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The Feng Shui of Helpful People from Eckhart Tolle

Just soooooooooooo loving this book by Eckhart Tolle, "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose"--it's been a constant companion to me on my Sunday silent days.

This passage reminded me of the Benefactor energy in Feng Shui:

"Do I want the present moment to be my friend or my enemy?  The present moment is inseperable from life, so you are really deciding what kind of a relationship you want to have with life.  Once you have decided you want the present moment to be your friend, it is up to you to make the first move: become friendly toward it, welcome it no matter in what disguise it comes, and soon you will see the results.  Life becomes friendly toward you; people become helpful, circumstances cooperative.  One decision changes your entire reality.  But that one decision you have to make again and again and again--until it becomes natural to live in such a way."

So what do you think?! 

And if you don't have your own copy yet, it's here on my blog through Amazon.  You can also check out the fabulous webcasts with Eckhart and Oprah at her site

 

Feng Shui Your Hotel Room

As many of us will be in a hotel sometime this summer, I thought it would be fun to share some tips for your stay. 

• If possible, choose an aupsicious day from the Chinese Almanac to travel
• Request a room with a beautiful and uplifting view
• Carry a talisman with you for protection and safety
• Tie a 9" piece of red cloth on your suitcase handles
• Clear the energy of your room by opening the windows; ringing a bell or chime; and spraying pure essential oil of orange, neroli or bergamot
• Make your room a yin sanctuary (quiet and dark) as much as possible for deep sleep by packing ear plugs and an eye mask as well as requesting a room far from elevators and ice machines
• If possible, sleep in the Commanding Position by adjusting your room  so that while laying in your bed you can see the entrance but you're not in line with the door nor does your bed cross the door.  Don't have a heavy beam crossing or splitting your bed, either.
• Cover the tv screen; mirrors;  and sharp corners on bed-side tables pointing towards your head (pack some fabric).  Make sure any blinds with blades are all the way closed or open but not half-open to avoid cutting chi.
• Keep the bathroom door shut; sink and tub drains closed; and toilet lid down when not in use
• Keep your chi lifted and supported by drinking lots of fresh water, exercising, receiving healing treatments, taking supplements and having long naps

Have a wonderful time!

Day 3 of the 9 Feng Shui Challenge: Gratitude and the Bagua

Hello, again!  Continuing the 9 Day Feng Shui Challenge--this one is focusing on Gratitude and the Bagua.  Today we give thanks for all the groovy things happening in our career and our life's path.  Remember, chi attracts chi so a grateful heart brings even more...

Here are mine--I'd genuinely love to hear yours, too, so leave a comment!

1.  This incredible love for Feng Shui and the 10,000 blessings I've received from practicing it

2.  Being able to earn right livlihood with something I adore

3.  Being a part of the Temple of the Immortal Mother

4.  Sharing my love of Kuan Yin out in the world with celebrations and rituals

5.  The excitement for beginning to share my work beyond the Pacific NW with the launch of information projects

6.  All of my irreplaceable teachers and all of the help, blessings, helpful people who support my path

7.  The extraordinary excitement I feel while writing my Kuan Yin book

8.  My business goals being realized

9.  The incredible joy and appreciation I feel for my clients and students and their eagerness to use Feng Shui for true and deep transformation

Day 2 of the 9 Day Feng Shui Challenge: Gratitude and the Bagua

Day 2 of another Feng Shui 9 Day Challenge--we're travelling round the Bagua of our homes and listing at least 9 things for which we're grateful (because gratitude is a mighty power and lifts our chi so quickly!)  Please show me your lists, too, by leaving a comment, o.k.?

 Today it's the Helpful People/Mentors/Travel/Invisible Helpers gua.  I offer thanks to:

1.  Beloved Kuan Yin

2.  All of my extraordinary spiritual teachers

3.  My fabulous assistants Holly and Tammy

4.  All of my wonderful clients, apprenctices, students, readers

5.  Every single referral and testimonial I receive

6.  My incredible friends and family

7.  My business mentors

8.  The super syncronicities that happen all the time

9.  Getting to travel for pleasure, deepening my spiritual life, my Feng Shui consulting

 

A Feng Shui Garden: Tips to Increase the Light

In Feng Shui, we love the enhancement of light to increase the chi and life-force in both your body and environment.

Here are 9 simple tips to help you increase the light in your garden this summer.

1.  Use electric lighting to illuminate, spotlight or silhouette trees, plants or deity statues at night time

2.  Catch the light--as well as double the abundance!-- by placing mirrors behind plants, statues or water features (you can symbolically double your wealth, for example, by placing your water feature in the "hsun" or "fortunate blessings" area of your garden and placing a mirror behind it)

3.  Hang clear or colored 40mm faceted Swarovski crystal spheres in the branches which will shimmer and shine so beautifully (you can order some from me, if you wis, for $27 each)

4.  Use electric light or candles in lanterns

5.  Use mirrors beneath water

6.  Place colored glass reflecting balls among your plants

7.  Use a fire pit, fireplace or fire bowl (ideally in the "li"or "fame" area of your garden) at night

8.  String electric lights among the plants or across the space for night time

9. Use solar lights or tall glass novena candles to line your garden paths and steps

A Feng Shui 9 Day Challenge: Gratitude and the Bagua

Alright, my friends, it's time for another 9 Day Feng Shui Challenge!  This time it's an opportunity to express gratitude. In Feng Shui, appreciation and gratitude elevates your own personal chi and makes you attractive to receiving even more.

Over the next 9 days, you'll visit each of the 9 Bagua aspirations in your home and heart and make a list of 9 things you're grateful for in each place.  Please post some or all of your revelations so I/we can all enjoy, o.k.?

So it might look something like this:

DAY ONE: HEALTH

1.  Deep sleep

2.  The energy thrumming through my body

3.  Being able to breathe deeply

4.  The natural rise of chi I feel after drinking green tea or apple cider vinegar

5.  My incredible health care providers (thank you Randy Hewitt, Carrie Bleiweiss and Wendy Kohatsu!)

6.  My heart having so much less stress and pain

7.  The weight beginning to fall away

8.  Being able to walk, dance, swim

9.  Being able to see, smell, hear, taste and feel this incredible world we live in

Feng Shui Philosophy--The Tao

 

"There was something formless and perfect

before the universe was born.

It is serene.  Empty.

Solitary. Unchanging.

Infinite.  Eternally present.

It is the Mother of the Universe.

For a lack of a better name,

I call it the Tao.

It flows through all things,

inside and outside, and returns

to the origin of all things." 

(The Tao Te Ching)

The 9 Day Feng Shui Challenge: Clear That Stagnant Chi!

Alright, my friends, just DO IT!  Join my 9 Day Feng Shui Challenge: Clear That Stagnant Chi!

For the next 9 days, please choose 9 actions you can do that will move and remove any energy drains, clutter or stagnation from you, your life, your home, your car or your your office.  Choose actions that will give you immediate relief, happiness and ease.

9 is the most 'yang' of the numbers in Feng Shui and it is the number of completion so let's use it's mighty power and move the funk!  Remember, chi begets more chi!

MY nine actions are going to be:

1.  Clear out our master bedroom closet

2.  Tidy up the linen closet

3.  Walk every day

4.  Drink at least 3 cups of detox tea each day

5.  Burn chen pi throughout the house

6.  Do a Feng Shui Blessing Ceremony

7.  Treat myself to some reflexology

8.  Clear out the garage as well as schedule time for it to be painted (a Zen green!)

9.  Refresh my office and car Feng Shui cures

Please lt me know what YOU'RE up to and how it's going each day by leaving comments here--I'd love to hear from you! 

 

Feng Shui Meditation and Tea Garden

I have been spending time resting in our Meditation and Tea Garden out behind our townhouse.  

In the mornings, I love to sit out here with pots of lapsang suchong tea and just BE--listening to the gurgling of the water feature next to Kuan Yin and the birds. 

At night, Gregory and I light candles, the fire-bowl, incense and the over-head lights as we moon-gaze, listen to the frogs and drink sleepytime tea.

Although small, this wee garden has lots of fantastic  Feng Shui: all five elements are represented; there is sound and movement with the bird-feeder and wind-chimes (not visible in the photo); the chi is easily able to meander through the space; it was deep cleaned to remove all stagnation; there's moving water with the fountain (with the flow going towards our home, not our neighbors'!); and it's filled with lots of love and prayer!

How Chinese Astrology Affects Your Feng Shui

I read a very interesting interview in the International herald Tribune with Feng Shui Master Raymond Lo who was explaining the bad start to the 2008 Olympic year for China.

"In fewer than four months, China has been pelted by crippling blizzards and riots in Tibet.  These were followed by chaos on the interational legs of the Olympic torch relay, fuelded by pro-Tibet demonstrations.  Then came a bloody train crash followed by [the] deadly 7.9 magnitude earthquake in central Sichuan province.

Lo, who lives in Hong Kong, tried to explain some of the occurences in terms of Chinese astrology...Lo said part of the problem may stem fromt the birthdates of China's current political leadership: president Hu Jintao and premier Wen Jiabao.  Both were born in 1942, the Year of the Horse.

In Chinese astrology, 2008 is the Year of the Rat and, according to Lo, this is part of the problem.

'In animal astrology we know the horse clashes with the rat...so if you are born in the Year of the Horse, because of the clash against the rat, you will have a turbulent year'.

Lo offered a remedy.  He said carrying an ox pendent...could help ward off problems, because the ox is seen as a friend of the rat.

The other reason is that the Year of the Rat is symbolized by earth and water, an unstable relationship in 2008...that means natural disasters are very common this year.'"