Clearing the Clutter

The very first thing that we recommend for our clients ... and I religiously do in my own environments ... is clearing out the CLUTTER. Clutter is defined in Feng Shui as anything -- ANYTHING -- that does not lift your spirits. If anything in your home does not make you feel good, or smile, then it is not supporting you energetically ... and if it is not supporting you, chances are that it is working against you and your desires.

Take a look at your environments (home, office, car) ... they tell you how your life is going. If there is chaos in any part of your environments, then there is chaos in the corresponding areas of your life.

Cleaning and organizing our environments is important in living comfortably, but it is only the beginning when we use Feng Shui to enhance the energies in our lives ... to have those energies support us. We also need to look at our stuff and see how it makes us "feel". All things have memories attached to them ... how do those memories make you feel. Everything also gives off it's own energy -- like posters of horror movies -- we need to consider if we want that particular energy in control of some portion of our life, because in some way it impacts us -- for good or ill.

The major tenant in Feng Shui when clearing our clutter is to decide if we really "love" something. When we "love" something and it makes us feel good whenever we see it ... then it will support us with positive energy. This is the ideal to strive for.

Also, there are probably many things in our environment that we consider "nice" but produce no emotions ... those things that we are neutral about, but find useful like toasters or file cabinets. These things that you can take or leave ... we usually suggest they be replaced eventually with something that makes you feel good. Because the more things in your environments that produce positive responses, the more positive energy will be in your life. This is what we mean when we talk about using our environments to support us.

Now, when it comes to things that we don't like and yet still have in our environments ... like something that a relative gave you and you keep because you feel "beholden" in some way ... or a piece of furniture that you "need" but do not like. Then, you are giving away some of your own energy every time you see it or use it ... and at the subconscious level you resist it and it does not make you feel good. Could there be areas in your life where these feelings of resistance, "need" and "beholding" mirror what is in your environment? Check the Bagua and see.

This also goes for things that are broken that have not been mended ... they bring the energy of "broken" into your environment and into your life. In what area of the Bagua are there "broken" things ... and could there be "broken" things in that area of your life?

And what kind of memories are attached to objects ... like furniture from an acrimonious divorce ... and in what area of your environment are they located?

Sometimes the easiest and most cost effective way to use Feng Shui principles is in the clearing of the clutter in our environments ... because, sure as shootin' as soon as we clear that clutter, our lives start to change in amazing and positive ways.

Consider your environment as a mirror of your life ... use the Bagua in the first posting and look for the parts of your environment that represent areas of your life you wish to enhance or change. Then, see what happens when you do a little clutter clearing in those areas.

Ciao, Laura

Okay, let's consider what Feng Shui is?

Well, I'm starting off this post with a little bit of information about Feng Shui, for those readers who have never heard of it or have heard of it only in passing and don't know what the heck it is all about.

Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art and science of organizing our environments to better support our lives. It concerns itself with the flow of chi (energy) throughout our physical world (generally our homes, offices and vehicles) and how we can use that flow to make our life experience easier, better, more exciting, more fulfilling. It has been around and in use for thousands of years in China (and similar techniques in other ancient cultures such as India) and it is now being used all over the world. In the ancient systems, it was also used for the community as a whole.

We base our practice on the Western School of Feng Shui, the Black Hat Trantric style and from our own empirical experiences with other energy modalities.

All Feng Shui Schools are based on the premise that everything is energy ... just as the Quantum physicists of today are espousing. And that the flow of energy should be a smooth, unimpeded movement through space-time ... "an aesthetic quality of spatial movement" that occurs throughout the physical world. Feng Shui is a means of arranging our environment by placing or removing certain things in such a way as to enhance that elegant flow of energy to support those living in that environment.

"Optimal flow for living organisms means that the atmosphere feels like a spring breeze -- neither fast and vehement, nor sluggish and stagnant. The quality of flow causes living beings to either flourish or deteriorate." Michael Heim, PhD, THE FENG SHUI OF VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

The art of Feng Shui deals with the arrangement of your own personal space in such a manner that the moving, flowing energy of the world harmonizes with your vision of your life. So, the first important step -- you must know yourself and what you want from your life as you work with Feng Shui.

Re-arranging the flow of chi (energy) through our environment with Feng Shui is based on the BaGua, which I posted in my previous post.

Many people already us these energy principles unconsciously ... think of places that are welcoming, while others are edgy or uncomfortable ... then there are places where you just want to fall asleep and ones that energize you. It is when we start consciously reviewing our world through energy principles that we can then learn to USE it to further our own desires, purposes and passions.


That's what Sandy and I are all about ... helping others become conscious of how their world (environment) can be used to support them instead of just dealing with the default energies that might actually hinder them.


If this blog just piqued your interest enough for you to go looking, then GREAT! There is lots of information on the internet ... just Google it! :-)


Ciao!
Laura

Well, here is my first posting, or should I say blogging?

First I wanted to explain about the photo at the bottom of this page of the ocean surging in under the pier. I am using this page like I would any area of my environment where I consider the energies -- by using a bagua -- and the bottom (which lines up with the entrance) has the element of water in the middle. Notice how the water is flowing towards the viewer, this is a "energetic blessing" upon all who view this page because it is my intention that abundance flow towards the viewer (including me ;-) ). Considering how to use Feng Shui in this and our web site is fun and enlightening.

To help you visualize what I am doing when I use the bagua, this is what it looks like:

You will notice that "water" is the element here in Career/LifePath.

In the Western School of Feng Shui and Black Hat Trantric Feng Shui, one matches the Career/LifePath area (or gua) with the entrance to one's home, office or business ... I am lining it up with my blog web page. Just feels like good energy to me.

Anyway, here I am going to write all kinds of things that I think about my chosen field so it is linked to our web site: NithsdaleDragon.com
This gives me an more seamless way to approach my articles, and also maybe another marketing tool -- or so I have been told :-)

My partner Sandy and I just launched our web site this year -- energetically a great year for new beginnings with its energy of "1". In numerolgy 2008 adds up to 1 and 1 years are always years of new beginnings. I like to play around with the western versions of astrology and numerology when doing Feng Shui instead of the Chinese versions. I find that energetically it's a much better match for the way we live here in the United States.

Okay, that's all for today. Just wanted to introduce myself and my passion. Will continue this discussion again tomorrow.

Ciao!
Laura