Feng Shui luck: make your own!

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.

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Make your bed and other Feng Shui tips that sound like your Mom

I’m often struck by the practical nature of the principles of Feng Shui. The Feng Shui tenets of safety, comfort and beauty as a way to maintain balance and harmony in our homes make sense in the abstract, but more importantly they make sense in the concrete and tangible world of our spaces. One of the best ways to make your space safe, comfortable and beautiful is to put everything back in its place after you’ve used it, restoring the balance of the room. This is an easy way to increase the gentle flow of chi, the vital energy that flows through our spaces. This principle applies – daily — to your bed!

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Put 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.

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Get 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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