The Poetry of Work, Rest, and Play
The Golden Triangle, part 2
By Terah Kathryn Collins, Founder and Instructor
This poetic inquiry into work, rest, and play is a heart-centered invitation for you to quietly, deeply, assess your inner and outer balance. The term ‘the Way’ refers to how you personally sustain – or regain – harmony in your life.
Your heart, the sanctuary of heaven and earth, is the home of your true self. As you open your heart, the wonder and majesty of life expands. Your spirit sheds any dark cloud of amnesia and you soar once again into the eternal expanses of your imagination. Your body awakens from the anesthesia of the past, transforming numbness into streams of pleasure. The voices of your senses become crystal clear, guiding you to further joy. Reunited once again with the full circle of life, your heart becomes the enchanted abode where heaven and earths’ beloved offspring – you – can thrive.
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Webinar: Essential Feng Shui To Go
Essential Feng Shui® can help you prepare for your adventures on the road! Join Terah and learn how to assemble your own unique Travel Kit to transform less-than-excellent vacation spots into places you can call your own. Terah will also talk about how to choose the best hotel rooms, cabins, houses, and other vacation locations. Learn how you can pick the winners, fix the losers, and enjoy every moment of your wild and precious adventures!
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Comfort, Safety and Beauty
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The Golden Triangle, part 1
by Terah Kathryn Collins, Founder and Instructor
Essential Feng Shui has taught me to take safety and comfort seriously. In fact, I like to baby-proof homes for people of all ages. I look for the uncomfortable and dangerous elements that live under most people’s radar. These include disagreeable desk chairs, poor lighting, sharp corners, problematic furniture placement, table legs and embellishments that protrude into walking space, and other irksome features that can compromise you and your surroundings. There is a good reason why I make such a big deal out of this.
Read MoreQ&A – Which color should I paint my front door?
Q. Hello!
What color should I paint my front door? It’s at the southeast, could I use a different color inside or does it have to be the same? I stood with my back to the door standing outside to get this information, was this the right way? My back door is to northwest. Which color would be the best? Thank you so much for your help.
Janet from Puerto Rico
A. Hi Janet,
Our School teaches Form Feng Shui and you are referring to Compass Feng Shui. I would advise you to paint your doors the color/s that are your absolute favorite and that make your heart sing every time you see them. This lifts your energy every day and enhances your vitality, happiness, creativity, and productivity. Our approach focuses on your individual preferences rather than a generic formula.
Enjoy choosing Colors that you LOVE!
With Every Blessing,
Terah Kathryn Collins
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The Tao of the Holidays
by Terah Kathryn Collins
O, here they come! The parade of holidays is about to begin. While meant to be relaxing and enjoyable times, holidays can also be quite stressful. When we look through the eyes of the Tao (the Way to sustain or regain harmony) we can identify ways to diminish stress and increase our harmony-quotient throughout the season.
Take a few moments to define in detail your own version of an ideal holiday. Consider reinventing any traditions that cause you stress. Ask yourself “how would my holidays be if they were exactly the way I’d love them to be?” Contemplate the following questions, focusing solely upon your personal preferences.
Autumn’s Call: Let it Fall
Autumn catches our attention by dressing up and then undressing. Summer’s leaf-green robes turn an array of flamboyant colors and then slowly fall away, revealing the shoulder of a branch here and the torso of a trunk there until much of the landscape is bare. Nature provides us with quite a show as trees and plants shed their bright leaves, freeing themselves of what is no longer necessary.
As a keen observer of Nature, I deeply appreciate the qualities of each season. Autumn, it appears, celebrates the shedding of the old…. and we are all invited to the party! Imagine your invitation fluttering down into your hands, scripted upon a golden leaf:
‘Tis the Season to Let Go
Color what no longer serves you with gratitude
and let it fall away
Grateful, Grateful, Grateful, Gone…
RSVP “Yes” and lighten up! Living with what you no longer want or need is heavy, cumbersome, and blocks the flow of vital energy that nurtures your life. Autumn encourages you to be like a tree and shed the possessions, relationships, attitudes, and habits that don’t serve you now. In doing so, you align with the essence of Fall and prepare your inner and outer space to receive Winter’s gifts of stillness, introspection, and the inception of new dreams.
Contemplative Practice: Stand or sit near a deciduous tree whose leaves are changing color. Choose a fallen leaf, feel its lightness, and observe its colors. How does the leaf symbolize a person, place, object, or way of being that has passed – or is passing – out of your life? What can you do now to honor and celebrate it? Have you, with gratitude, let it go? If you haven’t let it go yet, how can you do so now? Consider jotting down your thoughts in a journal and pressing the leaf between the pages…..
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