Denise Linn - Sacred Space: Clearing and Enhancing the Energy of Your Home

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This book is dedicated to our daughter,
Meadow Marie, who always
has a Sacred Space in our hearts

Advance Praise for Sacred Space

"Get out your highlighter. This is a book youll underline in a hundred places. It is filled with practical, proven techniques for managing energy. Drawing upon the wisdoms of the cultures, Denise Linn writes with knowledge and a beautiful, clear style. I recommend this book for anyone whose intention is to bring heaven and earth together in every way possible, starting with the personal environment."

Gloria Karpinsky Author of Where Two Worlds Touch

"This fascinating book will open your eyes to powerful energy fields that can be used to create harmony and love in your home, your head, and your heart."

Susan Jeffers, Ph.D. Author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to:

David Linn, my husband and life companion for support and love; Claire Brown for your excellent editing skills and friendship;

Brand Fortner Ph.D., my brother, for scientific editorial assistance;

Sandra Holtzinger for helping me understand the importance of home;

Marika Burton for your beauty and magic;

Vicky Patterson, Astrid Neeme, Credo Mutwa, Karen Kingston for contributions to this book;

Kathy Lynch, Rebecca Nelson, Patti Nugent, Barb Kelly, Karl Bettinger and Paulina Howfield for the depth of your love.

And thanks to Lynne Franks, soul sister and friend.

HOME AS BEING

Our homes are mirrors of ourselves. They reflect our interests, our beliefs, our hesitations, our spirit and our passion. They tell a story about how we feel about ourselves and the world around us. A home is more than a place to lay your head and seek comfort from the elements. It is a place where you can interface with the universe. It is a crossing point in time and space that can attract energy or repel energy.

Your home can be a place of renewal and hope. It can be a sanctuary within which you can retreat and recharge during the changing times, an oasis of peace amidst turmoil. Homes can be places of healing and regeneration. Not only can your home help to strengthen and heal you, but your home can be a template of harmony within which you and all who enter can be invited to step up to a higher level of spiritual frequency.

Your home can be the overlap between the inner universe and the outer universe, the crossing point between inner and outer realities. It can be a focus point for magic and power and spirit. Your home can be a power point, a vortex of energy on the planet. Like an echo heard throughout infinity, your home can be a transmitter of luminous energy. The energy radiating from your home can be like a small stone dropped into a still pool of the universe, whose ripples will be felt at the farthest shore of the cosmos.

As the twentieth century comes to a close, our homes are going to be increasingly important. It is now essential that our homes become sacred places as we solidify our place in the universe. It is valuable to infuse our living spaces with a sense of cosmic orderto bring integrity into our homes so that they are in balance with our basic beinginess and the flow of creation. Our homes can offer sanctuary and renewed hope during times ahead which may be potentially difficult, yet absolutely exhilarating. They can provide us with a sacred space where we can remember who we are and remember why we are here on the planet at this time.

In the evolution of our earth, as we approach the end of the millennium, there has never been a more powerful time to be alive. Now is a time filled with potential for change, for realization of our dreams, for evolution on both a personal and a global basis. All around us we see a world increasingly polluted and fraught with conflict as ancient prophecies come to fruition. And yet, despite these grim manifestations of possible doom, there is an underlying sense of hope.

We know in our hearts that an opportunity, golden and glistening as a new morning, sits waiting just beyond the horizon. The question is, how can we take the opportunity available at this time and use it to transform our lives, our relationships and our world? One of the keys to answer this question lies in the environment around you, and more specifically your home. There are ways that you can transform this energy. By harmonizing and clarifying the energy in your home, you can open channels within your living space, so that your home is a collection point for energy. Your home in turn will radiate this energy in the form of love and light to the rest of the world and the universe beyond.

Your home can be a transmitting station for the Light!

This book is about energy. It is a book about understanding the energy in your home and how it interacts with the energy of the universe. My intention in creating this book is to show you ways in which you can cleanse and accentuate the energy in your home so that not only does it provide a sanctuary for you, your family and friends, but it can also be a vortex of radiating energy that is beneficial for many others. In this book you will learn many different techniques, some which have been used by shamans and healers for centuries, to cleanse the energies in your home. You also learn how to enhance and intensify the energy in your home so that your home becomes a ray of hope and light in the shifting times of change.

House as "Being"

To understand how to cleanse and clear the energies in your home it is essential to understand how our living spaces fit into the context of life around us. To do this it is valuable to understand three basic tenets that underlie all the space-clearing techniques you will be learning:

Everything is composed of constantly changing energy.

You are not separate from the world around you.

Everything has consciousness.

Understanding these tenets leads to the awareness that: your home is composed of energy; it is not separate from you; it is an evolving being. This book is about understanding that your home is an evolving energy that has consciousness. It has a "Beingness" with which you can communicate; a "Being" that can provide protection and healing for you and your family as you understand and honor its livingness. Learning to interface with your living spaces can contribute to creating a life that is balanced and in harmony with the energy of all that surrounds you.

EVERYTHING IS ENERGY

Ancient Native Americans understood that all forms of life, from the clouds, to the trees, to the buffalo that roamed the Great Plains, were all transient swirling patterns of energy. This is an understanding that goes back to the most primordial times in cultures spanning the world. It is one of the most basic underlying perceptions of life held by native cultures. Our present-day concept that the universe is fixed and staid is dramatically at odds with this fundamental insight.

All life is energy. We are immersed in an ocean of energy. The energy that is around us flows and moves, in constant, ever-changing currents through time and space. Physicists acknowledge that the atoms and molecules in all things are in constant motion. Beneath the surface of fixed objects, existing in a linear river of time, is the reality that energy swirls into form, dissolves and coalesces once again. The world is a dance of the two opposing yet harmonious forces in the universe: yin and yang, mystery and form. The world around us and within us is an interplay of these patterns of energy in ever-fluid relationship. Energy ebbs and flows around us, not constrained by the limitation of the past and future. We are in an infinite, yet patterned, timeless drama of light and dark. Underlying this motion is a cosmic order. There is an innate harmony inherent in all life as waves of energy and pulsating electrons spiral "form" in and out of existence.