Sacred Space: Clearing and Enhancing the Energy of Your Home

From the Publisher This book literally flew out the door when we published it. It still sells enormously well. SACRED SPACE and THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF SIGNS are the two books by Denise Linn that readers love most.Denise Linn is one of the most important spiritual teachers and healers at work today. Her many books have been enormously popular with readers--particularly SACRED SPACE, THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF SIGNS, and QUEST. Ballantine will continue to publish this important author in the years ahead. SACRED LEGACIES: HEALING YOUR PAST AND CREATING A POSITIVE FUTURE will be forthcoming in February 1999 and ALTARS: BRINGING SACRED SHRINES INTO YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE will be published in fall 1999.Joanne WyckoffSenior EditorBallantine Books From the Inside Flap mes are mirrors of ourselves. Through them we can interface with the universe."Everything in the universe is composed of constantly changing energy, including your home and its contents. This energy can profoundly influence your ability to be healthy, loving, creative and abundant. By clearing and enhancing this energy you can transform your home into a sanctuary which radiates positive energy in ever-expanding circles.In this fascinating and unusual book, Denise Linn shows you how you can dramatically change your life by changing the environment in your home or office. She combines information from her own Native American heritage with material she has personally collected from native traditions around the world to bring you practical, easy-to-use exercises for balancing the physical, emotional and spiritual energies in your home, including how to:* Diagnose and solve problems with stagnant home energies.* Use sacred sound, spirit smoke, mystic symbols and purifying f Everything in the universe is composed of constantly changing energy, including your home and its contents. This energy can profoundly influence your ability to be healthy, loving, creative, and abundant. By clearing and enhancing this energy you can transform your home into a sanctuary that radiates positive energy in ever-expanding circles. Denise Linn shows you how you can dramatically change your life by changing the environment in your home or office. She combines information from her own Native American heritage with material she has personally collected from native traditions around the world to bring you practical, easy-to-use exercises for balancing the physical, emotional, and spiritual energies in your home, including how to diagnose and solve problems with stagnant home energies; use sacred sound, spirit smoke, mystic symbols, and purifying fire for clearing home energy; discover the personal numerology of your home; use the ancient art of Feng Shui for the placement of objects in your home; call house angels and totems as home protectors; use rituals to rid your home of unwanted spirits; and instantly uplift the energy in your home. Your home can resonate, sing, and pulse with Light energy that can touch the lives of everyone around you. Your home can become Sacred Space. Denise Linn guides spiritual sojourners from all over the world on Quest journeys, and conducts workshops and seminars in Europe, Australia, and North America. She is the author of Sacred Space , The Secret Language of Signs , and The Hidden Power of Dreams . She lives in Seattle. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 1 xa0 HOME AS BEING xa0 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. xa0 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. xa0 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. xa0 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 order—to 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. xa0 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. xa0 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. xa0 Your home can be a transmitting station for the Light! xa0 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. xa0 House as "Being" xa0 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: xa0 Everything is composed of constantly changing energy. xa0 You are not separate from the world around you. xa0 Everything has consciousness. xa0 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. xa0 EVERYTHING IS ENERGY xa0 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. xa0 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. xa0 WE ARE NOT SEPARATE FROM THE UNIVERSE AROUND US xa0 There is nothing "out there" that isn’t you. Because of the linear way in which we perceive reality I don’t think that we can ever understand this intellectually, communicate about it verbally or even write about it in a comprehensive way. However, I do believe that deep inside each of us we all do know this. I believe that inside each of us is a longing, a yearning, and a remembering of an exquisite place of oneness and unity beyond time and space. xa0 Many of the difficulties people are experiencing at this time in the evolution of our world stem from one erroneous belief—the idea that we are separate beings, unconnected to our planet, to its animals and the trees, separate from each other, and sometimes even divorced from ourselves. The Western belief is that we are separate from our living spaces and our environment. The idea that we can exist independently of our environment is an illusion. And it is an illusion with potentially grave consequences for our health and happiness. It is the belief in this illusion which makes possible the epidemic of global pollution, racial hatred, wars, greed, and so many other ills which fill our newspapers and trouble our sleep. xa0 As we move toward the new millennium, huge changes in technology, natural resources and the force fields surrounding the planet are taking place. In our modern, Western culture, it is often difficult emotionally to feel our connection to things further than our private domain. Yet it is essential now that we not only expand our "identification of self" to our personal environments but that we extend our "sense of self" beyond the boundaries of time and form to encompass not just our home but our community and our planet. Extending your "sense of self" to your home is a good first step, and an essential one. xa0 Our planet is changing so quickly that it is affecting deeply the way we relate to each other and to our environment. Though advances in technology have added much to our lives, they have also separated us from the environment around us. In our dash for technology we have "forgotten" the primordial wisdom that all creatures and all things on our planet are connected. We have "forgotten" that we are connected within a living pulsating universe—a universe that sings with life, that pulses with intensity of spirit. We have forgotten that everyone and everything has a living energy. Read more