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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The Coronavirus, Feng Shui, Fear, and the Year of the Rat

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Happy Chinese New Year--The Year of the RatIn 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.

Feng Shui originated in China and as did the Chinese philosophy of the five-element theory. Each of the years in the Chinese calendar are not only named for one of the twelve animals, but they also refer to one of the five elements- water, earth, fire, metal, and wood. As I have mentioned in my January 20th blog, the year of the metal rat will reflect the characteristics of the rat – quick and fast-paced. And, in traditional Chinese medicine (TSM), the metal element is associated with the lungs, respiratory problems and immunity function. So here we are, the coronavirus that originated in the Year of the Metal Rat is moving quickly throughout the world, affecting our lungs, causing respiratory problems and compromising our immunity systems.

Balancing our immune systems is critical to staying well. And while so many of us are experiencing the debilitating emotion of fear, justifiably so, this emotion can be detrimental to our health. Fear is simply an energetic vibration, the same as worry, joy stress and anxiety.

BalancePicture 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.

In order to manage your fear and bring your immune system back to balance here are four things you can do:

  1. Use lavender and frankincense essential oils: Layer a few drops in your hands and apply them to your chest. Lavender works as an anxiety release and increases calm. It works with your nervous system to quiet the fear reaction in your brain. It also helps to reduce the emotion of aggression and fear.
  2. Diet: Help balance your immune system by eating fresh foods that possess the healing properties of chi. If the food you are eating has a label, then the food is void of any chi.
  3. Manage your thoughts: when a fearful thought arises, stop, acknowledge that thought and perhaps you adopt my practice. I simply say to myself, “Cancel delete.” That seems to bring me back to my center.
  4. Have a physical protocol: We have to do our part in washing our hands for at least 20 seconds, and after I wash my hands I spray them with rubbing alcohol to be extra safe.

Once we all move past fear, our bodies move in smoother motions, our thoughts flow freely, we are calmer, and we achieve the balance we need to stay healthy.

Stay safe and stay healthy.

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Using Feng Shui to Keep Your Home and Family Healthy

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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.

If you go out and you are around others, even with social distancing, consider taking your clothes off immediately when you return. Don’t even sit down, just strip and wash those clothes. Then wash your hands with soap and water and spray them with alcohol and let that dry.

In Feng Shui philosophy the center of your home represents your health so make sure it is free of clutter. If possible put some healthy growing plants in this area. I like the symbolism of Kuan Yin, the Buddhist goddess of health, and I have a small statue I bought in Tibet in the center area of my home.

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.

Wherever you are, don’t lose hope, this too shall pass. Let’s all find a way to help each other through these uncertain times. With kindness as our compass, we will find the path out of this crisis.

Be safe and be well,
Michelle

Is Feng Shui Magic?

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Is Feng Shui Magic

Fifteen years, numerous certifications, hundreds of feng shui consultations, I have discovered from the students I have taught and the clients I have been blessed to work with, that the number one question that seems to always be asked is, “Is feng shui magic?”

The short answer is no. All the feng shui success stories like attracting a healthy new relationship, or landing that client you’ve been hoping to do business with for years, don’t just happen because I visited your space and waved my magic wand.

I have also found that the most powerful feng shui isn’t addressed by moving furniture around or changing paint colors. I have learned through experience and the actual practice of feng shui, which is the energy of the environment, that it is not generated solely by how the space is decorated, but also by the inhabitants of the space. It isn’t the space that nurtures the people living and working there, the people affect the space as well.

There are so many success stories with feng shui, and each time I hear one I know one thing for sure: the people in the space shifted the energy. I help my clients identify intentions and clarify goals. Together we identify and remove energy blockages, transform stagnant chi in the environment, and activate the harmony of yin and yang and the five-element theory. But when I leave, it’s the people that have to do the work.

It’s challenging to get clarity, it’s hard to invite change into your life, and both take sweat, determination and a great deal of hard work. So when change does occur, and goals are achieved, and new relationships enter your life, it could feel like magic, but there isn’t anything magical about feng shui.

Perhaps the magic is as simple as believing in yourself, and if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

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Michelle Cromer