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Feng Shui
Decorating Tips & Advice
Feng Shui Design For Balance & Harmony
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Marianne Woods Cirone and Fern Braam
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Just as yoga is the science related
to the energy of mind, body and spirit, Feng Shui
(pronounced fung shway) is the energy of our environments.
As we bring our bodies, minds and spirits into balance with the
practice of yoga, we can bring our homes, our offices, our cars
and our intentions into balance with feng shui, the ancient
chinese art of placement. While Feng |
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Shui can be somewhat complicated, there
are several basic tenets, the most elemental being the need to
reduce or eliminate clutter in order to enhance energy flow.
In books such as Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui
by Karen Kingston there are ideas for eliminating clutter
from your home, office or car. Piles of junk represent
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stagnated energy, and as
these piles are reduced the energy can flow |
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psychological and energetic space for new thoughts and desires.
In addition to clearing clutter,
there are many Feng Shui products that can be used to enhance your
environment through color, sound and in other ways to
"cure" any Feng Shui problems.
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fortunate to have Fern Braam, a Feng Shui expert practitioner and
design consultant to
provide information on using Feng Shui in your decorating to
enhance your manifestation of your desires and intentions. I
have been lucky to have Fern Feng Shui my house and afterwards--
did things start to click! Fern will provide Feng Shui tips and advice; her first article which
deals with the important
of clearing clutter in the Feng Shui process in order to keep the
energy flow in your life.
Feng
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Change
Your Life by Clearing Your Clutter |
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by Fern Braam |
Could something as simple as clearing
clutter from our environments really change our lives? Creating positive
Feng Shui in an environment always starts with this first vital step --
clearing the clutter. For many, this single act creates positive change
in their lives. Several years ago, I consulted with a Feng Shui client
I'll call Bess. She was feeling stuck in the relationship part of her
life. Her desire was to attract a loving partner. I took a look at her
bedroom and discovered piles of clothes and papers. She had a TV, a
computer, and a treadmill crammed into the space already occupied by her
bed and bedroom furniture. Her closets were packed with clothes she no
longer wore and stuff she no longer used. I explained to Bess, that
according to Feng Shui principles, our environments mirror our personal
lives. No wonder she felt stuck! Our things require our attention and
energy. Bess's energy had become clogged with clutter.
I asked her to empty the room of
everything except the furniture. Next, she was directed to sort her
belongings and keep only what she wore and really wanted. She was to
leave one closet, two drawers, and one nightstand empty. A partner
needed to have room to join Bess in her bedroom. The TV, computer and
treadmill were all moved to new locations. Her bedroom was to be used
only for sleeping and loving.
The results? Bess was swept into the
positive process of clearing the clutter. She deep cleaned and painted
her room before moving things into the drawers and closet. She loved the
feeling attached to a simplified environment. Her de-cluttering
continued into her personal life. She pared down her commitments and
started giving more time to herself. Three months later, Bess welcomed a
new person into her life. All energy is magnetic. Clutter energy starts
out as a little symptom of something negative and grows into larger
problems as it magnetizes more of the same. Is your home or office
cluttered? Small changes involving clutter clearing and organizing can
kick start big changes in your life. Start with a drawer. Remove
everything. Replace only what you need and truly want. You now have one
space where you are completely clear about what have and how you feel
about those things. Every time we consciously remove clutter
and organize our environments, we place ourselves into the positive flow
of energy that magnetizes positive experiences in our lives. It's that
simple.
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If you have any questions on
Feng Shui Decorating or to arrange a telephone Feng Shui consultation, please click on the link below to send an e-mail:
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