Attemp to call the .profile

i have this line of code on my script

#!/bin/sh

#enable the environment variable thru profile 
. .profile

when i run the script it was unable to find the .profile

 sh ChgPwd.sh
ChgPwd.sh: line 4: .: .profile: file not found

the file .profile exists

 ls -altr .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 _wtolentino domain users 700 Jan 11 08:40 .profile

at the command line i can call it

 . .profile

our OS version is:
Linux 2.6.32-696.10.1.el6.x86_64 GNU/Linux

please help thank you.

. ~/.profile

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Or alternatives:
. "$HOME"/.profile , or source "$HOME"/.profile