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DENISE LINN, a registered member of the the Maori of New Zealand. She also learned healing learned from these varied experiences is that we Cherokee tribe, has studied not only with Native from Hawaiian kahunas, trained with a founding are all one, not only with each other, but also with American teachers but also with those from Japanese Reiki master, and spent two years living Spirit. Here, she talks with Unity Magazine editor indigenous cultures around the planet, including in a Zen Buddhist monastery where she meditated KATY KOONTZ about how to become more aware the aborigines of Australia, the Zulu in Africa, and for up to 16 hours a day. The underlying truth she’s of this connection and the role synchronicity plays. UNITYMAGAZINE.ORG

22 KATY KOONTZ: In your latest book, and also in the realm of duality. If relationship you want to pursue more Energy Strands, you talk about the you stay in the heavenly universe, deeply. Or you might see raggedy- energetic connections we have with you have trouble having compassion looking cords with a person you think people, places, and things. You wrote for those who are struggling with the you have a good relationship with. that part of you doesn’t believe in dark and light of the world. If you live Sometimes what we think consciously cords because we’re really all one to simply in the realm of reacting to life’s is very different than what the soul begin with. Can you elaborate on circumstances, then you’re separate knows—and the soul loves the truth. that dichotomy? from Spirit. KK: So if you have strong, clear DENISE LINN: I had a profound KK: As long as we’re in physical form, cords with someone you don’t like near-death experience at 17 in then, you’re saying it’s best to have a much, I’m guessing that could which I understood that I was a part foot in both worlds. mean there’s something positive of all things. I realized the life I’d about that relationship. been living here on the earth (where DL: Yes. In life it’s valuable to we feel separate from the world encompass the knowledge that we are DL: Yes, there could be value there for around us) was an illusion. The one with God as well as to embrace you. For example, decades ago, I was truth is that a unified field connects the very human world around us. in business with a man who always each of us to the entire universe. So cheated me. I got so angry, but then I was hesitant to describe strands KK: How can we become more aware when I’d tune in to the cords, they connecting us to other people and of these energy strands so we can were always beautiful. One night, he places—especially the negative ones— manage them? came in a dream, and he was so kind. for fear it might contribute to this I thought, How can I be so angry with idea that we are separate from each DL: Becoming aware of your energy someone when the cords between us other and the world. cords is important because it’s difficult are always beautiful? and How can this In my experience, the more you feel to heal what you are not aware of. I person, who’s so selfish, be so kind in separate in this way, the more isolated suggest a simple meditation in which my dream? you feel; and the more you step into you visualize any place that feels safe I asked him about that while I unity and oneness, the more peace to you. I usually imagine a rolling was still in the dream, and he said, you feel and the more you contribute hill, with the ocean and mountains “There’s still more for us to play out, to the harmony of the world. in the distance, but it could be but all is well.” However, there are times in life something like a log cabin, a temple, I’d never said anything when he when we are not in that place of or a meadow. In your meditation, cheated me because I wanted him infinite oneness, and it’s in those look down and sense and “see” the to like me. I wanted everyone to like times that it’s valuable to understand cords and strands that are flowing out me! He just kept victimizing me until what we can do about the cords that of your body. In your imagination, eventually I thought, That’s it—I’m negatively impact us and how we can follow one of them to see where it going to stand up for myself. This was plump up those that have a positive goes. It might surprise you. something I’d never done before. effect on our lives. Imagine the people in your life That relationship really served me standing before you, one by one, because it inspired me to stand up for KK: So we can control these strands as you look to see what is flowing myself. My mind hadn’t understood that separate what we recognize as us between you. Are the cords thin the benefit of this relationship, but my 2019 MARCH/APRIL from the parts of us we don’t always or thick? Are they bright red as soul did. recognize as us, right? though they’re inflamed, or are they beautiful, blue, and flowing? Are they KK: If we manage to cut some of these DL: To be in balance, it’s good to have strong or shriveled up? You can also strands that bind or weaken us, can a foot in each world—in the heavenly do this for situations or places on the they reform later? realm of “I am one with all things, and earth, as well. I understand there are no victims and Sometimes you see bright, beautiful DL: They can, yes. People often get the that there is a reason for everything,” cords, so you realize this might be a idea that if they just visualize cutting

23 the cord, it ends the relationship, So when the distance between intent that drew me to her. It was not an but it’s important to understand why and manifestation is short, that’s the accident that the one house we just there’s a negative cord to that person Universe winking at you. happened to stop at was hers. and what the payoff is for having this relationship. If you don’t do that, the KK: Is there a difference between KK: It’s easy to see what that cord usually reappears. Also, it’s not coincidence and synchronicity? synchronicity was all about, but what a clean cut if you feel a bit righteous about those that aren’t as obvious? You when you do it; if you feel that they I realized the life see a synchronicity, but you’re not sure are the “bad” person, and you are the what the message is? “good” person, chances are the cord I’d been living will reassert itself. If you can cut it DL: Whenever I’m not sure what without anger or resentment, it will here on earth something means, I’ll ask myself, Well, stay unattached. Denise, if you did know what it meant, In addition, a cord that reattaches was an what would it be? And that simple can also represent an unresolved issue question makes it really easy. You just from the past. In this case, you may ILLUSION. have to trust whatever comes, even if it need to look at your own culpability doesn’t make sense. and take steps to resolve those deeper DL: Coincidences are just a kind of challenges. Negative cords can be a synchronicity. In Energy Strands, I KK: After all, if it made sense, we reflection of something in ourselves told a story about when my husband, wouldn’t need to get the answer that we are not owning, not accepting, my daughter, and I were driving from synchronistically. We’re not after our or that we haven’t healed. Washington state to California for a left brain’s help here. wedding, and we got lost in Oregon. I KK: Let’s talk about synchronicity, was driving and I kept wanting to stop DL: Right, we’re seeking our intuitive which you’ve tied to the unity you to ask for directions, and my husband sense, which is not always easy to get spoke about earlier. What importance (who was in charge of directions) kept to. That’s why I love that question. It does synchronicity hold? saying, “No, I can figure it out.” This just gets right around my brain. was long before GPS. DL: One of the things I discovered Finally, in the middle of nowhere, KK: Is synchronicity connected with during my near-death experience I said, “That’s it. The next house we déjà vu? was that the place we call heaven is come to, I am going to stop and ask not up in the sky. It’s a dimension for directions.” There was a house in DL: To me, déjà vu is not so much where we are one with all things. the distance with a very long driveway, in the realm of synchronicity. That It is a place of universal love that so I just turned onto the driveway. I feeling of I’ve been here before can coexists with the dimension we live jumped out of the car, ran up the steps, indicate someplace that you’ve been in here on earth. You can tell when and knocked on the door. Amazingly, in a past life or it can be something you’re getting close to the dimension my stepsister—who I’d completely lost you’ve dreamed about and forgotten. we call heaven because you start track of—opened the door. This lost dream may even have been experiencing more synchronicity. If precognitive, showing you a glimpse you need something and it magically KK: No way! of some future event, which is not appears, or you think about somebody uncommon. When the event later and they suddenly get in touch with DL: I hadn’t seen her for years. I didn’t happens, it seems oddly familiar. you, these are affirmations that you even know where in the world she are getting closer to the frequency of lived. We all ended up going out for KK: Is it a sign of a cord? heaven, the realm of Spirit. The more dinner that night and we reconnected. synchronicity you experience, the Some people might say that was a DL: Absolutely! It’s activating a cord to closer you’re getting. When I was on coincidence, but to me, that was a the past, a cord to the future, or a cord the other side, there was no separation synchronicity—it was much deeper to Spirit. It can be showing you that between intent and manifestation. The than just a coincidence. It was as we’re connected to the future as well as instant I had a thought, it manifested. though we had cords connecting us to the past. UNITYMAGAZINE.ORG

24 KK: You mentioned that dreams, like synchronicity, can be signs from Spirit. Sometimes what we think consciously How can we work with them? is very different DL: We are constantly getting messages from Spirit, but we don’t than what the soul knows always recognize and understand them. However, in dreams, the veil is thinner, so Spirit can speak to us more —and the soul loves the TRUTH. directly. That’s why it’s so important to remember your dreams. Most people KK: You’re speaking at Celebrate Your KK: I would imagine it’s important for in the western world do not remember Life’s International Women’s Summit men, as well, to connect with their their dreams because, as a culture, we in March. Can you comment on the divine feminine, yes? don’t believe dreams are important. importance of the rise of the feminine? Within societies that believe dreams DL: Absolutely, because within each are important, almost everyone DL: When I was in Bophuthatswana in woman is a yang energy, and within remembers them. Africa with Credo Mutwa, the spiritual each man is a yin energy—each of head of the Zulu people, he said that us have both. To truly balance the KK: That makes sense. for our planet to heal, we need the masculine and the feminine in our women to arise. It is the women, he primarily yang world, we need both DL: Einstein said every major discovery said, who will promote the rebalancing women and men to honor their he ever made came from a dream. They of the earth. It seems to me that we feminine yin energy. are a phenomenal resource. You can have gone into a very yang time in the actually program your dreams to give evolution of our planet. We’ve become you certain answers when you go to very technological, very linear, and Denise Linn, is an internationally sleep. Let’s say you wanted to connect very left brain, which is great in many respected healer, writer, and with a loved one. Hold something that ways. We have advances in medicine, spiritual teacher. She’s an expert in they owned before you go to sleep, or communication, technology, and wisdom from indigenous cultures look at a photograph of them, and just so many other areas, but we’ve lost around the world as well as in focus on them as you’re drifting off. something along the way. We need feng shui, space-clearing, reading Say to yourself, Tonight, I ask that my the yin, too, which involves living in signs, and dream interpretation. loved one come and visit me. harmony with nature, going inward, Her latest book is Energy Strands: Or maybe you have a problem and revering our dreams, connecting with The Ultimate Guide to Clearing want to ask what direction you should our intuition, and nurturing ourselves the Cords That Are Constricting take. Simply say, for example, Tonight, and others. Your Life (Hay House, 2018). give me a message in regard to my The International Women’s Summit Visit deniselinn.com. work—should I quit now or should is about attaining that balance. It isn’t I wait a year? just an arena for women to step into Be sure you write your dreams their power and be willing to stand up Denise Linn will be down as soon as you wake up. In for themselves. It’s also about gaining one of several speakers laboratories, where they research your inner goddess, that place of inner at Celebrate Your Life’s dreams, they’ve shown that 10 minutes knowing and trusting your intuition International Women’s 2019 MARCH/APRIL after your dream, it’s gone, and even and dreams—all qualities associated Summit on March 7–10, only five minutes later, you can with being a woman, qualities that, we 2019, in Phoenix, Arizona. usually remember just snippets. But as a society, have lost. You don’t have to immediately after a dream, it’s possible be a man or enter into a male energy to Unity is a sponsor of the to recall the whole dream, so always be strong. You can embrace the depth event. For more information write it down as soon as you can. Even of the divine feminine and be powerful and to register, visit if you think you’re going to remember beyond measure. That’s what occurs in celebrateyourlife.com/ it, usually you need to write it down. the Women’s Summit. iws-2019.

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