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| Feng Shui at Your Service Vikki Albers, Consultant |
| Feng Shui is about acknowledging an energetic component in the items we choose to surround our Selves with. |
How to Use The Bagua Let’s pick up right where we left off with the Nine Feng Shui Life Areas. You are familiar with the variety of life areas and some of what you can use (the element, resonating color, shape, and number) to cause a change in the energy of your home or office. How do you find these different energies, this Chi, within your home? The answers become clear using the Feng Shui Bagua (Bah-gwah) Map. Take a moment to read this explanation before you use the Bagua. It's not rocket science as they say, but you'll want to know how to correctly place it over your home to accurately pinpoint the different areas. As you begin to enhance your Relationship life area, you want to indeed be sure it is your Relationship life area! The intuitive Feng Shui tool used to determine where the Chi is most powerful for each specific area is an octagon called the Bagua. For simplicities sake, I've modified the Bagua into a three-by-three square grid. Imagine placing this grid over a drawing of your home positioning the center of the grid over the center of your home (building, room, etc.). This center is where the Health energy is felt most strongly. Now, take a deep, cleansing breath - you’re on your way! The bottom border of the grid is aligned with the wall of the architecturally-intended front door. This is the door used by pirates and princesses on Halloween, and the package-delivery people the rest of the year. This door is not necessarily used by the folks in your home. It is from this location that you will be able to see where all the other areas are. Because this is intuitive Feng Shui, we are not concerned with compass directions. We orient looking in from the front door regardless of which compass direction the door may face. Let’s connect some dots. Always at the center of the grid is the Health life area, to the right is Children and Creativity, and on the left is Family. Moving below the Health area is Career, to the right of Career is Helpful People and Travel, and to the left is the Skills and Knowledge life area. Your front door always aligns with one of these three areas: Skills and Knowledge, Career or Helpful People and Travel. At the top of the grid starting on the left-hand side is Abundance and Prosperity, Fame and Reputation in the middle, and Relationship at the right corner. Important to remember is that there are no exact borders. “When I stand here I’m in Career and when I take one step to the left, I’m in Skills and Knowledge” or “If only I had placed that crystal 18-inches further into Abundance, I’d have won the lottery!” Nope. Feng Shui comes from a place that is so filled with Love for all of us there is no trickery – abundant humor, but no trickery. Remember also, it’s your intention that is the real power behind any Feng Shui change that you make. Your intention to lift up, make bigger, better, brighter whatever you’re thinking about, is key. If there were magic in Feng Shui, intention would be it. Now what? Well… now you can play with it! If you would like to shift the Chi in your Abundance/Prosperity area, you know where it is. (Hint: upper left corner area.) The most powerful way to affect a change is to clear clutter and clean. Set an intention of gratitude for the abundance and prosperity you see all around you. Do this and you will feel a change in the energy, the flow of Chi. Really. When you study to learn a new skill, inspire your inner student by looking to the Skills and Knowledge area (lower left corner area) of your home or just your room. Clear clutter and clean setting an intention for clear thinking and an openness to easily understand, remember, and recall new concepts. Feng Shui is fun! Feng Shui is a delightful and powerful way to connect with the surroundings. Take a look around your home and your life, then start interacting with Chi. Change is on the way, and that is so good. Bagua Life Areas In gratitude and with an intention to serve. |
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| Clearing clutter is the single most important action to take to cause a shift toward the Greater Good in your life. |