Thoughts of Encouragement – I have something that I would like to add to my first article. You probably have read the article and wondered if it really was possible to remove emotional scars permanently.

Below, you will be able to read an testimonial from a doctor I have been working with. You might find it interesting. When I say that I can change your past, you have to really wonder if it is possible. I can remove emotional scars and rebuild your shattered dreams if you truly want to let them go.

“The work that LaRene does has a profound ability to help someone erase or reprogram misplaced subconscious beliefs systems. It does this as permanently as any method of technique that I have encountered thru my 28 years in the health field. I have seen it make profound changes in my patients, who have cleared memories, out of these tissues and cells but still keep getting retriggered or have a specific issue that keeps throwing them back into the same negative emotional pattern.

LaRene’s technique has been able to allow them to identify and remove this trigger or pattern out of their mental programs.The expression that I have heard repeatedly is, “It is gone, it is not there anymore. I really feel different than I did before- really different.” Time seems to have proven it’s value and even many months after the process they still report “that it is gone,” when asked for their evaluation of its effect on them.

One of the very nice things about her method is that it is very client directed and noninvasive. There is no suggestive nature to the work from the facilitator. The client is aware that they are in direct control of the process at all times and that the answers are coming from the and their mind. It is not a session of reliving an unpleasant experience or having to dredge up some ugly memory. It is gentle, very non-confrontational, but profoundly effective and permanent in its effect on the individual to change either emotional reaction to subconscious triggers and negative emotional patterns”

Dr. Randy Roberts – Soli-Wellness Center – Layton, Utah

This is one of his patients!

“LaRene’s book and seminars have been an incredible blessing in my life. With her help, I have been able to release trauma and pain that has affected not only my life but also the life of the ancestors. …Her approach is simple and profound.

Stefonia Lindsey, Wife, Mother

There are more!

“I read the book, How to Rebuild Shattered Dreams which is absolutely excellent. When I heard about the seminar, I wanted to find out all I could. LaRene had a really good presentation and I’m anxious to go back and clear out more scars. She has been blessed with a very special gift and can help almost anyone.”

Carole Winmill

If you are interested in more information, you can click here. You can purchase my books from the any of my websites. HOW TO REBUILD SHATTERED DREAMS is for adults. STONES’ QUEST series is for ages ten – seventeen. I put the principle it takes to rebuild shattered dreams in a fictional story. This is one of the reviews.

“I loved the book. I felt like I was an actual character in this book. I wish it could go on and on. It’s one of the best books I’ve read since the Harry Potter series.”
- Tyler Violette
Logan, UT

You can read more by clicking here.

I would really appreciate it if you would take a short survey telling me what you would really like to learn from a seminar. You can find it here!

I really want to know what you all think. Is the Internet the best place to hold a seminar? Is Google a good place to advertise for it? Would you rather hear about it from a news outlet? Does the Internet really work or is there a better form of media?

I dearly want to know what you think about these questions. Would you take a short survey and answer them? Before you do, let me tell you why I’m asking for your opinion. When I was four, I used to be so very happy. Then one day, someone came to the house and told us that our mother was dead. My father left the family, saying that no one wanted us. Shortly thereafter, I was split up from my siblings.

At the age of five, I fell into a deep depression, praying every time I went to bed that I would stop breathing. I wanted to leave this world. The Savior brought miracles in my life that kept me alive.

In the bible, it says all things are possible through Him. As an adult, I was in a safe, loving environment. Yet every morning, I woke up in fear. It never seemed to want to leave me.

I desired to be free of this prison. I didn’t trust people and I was so hurt from being betrayed. The word family was a bitter word to me. I had so much pain associated with it. It was hard for me to feel comfortable with my husband’s family because I didn’t trust people.

In my twenties, something happened that changed my life forever. For a split moment, as I felt the Savior’s arms around me, I saw the scars of emotional abuse that was inside of me. For that split moment, I felt His love for me. My spirit was so starved for love. I couldn’t feel anyone’s love because I had so many deep emotional scars.

After that moment, I became obsessed to learn how to remove the damage. I knew in my heart it was possible. I’m here today to say I have achieved my goal.

I do not wake up in the morning feeling blind fear. It took me until I was a first-time grandmother to do it. The reason it took me so long is because when I found something that worked, I wanted to know why it worked. What laws governed it that made it work? After I learned the laws, I watched it in other people’s lives. When I saw they received the same results, I knew I had found a true principle.

After ten years of being free, I became tired of watching strangers suffer. What I learned wasn’t something that I could explain in just a few moments, so I decided to write books on the subject. People were so taken by the possibilities that they have asked me to teach seminars.

Locally, I did. They wanted more information and I had it. I was so taken by how much I had learned over the years. I have a powerful testimony of prayer. It helped me to learn.

Today, I can permanently remove the scars from someone else’s life, even when they are victims of violent crimes. I had a lady come to me regarding a family member. They were terrified of being in a room with closed doors.

When they went to church, they had to sit next to the door with their hand on it. Something terrifying happened to them as a child and this blind fear wasn’t going away with age.

After spending an hour with me, the fear is permanently gone. They are free to enjoy life and not deal with ghosts from the past. I’m so grateful for my past, because it allowed me to free others from a prison of pain and fear. This is why I’m asking these questions. People who know me and those I have worked with want a seminar. I thought it might be great to have it online. Do you think it would work? Would you please take a survey? Click here.

Have we hit bottom in real estate? Real estate is usually everyone’s biggest investment. So what is happening within the market? According to Fortune magazine, it has been the lowest in seventeen years. So what does this mean?

Let’s break it down and look at it. The most important buyers in real estate are the first time buyers. They stimulate production of new homes because they usually buy existing homes. For every new home that is built, you need a new person in the market to take an existing home. The demand for housing is what pushes up prices. According to Fortune magazine, the newbies in real estate are coming back. If you want to read more about it, here is the link to it.

The downward spiral in real estate we experienced in this country really hit California the hardest. Analysts are seeing some hope, however. In May, they had an 18% jump compared to May of 2007. Yet, they are not saying it is over. Prices took a beating, plummeting 35% during the same period, according to a report from the California Association of Realtors.

What is happening in California and Florida will come back. Americans love bargains. When the price is right, people will buy again. Jonas Lee, a principal of New York based Redbrick Partners, which buys distressed properties all over the country, says he’s watching California closely, but isn’t ready to jump into the dray just yet. When they do, you know the market has hit bottom.

This is why I think they are waiting. California still has too much inventory. The Santa Barbara County area has been particularly hard hit. You can read more by going to the link here.

The point is real estate is still a good investment. It’s like the stock market. The only difference is real estate takes longer to move up and down. When you need to liquidate, it takes longer than stocks and mutual funds. You really need to remember this and keep your long-term money in real estate if this is your favorite investment.

In some areas the real estate market is slowly moving up. “In May, existing homes gained a 2% to an annual rate of nearly 5 million. The National Association of Realtors said that the number of existing homes sold during May rose 2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.99 million units in May from a level of 4.89 million in April.

“Analysts were expecting the sales rate to increase to 4.95 million last month, according to a consensus of analysts’ estimates gathered by Briefing.com.”

To read more of the article, here is the link here!

So what happens if you really want or need to sell your home? In my other articles, I’ll talk about how to dress up your investment to get the most from your home. I am a licensed real estate broker and I would like to give you some tips. See you in my next post: Ten ways to sell your home quickly.

I apologize for the wait of the power of colors series. We are going to talk about the color pink. Some people think the color pink is a form of red. In a way, they are right. Yet, pink has elements within it that is totally different than red. The color pink is soothing and calming while red causes the opposite effect. As you read what is in Leslie’s article, you will see for yourself.

PINK THE PACIFIER

Pink is restful: it can even convey a purity that makes people reluctant to desecrate it. In a study done by graduate students at Texas Wesleyan College, Fort Worth, children kept in different- colored corrals were given a variety of playthings, including paints and crayons. The children eagerly decorated all the corral walls except the pink ones, which remained virtually spotless. When the researchers regrouped the children to see if these youngsters who painted the most graffiti would have differently in another group, the results were confirmed: Pink walls effectively kept off graffiti.

A study of 153 men at the U. S. Naval Correctional Center showed that a particular shade known as Baker-Miller pink can curb aggressive tendencies and actually reduces physical strength. When prisons began using Baker-Miller pink, some were able to lower the number of guards on duty. At latest count, says Schauss, more than 1400 hospitals and correctional institutions in America are using pink for its tranquilizing effects.
“The calming effect of pink begins in about two and half seconds,” says Schauss. “It is noticeable in ten to fifteen minutes. In forty-five minutes, it is fully realized. The younger you are, the faster it works on you.”
And like any drug-type reaction, pink responses can get out of hand. For example, pink walls should not be used on psychotics, Schauss says. The pink color relaxes psychotics outwardly, but their minds remain disturbed. This creates a dissonance, which disturbs them, still further.

In other studies, the color pink was found to animate intelligence and respect. The color peach has a different effect on us. People add gold to the color pink to create peach. The gold removes the calming effect of pink. Research has shown gold or yellow stimulates someone to action. If you add it to pink, then you have altered the emotional effect. You have toned down the yellow by adding a calming color and there is nothing wrong with it.

To understand the difference between the two colors is known to be hard. If you want to know the difference between pink and peach, you can use gold and silver. I like to wear a gold and silver ring on different hands. This way, when I happen to see a piece of clothing in a store, the rings help me see if gold is mixed in with the pink.

I place the two rings on the color. If gold jumps out to me, then I know there is no gold within the color pink. If my silver ring jumps out to me, then I know someone has added gold to the color.

Sometimes, your eye jumps back and forth trying to land on a ring. When this happens, it means there is gold in the color pink, but not enough to make it a true peach. You might find it interesting to test it yourself. The color pink is a powerful color and it helps to understand it.

Let’s take the power of colors and add them to your life. I’m going to add more articles about how color affects us in our homes and on us personally when we wear certain colors. Right now, we are going to cover the last of Leslie Kane’s article before we move on to other information.

Adding Color to Your Life
When you use colors to evoke a particular mood, you must take into account not only your own color preferences but also your environment outside the home, says Walch of the Color Association. To provide a psychological boost, your home should represent a color “break” from the outside environment.

For example, because the brown landscape in the Southwest offers very little color, people living there tend to favor flaming orange, hot pink and other vibrant colors in their homes.

“I think most people are color-deprived,” Walch says. “People have real color needs, just as they have food needs. It is human and healthy to desire color change. If I live in a white space all day at work, I need a splash of color at home. But,” she warns, “the bolder the color statement, the more quickly you may tire of it. You may love the idea of a red kitchen, but you grow bored with the real thing.”

Remember, too, that colors exist within a cultural context. “We can’t ignore the strong, long-standing associations people make with colors,” Walch says. “Take brown. The dying grass is brown; school desks are brown. We think of brown as dreary and utilitarian. So I wouldn’t want to paint my walls brown.”

When selecting paint, wallpaper, carpeting or furniture, keep in mind that color is partly determined by the light in which is seen. A carpet sample that looks fresh green under the store’s cool white fluorescent lighting will appear hunter green under daylight fluorescents and olive green at home under incandescent light. So be sure to check your paint or carpet in the lighting in which it will live. That way you won’t end up being so angry that you see red.

That bit of advice is very good. You do need to see your colors in the environment. Using color to create moods in your home is fun. I’ve taught one of my daughters what I know. With her classes at a university on design, she has taken it to another height. We will talk about it in another series of articles.

I want to follow Leslie Kane’s article a little more and talk about color and lights. She has some very interesting information.

Color and Light
Colored lights or colored filters surrounding a light also affect your health and mood. Oddly, light of a particular color may promote the opposite effect from paint of the same color. For an example, while pink walls can be soothing, pink light is irritating. John Ott, former director of the Environmental Health and Light Research Institute, Sarasota, Florida, reports that when staff members at a Florida radio station tried to perk up the place by replacing white florescent bulbs with deep pink tubes, announcers began performing poorly on the air. Everyone became irritable and two people resigned.

Finally, one employee pinpointed the problem: “If those pink bulbs aren’t removed, I’ll go out of my mind.” That day, the new tubes were discarded and the old ones were returned. Within a week, tempers calmed, congeniality improved, the announcers regained their competence and both resignations were withdrawn.

A new double-blind study done at the University of California School of Nursing illustrates the healing effects of blue lights. When rheumatoid-arthritis patients were in a room in which a blue colored filter had been positioned over a ceiling light, their pain lessened and in some cases disappeared entirely. Half an hour under the lights was usually enough to ease pain.

In another study, Francis Owens, MD, of Pinehurst, North Carolina, treated burn patients by exposing them to light shining through green filters. After half an hour, the patients—some of whom had second and third degree burns—reported that their pain had eased dramatically. The burns also healed more quickly than expected.

Ott also reports a striking example of interaction involving color light, psychology and physiology. Seeking an explanation for the high absentee rate in their plant, factory owners found that the blue lighting in work areas made women employees look sick. Looking sick made them believe they were sick, so they stayed home more often. The plant owners got rid of the blue lights, and absenteeism dropped.

I thought this was interesting and have played around with lights. In another study, they found the traditional yellow fluorescent tube lights drain your energy. They used them for years in stores and offices. Some people used them within their homes because they were supposed to use less energy. We are going to continue with the power of colors.

In this article, we are going to talk about two colors, yellow and green! They are interesting colors. We have mentioned yellow a couple of times. You can see that you can create some powerful emotions when you put the two colors together.

Let’s talk about yellow first before we discuss green. This is from Leslie Kane’s article:

Yellow – The Energizer.
Yellow lifts spirits and makes people feel peppy and optimistic. It is a color of highest visibility; if you glance quickly at a collage of colors, yellow will be the first one you perceive. Tests show that yellow raises blood pressure, pulse rates, and respiration, though not as constantly as red does.

The energizing effect of yellow was illustrated in a study by a Swedish scientist, Oscar Brunler, PhD. Mice placed in slate-blue boxes became listless and inactive. When Brunler switched them to yellow boxes, they became alert and active.

Yellow’s activating properties work on humans, too. Margaret Welch of the Color Association reports that a study involving preschool children under age 5 showed that out of a roomful of toys, children most frequently grabbed the yellow ones. According to Bender, a telephone company found that when the interior of a phone booth was painted yellow, people finished their conversations faster and freed the booth for other customers.

The good old days, when we had phone booths to walk into to make a call. I almost forgot about them until I read this article. We have changed our culture a lot in the last thirty years. Yet, the research still affects us. Color is an interesting subject, I think. After you read this report, you might see why painting your child’s bedroom yellow might be a mistake.

Yet on a small scale, yellow is a very nice accent in a room and it’s fun to wear. You really need to have the right shade for your skin’s undertones. We can talk about that in another article. Let’s keep going with another color. Green! I’m continuing on with Leslie’s article.

Green – The Masquerade

Green encompasses such a huge range of shades that it’s impossible to generalize its effect. People describe rotten food as “sickening” green and forest as “lush, restful” green.

Accordingly, there are two schools of thought regarding green’s psychological impact. Some people believe green is soothing. Others feel it is an irritant. “Green provides the ideal environment for sedentary tasks, concentration and meditation,” Bender says. “It expresses firmness, peacefulness, resistance to change. It is a quiet, refreshing color in most tints, particularly blue-greens.”

Schauss disagrees. “Green is one of the worst colors to use if you’re seeking a tranquilizing effect,” he says. “Initially, people reasoned that green should promote tranquility because the forest is green and green reminds us of nature. But when you go into a forest, you’re looking at thousands of different hues of green. When you work with green paint, you get a monochrome effect – only one green. That’s irritating.” Studies at UCLA in the early 70s measured the effects of many colors and gave the first indications that green wasn’t as calming as everyone had assumed.

I want to add something as a real estate broker. Green can be interesting. Both researchers are right. Green is relaxing in a blue-green or black-green. When you do a complete room with it, you will find it irritating. In the seventies, it was popular to paint a room complete green. Even a light green, you would feel sick after being in the room. You felt nauseated and usually got a headache.

As a real estate agent in the eighties, people became hostile to a completely green room. Being an agent, you quickly learned to not even show a house if it had a completely green room. People would walk out before they finished seeing the whole house.

Yet, when you use a black-green or blue-green in your décor, it can be very effective as long as you stay away from a gold-green. A black-green reminds you of a forest and it is a great color to use in carpets, counters, or tile. We will go into this more if you want in another article.

Blue is an interesting color and it has a lot of power. So many people list blue as their favorite color. I’ve run into other people who have loved it, but they are now sour on the color. There is a very important reason why.

As you can see from the title below, blue is a tranquil color. This is what Leslie Kane found about it. This is one of my favorite studies.

BLUE – THE TRANQUILIZER

Blue evokes a mood of tranquility and serenity. Almost any shade of blue will do it, from cobalt to sky blue to sapphire. An intriguing new study done at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, investigated the effect of blue surrounding a class of behaviorally disturbed children, some of whom were blind. The researchers first measured the kids’ baseline heart rate, respiration, and other physiological indicators.

Then the walls of the classrooms were painted light and dark blue. All of the physical indicators went down and the children became noticeably calmer – even the blind children! Researchers and teachers who observed the children during the one month other blue-paint period were amazed at how calm they were. When the classrooms were repainted their original brown and yellow, the children’s heart rates, respiration, and pulse rates went back up and hyperactive behavior resumed.

“The fact that the blind children experienced this effect provides strong evidence that color has a direct bio-chemical pathway to the brain,” Schauss says. “It works as long as the retina of the eye is attached to the brain. However, if a blind child closes his eyes so that color cannot strike the retina, the effect won’t work.”

According to Bonnie Bender of Pittsburgh Paints, blue can make a room seem like its color, too. “A large office was repainted from a soft orange to aqua,” she says. “The women began to complain of being chilly and some wore sweaters or jackets at their desks. They asked to have the office temperature raised. When the walls were repainted a warm color, the complaints stopped and management saved on the heating bills.”

Blue has also been shown to prevent suicide. The Blackfriars Bridge, a gloomy-looking black bridge over Thames River in London, was a favorite leaping-off point for despondent citizens.

Color consultants suggested painting the bridge Baker-Miller pink, but the public got huffy at the idea of a pink bridge. They settled for the next most soothing color, blue. The suicide rate at the bridge immediately dropped.

I love these reports or case studies. They are not some one opinion of how a color should affect us. The proof is there for all of us to think about. The power of colors is there even if we want to admit it or not.

Also, I want to add something that she didn’t talk about. You can warm up blue. When we mix gold or yellow with it, we get a periwinkle blue. This is a warmer color than a blue without the gold. This might be a tip that you might want to remember.

We are going to talk about how to use these colors together in the same room to create the right feelings in later articles. If people want, I will put this all into an e-book that you can download. Let me know!