I always get a lot of people telling me how much they love the success stories. This one that I found in my archives had a fun little twist to it, so I thought I’d share it again to make a point:
“Well, last January I had all I could take – I was with a very lazy, narcissistic man who wouldn’t work, and I couldn’t spend another year with him. I bought your book, did some “trailer park Feng Shui” as I call it (which mostly involves felt and construction paper) as well as moved stuff around. I found pictures of children playing and wrote my wish to have children (and to always be child-like with wonder) on the back of it. I decided to move to Tampa and go to a sperm donor for children, which was (and still is) a major desire for myself. I then moved my weight set (round, metal) into my Love and Relationships corner and asked to be strong enough to attract a mate who admired my strengths and was strong enough to take care of himself. Also put some colored felt there. And I jazzed up my Helpful People corner with some sparkly silvery stuff.
BANG! One week later, on February 2nd, I had thrown out the lazy man. My friend at work (a Helpful Person) introduced me to one of her friends, and we got married this year on August 9th. One of the major attractions between us was our desire to have children. Guess I won’t be needing that sperm donor after all! Go figure! 
And he’s a STRONG MAN – he picks my 200-pound body up like a rag doll. Guess those weights were in the right place! He is kind and gentle and sees me the way I wish I could see myself – strong, intelligent, loyal… he values the qualities that others did not see in me and he treats me like an equal, not as a subordinate.
Thanks again! My new husband and I are moving this week into our apartment – and I have already charted out our feng shui floor plan, and he is helping me plan where to put things!”
Thanks,
Mickey
Now, some of you who that just read that may be thinking “No, don’t put metal weights in the earth-dominated relationship gua – that is the reductive cycle! It sounds like she could use all the earth she can get in that gua!”
But you see, it worked for her. Why? Because the weights became a symbol of her intentions, and her intentions were so powerful, her thoughts of finding strength in herself and a mate overpowered the fact that the elements were not placed perfectly. And if you remember, symbols are one of the nine traditional cures that will rev up energy in any space you choose.
It’s true we don’t know the whole story of her house and what else may be supporting her in the relationship area, but she obviously succeeded with a symbolic cure even though it is a reductive cycle cure.
This is a great lesson in not getting so flustered about feng shui placement of objects – and simply holding clear intention of what you are intending to create or change with your feng shui cure. I get a lot of emails from petrified people afraid to start feng shuiing for fear of doing something dreadful. I’m here to let you know that it is the fear itself that is the dreadful thing. When you feng shui with a clear heart and mind, you really can’t go wrong. I have seen people turn around what appeared to be a total feng shui disaster with a different spin with their intentions.
There, there now, doesn’t that feel better? Feng shui is about balancing the vibratory patterns of energy. Think of the feng shui books out there as helpful advice to build upon, and not “the only way to go,” and I think you will find your feng shui efforts paying off big time.
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