5 Feng Shui Strategies to Promote Wellness in Your Life

5 Feng Shui Strategies to Promote Wellness in Your Life

Have you ever walked into a physical space where you felt safe, supported and nurtured? Did you stop to consider why the space made you feel this way? Now, consider your home and how you feel in your spaces there.Imagine creating a space where you can be physically, emotionally and spiritually safe and cared for. Living in a safe and supportive environment is a key to providing many things in our lives, including physical and emotional wellness. While there are many things you can change in your home to create a safe and nurturing space, let’s take a look at just 5 ways to create a home that supports many aspects of wellness in our lives. Continue reading “5 Feng Shui Strategies to Promote Wellness in Your Life”

Mirroring our Changing Lives in Our Homes

Mirroring our Changing Lives in Our Homes

While the change of seasons is an awesome time to shift the energy in your home by giving it a good, thorough cleaning; anytime is a good time.Our lives are constantly changing. Keeping the energy of our homes in tune with those changes will support us and help us to keep moving forward. Along with that cleaning, it’s also a great idea to get rid of things you no longer use, need, want, nor bring you joy. These things are clutter.

What pushes something into the category of clutter? And what types of clutter are we talking about? Imagine you are walking through a store and see a beautiful art work that you fall completely in love with and must have it in your home. Do you have any in your home now or any other similar object? Continue reading “Mirroring our Changing Lives in Our Homes”

Fill Your Home with Gratitude (and Abundance!)

Fill Your Home with Gratitude (and Abundance!)

One way to attract more abundance into our lives is to be truly grateful for what we already have! Are there ways to sort and arrange the objects in our homes that reflect this gratitude? Check out these tips creating goals and guidelines about what to surround ourselves with to increase the energy of gratitude in our homes and attract even more abundance into our lives!

What is gratitude? Gratitude is a feeling of thankfulness and being thankful occurs when you are glad that something has or has not happened, or that something or someone exists, etc.(according to Merriam-Webster at m-w.com). When you look around your home and examine your life, have you surrounded yourself with things that you are grateful for? Do the people, objects and activities in your life bring you joy, delight, or satisfaction? Continue reading “Fill Your Home with Gratitude (and Abundance!)”

Helping Children Create Balance in Their Lives Through Feng Shui

Helping Children Create Balance in Their Lives Through Feng Shui

Is your child’s room a mess? Does he or she struggle with finding things, including their bed? It is important that we empower our children to create supportive and nurturing spaces for themselves.Below are some points to keep in mind when creating spaces that help your children to feel safe, supported, and on the way to manifesting their dreams.

Characteristics of our children’s rooms should mirror those of your room too. Your child should feel safe in the space, not only physically but emotionally as well. They should feel like all of their needs are being met. The rooms should make connections to nature and reflect what is more important or sacred to that child. Continue reading “Helping Children Create Balance in Their Lives Through Feng Shui”

Your Home as a Metaphor for Your Life

Your Home as a Metaphor for Your Life

Did you know that your Home is a Metaphor for your Life? The homes we choose as well as the way in which we arrange them tell stories about our thinking and the way we currently live our lives. Imagine you are a stranger entering your home for the first time, what stories do you think your home will tell about you? What secrets of your subconscious are screaming out for attention? Continue reading “Your Home as a Metaphor for Your Life”

The Activating Power Of Spring: Plant And Nourish Only What You Want To Harvest

The Activating Power Of Spring: Plant And Nourish Only What You Want To Harvest

This winter has been particularly cold and unpredictable.How do you feel during the wintertime? Usually, if the winter feels particularly long, I begin to feel a bit confined and my energy is subdued. It is a time of introspection and reflection – one of hibernation.

Recently, however, signs of spring began popping up. People have been getting excited about seeing signs of spring, which officially begins next week. I’ve seen neighbors out exercising and preparing their lawns for spring. Continue reading “The Activating Power Of Spring: Plant And Nourish Only What You Want To Harvest”

How Essential Oils Enhance Feng Shui Practices

How Essential Oils Enhance Feng Shui Practices

Can you recall the way your childhood home smelled when your favorite holiday meal was being cooked? Or, the smell that surrounds you when you walk past your favorite dessert shop on the street? What does thinking of those smells bring back? Memories? Emotions? Feelings?  Or, all of these and more?

The power of smell can significantly impact the way your home, office, or car feels and the way that people react when they enter and spend time there.More than any other sense, the sense of smell can reconstruct memory and bring back emotions in an instant. Smell creates a bridge between the visible and invisible in our world. Before people even see the colors in your home, the objects, furniture or anything else, the smells are already being processed by the subconscious. So, how do you want to feel when you enter your home? And how do you want others to feel? Continue reading “How Essential Oils Enhance Feng Shui Practices”

Attract the Energy of Love with Feng Shui: Setting Up Your Bedroom

Attract the Energy of Love with Feng Shui: Setting Up Your Bedroom

Why is the setup of your bedroom important in feng shui? First of all, most people spend about 1/3 of their time in the bedroom.It is the spot where  our bodies and minds balance, recover, rejuvenate and more every day. It is essential that our bedrooms to be a place where we feel physically, mentally and emotionally safe – a place where we can be ourselves and express ourselves. Our bedroom is also a symbol of our inner self. Who you are and what you desire for your life to be like should be reflected in this heart of your home.

While the design of each person’s bedroom should be unique to that person’s needs and desires, here’s a list of 5 tips to start with in your bedroom: Continue reading “Attract the Energy of Love with Feng Shui: Setting Up Your Bedroom”