Nine Harmonious Tips To Balance Your New Home

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Nine Harmonious Tips To Balance Your New Home
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When you move from an old home to a new one you are symbolically beginning a new chapter in your life. It is a perfect time to leave old habits and bad memories behind. Moving is good for the spirit and the mind.

Before moving in, bring your new house flowers and a bowl of fruit giving thanks to the guardians of the home.

Here are nine harmonious tips to balance your new home:

  1. Clean out the old to make way for the new.
  2. Thank your old space for the moments and memories and wish the future tenants well.
  3. Sage the new house – all the windows and doors open.
  4. Clean, clean, clean!
  5. New paint.
  6. Before moving in, bring your new house flowers and a bowl of fruit giving thanks to the guardians of the home.
  7. The first time each member of the home walks through the door, make sure they are not empty-handed and have something that holds meaning for them.
  8. Turn on all the lights – lighting the way to new opportunities.
  9. Sit in a circle with all the members of the home and give thanks and set some intentions for the time you will spend in this space.

One of my favorite quotes about the home is from the movie Under the Tucson Sun, “What are four walls anyway? They are what they contain. The house protects the dreamer. Unthinkable good things can happen, even late in the game.”

Here’s to a clean start and a new beginning!

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Feng Shui for Cancer Patients

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Feng Shui for Cancer Patients

40% of us will be diagnosed with cancer in our lives. So, if you don’t have cancer, I know you know someone who does. Here are nine tips for you or someone you love who goes through the cancer journey to recovery.

  1. Make sure the room has enough natural light. If not, bring in nature photos, and natural light bulbs.
  2. If they are in the hospital have a few personal items that are meaningful and make the person happy, but not too much. We don’t want clutter. With hospital things, medicines, etc., there is already a lot going on. 
  3. Play the person’s favorite music. This creates flow in the room as well. We need movement or else we have stagnation. • Add an air filter. This adds movement as well and keeps the dust to a minimum too.
  4. Don’t use ceiling fans. The blades of the fan create a “cutting chi” over the person. Feel free to use an oscillating floor fan for circulation and to cool the person if needed.
  5. Green and natural surroundingsUse healing aromatherapy oils. An oil diffuser is nice as it sends the scent into the air. You can turn it on or off as needed. Lavender is relaxing, Eucalyptus is energizing. Peppermint is good for congestion. You can ask the person what their favorite flower scent is and find that oil. I used rose. 
  6. If you’re loved one can be moved to another room occasionally, it’s a good idea to Smudge. This is a Native American ritual to get rid of negative energies. When one is sick, depression, anger, or sadness, can come up. Even people entering the room can bring this in. Sage is a dried herb and can be found online or at Whole Foods-type stores. You just light it, it sends out smoke. You wave it around the room like you are doing a cleansing. Make sure a door or window to the outside is open when doing this. It only takes a few minutes. When done, just put the smoke out and save the sage for another time. Do this on the same day you would be changing the bed sheets/linens and cleaning up the room.
  7. If you are the patient, then state an intention for what you desire. Read inspiring work, affirmations, or words that bring you to a happy place. “I am at peace where I am and I feel happy”, or “My body is healthy,” are some examples. See yourself where you want to be not where you are. Yes, be happy where you are as in gratitude but know that you can desire more and better.
  8. Have a picture or painting of something that makes you happy opposite your bed, so you see it when you wake up and when you go to bed. NO mirrors opposite the bed as they disturb nighttime chi.
  9. Add natural plants with rounded leaves. Plants represent the Wood element which is growth. They are good for adding energy to a room and creating better health.

I have a medical mantra: You can believe the diagnoses but not the prognosis. I know these tips will help because they certainly helped me.

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8 Ways Feng Shui Can Help with Gossip

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Can Feng Shui Help with Gossip?
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In Texas, we have a saying, “If a dog will bring you a bone, he will take a bone.” In other words, listen carefully to how a person speaks about other people to you. This is how they will speak about you to other people. If you are the subject of gossip, here eight Feng Shui tips that can help.

  1. Don’t care: Release the need to care what anyone is saying about you. Ever. My grandmother used to tell me that what someone says about me is not my business. Meaning it’s their business. When a toxic person can no longer control you, they will try to control how others see you.
  2. Bed placement: Take a look at where your bed is in your bedroom. Is it in a commanding position? This means that when you are lying in bed, you are facing the door without being directly in front of it. By simply shifting your position, your perspective will change and the chi in your home will support you.
  3. Sound: There are vibrations moving through your home and your life which sound can cut through and transform your chi. Anything will work as an instrument, singing bowls or bells. I clear my space each day with bells I bought in Tibet in 2005. Each week I start at my front door and ring my bell clockwise around the first floor of my home.
  4. Oranges: Believe it or not, oranges are like gold when it comes to clearing out negative energy. The shape and the color invoke bright, yang, solar energy. Make sure to eat them and I like the number nine because it is so auspicious in Feng Shui.
  5. Sage: Sage is so effective in clearing out a space. Since you have gossip around you I would also sage myself. Just light the sage and start at your feet make small clockwise circles beside your body and then continue over your head. As you do this, imagine the gossip is floating away like sage smoke.
  6. Plants: Plants are my go-to for strengthening and clearing a space. Make sure they don’t die!
  7. Black tourmaline: Consider having a small bowl of black tourmaline and place it in the middle back section of your home – the fame and reputation section. They will absorb and harmful energy.
  8. Rose essential oil: Rose oil will support the love you give and receive and symbolically keep you surrounded by that high-frequency vibration.

Gossip and misinformation will feel unfair but stay above it, trusting the other people will eventually see the truth.

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7 Ways to Adopt a Feng Shui Mindset Surrounding COVID19

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feng shui mindsetThere is a great deal of fear globally surrounding the pandemic. Some are already getting vaccines; others will have to wait months. There is even fear surrounding the vaccine itself. I want to encourage all of y’all, regardless, to adopt a perspective that steps away from all the fear. I know that can be easier said than done.

Why don’t we collectively repattern our chi? A common phrase in Feng Shui is “where attention goes energy flows.” We are all made of energy and right now a billion-plus people are focusing on the virus. Here are some manageable things you can do right now:

1. Meditate and Pray-these two energy modalities always allow me to gain clarity on any challenges or fears I might have.

meditate and pray

2. Be in Nature –research shows that just 20 minutes in nature will lower your stress hormone levels. If this isn’t possible where you live then own a window or listen to nature sounds or look at videos of nature or even photographs.

3. Your kitchen – no matter where your kitchen is in your space it always represents your health so clean off the counters, get rid of clutter, use all your burners on the stove to symbolically ignite your health.

eat cleanly4. Eat as cleanly as possible– choose foods with healthy chi like fruits and vegetables and if you eat meat, make sure to bless the spirit of the animal before you eat it and thank it, a lesson I learned from my grandmother. And don’t forget your Vitamin D, Zinc, and Vitamin C.

5. Exercise – move your chi every single day. This not only will boost your natural defenses and raise your immunity levels. Do weights, run yoga, bike, even if you are quarantined inside your space you can still find a way to exercise.

6. Stay connected – I never knew how much connection and community meant to me and I bet you are feeling the same way. Reach out to friends and family to check-in. My friend Francine and I talk once a week about a new verb from another language and culture we’ve learned. I still go to the store each week from some widows on my block. I am acutely aware that I might be the only person they interact with in person all week so I make sure I slow down and take extra safety precautions around them.

7. Burn Sage – Open your windows and doors if possible and burn sage which will clear out all the negative chi. Native Americans and other indigenous people have burned sage for centuries as a way to cleanse a person or space and promote healing and wisdom.

Hang in there! I hope these suggestions offer a different platform of how you can repattern your chi and releasing your fear and replacing it with a more grounded perspective. I hope these help. Stay safe and well.

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How to Use Sage to Remove Negative Energy

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Sage advice

I’ve been getting a great deal of questions about sage, and how to use it to remove negative energy. Sage comes from the Latin word “salvere,” meaning to be saved or to be healed. Since ancient times, sage has been used for many things. The Egyptians used sage for fertility, while in France sage was grown for tea. The Romans used it for digestion issues, the Chinese used it for sore joints and the Native Americans used it in ceremonies.

Simply put, sage clears the bacteria in the air. Sage smoke offers rapid delivery to the brain and efficient absorption to the body. Scientists have observed that sage can clear up to 94 percent of airborne bacteria in a space and disinfect the air. When sage is burned it releases negative ions, which is linked to putting people into positive moods.

Burning sage is one of the oldest and purest methods of cleansing a person, group of people, or space, and is believed to bring wisdom, clarity, and increased spiritual awareness. The practice dates back to prehistoric times and it’s been documented as having been used in every corner of the earth by our ancestors.

I grow my own sage to use in cooking and to make smudge sticks for ceremonies. I avoid mass-market websites to buy smudge sticks because I want to make sure of the intention and cultivation of the sage.

Before you light up a sage stick, remember to open a door or window to clear out a path for unwanted energy. I use an abalone shell to hold the sage in and then a feather to fan and spread the smoke around the space as it burns. Abalone shells are great because of the shape, they are easy to hold when walking around any space. Set your intention for the ceremony and then after you light the sage let it burn for about 20 seconds and then gently blow out the flame. Then you can start the process of clearing out the energy from the space.

The sage ceremony has a great deal of yang energy so afterward, to evoke a balance, I use the yin property of incense, and I thank the wisdom of the sage for its healing properties. Sage is cleansing and sacred and I know it will help to clear any space as well as hearts and minds.

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Michelle Cromer