Feng Shui Travel Tips Before, During and After

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Feng Shui Travel Tips

Whether or not you are glamping, road tripping, hoteling, flying or Airbnb-ing, these Feng shui tips will help you have your best possible trip.

Before Travel

  1. Look at photos of where you are going everyday and imagine a smooth passage
  2. Develop an affirmation for your trip. This will set the chi for your adventure, help to purify your thoughts and aid in restricting your brain so that anything is possible.
  3. Take a look at where you are going on a globe. This will help you appreciate the journey as well as the destination.
  4. Clean your house before you go. Who wants to return to a dirty house?
  5. Take out half of what you pack. We all over pack. Write out each day’s outfit and see if there can be any overlap. Deciding on three colors and sticking to those will help you eliminate any packing clutter.

During

  1. Spray your hotel room with essential oil or use a few drops. Peppermint is ideal for an energy booster. Citrus is terrific for a room refresher. Sanitize with tea tree oil. Help boost your immune system with thieves by putting some drops on your throat and chest.
  2. Be present, which simply means you are engaged in the here and now.
  3. Take lots of photos to remember how you felt. Photographs allow you to time travel. They’re a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.

After

  1. Enter your home with gratitude! You are home safely from a meaningful adventure.
  2. Unpack immediately. This gives your home the energy of prosperity and happiness.

As a professor of Feng shui I always tell my students the famous Chinese saying, “Wherever you go, you bring good luck with you.”

Happy Trails!

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Dorm Room and Feng Shui

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dorm room feng shui
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Can you believe it?! Summer is pretty much over. And that means,….BACK TO SCHOOL! Do we have any college students reading this blog? If so, and you happen to be living on campus, I invite you to take a look at several Feng Shui Tips on how to enhance the energy of your dorm room for the upcoming college year.

  1. Sam in Dorm RoomBed Position: Try to position the bed so it sits solidly against the back wall and make sure it has a headboard. This will elicit and instill in the student with a strong sense of support.
  2. The Door: This is a place where opportunity knocks so it is important that there aren’t any blockages that prevent the entry door from opening easily. This could translate into blockages in life as well.
  3. EMF: Keep electronics at an arm’s length from the head when sleeping. Electromagnetic frequencies have been linked to a host of health issues.
  4. Plants: Live plants will help to promote healthy living and growth.
  5. Wall art: Hang only images, pictures, and posters that speak to the heart and soul of the student and ones that will inspire the student to fulfill their purpose.
  6. Clutter: Eliminate any objects that are not considered absolutely necessary to the academic experience so that the student can open up to new ideas, teachings, philosophy, and opportunities.
  7. Garbage: Empty the garbage pail daily. Taking out the trash clears the energy for new opportunities.
  8. Bathroom door: No one should sleep with the bathroom door open. The bathroom is a room of elimination and can drain energy and opportunities away.
  9. Hanging Crystal: Place a hanging crystal in front of a window which will allow prisms of rainbow light to move easily through the room enhancing creativity.

Roommates, small spaces, and bolted-down furniture may threaten to foil your Feng Shui plans, but don’t get hung up on things you can’t change. While you may not be able to implement every principle of Feng Shui you read about, there are simple and quick changes anyone can make that, according to Feng Shui principles will have lasting positive impacts on your relationships, work, and stress levels. 

Best of luck this year and always!

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Should You Sleep with Your Head to the North?

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Should You Sleep with Your Head to the North?
Photo by Evgeniya Litovchenko

A dear friend of mine is renovating her home and she reached out to me about the placement of her head when she sleeps. She had heard that your head should not face north.

I think most of y’all know that I am an adjunct professor at the University of Texas in El Paso, so indulge me for a minute to offer an explanation as to the origin of the theory of the direction of our head when we sleep. We all know that the earth and our bodies have magnetic fields. The earth has a north and south pole as do each of us on the planet within our bodies, not just humans.

In India and in India feng shui – the Vastu Shastra– they feel that pointing your head north will interfere with your body’s magnetic field and with that of the earth. They also say that since blood contains a lot of iron when you sleep north your brain accumulates too much iron. So, the set of Ayurvedic teachings aims to live in harmony with the energy flow of the world.

However, as we say in Texas, “That dog won’t hunt.”

Superstition
Photo by Rachel Claire

Here’s why.
There is ZERO evidence in science that proves the integrity of these theories – “don’t sleep with your head pointing north” – to date. If we look at nature, bird nests, ant beds, and the way an animal lays down all are always North/South. I come from a fifth-generation ranching family in Texas, and everyone knows a horse, goat, wolf, or whatever will always put its head north if it must lie down to sleep. So, if you are lost, find a sleeping animal. The theory is that the quieting radiation coming from the north vitalizes currents from the south. It is best for circulation.

When I was learning this theory, I pointed out that the magnetic north and south poles do not coincide with the traditional geographic poles of the earth.

That is why it is so difficult to reach the geographic poles using a magnetic compass. And, above all, what about the people who live in the southern hemisphere? Does it work the opposite for them?

See what I mean? This is superstition at its best. So, my suggestion to you is to tune into your own intuition and follow that. You already know what to do, I am giving you permission to do that.

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Celebrating Your Birthday With Feng Shui

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Celebrating Your Birthday With Feng Shui

Celebrating your birthday with feng shui can be a fun way to spend your day. Traditionally, the Chinese reserved birthday celebrations for infants and those older than 60 years. For everyone else, it was spent in soul-searching. However, in the modern world, feng shui can be used to energize a birthday celebration.

There are several ways of celebrating a birthday with feng shui to ensure it is as auspicious a day as possible. Here are nine of my suggestions:

  1. Start the day with gratitude – Wrap yourself up with a feeling of gratitude and think of all the people and things in your life that bring you joy.
  2. Pray – according to your personal faith, offer up a prayer for all the blessings in your life.
  3. Call your parents – when my parents were living I would always call them up and thank them for having me. Even now I still say a prayer and thank them.
  4. Send yourself flowersPurification Bath – draw a bath and add Epson salt to purify your physical and spiritual body. Afterward, as the water goes down the drain think of all the challenges of the previous year going down the drain as well.
  5. Write out your birthday wishes – this will force you to be clear on what it is you want to accomplish. When you write out your wishes, you give yourself a destination to reach and a daily direction.
  6. Have an astrology reading – in astrology, everything starts and ends with your birth chart, the exact location, and the time of your birth. This reading will illuminate aspects of your life, both conscious and unconscious, and bring awareness to the possible timing of events in this year.
  7. Send yourself flowers – celebrate yourself with a beautiful bouquet of flowers! I find sending myself flowers is the perfect way to practice self-love.
  8. Blow out a candle – this tradition can be traced back to the ancient Greeks, who often burned candles as offerings for the many gods and goddesses. So make a wish and blow hard!
  9. Eat all your favorite foods – I eat from the moment I wake up until I fall asleep and normally I allow myself carbs, calories, sugar, and fat. So if you are like me, just this one day, enjoy all your favorite food groups.

There are many ways you can celebrate a birthday using Feng shui principles. Choose the ones that feel the most comfortable and natural and incorporate them into your annual birthday celebrations.

Have any Feng Shui questions? Feel free to contact me at michelle@michellecromer.com and sign up for your Power Color or visit me on Facebook at Michelle Cromer Feng Shui.

3 Ways to Have a Harmonious Feng Shui Thanksgiving

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Have a Feng Shui Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is the kick-off to the holiday season and it can be stressful and demanding because of all the work involved in planning the meal, the logistics of getting the family together, and making sure everyone has a wonderful day. Here are 3 harmonious tips for your Thanksgiving celebration:

  1. Harmonious seating
    Harmonious colorsThe dining room is considered to be the place of wealth in your home, so use it. Honor this day and your guests and bring out your good stuff, such as your china, crystal, and silver.
    Round tables are best for flow and conversation but if you are like me and have a rectangle table that’s ok. Try to avoid seating your guests near the corners, which can cause an uneasy feeling. Use a tablecloth to blunt the edges.
  2. Harmonious décor
    If you think your guests might argue then invite an even number of people for that balance.
    In Feng Shui, we divide everything into the balance yin (dark) and yang (light). So, decorate with soothing earth colors like pumpkin, evergreen, and chocolate. Orange is the element of fire, which encourages conversation. Yellow wakes up the room just like the sun.
  3. Harmonious Food
    If there was ever a time to make your guests, “eat, drink and be merry” it’s Thanksgiving. Have plenty of food and all of your family’s favorites. In Texas, we have cornbread dressing, sweet potato casserole, broccoli cheese casserole and yes that is made with Velveeta cheese, tamales, and of course lemon Jell-O. I love pie so I have half of a pie per person and I normally have around 26 people. Pumpkin, pecan, apple, cherry, sweet potato, buttermilk, coconut cream pie, and chocolate – we have it all.

Harmonious FoodAs we are eating, my family and friends take turns and tell everyone the main thing that they are grateful for this year.

There are three great blessings in Feng Shui- health, happiness, and prosperity. We eat pears after sundown, which symbolically is blessing everyone with those three things. This is what I am wishing for all of y’all. I hope you have a healthy, happy, and prosperous holiday filled with good food, great family and friends who surround you with love, harmony, joy, and of course tons of gratitude.

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Michelle Cromer