LISTENINGLISTENING ININ WITHWITH ...... DeniseDenise LinnLinn The Significance ofSYNCHRONICITY 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 MARCH/APRIL 2019 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.