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.
- 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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In January 2020, as the Lunar New Year ushered in the Year of the Metal Rat in China, the coronavirus had already begun to spread, plunging China into chaos.
Picture a see-saw. You are sitting in the middle of both sides completely balanced. Then someone jumps on one side and suddenly it tilts to one side, completely off balance. Now imagine that “someone” is the coronavirus. We all have this inner system of checks and balances. Approaching our emotions as symptoms allow us to understand our body from a different perspective – an energetic one.
This global virus that is keeping us all contained in our homes – maybe for months – is already reorienting our relationship to the outside world, to each other, and to our home. I think crisis moments present us with the opportunity to appreciate where we live and the simple pleasures of occupying that space. No one knows exactly what will happen next or how long this will last, but one thing is for sure, we all need to stay healthy. Feng Shui and common sense can help all of us accomplish that.
No matter where your kitchen is that represents your health and yellow is the color that represents your health so I like to have yellow flowers in my kitchen. Everyone has heard, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” so I have a bowl of apples in my kitchen, and I actually do eat one every day.
I love to use essential oils so I have four that I like to layer for my health: eucalyptus which acts as a decongestant; peppermint for headaches, a cold, and the flu; lavender to promote calmness; and tea tree oil for its anti-inflammatory, antiviral properties.
Perhaps the magic is as simple as believing in yourself, and if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
