Does it feel like all doom and gloom from whatever newspaper you read and from every news bulletin you watch on TV?
Does it seem that every service provider is putting up their prices but your salary doesn’t seem to keep up?
We survive everything that life throws at us one way or another, and it is very seldom that good news reaches our ears and eyes and we can tend to feel suffocated and our creative energies become stifled.
There are ways to increase your energy and to break through the mire.
If you want to change your life, change the energy. If you always drive to work the same way, change your route. If you always arrive late then try to arrive early – you can always get a cup of coffee on the way and make a start on your email inbox 10 minutes early. If you always shop at the same supermarket, try a different one. Just do things differently – you will be amazed how good it feels to break that same old routine and often by doing this, and changing the pattern of your life, other things will change as well.
The same goes with your house. Spring has always been the time for a good clean-up of all those jobs that are ‘just too much’ for every day, or every week cleaning. It is also the perfect time to clean out those cupboards and drawers and clear out all those things that you are keeping ‘just in case they come in useful’. Just be honest, if they are not useful now then they are just taking up valuable space and should be got rid of! Just trust in the Universe that if you need them in the future, they will still be available and probably in a more up-to-date format. Feng Shui suggests that there are just two reasons why you should keep something:
1. because it is useful now, or
2. because you love it to bits.
If you have something that puts a smile on your face then place it where you can see it everyday and it will uplift your energy even on the gloomiest day.
Why not go through your wardrobe and see how much room you can make. We all keep too many things that really do not go with anything else and we hope we will find something to match it with, or are a size too big/too small and we think that one day we will fit into it. Well, be honest, by the time that happens you will probably find something else more fashionable. If you have slimmed down and are proud of yourself for your willpower, the one thing you should not do is to keep your ‘fat’ clothes. By doing so you are giving yourself permission to get big again so release them to the local charity shop and fill your wardrobe with clothes that fit the new you and prove to yourself and the world that you are not going back!
Research shows that 80% of the time we wear 20% of our clothes. That means that although our wardrobes are full to bursting we open the doors and feel that we have nothing to wear! Be really ruthless and go through every piece of clothing you have. Anything that makes your energy drop with bad memories such as the suit you wore when you were suddenly made redundant, or the dress you were wearing when the love of your life dumped you just has to go. Everything you own has your own energy imprint which is tangible when you look at it or pick it up. Every single one should only have good and uplifting vibes – if it doesn’t make you feel good then it needs to be out of your home and your life. Try it, you will be surprised how different it feels when the negative stuff has gone.
The same goes for all the various cupboards and drawers around your house. If you have squirreled away various presents that have been given to you that you really do not like then you do not have to keep them. Someone else out there might just love what you have got stashed away at the back of a cupboard – and, let’s face it, we all need all the cupboard space we can get. Once you get going with your Spring clear-out you will be surprised how uplifting it is and how you don’t want to stop. Yes, really! You will be surprised with what you have been keeping for years that you don’t need and don’t like.
When you have finished, take the bags down to the local dump or charity shop as soon as you can as you don’t want all that heavy energy in your house any longer. You may be inspired to clean, dust, vacuum around with a sense of purpose and the energy upliftment in your house will be evident. Open the windows to let the old stale energy out and clean fresh air in.
Feng Shui principles state that when you change the energies in your home then it has a reciprocal effect in your life. Your house will feel lighter and happier and you will walk through life with a lighter step.
These principles can also be applied to your computer and office environment, whether you work at home or in a local company. Take a look at your folders and the emails you have stored there. Many people save jokes and funny clips but most of the time you will never look at these again and they will be just clutter in your computer. Go through all your Sent Mail and prune away all the dross. Enjoy going through each individual folder and see what can be deleted. You will be amazed at how much can be got rid of and your computer will be grateful. The same applies to stored documents because, even with back-ups, often we are backing up things that are no longer wanted or needed. If you had a filing cabinet, no doubt every so often you would go through and clear out the paper documents so this is just the same, only the modern way of ‘electronically shredding’ your unwanted ‘paperwork’. Your office will feel lighter, the same as your living space – so do try it!
Friday, 10 April 2009
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Good Feng Shui for Working at Home
Many people are now setting up their own businesses working from home and I am often asked where is the best place to put a computer and does Feng Shui cover this aspect? The answer is that, yes, Feng Shui does cover this and I will begin by telling you where not to put your computer!
Case History 1
Client A was a stressed businessman who had the opportunity to work quietly in his own home. This saved him a long journey into work and enabled him to avoid office colleagues who would constantly disturb him. However, he found it really hard to actually get down to his daily tasks and told me that he found himself playing computer games for vast amounts of time and just didn’t seem to be resilient enough to get on with the work he had to do. The room he had chosen for his working place was a small ante-room on the left-hand side at the front of his house. This area is known as the Inner Knowledge and Relaxation section and is best for personal study and chilling out, not for work of a career nature. We moved his computer over to the Creative section, which is on the opposite side of the house. His response was that he was much more motivated and clear-headed and able to get on with the tasks in hand.
Case History 2
Client B was a woman who had given up a high-powered job in Marketing to become an author. She had a natural talent for writing, had done all the relevant courses and felt ready to make the big step to fulfilling her dream and becoming an author. She had worked out all the plots, characters etc but the whole thing was just not coming together and she was at her wit’s end with her creativity seemingly absent. As above, the Creativity section would have been the perfect place to move her computer to, however, her staircase was in this section. As stairs represent a missing segment in the house, this was what was causing her problem. However, we went upstairs into the spare bedroom above the stairs, where she found she was able to sit and work. This was in fact her Creativity section. She has recently contacted me to say that her novel is now three-quarters finished!
Case History 3
Client C was a computer geek (a compliment really!) who had always worked for himself but had recently moved home. He was having a real problem in putting his mind to the job in hand. He fixed computers and also had a sideline in writing computer programmes and designing websites. I suggested that he move his business to the top far-left of his house which is his Wealth area. This was a spare room in his house that contained boxes that had never been unpacked, and junk that he couldn’t face throwing away ‘in case it came in handy’. I encouraged him to spend a day unpacking and going through his possessions and only keeping things that he liked and were useful to him. He was amazed that, with this concept, he could rid himself of many obsolete and useless items that were taking up space. Once cleared, there was no stagnant energy left in his Wealth area and it offered up a pleasant and well-energised place for him to work. To actually work in your Wealth area when self-employed speaks for itself! The problem was solved and now one very happy computer guy beavers away and keeps the pennies rolling in!
Some Positive Suggestions for You
* Do not sit facing the wall with your back to the room. You are restricting your creative energies and this can cause depression, especially if you have shelves facing you (which I see time and time again!).
* Try to sit facing the door – this is a power position in business.
* Do not sit facing a window – you will spend more time than you should gazing out!
* Have a small plant in your office with round-shaped leaves (Crassula Argenta) to bring in wealth.
* Hang a calendar near you that inspires you every month with uplifting scenes.
* Place a crystal on your desk – clear crystal quartz is very good, amethyst will clear negativity.
* Keep your desk clutter-free and only have items that pertain to the project you are working on.
* Clutter-clear your computer regularly by deleting unwanted files. This also applies to your email folders – all those jokes that you get you very seldom read again!
Friday, 23 January 2009
A Day in the Life of a Feng Shui Consultant (and why I often have an extra unseen client!)
I walked into the room and felt the heavy atmosphere around me which was like walking through treacle, and there was the familiar feeling like something pressing down on my head. OK, not a problem, this was another consultation but with the addition of a trapped or earthbound spirit!
I had been called in by a lady who told me that her life was not moving on as she would like. She told me that she had a problem with throwing things out and her house would be very cluttered when I saw it. She also had a new man in her life but the romance was not going anywhere – and, oh yes, by the way, she thought that she also had a ghost! (She was right!!!)
This was a common scenario to me and, having seen and heard spirit people since childhood, something that I could cope with and sort out. As a two-year old child, my first remembrance was knowing that I had been an adult in a previous life with a much darker skin which bemused me slightly as I turned my arms over and over and looked at how light and pink the skin was now on my small, childish arms. As I grew, more remembrances came to me and I immersed myself in books to discover who, or what, I really was. It came as something of a relief to discover at the age of 16 when I found a group of like-minded souls that I wasn’t the only person in the world to feel like this after all. Seeing and feeling energy lead me to a lifetime study and finally a career in Feng Shui. But, anyway, I have drifted away from the story and will come back to all this another time.
My client had another problem – since she had moved into her house she felt that her eyesight had been getting worse – and the previous owner (who had since died) had gone blind. She was very worried about this and felt that it was directly related to him and she needed to be free of him being there.
I felt the male presence as I walked around the house and just murmured a quiet, “OK friend, I will be with you shortly”.
I spent the next couple of hours stepping over boxes, carrier bags and trying desperately to move from room to room without tripping over. My client really did have a problem letting go of things. “Have you moved from a much bigger house” I asked? “No” was the reply, “actually, a much smaller one”. Eek, I thought, more room means even more clutter to collect!
The Feng Shui went well and we discussed better furniture placement and a releasing of some bulky items that came with the residual energy baggage of divorce. Better colour schemes were arranged and her agreement to the releasing of all the stuck energy that comes with unwanted items that ‘might come in useful at some time’. The stagnation of energy would certainly start to dissipate when a lot of the clutter was got rid of and allow the clean, fresh energy to take its place.
I assured her that her romance would certainly blossom when her boyfriend could walk in and find a comfy armchair to sit (at that time, boxes and bags and various knick-knacks all had to be moved if you wanted to sit down anywhere). Also, if she was keen for the romance to proceed further, she really needed to make a space for her boyfriend by freeing up room in the wardrobe and emptying a drawer for his (potential) things. At the present time, there was only one small trail through all the clutter that led to her side of the bed! Definitely a romance that really wasn’t going anywhere!!
I then gave my full attention to this poor trapped spirit. I could feel his annoyance at the state of the house and had already been told that he had been very house-proud and kept the house immaculate. In a small but sacred ceremony I guided him to the Light and, soon after, left the house thinking that that had proved a good day’s work.
However, as I started my car, I was aware of the man in the passenger seat – he was not quite ready to go over yet! “Look, I know she hasn’t kept the house as nicely as you used to” I told him “but, just let it go, there is a much better place for you to go to and, after all, it is just materialism”. He must have finally decided that this would be a good idea after all as I felt the familiar shudder that tells me a spirit has finally gone.
I wonder if he is as house-proud in the beyond!
I had been called in by a lady who told me that her life was not moving on as she would like. She told me that she had a problem with throwing things out and her house would be very cluttered when I saw it. She also had a new man in her life but the romance was not going anywhere – and, oh yes, by the way, she thought that she also had a ghost! (She was right!!!)
This was a common scenario to me and, having seen and heard spirit people since childhood, something that I could cope with and sort out. As a two-year old child, my first remembrance was knowing that I had been an adult in a previous life with a much darker skin which bemused me slightly as I turned my arms over and over and looked at how light and pink the skin was now on my small, childish arms. As I grew, more remembrances came to me and I immersed myself in books to discover who, or what, I really was. It came as something of a relief to discover at the age of 16 when I found a group of like-minded souls that I wasn’t the only person in the world to feel like this after all. Seeing and feeling energy lead me to a lifetime study and finally a career in Feng Shui. But, anyway, I have drifted away from the story and will come back to all this another time.
My client had another problem – since she had moved into her house she felt that her eyesight had been getting worse – and the previous owner (who had since died) had gone blind. She was very worried about this and felt that it was directly related to him and she needed to be free of him being there.
I felt the male presence as I walked around the house and just murmured a quiet, “OK friend, I will be with you shortly”.
I spent the next couple of hours stepping over boxes, carrier bags and trying desperately to move from room to room without tripping over. My client really did have a problem letting go of things. “Have you moved from a much bigger house” I asked? “No” was the reply, “actually, a much smaller one”. Eek, I thought, more room means even more clutter to collect!
The Feng Shui went well and we discussed better furniture placement and a releasing of some bulky items that came with the residual energy baggage of divorce. Better colour schemes were arranged and her agreement to the releasing of all the stuck energy that comes with unwanted items that ‘might come in useful at some time’. The stagnation of energy would certainly start to dissipate when a lot of the clutter was got rid of and allow the clean, fresh energy to take its place.
I assured her that her romance would certainly blossom when her boyfriend could walk in and find a comfy armchair to sit (at that time, boxes and bags and various knick-knacks all had to be moved if you wanted to sit down anywhere). Also, if she was keen for the romance to proceed further, she really needed to make a space for her boyfriend by freeing up room in the wardrobe and emptying a drawer for his (potential) things. At the present time, there was only one small trail through all the clutter that led to her side of the bed! Definitely a romance that really wasn’t going anywhere!!
I then gave my full attention to this poor trapped spirit. I could feel his annoyance at the state of the house and had already been told that he had been very house-proud and kept the house immaculate. In a small but sacred ceremony I guided him to the Light and, soon after, left the house thinking that that had proved a good day’s work.
However, as I started my car, I was aware of the man in the passenger seat – he was not quite ready to go over yet! “Look, I know she hasn’t kept the house as nicely as you used to” I told him “but, just let it go, there is a much better place for you to go to and, after all, it is just materialism”. He must have finally decided that this would be a good idea after all as I felt the familiar shudder that tells me a spirit has finally gone.
I wonder if he is as house-proud in the beyond!
Feng Shui and the ghost of a housemaid
A Housemaid makes her way home
Feng Shui really is the love of my life and I enjoy and remember every house I have worked on, and we are talking about an awful lot of years now!!
I have worked on new houses, old houses, flats, barn conversions, offices, you name it I have probably Feng Shui’ed it. However, I have found that many of the houses I have been called into have a ghost and often that is why I have been asked to go. As I have always been very psychic, I view it as part of my work and it is always a good feeling to have helped some poor, lost soul move over into the next world.
I am often asked why the house would have a ghost and how it has become trapped. Well, often it is lack of religion that would hold a spirit back from making the final journey. There are many people who, sadly, do not believe in an afterlife and think that ‘when you are dead, you are dead’. Then, when their spirit finally leaves their body and they find that there is something after all, they do not know what to do or where to go. They become stuck and still do not accept that there is anywhere else to go to, so tend to carry on doing the things that they always did. After a while, they may get fed up with trying to speak to the people they find living in their house and get a bit angry and start rattling doors or moving objects around.
There are times when a person is so attached to their house and belongings (especially as they have worked hard all their life to pay for these things) that they may feel reluctant to leave them for someone else to enjoy.
Sometimes, they just get stuck because they have not had an education and have not had the opportunity to learn about religion.
I had an occasion recently when I was asked to Feng Shui a delightful Victorian house. It had been extended several times over the years and was situated in a large and beautiful garden that suited the house perfectly with a large, original ornamental fish pond near the entrance.
I could feel the heaviness of the atmosphere in the kitchen, and the feeling as if was walking through treacle, which extended into the hall where there was an old-fashioned fireplace with charming Victorian tiles on the floor. This was the hub of the house and had a completely different feel to the newer extensions all around. The windows looked original and the sunlight poured in through from the garden which looked much as it would have done many years ago. Although this was a large space, it felt small and the occupants said that they always felt as if someone was here and watching them, and they didn’t feel happy about it.
The house was enchanting to Feng Shui and the owners were pleased with my suggestions for colour schemes and furniture placement for the new and old parts of their home. I then went back to the kitchen to help the unfortunate, trapped soul. With spirit clearing, I am always careful to protect myself well as I never know what I am likely to face but I knew that there was nothing evil here, just a misplaced spirit.
I gently called the spirit to me and she revealed herself as a Victorian kitchen maid. She even bobbed a curtsey to me and looked down as if she felt that she couldn’t look me in the face. I felt that she was probably so used to being humble that she viewed me more as a ‘lady of the manor’. In a sacred ceremony, I guided her to the light and told her that her friends and family were waiting for her – and she literally went over to the next world in a flash. She was just so glad to be shown the ‘way out’. I felt instinctively that she was so used to being told what to do and where to go in life that when she died she didn’t know what to do – so, she just went about her business and did what she had always done. Her territory seemed to be from an old sink in a pantry in the original part of the kitchen through to the hall where she would have made up the fire – and she had obviously continued doing this for maybe a hundred years longer than she needed to!
The owners of the house felt the difference immediately and couldn’t believe how big the space felt in the hall. They held their arms outstretched as they both said, “It feels so big here now”. Well, yes, it would – there was no longer anyone making up a fire that would no longer be lit or walking continually to and from the kitchen.
I still feel very sad about her as she was one of the sweetest and most heart-rending spirits I have encountered. She must have had a hard life and it lasted much longer than it needed to. I am glad that it is finally all over for her now and that she is at peace.
It is not only the older spirits that get trapped. I was asked to Feng Shui an office in Canary Wharf a couple of years ago which had a ghost that was spooking people who worked after hours. The ghost was rattling doors and people could feel a chill as something went by. They had exhausted all possible rational explanations and several people were refusing to work late or on their own. I had heard that Canary Wharf was built on an old Roman battle ground and searched on the net for some more detail but came up with nothing. On the day, as I went around the building I was aware that there was a heaviness in one room and this was where the ghost had been felt the most. I asked my contacts to leave me while I called the spirit to me. I was expecting to see some kind of soldier but it was a modern-day builder who stood before me who had passed over (or rather, not quite) whilst working on the building. He couldn’t work out why he had been stuck mainly in one room and had been getting quite annoyed and had thus started rattling the doors in his exasperation. He was shocked as he had not known what had happened to him but went over into the Light very happily when I explained. The office people came back in and expressed surprise how big the room felt (this is a common feeling once a spirit has been cleared). No more doors rattled, or chills were felt and people worked late again without their additional spooky companion!
Feng Shui really is the love of my life and I enjoy and remember every house I have worked on, and we are talking about an awful lot of years now!!
I have worked on new houses, old houses, flats, barn conversions, offices, you name it I have probably Feng Shui’ed it. However, I have found that many of the houses I have been called into have a ghost and often that is why I have been asked to go. As I have always been very psychic, I view it as part of my work and it is always a good feeling to have helped some poor, lost soul move over into the next world.
I am often asked why the house would have a ghost and how it has become trapped. Well, often it is lack of religion that would hold a spirit back from making the final journey. There are many people who, sadly, do not believe in an afterlife and think that ‘when you are dead, you are dead’. Then, when their spirit finally leaves their body and they find that there is something after all, they do not know what to do or where to go. They become stuck and still do not accept that there is anywhere else to go to, so tend to carry on doing the things that they always did. After a while, they may get fed up with trying to speak to the people they find living in their house and get a bit angry and start rattling doors or moving objects around.
There are times when a person is so attached to their house and belongings (especially as they have worked hard all their life to pay for these things) that they may feel reluctant to leave them for someone else to enjoy.
Sometimes, they just get stuck because they have not had an education and have not had the opportunity to learn about religion.
I had an occasion recently when I was asked to Feng Shui a delightful Victorian house. It had been extended several times over the years and was situated in a large and beautiful garden that suited the house perfectly with a large, original ornamental fish pond near the entrance.
I could feel the heaviness of the atmosphere in the kitchen, and the feeling as if was walking through treacle, which extended into the hall where there was an old-fashioned fireplace with charming Victorian tiles on the floor. This was the hub of the house and had a completely different feel to the newer extensions all around. The windows looked original and the sunlight poured in through from the garden which looked much as it would have done many years ago. Although this was a large space, it felt small and the occupants said that they always felt as if someone was here and watching them, and they didn’t feel happy about it.
The house was enchanting to Feng Shui and the owners were pleased with my suggestions for colour schemes and furniture placement for the new and old parts of their home. I then went back to the kitchen to help the unfortunate, trapped soul. With spirit clearing, I am always careful to protect myself well as I never know what I am likely to face but I knew that there was nothing evil here, just a misplaced spirit.
I gently called the spirit to me and she revealed herself as a Victorian kitchen maid. She even bobbed a curtsey to me and looked down as if she felt that she couldn’t look me in the face. I felt that she was probably so used to being humble that she viewed me more as a ‘lady of the manor’. In a sacred ceremony, I guided her to the light and told her that her friends and family were waiting for her – and she literally went over to the next world in a flash. She was just so glad to be shown the ‘way out’. I felt instinctively that she was so used to being told what to do and where to go in life that when she died she didn’t know what to do – so, she just went about her business and did what she had always done. Her territory seemed to be from an old sink in a pantry in the original part of the kitchen through to the hall where she would have made up the fire – and she had obviously continued doing this for maybe a hundred years longer than she needed to!
The owners of the house felt the difference immediately and couldn’t believe how big the space felt in the hall. They held their arms outstretched as they both said, “It feels so big here now”. Well, yes, it would – there was no longer anyone making up a fire that would no longer be lit or walking continually to and from the kitchen.
I still feel very sad about her as she was one of the sweetest and most heart-rending spirits I have encountered. She must have had a hard life and it lasted much longer than it needed to. I am glad that it is finally all over for her now and that she is at peace.
It is not only the older spirits that get trapped. I was asked to Feng Shui an office in Canary Wharf a couple of years ago which had a ghost that was spooking people who worked after hours. The ghost was rattling doors and people could feel a chill as something went by. They had exhausted all possible rational explanations and several people were refusing to work late or on their own. I had heard that Canary Wharf was built on an old Roman battle ground and searched on the net for some more detail but came up with nothing. On the day, as I went around the building I was aware that there was a heaviness in one room and this was where the ghost had been felt the most. I asked my contacts to leave me while I called the spirit to me. I was expecting to see some kind of soldier but it was a modern-day builder who stood before me who had passed over (or rather, not quite) whilst working on the building. He couldn’t work out why he had been stuck mainly in one room and had been getting quite annoyed and had thus started rattling the doors in his exasperation. He was shocked as he had not known what had happened to him but went over into the Light very happily when I explained. The office people came back in and expressed surprise how big the room felt (this is a common feeling once a spirit has been cleared). No more doors rattled, or chills were felt and people worked late again without their additional spooky companion!
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