Inner Feng Shui: Single Women’s Bedrooms
Are you absolutely positive you deserve the perfect love partner? Do you believe that it’s possible to experience the romance of your dreams? Align your inner beliefs and feelings so that you know you can attract and enjoy romantic happiness. Post affirmations around your house that affirm your certainty and excitement about your upcoming romance, such as “I ATTRACT WILDLY SATISFYING AND JOYFUL ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS INTO MY LIFE,” or “I AM A MAGNIFICENT PERSON, AND I ATTRACT A HAPPY, HEALTHY, JOYFUL LOVER!” Along with your affirmations, make a detailed list of the qualities you want in your lover. Read your list daily and add to it as much as you like.
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The Season of Returning Light
by Terah Kathryn Collins
‘Tis the Season when short days and cool temperatures beckon us to spend more time indoors. Winter is the time when the Sun, Nature’s primal source of the Fire element, offers the least warmth. To maintain our elemental balance, it’s the time to illuminate our homes with enhancements that bring the comfort of the Fire element’s warmth indoors.
Candlelight is an archetypal symbol of Fire. A room can be transformed by lighting it with the luminous magic of candles. With safety always in mind, group pillar candles, tea lights, votives, and tapers to create multi-tiered arrangements of illumination. Choose any hue of red, the color of the Fire element, and add reflective trays and holders to multiply and magnify the light.
Soft lamplight accentuates the warm ambiance of any room. Turn glare into glow by installing rheostats or dimmers that let you adjust your lighting to fit every need and mood. Consider replacing fluorescent lights with more versatile and appealing track or recessed lighting. Or, add task lights, ornamental lamps, and other alternative lighting so that the fluorescents are rarely needed.
The fireplace or hearth symbolizes the heart of a home and inspires the timeless feelings of comfort and safety. Keep a wood-burning fireplace at the ready with fresh logs for the next fire as this connotes continual warmth and light.
In the Nourishing Cycle of Feng Shui’s Five Elements, Wood feeds Fire. When you combine them together, you can create a particularly welcoming wintertime environment. Interestingly, their color associations – red and green – correlate with the classic Christmas colors. Arrange evergreens, ribbons, candles, flowers, ornaments, and other seasonal decorations in reds and greens to create your own beautiful displays.
The element of Fire is also enhanced by your relationships with your loved ones. Include “mementos of the heart” that remind you of your favorite people and display photos of them from previous holidays, as well as ornaments made by or given to you by them.
Winter is the time to create an environment that invites us to renew ourselves and deepen our kinship with friends and family. We seek places to settle into deep introspection and meaningful conversation. Let’s light the candles, cozy up around the fire, and share good times with those we love. With our home fires burning, we open our hearts to winter’s essence and celebrate the returning of the light.
(c) 2013 Terah Kathryn Collins
Read MoreInner Work Related to Health and Family Gua
Key Word: Strength
The blessings of Health and Family are associated with the I Ching trigram Chen, translated as “Shocking Thunder.” Unexpected shocks or sudden unforeseen problems cycle through our lives like stormy weather. Just as we need our homes to be in good repair to weather a storm, we need to be in good repair ourselves. To do this, we need to cultivate the two vital attributes that strengthen physical vitality and emotional health: honesty and forgiveness.
Your ability to be completely honest maintains healthy boundaries—boundaries that include knowing when a meal, person, place, or situation is healthy for you or not. When you can respond honestly to life’s many temptations, you have the power to clearly say yes or no. Honesty demands that you give a truthful answer, then forgiveness directs you to let it go. Forgiveness is your ticket to staying in the power position of the present moment. Your sense of physical and emotional strength and well-being thrives on moving forward without heavy baggage. Honesty and forgiveness keep your vitality and your relationships strong. According to the I Ching, this assures good fortune and the strength to survive all challenges.
Assess your exercise, sleeping, and eating habits, and determine how well you are maintaining your body. Strengthen your physical and emotional health by sending family and friends loving thoughts every time you think of them. Be honest with yourself and others in a loving way. Forgive everyone you feel has ever harmed or hurt you. Let them go. Most important, forgive yourself. The past is over, and the present is a clean page ready to become your masterpiece. Affirm: “I am strong and vibrant in body, heart, mind, and spirit. I completely forgive myself and others for past occurrences, and send loving, healing thoughts to all my relations. I enjoy a healthy, honest, loving relationship with myself and every friend and family member.”
Read MoreHolographic Feng Shui Experience
“As a result of this training, I feel that my relationship with Feng Shui is moving from two-dimensional to holographic. I was excited about Feng Shui before and am aeven more so now. Everyone I speak to can hear my enthusiasm for the training and for the subject. I can feel also that there is infinite scope for growth and change in this field, which also excites me.” Donaleen Saul, Class of May 2012
Read MoreInner Feng Shui: Attics & Basements
Attics and basements are often a study of what you are holding on to from the past. Ask yourself why you are keeping these things. As you look through the items stored in your attic or basement, think about what, or who, they represent. Do the memories weaken or strengthen you? Is it time to let them go? Or, is it time to dust them off and bring them out where you can really enjoy them?
Read MoreInner Feng Shui: Beams
Beams symbolize burdens. Are you feeling overwhelmed or burdened by something in life? Sit down and face what’s weighing you down. Even if there is nothing you can do about the burden, you have complete power over your attitude toward it. Decide what you can to do to lift your spirits
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