7 Ways to Create a Zen Filled Meditation Space

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7 Ways to Create a Zen Filled Meditation SpaceSo often we label the rooms in our homes by what we do in them, the dining room, living room, the entertainment room, etc. Creating a meditation space gives you a place in your home or office that is dedicated to calm, silence, and stillness. Finding a moment of calm each day is important for our well-being and overall stress levels.

You don’t have to believe in Feng Shui to know that you are influenced by your surroundings. Setting aside a corner, or a specific area to practice meditation is a wonderful way to cultivate inner calm, stillness, and clarity.

Below are 7 suggestions on creating a meditation space:

  1. Find a space, a corner, closet, or even a section of the garden will do, just make sure the space feels good to you.
  2. Keep the area clean and uncluttered. Clutter around you will promote clutter in your mind.
  3. Select feel good objects that will fit the purpose of the space. Perhaps a cushion, blankets, or a pillow that will create a sense of softness.
  4. Add personal touches. This can be a sound, like bells or chimes, or crystals, stones, beads, or any form of artwork. Anything that brings you a peaceful sense of gratitude.
  5. Essential oilsLayer beautiful aromas from essential oils, aromatic candles, or incense such as lavender, chamomile, and peppermint, which can soothe the soul, mind, and body.
  6. Consider bringing nature into your space which studies show promotes healing. This will instantly promote harmony and balance. Choose a plant, a vase of fresh flowers, seashells, stones collected from hikes, or even a small water fountain.
  7. Although not necessary music can be relaxing for many people. This is particularly helpful to those who live in a busy city area where the sounds of traffic, trains or sirens are a constant.

Still your mind, erase all the worldly issues and open up to the healing powers of meditation.

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How to Use Feng Shui to Get a New Job

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The Coronavirus has caused unprecedented layoffs and triggered an economic crisis. Millions and millions of workers are unemployed, and the competition for the best positions and salaries are fierce. However, utilizing the principals of Feng Shui will help to influence the flow of chi in your space and give you the edge. Here are some simple ways to activate your home:

Career and Life Journey
The front door represents your career and life journey. Shine it up and oil the hinges. Make sure it isn’t blocked and use the front door each day to activate the chi. Growing plants in this area will symbolize the healthy growth of your career.

Money and Abundance
The Money and Abundance section is located in the far back left section of your space. This area needs the water element, which symbolizes the flow of money and prosperity. This could be an aquarium, a fountain, or even a photo or painting of a waterfall.

Helpful PeopleHelpful People
The Helpful People section is located in the front right section of your space. This area needs to be activated when changing careers or looking for a job. This is the place to put any images, paintings, posters, or figures of spiritual guides, goddesses, saints, and angels.

James BrownFame and Reputation
The fame and reputation section is located in the back middle part of your space and is connected to the flow of energy in your career. Display images of people whose career and professional life you admire.

Most importantly, do not doubt that you will get the job you want. Stay optimistic. Visualize your first day and how wonderful it feels to start this adventure. Keep an optimistic attitude and be open to the opportunity coming to you in an unexpected way, so stay happy and alert.

Staying in the Present Moment Boosts Creativity

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Staying in the present moment is no longer a concept reserved for the new age set.

In these crazy coronavirus times, staying in the present can be an antidote to stress and anxiety. And, the present moment and creativity go hand-in-hand. Actually being aware of the present moment boosts creative thinking and challenging creative work can get us into a flow state of heightened awareness and consciousness.

The practice of cultivating a focused awareness on the present moment is both a daily habit and a life long process, but half of the time our minds are all over the place and we have a very hard time sustaining attention.

Get CreativeIf you want to become more aware and more creative but are struggling with how to stay present, try engaging in your favorite creative practice. Whether it’s baking, drawing, singing in the shower, or gardening, notice how your thoughts quiet down as you get into the state of flow.

While in this state of flow engaging in imaginative thinking and fantasizing may even make us more present and more creative.

According to Feng Shui principals, you can also boost your creative flow by enhancing the creative section of your home, located in the middle of the righthand side of any space. To activate the chi consider putting creative artwork in this area and use this area to practice your breathing. Your breath is a barometer for your overall physical and mental state and it’s the foundation of staying in the present moment.

When your mind begins to spin out of control, simply stop and breathe in and breathe out. When you are focused on your breath, your mental discord will stop. You don’t think of the past, the future, or the virus, because you are focusing your attention on your breath.

We have had a profound capacity to destroy, but we also have a profound capacity to create, to believe and to know that we have this incredible power within each of us.

Stay safe and well!

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6 Tips to Clean Your Household Air Using Feng Shui

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We are all spending more time at home due to the spread of the COVID-19. It is now more important than ever to keep the air in our homes clean, and there are many simple things we can do to assure we are doing this. Below are a few feng shui tips.

  1. Clean up your clutter: clutter is stagnant energy and we need the air to flow freely especially during this time of “Shelter in Place.”
  2. Air filter: filters are an effective way to remove odors, bacteria, mold and more from any area.
  3. Essential oils: they not only purify the air, but they also have an uplifting impact. I use lemongrass, eucalyptus, and tea tree oil. You can layer these on your body or diffuse them to clean any space.
  4. Spray your home top to bottom: I make my own spray out of Aloe Vera liquid and alcohol, three parts to one part. Aloe Vera is not just a great plant to keep around for relieving burns, it is also amazing for drawing formaldehyde from the air
  5. Open up your windows: let the fresh air flow and it will dramatically refresh your space.
  6. Have plants in your home: breathe in new life into your home by using plants to keep your home’s air clean and fresh.

This time might be scary for some but I guarantee when you clean up your air, you also will be incorporating the process of renewing and recycling whatever you want in your life.

Be safe and stay well!

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Managing the Coronavirus with Feng Shui

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Managing the Coronavirus with Feng Shui
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We are living in unprecedented times with health care worries and financial downturns caused by the coronavirus. Here are a few suggestions that you and your family might adopt to navigate through the difficult and challenging days and weeks ahead.

  1. Follow the Centers for Disease Control guidelines by adopting a handwashing protocol when you or anyone enters your home. There is no “magic cure” in feng shui that can protect you; we all have to do our part.
    2. Clean up the clutter around your home, which represents trapped energy, and it is believed when you clear clutter you invite opportunity into your life.
    3. If possible take a walk in nature every day. Connecting to the healing energies of nature will serve to align you to the natural energy patterns all around you. When our bodies are synchronized and balanced with nature we are healthier and happier.
    4. Brighten up your home by opening up the curtains and keeping your home well lit and bright. You don’t have to turn all the lights on, just light up those dark corners, which represent fear.
    5. Check your plumbing for water leaks: all pipes, sinks, hoses, and faucets. Any leaking water represents the loss of health and income so keeping your home leak-free is critical.
    6. Many of us have children at home and this is a wonderful time to teach them about something that you love to do like gardening, cooking.
    7. Limit TV, which can promote fear. Stay positive, keep your faith, resist negativity and embrace ways to keep your spirit up.
    8. Stay connected. Seeking out the support of each other is pivotal for responding to and maximizing our survival in times of stress. Develop a daily practice of calling, texting or using Zoom or Face time to friends and family. Be generous with your connections and if you feel compelled to go to the grocery store, consider checking in with the people who are more vulnerable and see what they might need.
    9. Many people confuse feng shui as a type of religious belief, which it is not. Feng shui is more correctly a technique of aligning the energy of a space. However, the use of crosses, and other icons, which are meaningful to us, bring mindfulness of heaven’s role in our lives. The center of the home is an important space. It impacts health, wealth and happiness, so this is a powerful place to place these items.

Building a foundation of healthy coping and staying connected to our values and each other is imperative. We all have a great capacity for empathy and caring in times of great suffering. The coronavirus doesn’t need to change that.

Be well and stay safe,

Michelle

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