Recently, when speaking about Feng Shui at one of our local library branches, an audience member asked a question that struck a chord: “We’ve had a string of bad luck lately. What can we do, right now, to change our luck?” It’s a great question because most of us have experienced what feels like a string of bad luck at some point in our lives. In fact, many heads were bobbing in agreement. Like many good questions (and I count this as a good one for just this reason) it was asked in a way that held the answer.
Continue readingFeng Shui Your Kitchen Countertops for an Instant Energy Boost!
Recently I had the pleasure of changing out the energy in a friend’s kitchen – by simply applying Feng Shui principles to her countertops! We changed out the energy in about an hour. Do you have an hour? Read on so you can do the same.
Continue readingFeng Shui Metal Energy Helps with Clear Thinking
I’ve been writing about the Feng Shui elements as they express in our environments. Everything is made up these elements and their interaction and change is part of the flow of Feng Shui. This change is constant in our natural world. We can control the elements in our environment to support our wishes and goals. The principles of Feng Shui and the use of the elements help us to achieve those goals. This month’s Element is Metal.
Continue readingFeng Shui for the mind: clearing mental clutter
Principles of Feng Shui are usually applied to external spaces, but you can use them on internal spaces, too, like clearing mental clutter. What do we know about clutter from Feng Shui? It rushes and depletes energy; it blurs focus; it confuses and obscures. All the things that clutter does to energy in our homes and offices, it does in our brains, too.
Continue readingA warm winter day reminds me of the yin/yang balance of Feng Shui.
Feng Shui teaches balance and provides practical solutions for achieving it – Yin and Yang. Yin and Yang are opposites, but so integrally aligned they don’t exist without the other. Neither is greater or less than the other. Both are equally important and equally support each other. Each holds the nature of the other to create balance and harmony.
Continue readingPut Your House on a Feng Shui Diet in 2010
I know that this month the parking lot will be full at the fitness club. All the people who resolved to work-out to lose weight and be healthy will be there and that’s a good thing. I applaud them and anyone who begins a new regime because there is powerful energy in beginnings. We save January to start that project because there is just something about this month that inspires the grand gesture. So here’s my suggestion for a grand gesture to begin and you don’t even have to go out into the cold to get started: put your house on work-out schedule to lose weight: clean out your closets, your storage shed, and your garage.
Continue readingGet started with feng shui – clean out a drawer!
Sometimes feng shui can seem very complicated – laying the bagua, checking the balance of all the elements, identifying problem areas in your home or office and figuring out how to enhance the energy in them. But there is an easier way to get started. Take a small feng shui step toward clearing your energy to allow new opportunities to flow into your life. How? By cleaning out your desk drawer.
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