Invite Spring into your house the Feng Shui way

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!