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Can Bad Stuff Happen After Feng Shuiing Your Place?

by on January 20, 2012 in Blog, General, Just for Fun, Spiritual

Can bad stuff happen after using feng shui principles on your home? Well, it depends on your definition of bad. I recently had a client report that ever since she made some feng shui changes to the family gua of her home, she and her sister have been struggling to get along – which is rare for them.

Yes, once you get your home set up to support the things in life that you want, all kinds of things can change rapidly…sometimes, it can be quite a bumpy ride! For example, I have seen people get laid off the very next day after applying feng shui cures for a dream job…and I have seen relationship breakups happen right after “bring me the perfect relationship” changes were made…AND, I have seen numerous appliances and household fixtures break or die right after using feng shui…but to call these bad is probably not accurate from a feng shui perspective.

Getting laid off right after making feng shui adjustments usually means that the path is cleared, and the dream new job is now available to come to you. Same goes for the relationship if you asked for “the perfect relationship for me now” as one of your feng shui wishes. And as for the appliances and household stuff (plumbing, electrical, door handles, etc.), I usually paint this picture for my clients to help them understand: “It is like the feng shui energies are breaking the weak energetic links in your strong feng shui chain now, so once you fix them, the new, stronger energies can now arrive and HOLD in your home…which then, will be able to support your new intentions.”…make sense?

So, is it really “bad,” when the very thing that you asked for is going to be in your life way sooner because you went through a little “bad” bumpy patch?? Only you can decide!

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The Power of Yielding During Holiday Gatherings

by on December 20, 2011 in Family and Friends, General, Holidays, Just for Fun

There is an ancient game that I learned years ago while studying tai chi called “Push Hands.” It is all about feeling when you are in a yin or yang movement – while your feet are anchored in one place and you are palm to palm.  The goal is to knock your opponent off balance to where he has to take a step to keep his balance.  In the game, you either attempting to push your opponent off balance or are yielding to his moves to do the same. If you counter an attack by pushing back instead of yielding, chances are, you will get knocked off balance. So, even though it feels totally counter-intuitive, you must yield rather than push back.

I bring this little game up during this time of year as a reminder that sometimes, when getting together with family members and other people that feel like all they want to do is push you off balance, that can be a very powerful answer to their perceived  aggression — to yield.

Your new counter attack to their loud, snarky, back-biting, and other unbecoming yang behaviors and expressions is to yield…and allow them to toss emotional grenades in all directions without so much as a twitch back in their direction…

…and as sure as ever, the one who yields best wins. The victory is to create the silence of one hand clapping – no opposition, the fight where there is no fight… now that’s freedom — to be consistently grounded no matter what is thrown your way.

Happy Holidays.

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Feng Shui Tips to WANT TO Want Something Else

by on November 28, 2011 in Blog, Family and Friends, General, Skills and Knowledge

I have noticed a new distinction in some of my recent consultations. Clients have been requesting that they want to want something other than what they want! I have had one client who wants to want to stay in her marriage, one client who wants to want to be straight, one client who wants to want kids, and one client who wants to want to live a BIG life. Dizzying, isn’t it?

Living with these push-me-pull-you feelings is exhausting. Part of them wants one thing, and for some reason or another, part of them wants the exact opposite.

For this situation, ther are many things I might take into consideration. But ALWAYS on the list are the following two:

1. Integrate the conflicting parts. Lucky for me, I have a great technique for this. It is in the consultation that I call “Feng Shui Your Mindset” on my website. It is about re-aligning your thought patterns so that they are going in one direction. Depending on the situation, this usually takes around 3 to 6 hours via the telephone (yes – that’s all!) I have a laser-focused technique that gets every “part” on the same page using neuro-linguistic repatterning and other subconscious “mind reboot” strategies.

If this sounds hard to believe, well – that just may be an unresourceful thought FOR YOU!

2. Look at the Skills and Knowledge and Family guas of the bagua. That is the front left-hand and left side (respectively) of the home or room from coming in the door. ANY confusion there may trigger these thoughts and feelings. It may be clutter, poor symbols leaking chi (big windows, door to door relationship, etc.) or even an element imbalance problem (skills and knowledge gua is governed by earth element and the family gua’s element is wood.)

Working on the skills and knowledge gua can help with the decision-making part (ie: “a part of me wants to do the feng shui your mindset program and a part doesn’t!”) and working on the family gua can help to snip the tether to the past (ie: “My mom said I wasn’t good enough.”) so you can move powerfully into ONE DIRECTION in your future.

If this seems like a level 2 conversation and you are only level 1 or a beginner, review my book or some of the other blog posts here to familiarize yourself with how to do simple changes to change your life!

 

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How Fast Can Feng Shui Work?

by on July 15, 2011 in Blog, Career and Life Path, Fame and Reputation, Furniture Position in Room, General

I’ve been fast and furiously feng shuiing my way through New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut this week and just have to share some of the great stories that I’ve got! On Tuesday, I went to three clients in a row in NYC….all single gals in one bedroom apartments. I took along Katie, one of the gals that graduated from my online feng shui training program who wanted to shadow me as well. The first gal was an aspiring actor who has been studying the craft and trying to make connections. She doesn’t have an agent or anything like that yet, but she wanted to get started with the actual money-making portion of her new-found career. I’d say her main feng shui issue was the fact that her desk was very thin, and faced a wall. Now if this is your big money-making desk, I’m telling you all, you’ve GOT TO get some space in front of your face and NOT shove the desk against the wall! So we moved it along with the entire living room arrangement and guess what? As we were wrapping up the phone rang and it was a casting director who wanted her to come over IN TWO HOURS to audition for a commercial. Can feng shui work fast? Heck yea.

 

 

 

 

 

More on the second and third client soon…

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Feng Shui Info That is Not Covered in My Book “Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life”

by on May 5, 2011 in Blog, The Five Elements

Question #1: I know where the five elements fall on the bagua. It leaves the four corners “element-less.” Is there an element designation for these corners?

Answer #1: I know it is not in my book, but the main element for each of the four corner guas are, Earth in “Skills and Knowledge,” Wood in “Prosperity,” Earth in “Relationships,” and Metal in “Helpful People and Travel.”

Here’s a mini graphic of the pattern of how the elements are places in the bagua – the map of feng shui:

This side is the back of the room or home

WOOD (prosperity) FIRE (Fame and Reputation) EARTH (Love and Marriage)

WOOD (Family) EARTH (Health) METAL (Creativity and Children)

EARTH (Skills and Knowledge)   WATER (Career and Life Path)   METAL (Helpful People and Travel)

The door into the room or home is along this side

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