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8 Ways to Feng Shui Your Kitchen

Michelle Cromer September 8, 2020 Leave a Comment

Your kitchen is the heart of your home, and no matter where it is located in your house; it represents your health and wellness. Feng shui-wise, it is the most important part of your home. It is also a feng shui symbol of wealth and prosperity. The ancient Chinese felt that the place in the home where food was prepared, namely the kitchen, was incredibly important to maintain as a safe, well-designed, and healthful space. Because of the importance placed on this room, various feng shui guidelines were established.

Below are a few tips that have stood the test of time in order to make sure your kitchen nourishes and sustains life.

Paint colors: It is always best to go with a color that you love and are drawn to.
Plants: Herb gardens and plants add not only beauty and calm but they symbolize healthy growth.
Stove: A significant feng shui symbol of wealth and the fire element, the stove is a powerful appliance. Rotate through the stovetop burners to distribute the energy evenly and ignite healthy passion in all aspects to all the home’s inhabitants. Keep the stove clean and in excellent condition.
Clutter-Free: It is critical for the chi to flow freely in this area.
Doors: If you have a bathroom door that opens up into your kitchen, make sure to keep that door closed at all times. This will help to block the healthy energy from “going down the drain.”
Lighting: Some kitchens abound in natural light, which is fortunate. It is a good idea to keep this space as cheerful and sunny as possible, so make sure this area is well lit.
Well maintained: Make sure all the appliances are in working order, broken dishes should be replaced and chipped paint should be touched up. Ensuring a well-maintained kitchen will signify that the people in the home are capable of maintaining and caring for themselves.
Balance the Elements: So many modern kitchens easily have fire (stove), water (sink), metal (appliances), and earth (color) represented, but it often takes a proactive stance in order to ensure that the wood element is represented in the kitchen. It’s not hard – you don’t need to redo your cabinets to be wood or anything like that.
Incorporating wood could be something as simple as placing fruit into a wooden bowl on the kitchen counter, or leaving a wooden cutting board or butcher block visible, as long as you actually use it, of course.

How are you and your family feeling? Is anyone chronically sick? How are the family finances? Look at your kitchen first and determine how you can incorporate some meaningful and symbolic solutions.

For more ideas on how you can Feng Shui your kitchen, watch this video.

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Covid-19 and the Five-Element Eating Model

Michelle Cromer August 17, 2020 2 Comments

I have been following Dr. Osterholm who is arguably one of the most dependable, non-political sources for straight answers on what Covid-19 means to us, our world, and the immediate future. He says if you are under 55, obesity is your number 1 risk factor so eating the right diet, getting physically active, and managing stress are some of the important things you can do to help protect yourself from the disease.

No research has been done on foods that help fight against Covid-19 specifically so I am turning to the five element-eating models of Feng Shui or Traditional Chinese Medicine. I am not a licensed doctor these are merely my suggestions based on my studies.

The five-element theory as it pertains to foods:

The fire element: Eat Red Bell Peppers – high in vitamin C, which contributes to your immune defense by supporting a variety of cell functions, and can lower your risk of respiratory infections.
The Wood Element: Green Broccoli packed with antioxidants that support our immune system. Eat this powerhouse vegetable raw or slightly cooked. My mother used to pour Velveeta cheese over broccoli, don’t do that.
The Earth Element: Spinach, rich in vitamin Can ad full of antioxidants that help shield our immune cells from environmental damage. Like broccoli, best to consume raw or slightly cooked.
The Water Element: Mushrooms, which like moist dark areas, are a great source of vitamin D and can help with the absorption of calcium, which may protect against respiratory diseases.
The Metal Element: Plain white yogurt is a great source of probiotics, which have been found to be effective for fighting the common cold and respiratory type infections.

Food is the basis of our health and what we put into our bodies can either help us stay healthy or can weaken our immune system. Perhaps we should stop focusing on how much we eat, and start focusing on what we eat.

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Metaphysical Feng Shui and the Power of You

Michelle Cromer July 20, 2020 2 Comments

After having a Feng Shui practice for over 15 years I have discovered that most people want to make a quick and simple surface lifestyle change. Most are not willing to look at their own self and make real change, they want to move some furniture around and make the house do the work. That is not how Feng Shui works. At least not to me. At least not to the ancient Chinese. The success stories I have experienced always start with the intention of the person and the power they have within.

Metaphysical Feng Shui requires a change in attitude and a self-analyst. It takes the power out of the hands of external circumstances and delivers it where it belongs -within each of us. . You can’t change what’s going on around you until you start changing what’s going on within you.

There are many ways to understand life, the universe, and you: through superstition, religion, philosophy, science, etc. While each approach has its own experts – scientists, priests, philosophers, doctors, poets – all are simply blind people receiving different impressions from touching an elephant. A priest may feel its legs and life is a tree trunk; a scientist holding its tail may find that life is ropelike; a poet feeling an ear may proclaim life is like a lotus leaf, and so on. From each of their perspectives, their expert conclusion makes sense and is based on knowledge. As we all know, their theories are merely parts of the whole picture.

I too am one of the blind. And because I touch a different part of the elephant, I have developed my own theory about the relationship of the universe to human life and the relationship we each have with ourselves. My insights come from spending time in Peru, Spain, Israel, two trips to Tibet, and studying in China-, which during 5000 years of civilization has spawned many diverse and meaningful concepts. Among the most arcane yet practical of these concepts is Feng Shui.

You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being with stories, myths, and dreams, and ambitions of cosmic proportions. Remember, no one is you and that will always be your greatest power.

Watch the video for some ways to personally bring the five elements into your life each day for lasting change.

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Coronavirus Feng Shui Interviewing Tips

Michelle Cromer June 15, 2020 Leave a Comment

In these post coronavirus times, it’s never been more important to pull out all the stops when interviewing for a job. Whether you are a new college graduate or an experienced professional, job interviews can be stressful.
Here are five tips to enhance your interviewing process.

1. Your front door is ground zero for your career. The area outside the door and inside the door must be 100% clean of clutter. Symbolically clutter is stagnant energy. Your front door is related to your career, so removing clutter will ensure the energy that represents your career is not stuck or stagnant. Make sure your front door is inviting. This is where the energy of your career comes in so making the front door look pristine is important. Place some growing plants or flowers symbolizing the growth of your career and a new welcome mat will symbolically invite new opportunities to your career.

2. Activate the helpful section of your home. As you stand at your front door facing inside, the Helpful People and Travel section lie in the front right corner. This powerful area can be utilized to create all types of movement and progress in your life. When it comes to a job or a job interview, placing a specific symbolic item, combined with your individual intention, can help balance the energy of the space, and provide vital chi or energy in the form of new opportunities. Some items could include any object, book, photo, or art that is a reference to your spiritual beliefs or other renditions of religious figures or spiritual guides or angels. Books about helpful people or an image of a specific mentor or helpful person in your life. Whatever this item is, it must have personal meaning to you.

3. Selecting colors to wear for the interview. I learned from spending decades in advertising that each color has a distinct frequency or vibration due to wavelengths. Red, for example, has a larger wavelength than blue and all colors have both physical effect and psychological effect. The colors we wear have a powerful influence on helping to manifest the desired outcome. If you are anxious wear blue to the interview to calm your nerves. Green promotes growth, potential, and possibilities. Red, which can be hidden, will give you extra power and passion during the interview.

4. Have a clean desk at home. Even if you aren’t going to use it for this job, it will energetically say “I’ve got the time and space to handle this job.” If you are living in a Starbucks off of a laptop and can’t figure out why you do not have full-time permanent employment, consider that a home desk will be a symbolic anchor for your career goals.

5. Most importantly, do not doubt that you will get the job you want. See it often in your mind’s eye and take good care of your own energy by exercising, eating well, and spending time in the grounding energy of nature. Keep a positive, optimistic attitude, and you will get the job that will serve your highest purpose. It might come in a very unexpected way, so stay positive, be alert, and remain open.

Watch the video here for a more detailed explanation.

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6 Ways to Enhance Prosperity With Feng Shui

Michelle Cromer May 25, 2020 Leave a Comment

Since the onset of COVID19, the majority of my Feng Shui questions have focused on attracting material wealth, which ironically is one of the main reasons Feng Shui came to people in the West.

Each home or office has a section that represents wealth and abundance. If you are standing at the front of your home or office, the furthest left area or corner represents your wealth. By using certain design elements with intention, you can enhance the energy of prosperity in your wealth corner.

Here are some wonderful ways to enhance the energy or chi of this area.

–Put a water feature in the corner, such as a fountain. Or, place a symbol of wealth like an aquarium because fish tanks in this area create auspicious feng shui. The aquarium can be small, and goldfish are the best in representing wealth.

–Images can be a powerfully symbolic way of expressing the desired result. Place art that prominently features water in the corner, such as an image of moving water representing money effortlessly flowing.

–Have lush green living plants in the corner to support the growth of prosperity. Nature is the ultimate manifestation of unlimited wealth and abundance so replicating that energy will help to attract the same energy.

–Purple and gold are the Feng Shui colors most associated with wealth. Rooms that occupy the wealth corner can also be decorated in greens, browns, purples, and blues.

–Certain crystals are powerhouses and bring the essence of abundance from deep within the earth. Citrine crystals are most commonly associated with attracting prosperity and consequently, they deserve a prominent place in your wealth corner.

–Prosperity symbols in your wealth area can also help to attract money energy. These can be things that represent prosperity to you, such as expensive objects, or they may be something more universal, such as jade plants or an archetypal symbol of wealth like the Hindi goddess Lakshmi.

Above all, understand the most successful Feng Shui applications are the ones that are highly personalized and carry strong meaning to you. Creating energy in your home or workspace that attracts money energy takes a little effort, and enhancing your prosperity corner is a great way to send a message to the universe you are open to receive wealth. With simple feng shui applications, you’ll be well on your way to a more prosperous life.

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