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April 6, 2003

Newsletter Index

In this issue:
• Feng Shui Tip:
   Spring Cleaning for Good Feng Shui
• New Article:
   What Clutter Clearing Can Do For You
• Feng Shui Q+A:
   Applying the Ba Gua to House and Room
• Featured Resource:
   Project Prosperity

 

Spring Cleaning for Good Feng Shui

In feng shui, the season of spring is associated with new beginnings, new ideas, and the first steps taken on new projects. Spring is also a time when many of us feel an urge to clean up and air out the house. Here are some tips to help you take advantage of this opportunity to spring-clean with intention:

  • Remember that energy is always seeking balance and equilibrium. As you clean your home, getting rid of dirt, dust, and stale energy, new energy will flow in to fill that space. The more you clean and declutter, the greater the energy shifts you will experience.

  • If you have not yet begun to Spring Clean your home, take a few minutes to think about what new projects or directions you would like to encourage. How have your energy, priorities, and goals shifted since this time a year ago? What are you making room for or getting ready for by Spring Cleaning your home? Are there other ways in which you can Spring Clean your life?

  • If you have already begun-or even completed-your Spring Cleaning, take a few minutes to focus on welcoming new energy into the home. Be as specific as you can about what new idea, opportunities, relationships, and experiences you wish to realize.

  • Pay attention while you clean and at all time during this season to whatever might be "springing up" in and around you: emotionally, physically, spiritually, materialistically. Be alert for synchronicities, and explore what personal meaning you see in them.

  • Open all your doors and windows for at least 15 minutes during the hours of 11am-1pm to encourage a complete change of the chi in your home. If possible do this on a sunny day when there is a steady but gentle breeze. Imagine all the old, tired energy flowing out, and fresh, vital energy flowing in.

  • The lighter shades of green are associated with springtime. Bringing natural energy into your home with living plants is a great way to improve the feng shui of your space. Put a vase of fresh flowers or a new potted plant in each major room of your home.

  • Walk through your home and look at everything as if you were seeing it for the first time. Note anything that feels dark, heavy, or depressing to you, and look for ways to lighten or brighten the mood in that area. This could mean slip-covering dark furniture for the warmer months, changing artwork, or even getting rid of some things.

  • Include your hard drive and email folders in your spring cleaning, too!

Consciously get rid of the old and welcome in the new in everything that you do, and watch the new ideas and opportunities come flowing in.

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If your spring cleaning plans include finally doing something about all that clutter, please visit http://www.clutterfreeforever.com for information on our new clutter-clearing Home Coaching Program. This in-depth ebook and 6 weekly lessons show you how and why to clear out and get organized for life enhancement and good feng shui!

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What Clutter Clearing Can Do For You
by Stephanie Roberts

(This third installment of our series of clutter articles is now available on the FastFengShui.com articles page:)

You can get a pretty good idea of the benefits of clutter clearing simply by imagining your life free of all the negative effects of clutter that we've explored in the past two issues of this newsletter: lack of focus and clarity; feelings of being professionally, creatively, spiritually, and/or romantically stuck; insufficient time and attention for self and family; increased stress, irritability and depression. Wouldn't it be great to be free of all these?

No matter what other factors may be dragging you down, I guarantee you that clearing your clutter will dramatically improve your mood and energy. And then any other problems you are confronting won't seem quite so bad.

Click here to read the rest of the article

 

Feng Shui Q+A

(Most questions will have been edited for clarity and length, and any identifying details have been changed. Note: Two similar questions have been combined for this issue's Q+A.)

Q. I have been trying to use feng shui for several years. I do it on one room only. I've heard you can Feng Shui your house and an individual room, but how does that work? If you do your house, then do a room, does one overlap the other? Does the relationship corner have to be in the right hand corner of the house from the house doorway or can it be in the right hand corner of the room from the doorway to my room? Let's say for example, I feng shui my prosperity gua for my house (which is my bedroom). Then in the bedroom, I feng shui the relationship gua but not the prosperity gua, I'm confused as to if one overrides the other.

A. The only circumstances under which I would recommend feng shui-ing just one room is if you only are using one room in the house. For example, if you are renting a bedroom in someone else's home or share a house or apartment with roommates. If you have an entire house for your use, then you are under the influence of the feng shui of the entire house and are likely missing things by not looking at the whole house.

The ba gua can be applied to any space: an entire plot of land, the house as a whole, a specific room within the house, even the surface of your stove or desk! There is a ba gua for the entire house, and also for each room. There is a relationship corner for the house, and a relationship corner in each room.

If you wish to enhance prosperity, the thing to do is find ALL the prosperity guas for your space. For example, you say your bedroom is in the prosperity gua for the house. Then find the prosperity gua within your bedroom. This is a key "power spot" because it falls within both the prosperity gua for the house and the prosperity gua for the bedroom.

Now, if you have a piece of furniture (a nightstand, dresser, bookcase, etc.) in the prosperity gua within your bedroom, place a wealth symbol or object in the prosperity gua of the top of that piece of furniture (i.e., the rear left corner). By using this layered ba gua approach, your feng shui cures will have a stronger effect.

Principle 2 in my book, Fast Feng Shui: 9 Simple Principles for Transforming Your Life by Energizing Your Home, is all about how to locate your personal power spots by combining the ba guas for your home with your priority issues. You may find this helpful in deciding where to place your feng shui "cures."

Click here to learn more about the ba gua and how to use it

Click here to 'Find Your Power Spots' (online Issues Assessment)


Peace, love, and aloha to you all,


Maui, HI  
Fast Feng Shui.com  

 


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I've read other get-organized books which made sense at the time, but this one went into more depth, and brought the emotional aspects into it. I feel motivated this time to actually do something about the clutter, instead of just reading about it.
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I do a lot of clutter-clearing counseling in workshops and consultations, [and] your program will be a wonderful next step for clients and students. I look forward to referring people to the program.
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My house is less cluttered, more organized and with more open space, more breathing room. The closets have more space, clothes are gone that had been hanging there for years. ...This is the only way for clutter bugs and pack rats to unclutter. The easy, gentle guidance in the lessons and ebook easily motivates even the worst to get started.
- Judy Hale, Corpus Christi, TX

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Featured Resource

Occasionally, we come across resources that prove helpful to us and that we believe will also benefit others. The Spiritual Partnering site offers information and programs that we find will nicely complement your feng shui prosperity strategies. Make sure you sign up for the FREE Prosperity Game!

ProjectProsperity.org
Create Prosperity and Success from the Inside-Out. Featuring: Spiritual Tools, Transformational Coaching and the Prosperity Partnership teleconference program.

 

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