7 Feng Shui Tips for Creating Environments That Propel You Into Your Best Year Yet!

Now is a great time to be setting the stage for 2003. Its time to be making space for more of what you want and stretching those possibility muscles. Are you ready to propel yourself to the next level?

By creating environments that pull you forward, you are supported in living your best life. This could mean setting a deadline that pulls you forward in the action you need to take, or creating a physical environment that changes your energy.

1. What you would regret not having done if you knew you had one week to live? What is one step you could take this week towards reaching this goal? Can you find a picture or object you can place in your home to symbolize your goal? In Feng Shui this is known as an enhancement, and will Serve as a powerful anchor to your intention.

2. Clear your clutter - this is the biggest thing you can do to create space for the new. You can never do it too often! Anything that is draining your energy needs to be addressed. You need all your energy to live a full life. Surround yourself with things that make your heart sing!

3. What do you have on your walls? Your artwork is supporting you or working against you. Make sure you consciously choose your artwork for what it says to you rather than whether it matches the color scheme in your home! And, make sure its saying what you want it to be saying.

4. Find pictures in magazines that appeal to you and make a collage or 'treasure map' by arranging them on poster board. This can be on a specific goal, such as travel or prosperity, or it could be on all the different aspects you would like to have in your life.

5. Write a descriptive piece as if you have already reached your goal. Where are you living, what are people saying to you, how do you feel when you get up in the morning, what do you do with your day etc? Write it in the present tense as if its happening now, and put as many emotions into it as possible. Write it out on your favorite colored paper. For additional power, you can use this as a Feng Shui enhancement. For information on where different aspects of your life, such as prosperity, are represented in your home or room see: http://www.LifeDesignStrategies.com/BaguaMap.html

6. After you've cleared your clutter, using the Bagua Map, decide which area you would like to enhance. Do you want to increase your prosperity, improve your relationships, maybe travel? Place something that symbolizes this for you, in that particular area of your home or office.

7. Surround yourself with people who support you and inspire you to be your best. Friends who remind you of who you are when you forget, and friends who will lovingly be honest with you, will support you in your dreams.

The Universe has many more resources and ideas than you do! Its your job to stay focused on the outcomes youre choosing, create environments that pull you forward, and watch for synchronicity and surprises.

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Feng Shui To You!

What is Feng Shui? Feng Shui ( which is pronounced properly ?FEIING SWEE? in the Cantonese Chinese dialect? is a way and means of creating harmony between humans and their environment to enhance well being. An ancient Chinese theory of design and placement, Feng Shui grew from observations that people are affected ? both positively as well as negatively by their surroundings. You may well have noticed that some places seem always to impart luck on their environments whereas some people seem to always have happiness and health imparted by their surroundings.

In your home and environs, good Feng Shui helps create harmonious family relationships, fosters good health, revives energy and enthusiasm and even encourages fertility and good sex drive. In business it encourages prosperity and success. By changing your surroundings Feng Shui allows you to change your life for the better.

Because there are so many elements contributing to your environments, applying Feng Shui may initially seem to be a complex matter. However there are some basic, time honored remedies which will not involve anything more than simple efforts and little expense.

In some cases Feng Shui can be as simple as moving furniture around, changing the colors of your d?cor, hanging wind chimes and mirrors or placing leafy green plants at your home?s entrance.

As you start to adopt the principles of Feng Shui, you will begin to feel the difference. Described as the art of placement, Feng Shui is largely common sense and good design. It is important you take the time to listen to your intuition about what feels right and wrong rather than what you think is right because each and every situation is different and there are no strict foolproof formulas for you to apply.

A Feng Shui expert analysis would take into consideration the many different elements affecting your personal environment. For example they would look at how the energy of qi (chi) moves around your home: the position of your house: its surroundings : the shape of your land: the shape of your house: the directions of your rooms face- north south ,east or west: the location of each room- whether they are front , back or center: the shapes of your furniture and its placement : the d?cor of your home as well as the landscaping in your garden. They would also look at each of these in terms of the balance, of yin or yang and whether they are associated with the element of earth, fire, metal water or wood.

All of this may sound overwhelming but you do not have to become a Feng Shui expert overnight. You can take small steps. Sometimes major steps are required. Sometimes three are simple changes to be made. However as with life Feng Shui is more of an attitude, a process than one simple swoop.

Lastly as in life some changes in Feng Shui tactics can have profound effects whereas others changes may result in more limited results. And if often is a personal choice resulting differing effects from case to case as well as effect of specific time and place.

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