10,000 Blessings Feng Shui Blog

FENG SHUI YOUR “WEALTH GENERATOR” COMPUTER

My clients are always hearing me say “You can Feng Shui everything!” Well, today it’s your precious computer’s turn! It’s very important to give your computer some regular energetic tune-ups, not only because its performance affects our energy and mood (ever have a crash?!) but because it’s also a wealth generator for most businesses and entrepreneurs. When your computer runs quickly, easily and joyfully, so do you and your work!

Here are some quick tips to get—and keep!—the chi moving in a positive way:

1. In Feng Shui, “Helpful People” and “Benefactors” are treasured! Have a computer expert in maintenance and repair and treat them with utmost kindness and respect.

2. Clear stagnant chi by deleting unwanted and unused files, programs and emails and make room (physically and metaphorically) for wonderful new opportunities, customers and clients. Tidy the cords beneath your desk. Keep your screen clean because just like windows in a building, it helps you have the clarity to ‘see’ more clearly where you’re going in your work.

3. Just like the Feng Shui protection cures for our homes and businesses, don’t forget to put some in place for your computer: anti-virus programs, firewalls and so on. Remember to back-up your work and keep it in a safe place—your files are your wealth generators, just like a water feature or an aquarium would be in your wealth corner. Visualize foo dogs or dragons guarding your computer.

4. Use uplifting and meaningful Feng Shui imagery for your screen-savers to enhance your dreams and goals such as waterfalls, deities, oceans, honeymoon with your spouse, dream home and so on. And don’t forget to use passwords that attract successful and prosperous energy!

5. Hang a 40mm or 50mm clear faceted Swarovski crystal sphere on 9” increments of heavy red embroidery thread from the ceiling (use a cup hook) over your computer or networking stations and visualize problem-free and easily moving chi around your work station.

6. Tap into “Heaven Luck” and note when the planet Mercury goes into retrograde each year as it’s usually a very difficult time for clear and direct communications. Then you can take extra care to do extra emails and calls so things go smoothly for you.

LADIES, FENG SHUI YOUR PURSE

Alright ladies, if I did a surprise Feng Shui reconnaissance mission and checked out your purse, what would I find?!

A weary handbag with tired chi? Heavy with clutter? Resting on the powder room floor?

Or would I find a purse you absolutely loved, totally organized, easy to carry and always kept off the floor to show respect for your money?

In this time of economic anxiety, it’s a perfect opportunity to up-level your purse to be more attractive to financial opportunities.

I suggest the classic Chinese “Money Bag” shape (wider bottom and narrower top) to keep your money safe and accruing. A fabulous bold red color attracts attention as well as Good Luck (I’ve actually gotten a job from a woman ogling over my purse!) Other Feng Shui colors to consider for both your purse and wallet would include black, the color associated with your career; a gold and red purse for great prosperous chi; or green for new financial beginnings.

Ideally, you should carry cash and enhance your money chi by having a new uncirculated bill inside of a Lucky Red Envelope which is never spent but used to magnetize more cash. Also, you should have Three Coins on Red Ribbon kept next to your cash as well as taped behind your deposit slips in your checkbook.

Think about it--how you show respect and care for your money is how money will respect you.

And most happily, you can now use Feng Shui as your official excuse to shop for a new purse and wallet!

BURNT OUT? USE FENG SHUI TO RECHARGE!

If you’ve been feeling any lethargy, melancholy, burn-out or low-energy, a most wonderful antidote is to change up your energy and bring in fresh chi by adding variety. Sometimes, you just need to change things up to free yourself from a rut and renew yourself.

Here are some simple and enjoyable ways to bring lift your personal energy with the chi of change:

• Finish your shower with cold water
• Visit a place with negative ions like a waterfall or the ocean
• Drive a new route
• Do everything backwards and upside down (literally!) for the day
• Befriend one of the Five Elements (fire, water, earth, wood, metal) that you’re not usually drawn to and integrate it’s qualities and colors into your life
• Turn on every light in your space
• Spend the whole day in bed
• Try new pure aromatherapy oils in a diffuser or bath
• Say “no” when you mean “no”
• Take a break from media and electronics for a day (no computer, phone, cell phone, radio or television)
• Clear clutter that’s really been niggling you
• Take a mini-vacation at a brand new café or spa
• Explore a new neighborhood
• Enjoy a day of silence
• Change your hairstyle, the way you dress or the scent you wear
• Listen to new music
• Try new food
• Explore a new color in your decorating or wardrobe
• Work away from your desk in a new environment--go off to a café, tea house or park to get some work done
• Take a dance break
• Discontinue time commitments, people, situations or habits that no longer serve you
• Increase your energy without so much caffeine by switching to oolong or green teas. You can also do this breathing exercise for renewed vigor and an appetite for life. Go outside and tilt your head gently upwards so that you are easily looking at the sky. Open your mouth and very slowly inhale through your nose. Visualize that you are pulling in pure air from the beautiful skies above. At the natural end of the inhale, instead of starting to exhale, first swallow this air. Just swallow it as if it were liquid sunshine. As you swallow, see this energetically infused air traveling through and spreading into every area of your body. Finally, exhale through the nose. Repeat three times.

Remember that a Feng Shui Consultation or Feng Shui Blessing Ceremony will really help to shift the energy of you and your environment.

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Another Beautiful Music Video

Create A Feng Shui Home Spa Retreat

You might not have the opportunity to take a full week of silence and rest, but you can still create mini-retreat for a day (or even hours!) in your own home. The idea is to create more “yin” (restful) energy and take refuge from the hyper-“yang” (active) world we live in.

The day before your retreat begins:

• Clear all the clutter and then deep clean your bedroom and master bath with essential oil products such as Mrs. Meyers. Better yet, delegate it and have the whole house cleaned! Make certain there is no clutter underneath your bed (so chi can circulate round you and help refresh you).
• Menu-plan, make a shopping list and stock up on fresh fruits, vegetables, juices, smoothies, supplements, detox teas, little spa treats and so on. If doing a cleanse, buy all your necessary herbs (I love the Enzymatic products, personally)
• Put fresh green colored sheets on your bed and clean gold towels in the bathroom to support your healing.
• Surround yourself with beautifully scented, fresh flowers.
• Gather contemplative music, meditation cd’s, and dharma talks as well as sacred texts or poetry you’d like to read.
• Unplug all computers, phones, televisions and have a sabbatical from your cell phone, email, the nightly news and newspapers. Make sure to unplug all electronics in your bedroom.
• Mix up an aromatherapy spritzer using filtered water and sweet orange, neroli or bergamot oils. When you spray it on yourself or in your environment, it will enhance and lift up your chi.

During Your Retreat:

• Drink from pitchers of filtered water with fresh orange slices.
• Create little at-home spa treatments with a reflexology roller; steam inhalations or scented hot cloths with essential oils; herbal foot soaks; body brushing; salt scrubs; facials and so on.
• Take part in tea ceremonies with beautiful pots, cups and teas from Japan, India or China. Try one of the flowering jasmine flower buds that open magically before your eyes!
• Play singing bowls, gongs, tingshaws or bells around your own body and throughout your space.
• Move your body each day with movement practices such as qi gong, yoga, tai chi or free-form dancing.
• Eat your meals (super-healthy ones!) outside in the fresh air.
• Pray at sunrise or beneath the night stars out in the dewy grass.
• Write honestly in your journal about everything in your life that is draining your life force—people, events, situations, things, thoughts and habits. Make a vow after your spa retreat to begin to clear them one by one until you feel free!
• Turn off all the lights at sunset and go by the light of candles or lanterns. Go to sleep early and give your chi deep restoration.
• Create a special altar in your bedroom dedicated to your healing, rejuvenation and spiritual life.
• Be quiet. Meditate. Take naps.
• Adjust your chi with the Inhale/Exhale Breathing Meditation which you can find over at my blog: www.10KBlessingsFengShui.typepad.com

And now? Open your calendar and schedule yourself for some deep rejuvenation—a week, a day, half-day—for as long as you can! And don’t forget to make time for the preparations. Enjoy and luxuriate in the Feng Shui of your body, mind and spirit.