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August 02, 2008
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Keep it Simple with WD-40 Remedies |
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There are many reasons feng shui appeals to so many people. Topping the list, I expect, is our desire to improve some aspect of home or career life that we’ve been struggling with. But another reason feng shui is popular is the fun factor. Feng shui gives us a reason to shop for crystals and wind chimes, recover the couch, paint the bedroom, get new towels for the bath, and put a console table and mirror in the front hall. Even when we don’t go shopping, we enjoy moving our stuff around: let’s put the couch over there, and the TV here, and how ‘bout moving that painting from the dining room into this corner over here? All this rearranging and decorating is even more fun when we feel we’re doing something to nudge our experience in a better direction at the same time.
Sometimes we enjoy the fun factor so much we forget to keep it simple, and we overthink the class of remedies known as "WD-40 cures." (WD-40, for anyone who doesn't know, is an all-purpose lubricant spray useful for around-the-house repair jobs.) Any items on your ‘get to this someday’ list that require the use of a screwdriver, power drill, stepladder, or caulking gun falls into this category of remedies.
When something is broken or only semi-functional, it affects the feng shui of your home. And the feng shui remedy is to fix it. It’s that simple. Basic household repairs may not feel like doing feng shui, but they are. This means that if there’s a loose doorknob in your career area, the remedy is not to cover the door with a collage of your career goals: it’s to fix the doorknob. The cure for a non-working light fixture in your fame area isn’t to load down your coffee table with a dozen red candles to support fire: it’s to repair or replace the light fixture. The cure for a dripping faucet is not to surround the sink with house plants to counteract the extra water chi: it’s to replace the washer (or whatever) so the faucet doesn’t drip any more.
This may seem so obvious that you’re wondering why I’m writing about it. Yet I receive questions like this one more frequently that you’d expect: "My stove is broken and I can’t afford to get it fixed right away. Can you suggest something I could do in the meantime to offset this situation?"
I sympathize with the "can’t afford to get it fixed" issue. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean alternative strategies will handle the problem. For renters, waiting for the landlord to take care of something can be as frustrating as not being in a position to pay for it. I have stove repairs on my mind because we live in a rental house and our landlord recently (finally!) replaced the barely marginally functional stove that we’d been living with -- and resenting -- for over a year. However, whether the issue is that it’s someone else’s responsibility, or insufficient cash flow to take care of it yourself, the bottom line is that the cure for a broken stove is to fix the stove.
Sure, there are lots of other prosperity or cash flow cures/rituals/objects/imagery you might be drawn to. But no matter how many of them you implement, the stove will remain broken. No quantity of other cures will correct that. This doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea to make sure the feng shui of the wealth areas of your home is the best it can be under the circumstances, but fixing the stove still deserves a top spot on the feng shui to-do list.
So the next time something in a key area of your home needs a little "elbow grease," get out your tool box -- or call a repair service, or bug your landlord about it -- and get it fixed. Home repairs and maintenance may not be the most interesting or glamorous aspect of feng shui, but they are among the most simple and effective. Don’t overlook them, and don’t make them more complicated than they need to be.Labels: article
posted by Stephanie R. #
8/02/2008 10:04:00 AM
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