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.
