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Your Personal Element >
Your best directions and compatibility with others’ elements… Read on>

Yin & Yang Design in the Home >
Create energizing places and calming spaces with Yin Yang Tips… Read on>

The 8 Life Sectors in Your Home >
Career, Wisdom & Knowledge, Family & Health, Prosperity, Fame, Marriage & Relationships, Children & Creativity, Helpful People & Travel… Read on>

Feng Shui Reference Slicks >
Reference slicks for feng shui at your fingertips! Color, laminated… Read on>

Feng Shui for the Office >
Desk arrangement, colors for success and a supportive atmosphere… Read on>

Feng Shui for the Bedroom >
Bed Placement, Soothing Color, Peace, Romance & more… Read on>

Feng Shui & Color >
Create just the right feel in a space using the magic of color… Read on>

Clear Your Clutter! Part 1 >
Create space for new things in your life by letting go of the old… Read on>

Clear Your Clutter! Part 2 >
Throw away, give away, put away- a few easy steps for a clutter free home… Read on>

Feng Shui & Daily Life >
Create a harmonious environment where energy flows & live in comfort & beauty… Read on>

Feng Shui Basics >
The practice of feng shui concerns itself with understanding the relationships between Heaven, Earth, and ourselves so that we might live in harmony within our environment… Read on>

Let’s look at what it means to set an intention and allow it to become reality. It sounds simple- two steps! It is simple, and it can be easy, but once the intention is set, we must continually allow a path for that intention to unfold… over and over, each and every moment. It’s like breathing. Have you ever thought about how we are never “done” breathing? If you want to keep living, you need to keep breathing, and that is because breathing is essential to living. And guess what, so are having intentions and creating! Intending and creating are basic life principles that we are doing continuously, just like breathing.

In order to inspire ourselves to create our desires, let’s say that this notion of constantly intending and creating is absolutely true! Let’s make it a law and let’s call it the Law of Intention. I propose that we try testing out this law together to experience its potential in our lives. This is where the powerful tool of awareness comes in.

Awareness

As I watch myself learn the process of awareness and intentional creation, I see how tricky it can be to realize that I am doing it constantly. Sometimes I feel that life is happening to me. Sometimes it seems as though I am not the one behind the wheel. When that seems to be the case, give yourself time to ask if perhaps you created the situation at hand and if so, why. Chances are there will be some truth to what you are experiencing- and sprinkling a bit of awareness on it can really show you what that truth is.

How exactly, do we learn to create consciously?

Over the coming year, let’s explore the following ideas together- or, change them as we go along! Here is an overview for creating in the coming year:

Set Your Intentions
Give yourself space. Give yourself time. With space and time, you will be able to tune into the place inside of you that knows what you truly want and need. Set aside fears, apprehensions, and logical reasons why you can’t or shouldn’t create this or have that and just allow yourself to become aware of your desires. They point to what you intend, and once you have a clear picture of that (try free-writing to allow your thoughts) you will see whether you are doing things that support or inhibit your intentions.

Use Your Thoughts to Guide You
Do you sometimes get caught up in thinking about how the things you’d like to change in your life are instead of how you would like them to be? I do. I notice that when I do this, it doesn’t feel too good. I also notice that I can find myself in a much better place with all my creations when I allow myself to feel GOOD- that is, create from a place of feeling good. The past is the past, and it does not equal the future, so let your mistakes go (after you learn from them) and allow positive thoughts to guide you in the right direction. If you notice yourself thinking thoughts of deflation, self-criticism, or worry, stop yourself and ask if it is neccesary. I have been practicing this for the past 6 months and it seems to be a matter of following through on your intentions to change your habitual thought patterns. I have noticed that with a little bit of time and practice, I now have a deeper awareness of my thoughts. With that comes an ability to make a choice and shape my own thinking when I would like to.

Observe What You’ve Created- Let Your Feelings Guide You
Our environment- our life circumstances are there to teach us. Look around yourself and ask, “What have I created?” Now compare what you’ve created to what you’ve done to create it. See how they are related? It’s amazing! You may think, well, I intended something much different than I ended up with… but if we examine our moment to moment thoughts, we will find that the thoughts we think are continuously steering us in one direction or another. Were you thinking intentionally? Perhaps, if not, you steered yourself off course. No need to force anything, struggle, or work hard. This is a process of letting go and going with the flow- your flow. What a wonderful opportunity to create.

What is it that guides us as we steer? Our feelings. At any moment your feelings are guiding you and we will also explore using them as our true guidance system, while we experience, shape and create our destiny…

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The 5 Element Cycle in Feng Shui The five elements cycle in Feng Shui refers to the cycle of nature that can be perceived in all processes of life. This chart shows how the energy of the elements are in constant fluctuation. Generating Cycle Water feeds a tree, while a tree, Wood can fuel fire. Fire in turn falls as ashes to the ground where they harden into t Earth. Earth hardens over time and produces Metal. When Metal liquefies it produces the element of Water.

• Water generates wood. Rain nourishes a tree
• Wood generates fire. Burning wood generates fire
• Fire generates earth. Ash is created from the fire
• Earth generates metal. Metal is mined from the earth
• Metal generates water. Water condenses on metal

Reductive Cycle Fire controls Metal which controls Wood which controls Earth which controls Water which controls Fire. Think of the process as if one element is influencing another in a controlling manner, rather than as one element destroying another.

• Think of a metal axe. You use it to chop down a tree, so Metal destroy Wood
• Imagine a tree (Wood) that extracts water and minerals from the earth to grow, so Wood destroys Earth
• When a river overflows (water) you use bags of sand (earth) to stop the water, so Earth controls Water
• You can extinguish fire with water, so Water destroys Fire A foundry uses fire to melt metal, so Fire destroys Metal

Wood is represents the color green, springtime and east. Wood also represents birth and early childhood. Wood can be pliant and bending (willow) or strong and unyielding (oak). Wood is creative and innovative. Those with a large amount of this element in our charts, we will express ourselves creatively in some way. Wood is socially and communally oriented. Part of the East Life Group.

Fire is the element of leadership. It is represented by the color red, summer and south. Fire represents the growing years preceding puberty.  Fire is energetic and vibrant. It can indicate intensity or danger. Fire is warming and cheerful, but destructive and powerful. Part of the East Life Group.

Earth is represented by the color yellow, the center of the circle and teenage years. Earth is an element of stability and relates to real estate and legacies. Earth is patient, honest and methodical. It belongs to the West Life Group.

Metal is white, but can also be gold, silver or pink. It represents autumn and west. Metal means harvest, business and prosperity. This is usually financial prosperity. Metal can be powerful like a sword or a knife. Metal represents the adult years. It belongs to the West Life Group.

Water represents the color black, winter, and north. Water represents the final years, old age. Water is travel, communication, learning, literature, the arts, and the media. Water can be gentle like rainfall and violent like a hurricane. It nourishes all living things, while having the ability to make it’s way through dense rock. Part of the East Life Group.

How can we apply this to our home using Feng Shui? The following are some items with strong elemental energy

Fire- candles, a red vase, A bowl of red peppers, Earth- A clay pot, stone, pottery, crystals, gems, Metal- wind chime, or objects made of copper, brass or bronze, clocks Water – waterfall, image of a lake/ ocean, fish tank Wood- a plant, floor lamp, vertical statue, houseplants

Each color is an expression of one of the Five Feng Shui Elements: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood. The elements are used in specific areas according to the feng shui energy map of your space, or Bagua.

FIRE – PASSION AND HIGH ENERGY A balanced Feng Shui Fire element in your space will bring a supporting energy in all your career efforts and will help you achieve recognition.

• Fire is the Feng Shui element of South. Fire energy is also recommended in the Northeast and Southwest Feng Shui areas of your space.

EARTH – NOURISHMENT AND STABILITY A strong and harmonious Feng Shui Earth element in your home will help create stability, nourishment and protection for all your relationships.

• Earth is the Feng Shui element of Northeast and Southwest. It is also the element of Center of your home.

METAL – CLARITY AND PRECISENESS Feng Shui Metal element brings the qualities of sharpness, precision, clarity and efficiency; its balanced presence will help you live with clarity and lightness

• Metal is the Feng Shui element of West and Northwest. Metal element is also good to use in the North area of your home or office.

WATER – EASE, FRESHNESS AND ABUNDANCE A harmonious Feng Shui Water element will bring a refreshing energy of calm, ease, purity and freshness Water is also the ancient symbol of abundance, and a very effective Feng Shui element

• Water is the Feng Shui element of North. Water element is also good to use in the East and Southeast areas of your space.

WOOD – HEALTH AND VITALITY Lush and healing, the Feng Shui Wood element will bring the energy of health, vitality and growth. It is also an expression of abundance, thus an ancient Feng Shui cure for wealth and prosperity

• Wood is the Feng Shui element of the East and Southeast areas of your space. Wood element is also good to use in the South.

The elements in the five element cycle, represent various stages within the cycle of life or nature. Finding Your Personal Element Illustrates how you interact relatively with others and their Personal Elements. It also allows you to work with your best directions for sleeping, eating, studying, business & more. To learn more about how the five elements work, calculate your element below, and then read about the five elements under The Five elements of Feng Shui section. You can work with your directions based on the chart below the worksheet.  Your Best Directions Based on your Element

To Find out, you will need to calculate Your Ming Gua

1. determine your birth year. – annual energy in feng shui begins on February 4th or 5th depending on the position of the sun. For people born on a date from January 1 through February you will use the number for the previous year Birth Year Here_______

2. add together the four digits of your birth year: ie (1 + 9 + 7 + 1 = 18)_________

3. continue adding until you have a single digit: ie (1 + 8 = 9) _______________

4. for a woman: add 4 to the number from step two: ie (4 + 9 = 13) ____________

5. If this results in a 2-digit #, add together to get a single-digit # : ie (1 + 3 = 4) ______

6.  for a man: subtract from 11 the number from step two: ie (11 – 9 = 2) ________

7.*If the calculations in step three result in 5, women use the number 8 as your ming gua, and men use the number 2 as your ming gua. (We transform the number 5 into either 2 or 8 because 5 is reserved for the center and is not assigned a direction or a trigram.)

Fill in your Ming Gua Below Number________Element___________

Find Your Ming Gua # in the chart below- That is your direction, along with your environmental energy signature : earth, metal, water, wood, or fire

1 N water 3 E wood 4 SE wood 9 S fire 2 SW earth 6 NW metal 7 W metal 8 NE earth

If your Ming Gua is Wood, Fire, or Water, You are an East Life group. If it is Earth or Metal you are a West Life group.

Yin and Yang in the Home

One of the basic tools we use in Feng Shui is the principle of Yin and Yang. It is the essential philosophy behind the five elements, and working with an environment.

We can use Yin and Yang ideas when making judgments and decisions about how to bring in different attributes of Color, Shape, Size, Texture and elements into our space to create a quiet, nurturing space, or a more vibrant, and energetic one.

The main idea behind Yin and Yang is the idea of relativity. Meaning Yin and Yang are not merely opposites, but different levels of being on the same wheel; or in Feng Shui terms, different places within the elemental cycle. As we cover the elemental cycle, you will see why different colors, shapes, sizes, and therefore elements correspond to different levels of Yin and Yang and how observing these levels and how they can be very helpful  tools in creating your environment.

One of my favorite Authors is Scott Peck. He wrote the Road Less Travelled. In one of his books…He says there is no such thing as opposites, only different levels of the same thing. That phrase boggled my mind…especially since I was much younger when I read it and am still learning everything it means. I went around telling everyone my new discovery and waiting to see their reactions. Some people disagreed with me. Some people brushed it off, and some were intrigued.  I really liked the thought because it completely changed the way I looked at things. It was a fact of reality that I had never been taught, and so I didn’t see it- even though proof was all around me. And the more I looked around and contemplated this new idea, the more I could apply it to.

At a universal level, we can say that everything in this universe is either matter or energy or a combination of both.

Or you could say yin, or yang, or a combination of both.

Things to remember about the concept of Yin and Yang, especially when applying it as a tool in your home and with feng shui is:

Yin and Yang are always relative. There is never a wrong or right with Yin and Yang. What might feel more soothing to one, may be a little more distracting for someone else. Like a chair that’s comfy, yet bright red:

You can always try something, and then change it. It’s never a waste of effort because each time you learn so much about yourself and your environment.

Carl Sagan, when producing his PBS series popularized the term, billions and billions, which was the title of one of his books. The billions referred to the stars…He was fond of reminding his viewers that we are all “made of star stuff.”

If Matter is Yin, Energy is Yang. If Earth is Yin, Sky is Yang. If Moon is Yin, Sun is Yang If Woman is Yin, Man is Yang

All music, for example, can be written in seven notes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 but you can never reach a point where no more new music can be created.

You can’t reach a point where no new computer program can be written.

Beautiful music can be created only if it is written with both yin and yang notes.

A computer program cannot be written only with 1 or with 0. Yin and Yang always exist together,-neither can exist without the other

There are no rigid borders between Yin and Yang and they rely on each other to be true. Imagine if there is no earth, then the word sky becomes meaningless. As we are dependent on the universe for our existence, the universe cannot exist without us. There can be no life without death and without death life has no meaning. A human being has both positive energies and negative energies.

So they are opposites, yet the same. And this is what Scott Peck meant when he said all truth contains paradox. So you can apply feng shui the next time you have a particularly confusing situation, for which you’ve been searching for an answer. You’ll never be wrong. You will learn from what goes right, as well as what goes wrong. And there will always be at least a little of both.

Yin

Water
Darkness
Cold
Rest
Lower
Central
Heavier
Passivity
Interior
Inward
Contraction
Moon
Winter
Softer
Female
Gentle
Negative
Psychological & Mental

Yang

Fire
Light
Heat
Movement
Higher
Activity
Exterior
Upward
Expansion
Sun
Summer
Harder
Male
Positive
More Physical & Social

In working with the BaGua, think in fractal terms. This means the map works on any scale. You may place it over a blueprint of your entire property, the floor plan of your home, or a specific room. You may even use it in  space as small as your desk top.

The eight life areas with which the map corresponds are; Career, Wisdom and Knowledge, Family and Health, Wealth & Prosperity, Fame, Marriage & Relationships, Children & Creativity, Helpful People & Travel.

The chart below illustrates the colors and shapes that correspond with the five elements.

You can use this guide to find elements of decor which support the energetic areas in your home:

North -Water,  Blue        Wavy Lines                              Fountains and Birdbaths

South-Fire, Red               Pyramidal / Triangle           Lights, Outdoor Torches

East-Wood, Green           Tall or Rectangular              Plants and Columns

West -Metal, Metallic     Round and circular              Wind chimes, metal sculpture

• North compass reading from 337.5 to 22.5 Element: Water Color(s): Blue and Black Life Area: Career/Path in Life
• Northeast compass reading 22.5 to 67.5 Element: Earth Color(s): Beige, Light Yelow, and Sandy/Earthy Life Area: Spiritual Growth/Self-Cultivation
• East compass reading 67.5 to 112.5 Element: Wood Color(s): Brown and Green Life Area: Health & Family
• Southeast compass reading 112.5 to 157.5 Element: Wood Color(s): Brown and Green Life Area: Prosperity & Abundance
• South compass reading 157.5 to 202.5 Element: Fire Color(s): Red, Orange, Purple, and Bright Yellow Life Area: Fame & Reputation
• Southwest compass reading 202.5 to 247.5 Element: Earth Color(s): Beige, Light Yelow, and Sandy/Earthy Life Area: Love & Marriage
• West compass reading 247.5 to 292.5 Element: Metal Color(s): White and Gray Life Area: Creativity & Children
• Northwest compass reading 292.2 to 337.5 Element: Metal Color(s): White and Gray Life Area: Helpful People & Blessings

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Consider the following if you have the luxury of choosing the location of your home office or office building: Since energy enters a building through the front door, you want to set up your home office in the front of the house to take advantage of the flow of energy. If you’re in the back, it’s more difficult to receive the flow of energy. The front area is also beneficial if you will be receiving clients and conducting business with others in your office space. Anytime you can avoid having clients walk through your home, everyone is more comfortable. A rectangular-shaped room is great for a home office. However, if the room you choose for your office is L-shaped, even better-use one of the areas for your desk and the other for a sitting area. Solutions for Less Ideal Locations A cure is a change you make in your environment to bring balance and harmony into the space. When the flow of energy is blocked or stagnant, a cure can get the energy moving again to help you create change. Windows are important for inspiration, but if there’s none, brighten up the room with yellow paint, bright lights, or pictures of nature. If you share a tight space with someone, use plants or dividers to define your own space and create privacy and concentration. Sometimes you may be situated at a dead end street. In this case use plenty of signs, lights and clear pathways to direct traffic towards the building. This can be done subtly in even a non-commercial setting.