Feng Shui
Skills and Knowledge area – an overview
Bringing balance into the Skills and Knowledge area of our homes will help to:
- Make better grades
- Make better decisions
- Be more creative
- Be a better businessperson
- Attract opportunities, situations, and people to help in all areas of your life
- Tap into your inner wisdom more often
- Find the inner strength and will to begin a seemingly ominous or overwhelming task
- Have better relationships
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If you are unsure of where the skills and knowledge area is, see these posts:
The rubber meets the road
Day Eighteen:
Still working in the Career area of our homes
When it comes to traveling on your life path, are you stopped at a red light? Is your life path filled with potholes? Are you stuck in gridlock and there’s no exit in sight? Bringing balance into the Career area of your home will work as your 24-hour roadside assistance program!
Declutter activity for today:
If you are looking for direction in your life, or are scattered from so many possibilities and choices, go to your closet and check your shoes. They are the “rubber meeting the road” when it comes to your getting anywhere. Arrange all your shoes in the closet so they are facing the same direction. Find one pair of shoes that you no longer need, and put them in the box of items for our garage sale. That’s it for today!
Get on with the fun stuff today!
From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter
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If you are unsure of where the career area is, see these posts:
Get your career moving
Feng Shui activity for today:
- Add a symbol (to your career area)
Water is the element for this area. An aquarium, a fountain, or a vase of good clean water will do. Symbolic water works too – a snowy scene in a picture, a watercolor painting, starfish, or seashells work great here.
The shape of water is free-form and undulating, so any shape will work, except for square shapes (which symbolize earth, and we don’t want earth damming up our free-flowing water.)
Mirrors equal water (and they let you see how fabulous you look dressed for your new career!) Place the mirror at a level where you can look yourself in the eye and see your entire head, so you will get ahead in business.
Glass is another water element –
- Vases
- Aquariums
- Fish bowls
- Stemware
Metal of any kind works here, as well as round items –
- Coins
- Bells
- Plant pots
- Light fixtures
Hang symbols here of the Life Path you want to be on. If you want to be in the music industry, pipe music into this area, or place instruments or CDs here. If you want to be a stockbroker, a picture of Wall Street or a copy of the Wall Street Journal should be here. While you are adding symbols of your life path, be sure to remove pictures of things you would never want to do in your life.
Two activities to help the energy in your Career area:
Place some uncooked rice in a bowl. Take all the miscellaneous change you accumulate each day and place it in the bowl. Do this for thirty days. After thirty days is up, count up all the change, and give 10% to your favorite charity or a homeless person.
Write down the things you think you want out of life, or the things you think you need to begin a career, on pieces of paper – one item per paper. Fold up the papers and place them in a bowl, and stir them with a big spoon or your hand each day for nine days. All of your intentions and requests that once did not have any chi behind them will now be enlivened and start to work for you because you are stirring them up.
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If you are unsure of where career area is, see these posts:
Career area – an overview
Day Seventeen:
Moving into the Career area of our homes
Creating balance in this area of your home can help you to:
- Get a job
- Get a new, better, or more meaningful job
- Enjoy your work
- Have business pick up
- Make more money in business
- Follow your heart!
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If you are unsure of where the career area is, see these posts:
Your career in black and white
Feng Shui activity for today:
Add a color
Water is the element for this area, and black is the feng shui symbol for water. Put your black briefcase here, or that Men in Black poster.
White symbolizes the metal that creates water. Anything white will attract good vibes for your life path. Books have black-and-white pages, so find a book about your career path and place it here.
From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
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If you are unsure of where the prosperity area is, see these posts:
Color and Containers for Helpful People
Feng Shui activity for today:
Add a color and three containers to your Helpful People and Travel area. Silver, gray and metal work here, so aluminum foil is fine.
You can set up three silver containers for three different tasks of attracting helpful people:
- One small silver box with a lid (real silver, silver-plated, or even a paper box painted silver)
- One silver envelope large enough to hold documents (can even be made of aluminum foil)
- One larger container, like a large vase, paper grocery bag, purse, or box (spray-paint it silver if you like, or cover it with silver fabric, sequins, or beads.)
The small silver box is used for events that need help now (3 days to 3 weeks). Those little jewelry boxes with red velvet inside work great, as the red is an activating color. This box can hold up to three requests at any one time.
The silver envelope is used for things that last months (scripts, contracts, invitations). Remove the item when you’ve been adequately helped.
The large container is for things that stay around for a LONG time (your doctor, your business clients, your family). You can place the name of everyone you meet in this container if you wish. Because this container is for the long term, I would recommend that you invest time and/or money to make it beautiful.
Instructions:
On paper, write the names of people or projects you need help with,for example:
- “The insurance adjuster is helpful to me”
- “I attract only the perfect health care practitioners for me.”
- “I have plenty of good help with my remodeling project.”
From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter
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If you are unsure of where the helpful people and travel area is, see these posts:
Attracting Helpful People
Feng Shui activity for today:
Add a symbol to the Helpful People and Travel Area
Place a picture or symbol of any helpful person that is meaningful to you: Mother Teresa, Jesus, the Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King Jr, the Virgin Mary, angels, Deepak Chopra, pastors, teachers, creditors, realtors. You can place their business cards, books, tapes in this area. Who do you want to help you?
- When you place a bell here, your request will be heard.
- Water is a symbol of spirit – certainly a good help!
- Helping hands, even a simple outline of a hand on paper, will work here if it has the right intention behind it.
- Symbols of favorite places, whatever makes your heart sing when you think of being there, belongs here.
From: Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter
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If you are unsure of where the helpful people and travel area is, see these posts:
Helpful People and Travel – Overview
Life is not about doing it all by yourself, every day, every time. By allowing others to help us, we give them the opportunity to stretch and grow by helping us. Being in the flow of life means we give, and we allow others the chance to give to us. Be gracious in accepting help
Finding balance in the Helpful People and Travel area of your home can help make the following improvements in your life:
- You will find yourself being treated more fairly and honestly.
- You’ll find yourself at the right place at the right time more consistently.
- The right people will become more available and willing to help you or teach you.
- Things will run more smoothly.
- Traveling will become less stressful and chaotic, and more fun.
- Your intuition or divine guidance will become more easily accessible.
- You will get more done because you won’t be doing it all yourself.
- Feelings like “If I don’t do it, it won’t get done” or “It’s always up to me” will disappear.
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If you are unsure of where the helpful people and travel area is, see these posts:
Removing Hazards to Creativity
Today we are removing hazardous elements in the creativity and children area of the home.
Fire is not good for this area. If you have a fireplace in this area, you can cure it by placing a large mirror over the fireplace, or a large picture of water. Carved ducks and fish can bring in the water element also. Candles are not good for this area.
Red is not good here. Red keeps your creativity fired up all the time and can eventually burn you out.
Triangular and pointy objects also represent fire and do not belong here.
If anything is literally blocked in this area, such as doors, drawers, furniture, walkways – unblock it immediately so the energy can flow freely to all areas.
From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter
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If you are unsure of where the creativity and children area is, see these posts:
Removing Hazards to Relationships
Today we are removing hazardous elements from the Relationships and Love area of our homes:
Get rid of pictures of ex-lovers, icebergs, anything depressing or violent. Also cactus, Venus flytraps, stinkweed, and weapons will not enhance this area and must go!
(I guess this means that I have to take this picture down? Even though it does tend to sum up some of my relationship issues?)
The air conditioner and refrigerator, if located here, will chill out your love life instead of heating it up, so you will want to make certain to use enhancements and cures in this area.
Get rid of “singles” items – bring in a guest pillow, get rid of pictures of you all alone. Don’t bring games into this area – you don’t want game-playing in your relationship.
This area is not for storage, unless you want a relationship with a lot of baggage.
If the television is here, it may be a distraction that comes between you and your partner. If your ex’s stuff is still here, it will keep you hanging on to the past.
If you must keep these items here, drape them in a fabric that will enhance this area, such as pink or red.
From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter
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If you are unsure of where the relationship and love area is, see these posts:
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