Thought and emotion are directly linked to the material world energetically – They create the physical world and reality perspective. They create patterns that are either positive or negative and transfer energetic imprints into form.
Many people have deep seated attachments to many things in their lives and homes. These attachments are energetically based and often unconscious making it difficult to break the pattern. We think of attachments as psychological, but they are energetic too as the mind and emotion carry different qualities of energy.
These attachments are often buried in the subconscious or drift around in foggy topical awareness. A close examination of our association with objects - thought and emotion -can reveal dysfunctional patterns in life – repeated cycles of dissatisfaction. Our intentions and progress dulled by hanging onto patterns that need change. For example the way we view the world, knowing it all, false ego identification, fear of change, lack of open mindedness using distractions to avoid exploring the inner world, creating pain and sickness as avoidance to internal issues.
Letting go of attachments that don’t serve us makes room for the present and the future and creates freedom within. It releases the past as patterns of thought, emotion, form (objects) and relationships. Letting go of things is letting go of parts of our reality, is this not true? Letting go of things is not letting go of our true identity; you are not your things. Our identity is our immortal soul, there’s no letting go of it anyway. As the world is going through rapid changes so should we, but we shouldn’t wait for the world to change first. The creative and independent thinkers, the “individuals”, who live the creative dynamic life without the restraints of old dysfunctional paradigms holding them in the past, are those who lead the world in change for better.
Sentimental old traditional paradigms are present in our home and life, the real meaning behind our holidays have been lost long ago – many people have attachments to the neurosis of family and extended family dynamics. We were wired in this way from the beginning and what have we done about it since? We hang in there to serve the family because that’s the way it’s always done. That’s fine if it serves us too or are we just the servant, playing the role of how others like to see us? Do we need healthy boundaries, more distance or better communication from the heart truth? Having expectations from people always leads to problems. Allowing others to live the way they want frees up our energy to empower ourselves, enabling us to be more effective in all situations. Family is usually represented in the home by image and object so what is the deeper meaning to us? Psychologically is it a healthy association? If not, consider what must be done with these objects that fortify a dysfunctional pattern. Our home is a reflection of our consciousness, our relationships, all of them, including past relationships. These things in our homes that are linked to old patterns can keep us from moving on. Reexamining our values, what has real meaning in our lives and what sustains our happiness – choices that ground us and balance us, these are the priorities.
Are we growing in Knowledge and Self-cultivation (Feng Shui/bagua) or was that just school time, former career or past accolades? Mind, body, spirit, emotion, unlikely we’ve got it all figured out, but then peace and happiness are keys to success - a vital gauge to our progress. We should always be in progress, but when we’re happy and peaceful what more do we need? More, more things…
Homes can be bloated with things that have been held onto for ages. They haven’t been examined beyond a passing thought or feeling. An undercurrent of frustration builds… as piles of the old and unnecessary builds, builds, builds. A lot of the STUFF that we are attached to is rooted deep in fear, safety and survival – life can’t be lived this way if it’s going to flow and its flowing fast – Those who resist are hurting themselves in many ways. What is the object’s real meaning in our life? What does it reflect? These are mirrors to our lives. What does the image on the wall tell you about what is going on in your life? We dance around each other in communication and dance around our stuff not seeing what it’s really saying about us. It’s talking to us all the time. How do we really feel about this object and what are we going to do about it? It’s not just stuff; it’s you, your energy, and your life. It has an impact on you. Your image on the wall can tell you your view of life. Is there real meaning here or another frivolous materialistic sentiment?
The meaning of our lives have just as much to do with what we are surrounded with and how we treat it, as it does with what’s going on inside us. Our home and environment has a direct visceral impact on us, everything counts, and it’s all vibrating. The more attention we give anything, the more energy flows there for good or bad for people, place and thing. Think of all the small aggravating issues in your home – cumulatively they are the frustration in your daily Feng Shui.
More isn’t better! Quality and meaning is better. Quality in how meaningful the object is to your life. The examined value of how it relates to your life. As the middle class and other classes lose their spending power in America they are forced to look at the material world we have been weaned on and subconsciously controlled by. We are forced to look a little closer at what we buy and why.
It was mostly just the art that traveled with my wife and me from home to home, a total of 11 homes in 15 years. Beyond the utilitarian needs, it’s the things that hold vital meaning which lifts our spirits, reflects who we presently are and where we’d like to be in life. Our home reflects our life perspective versus what others might think. A LIFE LIVED BY RELEASE AND RENEWAL, release of ego identification through materialism. A snake shedding its skin, shedding the old self, old material to make room for the new.
As an artist, I recently went through a shedding of 25 paintings - thrown in the trash and, unknown to me, recovered by locals and a flea market owner. The paintings that ended up in the flea market (also unknown to me) were purchased by a person who happened upon one of my art shows recognizing me as the same artist, who then asked me to exhibit my work in NYC - a good example of Release and Renewal.
Less is often more in Feng Shui. The 60,000 thoughts we have a day create our reality and create the multiple objects in our home. We might consider that a quieter more peaceful mind might reflect a more minimalist home. The multiplicity for the eye creates over stimulation, lacking the sacred nurturing space we need. A dull and muted environment can have the opposite effect and can use some bright or vibrant colors to enhance the vibration of place. It’s all a reflection of our personal energy; attachments, patterns and perspectives. A good Feng Shui Consultant sees, feels and reads the energy patterns and offers tools to implement balance and progress.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
FENG SHUI & REAL ESTATE
My experience in Real Estate from a Feng Shui perspective is not all that different from a regular consultation, the approach is basically the same - treated holistically, but there are some vital pointers to consider listed below. I have traveled for 30 years never living in one place for longer than 2 1/2 years. This makes up for a lot of homes. I had 5 Feng Shui consultations on my homes before becoming a consultant myself. My wife is a Real Estate Manager and I have worked with agents as a consultant.
Feng Shui brings issues and potential rapidly to the surface, it brings imminent change into play quickly. One only needs to follow through, take care of the details, take it seriously and believe. Like anything else it is not a magic bullet, but when the subject is understood it can be a powerful tool for change. Something always happens with a consultation - change is guaranteed, and results are always different for everyone involved. From my perspective, it always works out for the home owner in one way or another. Examples would be a rapid sale or sale within 90 days, or a decision by the owner to take the home off the market because the Feng Shui consultation made them rethink and brought them harmony to stay. There can be a financial reason for staying put, but personal development occurs. The outcomes are not predicted, the energy of change takes much into consideration.
Feng Shui has been around for thousand of years - it is alive and well for good reason - it works, but it can't be treated like any other commodity. F.S. asks for expanded awareness and sensitivity to the big picture. What are we selling and what specific situation do we want to transpire? Ask the seller to respond in writing to these 3 questions; 1. What they want from this move/transaction? (Not just the amount of money.) 2. Why they want this move/transaction? 3. Why they will get it? (This is for their eyes only.) Intentions should be in the vicinity of the right home for the right person. A home that will serve the buyer as well as it did the owner. The home is alive with energy - thoughts and emotions are imprinted here. Nothing is covered up, it's all straight forward blessings to all concerned, a winning situation for all. The mindset of a heart related transaction activates the type of energy we need to facilitate positive change in person, place and thing (money.) Focus on the TRAVEL & HELPFUL PEOPLE section of the Bagua, (that's the front right corner room/area of your home and lot.) Freshen it with live energy or moving energy, plants, fish tank, clock, lava lamp, music etc. - activate the energy here. Try hanging an image of horses in movement. (This was the first mode of travel, and a pure primal energy.) Place the FOR SALE sign in right front corner of the lot if possible. Front door and entryways are important areas to address energy, calling the energy in and first
impressions; rid all clutter and congestion throughout the home if possible. Use at least a little of these colors in each room; white, green or blue, black or very dark color, one fiery color - red, orange, purple or pink, one earth color like brown, tan, gold or beige. Use more fiery colors in the Travel & Helpful People area.
The agent and seller need to minimize stress and anxiety. It does not help things to move forward. It sends the wrong energy into the home and the wrong message to the universe.
Feng Shui brings issues and potential rapidly to the surface, it brings imminent change into play quickly. One only needs to follow through, take care of the details, take it seriously and believe. Like anything else it is not a magic bullet, but when the subject is understood it can be a powerful tool for change. Something always happens with a consultation - change is guaranteed, and results are always different for everyone involved. From my perspective, it always works out for the home owner in one way or another. Examples would be a rapid sale or sale within 90 days, or a decision by the owner to take the home off the market because the Feng Shui consultation made them rethink and brought them harmony to stay. There can be a financial reason for staying put, but personal development occurs. The outcomes are not predicted, the energy of change takes much into consideration.
Feng Shui has been around for thousand of years - it is alive and well for good reason - it works, but it can't be treated like any other commodity. F.S. asks for expanded awareness and sensitivity to the big picture. What are we selling and what specific situation do we want to transpire? Ask the seller to respond in writing to these 3 questions; 1. What they want from this move/transaction? (Not just the amount of money.) 2. Why they want this move/transaction? 3. Why they will get it? (This is for their eyes only.) Intentions should be in the vicinity of the right home for the right person. A home that will serve the buyer as well as it did the owner. The home is alive with energy - thoughts and emotions are imprinted here. Nothing is covered up, it's all straight forward blessings to all concerned, a winning situation for all. The mindset of a heart related transaction activates the type of energy we need to facilitate positive change in person, place and thing (money.) Focus on the TRAVEL & HELPFUL PEOPLE section of the Bagua, (that's the front right corner room/area of your home and lot.) Freshen it with live energy or moving energy, plants, fish tank, clock, lava lamp, music etc. - activate the energy here. Try hanging an image of horses in movement. (This was the first mode of travel, and a pure primal energy.) Place the FOR SALE sign in right front corner of the lot if possible. Front door and entryways are important areas to address energy, calling the energy in and first
impressions; rid all clutter and congestion throughout the home if possible. Use at least a little of these colors in each room; white, green or blue, black or very dark color, one fiery color - red, orange, purple or pink, one earth color like brown, tan, gold or beige. Use more fiery colors in the Travel & Helpful People area.
The agent and seller need to minimize stress and anxiety. It does not help things to move forward. It sends the wrong energy into the home and the wrong message to the universe.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
THE TAO & ZEN OF QI GONG & FENG SHUI
The Tao and Zen of Qi Gong & Feng Shui
Qi Gong is often referred to as having Taoist origins. Taoist methods focus on improving and lengthening human life. Taoism is related and concerned with “The Way” which essentially means the natural way, the way of nature – inherent in man, earth and the cosmos. Qi Gong in all probability predates Taoism with Shamanism, man’s close spiritual religious communion with nature. Observing and communing with nature and spirit, and how to proceed with development of their energies that originate from the Divine source, helps man realize his fullest spiritual nature. Qi Gong has not changed in many ways from its primitive origins, as a way of cultivating energy, in a natural way. The mystery of the energy has yet to reveal itself comprehensively, but remains as it was understood thousands of years ago harnessing and developing energy through heaven and earth, body and spirit with its creation of healing abilities and peaceful states.
Taoism is essentially the first religion of China and its ancient revered text, the Tao Te Ching, is the most widely read literature in the world. It talks directly to these energies in metaphor and poetry.
I say the Zen of Qi Gong as a correlation to a state of being-ness in philosophy and conscious awareness. Spontaneous Qi Gong is the best of all worlds as it provides energy cultivation, meditation and self healing simultaneously. The Zen reference is to the scarcity and emptiness of form and thought in Spontaneous Qi Gong. Empty in a beneficial way, catharsis of baggage, emptying the self of redundant, extraneous or negative thought and emotion, emptying the self of tension, control, ego, self consciousness and fear. The emptiness allows one to engage in their natural self healing ability, in order to connect with the higher self in stillness or necessary spontaneous movement.
Zen in the concept that less is more- sensing the principle of oneness with all. Less is more – as in Feng Shui – riddance of clutter and congestion, opening up space to receive the new life, working through shapes and form.
In Spontaneous Qi Gong one becomes a Shaman in a sense by embodying the Qi through cultivation and finally given the abilities of transmission to pass Qi on to others.
Through myriad experiences encountered in Spontaneous Qi Gong the intellect is grasping and searching for reference and categorization like a left-brained logical summation of the invisible. Scientific breakdown and compartmentalization, the construction and deconstruction is something that can hardly be put under a microscope. Grasping the concept of Tao and Zen, is grasping the concept of spontaneous Qi Gong and deeper levels of Feng Shui. It is a gift to the person who is empty and open to receive that which is formless, and that which is cultivated without choreographed movement.
Cultivating energy with no/mind and without forms to learn is sometimes difficult for the Western mind to grasp. The Qi arises from the inside out in spontaneous movement. Just as reality is created from the inside out through thought and feeling perspective.
Qi Gong is often referred to as having Taoist origins. Taoist methods focus on improving and lengthening human life. Taoism is related and concerned with “The Way” which essentially means the natural way, the way of nature – inherent in man, earth and the cosmos. Qi Gong in all probability predates Taoism with Shamanism, man’s close spiritual religious communion with nature. Observing and communing with nature and spirit, and how to proceed with development of their energies that originate from the Divine source, helps man realize his fullest spiritual nature. Qi Gong has not changed in many ways from its primitive origins, as a way of cultivating energy, in a natural way. The mystery of the energy has yet to reveal itself comprehensively, but remains as it was understood thousands of years ago harnessing and developing energy through heaven and earth, body and spirit with its creation of healing abilities and peaceful states.
Taoism is essentially the first religion of China and its ancient revered text, the Tao Te Ching, is the most widely read literature in the world. It talks directly to these energies in metaphor and poetry.
I say the Zen of Qi Gong as a correlation to a state of being-ness in philosophy and conscious awareness. Spontaneous Qi Gong is the best of all worlds as it provides energy cultivation, meditation and self healing simultaneously. The Zen reference is to the scarcity and emptiness of form and thought in Spontaneous Qi Gong. Empty in a beneficial way, catharsis of baggage, emptying the self of redundant, extraneous or negative thought and emotion, emptying the self of tension, control, ego, self consciousness and fear. The emptiness allows one to engage in their natural self healing ability, in order to connect with the higher self in stillness or necessary spontaneous movement.
Zen in the concept that less is more- sensing the principle of oneness with all. Less is more – as in Feng Shui – riddance of clutter and congestion, opening up space to receive the new life, working through shapes and form.
In Spontaneous Qi Gong one becomes a Shaman in a sense by embodying the Qi through cultivation and finally given the abilities of transmission to pass Qi on to others.
Through myriad experiences encountered in Spontaneous Qi Gong the intellect is grasping and searching for reference and categorization like a left-brained logical summation of the invisible. Scientific breakdown and compartmentalization, the construction and deconstruction is something that can hardly be put under a microscope. Grasping the concept of Tao and Zen, is grasping the concept of spontaneous Qi Gong and deeper levels of Feng Shui. It is a gift to the person who is empty and open to receive that which is formless, and that which is cultivated without choreographed movement.
Cultivating energy with no/mind and without forms to learn is sometimes difficult for the Western mind to grasp. The Qi arises from the inside out in spontaneous movement. Just as reality is created from the inside out through thought and feeling perspective.
Sunday, December 02, 2007
SPONTANEOUS QI GONG
Qi Gong (eastern method of energy cultivation) has been around for thousands of years. It is a holistic method of increasing energy, self-healing and meditation. Spontaneous Qi Gong is one of the more extraordinary of all Qi Gong methods. Brian employs his own Qi ability in an activation process. The simplicity and effectiveness of this method allows the practitioner to initiate their own lifetime practice at a much more advanced level than if they were practicing on their own or in a Qi Gong style. Spontaneous Qi Gong increases your natural self-healing capacity to relieve longstanding physical, mental, emotional and spiritual blockages. It enhances a sense of well being and strengthens the foundation for wisdom and perspective on life. Done either sitting or standing, there is no form to learn, nothing to memorize. The inner movement of Qi is allowed to become external movement (from the standing position).
Sunday, January 21, 2007
CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION
Dear friends,
Imagination and creativity generates our reality and fuels our very being. Its emphasis is critical to our earth, our way of life and well being. Feng Shui was designed with this in mind. This issue covers the big picture.
We come from the creator - are we not creators?! This is why the earth looks like it does today – we are creators and destroyers through the stone, industrial and information age and all ages in-between. From the seed to the egg. From crayon to fine art, simple rhyme to Shakespeare, music box to Mozart. We are the creators from the creator God. Creating is that innate driving force within us. When we are not creating we are not living up to our potential. I’m not necessarily talking about creating art, writing a poem, putting ingredients together or designing a building. I am talking about creating our own reality as well, with our thoughts and feelings through a divine creative medium or energy. Both art and creating ones own reality is essentially done the same way through the imagination.
There is a unique creative energy inside us all. The tired old self critic has seen its day. Much of our educational baggage, societal and cultural dysfunction has got us thinking we are not creative. This implies self doubt and denial of a single grain of creativity inside us and it’s simply not true. This has been beaten into so many to become a rationalization not to challenge oneself in a creative endeavor. I personally didn’t make it as a guitarist, but I enjoyed its period in my life, I do feel accomplished as a poet, and I’m getting closer to my personal standard as a painter. I came from an upbringing and school system that did not care about creativity, I had a career that didn’t care about creativity, but yet I broke the paradigm mold by imagination. The reason I bother to assert the validity and value of creativity in all of us is because of the energy and joy it brings. The opening up of other worlds, of perception, knowledge and wisdom – not to mention heart, spirit and feeling of being immensely engaged, or meeting new and interesting people. People who spend their lives creating find it hard to imagine a life without it. The world would look flat. This is not about hobbies this is about the art of life, and creating a better world.
Creativity and imagination are primary tools in self discovery and self cultivation. Whether working on your life or in the process of any art, craft or writing. It is experimental and experiential in nature. It’s a mirror back to the self; of ones own nature, growth and possibility. Artists and writers often speak of channeling their work, owing their talent or craft to a higher source or energy or God. For me, this too means channeling the higher self - that spark of the divine within us.
American culture and society still, in general, keeps writers and artists at arms length with stigma and innuendo. We’re a little off our game, we need to find a real job, we’re wasting our time, eccentric, light weights etc. Historically this is not a unique view from around the globe, but due to our current state of affairs it has a tenacious grip here. Our Art is boxed up neatly to fit our capital and commodity interests. We are subject to the Art World or Literary World’s industry and interests bent towards money and power rather than the art itself being a priority. The gatekeepers and power holders are oriented towards business. The artist has to pedal his/her wares, market themselves with well established industry criteria etc. This goes against the very grain of most artists. Is it any wonder that the beginning artist does not feel intimidated? Prone to beating themselves up at the least hint of failure in their growing pains and stages. Not living up to gallery and museum standards of what the business owners deem acceptable - quality, and the book publishing standards of what will sell as a safe bet. Often burgeoning creators will think in terms of immediate success or be subject to ridicule. It becomes such a sensitive endeavor that the initial spark becomes diluted in the grays of the paradigm.
The industry then promotes the artist on a scale that looks for eccentricity to market drama and status quo. It looks for the pretentious for elevated worth. We feed the dismal cycle by succumbing to the industry and not being true to ourselves. Our bios and blurbs are tailored to keep the show rolling of passing trends and who’s in the know.
This has spurned a new industry (history repeats itself) of self publication, outsider art and business owners to help these people.
Throughout different eras and cultures artist and writers were revered. Given diplomatic and government positions, hosted by kings, courts and religious institutions, given commissions by all of them. Elevated to hero’s in dynasties and sought after for news and culture among the general populace. They were on par with the cream of the crop in their country.
The good news for the creator is that the momentum of change is here, the tide seems to be slowly shifting in a favorable direction. Creators change things for the better, they help keep the world in balance through beauty, remembrance, symbol, and progressive social and environmental message. Imagination and Creativity are one in the same – without it we will flatten the earth in fragments, deconstruct and ruin the holistic world view. Our jaded, agitated and listless response to each other and our supposed leaders will be fearful, calculated, measured, and robotic - fearing challenge to change. Here are some quotes from giants that helped pave the way. Anna Freud: “Creative minds have always been known to survive any bad training.” Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Carl Jung: “The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.” Napoleon: “Imagination rules the world.” Unknown: “Imagination is the cinema of things to come.” George Benard Shaw: “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.” Einstein “Imagination is the preview of life’s coming attraction”. Yeats: ” People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.” Emerson: “Imagination is not a talent of some men, but is the health of every man.” Roosevelt: “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” Emmet Fox: “Love is always creative, fear is always destructive.” Einstein: “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and a rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Forgotten source: “Creativity is the central source of meaning in our lives, and when we are involved with it, we feel we are living more fully than during the rest of our life.”
Imagination and creativity generates our reality and fuels our very being. Its emphasis is critical to our earth, our way of life and well being. Feng Shui was designed with this in mind. This issue covers the big picture.
We come from the creator - are we not creators?! This is why the earth looks like it does today – we are creators and destroyers through the stone, industrial and information age and all ages in-between. From the seed to the egg. From crayon to fine art, simple rhyme to Shakespeare, music box to Mozart. We are the creators from the creator God. Creating is that innate driving force within us. When we are not creating we are not living up to our potential. I’m not necessarily talking about creating art, writing a poem, putting ingredients together or designing a building. I am talking about creating our own reality as well, with our thoughts and feelings through a divine creative medium or energy. Both art and creating ones own reality is essentially done the same way through the imagination.
There is a unique creative energy inside us all. The tired old self critic has seen its day. Much of our educational baggage, societal and cultural dysfunction has got us thinking we are not creative. This implies self doubt and denial of a single grain of creativity inside us and it’s simply not true. This has been beaten into so many to become a rationalization not to challenge oneself in a creative endeavor. I personally didn’t make it as a guitarist, but I enjoyed its period in my life, I do feel accomplished as a poet, and I’m getting closer to my personal standard as a painter. I came from an upbringing and school system that did not care about creativity, I had a career that didn’t care about creativity, but yet I broke the paradigm mold by imagination. The reason I bother to assert the validity and value of creativity in all of us is because of the energy and joy it brings. The opening up of other worlds, of perception, knowledge and wisdom – not to mention heart, spirit and feeling of being immensely engaged, or meeting new and interesting people. People who spend their lives creating find it hard to imagine a life without it. The world would look flat. This is not about hobbies this is about the art of life, and creating a better world.
Creativity and imagination are primary tools in self discovery and self cultivation. Whether working on your life or in the process of any art, craft or writing. It is experimental and experiential in nature. It’s a mirror back to the self; of ones own nature, growth and possibility. Artists and writers often speak of channeling their work, owing their talent or craft to a higher source or energy or God. For me, this too means channeling the higher self - that spark of the divine within us.
American culture and society still, in general, keeps writers and artists at arms length with stigma and innuendo. We’re a little off our game, we need to find a real job, we’re wasting our time, eccentric, light weights etc. Historically this is not a unique view from around the globe, but due to our current state of affairs it has a tenacious grip here. Our Art is boxed up neatly to fit our capital and commodity interests. We are subject to the Art World or Literary World’s industry and interests bent towards money and power rather than the art itself being a priority. The gatekeepers and power holders are oriented towards business. The artist has to pedal his/her wares, market themselves with well established industry criteria etc. This goes against the very grain of most artists. Is it any wonder that the beginning artist does not feel intimidated? Prone to beating themselves up at the least hint of failure in their growing pains and stages. Not living up to gallery and museum standards of what the business owners deem acceptable - quality, and the book publishing standards of what will sell as a safe bet. Often burgeoning creators will think in terms of immediate success or be subject to ridicule. It becomes such a sensitive endeavor that the initial spark becomes diluted in the grays of the paradigm.
The industry then promotes the artist on a scale that looks for eccentricity to market drama and status quo. It looks for the pretentious for elevated worth. We feed the dismal cycle by succumbing to the industry and not being true to ourselves. Our bios and blurbs are tailored to keep the show rolling of passing trends and who’s in the know.
This has spurned a new industry (history repeats itself) of self publication, outsider art and business owners to help these people.
Throughout different eras and cultures artist and writers were revered. Given diplomatic and government positions, hosted by kings, courts and religious institutions, given commissions by all of them. Elevated to hero’s in dynasties and sought after for news and culture among the general populace. They were on par with the cream of the crop in their country.
The good news for the creator is that the momentum of change is here, the tide seems to be slowly shifting in a favorable direction. Creators change things for the better, they help keep the world in balance through beauty, remembrance, symbol, and progressive social and environmental message. Imagination and Creativity are one in the same – without it we will flatten the earth in fragments, deconstruct and ruin the holistic world view. Our jaded, agitated and listless response to each other and our supposed leaders will be fearful, calculated, measured, and robotic - fearing challenge to change. Here are some quotes from giants that helped pave the way. Anna Freud: “Creative minds have always been known to survive any bad training.” Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Carl Jung: “The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.” Napoleon: “Imagination rules the world.” Unknown: “Imagination is the cinema of things to come.” George Benard Shaw: “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.” Einstein “Imagination is the preview of life’s coming attraction”. Yeats: ” People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.” Emerson: “Imagination is not a talent of some men, but is the health of every man.” Roosevelt: “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” Emmet Fox: “Love is always creative, fear is always destructive.” Einstein: “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and a rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Forgotten source: “Creativity is the central source of meaning in our lives, and when we are involved with it, we feel we are living more fully than during the rest of our life.”
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Feng Shui Energy
1. Feng Shui is arranging your environment to enhance your life. When taken seriously it changes lives. 2. Consciousness is displayed in your environment. Check your images, objects and colors. We want a calm strong environment - living with what we love.
3. Anything that is not living in your consciousness is, by definition, inert or dead.
4. Things are alive by their essence and by your thoughts and feelings connected to them.
5. Qi or energy goes where the eyes go, and where the mind and heart goes.
6. Everything is interconnected and interdependent. Everything that surrounds you is meant to lift and nurture you – have personal meaning for you – reflect your goals and dreams. 7. Set your intentions for positive change with clarity and purpose.
8. We are profoundly influenced by our environment both consciously and subconsciously as we interact with it on many levels. 9. Consciously choosing balance and harmony in our environment creates energetic currency in health, finances, relationships, emotional/spiritual well being. 10. In ancient China if an acupuncturist didn’t get results after three tries they would then look at the persons home for signs of ailment. 11. Moving specific energy around the house to specific locations is like acupuncture to the home and self. 12. QI/ENERGY; what ever happens is caused by it, what ever is, is made of it, you need it, you are made of it. Everything needs it. Everything is it. It is everything. You need it to run, to walk, to sit, to think, to sleep, and to eat, you use it every moment awake or asleep. You can’t get glad or mad without it. It makes the wind blow, rain fall and lightening zap and thunder. It “feeds” volcanoes and earthquakes. It drives tidal waves, typhoons and tornadoes. It powers the universe. It powers bacteria. 13. Consciousness and Energy create the nature of reality.
14. Feng Shui looks at psychological influences and sensitivity to our surroundings. It is the right placement of different qualities of energy. There is a very practical side to Feng Shui. 15. You are the energy that makes the world – your world – change your mind – change your day – change your day – change your week – change your week – so on.
16. Feng Shui can be a 1st tool with working with your personal space, to get you in the right frame of mind to open up your channels. It’s not a magic bullet, but a powerful tool for those who grasp it and use it. 17. We can use the metaphor of rain as people in their environment. We come from the heavens clear and pure as unique drops of rain landing on a mountain (earth). The mountain effects you, what you experience, see, feel, and absorb. At the same time you are affecting the mountain, creating a trough, touching animals, vegetation and each other. The same thing is happening on the other side of the mountain where you have never been and never had the experienced. The mountain is shaped differently over there, different encounters on a different path, different experience, and there too they are (rain/people) affecting the mountain earth. Your views and experiences are different than theirs, like societies and cultures somewhat shaped by the land and water itself. As unique drops on different journeys we are still all water on the same mountain. The environmental design of Feng Shui with your intentions creates a smoother mountain path, your vibrating energy picks up in quality speed, but you are not collecting debris on the way, you’re bright reflective, taking in the beauty and abundance of designed energy. 18. There is an electro magnetic field surrounding the earth, and all living creatures have a strong affinity for the magnetic aspects of the earth. Bacteria and algae follow it, sea turtles and birds use it as guidance. There is magnetite in the brains of dolphins, whales and sea turtles, honing pigeons and bees use it for guidance. We, everything, is made up of electrically charged atoms, and we and the earth are made up of 75% water, a conductor of this electro magnetic energy. So although we don’t always see it, there is a big dance of energy in and around us, including the planetary influences, the sun and moon, gravity, space and solar radiation. The bottom line in Feng Shui is about energy, balancing it, harnessing it and projecting it. 19. Since Einstein’s discovery of E = MC2 quantum physicist have been discovering amazing worlds of energy at the sub atomic level, and ultimately it is showing us that by our observation alone we have an effect on what we are observing. Energy is the equivalent to mass, energy that underlies all forms. All stuff can be looked at as essentially compressed energy. So we are made of this substance as well as a couch, a chair or a stone. A stone has micro organisms moving out of it as well. This is the same energy released from its relatively small amount of form in uranium – the atom bomb. 20. The research done with thoughts, words and prayers and how it changes the molecular structure of water is well documented. Remember we are made up mostly of water and so is the earth. Is it any wonder that thoughts and words make up many of the world’s creation myths including Genesis, or why Buddhism’s core teachings consist of right words, right thoughts, and right actions. This is why in the Feng Shui I teach and consult, your intentions play an integrated and vital role. 21. Feng Shui has a numerous documented history of over 2000 years. 22. Feng Shui is channeling energy through us.
23. Coca Cola, British Airways, Bank of England, Donald Trump, Chicago O’Hare Airport, Mercedes Benz, Swiss Stock Exchange in Zurich, Citi Bank, Charles Schwab, Merrill Lynch and CNN have used Feng Shui. 24. Your property counts in Feng Shui, and the surrounding land, streets, water, houses, buildings and businesses all have an influential energy in your life. 24. Energy slows as it works its way to the rear of the house. It’s better to have offices up front and bedrooms to the rear. The secretary sits up front to buffer the rushing energy coming in for the boss. 25. Energy likes round or curvaceous versus angular and sharp edges. Choose round, oval or rectangular, but with softened corners. 26. All seating faces doors whenever possible, at least have a peripheral vision of the door. 27. Broken things in your home are broken things in your Bagua.
28. It is good to know the history of your place and its previous owners – this can be indicative of the inherent energy you inherited, this energy can be transformed of course. It is also good to know the history and the maker of the objects/furniture we own and the food we eat. 29. The Corners of rooms is where energy stagnates, look at these areas and keep them vitalized. 30. No constricting areas to walk through. 36 inch width is a good general rule. 31. Enrich all your senses for Feng Shui elevation.
3. Anything that is not living in your consciousness is, by definition, inert or dead.
4. Things are alive by their essence and by your thoughts and feelings connected to them.
5. Qi or energy goes where the eyes go, and where the mind and heart goes.
6. Everything is interconnected and interdependent. Everything that surrounds you is meant to lift and nurture you – have personal meaning for you – reflect your goals and dreams. 7. Set your intentions for positive change with clarity and purpose.
8. We are profoundly influenced by our environment both consciously and subconsciously as we interact with it on many levels. 9. Consciously choosing balance and harmony in our environment creates energetic currency in health, finances, relationships, emotional/spiritual well being. 10. In ancient China if an acupuncturist didn’t get results after three tries they would then look at the persons home for signs of ailment. 11. Moving specific energy around the house to specific locations is like acupuncture to the home and self. 12. QI/ENERGY; what ever happens is caused by it, what ever is, is made of it, you need it, you are made of it. Everything needs it. Everything is it. It is everything. You need it to run, to walk, to sit, to think, to sleep, and to eat, you use it every moment awake or asleep. You can’t get glad or mad without it. It makes the wind blow, rain fall and lightening zap and thunder. It “feeds” volcanoes and earthquakes. It drives tidal waves, typhoons and tornadoes. It powers the universe. It powers bacteria. 13. Consciousness and Energy create the nature of reality.
14. Feng Shui looks at psychological influences and sensitivity to our surroundings. It is the right placement of different qualities of energy. There is a very practical side to Feng Shui. 15. You are the energy that makes the world – your world – change your mind – change your day – change your day – change your week – change your week – so on.
16. Feng Shui can be a 1st tool with working with your personal space, to get you in the right frame of mind to open up your channels. It’s not a magic bullet, but a powerful tool for those who grasp it and use it. 17. We can use the metaphor of rain as people in their environment. We come from the heavens clear and pure as unique drops of rain landing on a mountain (earth). The mountain effects you, what you experience, see, feel, and absorb. At the same time you are affecting the mountain, creating a trough, touching animals, vegetation and each other. The same thing is happening on the other side of the mountain where you have never been and never had the experienced. The mountain is shaped differently over there, different encounters on a different path, different experience, and there too they are (rain/people) affecting the mountain earth. Your views and experiences are different than theirs, like societies and cultures somewhat shaped by the land and water itself. As unique drops on different journeys we are still all water on the same mountain. The environmental design of Feng Shui with your intentions creates a smoother mountain path, your vibrating energy picks up in quality speed, but you are not collecting debris on the way, you’re bright reflective, taking in the beauty and abundance of designed energy. 18. There is an electro magnetic field surrounding the earth, and all living creatures have a strong affinity for the magnetic aspects of the earth. Bacteria and algae follow it, sea turtles and birds use it as guidance. There is magnetite in the brains of dolphins, whales and sea turtles, honing pigeons and bees use it for guidance. We, everything, is made up of electrically charged atoms, and we and the earth are made up of 75% water, a conductor of this electro magnetic energy. So although we don’t always see it, there is a big dance of energy in and around us, including the planetary influences, the sun and moon, gravity, space and solar radiation. The bottom line in Feng Shui is about energy, balancing it, harnessing it and projecting it. 19. Since Einstein’s discovery of E = MC2 quantum physicist have been discovering amazing worlds of energy at the sub atomic level, and ultimately it is showing us that by our observation alone we have an effect on what we are observing. Energy is the equivalent to mass, energy that underlies all forms. All stuff can be looked at as essentially compressed energy. So we are made of this substance as well as a couch, a chair or a stone. A stone has micro organisms moving out of it as well. This is the same energy released from its relatively small amount of form in uranium – the atom bomb. 20. The research done with thoughts, words and prayers and how it changes the molecular structure of water is well documented. Remember we are made up mostly of water and so is the earth. Is it any wonder that thoughts and words make up many of the world’s creation myths including Genesis, or why Buddhism’s core teachings consist of right words, right thoughts, and right actions. This is why in the Feng Shui I teach and consult, your intentions play an integrated and vital role. 21. Feng Shui has a numerous documented history of over 2000 years. 22. Feng Shui is channeling energy through us.
23. Coca Cola, British Airways, Bank of England, Donald Trump, Chicago O’Hare Airport, Mercedes Benz, Swiss Stock Exchange in Zurich, Citi Bank, Charles Schwab, Merrill Lynch and CNN have used Feng Shui. 24. Your property counts in Feng Shui, and the surrounding land, streets, water, houses, buildings and businesses all have an influential energy in your life. 24. Energy slows as it works its way to the rear of the house. It’s better to have offices up front and bedrooms to the rear. The secretary sits up front to buffer the rushing energy coming in for the boss. 25. Energy likes round or curvaceous versus angular and sharp edges. Choose round, oval or rectangular, but with softened corners. 26. All seating faces doors whenever possible, at least have a peripheral vision of the door. 27. Broken things in your home are broken things in your Bagua.
28. It is good to know the history of your place and its previous owners – this can be indicative of the inherent energy you inherited, this energy can be transformed of course. It is also good to know the history and the maker of the objects/furniture we own and the food we eat. 29. The Corners of rooms is where energy stagnates, look at these areas and keep them vitalized. 30. No constricting areas to walk through. 36 inch width is a good general rule. 31. Enrich all your senses for Feng Shui elevation.
Friday, November 03, 2006
CLUTTER
Clutter and Congestion, lets put these issues to rest, get rid of it, it’s time for TOUGH LOVE. Feng Shui deals extensively with clutter and congestion. It’s being treated by the public as a new phenomenon, people feel guilty about it, but its not that dramatic or complex. There are two choices, stop being a victim of our own demise, make it a priority and take care of it, or make it a priority and seek help - period.
Root Causes, Our Profiles, Methods of Clearing.
A good percentage of America has what I call attachment dis-order. Part of this is inherited; part of this is the product of today’s paradigm: capitalism and materialism. Much of society before us, the silent generation that reared the boomers, grew up poor.
Their fear based philosophy and work ethic included work hard at a conservative safe job and save. We didn’t have much - so we want you to have everything we didn’t. I believe this was one of the seeds of being a pack rat and hording non essential stuff.
Today new, better and more is the norm and status symbol, and part of our class system. Our stuff is our identity; it reflects who we are, so we are very attached to our stuff. It’s a quick euphoric fix to go out and buy more stuff. Oh boy new toys, clothes, cars, until the high wears off and we are back to routine needing more. The cycle never completes itself in the illusion of material paradise. We’ve now created an industry around clutter and congestion; there are books and businesses to help us. What does it say about us when we don’t know what to do about this problem, becoming victims of our own stuff? We are squeezing through our furniture and blocked passageways to look for stuff we can’t find because it’s buried in stuff we never use any more. The next headline will read Another Epidemic, 60% of Americans lose their ability to navigate through their own accumulation.
The interesting and positive part to this sad tale is Feng Shui, and the Yin Yang correlation. Isn’t it a paradox that we get more when we give more? The same applies to purging our bloated homes of unnecessary stuff, clearing the home for renewal, uplifting energy and life. There have been countless stories of this transformational experience. With the oppressive psychological and material burden lifted come job promotions, improved relationships, abundance, health etc. We can take to this task with a lot of emotion and drama or we can cut the umbilical cord and move on with our life. Our subconscious knows very well the STUFF has been weighing us down and keeping us back from moving on with our life.
So we need to do what it takes, what ever it takes, and there’s no going back once you’ve done it. There’s no hiding it either, no out of sight out of mind, everything you own counts in Feng Shui, no matter where it’s located. Moving stuff to another location is not necessarily a fix - the attic, down to the basement, into the garage, out to the shed, into storage, into the second home or having a friend store it for you. Your stuff fits your life style, not the other way around – you don’t fit to your stuffs’ lifestyle. Speaking of my own lifestyle, for thirty years I haven’t lived in one place longer than 2 ½ years. I had 5 Feng Shui consultations before becoming a teacher and consultant. I’ve done it all, estate sales, yard sales, charity, and giving it to friends. I have had large trucks hauling stuff away. Over time many of us learn the value and meaning of less is more. More crystals don’t make for better Feng Shui, and more money doesn’t give people deep inner happiness.
Here are a few thoughts and questions to consider;
A healthy home equals a healthy mind and body.
A cluttered home – a cluttered mind
Congested home – congested body
Overweight home – overweight body
When sorting through your possessions ask yourself these questions.
Do I love it?
Do I need it?
Does it reflect who I am in my life?
Does it act as an environmental affirmation for me?
What positive and or negative thoughts, memories or emotions do I associate with it?
Does it need to be fixed or repaired and am willing to do so now?
If I moved tomorrow would I choose to take it with me?
If it is time to let it go, am I going to sell, lend or give it away, and when?
The energy of our homes can leave us confused, irritated, scattered, and holding us in the past. Feng Shui is like acupuncture, it opens up the flow, getting us through blockages and stagnant energy. The home breathes in stuff and BREATHES OUT STUFF.
WE SHOULD HAVE ONLY AS MUCH AS WE CAN CARE FOR.
Feng Shui is creating harmony internally and externally.
Root Causes, Our Profiles, Methods of Clearing.
A good percentage of America has what I call attachment dis-order. Part of this is inherited; part of this is the product of today’s paradigm: capitalism and materialism. Much of society before us, the silent generation that reared the boomers, grew up poor.
Their fear based philosophy and work ethic included work hard at a conservative safe job and save. We didn’t have much - so we want you to have everything we didn’t. I believe this was one of the seeds of being a pack rat and hording non essential stuff.
Today new, better and more is the norm and status symbol, and part of our class system. Our stuff is our identity; it reflects who we are, so we are very attached to our stuff. It’s a quick euphoric fix to go out and buy more stuff. Oh boy new toys, clothes, cars, until the high wears off and we are back to routine needing more. The cycle never completes itself in the illusion of material paradise. We’ve now created an industry around clutter and congestion; there are books and businesses to help us. What does it say about us when we don’t know what to do about this problem, becoming victims of our own stuff? We are squeezing through our furniture and blocked passageways to look for stuff we can’t find because it’s buried in stuff we never use any more. The next headline will read Another Epidemic, 60% of Americans lose their ability to navigate through their own accumulation.
The interesting and positive part to this sad tale is Feng Shui, and the Yin Yang correlation. Isn’t it a paradox that we get more when we give more? The same applies to purging our bloated homes of unnecessary stuff, clearing the home for renewal, uplifting energy and life. There have been countless stories of this transformational experience. With the oppressive psychological and material burden lifted come job promotions, improved relationships, abundance, health etc. We can take to this task with a lot of emotion and drama or we can cut the umbilical cord and move on with our life. Our subconscious knows very well the STUFF has been weighing us down and keeping us back from moving on with our life.
So we need to do what it takes, what ever it takes, and there’s no going back once you’ve done it. There’s no hiding it either, no out of sight out of mind, everything you own counts in Feng Shui, no matter where it’s located. Moving stuff to another location is not necessarily a fix - the attic, down to the basement, into the garage, out to the shed, into storage, into the second home or having a friend store it for you. Your stuff fits your life style, not the other way around – you don’t fit to your stuffs’ lifestyle. Speaking of my own lifestyle, for thirty years I haven’t lived in one place longer than 2 ½ years. I had 5 Feng Shui consultations before becoming a teacher and consultant. I’ve done it all, estate sales, yard sales, charity, and giving it to friends. I have had large trucks hauling stuff away. Over time many of us learn the value and meaning of less is more. More crystals don’t make for better Feng Shui, and more money doesn’t give people deep inner happiness.
Here are a few thoughts and questions to consider;
A healthy home equals a healthy mind and body.
A cluttered home – a cluttered mind
Congested home – congested body
Overweight home – overweight body
When sorting through your possessions ask yourself these questions.
Do I love it?
Do I need it?
Does it reflect who I am in my life?
Does it act as an environmental affirmation for me?
What positive and or negative thoughts, memories or emotions do I associate with it?
Does it need to be fixed or repaired and am willing to do so now?
If I moved tomorrow would I choose to take it with me?
If it is time to let it go, am I going to sell, lend or give it away, and when?
The energy of our homes can leave us confused, irritated, scattered, and holding us in the past. Feng Shui is like acupuncture, it opens up the flow, getting us through blockages and stagnant energy. The home breathes in stuff and BREATHES OUT STUFF.
WE SHOULD HAVE ONLY AS MUCH AS WE CAN CARE FOR.
Feng Shui is creating harmony internally and externally.
BAGUA AND THE CENTER GRID
The ancients developed the Bagua (energy map for enhancing life) in accordance with the universe and its energies. It was made by heaven, earth, wind, water, planets, animals, minerals and man all collaborating together in a world that conjured up to give all plenty.
This Bagua map is superimposed over your space as a life blue print. It is a holistic 9 grid map where we can see and work on particular facets of our life. This map is what I ask clients to work on before the actual consultation. To give deep thought and direction to these facets of our life makes all the difference between throwing our intentions to the wind and giving our intentions power - by being very clear and deliberate with them. When we map out our life with the Bagua (a multi layered written exercise with a final concise statement to be framed for reviews) we then correlate it to our space and anchor it there. This integral method is a powerful tool – it is our own unique expression and creation that works as a vibrational magnet to our energy. It is the law of the universe that we attract what we are vibrating though our space and intentions. The old saying “like attracts like” is true. We create our environment and our environment creates us.
The Bagua and Feng Shui in general can act as palate and canvass to consciousness. The shape and color of perception and perspective brings us what we will experience. As we move around the Feng Shui map superimposed over our space adding or moving images, objects and color we are setting our intention and our reminders to the internal creative power inside us. The Love and care we put into our environment reflects back to our own heart as a reminder to stay on the high path of Love and Kindness. Ones highest potential is living with their truth - vibrating in the unconditional state of love. All things flow from there.
Each of the Bagua’s nine grids or “Gua’s” relates to the different facets of our life. The center grid is Unity and Health. This correlates to the center of person and place.
We can look at our home, environment and universe as we look on the body, the heart being the center and unifying principle and form to all. It threads through our thoughts, words, action, and environment. The Hearth of yester year used to be the center of a home, where the family gathered to be stimulated by stories, retire to comfort, sustenance, learning and community. Our heart center is where we need to be vigilant at all times showing loving kindness to ourselves, our brothers and sisters, the earth and all living beings. This is the energy that brings us happiness, emotionally, and spiritually. What room or common area is in the center of your home? Let’s look at the energetic balance there. Stairways, long hallways, vacuous spaces, bathrooms, bedrooms and utility rooms will need extra Feng Shui care if they are in the center of your home - because of health and the unifying principles of your center grid. In broad general terms putting up images, objects and colors that reflect good health, unity and solidity (earth’s grounded ness) is the inherent wisdom. We want this area looking grounded, but vibrant utilizing the colors of the earth; yellow, tan, brown, gold, with added plants or fresh flowers. Images of mountains and pine trees add the solid grounding and evergreen freshness. These are just a few suggestions to be considered for this area of the home. In business the center grid makes a great location for conference rooms and meetings (when the inherent design allows.) As we look around us today we see much of humanity has lost its center and we are not grounded in health of mind, body or spirit, we are not unified in our human respect and dignity. Many positive and negative signs can be seen from the subconscious manifesting in our homes. Looking at our environment is looking in the mirror. What do you see in your home in the center grid of the 9? For a picture of the Bagua view it at www.wsfs.com a link on my website.
This Bagua map is superimposed over your space as a life blue print. It is a holistic 9 grid map where we can see and work on particular facets of our life. This map is what I ask clients to work on before the actual consultation. To give deep thought and direction to these facets of our life makes all the difference between throwing our intentions to the wind and giving our intentions power - by being very clear and deliberate with them. When we map out our life with the Bagua (a multi layered written exercise with a final concise statement to be framed for reviews) we then correlate it to our space and anchor it there. This integral method is a powerful tool – it is our own unique expression and creation that works as a vibrational magnet to our energy. It is the law of the universe that we attract what we are vibrating though our space and intentions. The old saying “like attracts like” is true. We create our environment and our environment creates us.
The Bagua and Feng Shui in general can act as palate and canvass to consciousness. The shape and color of perception and perspective brings us what we will experience. As we move around the Feng Shui map superimposed over our space adding or moving images, objects and color we are setting our intention and our reminders to the internal creative power inside us. The Love and care we put into our environment reflects back to our own heart as a reminder to stay on the high path of Love and Kindness. Ones highest potential is living with their truth - vibrating in the unconditional state of love. All things flow from there.
Each of the Bagua’s nine grids or “Gua’s” relates to the different facets of our life. The center grid is Unity and Health. This correlates to the center of person and place.
We can look at our home, environment and universe as we look on the body, the heart being the center and unifying principle and form to all. It threads through our thoughts, words, action, and environment. The Hearth of yester year used to be the center of a home, where the family gathered to be stimulated by stories, retire to comfort, sustenance, learning and community. Our heart center is where we need to be vigilant at all times showing loving kindness to ourselves, our brothers and sisters, the earth and all living beings. This is the energy that brings us happiness, emotionally, and spiritually. What room or common area is in the center of your home? Let’s look at the energetic balance there. Stairways, long hallways, vacuous spaces, bathrooms, bedrooms and utility rooms will need extra Feng Shui care if they are in the center of your home - because of health and the unifying principles of your center grid. In broad general terms putting up images, objects and colors that reflect good health, unity and solidity (earth’s grounded ness) is the inherent wisdom. We want this area looking grounded, but vibrant utilizing the colors of the earth; yellow, tan, brown, gold, with added plants or fresh flowers. Images of mountains and pine trees add the solid grounding and evergreen freshness. These are just a few suggestions to be considered for this area of the home. In business the center grid makes a great location for conference rooms and meetings (when the inherent design allows.) As we look around us today we see much of humanity has lost its center and we are not grounded in health of mind, body or spirit, we are not unified in our human respect and dignity. Many positive and negative signs can be seen from the subconscious manifesting in our homes. Looking at our environment is looking in the mirror. What do you see in your home in the center grid of the 9? For a picture of the Bagua view it at www.wsfs.com a link on my website.
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