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The Effects of Clutter


Clutter is related to instincts of self-protection and hoarding, on the one hand, and to feelings of insecurity on the other. Clutter corresponds essentially to the Earth element. If Earth is negative, you worry. Positive Earth nurtures. The person who clutters needs nuturing, or needs to be provided with nourishment and support. If you tend to clutter, you should ask yourself what you need to feel secure and happy, and what it si that you believe about yourself that prevents you from having it.

Clutter near the doorway always indicates resistance to going out into the world. If you have doorway clutter, you have to struggle through a lot that seems to stand in the way of your goals. You tend to barricade yourself in and fear letting go.

Cluttered shelves overhead, or things piled up to the ceiling indicate that you are apprehensive that something unwanted might befall you.

Clutter caused by things stored under your bed causes chi to stagnate and generates “sha”, which your body absorbs when you sleep. If you have things stored under your bed, even if they are neatly stored in boxes, remove them and store them somewhere else – your health will improve.

Your home breathes like a living body. Its breath, or chi, comes in and out through the doors and windows and flows through the corridors and rooms. When it flows unobstructedly it imparts the sensations of ease and comfort. But when it’s flow is obstructed due to clutter, the opposite happens: your chi becomes obstructed, the elements in your body become unbalanced, and your health and affairs suffer.

From Feng Shui, Step by Step
by T. Raphael Simons

Breathe You Are Alive

Following the breath breathing in,
I calm my body.
Breathing out, I smile.
Dwelling in the present moment,
I know this is a wonderful moment..

A quick summary of each area

Prosperity:
Colors: Purple, green, gold and red
Associated with the Hip
Associated with number 8

Fame/Reputation:
Color: Red
Triangular, pointy objects
Associated with the Eye
Associated with number 1
The element is Fire

Relationships/Love:
Colors: Pink, red and white
Associated with all major organs of the body
Associated with number 2

Creativity/Children:
Color: White
Round objects
Associated with the Mouth
Associated with number 3
The element is Metal

Helpful People/Travel:
Colors: Gray, black and white
Associated with the Head
Associated with number 5

Career/Life Path:
Color: Black
Undulating, free-form shapes
Associated with the Ear
Associated with number 6
The element is Water

Skills/Knowledge/Wisdom:
Colors: Blue, black and green
Associated with the Hand
Associated with number 7

Family:
Color: Green
Rectangular, columnar, vertical objects
Associated with the Foot
Associated with number 4
The element is Wood

Health/General:
Colors: Yellow and earth tones
Square, horizontal and flat objects
Associated with all other body parts not mentioned above
Associated with number 9
The element is Earth

 

Note:

If you are unsure of where these areas are, see these posts:

Remove Hazardous Elements from Health Area

General Health area:

Wood will uproot the earth in this area, so get rid of anything symbolizing wood here. This means green items too! Small plants are the exception and can stay.

Tall rectangular objects and columnar objects don’t belong here.

Spiral staircases are a doozy – the chi keeps falling through, and with the spiraling pattern the chi gets dizzy and disoriented. You can counteract this effect by painting the underside of the stairs with the color of the area you are in, or place mirrors under the stairs to reflect the chi back up.

From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter

Note:

If you are unsure of where the health area is, see these posts:

Remove Hazards to Family Area


Family area:

  • Metal is hazardous in this area. White is the metal color and also does not belong here.
  • If you have a gun in the house, do not place it in this area or it will become deadly metal.
  • Get rid of round objects in this area.

From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter

Note:

If you are unsure of where the family area is, see these posts:

Remove hazards to Skills and Knowledge

Skills and Knowledge area:

  • Get rid of clutter here.
  • Thinking clearly requires a clear space.
  • Alcohol, drugs, poisons, and cigarettes all cloud the thought process and are detrimental to this area.
  • Newspapers (full of stupid people doing stupid things) don’t belong here.

So this is not a good wallpaper choice?

From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter

Note:

If you are unsure of where the skills and knowledge area is, see these posts:

 

Remove Hazards to your Career

Removing hazardous elements from your Career area:

Get rid of any dirt in this area. When you mix dirt and water, you get mud! Pictures of mountains and clay pots can even muddy up the water. No squares either, since squares represent earth (which is made of dirt…) The same goes for earth-tone-colored items.

Remove pictures from this area of anything you would never want to do in your life.

From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter

Note:

If you are unsure of where the career area is, see these posts:

Remove Hazards from Helpful People and Travel Area

Feng Shui activity for today:
Remove hazardous elements from the Helpful People and Travel area:

You don’t want your helpful friends to have to navigate a road like this one!

Take a moment to stop and see where all your help is coming from. Trace the road money travels to get to you.

Helpful people do not want to hang around a bunch of junk. A mess in this area of the house gives helpful people obstacles to negotiate, so get rid of the junk!

Drains may undermine the support you need to prosper. Tie a red ribbon or red tape around the outgoing pipe to stop your chi from flowing away, and place mirrors in the area to keep the chi up.

Dust and dirt, broken items, trash cans, toilets, reminders of bad times don’t belong here.

From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter

Note:

If you are unsure of where the helpful people and travel area is, see these posts:

5 extra minutes

Still working in the General Health area of our homes:

This area is the epitome of balance of the yin and yang energies. If your physical body is in balance, you can “give it your all” and achieve everything you set out to do. This area reaches out and touches all the other eight guas of the home.

Declutter activity for today:

Take a minute to look around the areas of your house. Which area still needs a little extra work? Set your timer for five minutes and get to work decluttering and balancing that area. You know what needs to be done!

After five minutes, stop! That’s it for today!

Note from twofeathers:

I wanted an image to illustrate this post, so I put the words “5 extra minutes” into a yahoo search for images and came up with this! The web page title is: Villa with pool at 5 star Altea holiday resort.

And I thought.. wow. This is the kind of thing we are working towards as we work the Prosperity Project. This is the carrot at the end of the stick. So I decided to post it with the suggestion that as we clean, we remember WHY we are cleaning.

Note:

If you are unsure of where the health area is, see these posts:

Symbols and Anchors for your Center

Feng Shui activity for today:
Add a symbol to the Health area.

Earth is the element for the center. Add a healthy plant to this area. Include things made of earth here – china, ceramics, clay tiles or pots, bricks, natural stone flooring.

A bowl of fresh fruit symbolizes good luck, prosperity, hospitality and health.

Laughter is the best medicine. Place anything you find funny here – blooper videos, pictures of yourself and friends in fun moments, gag gifts. If it brings a smile to your face, it belongs here, so you can place a child’s hand-drawn picture or an old love letter here.

The shape for this area is square, and horizontal or flat items also belong here. Triangular or pyramid-shaped objects work here.

Symbols of earth, such as a globe, pictures of mountains, crystals belong here. They ground you and put you in touch with Mother Earth.

Fire works here, so if your fireplace is in this area, that’s great. Candles will also work. Stars and sun symbols should be here – sunflowers, sundials, pictures of sunrise or sunset, starfish, the Star of David, the Stars and Stripes.

Any religious object you connect with works here.

From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter

Note:

If you are unsure of where the health area is, see these posts:

General and healing area – an overview

Moving into the General Health area of our homes
Bringing balance to the center of our homes will bring:

  • More optimal health
  • A sense of balance in life
  • Betterment in all life situations

While this may sound really short, and not very important, consider this: If you are not feeling healthy and well, you will not be able to enjoy your prosperity. If you do not have a sense of balance in life, you will find yourself constantly struggling to keep up with this and let go of that. If you seek betterment in all of your life situations, the prosperity and well being you achieve will be well grounded, well founded, and of a much more permanent nature.

Note:

If you are unsure of where the health area is, see these posts:

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