10,000 Blessings Feng Shui Blog

Feng Shui Crystals as Centerpiece of Light

 

Can you imagine these glasses filled to overflowing with Feng Shui Swarovski faceted crystal spheres atop the mirror?  What a wonderfully beautiful light adjustment that would be as a centerpiece for your dining table (a place that should always look prosperous) or a party! 

I can order some exquisite ones for you and they come in all sorts of colors: clear, pink, red, green, blue, topaz, purple...drop me a line at info@10KBlessingsFengShui.com

(photo from Rachel Ray's website)

The Yin of Quiet

 

“Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.' Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”

 

Rumi

Less Stress with Feng Shui

 

1.  Clear all clutter including papers, electronic files, in-boxes, wallet, purse, briefcases, your car, unreturned calls and calendars.  Unsubscribe from email lists and block junk mail.  Clear clutter in hallways, foyers, stairways and entranceways representing the arteries and veins (clogged can result in high blood pressure).   Clear any physical blocks and obstacles (furniture, doors not opening, etc.)

 

2.  Sit and sleep in the “Command Position” at all times.

 

3.  Check all electrical systems (represents the nervous system, hormonal imbalances, nervous or emotional break-downs, adrenal burn out) and fix any shorts; frayed wires; empty light bulb sockets; broken outlets, sockets or switches; broken appliances; or burnt out bulbs (metaphors for “burn-out” or having a “short fuse” or being “over-loaded”).

 

4.  Decrease the high EMFs from computers, digital clocks, tvs and so on with either plants (palms, peace lilies or philodendrons) or by protectors (such as Bio-Pro products) plus 50mm Swarovski crystal sphere.  Use a flat screen monitor.  Switch to halogen or full-spectrum lights. Remove all electrical devices--TV's, clock radio's, answering machines, power strip outlets—from your bedroom or, if you must have them, then keep them eight feet from your body. 

 

5.  Practice Chi Cultivation every day!

·        Spend time in the fresh air and sunlight to re-charge your batteries 

·        Meditate

·        Use aromatherapy oils of sweet orange, neroli or bergamot 

·        Open windows each day for at least 10 minutes

·        Choose good and uplifting company

·        Physical fitness such as qi gong, tai chi

·        Spend time in prayer, meditation or reading scriptures/sutras

·        Spend time in nature (how bout a membership to the Chinese and

Japanese

Gardens

?)

·        Receive chi transmissions or energy healings: acupuncture, acupressure

·        Get great sleep (see below)

 

6.  Bring nature inside to your space using the Five Elements of Metal, Fire, Earth, Water and Wood (with plants, flowers, water fountains, stones, bamboo, lit candles, aquariums and so on). 

 

7.  Take sabbaticals from noise, media, computer, idle chatter, driving etc.

8.  Get excellent sleep

·        Place your bed in the Command Position

·        Your bed should be up off of the floor with nothing underneath it so that the chi can circulate around your body while you sleep. 

·        The headboard should be solid wood (not metal) without openings or slots so as to give you protection and support, acting like a ‘mountain’.

·        En suite bathrooms absolutely need to be sealed off from the bedroom by keeping the door closed and the toilet lid down all of the time.

9.  Use sound to shift your stress by ringing bells or singing bowls or playing sacred music (Imee Ooi).

10.  Avoid all white and monochromatic décor schemes.  But also be careful of too much yang color.

11.  Repair any water leaks because they not only drain your energy, they can also lead to depression or emotional outbursts

12.  Keep your air conditioning and heating vents clean and unblocked or that can make your more stressed and raise your blood pressure.

13. Have gold fish, cat or dog animal companions.

 

14.  Practice both inner and outer Feng Shui and really address the cause of the stress (money, relationship, health, etc.)

·        Inner (mindset, time/energy management)

·        Outer (Feng Shui cures and adjustments, clutter clearing)

 

15.  Burn chen pi ($9) and temple sandalwood incense ($30). Hang a 50mm Swarovski crystal sphere ($45) at the center of bedroom and the center of house (pop me an email at info@10KBlessingsFengShui.com and I can arrange for your purchase).

 

16.  Meditations (you can pop me an email at info@10KBlessingsFengShui.com and I’ll send them to you):

·        Inhale/Exhale

·        Waterfall

·        Metta

·        Swallowing Qi

 

17.  Have your Feng Shui consultant check for design details affecting your circumstances and teach your Secret Transcendental Cures and Meditations.

 

 

 

9 Day Feng Shui Challenge: Habuku

 

I recently learned a new word, “habuku”, a Japanese word meaning to simplify, economize and to eliminate the superfluous.  For me, every season of the year calls to me to do and accumulate less; to simplify my life and business.  And that leaves me more space and spaciousness—no need to fill it with something else!

 

This newest 9 Day Feng Shui Challenge invites you to simplify and eliminate one physical, emotional or mental thing, situation or habit each day over the next 9 days—streamlining our environment and lives.

 

I’m sharing mine below and would love to hear what you’re going to do—let’s inspire and lift each other up and create a more “habuku” lifestyle!

 

Day 1:  Clear out master closet

Day 2:  Eat more simple suppers—salad with protein

Day 3:  Get chiropractic adjustment

Day 4:  Practice less resistance to what is

Day 5:  Day of silence

Day 6:  Tidy up garage

Day 7:  Set up another system for my business

Day 8:  Practice not worrying about anything

Day 9:  Be vigilant with my ‘to do’ list—what can be deleted, eliminated, reduced

 

Alright, now what are YOURS?

 

Feng Shui and Summer: The Fire Element

 

The fire of incandescence and luminosity is here!  In nature as well as Feng Shui, the fire element is related to the season of summer when yang energies are at their greatest with both the heat and long sun-lit hours as well as the mid-day hours when the sun is at it’s zenith (and a great time for performing yang Feng Shui cures, by the way, from 11am-1pm!).

Just like the flames of a fire, this particular chi is full of movement, joyful expansion, activity, passion and ecstatic bliss.  We also see it burning bright in the Fame and Recognition gua (Li) of your home and business.

The fire element gifts you with dynamic enthusiasm, desire and passion as well as incredible joy, laughter and love.  This is a GREAT time of year to take action on all of those dreams and goals; travel; focus sales, advertising and public relations; as well as have a great love affair!  A person with a healthy fire element will feel happy, compassionate, light and playful.

 

As well as being related to the metaphoric heart, it also governs the physical heart and cardiovascular system.  In human chi, we see fire displayed when someone is "on fire" or "burnt-out."  Too much or too little fire can cause sweating, dryness, redness, anxiety, insomnia, volatility, absent-mindedness, dizziness, loss of sexual desire or even heart palpitations.

If you're over-heating physically and metaphorically, cool down with water!  Take cold baths, run through the sprinkler or go swimming; bring water features into your environment and eat yummy cooling yin foods such as cucumbers, melons or mangos.

You can enhance the fire element in your body by…

·        Visualizing your heart changing color from red to yellow to white to black to green and back to red again

·        Visualizing that any heart disorders are gone and your heart looks like a sun emitting light, radiating heat and functioning normally and strongly

·        Clear all the clutter in your hallways (as they carry the 'blood' to the 'heart' of your home) for excellent circulation

·        Wearing the color red or eating red foods

 

With Feng Shui adjustments in your physical environment in the “Li” gua (which is the back center area of your desk, altar, home, office, business and yard) you can become more visible, enhance your reputation or increase marketing, sales and public relations  by…

·        Using red décor or paint

·        Hanging red 40mm Swarovski crystal spheres (hung on 9" increments of red thread) in windows

·        Using candles, fire pits, red lanterns and bright lights

·        Hanging red lanterns or fake fire-crackers

·        Using the shape of pyramids and triangles

·        Hand-wash all the windows in your home (related to the Li gua)

 

 

Feng Shui for Wealth: Fortunate Blessings

 

1.  Activate all three lucks: Heaven, Earth and Human

Transcendental: Welcoming the Wealth Gods

Earthly and Mundane: Installing water feature

Human: Putting money into your savings

 

2.  Human Luck:

·        Education: classes on business, investing

·        Clear energy drains: people, situations, habits, thoughts, things, errands and especially those related to finances (unfiled taxes, unsorted receipts etc.)

·   Increase your chi (difficult to make money when you’re exhausted): visit

Chinese

Gardens

, get enough sleep

·        Be careful who you surround yourself with

·        Increase your income streams/rivers

·        Do you have a prosperous mindset (inner Feng Shui)

·        Absorb wealthy chi and put your own chi in the field of prosperity: banks (nice bank, change money), hotels, spas, restaurants

·        Be full of integrity about financial transactions (karma): pay bills on time; pay back loans; checkbook balanced; don’t live beyond your means; tell the truth etc.

·        Cultivate Helpful People and Benefactors: Feng Shui consultant, organizer, accountant, financial advisor, virtual assistant

·        “One Good Deed” daily

·        Express gratitude: send thank you cards and notes; offerings at altars; write thank you on bills and mortgage payments; give red envelopes

·        Cultivate your spiritual growth

 

3.  Earth Luck

·        Clearing stagnant chi: desk, bed, cash register, purse, wallet

·        Fix any leaking or clogged drains, faucets, sinks, toilets, pools, hot tubs, sprinklers, sewer pipes or clogged water

·        Keep your drains covered and toilet lids down so your cash doesn’t drain or leak away. 

·        Create a luxurious-feeling environment in your home and office with rich paint colors, fresh plants and flowers, a water feature and personal symbols of wealth (wine, tea, art), scent

·        Place Feng Shui cures (water features, aquariums, crystal spheres, mirrors, etc.)

 

4.  Have your Feng Shui consultant…

·        Check for design details affecting your circumstances (such as a missing wealth corner, bathroom in center of house, downward slope at back of house, inside stairs facing out front door, toilet over Mouth of Chi, exit door in wealth etc.) A tree in front of the front door

·        Work with you to help situations needing more income, such as bankruptcy, job security, losing your wallet, theft, gambling et al.

·        Increasing business cash flow, referrals, marketing etc.

·        Teach you the Secret Transcendental Cures such as The Great Wealth Accumulator; Welcoming the Gods of Wealth; Red Feet on Bed or Splattering Water at Midnight

 

5.  See “My Top 17 Feng Shui Strategies for Generating Incredible Good Fortune, Success and Prosperity in a Climate of Recession” at

http://10kblessingsfengshui.com/products/fengshuiforrecession

 

 

Feng Shui Your Front Entrance with a Chandelier

 

It's a wonderful Feng Shui enhancement to have a crystal, glass or mirrored chandelier right inside your front entrance of your home or business to both increase the chi and welcome prosperity.  This is such a beautiful example of a contemporary design using green crystals--gorgeous!

The Feng Shui of an Outdoor Shower

 

I'm loving this outdoor shower made of bamboo--wood and water elements together and a great way to increase your chi with cold water out in the fresh air!

Double Happiness: Feng Shui for Loving Relationships

 

1.  Activate all three lucks: Heaven, Earth and Human

 

2.  Remove from your bedroom:

·        stuffed animals, dolls and excess pillows

·        photographs of children, family and pets

·        distractions of television, electronics, computers and work

·        sad mementoes of past lovers

·        mattress used in past relationship

·        negative symbols such as art work that reflects loneliness, solitude or aggression

·        objects or art in triples or singles

·        work-out equipment

 

3.  Add to your bedroom (used only for sleeping and making love!):

·        photographs of the both you together in happy times (include wedding and honeymoon)

·        romantic art placed across from bed so see it first and last thing

·        objects placed in pairs (including matching bedside tables and lamps)

·        symbols of lasting love such as Peonies (real and silk), Double Happiness, Love Birds (especially mandarin ducks) or the

Phoenix

and Dragon

·        fresh flowers (especially peonies)

·        pink sheets and blankets

 

4.  Activate the Relationship Gua of your bedroom, living room and home with altars, the element of earth and symbols of lasting love.

 

5.  Increase the chi of the relationship corner of your bedroom with 40mm clear, red or pink crystal spheres hung on red thread in 9” increments.

 

6.  Plant two fruit or flower bearing trees in the relationship corner of your yard.  You could also create an outdoor bedroom here.

 

7.  Make physical room for someone to come into your life by giving ‘him’ or ‘her’ space in your bed (no single beds or bunk beds!) closet and medicine chest.

 

8.  Place your bed in the Command Position (farthest corner from the bedroom door facing the door with heads up against a solid wall).

 

9.  Make sure that the door to your home and bedroom open full to 90 degrees; that the handle isn’t loose and the door isn’t stuck.

 

10.  Create a sensual, loving and romantic haven—whatever style and vibe that’s best for you: hotel, spa, Indian, tropical, Moroccan, etc.

 

11.  Walk the path from your front door (Mouth of Chi) to your bedroom and clear any clutter, replace burnt-out light bulbs and make as beautiful as possible.  Make the path clear for love and relationships to easily enter your bedroom and life.

 

12.  Create a collage or vision board of images that speak to your ideal relationship that you want and keep this in your bedroom and gaze on it often.  If you’re already in a relationship, this would make a great ‘date night’!

 

13.  Place yourself in the “field” of lovers and happily married folks and absorb their happy chi!

 

14.  Wear pink 9 days in a row.

15.  Locate the Relationship areas of your main floor, your living room and your bedroom. Place lamp and turn on for at least 3 hours a day for at least 27 days in a row. If you skip even one day you must begin to count the ways all over again. Any 3 hours of the day will do, but be sure that if you are about to travel anywhere that will take you away from home for any length of time that you arrange to have that light on a timer or just leave it on altogether. It is widely believed that shining a light on this ‘Relationship’ area can even help move stale or stuck energies while also encouraging harmony and happiness.

16.  Lower the wattage of the bulbs in your bedroom or even change them to pink ones that will emit a soft, shimmery and very romantic glow.

 

17.  Take two pink candles and put them in white candleholders. Place them in the "Relationship and Romance" area of your bedroom and light them once a day for 27 consecutive days.

 

18.  Host a Double Happiness party!

 

19.  Have your Feng Shui consultant…

Check for design details affecting your circumstances (such as a missing relationship corner, exit door etc.)

 

Teach you the Secret Transcendental Cures such as

·        Receiving Auspicious Marriage Chi

·        Becoming Engaged

·        Four Red Ribbons Marriage Cure

·        Thousand Mile Marriage Strung by a String

·        Attracting a New Romance

·        Adjusting the Chi of Moving Water

 

 

Ping in Portland's Chinatown

 

Not long ago, after a full day of Feng Shui consulting, went to have an early supper at PING (www.pingpdx.com) , where I had the most delish bowl of Laksa (Malaysian coconut curry soup) and a glass of plum drinking vinegar...mmm!  Stop in for lunch after your visit over at the perfect Heaven on Earth chi of the Potland Classical Chinese Gardens (www.portlandchinesegarden.org)!