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Karen Rauch Carter

Helpful People and Travel

Success Story: Getting Help with the Helpful People Box

By Karen
March 19, 2013
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I am really shocked.  I am doing a major cleaning/purging of stuff in my house and my idea was to Feng Shui each area as I went, but I got a little anxious and decided to start a Helpful People Box.  I put in the name of a friend I just couldn’t get a hold of and the name of my husband.  I had to – I was getting so frustrated with having to do everything by myself. Two days later, he did the dishes (3rd time all year), took out the trash, cooked dinner, went grocery shopping, and even …Read More

Using Feng Shui for “Your Agenda” VS “What’s Best” — It All Works Out in the End

By Karen
September 18, 2012
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Even though I’ve been doing this feng shui thing for a long time, I still find myself amazed at how miraculously things work themselves out when I “get out of the way.” It always seems to work out in the end — even if we set aside our “bull-dozing” efforts! Isn’t that a relief to know??? (Stop squirming fellow “bull-dozers!”) I just have to tell you this story about my son getting into high school as I think it perfectly demonstrates how a “highest good” type of intention can be the most rewarding. After all, it isn’t helpful to wear …Read More

Improve Manifesting Odds for New Years Resolutions

By Karen
December 30, 2011
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Question: Do you have any tips for manifesting New Year’s Resolutions? Answer: Yes, I do! Do NOT just say it. Write it down! Make it real by dreaming about completing it and then WRITE it down on paper. My best advice is to write a story about what it’s going to be like once you have completed it. All this falls back to the book I highly recommend, Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting by Lynn Grabhorn. If you haven’t read it, I would try to make that your resolution! And if you have and you need additional resources, please …Read More

Holiday Help! – Avoiding Stress at Family Gatherings

By Karen
November 22, 2011
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So many people have written me recently stressing out because they are going to stressful family gatherings this month. What’s to stress out about? Use feng shui to your advantage before the reunion ever starts! “My family pigeon-holes me into someone I’m not anymore.” OR “My old classmates still think of me as a dweeb.” – Work the FAME AND REPUTATION GUA fire and light cures with the intention of allowing the universe to show you respect and know who you really are now! You can also dress powerfully by either hiding red on you or wearing red (preferably on …Read More

Feng Shui Success Story: Dealing with “Sucky Neighbors” & Mirrors

By Karen
March 14, 2011
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“For the last several months, I have been dealing with a very troublesome noisy neighbor situation. I love my apartment, and in all the years I’ve lived here, I had never had a neighbor problem until last fall, when a couple of very social guys moved in next door. They immediately began to have noisy parties nearly every weekend. Their party space was a large deck, located about fifty feet from my bedroom (our houses are VERY close together). I tried a variety of approaches over the months to help these guys understand my need for sleep…to no avail. Letters …Read More

Does Feng Shui Really Work? Absolutely!

By Karen
October 25, 2010
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Last week I did a consultation for a gal who has turned a home into a Board and Care home for senior citizens.  She had it ready for months and had many people come to check it out, but not a single one of them signed up. She did admit that the first “renter” is usually the hardest to get, but she was really stumped as to why this home was not getting renters. It had a golf course view right out the back door, and had plenty of nice living space and many bedroom choices to rent. This is …Read More

Mountain Energy

By Karen
October 9, 2010
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I just returned from Canada and had to show off one of my photos from Banff. I’m standing just behind the awesome Banff Springs Hotel here where you can just sit, relax, and enjoy the view. Check out those mountains. So stable, so alive yet still, so relaxing. When you are in such a natural place as this, it is easy to feel the relating, still, strong, and majestic energies of mountains. It is also easy to see  the feng shui “form, shape, and flow” that we’re always trying to assign to our man-made environments. There’s nothing at a right angle or synthetic here, …Read More

Is Someone Else’s “Helpful People Box” Calling You to be a Helpful?

By Karen
September 11, 2010
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If you’ve read chapter 6 of my book, you know about the helpful people zone in your home and the “helpful people box” cure where , if you do this ritual/cure, you will indeed see life flowing a little easeir for you. But I was wondering the other day about how many times I AM the helpful person to others BECAUSE of their intentions and this cure.  And then I thought, how many people out there have done up their helpful people gua and have their helpful people box all ready to go, but perhaps aren’t helpful to others, or …Read More

The Blessing of Synchronicity

By Karen
August 15, 2010
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There’s a big difference between having to go it alone with the mantra, “If I don’t do it , it doesn’t get done.” and being in sync with life. When you are in sync, life is easier, more fun, and certainly more interesting. Being in sync is a wondrous thing. People come out of the woodwork to scoot you along in life. This tends to result in you being more confident, more trusting, and ultimately more abundant and comfortable in life. If you’d like to have a more synchronous life, try this little feng shui tip. Add items made of …Read More

Feng Shui an RV? Why not?

By Karen
August 5, 2010
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Is it possible to feng shui a home on wheels? Heck yea!, Hey, you can feng shui ANYTHING just as long as you know how. There’s no need to leave the comfort of your perfectly feng shuied home and venture out in a “mobile home” that doesn’t have anything going for it! So, here are my tips: 1. Keep clutter to a minimum. If you are stepping over wet beach towels to get around, you are probably living in less than optimal chi. Only take the bare necessities and trust that you will come across everything you need when you …Read More