Category: Activations

What is the purpose of self-appreciation?

What is the purpose of self appreciation?

I’m often asked, what is the purpose or the ‘goal’ of self-appreciation, as if appreciating ourselves wasn’t a meaningful enough goal.
When I first started receiving my marching orders, “Appreciate yourself, there is nothing else in the world you need to do,” It felt like a relief to focus all of my attention on me for a while and off of trying to help everyone else live the easy and effortless life they were asking for. The truth is, I can’t truly serve anyone else if I don’t appreciate and value the help I am to them.

But what’s the real purpose or the bottom line of self-appreciation?

I remember when I first started contemplating the idea of having a coaching business. I thought for sure that I needed a business name other than my own name for my business. I had lunch with a friend and graphic designer who began playing with my name and my initials and within a few seconds she had created a pretty graphic that simply said, “dna.” I wasn’t sure of the look of the graphic she sketched out for me, however we both felt a huge inner YES! to “dna.” At first I thought it was simply my initials, Dawn Nocera DN and wondered what the a was about. For a while it became Dawn Nocera & Associates, but I knew that was not it since I really didn’t have any associates at the time. I tried to stretch to believe that maybe I was being guided to have more associates in the future working for me. Nothing felt quite right and the more I tried to figure out what the heck those initials stood for, the more frustrated I got.
I still hadn’t created a business, I was playing solo and I was so deep into the habit of beating myself up for not being where I wanted to be in my work, in my life, and I as much as I was helping others I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was somehow not living my life purpose, which has historically been a source of frustration for me. I needed something to help me get on my ‘right’ course. About that same time I received an invitation to attend a 4 day life-purpose mastermind event in Arizona from Baeth Davis, a scientific hand analyst. I decided that I would go and set the intention to “love myself more.”
The event was held at Miraval a magical healing spa just outside of Phoenix. So many things opened up for me during that event. Mostly because we were given space to receive more than just the work that we were doing during the mastermind event. Miraval offers spa credit with for each night you stay to use for their spa services of your choice. The first ‘miracle’ was that when I called to schedule my spa services, there was an opening for a service called, Spirit Flight with shamanic healer Tim Frank. According to the scheduling office it was ‘impossible’ to schedule this service inside of a 4 week window as he is usually booked 2 to 4 months out. I knew enough about the law of attraction to know that it was not only possible, but probable, so I asked her to look at his schedule to make sure. Sure enough there was an opening and it wouldn’t interfere with the life-purpose mastermind sessions.
Dr Frank’s spa space didn’t appear to be ‘shamanic’ It seemed very clean. There was a massage table in the middle of the room and two high back club chairs facing each other separated by a round end table near the windows. Dr Frank asked me a few questions about my family and my work. He asked me what the name of my business is and when I said, “dna” he asked what it stood for. I answered, “It’s my initials, Dawn Nocera and Associates.” He said, “No, that is not what it stands for.” I could feel myself stumbling over my reply, not sure how to respond.
I looked at him and told him, “I go to sleep at night and feel like I’ve been given the true meaning of DNA and when I wake up, I just can’t remember it!” He just sat there waiting for me to say what was next on my mind.
I leaned a little closer to him, “Do you know what DNA means for me and my work?” I could feel myself pleading a little, which has always made me feel weak and dependent. Not something I like to feel.
His response was powerful and quick. “No, but you soon will.”
For the rest of the time I was there I simply surrendered. I let go of needing to know and needing to figure it out. I let go of expectation of what would happen as a result of the experience I was about to have taking this “Spirit Flight.” I put my clothes nicely on the chair and wrapped myself in the white blanket and moved onto the massage table. I closed my eyes and let go. Every time I noticed something, I just let it go. Every time I heard something, I let it go. When my mind wanted to figure out ‘what the heck is he doing?” I let it go. At one point I was lying on my stomach on the table and the thought came to me that there has to be at least 5 people in this room doing all of this work on my body. I kept my eyes closed and I let it go. At another point when I was on my back facing upwards towards the ceiling with my eyes still closed, I felt a tiny pinch from an acupuncture needle right between my eye brows and although my eyes were closed I could see the entire universe, and I experienced myself as all that I could see. I didn’t try to figure out what was happening, I let it go too.
It was a magical experience I felt at peace with myself and with the world. I felt completely connected and aligned.
When my session was over, I walked down the path alone I heard a clear voice speak to me, “Divine Natural Alignment.”
The true meaning of DNA is “Divine Natural Alignment” Oneness.
In my life, my searching has always been a search for that connection. Some people search for facts. Facts bore me. I want to feel the deepest truth life has to offer, I want to experience the connection.
During my stay at Miraval, I experienced that connection. Every day I woke up receiving a new mantra for each day. It was so clear and so pure, that I wrote a small (just over 25 pages) ebook to share those mantras and the connection with other seekers. It is not about the book, it is about the connection, the oneness, your DNA.
When I started asking the question, “How can I help my clients understand and experience that life is so much easier than they are making it?” I again received a clear answer, “You can’t help them get it. They have to get it themselves.” And then a little extra bonus surprise, “And here are 24+ ways to activate your own DNA.” Remember DNA is your Divine Natural Alignment. With my pen in hand ready to receive, I wrote down the 24 plus simple ways to activate and turn on our own connection to Divinity as they were given to me. It was not so surprising to me that every one of he ‘ways’ was followed by “ in a state of self-appreciation without judgment, and without trying to figure it out.”
Self-Appreciation is a practice that helps you ACTIVATE a state of Divine Natural Alignment.
The biggest spiritual shift I’ve ever made was when I felt connected to the truth that DNA is my natural state. Years of thinking I needed to “be fixed” faded into a moment of knowing I wanted to be ‘found’ but not by anyone outside of myself. I wanted to be found by me. I wanted to uncover more and more of who I really am at my core, aligned and naturally divine.
Now every time I feel myself struggling or grasping to the conditions of life, “if you do this, then you’ll get that,” or try to force myself to do something that is so out of alignment with who I really am, I go to my inner guidance and I ask, “what do i need to do?” Every time my marching orders are the same, “Appreciate yourself, there is nothing else in the world you need to do,”
As I appreciate myself I return to that space of Divine Natural Alignment where everything is possible, where there is no BS (belief systems) polluting the air, where I am open to receive divine guidance, divine inspiration, and divine resources that are beyond my imagination.

Share what you appreciate about yourself below. Three times a year I do a Sacred Art of Self-Appreciation Challenge during Mercury Retrograde. It is a great way for you to practice self-appreciation while being witnessed by others in a group. ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.

January 29, 2016
What’s the difference between inspiration and activation?

This week Robin Holland, a the member of my Wealth DNA community, asked me, “I’m curious. What’s the difference between inspiration and activation?”

Robin is a luminary and a champion of the work of self-appreciation and she activates deep consciousness, just being in her presence can activate deeper awareness and understanding of your creative work in the world. She is one of those people who naturally asks questions that help inspiration to flow through you, which makes her a great ally, and consultant for Creators. She knows a lot about activation and she knows when to ask questions that help us all gain clarity.

Here is her full question and my answer:

Robin: “Dawn, I’m curious. What’s the difference between inspiration and activation? For example, several years ago I did JJ Virgin’s program and found I could release inflammation (joint aches, extra weight etc.) I picked up her exercise video this weekend, hadn’t taken on that part of the program and now looked at it. The mere watching of her has me re-inspired in implementing some changes for my health. Would you call that inspiration only? Or is she activating something. When I am attracted to a person’s blog or message or work, is an activation occurring? I am sure activations occur all the time. Curious about the underpinnings of activation.

Oh, and I appreciate myself for asking the question, for my curiosity and for my viewing of myself as a test lab.”

Dawn: “it is clear to me that “inspiration’ is something that doesn’t stick to you. An activation is something more permanent. If watching her video changes you permanently at a cellular level you are activated. If you need to keep watching her video to stay inspired to to make the changes you are inspired. I’m sure there is both in JJ she is a powerful activator and an inspiration.

I’ll give you another example of how I activate the truth of ease. When some people hear me say, “easy and effortless” the words themselves stick to them, they feel them as truth. I’ve had clients say they hear my voice in their heads when they are struggling. The activation of the truth of ease sticks to them and they recall it when they are out of alignment with ease. (I hear myself saying it too! I’ve activated my own ease.) If that same client needed to watch a tape or a hear an MP3 to be reminded of ease they aren’t yet ‘activated.’ Or they could be resisting the activation they received. Resisting the activation would be like hearing my voice say, “easy and effortless” and denying ease is for you.

Most of the time, I believe we are activated and changed by people and things that go unnoticed. Because we are not awake to what is going on with ourselves and appreciating how we change and transform daily. People’s inability to appreciate themselves and pay attention to their own subtle shifts are unconscious of the activations they receive every day.

When I think of inspiration I think of being inspired to DO something different.

When I think of activation I think of being activated to BE something different.

Activation causes us to BE more of who we are meant to be (aka Divine!) it causes DNA: Divine Natural AlignmentTM. For example, self-appreciation causes activation of our DNA, both at a chemical level and at a spiritual level. We are transformed and forever changed to BE something different.”

I remember teaching my weekly Law of Attraction classes years ago and, Pat Smith, one of the regulars talked about how she needed to be there every week to help her stay motivated.

Inspiration is great when it comes to you from your guidance and leads you to take some sort of action, but inspiration, like motivation, doesn’t instantly change you at a cellular level.

This is not the first time I’ve been asked what the difference is between inspiration and activation.

Here is the same question asked at another time by a SASA community member and my slightly different answer: (I’ll share what Amber activates in a future post, she is quite amazing too!)

Here are a few highlights:

Activation causes you to BE different.

Inspiration causes you to take action.

Activation is spontaneous.

Inspiration can be spontaneous.

Inspiration is something you are aware of.

Activation doesn’t have to come with conscious awareness.

Activation changes your DNA.

Inspiration changes your thoughts.

I’m still on the leading edge bringing the understanding of self-appreciation and DNA activation to the world.

If you have experiences, insights, or even inspirations about the topic, please share them!

January 28, 2016
What Are You Activating?

Do you know what you activate in the world? Most people have no idea how their presence activates the world around them. I’ve been sharing this part of my work with a small group of luminary women who are doing the work of The Sacred Art of Self-Appreciation. Here is what one of the women said about knowing what she activates.

[Shared with permission, reprinted from Pamelah Landers’ newsletter]

Activating Healing Abuse
by Pamelah Landers, Master Hand Analyst

Quite a few months ago, maybe about a year and 1/2, I sent a recording of me singing to my friend, Dawn Nocera. I hadn’t told her why I was sending it. Or that I was. It was a surprise.

Her email response was , “You activate healing abuse.”

I was expecting that maybe she would say, “You have a lovely voice.” Or “I love hearing you sing.” Or even, “thanks – very nice.”

But no, a life-changing response came from Dawn. Now that I know her even better, I expect nothing less than a life-changing experience when we connect! Because it always happens between Dawn and me.

At the time, it was shocking and enlivening all at the same time to hear that my voice has a specific activation.

I heal abuse? Through my singing?

Here I am last decade when I was in a group voice lessons experience. I didn’t know it then, but being in that class I was activating healing abuse with the the other students and the teacher. It’s what I do. See more below.

My “dot-connection” was remembering that in 2007 I had this knowing (it came from guidance one day) that this life time I am here to help heal abuse and neglect. God knows I had been through enough abuse to know the experience.

And I had had enough healing to also know the difference between feeling abused and neglected, and being supported, loved and taken care of.

Just imagine. My voice heals abuse.

I also connected the dots by remembering years ago, maybe decades ago, somebody told me that my work in life is about my voice.

It would be a few weeks after Dawn’s revelation that I would really grasp that the abuse wasn’t just from others, but self-abuse. Dawn told me that early on but it didn’t resonate. I had to grow into feeling that truth.

Over a few months, as Dawn and I continued to talk about activations, more in the background than foreground, we talked about how my art activates healing abuse when I started painting mandalas. The awareness about activating healing abuse happened about 3 months before I took an art class in Laguna Beach to learn how to paint mandalas.

When Dawn saw this, she also shared how it activated healing abuse. By December 2014, Dawn was sharing with a small group of us what we activate through our art. She sees it. It’s one of Dawn’s superpowers. She sees truth. She activates truth. So her ability to see what art activates is part of this superpower gift.

By then I felt much freer to support people’s healing. I don’t need to sing. I can paint and still activate healing abuse – or self and others abusing you.

Months later I started grasping, and it deepened this year, that my PRESENCE activates healing abuse. Me being in the space. Me talking with somebody. Teaching a class. Doing a private reading or mentoring session.

Whatever I am doing or being, my presence activates healing abuse. It’s more than my voice and art. It’s all of who I am.

You know that phrase, “wherever you go, there you are.” It applies here very well.

When I checked into the suite here in Palm Desert about 10 days ago, I was at the office about 5 times within about 2 hours, interacting with the male manager.

I actually was aware that maybe the reason he forgot to give me the WIFI info was because he was asking for an activation to heal some type of abuse – self or from others and wanted multiple visits by me. My presence, multiple times, was being asked for to activate what was happening for him. Maybe.

Maybe that’s why I had to keep going down there to ask for things, like extra spoons and how to use the remotes. He even came to my room to make sure the TV system was set up with the remotes (it wasn’t set up right which is why I couldn’t figure it out.)

Or maybe I needed what he activates (I don’t know what that is exactly.) Or maybe it was both.

What I do know is that being conscious of this now, I don’t take it personally when somebody doesn’t want t hang out with me. I get it. It may not be the right time to have abuse activated. It may be a really “wrong time.” Or they have reached their capacity for what I activate and are moving on to another process of being activated for some other part of their life.

Whatever it is, it isn’t personal. And that is a big relief!

So while I am here in Palm Desert, I continue to listen to my guidance and intuition about where to go, when and for how long. Because I know wherever I go, I activate. And I am activated by others as well. And that is also part of the mix. It’s what is. I take responsibility for it now in a way that I hadn’t been aware of before.

Because of Dawn, I know what my close friends activate so I am aware of when I am wanting a certain type of support or activation, I know who to reach out to. When I’m not ready for that, I don’t reach out to that person. It’s really simplified my interactions.

Much love,

Pamelah

To learn more about Pamelah Landers and her work, please visit her website at PamelahLanders.com. To schedule a strategy session with Dawn, fill out this form.

January 18, 2016
How to Activate The Most Empowering Superpower In The Universe

Have you ever wished you had access to some superhuman superpower that would make you all-powerful and aid you leaping tall buildings with a single bound, or simply overcome some mountainous obstacle in your life?

Well, the crazy truth is you do have the power to overcome obstacles and make massive change in your life and if you really wanted to leap a tall building in a single bound, you could do it too. The only thing you need to learn is how to activate the most empowering superpower in the universe.

I’m not talking about some magical superpower like the biological regeneration, molecular manipulation, or even a super-sonic scream, what I’m referring to is something that everyone has access to however most people have no idea how to use this superpower to their benefit or to the benefit of others.

Have you guessed what this superpower is yet?

If you guessed that your power of choice is the most empowering superpower in the universe, then you are 100% correct!

Your power to consciously choose is the most empowering superpower you’ll ever need to develop. When you consciously use your power to choose, you stop being a victim of circumstances, events, and situations in life. You become the master of every moment in your life.

When you consciously choose a path or a direction in life, you are empowered to ask for and receive help. You give yourself permission to do what you want instead of doing the things you think you “should” do. You always have a choice in how you feel, how you respond, what action you will take, and where you want to go in life.

The biggest mind disease is thinking we don’t have a choice, when in fact we always have a choice. Some decisions are harder to make than others, however there are always options.

Here are some powerful north star choices:
“I choose me!”
“I choose expansion.”
“I choose LOVE!”
“I choose to be loving.”
“I choose to receive love!”
“I choose clarity.”
“I choose life.”
“I choose to create.”
“I choose to trust.”
“I choose to have faith.”
“I choose to hope for better things.”

And my favorite, “I choose ease!”

Of all these, the most powerful choice we have is choosing LOVE & Appreciation for ourselves.

March 19, 2015
The First Law of The Universe is ORDER
I appreciate myself for being awake and conscious enough to know that if I see chaos in my outerworld it must also be present in my inner world. I appreciate myself for the great amount of self-appreciation that supports me as I recognize it is within me without judging or trying to figure it out. I simply know to be calm and breathe and be aware of my feelings. Free from any self-judgment, I can simply activate order in my life and allow it to be my reality without fighting or judging the chaos. The chaos then appears to be light and order.

This is how I manifest order out of chaos.

I am the one who gets to decided the order of values that my life flows from. This is the order I choose:
1. The First Order of being is through Grace & Ease … This is the domain of the Divine and Divine Love
2. The Second Order of being is through Self-Love & Self-Appreciation… This is the domain of the Divine in Me
3. The Third Order of being is through Activating & Using My Gifts… This is the domain of Divine expression through me.
4. The Forth Order of being is through Activating the Gifts in Others... This is the domain of Divine service to the world.
This feels like the Divine Order of my life. I am grateful that I remembered what I came here to do.

I came here to be IN LOVE WITH LIFE and to share my love with others.

This week I facilitated “The Sacred Art of Self-Appreciation Workshop” that allowed me to share more intimately the power of self-love & self-appreciation with other women and to deepen my understanding of how Divine Order supports my expansion. Facilitating activated all 4 orders of being, Divine Love, Divine in Me, Divine Expression, Divine Service. Simple. Truly simple.

Nothing feels as good to me as activating self-appreciation in the world around me and helping you learn how to authentically appreciate yourself.

Join me for my next “The Sacred Art of Self-Appreciation” workshop online.
March 2, 2015
What is an Activation Statement?
If you love affirmations and you enjoy the shifts they help you create in your life, you’ll love Activations. After posting a simple image post with an #Activation, I received some feedback and a few questions regarding the difference between the two. I wanted to share that conversation with you…

Here is a look at the post I shared about Purpose #Activations on Facebook:

‪#‎ACTIVATED‬

So What Are Activations?
- Activations are powerful statements with the sole/soul purpose of Activating your DNA – Divine Natural Alignment(TM).
- Activations “turn on” the lights of who you already are.
- Activations feel powerful the first time you say them, because they come from a place of power within you.
What is the difference between an Activation and an Affirmation?

Here is a piece of the conversation that deeped the awareness of the power of Activations:

So, What Is The Difference?
- Affirmations are convincing statements, designed to convince ourselves through “I am” statements.
- Activations are statements of truth, they “turn you on” when you say them.
- The most powerful activation statements start with “I am activated!”
- Affirmations are designed to help you change your perception of what is.
- Activations are designed to help you own the power of your truth so you can take action that flows with ease from you.
- Activations don’t have to start with “I am.”
- Activaitons ignite higher frequencies and powerful emotions.
Here are some great #Activations to help you Activate (Turn on) your DNA Divine Natural Alignment(TM).

“I am activated to peace, joy, and fun in my life.”

“I am activated to share my gifts and my light.”

“I rock!” (One of my favorites!)

“I was born for this!”

“I activate truth in this situation.”

“I am activated to higher and higher freqencies!”

You almost want to put an exclaimation point(!) at the end of each activation statement. They make you feel that good.

Affirmations without the feelings have no power, which is why learning about activation statements can really help. I love affirmations and activations. The real magic is in choosing statements that trigger feelings that light you up and make you feel more YOU!

My personal activation statement helps me stay focused on the value I provide to the world. “I activate Self-Appreciation!” And it keeps me moving, and sharing, and connecting with more people who want to activate the magic in their world.

Oh, If you want to connect with Cindy and read her affirmations book or view her activating art (yes, art activates!) you can find her at CindyHeadley.com, or check out her book on Amazon.

If you want to connect to your activation code and your soul’s purpose, consider scheduling an Activation Code Reading Session here.
February 12, 2015