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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?

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 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

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!