice.

To practise unconditional giving:

· If you’re struggling with attaching conditions to your giving, do not give to someone who does not appreciate what you give – if you feel you’re better than that person, you’re diminishing them.  And if you feel resentful because they don’t appreciate your gift, that diminishes you.  Don’t see people as needy – see them as having all the resources they need within them.

· Give something to somebody who doesn’t know it’s from you (give anonymously) – that way you won’t be upset if they don’t thank you because they didn’t know it was from you. eg.  put a note/card in a shopping cart:  “Whoever gets this cart next, I’m sending you blessings for a wonderful day”.  This doesn’t cost you much money.  The person who gets it finds it’s usually exactly what they need.

Ways to give that aren’t financial:

· Share your expertise with the local school, eg.  go in and read to the kids

· Clutter clearing – clear out your closet and bless someone with your excesses.  And when you give these things, put blessings in them, eg.  fold the clothes neatly, put your hand on them and say:  “whoever will wear this, I gift you with my love/my blessings.  May your day be brighter.”  Put that energy into the clothes.  It will empower the person.

· Contact your local hospice to be of support to the people somehow – be with them in their time of transition into spirit.

· If you’re creative, give your art/creative gifts to others.

· Be a volunteer at your local zoo, park, etc.  Do whatever feeds your soul.

· Be part of a literacy program – help children and adults to read.

· Volunteer at an animal shelter and give energy, give love.

· Food bank – buy an extra item of food and donate it to your local food bank.

· Local children’s hospitals and community centers

· Some financial ways to give:  Kiva (microloans), Heiffer International, PAWS (Performing Amimals Welfare Society)

NB:  Keep the flow going – give of your time/energy/finances and do it with the intention that “I’m allowing the Universe to flow into me as the energy flows out.

The Power of Receiving:

· There’s a direct correlation between your ability to receive and your ability to give without limits.

· True giving is where you give without any conditions.  If you can’t receive, chances are that you have some subconscious conditions on your giving.  So if you really want that flow to go, you need to be willing to receive.  So when the Universe is gifting you with something, don’t feel unworthy or that you don’t deserve it, just say:  “Thank you!”

·  The way to start is if someone compliments you, say:  “Thank you so much”, take it in and embrace it.  The gift of a compliment is no less a gift than a physical gift.  If you don’t accept it, you diminish the giver’s energy. 

· When you can receive as a spiritual discipline, so you can give and more will flow into your life.  There is no limitation to the gifts of the Universe.  There is no scarcity – there is enough abundance in the world to feed everyone.

Denise’s Wisdom of the Week:

“Abundance can come in many ways.  Do not limit the way the Universe can give to you.”

“When you can give with a full heart without expecting anything back, it builds up your spiritual bank account – it actually fills you spiritually.  The giving isn’t so much for the other person, it’s for you.”

“Be the kind of friend to others that you want others to be to you.  You train people how to treat you by the way you treat yourself.”

Affirmations:

The more I give of my time, the more time I have.  The more I give of my energy, the more energy I have.  The more I give of my finances, the more finances I have.

FABULOUS GLORIOUS ABUNDANCE – THE POWER OF BEING PRECISE ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT

News from Denise and Summerhill Ranch

There was a fair in Denise’s area and she loves it, especially the animals. She’s headed to Australia to the I Can Do It Conference this week.

7 Steps about being precise:

1. In order to produce new results, realise that you’re already producing results.  They may not be what you want, but they are the results you’ve created.  Look at what is (where are you right now) and be precise about where you are and what results you have eg.  I have a 2^nd mortgage on my house; I make X amount of money.  This is what the bills are.  ie.  Begin to assess where you are very precisely.

2. Start to watch your language to yourself and others.  Be careful about the generalizations you’re using eg.  you have to work hard to make money, it takes money to make money, I’m too old to learn a new skill.  Every time you find yourself making a generalization about abundance/prosperity, ask yourself:  Is that true?  If you can find even 1 person who proved this generalization untrue, then the generalization is inaccurate.  You need to delete those inaccurate generalizations that are forming limitations.  It’s often not the generalizations that you are aware of that are dictating your destiny, it is the ones in the background.  If the generalization is untrue, come up with a new one eg.  I can learn a new skill no matter how old I am.  Begin to create new thought forms

3. Know your outcome.  Define precisely what you want (what, with who, when, where, etc.).  Abundance is energy, so you need to define exactly where you want it to go – where intention goes, energy flows.  And where attention goes, energy flows.  Define what it is that you really want.  Ask these questions:

a.      What is it that I really want? Write it out

b.     Why do I want it? 

c.      How will this change my life?

d.     How will this affect others in my life?

e.      Am I really ready for these things to occur?  Sometimes it’s more fun to want things and we’re not equipped for these things to happen.

4. Be precise in your thoughts and your language.  Have what you want written out precisely, but your thoughts also need to be precise – align your thoughts and your language with your intentionality.

5. Ask for support.  Ask advice from people that know, eg.  if you want to be abundant, ask someone who is successful and abundant.  If you’re asking for financial support, make sure you include the needs of the person you’re asking.  If you’re asking for advice, make sure you give something in return – make sure there is an exchange of energy.

6. DO NOT GIVE UP!!!  Keep going!  Work at it from another angle.  Work on your precision, being really clear.  Once you get that clarity, ask:  is this in alignment with my soul?  Is this really what I want?

7. After you are so clear, let it go.  Just let it go and give it over to the Universe/God.

Denise’s Wisdom of the Week:

“If you want the flow to keep going, Celebrate the small wins, even the tiniest wins.  As you celebrate it you allow that flow to increase…With abundance it’s energy – you want it to flow.”

“Celebrate the wins of others – it increases the flow.”

“It doesn’t have to be perfect it just has to be done.  So many times our dreams get put on hold because we wait until it’s perfect and good enough.  It may never be good enough. But just do it anyway.”