Feng Shui

Don't let the mystic name fool you. Feng Shui is very important. Basically it means that when you walk into a room, you feel good. On an aesthetic level. Now, lots of people charging lots of money will convince you that it is very complicated but most of it is common sense. You have to stand in the middle of your room and slowly move around and basically eliminate everything that makes you feel drained. As in:

trash
laundry
things people gave you that you don't like
things you like that people you don't like gave you
clutter
people/animals you don't like (sorry, they must go)
things associated with negativity like bills or mementos of unpleasant events in your life
anything broken
dirt or cobwebs (sorry!)

And so on. You just take a look at each thing, take a breath, sense your innards and either keep or get rid of. Simple as that.

Next, you walk around the room. Anything that impedes your progress must go. Anything that makes you have to move sideways needs to move. You should be able to walk freely, swinging your arms, without knocking anything over. Anything you knock over must go. Like the dog.

Finally, sit down in the room. Get everyone in your house to do the same. If you have to crane your neck to see them, you need to move the furniture. Look down. If there is a corner of a table pointing at you, you need to change that--you could bang your knee. See moving freely about the room.

Now. Just that should make you feel tons better when you walk in the room. If you want to take it further.....think about what you could add to make it better. For example, when you are sitting in the room facing your loved ones and one of them gets up to go to the bathroom and leaves the door open, can you see the toilet? Bad feng shui....so you put a screen or a plant up to block. I mean, really, who wants to look at a toilet?

And speaking of toilets, bathrooms are a very good place to create movement... (lol! sorry....) so we create movement with wind chimes, fans, pictures of water....

Anywhere you want the energy to slow down, add metal, wood, earthy things.

When you want the energy to speed up or you need to break it up a bit, add water, wind, fire.

So there you go. You are now a feng shui expert. You can charge hundreds of dollars to go stand in the center of someone's house and say, "You really need to clean this dump up".

If you can say it in Chinese, it pays double.

You're welcome.