How Your Bedroom Symbolizes Love in Your Relationship

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How Your Bedroom Symbolizes Love in Your RelationshipDo you want to know what I like about this bedroom? EVERYTHING!

No matter where your bedroom is located, it always represents your love and relationships. Warm colors reminiscent of skin tones such as the color of the bedspread are ideal because they are soothing. Greens are considered restful, the perfect feeling for a bedroom.

Behind the bed are healthy green leaves that are growing upward, just like the relationship of the people who sleep there.

There is a great deal of balance with the two lamps on the two night stands.

And the only thing I would do is get the books off of the floor and suggest that the drapes be closed each night so that the window panes do not cut the chi while these people sleep.

And finally, I find this room to be inviting and sensual, what could be better than that to symbolize love and relationships?

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Bring Balance into Your Bedroom Using the Five Elements of Feng Shui

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Bring Balance into Your Bedroom Using the Five Elements of Feng Shui

I find that balance seems to be the key to almost everything. From the foods we eat, the clothes we wear and the lifestyles we choose, and your home is no different. Feng Shui strives to create a space that allows more chi or energy to flow naturally. One way to achieve this is by filling your home with the balance of the five elements, wood, fire, earth, metal and water.

This photo only has ONE element – metal, represented in all the white and grey. It is missing WOOD which promotes vibrant health; FIRE which increases our energy levels, fuels passion and fosters creativity; EARTH which helps to generate knowledge and stability; and WATER which is all about fluidity, emotional depth, and abundance.

The bedroom, no matter where it is located in your home, always represents your love life. If you are yearning for more passion – add the fire element to your room by adding red. If you need some stability, add the earth element by bringing in house plants. If you are wanting to grow your relationship bring in raw wooden shelves or the color brown. And if you want more of an emotional connection to your partner, bring in a fountain or the colors black or blue.

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Nine Feng Shui Tips For Small Spaces

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With so many of us downsizing and moving into smaller spaces, here are nine Feng Shui tips to help you in your small spaces.

1. Use The Front Door:
The front door is the entryway to bring in good chi (life energy), balance and harmony. Make sure the area is clutter free. Place a well-maintained doormat at the front door welcoming the chi. Make sure this area is well lit and honor this space by using the front door every day.

2. Declutter:
Small spaces can develop clutter quickly. Be mindful of any objects on the floor that do not belong such as boxes or books, these objects will stagnant the energy flow. Closets represent hidden areas in your life so clean those out in order to bring clarity to all aspects of your life.

3. Clean Under the Bed:
To ensure a restful sleep clear out anything that is under your bed. Storing items under the bed will block the energy flow and can represent blocks in your relationships.

4. Live Plants:
Bring in healthy, live plants into your small space. These plants enhance the wood element and symbolize new beginnings and enhance family relationships.

5. Clean and Replace Light Bulbs:
Light blubs represent passion, the fire element so make sure they are clean and working. Turing on light bulbs can light the way for love or new business opportunities.

6. Use the Burners on Your Stove Daily:
No matter how small your kitchen might be it represents health and abundance. The preparation of food is a sacred act and the stove represents life force and nourishment, but it is also an energy generator. Use all the burners every day. Only using one or two burners may suggest that you are not activating the full potential of abundance available to you.

7. Place a Bowl of Nine Oranges in Your Kitchen:
Oranges stimulate the mind and improve your mood. Symbolically the orange represents gold and will improve your cash flow.

8. Move Nine Objects Around:
Nine is an auspicious number in Feng Shui, so moving nine objects in your small space will stir up the chi in your home. There is not an object too small or big to move, and just moving an object slightly will make a difference.

9. Space Clearing:
The air in small spaces tends to become stagnant. Open up all the windows and doors and burn incense or sage throughout the house. The fresh air will clear out any stress and negativity.

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For the Love of Numbers

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I have had a life long love affair with numbers. One of my first memories is learning how to count by holding up my fingers. I remember squealing in delight with each correct answer. When it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I knew whatever I did, it would involve numbers. So one of my majors is in finance and I went on to study finance at New York University.

Numbers or symbols used for counting have existed since man learned to count. Archaeologists and historians estimate that numbers were first used around 32,000 years ago! Archaeological findings have discovered bones and rocks with marks on them, most likely counting to keep track of food quantities.

Numerology is the practice of interpreting the deeper energy of a number and utilizing that vibe for optimal understanding and alignment. Numbers in Feng Shui are divided up into Yin or Yang. Yin are all even and yang are all odd. Both maintain the much needed balance we all seek.

While studying Feng Shui in China I quickly learned of the superstitions they have surrounding numbers and choosing telephone numbers, house numbers and business numbers are done so very carefully. Nothing can end in the number “4” for example because it sounds like death, (Sel) and is considered the worst of all numbers. There are no fourth floors on any of the buildings or hotels for this reason.

Numbers immediately reveal to me the overall Chi of the home or office. I use a process called the reduction in that I determine the prime root number of your home address. Here’s how you do it: Take your street address and add all the numbers together. For example, 3015 would be 3+0+1+5= 9 so 9 is the single-digit prime root number. If your address is 4745 then you add up 4+7+4+6=21. In the case of a double digit you add those two numbers together so 2+1=3, so the prime number is 3.

Below is a guide to what your address means:

  1. The number one is about new beginnings. Since this is a solitary number, incorporating pairs in your home will be important for balance. So two candles on the table or two photos hung together etc. The number one is masculine so incorporating yin energy will balance out the home – add a water feature or make sure the home has fresh flowers.
  2. The number two encourages balance and partnerships of all kinds. It is a yin number or energy so hang a silver wind chime to balance the chi.
  3. The number three rules creation and creativity. It’s a good number for manifestation, so be careful what you wish for in a three home. Add a green plant to attract wealth and luck and make sure to change the water when needed so it is always clear, bringing clarity to the space.
  4. The number four is about structure. Think of four pillars in a house. The downside of this number is that you may get a sense of rigidity under your roof. Add a symbol of a dragon to introduce spontaneity in this space.
  5. The number five is change, always seeking to balance itself. Find a sun and moon symbol and hang it up. The union between these two energies will offer balance and stability. The sun is Yang – male and the moon is Yin –female. These are ancient archetypes for perfect harmony.
  6. The number six is the number of service, and it’s a nurturing number. The flip side to this number is an overacting energy. To balance this space, hang a crystal to boost the chi and eradicate the overacting energy.
  7. The number seven is the number of higher education and serious study of oneself. This is a wonderful space to learn new things and explore new topics. Also the perfect number for introspective and meditation. If the Chi is not balanced it can produce a hermit type quality. A photo or painting of mountains will help balance the Chi. Also lighting candles will serve to energetically illuminate you.
  8. The number eight represents the realm of the infinite and is considered a great number for the emotional flow of the space. The flip side of this number is stagnation, anxiety and lack of motivation. Add a photo or a statue of a lotus. This will represent enlightenment, progress and perfection.
  9. The number nine represents happy returns and completion. It’s symbolic of attainment, wealth, abundance and full potential. The flip side can produce egotism, greed, lust and envy. Consider adding a turtle, which is symbolic for the number nine energy. They stand for accomplishment and long life.

Numbers are truly a universal language and with these added tips and few simple additions your home you can reach optimal levels of love, luck and prosperity.

Going Barefoot as a Spiritual Practice

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“Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you ever had the chance to enter my closet, you would realize two things about me: I love shoes and I might have a shoe addiction problem. I have more shoes and cowboy boots than all my friends combined; and I have a lot of friends. But after returning from two weeks in Costa Rica I have decided to spend most of the summer barefoot.

I learned that Costa Rica is at the top of the world, the lone contender from the Americas in environmental performance distinguished in March this year for it’s environmental sustainability by the United Nations. Costa Rica’s relationship with Mother Earth is both remarkable and respectful and I found myself wanting to connect to Her in the same way. So I took my shoes off. And I kept them off. Aside from when I was at the beach or my backyard, I can’t remember when I last spent one day barefoot, much less several.

What I experienced from walking around without shoes was profound. Being barefoot creates presence. Mind chatter dissipates. The animals seemed to be less suspicious. I noticed sounds, smells and saw more detail as I slowly walked. And I discovered the earth is soft, so soft in fact that it deeply moved me. The temperature of the dirt changed step after step depending on the tree cover over me and the leaf litter under me. The moisture, the rocks, the shade, the direction of the wind. It all mattered. With each step I felt met by Mother Earth. Supported. Held up. And something I never expected, I felt better. I noticed improved circulation in my feet and ankles. My neck and shoulders lost all the tension they seem to always have. I had better posture and better balance. It’s amazing to me how wearing shoes has separated me from so much of what I am a part of.

When I returned home I continued my barefoot practice. It’s simple, convenient, and heart opening. It’s a mindfulness spiritual practice that uses our feet as connective soul bridges between body, mind and planet Earth. It raises our consciousness and raising consciousness in urban life is critical to sustaining the planet.

Our shoes distort our bodies’ feeling and function and also disconnect us from the earth. We don’t think about this, working in our offices behind non-opening windows, perched high above the earth on steel encased in concrete. We sleep and move in climate controlled homes and vehicles where we have to look at an instrument to know the temperature outside. Our lifestyle is more like life in submarine or spaceship than on Mother Nature, it seems. Conversely, there’s something primal, damp, sensual and connective about walking on the earth. Something of mystery. This is the thing I love about it: it redirects my abstract concerns. It plugs my attention into something much greater and more live-giving than the ridiculous flock of worries my mind generates.

We’re at a real crossroads now with Mother Earth, and need to change our relationship to Her. Recycling newspapers and buying hybrid cars isn’t going to do it because the mindset behind these well-intended changes still treats the planet as a commodity, a sort of gravel pit of resources for humans to plunder. We don’t need different ways to pillage the planet. We need different humans. A more evolved humanity that sees the ecological and spiritual implications of living as creatures in a much greater web of life all around us.

I’m not ready to kick my cowboy boots and Manolo Blahnik’s to the curb, but I do plan on spending most of the summer connecting to the earth’s chi by going barefoot.

When was the last time your bare feet hit the ground?

Michelle Cromer