Everything Matters: A Feng Shui Way to Look at Life

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | December 2, 2008

The Power and Purpose of Winter

What do your front door, your career (life purpose) and winter have in common?

The Power—and Purpose—of Winter

Do you bound out of bed each day eager to get to your life’s work? Do you awaken each day rested, joyful, and eager to live it and do what is your true vision and love? If not, there could be many reasons but none of them is good enough to allow that pain to continue. One way to begin to change the energy in your life is to learn to use Winter in its sacred and Ancient way.

Winter’s Purpose

Winter has a purpose other than to torment or thrill us. In autumn, associated with the Feng Shui element of Metal, the air is dry and crisp; the wind picks up and acts to cleanse the trees of leaves and dead branches. It’s natural that we to feel the urge to clean, purge, organize and take up mental pursuits. All of nature is condensing as if to get ready for the inward movement to the stillness of winter.

There is treasure buried deeply in winter. For thousands of years, humans have used winter to go inside, repair, rest and mend and return to stillness, entering what Feng Shui calls a yin state of rest, reflection and spiritual connection.

But wait: our modern digital world doesn’t stop (unless nature’s efforts shut down the power grid). Everything in our world seems to be on high volume 24/7/365; non-stop activity is pace of life today and it is toxic to career and life fulfillment.

The good news

In Feng Shui, the area of your home associated with winter also influences the flow of your life—the depth that allows us to connect to silence. Those long, dark winter nights have a healing purpose to reconnect us to our Life’s Purpose and nourish our inner Light: we get to evaluate our Self, our career, our performance and our direction and renew our connection with our own life’s purpose: one step back and 3 steps forward. If you are experiencing lack of opportunity, questioning your life’s purpose, or having career troubles start here.

The really good news

Feng Shui is a lot like ‘house psychology:’ your life and your home are a metaphorical match when seen through Feng Shui eyes.

Let’s take a look at your front door. Doors in general open us to opportunity and should be beautiful, work perfectly and open completely onto a beautiful view, inside and outside.

Your front door is of major importance as it serves many Feng Shui purposes: inviting vital life force to your home, life and career, it is a sentry with a watchful eye, announcing who you are, what is important to you and what guests can expect when you open the door.

Your front door is known as the Mouth of Ch’i. Do you use it daily?

Most of us don’t use our front doors daily, some don’t use them ever. This is equivalent to going through life with your hand over your mouth and nose. No fresh breath enters your body, and no freshness enters your life and your home if you don’t use your front door. [Note: your front door is the door with which your address is associated, not the back door or garage door you might use all the time.] Open your door daily, make certain it works perfectly and is beautiful; you’ll have greater health, increased opportunities and a happier life flow and career.

Use your front door and use Winter to spend some time in quiet contemplation, delve deeply into your heart and find your passion and true potential, you will soon be flowing in beautiful stream of life force. By using Feng Shui, you will reap the benefit of living in a sacred space that will align you with your Heart’s desires.

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | December 2, 2008

Put yourself in the Power Position

Put yourself in the

Power Position

You are the Master and Commander of your life. With a little awareness, you can reclaim your rightful place in your own life without a mutiny.

I call this the “Godfather” position. When I watched the movie The Godfather for the first time as a teenager, I was captivated and intrigued by the ceremony and care with which the “Wiseguys” set up a “sit down”. The seating position of the Godfather Mobster was carefully chosen so that he was in command and safe. A few years later, I discovered that was precisely what was described 5000 years ago in the ancient science of Feng Shui, I knew I was on to something powerful.

Let’s see if you are in the power position:

Furthest in the room, with a full commanding view of the entire room and the entrance to the room, back to a wall (feeling protected, no one can sneak up on you) not in line of “fire” between two doors or a door and a window or two windows. (The Godfather always had an emergency exit, but this is not something we’ll focus on here.)

The reason this is the first step is that when we feel safe and in control of our surroundings, we have seventy-five percent of the battle won. Safety is the foundation for your ability to create your life and what A. Maslow calls the “Hierarchy of Human Needs” leading you to full self-actualization, meaning, living your highest joy creating your particular contribution to humanity in peace and love. Sound too good to be true? It’s your birthright and we need you to be wrapping your work in joy.

Place your desk or your chair so you can see the door, protect your back, and don’t be between two doors or windows.

Not possible? Here comes the mirror part of the ‘smoke and mirrors’ of Feng Shui.

Place a mirror in front of you reflecting the space behind you. A small mirror placed in this way will allow you to feel more in control. Make sure that it is not reflecting a stack of work or a disgruntled co-worker: mirrors double what they reflect so be very careful when strategically placing your mirror.

More Feng Shui Steps for Success:

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | December 2, 2008

Feng Shui Your Cubicle (or office, desk, car, etc.)

Hate your work? Too tired to sleep?

Feng Shui Your Cubicle

(or Office, Desk or Car)

What if, with a few simple changes in your work environment, you could guarantee that you are more productive, more joyful, living your life’s purpose, healthier and wealthier? Would you care? Would it be okay with you if things were easy and good things came to you?

There are two places that you spend nearly 2/3 of your life. They are so powerful and affect you so directly that it can cause wealth or cause cancer. You spend approximately 1/3 of your life in your bedroom and 1/3 of your day in your office (or at work). Can you imagine sleeping so soundly and peacefully that when you awaken you are rested, healthy and excited to get out of bed each day.

Imagine looking forward to being at work, surrounded by unconditional support, excitement, a ‘can do anything’ attitude that supports your life on purpose. If you are not waking up joyful and excited to begin each day and head off to work, chances are your spaces aren’t supporting you and your passionate life.

If you hate your work or are too tired to sleep, you are killing yourself and the answer to that problem may be simpler than you think. Don’t worry about changing jobs or moving just now. Make a few changes to your space and the solutions will present themselves, either you will begin to love your work, or ‘out of the blue’ another opportunity will come to you. And before you can say “Bob’s your uncle,” you’ll begin to sleep better, deeper, feel healthier and more alive…if you are open to it.

Here are the steps:

The highest priority is to Be Happy. That’s easier said than done and making simple shifts to your space can help get you to “happy” and completely change your life, if you let it.

Many businesses have regulations about how much “personal stuff” you can have in your cubicle. Remember, it IS their business and they have contracted with you to help THEM. It’s not necessarily a two-way street. If you can realize that, you will once again own your power and ability to respond to yourself. Employers need to maintain control and some use décor and let you know who’s running the ship. Don’t fret. You can still be in control of your life.

When you take a paycheck, you are making a deal: your time in exchange for an opportunity. Once you get on board with that you can feel once again in control of your own life. Compromising is okay as long as you are aware of when it’s too much and take steps to handle it. If you feel like you are in slavery, you are giving up your will. When you see that it is YOU who makes the choice to be in this job while you make plans for your next step, you own your own life once again. Smile!

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | December 2, 2008

Office Feng Shui: Reduce Negative Influences

Office Feng Shui

Reduce negative influences

I’m talking about all of them. From the garden variety nasty co-worker, the endless details that eat up your time and your soul, the boss who’s agenda is to make life miserable for everyone to the Feng Shui ‘poison arrows’, the electromagnetic draining that challenges your immune system, the endless barrage of mindless details separate you from Nature, your Spirit and your Soul. Yik, I think I’ll go eat worms.

Physical negative influences: here are a few big ones:

Clutter. Clutter is one of our biggest drains on your vitality and profitability. Your time, and how you spend it result in the product and the income you produce. Begin right now to clear your clutter, organize your files. If you find it difficult, ask for help. Hire a professional organizer and you will save thousands of hours . This includes emails: turn off the email notification so that you can focus on one thing at a time and you’ll be more productive and happy.

Sharp desk corners, sharp wall edges: these are called “sha ch’i” in Feng Shui and are likened to poison arrows shooting at you consistently. Over time, they can cause physical illness and separation. The colors and shapes around us actually create ‘shape caused waves’ for better or for worse and we can place these things in our environment to act as cancellations of the negative energy hitting us. Place something between you and the sharp corner, soften it with plants, you can place artwork on either side of the corner, hang a tapestry or old-fashioned bell-pull over the corner. Traditional Feng Shui cure for this is to hang a red ribbon down the corner or, depending on where the corner is located, hang round faceted crystal (small on a 9” red ribbon) from the ceiling between you and the corner.

Fluorescent lighting will drain you. Natural lighting will counteract this a bit, see my article on the negative effects of fluorescent lighting. Art with scenes of nature will also help to counter balance this negative effect as will the color light blue. Plants will help to mitigate the negatives, provide more oxygen in the room and add life but there is a caution: make sure that the plants are always healthy and well cared for, no dried or dead plants.

Negative emotional influences:

Deepak Chopra, MD, (one of my teachers) tells us that a toxic relationship is the most poisonous of all toxins in your environment. Whether they are toxic clients, (How to Fire a Client) a boss, a partner or vendor, the relationships you have in business is energy that gets into your cells, your soul and your product. The more quickly you handle this toxin, the more quickly you’ll open the space for healthy relationships to enter.

You needn’t initiate conflict to solve a problem.

Intention

Rather than a confrontation, you can solve a problem with intention. Everything first begins on the energetic plane where thoughts are things. Dr. Wayne Dyer reminds us that intention is the dynamic power of the universe. At the start of your day set your intention to have a loving and peaceful day and that all negative and interfering influences will easily be directed away from you to their next highest good. You can also use this phrase to diffuse an issue that you haven’t been able to solve, “I give this to the Light of God. I fill myself and my space with the Love of God.”

This won’t remove your responsibility to kindly and clearly set your boundaries and practically handle your job. What it will do is allow you see the situation more clearly and have compassion for yourself and the other person. The situation will resolve or disappear. Is that okay with you?

Back it up with a physical cure:

Mirrors are very powerful items in Feng Shui. With your intention, place a small flat or concave mirror facing away from you toward the offending person or thing. As you place the mirror, use the phrase: “Good luck with that Over There.” (See the article on “What you send is What you get”).

More Feng Shui Steps for Success:

·        Put yourself in the power position.

·        Reduce negative influences

·        Bring in healthy and positive energy

·        Hire the Heavens: Invite Divine Assistance

·        Be happy

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | December 2, 2008

Bring in Healthy and Positive Ch’i

One quick way to bring in healing energy to your office or home, is to add some nature. Nature is the ultimate healing machine. It’s not easy to open a window and bring in the “outdoor open spaces” but you can still benefit from Nature’s bounty by adding beautiful natural scenes around you.

Says Feng Shui: a soft and gentle mountain range behind you, a wide and beautiful vista in front of you will bring healthy energy to your day. However, don’t put the mountain in front of you or you might find you have a more difficult time of it, like having to scale a mountain every day.

If you can, put some healthy plants around you. Silk plants are second best, plastic and dried arrangements are decaying ch’i—don’t use them.

Flowing water can help to sooth you, a clean and healthy fish tank or a fountain that is calming and flowing toward the center of the room, will have a positive effect on your health and profitability. Make sure that the noise is not offensive to you or others around you.

As often as you can, take your breaks to get outside and/or meditate. Even taking a moment to slowly breathe in, filling your belly with fresh air and breathe out, cleansing yourself of stress, tension and toxins, is a healthy alternative. Any of this will provide a reconnection to bring you into alignment with your Life Force, re-ignite your creativity, help you focus and inspire your sacred work.

Healthy energy in and around you will bring you success and happiness. Nature shows us the power of the small to produce great wealth: a thousand forests come from one little apple. Your goodness is coming to you with each breath you take.

More Feng Shui Steps for Success:

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | December 2, 2008

“Hire the Heavens”: Invite Divine Assistance

“Hire the Heavens”
Invite Divine Assistance

Here is a huge secret: you have the ability to tap into the same energy that is working for the movers and shakers of your world, whomever that is. Want to be a better musician? Want to be a more savvy investor? Would you like your own secretary, time manager, a business manager, a mentor?

I first came across this information 10 years ago through Stuart Wilde. In his book, Infinite Self, Stuart explains that the energy that inspired all the greatest people that ever walked the planet is still around and accessible in this moment. The energy that inspired Solomon, Socrates, Aristotle, Einstein, Ben Franklin, The Pharoahs, you name it, is running through you now and it’s yours to claim for the asking.

Read Jean Slater’s book: Hire the Heavens. In it, Jean makes it easy to learn just how to tap into the resources you have waiting to serve you. She tells you that you have an unlimited account to hire the best in the Universe, whatever and whoever you need to help you. I have done this and it has made my life work in uncanny ways.

For instance, I “hired” my committee and have meetings daily and weekly. Do I sound certifiable? Just listen: on my heavenly Board of Directors I placed a time manager. Since then, if accidently double book myself, if I have appointment slots open, if I need to meet a deadline, it always has resolved itself without my pushing or straining. The double bookings? One of them calls to reschedule at the last minute. Doesn’t mean I can go brain dead about life, just that with awareness and request for Divine Assistance, things always work out.

I keep hearing stories about others using their “parking angels.” I have been doing this for years and it really works. The key: calmly ask that you have a parking space exactly where you’d like it. If it doesn’t work at first, don’t give up, just don’t forget to ask and soon you’ll be amazed. I have also heard about “green light angels,” “enough money Angels,” the list goes on. The point is, you have more support around you right now than you can imagine–so, get to imagining!

Here is an uncanny example:

One day in mid-May, it was my turn to provide the snacks for my sons’ Varsity tennis match. I gathered the items, packed them in the car and went to the field where I thought the match was. As I pulled up, everything seemed just as I expected it and the Coach said, “Oh good, you got the email, I called but I had the wrong number and I was concerned that you wouldn’t have gotten the message that the match was at home and not away.” All I could do was laugh! In my mind the match was ‘at home’ but it was originally scheduled as ‘away’ match. I would have driven 40 miles out of my way, but my time manager was on it and rearranged the whole thing. Dumb luck? Oh sure. But the point is: it always works out like this now! Try it!

More Feng Shui Steps for Success:

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | December 2, 2008

How to Be Happy

Want to ‘be happy’? Well the trick is to find a way to feel happy. If that made you nuts, just read on.

If you have even one ear to the ground on the newest rumbling in the spiritual community, you will know that the key to manifesting whatever it is you want is to Be Happy.

We are told that to wait for the outside to make us happy is to wait for a long, fruitless occupation. Think about it, who would you rather be around, someone who is waiting for you to make them happy or someone who is just enjoying themselves, smiling and being “Happy.”

Carol Tuttle, an amazing energy healer says we are living our lives backwards. The current model is: HAVE – DO – BE. Explained: “what do I HAVE to DO to BE happy, loved, healthy, wealthy, you fill in the blank. “

Carol says is that this is directly opposed to our birthright of freedom.

We need to BE – DO – HAVE. Be (happy, loved, healthy—feel it in all your cells) , then DO (what is put in front of us) and we will HAVE (whatever we want!) That’s a universal guarantee.

It’s the same as Jack Canfield (author of Success Principles and Chicken Soup for the Soul). Jack tells of the power of acting “AS IF” you already have what it is that you say you are wanting. His book, Success Principles, tells of a “Come as you Will Be” party where all the invitees prepared themselves to appear as they hoped they would in 5 years. In five years time, nearly all of them had met those goals.

It’s the same as Esther Hick’s reminder that all we need to do is “let it in”…let in the goodness rather than acting like Ninja warriors fending off all the goodness the Universe is sending us. Throwing Ninja stars of “but, can’t, shouldn’t” we can open our arms and breathe in the “of course,” “I’m allowing it,” and if you can’t get to that then “just get off the subject all together” and think of something happy.

To help you Be Happy and act “As If”, set up your office and home to remind your subconscious of all that it is that you are creating. Pictures and words, clarity and organization all put the feeling into your cells so that you become an attractor magnet for the situations you are wanting to live.

Can’t muster “Happy”? Try Gratitude. Then Appreciation. Then Love.

Feelings have frequencies and when you can hold a high frequency feeling, you are ‘vibrating’ at a level that will draw to you only good things. To get to the highest frequency, which is love, may take some travel through feelings to get there.

First try Gratitude. Finding things to be thankful for will start to raise your frequency. It may take a few minutes, but try it like this: Well, the good news is: then look for some good news. It may be a simple as: “The good news is I am still breathing.” If even that’s not good news, try a smile. Then the good news will be “my face still works.” When you find things to be grateful for, you begin to resonate the a much higher frequency of energy.

It doesn’t mean that by being grateful you are giving in or giving up on yourself. What it does mean is that you are now more powerful than you have been when you were hating. You have risen to the level of self-determination and expansion. It’s the grease that the Universe uses to move you to your next step.

Take it up a notch to appreciation and you’ll be at the highest frequency we can get to: appreciation and love. The frequency of love is a key that unlocks the treasure chest of what is available to you. Just think of the most beautiful thing you can think of; try these: a kitten, a puppy, a still night sky, aura borealis, the smell of fresh rain, this song (Claire De Lune, by Debussy—my favorite). Make it a habit to get to that space as often as you can and then while there, put your vision of your perfect life right in the middle of it. You’ll be amazed because you’ll be meeting your heart’s desire in no time.

Each day you spend approximately 1/3 of it in your bedroom and 1/3 in your office. Another 2 hours are spent in transit from place to place. That leaves 5 to 6 hours to ‘do what you want to do’. What if all 24 hours were spent renewing yourself and living the ‘doing what you want to do’? Use a little Feng Shui wisdom and you will soon be enjoying your moments that stream into enjoying your days and enjoying your life.

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | October 26, 2008

Good News for Real Estate: Facts You Don’t Know

Good News for Real Estate:

Facts You Don’t Know

From Kathe Barge: the best Agent in Western PA:

“Hi everyone,

Just wanted to share some great Pittsburgh Real Estate news that was released to us today at our regional Realtor’s meeting!

Don’t believe what you hear in the national media – all is well here in Pittsburgh’s real estate market! This data will all be in my next newsletter, but it was such great data that I wanted to get the word out!

Pittsburgh’s real estate prices are up almost 1% this year. While this may not seem like much, it is reflective of how stable our market is and has been. We have not seen a down year yet amongst all of the national turmoil. Tell your friends! Our listing inventory is down 8% over last year. What this means is that we have fewer homes to sell.

So why does everyone keep asking about all of the for sale signs they see? There are actually fewer for sale signs – people are just noticing them more thanks to our national media! This is a great number – in DC inventory is up 123%, for example, and in parts of Florida inventory is up over 500%. This does help us all put into perspective why the news nationwide is so bad!

Our available supply of homes (in Pittsburgh) is well below the national average. We currently have an 8.5 month supply of inventory on the market. While that may sound like a lot, it is actually well below the national average of 11.5 months. And in Miami, for example, they have an 8 year inventory of listings available for sale— in Naples, a 5 year inventory. Again, these numbers really do put into perspective how stable Pittsburgh’s market is.

We do have PLENTY of mortgage money available. Here at Howard Hanna, the company has guaranteed no less than $125 Million a month to make mortgages. Yes, buyers need to be able to show that they can actually afford the monthly payments and have decent credit, but beyond that, we have what it takes to get these deals done.

Finally, the PMI Risk Index, recently released by a group of national economists, calculated the risk of prices dropping in the net 2 years. Their report shows that there is less than a 1% chance that Pittsburgh prices will drop in the next 2 years and greater than 99% chance that Pittsburgh’s prices will continue to increase. What a great investment Pittsburgh real estate is!

Can you imagine a financial planner telling you he is 99% certain that you will make money on your portfolio in the net 2 years?! Compare that to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and many California markets, for example, where these same economists projected a 99% probability that the real estate markets would decrease in prices over the next 2 years!

It is true that inventory seems to be moving a little more slowly than we are historically used to, primarily because the broad generalizations of the national media have eroded buyer confidence. But real estate is and always has been sold locally and we all need to focus on our local statistics.

In fact, a recent local study shows that in the past year, 45% of Sewickley Village homes have sold to people living in Sewickley already – your buyer may be right under our noses. So tell your friends. Share the good news. We all need to work together to help rebuild buyer confidence. They are missing out on a great time to buy!

As always, please call or email with any questions. I appreciate your business and your confidence in me. Kathe

Kathe Barge, CRS, ABR
Associate Broker
Howard Hanna Real Estate Sewickley
Phone: 412-741-2201 x238
EFax: 412-774-1825
Email: kbarge@howardhanna.com
Websites: www.kathebarge.com
www.kathleenbarge.howardhanna.com

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | October 26, 2008

The Best Work You Can Do All Day

Sleep: the Best Work you can do all day

If you think that 5 hours a night is all you need, you might be surprised to learn you are actually sleep deprived, operating with a diminished IQ, immune system and a decreased ability to be efficient or effective, impossible to show up as healthy in your relationships. All of which severely impair your ability to be effective, healthy, and happy.

Dr. Gary Feldman ( Sleep Basics for Children and Parents )

states that over 47 million American adults are what is termed ’sleep deprived’, not getting the 7-8 hours per night they need to function. Teenagers, need 9 hours per night and children need more, up to 16 hours per day for infants.
The BBC has a fun test (and a great website) where you can check your own response time to tell how sleep deprived you might be: Sheep Dash

Keys to good sleep:

– Get enough exercise in the day to expend excess energy, release and develop endorphins. Fresh air and nature help you sleep.
–   Establish a good daily routine and a good going-to-bed routine.
– Limit sugar, caffeine, white flour, and eating before bedtime.
– Create a calming, “wind down” phase and make it predictable
–   Limit video and audio input; instead read, meditate.
–   Be consistent.
–   Set up your bedroom for sleep success.

Feng Shui for good sleep:

Remember my article about the most important room in your home? Your bedroom is responsible for the most important activity of the day: sleep.

1.   Eliminate clutter in your room, especially from under your bed.
2.   Remove or cover mirrors, remove vibrant art work or artwork with water in it. Limit photos of people
3.   Remove electronics and Electro-magnetic affects. Eliminate computers, TV, etc. Place your clock and phone across the room.
4.    Monitor what you are feeding your brain before you go to bed.
5.   If your bedroom is above your kitchen or a garage, you could have sleep problems. Use the ‘mirror’ cure: place a round mirror under your bed (this will be easy because there is no other clutter there, right?) and face the reflective side down. With your intention say, “good luck with that down there, I draw the boundary for myself.”
6.   Avoid bright colors, patterns and bright lights; use calm tones; warm rich “flesh” tones (light yellows, beige to pinks, browns and cocoas) for enhancing relationships, cool tones (light green or blue) for distance and separation increasing independence.

Have a Teenager?

My research was initiated by my desire to learn how to stay connected to my teenage sons.

In his book Staying Connected to Your Teenager Michael Riera, Ph.D. states,

“given the current configuration of most school districts, teenagers are unintentionally set up to accumulate serious sleep debt, which in turn impinges on their moods, concentration, stress levels, and general ability to learn.” A conservative estimate is that teens, on a weekly basis accrue a sleep debt of about 13-15 hours. “Sleep experts agree that for every hour of sleep debt we accrue, we lose one point from our function IQ.”

PS: if you want to be available to connect with your teen, hang out in the kitchen after midnight–it’s when they are ready to blab away. Be sure you are doing something, not just waiting to ambush. Your best response: ‘ah-huh, oohhhh, hmmmm, really?” It seems like a good book; I plan to review it for you soon.

The Multitasking Virus and the End of Learning (part 1)

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | October 26, 2008

Multitasking: What you NEED to know

Multi-tasking: What you NEED to know.

Have you ever been around a little child who is engaged in what they are doing? Their focus is laser-like. Our society trains that out of us so it's up to us to put it back.

”Unfortunately, the human mind cannot, in fact, multi-task without drastically reducing the quality of our processing. Brain activation for listening is cut in half if the person is trying to process visual input at the same time. A recent study at The British Institute of Psychiatry showed that checking your email while performing another creative task decreases your IQ in the moment 10 points. That is the equivalent of not sleeping for 36 hours-more than twice the impact of smoking marijuana.”

The above quote was excerpted from a beautiful blog article by Timothy Ferriss, best-selling author of The 4-hour Work Week.

I recommend this article: It’s a surprise and very well written:

To get the most out of your day and life, learn how to manage yourself and learn about multitasking and time management fallacies, watch this great free video . It’s just plane good advice about how to be successful in life. Wake Up Productive

Quick start: You’ll need a routine that works for you daily: one you can do every day to create the persistence needed to build a great life. Here are some suggestions from the video, but it is really worth watching.

1. Clean Focus spans of 90-180 uninterrupted minutes. Eliminate interruptions: clutter, email, distractions, interrupting others-focus only on the task at hand.
2. Pulse: focus and then relax. Based on our bodies’ ultradium rhythm our natural cycle is a rhythm that occurs every two hours. (This is the basis of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s transition of energy from organ system to organ system. Every two hours is associate with vital energy nourishing a particular ‘organ system’ of the body.) The ability to have clean focus requires clean breaks: drop it, go outside, don’t think about it and then return refreshed.
3. Create Routines. We are creatures of routine. Create ones that strengthen you: In particular: how you start your day sets the tone. Get up, have a big drink of fresh water (add some lemon is you can), exercise (for a fresh mind and freed emotional body), sit in silence for 5-20 minutes, eat a healthy breakfast, read something renewing and you’ll be excited to live your best life.
4. Renew yourself. Take time off, at least 1-2 days a week and at least 1-2 weeks a quarter. You’ll be more productive, create more value in your life and more value for those around you. And for your sake, get enough sleep. (Read my article about how lack of sleep will ruin your life.)

You need a home that supports your routine and rituals for your day.

If your home and office do not create a background for your life that is supportive, you need to revise and use Feng Shui to help it–and you–flow better.

Where to start?

Watch yourself throughout your day, honestly. Where are you duplicating effort? Are you spending time looking for things, repeating motions, walking out of the way to get from one place to another?

Check out the Clear Your Clutter Weekly Plan to begin to look at yourself and your spaces differently. Go to my website and sign up for the plan. Then you can call me, we can start where you are and get you a plan that will work for you, your time and your budgets (emotional, physical and financial).

Let me know what you think.

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | October 26, 2008

The Good News Is:

A Policy of Non-Participation in Fear

“During the recent Hay House conference in Tampa, Louise Hay, Doreen Virtue and others passed the message of “no participation in media campaign of fear.

“It’s not always easy to take that position, like the day of 9-11 that touched my own life so directly as i was in Tower 1 that day. I can feel the climate of fear that is spread around by media and accepted as reality by many people.

“However our right is to live our lives without fear with expectation that we can create balance and harmony for all mankind.

“In particular in the times of tension it is so important to create our own feeling of well being and happiness. Whatever we feel in our hearts will be created in our life.”
(reported by Edwin Kuprienko, Soul Coach)

Let’s decide to isolate fearful feelings and release them. Focus on the present moment and what you can do in your own life to bring balance, peace and joy. Then we can have compassion for those who do not yet understand that.

‘Reality’ is as ephemeral as the clouds-we can choose to see whatever we’d like.

My sons’ Varsity Golf Team Coach is famous for his line: “the good news is–”

Look for the good news: it is always right there.

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | October 26, 2008

Ho’oponopono – Hawaiian Healing

Ho’oponopono-

I heard a fantastic story of a psychologist who was able to close the Ward for the Criminally Insane at the Hawaii State Mental Hospital because he used an Ancient Hawaiian Healing method to cure the ‘inmate patients’ who were healed and returned, without incident, to daily life in society.   I thought, yeah, yeah, I’m sure.

My friend, Spiritual Master Energy Worker, Tod Foster, introduced me to the book  Zero Limits, in which Joe Vitale tells how Ho’oponopono changed his life on a fundamental level. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Even though I read the book, no matter how “authentic” a story is, if I pass it on, I have to know it’s true. So I traveled to Philadelphia in August 08 to see Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, Ph.D. to experience this for myself. Joe was right: it shifted something fundamental inside me, in a very good way.

As soon as I signed up for the workshop I didn’t feel like the same person. It is almost as though something was working on me at a subconscious level.   When I paid my tuition, I could tell I was in for a major change in my life. What happened? I didn’t think the same way I was used to thinking-I was not the same old me, although I couldn’t put my finger on it-it was unusual, remarkable, but inexplicable and weird.

At the workshop, each of us was greeted personally by the sponsor of the workshop. I burst into sobbing tears. More weird. Energy workshop people are used to emotional releases, especially unexplained ones. The woman hugged me and said, “I’ll clean on it, too.” Another weird response-

Clean on it
”Ever notice that when there is a problem, you are there to witness it?” He didn’t say “Clean it,” he said “clean on it.” There’s a huge Karmic difference in that distinction.     The ‘deal’ with Ho’oponopono is that you are the center of your experience and that everything in your awareness is yours. That gives you the right to clean it up as long as you own it as your experience. If you blame another, say it’s ‘their fault’, infringe on others’ rights to do their lives the way they do it, try to ’save’ them, you are taking on heavy karma.

So here is the distinction: now that you own it-it is yours and that ownership then gives you the right to clean it from your reality, from your body and experience. You are noticing it (whatever ‘it’ is) as being a block between you and the Divine, keeping you from experiencing the full glory and abundance, forgiveness and peace in the NOW.

Then, as soon as you remember: say to The Divine the Ho’oponopono words: “I love you. Thank you (for allowing me to erase this from the world).” Sometimes it goes away immediately, sometimes it takes longer. But you just keep “cleaning,” all the time, to everything (hint, hint-everything: even chairs, toilets, walls, rooms-just as in Feng Shui, the Hawaiian’s know that everything is energy and everything is alive with that energy). “I love you. [I'm sorry. Please forgive me.] Thank you.”

Did he cure those inmates?

He tells the story very factually as though it were a serious of inexplicable coincidences. For twenty hours a week, from his office at the Hospital, he would read the charts of the patients and ‘clean on them’. He never even ’saw’ a patient. He explains that he would ‘find’ the place in him that was reacting or holding that person and the judgment of the crime or criminal or victim in his (Dr. HL’s) reality. Dr. HL would perform a “Ho’oponopono” and just keep doing it. Not stopping or thinking, he’d just “clean on it.” Within a few months the employees were no longer fearful for their lives, sick days lessened, people were happier. Within 6 months, inmates were no longer in shackles. Within one year, work release programs were started up. Within 3 years, there was no reason for the ward to be open. That was his response. (“Just the facts, ma’am.”)

The mind wants to ask questions. How? What if? Shouldn’t? How can you just? Why? “I don’t know, clean on it,” he would say. Any time someone would ask a question, there was a 95% probability they’d get that response. By the end of the weekend, we could see how much time we each spend in the past and future, running around trying to justify, playing catch-our-tail to make it reasonable, rational and ‘right.’ And we saw how little experience we have with living in the right NOW. Just clean on it.   The hardest part is to allow yourself to continue to accept a positive situation–accept forgiveness. Yikes! Is that scarey? Try it: how long can you be ‘happy’? Just keep saying, “I love you” to everything and everyone.

Because he’s been performing this method in his life for so long, there is a field of energy around him. Being near him or even thought about by him, he is cleaning and you are changed. We learned that when you sign up for a conference, Dr. HL is given your name on a card and he “cleans on it” clearing everything that comes up in him while he’s focusing on you. I guess that’s why I was feeling weird-I was being healed.

What are we ‘cleaning’? The collective memories.
We are all hardwired to be love, loved and loving, loveable. It’s what we are: Love. But we have experienced and be taught otherwise. For thousands of years, our ancestors (and now) we have been reacting to and acting out ‘memories’ of eons of negativity, judgment, pain, etc.

Raising children I know this to be true: we are taught nearly everything. “Clean, Erase, Erase, Return to Source.” as written in Joe Vitale’s book.

As Dr. HL calls it, “the 11 million ‘memories’” are guiding our reactions, “memories” we don’t even ‘remember’ because they are imbedded in our systems, DNA, environment, conversations, perceptions, beliefs that we didn’t come up with but continue to pluck the note of separation from love. Ho’oponopono works to erase those false memories and return our bodies and minds to Love.

You can’t know and you don’t have to know.
Why? Because it’s like going through the clutter in your home, you pick it up, your look at it, roll it around, make a decision about it, remember the memories, bring the memories into the present, visit the past (pleasant or not), then make another decision about it and then move on to the next “memory”. All the while, you are not experiencing the Divine NOW, you are somewhere else.

When you discover that if you are in the present, you see that so much more opens up to you. You don’t respond from patterns or predictions, you can flow with the Divine inspiration, connected to your heart and soul: your internal guidance system. When you get to the point when everything you think and feel is LOVE, it’s not important to be anywhere other than NOW. Now here. No where. Now Here. Love. Dr. HL said if you just say “I love you, thank you” you’ll be doing all you need to do. Sometimes I do both, many times I use his other methods too.

How To
Try this: see how you feel when you say: I love you. I love you. Keep saying it until you feel so expanded and open and alive, sparkling with golden sparkles of Love. When you are in this state, you are allowing yourself to attract the love you deserve. Stay there. Stay ‘in love’ and think only of the good things that you want to experience. Experience your best wishes, feel it, imagine it. I love you. I love you. I love you.

Hawaii, Candy canes and more

The “I love you” method is the easiest way to get things done. But there’s more. Just as Dr. Hew Len recieved Ho’oponopono through oral transmission, there is an energy component to being shown the methods by a master. I believe that is why we are not permitted to share the methods. Everything is sacred (notice the similarity in these words: sacred / secret).

We shown the methods and given a binder filled with healing methods, 2 days of visuals and images that are meant to act as facility for healing all parts of a mind, body and soul. We also received a manual with Ancient Hawaiian methods, updated for today that we agreed to not translate or transfer to maintain its purity. What I can tell you: there is beauty and magic all around you, just keep saying “I love you” and it will show itself to you.

For instance, the Hawaiian language carries a sacred call to the Divine. The word Hawaii means: “The Breath & the Water of Divinity.” [Ha=breath, Wai (pronounced VIE)=water, I=Divinity] Hmm: Feng Shui: wind, water. Hmm. Just saying the word ”Hawaii,” can change your energy. Try it, how does it feel?

Right now, as you are reading this, I am “cleaning on” you. I am asking that whatever negativity might be affecting you, be cleaned. “I love you, I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you.” This isn’t directed to you, I am talking to the Divine. There’s a reality I see–a memory–and I’m taking responsibility for it because I can see it, feel it and heal it. I am saying it to the Divine and releasing it from both of us.

You never have to (and don’t want to) go into the feeling of guilt, shame, supplication or subordination-stay in Love. When I come across any shame, guilt, fear, judgment, I try to remember to “Clean, Erase, Erase, Return to Source” or just say “I love you. Thank you.” It takes awareness because it’s all layered and sneaks up on you like a negative thought.

I love you=Appreciation. Thank you=Gratitude. They are different and you can learn about it on this video by Esther Hicks.
Next time: My Weekend with Dr. Hew Len and The Kieki

There is a Weekend Seminar for Ho’oponopono on November 8 & 9 in DC. Check their website for more info and other workshops throughout the world.

For more Information, please call
Patricia Leolani Hill
1 (202) 584-5703
email: patricialeolanihill@hotmail.com
Or
Visit their website at
www.self-i-dentity-through-hooponopono.org

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | October 26, 2008

What Happens When—

–You are Forgiven, totally, for everything and anything. Slate wiped clean. Start fresh. What does that feel like?

–You are As fit as you want to be? Thin, your clothes glide over your body, spring is in every step, your skin glows and your eyes sparkle?

–You can’t wait to get to work each day to show your stuff, to push stuff around and be totally effective and enjoyable?

–Coming home is fun, restful, rejuvenating, you love the style and location of your home, your furnishings are just perfectly designed for you, the colors support you and the smells and textures delight your senses. Your Bed is restful and linens are so rich and juicy?

–Your mate smiles when you come near, you talk and laugh, enjoy each other and work together building and loving your family.

–Your children are healthy, happy, expressing their talents and looking forward to each day spent getting better and enjoying nature and their friends.

–Your parents are healthy and vital and enjoying their friends and pursuits, happy to see you living your own fabulous life.

What happens then? More of the same I think.

Let’s make it happen.

This little joy-filled interlude has just programmed your future.

Repeat it often, the moment you are living now IS your life.

Law of Attraction Video Part 1 of 5

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | October 26, 2008

Money is Energy — How do you run yours?

Two things I have to pass along about the currents of feelings/thoughts/media floating around in our environment:

1. Your body is a giant two-way radio. You can tune into anything and you do. When you are tuning in to the current media and conversations about life today, tell me how you feel? Do you feel powerful? Effective? Happy? Hopeful? You are receiving and broadcasting the same channel. Is it time to switch?

If you don’t want more of what you have, tune into something else. I do. I trust fully that I get all the information that I need and I get it, just when I need it.

2. You are money. That’s right, here’s the deal: Money is energy. In fact, everything is energy, including you. Where you spend yourself is the same place that you spend your money. Watch where you spend your money and you will know, without a doubt, where you are spending your energy.

Do you value yourself? Then you are probably really clear about how you doll out your money. Do you give yourself away? Then you are probably always trying to make ends meet. Do you think someone owes you something or you owe someone for your existence? Are you trying to get ‘approval’ from others? Then you probably have credit issues.

In a conversation with my dear friend, Don, he told me how he was able to run, for 10 years, a successful business without using OPM. I said, “Great. What’s that?”

“Other People’s Money.” It clicked for me that we are now learning how to run use our own energy instead of OPM.

If you are not surefooted in your ability to use your energy and your own money, you can get there easily.

1. Forget attaching money to self-worth. Money is not a measure of your worth. Do you need to hear that again? Money has nothing to do with how valuable, loveable and worthy you are. You are so precious, and every breath you take is free. You may have heard this before but I hope you hear it now: You are hear on Divine Whim and Will. That gives you worth. No one calculates how many breaths you took today, when you are running, you don’t get charged for taking more air. You are loved and your life matters. Remember: money is just energy. It’s free. in fact, everything is free. Where we get confused is in the personal exchange of our energy between us. Let’s work on you first.

2. Clear the clutter from your life. Money needs to flow, gently accumulate in your life and move around. Money is called currency because it has to move and flow. Clutter is stagnant energy, blocking flow. Emotional clutter, social clutter, mental clutter, physical clutter, these all create blocks. Pare down so you can flow more.

3. The Feng Shui Gua associated with Wealth and Prosperity is called Persistent Wind. Meaning your wealth is always flowing toward you, make space for it and receive it–all. From your front door, what is in the furthest left hand corner of your property, rooms and desk? What does it look like and remind you of? Open, clean, upward moving energy and wealth? If not, make it so.

4. Make your home a reminder of clarity, happiness and acceptance of your beauty. Clean your windows, they provide clarity and vision. Keep your hallways and stairways open and clear, fully moving the energy through them with joy. Ring a clear bell throughout your home, send love and light on the ringing tones. (I even bought a pair of “Lucky” brand jeans–they help me feel lucky, that’s the point.)

5. Entice the Life Force back into your life. Open the center of each room and your desk. Open the door and invite fresh energy in. Appreciate what you have. “Appreciate” in financial terms means to increase in value–did that connect a few dots? Place something golden yellow, square or rectangular in the center of your table and make it gloriously beautiful, let it make you smile.

Money Is a Thought-form

When we were removed from the “Gold Standard” in the UK and US we actually moved further into the era of money as a thought. (See Gold Standard Article)

Now, money is really just a thought-form: a bunch of squiggles and electrons flying around the planet. By the Law of Attraction, you can be sure that those electrons are being attracted or repelled by what you are feeling.

When you notice this system really working for you it will look like this: you will be doing your heart’s desire, daily doing the special thing that is what makes you feel great, effective and following your internal promptings to speak up, talk to her or him, go make that, etc. When you are doing your ‘you-work’ you will discover that money shows up because that is how it all happens. Heidi Klum is one of the richest celebrities in the world, and when she read Forbes magazine claiming that she said, “how did that happen?” She was just moving along doing her work, following her guidance and bam! Happy, healthy, wealthy. That’s how it happens.

Where is your energy? What are you vibrating? What is your attention on? Call those money squiggles to you by loving yourself, love your body, open your vision to accept. (I actually thought the Pythagorean Ogdoad Sacred Symbol for Abundance into each of my cells: it looks like a glowing golden infinity sign–you can do it too.)

The biggest challenge is to allow yourself to always be happy.

Try it: How long can you hold a happy feeling in your awareness? When you do, you are sending out the signals of peace, bliss and abundance. Who would you rather be around? Someone who is complaining and fearful or someone who is happy and positive? Do what you can right now, feel into the next positive step, and love the heck out of everything around you.

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | August 11, 2008

The Only Law on the Planet – My Favorite Videos

The Only Law on the Planet

The Law of Attraction is really the only law on the planet. Even ‘gravity’ isn’t a ‘law’ as evidenced by the ‘yogic flying’ that is a practice associated with Transcendental Meditation. I can honestly say that I experienced this and it was the freakiest, most incredible experience. I’ll tell you about that later.

Feng Shui and the Law of Attraction, explain that everything is interconnected. Everything. Feng Shui, in its wisdom, places you in the center of your world, as we see on the Bagua. So does the Law of Attraction. It’s all about you and you can have everything your heart desires.

The Hardest Part You’ll Ever Do

“Find something to be happy about. The End.”

Most Americans, most people, cannot just sit around and do nothing, so there’s little fear that we’ll be so “heavenly that we’re of no earthly value”. The point is, no matter what you are doing, love doing it and in no time at all, you will be loving what you are doing and doing what you love.

Thinking and Feeling are the Keys

When you understand that you are vibration, and everything else around you is vibration, then you are in the driver’s seat because then you can start to choose a feeling and a thought and a place or an experience that you want to experience.

Don’t think of a Pink Elephant.

What popped into your head? The importance of this little exercise is tp show you that what you focus on is what begins to become your reality. “Everytime you shout “YES” to that which you want, you are bringing it toward you. Everytime you shout “NO” to that which you do not want, you are bringing it toward you.” Esther Hicks

The Importance of Your Spaces

Your environment is energy. For the most part, you are probably unaware of most of what is affecting you in your home and office. All of this is vibrating and either moving your energy up or moving your energy down. What is around you is what is helping you create your life. Feng Shui helps you rearrange your spaces so that you are more and more asking for that which you do want, for your happy and fulfilled, exciting or peaceful, rich and abundant life.

The Law of Attraction as explained by Esther Hicks is the most comprehensive, consistent and loving explanation of what we are and what we can be. There are many other people saying this in many different ways. Esther Hicks was one of the first of our generation. Biblical reminders abound. How you feel, creates your reality, as this one quoted from Dr. Wayne Dyer’s book: The Power of Intention reminds us: “all things whatsoever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them and you shall receive them.” [Mark 11:24] Read page 18. So, what you believe, what you see around you and what you feel is what you will receiving more of–time to change a few things?

I Just Love to Listen to These

I listen to these often because they keep me on track and joyful and help me help you.

With all my love, I hope you enjoy these:

Abraham, speaking through Esther Hicks, delivers a 5-part introduction to their teachings on The Law of Attraction at a February, 2008 Abraham-Hicks Law of Attraction Workshop. The complete presentation runs 40 minutes. You must enable popups for this page in order to view the Law of Attraction video clips.

Below I have included links to YouTube where you’ll be able to see the other videos from Esther that I love.

If you cannot enable popups for some reason, below I have included the links to YouTube where these also appear.

Abraham describes how interpreting vibration relates to the Law of Attraction and how desire evokes the vibrational escrow of law of attraction.

Law of Attraction Video Part 2 of 5

Abraham describes how law of attraction translates “blending” with Nonphysical; in other words, how personal alignment relates to law of attraction. As well, Abraham explains how thoughts create a set point for law of attraction.

Law of Attraction Video Part 3 of 5

Abraham tells a story of origin that explains how law of attraction fits and expresses through everyone’s unique intentions and how law of attraction expands thought through the experience.

Law of Attraction Video Part 4 of 5

Abraham explores how the emotional guidance system relates to law of attraction as well as how the metaphor of “going with the flow” applies to law of attraction.

Law of Attraction Video Part 5 of 5

Abraham explores how the emotional guidance system relates to law of attraction as well as how the metaphor of “going with the flow” applies to law of attraction.

Beautiful Video

If you are inclined, check out her messages at

www.Abraham-Hicks.com

or at YouTube, for Free.

Here are the ones I like to watch:

Appreciation vs. Gratitude

The Stream

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | August 10, 2008

Script Your New Day

How to Write a New Script So That Miracles Occur

“If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always gotten.” Albert Einstein

By the time you finish reading this post, you will have begun powerful changes in your life. Start each new day this way and you won’t have time to be amazed because you’ll be having so much fun.

The Old Script Has GOT to Go

We have thousands and thousands of thoughts that go through our heads each day. Most of those thoughts, about 95%, are the same thoughts you thought yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that.

About 85% of those same old thoughts are limiting, demeaning, self-deprecating, and negative. And, it doesn’t stop when we dream.

All those thoughts become the script of our lives. Our homes and offices help to keep those scripts in place. There’s good news. We can change the scripts, change our spaces and either/both will change our lives.

The few moments between sleep and wakefulness are magical moments. Of course, all moments are magical, but these are ones that, in our current state of ‘doing the day’ seem to be the closest we actually get to the magical flow. So I am using those moments, scripting them and it has worked. I want to show you how to do it, too.

My Script

My post New Book Finds on My Nightstand, I posted the script from Carol Tuttle’s book, Remembering Wholeness. It’s a great book and she’s a wonderful Energy Therapist, I recommend you Check her out. But her script, although beautiful, wasn’t what I wanted for my own life so I wrote my own.

I keep this on my bedside table and each morning and each evening I read it. I also have one on my desk that I can glance at throughout the day. Periodically, I adjust things here and there, but I have to tell you: it works.

A Much Better Script

Here is my script:

Good morning. (usually have the tune of “Oh What A Beautiful Morning” rolling through my head and heart) I am so lucky, I am so happy with how eaily my day goes. Everything in my life flows smoothly, easily, and happily. It is as if the Universe knows who I am and what I want and things flow to me in such a timely way. It is as if I’m dancing with the Universe. It’s easy for me to choose those actions and things that bring me the most joy and align me with the greatest potential to live my true potential.

Every morning I wake up infused with the energy of well-being at exactly the perfect time for me to begin my day. I am rested, refreshed and filled with love. I am so glad to be alive. I can hardly wait to exercise my body . I am healthy and perfectly fit.

I am thankful for each moment I can spend with my children,. When they awaken, they are joyful and happy to be alive, rested, healthy and eager to join in the day and live their full potential. We have such fun interacting with one another. We laugh and embark upon our day together–positively anticipating what will unfold and expecting marvelous things to happen, great and small surprises, gifts from Universe every day. I love being a Mom. I ask that I be given opportunities to show and tell my children how special they are to me, to tell them how much I love them and to guide them through their lives toward fulfillment, peace and pleasure.

As I go through my day, it’s a lovely time. I see beautiful nature, beauty in everyone I meet. I so much appreciate all the wonderful people in my life. I love to see their smiles and joy. I love and appreciate everyone I meet. Just by being around them, my joy helps their lives go more smoothly. So much well-being abounds. As I travel through my day ; I always listen to my inner guidance and know just the perfect way to travel, the perfect speed and the perfect route, traffic flow is smooth and easy, I send sparkles of love and peace, harmony and laughter ahead of me on the roadways as if they were a ribbon of love, light and healing. I love new surprises that come, my ability to move with them, and the inspiration tht comes to me effortlessly.

I listen and my guidance moves me to the highest opportunities for joy and to do my work, to help others live the bliss and happiness that is just a frequency away. I am so thankful to be able to align with my Divine Guidance and my High Self. I ask that I be cleared, cleansed and aligned with the Divine, that my chakras and energy systems be balanced and that all my relationships be clear of negativity and infused with clarity, joyful communication, understanding, respect, love and laughter. I love connecting with the Infinite Power and Knowledge of my life, I love the joy of the unfolding.

My Universal manager, and my Universal committee are always working to align me with my greatest potential and opportunities for success. My Universal secretary takes care of everything, feeding it to me with grace and ease; my day goes smoothly and I am always pleased with the wonderful surprises. (Here I usually insert something that I’d like to see or recieve like: my sons smiling with me or succeeding in school or with friends, I see an animal that I have never seen before, # new clients each week , huge sums of money from expected and unexpected places or whatever I would like to bring into reality.)

I see all my current, past and future clients thriving. I am so happy that I can help others make positive differnce in their own lives. The people that come to me are thriving because I help them see the power inside them; Divine Guidance comes through me giving my clients exactly what they need to joyfully create their best lives. I love remembering to tune in and I am excited by how perfect everything unfolds. Most I love knowing that I can participate in anything I want to participate in. I love knowing I have infinite choices. Thank you for this beautiful day.”

How to create your own script:

Copy and paste this one into a document and change whatever you’d like to change. Give attention to your health, your wealth, your roles (family, friends and work), and what you are grateful for. Don’t be shy about appreciating the ‘things’ you have been asking for, but it’s a great idea to analyze as well the feelings underlying the ‘things’. You may be wanting a new job, new mate, new car, new clothes, new body, but the feelings under that may be: more freedom, happy relationship, no worries, self-confidence, or self-esteem. You can have both; when you are grateful for the feelings, the things come more easily. Your Divine Self sees you as perfect now, when you start to love yourself in that way, miracles flow through you and to you.

The key: phrase it in such a way as though you have it now and love it. No matter what you have or don’t have in your current experience, be thankful and craft your script so that you are thankful that you already have what it is that you are creating.

For instance:

Not good: I love anticipating all the positive changes in my life. (This will put you in the mode of constant anticipation)
Better: Each day I am healthier and richer and more wise.

Feel free to send me your draft and I’ll critque it for you. Between the two of us, you can be sure that your ’script’ will see you living your best life in each and every ‘now’ moment.

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | August 10, 2008

Lunch And Learn and Free Feng Shui at Your Home

Lunch And Learn & Free Feng Shui at Your Home

Many employers are helping their employees reduce stress and enjoy their lives more with a wonderful series called, Lunch and Learn.

During the Lunch Hour, for 45 minutes, employees are invited to experience wonderful topics while enjoy lunch. They return back to work refreshed and invigorated, eager to make easy changes to be more efficient, productive, and healthy. Everyone beneifts.

If you would like to know more about how Feng Shui can bring you more clients, easier work day, increase your wealth, get you the promotion, eliminate negative energy and more, ask your employer to call me. We’ll get the whole office buzzing with good energy and great information that you can also use at home.

I am offering a free hour of personal Feng Shui at your home for each Lunch and Learn session that we schedule through you.

It’s a Win-Win-Win!

Some topics include:

How to be more productive with Feng Shui
Feng Shui your Cubicle: Change Your Life
Feng Shui and Your Health
Harmony and Prosperity in the Office
Change your Office, Change your Bottom Line
Easy Steps to Employee Harmony

I love what I do. My goal is to help every worker in American (ok, the world) to bound out of bed, love to go to work, be productive and amazed at how easily the clients, money and fun flow to them and then go home and delight in the extra free time they have to enjoy their families and friends.

That’s my goal. Wanna play?

Fawn

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | August 10, 2008

Bedroom Feng Shui: The Most Important Room in Your Life

The Most Important Room In Your House

The one room in your life that most affects your ability to be powerful, healthy, happy, and wealthy is….(drum roll) Your Bedroom. Face it: Where do you spend most of your time? And actually: Where are you most vulnerable in your home?

Feng Shui considers the energy of everything around you because your body reads it and responds to it, even if you are unaware.

Something's Wrong with this Bedroom

Your bedroom is where you refresh, renew, nourish your body, mind and soul, and attend to your relationships with yourself, your Source and your significant other. Make it perfectly lovely, restful and delicious, or you are missing great support for a joyous, juicy and rich life.

The big problems can be solved with a little attention but first, here’s a worksheet [Tell Me About Your Bedroom] to help you get in touch with how your bedroom is influencing you. Fill out the form to learn just how to start to see your home differently.

In the meantime, here are a few things that you can focus on to begin to correct the negatives and accentuate the positive.

Note: Feng Shui means “wind water” but I always say it also means “it depends.” Your home is a reflection of who you are and sometimes who we are is just fine the way it is. If you are gloriously happy, don’t change a thing. If you want something different, that’s the time to see how Feng Shui can help you.

1. Clutter — clutter here will prevent good everything. Remove everything that doesn’t make your heart calm and happy. See the Clutter Clearing Challenge (Week 1 Day 6) to learn just how to approach clearing this space and getting healthy.

2. View – What do you see when you enter the room? This sets the tone for what you’ll experience. Make sure it’s restful, beautiful and calming. What do you see from your bed? it sets the tone for how you sleep and how you spend your day.

3. Power Position — Place your bed where you can see the door and the entire room. Not under a window or between and window and door, and don’t have your feet pointing out the door. If your bed must be next to a door, place something as a barrier between the door and your body, like a nightstand with a lamp.

4. Equality–Want to stay happily married or get married? If you want an equal and joyful relationship, make sure both sides of the bed are equally accessible, have equally beautiful treatments and nightstands.

5. Photos and Artwork– what is the subject of the art? Is it beautiful and restful? No abstracts and not a lot of water. Don’t use images of racing, running, or fast moving energy. Also, be careful whose photos and how many you have in your bedroom. All of these could make for difficulty falling asleep, over-dreaming, feeling exhausted.

Here are some Feng Shui tips for a better ‘everything’:

Clear stuff from under your bed.
Make the view of the bed and from the bed beautiful.
Close the bathroom door and the bedroom door when you are sleeping.
Remove the photos that are not restful and beautiful.
Have only one (at most two) books per person in the room.
Remove the laundry and hampers from the room, keep shoes out if you can.
Cover, close or remove the TV, Computer, exercise equipment, dog kennels, stored items, clothing (if you can) from your bedroom.
Remove (or cover) the mirrors from your bedroom. Mirrors activate and duplicate and are a very powerful Feng Shui ‘cure’; but they belong in the bedroom only in very specific circumstances.
Make sure you can get into bed without removing lots of pillows or things on your bed. Simple is best for rest.
Soft, non-patterned sheets are best for rest and rejuvenation. Colors: warm and rich “flesh-tones” will bring your closer to your romantic and grounded self; light green or blue are “cool” colors but will spark independence (not much romance). Bright primary colors are a ‘please don’t’ because they will cause too much energy, for instance bright yellow will actually cause a colic reaction in small children, making them cry a lot.
Smells? Clearn, fresh scents are best. For warmth and romance, try vanilla, for rest and calm, use lavender. Rose and Geranium are good for love and harmony (but only if you like them).
Pillows? Change your pillows (or clean them) frequently (at least once a year). Use UV Wand to clear any allergens from your pillows in the meantime.
Mattress: if you and your not squeeze are sleeping on the mattress from your old marriage, you are in trouble. Change your mattress as often as you can. If cost prohibits a swap right now, use the UV wand, and do a space clearing on it…then as soon as you can, buy a new mattress/box spring set. Split box springs? You could be in trouble. To avoid a split or distance in your relationship, place a light and loving pink sheet between over the box springs and between it and the mattress. Also, place two heart-shaped rose quartz stones at heart level for the sleepers, between the mattress and the box-springs.

As I mentioned earllier: Feng Shui means “wind water,” but I say it really means “it depends.” Your life, your home and your goals are different than anyone else’s in the world. The suggestions that I make are general and can make a big difference in your life but there may be things that are affecting you greatly that you just haven’t ’seen’ or can’t know are an issue. A trained, professinal opinion is always a good idea.

Fortunately, the bonus about Feng Shui is that also happily means, “Ok, that’s easy, we can fix that this way…”

As for the Photo above: Although it’s a beautiful room, warm and cozy with lots of good Feng Shui there are problems. The Artwork over the mantel will keep you single (or lead you to singlehood/divorce) and focused too much on work. Too many pillows will keep you from easily and spontaneously enjoying your bed. Notice nervousness or arguments that could be caused by too much red and the shape of the candleabra is highly confrontational.

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | August 7, 2008

New Books on My Nightstand

I love these books and highly recommend them:

Remembering Wholeness, Feng Shui and Health and The Baking Soda Book.

Click on the links to get to Amazon and check them out or buy them. (I use Amazon Prime for free 2-day shipping and love it…click here to find out more.)

Remembering Wholeness

by Carol Tuttle is a really informative, well-written manual for, as she says, “Thriving in the 21st Century.” Carol is an Energy Therapist, recommended to me by a man whom I consider a Master Energy Healer himself, Tod Foster. I checked her out (www.rememberingwholeness.com) and liked what I saw so I ordered one of her CD series and love it. In future posts I’ll share some of the insights with you. This book, written in 2002, really is an easy read, covers just about everything there is to know about using energy and removing the energy blocks in your being so that you and your family can thrive. Check it out online and I recommend reading it, I’m on my second go-through.

Ok, I can’t resist. Here is a sample “start your day right” script. I know this works, as does everything she covers in this book.

From page 175:

“Read the following script daily and watch your life change:

It’s amazing how well my day goes. it is as if the Universe knows who I am and what I want and things flow to me in such a timely way. It is as if I’m dancing with the Universe.

Emergencies are nonexistent in my physical experience. The people that come to me are benefitting by their exposure to me. It is as if I have a secretary in the sky that is taking care of everything and just feeding it to me with such ease and grace and comfort that my day just flows and unfolds so magnificiently.

When I wake up in the morning, I am infused with the energy of well-being. I am just glad to be alive. I can hardly wait to exercise my body and I am thankful for the time I can spend with my children.

When they awaken, my children and spouse are joyful and happy to be alive and we have such fun interacting with one another. This is some of the most precious time of our day as we embark upon our day together–positively anticipating what will unfold.

As I am making my way to different events of my day, it is always such a lovely time. I am so appreciative of all the wonderful people I have in my life I am grateful for the spiritual support and the angelic help that is taking care of the details and making sure that this day is going to unfold in a magical way. I love see their attention to detail, and I love see them eagerly finding more ways to make everything go comfortably. I love recognizing that they’re helping me bring my life into balance.

I love being a wife/husband. [fill in your beloved roles] I love being a Mom/Dad. I love getting into a space wherein I realize that I can deal with anything. I love connecting with the infinite power and knowledge of my life. I love knowing the benefit I offer to others. Most of all, I love the joy of the unfolding. I love new surprises that come, my ability to move with them, and the inspiration tht comes to me effortlessly. I love knowing that I can participate in anything I want to participate in. I love knowing I have infinite choices.”

Other chapters: The Ten Lies We Think Are Love; Receive Your Healing Now; There is Enough Money for Everyone; Messages Your Children Need to Hear; How to Keep Yourself Stuck and well, 350 pages of good stuff. Enjoy!

Feng Shui and Health,

by Nancy SantoPietro
I use this book a lot. It is a very well done guide to rearranging your home and managing your energy for overcoming dis-eases. There’s a lot of information and sometimes she uses too many words, but the information, especially the section on specific illnesses is wonderful.

Baking Soda Miracle
Imagine: Clean, disinfect, deodorize: no kidding, no harm to anyone or anything except dirt, grease, grime and ‘germs.’ You don’t need this book but you will LOVE what a little baking soda and vinegar will do.

I am a convert since a long time ago. I have to give credit for this one to my mother.

Baking soda and white vinegar are amazing. Here’s are a few stories:

I came home from vacation and found that the service station didn’t tighten the oil thingy on my car: one whole quart leaked onto my garage floor. Clean up was amazingly easy: I took a gallon jug of white vinegar and a 5 lb. box of Baking Soda to the garage and covered the area with vinegar, sprinkled baking soda let it ‘volcano’ like it did in 3rd grade science class. I let it set and a little while later poured some more vinegar on the un-dissolved baking soda. The next morning I used cool water and guess what, no grease, no stain and no harm to the environment!

Another awesome use: Mom put the grates from her grill into the utility tub, put baking soda and 1/2 gallon of vinegar in the tub and then enough water to cover the grate (didn’t need much). The next morning all the crud just wiped off for a shiny new-looking grill grate. It was great and easy.

I have used it to rid my carpets of yucky smells (sprinkle and leave it for a little while then vacuum up), to reclaim a pot that I burned—okay embedded—rice into (this took about one week of changing the vinegar/baking soda but I saved my favorite pan) and well, read the books.

Here is a website for another book; the website gives a few free tips as an example of what is in the book.

The Baking Soda Book UK

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | August 6, 2008

Easy Intro to the Feng Shui Elements: Your Feng Shui Energy

The Most Fun Introduction to the Feng Shui Elements is learning Your Feng Shui Energy

By knowing your ‘elemental’ nature, you’ll have the edge when seeking to arrange your home for harmonious weekend, a delightful dinner party, seeking a new job or career, opening yourself to new opportunities and relationships or just staying healthy, balanced and happy.

All things are comprised of energy but not all energy is the same. Some is upward moving (wood) some is outward and brilliant (fire) some is gathering and nourishing (earth), other is accountable and mentally stimulating (metal) while other energy is flowing, deep, spiritual, thoughtful or bubbly (water). There, you have just had your first lesson in Feng Shui element theory. The Ancient Taoist Masters noticed that all energy could be categorized in these five ways; they also associated colors, shapes and emotions, compass directions, seasons, times of day and human body energy fields, organs and food. There won’t be a test on all this but it’s true: everything is interconnected. It’s knowing how to use the elements that will support you, your work, and your relationships.

Feng Shui Elements To Support Your Energy and Life

Nine Star Ki brings Feng Shui astrology down to earth.

Nine Star Ki is positive, beautiful and accurate. I use this system to determine your energy and then use my knowledge of the elements to arrange your space, harmonize your relationships and further your goals.

For Free, you can go to www.9starki.com to discover your primary Feng Shui element. From the home page, about half-way down, look for “free forecast.” Follow the prompts to enter your birth year (before or after Feb 4 is an important point, don’t miss that).

You’ll find your “primary” Nine Star Ki energy: Water, Wood, Fire, Earth or Metal) as well as (if you click for your free forecast) how the energies are influencing you right now. I love this site. I have found the insights and the “forecast” to be pretty accurate ‘weather report’ for how the changing nature of the times influence my life. (This is not the whole story, but It is a great piece of it and a great start.)

Then come back to my site to learn how to use that knowledge to arrange your spaces for your vital health, increasing wealth and joyful happiness.

Be sure to post any questions or comments here, it’s my pleasure to help you improve your life.

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | July 18, 2008

Noble Questions — Employ Your Subconscious Mind

Noble Questions

“Ask and you shall recieve.” You know who.

Here’s a huge tip that will have you working less and recieving more. Your subconscious mind is what is creating your reality and now you can decide what that reality will be. Every Feng Shui practitioner knows that we create and dance with our own “reality.” and now you do too. After you have read this article, you will have revamped your entire operation, streamlined your efforts and souped up your #1 employee: your subconscious mind.

Through our subconscious, we create our reality. (More on the science of this later.) Our subconscious speaks in the language of pictures and baby talk: simple words and terms. Everything, from the art we see to the pictures we paint with our words, our subconscious mind is putting in orders, finding the ‘things’ we are asking for and then it’s put right in front of us.

Examine where you are on this process by looking at your own self-talk. We then place things around us that support the assumptions we have been led to believe. To begin to turn this around, we’ll start with the inner Feng Shui of asking questions.

Rather than use this process of question and answer to move you backward or keep you down, here’s how to use this process to move you forward in your life and create what will send you into self-confidence, luck, happiness and anything else you want.

When you ask questions, out loud or in your mind, notice how things line up to find the answer for you. Anytime you ask a question, the answer usually pops into your mind.

We have learned to ask negative questions. I believe we learned to do this to ward off oppression by our parents and teachers as if to say: if I beat myself up, you will see it and not beat me up. Watch any little league or high school sport and you’ll see at least one kid fail and shake his head in disgust, reproach himself harshly, or scream “oh you stupid”. The kids abuse themselves so their parents won’t; it’s so sad and unnecessary.

So by asking as question, “why am I so ____”, the Universe responds with evidence that you are so ____ (fill in the blank) and becomes self-fulfilling. Not the way to create a beautiful and easy life.

Ask a different question

The way to engage the process to begin to create your best life is to begin to ask questions differently. This works. One of my teachers, Denise Linn, calls these Noble Questions. Begin to ask Noble Questions and begin to watch how you start to create your wonderment more quickly and beautifully.

By asking these questions in this manner, you are assuming a different premise, one of expansion, positive energy and fulfillment.

Ask a question in your mind and sit for a moment. See what pops into your head. If nothing, don’t think again about it, just know that it is working. The premise has been assumed and all the factors are lining up to bring you the answers and the evidence of your assumption. Wait and watch in the next few days. You will begin to experience the answers.

Your Turning Point

Try these noble questions:

“How can I be even more happy?” assumes you are currently happy.

“How can I be even more healthy?” assumes you are currently healthy.

“Why am I always on time?” assumes you are always on time.

“Why do I always succeed?” assumes you always succeed.

Do you notice how your brain organizes itself differently? It starts to look for evidence of how you always succeed. If it comes up against a negative response, ask the question again: “why do I always succeed?” Notice in you r body where you feel expansion, softening, relaxing or happiness.

This is the turning point. Now the subconscious is hearing that you are “happy, wonderful, persistent, lively, lucky.”

Cleaning the Genes

After thousands of years of negative programming, we now have the massive opportunity to bring our own Heaven on Earth. We have the opportunity to make choices that our ancestors and parents couldn’t or didn’t. These tools are part of the magic making this happen for all of us. When you use them, you are elevating the energy of human race; thank you!

Here are some more Noble Questions to try:

“Why am I so lucky?”

“How do I always find my way just at the right time?”

“How am I always in the right place at the right time?”

“How can I spend all this money?”

“How do I always win things?”

“How do I always meet the perfect people?”

You try it. You’ll begin to create the answers that will lead you to life’s riches.

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | July 14, 2008

Fawn’s Feng Shui is HauteIntheCity (.net)

Who me? Haute In The City? You bet!

Recently I was interviewed by the mega popular www.HauteIntheCity.net and I would love to share it with you. Haute In The City is a weekly e-newsletter to thousands of people all over, that highlights wonderful finds, often around the city of Pittsburgh and frequently for anyone anywhere. When they contacted me to find out about Feng Shui, I was very excited. Here is the Haute in the City skinny on Feng Shui and (ta-daaaaa) me.

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“Today we are going to open our minds a little. We are going to have a little chat about changing your space to change your life. Feng Shui (pronounced fung shway) is actually not some crazy new age BS or Voodo. It is a science. In fact it has been studied for over 5000 years. Just because we do not understand does not mean we should knock it. We do not understand trigonometry either but there you have it.

”Feng Shui is a bit like quantum physics (another one of those easy reads) in that it is a study of energy. The deal is this-everything has energy and it all interacts. Do not believe us? Check out a pic of your ex, see how you feel.

“There are people who study these interactions, quantify and qualify them. They can then form a scientific equation of optimum balance. There are a whole slew of other factors involved, but let’s start with the basics-everything you own is a representation of you.

”Think about it, it is true-good or bad. You may put a picture of someone you love on your desk at work to brighten up a dull day. Same idea. Your space affects your life. If you leave all of your bills in the center of your table you will remember to pay them but you will also have a daily reminder of something unpleasant, find them a new home.

”Now think larger scale, your whole house, or office, is a huge part of your life. Put Feng Shui to work for you. You can even use it to stage your house and help sell it in this impossible market.

”For this we recommend a professional. Fawn Chang has been a Feng Shui Consultant for 13 years. She is absolutely lovely and not in the least bit flighty. Have her come by and help you kick start your life. She will not move all of your furniture or make you put a Buddha in the living room. You will fill out a detailed form and have an in depth consult with follow up about subtle changes that will make energy flow around you in a more positive way. She also has classes for the do it yourself type.

“Still not sold? Open your window and let the summer breeze come through. Does that not make you feel better? You just changed your energy.

Design and Feng Shui by Fawn Chang 412.741.1222 www.designandfengshui.com“

So, open a window and let the Love in!

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | July 5, 2008

Intentional Feng Shui For Any Event

Intentional Feng Shui For Any Event

You can dramatically change any experience by using your own energy and thoughts. In my last blog post, I explained how a friend of mine completely changed his experience of a previously dreaded event just with our focus and sending love forward into the situation. It actually opens the energetic space for new life and relationship, it is just like a blessing–it changes the ’script.’

You can do this anytime—it would be great if we could do this all the time. But that is an “advanced move.” Our focus is pulled in so many different directions that it’s very difficult to be present in every moment, radiating Love in all directions. That is what Practical Feng Shui is for: to anchor the healing energies when we can’t be vigilant.

Try it now: Imagine a situation that normally makes you feel tight, bored, sad, scared, or any other contracting, negative emotion, preferably one coming up soon. Now imagine you are watching that situation as though it were a scene in a movie. Nothing in particular changes until suddenly—the “camera” zoomed out and the picture softens as the edges of everything glow with soft pink and golden or white light, hearts soften, smiles form, people are listening, agreeing, voices are lighter and laughter is present. Everyone is ‘in love’ with life and enjoying the best qualities of those in the room. Everything goes smoothly, gently, easily.

Let it continue until everyone is home safely and happily in bed. Seal it with an “and so it is, Thank you.” There, you just did it. You sent positive energy forward into a situation. The more you do that, the more you will notice life flowing more easily for you; I use this technique every day and still I am surprised that it works. It even works with traffic!

Now you go on about your day, stop and buy some flowers, switch off the grumpy news, drive in silence for a few minutes to connect to the power at your center and you will arrive at your event refreshed and flowing with the Life Force, ready for your day and able to enjoy whatever comes along.

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | June 27, 2008

Get Started Now with Feng Shui

You don’t have to wait to begin to enjoy the benefits of Feng Shui now. By the end of this article, you will know exactly where to start and the steps to take to demystify the Ancient Science of Feng Shui and bring it home. Here are the steps I recommend that all my clients begin with:

1. Clear the clutter. Clutter takes your energy down. You will notice the benefits of energy moving more freely when you remove that negative energy. The best way to do it is to just do it. You can check out my Clear Your Clutter Challenge which helps you begin gently, builds confidence and skills that will last your whole lifetime. Removing everything that you don’t love or use will have your home, office and your family glowing with bright free energy.

2. Get fresh: Fresh air and lots of light are what bring good energy into your home and life. Open the windows and push back the shades. Plants and flowing water act as air purifiers, bring active ch’i and also enliven your spaces to provide you with good quality air. You can also try ionic air purifiers and UV wands to freshen the energy in your home.

3. Do a space clearing: without this piece, it’s like living in dirty laundry. Space clearing removes negative energy and introduces higher order energy into your spaces. Beyond cleaning with Natural and Organic Petro-chemical free products, space clearing addresses the energetic Read More…

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | June 27, 2008

New Moon on July 2: Timely Feng Shui for Nourishing Relationships

New Moon on July 2: Timely Feng Shui for Nourishing Relationships

You will be supported in love on this New Moon on Wednesday, July 2. “This is the New Moon to completely surrender into the heart of love: compassion for self and others. On this New Moon of love, we can truly cultivate the intention for living each day as a loving, heartful, mindfully, compassionate being.” Read more from Lisa Dale Miller at www.astrowisdom.com.

Feng Shui for this new moon:

This new moon brings energy that will help you feel as though it’s time to heal and be more in touch nourished by the relationships with yourself, your Source, and everyone in your life. Are there any unhealed relationships in your life? Two areas to focus on to bring in fresh energy are your bedroom and your kitchen:

Your bedroom. Where you spend almost 1/3 of your life, this room affects your ability to nourish yourself with rest, reconnect to your Source, your deep self and your partner. Clear out the clutter, remove what is under your bed and take a good look around. Is there anything in your bedroom that you don’t like? If so, give it away or give it back to the GodForce to manage for you (throw it away). Read More…

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | June 26, 2008

Energize where you live

Energize where you live

Spending more time at home due to the increase in the price of fuel? July 2nd will give us a nice push of positive energy to make some real new changes to energize our homes and improve our relationships.

Your home is a mirror of where you are in your life right now, it is a living, breathing entity, with a personality, vibration and influence all its own. Your issues and secrets are wrapped up in the setup and layout of your home or office. You’ll be amazed at how simply changing your surroundings can impact your health, wealth, happiness and more.

Get Fresh:

· Here I go again: “clear your clutter.” Go through all those little drawers and spaces and clear out the stuff that’s been there for 6 months or more. Wipe it all with a citrus-scented natural cleaner to bring in fresh and lively energy. Every space that you ‘own’ also ‘owns’ you: every space.

· Open windows and doors for some fresh energy. Air conditioning can feel great, but it’s important to at least daily open your front door to bring in fresh energy. The closed system of our Read More…

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | June 26, 2008

Map Your Spaces: The Bagua Energy Grid

Basic Feng Shui Tool: The Bagua Map

When we look at your surroundings through ‘Feng Shui’ eyes, we can often see what it is in your life that is challenged or challenging you or what you may be missing. A basic Feng Shui tool is the Bagua Energy Grid, which shows you which areas of your home or office is affecting your Relationships, Career, Health, Wealth and other aspects of your life.

The Bagua energy map represents a universal energy grid and represents all aspects of a life in balance. In Feng Shui, everything is alive, always changing and interconnected. This energy map, the Bagua, helps you know how and what to change; by adjusting the energy according to the Bagua, people’s lives have improved Read More…

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | June 19, 2008

Easy Secret to Eliminating Negative Emotional Energy

The Secret to Successfully Eliminating Negative Emotional Energy
“The worst of the environmental toxins is a toxic relationship.” Deepak Chopra, MD

“I hate to go to work, she’s miserable, expecting me to do her work…always making me do everything over, piling more work on me, talking about everyone, it’s just miserable.” Sound familiar? Are your biggest complaints about the people around you?

If one reason you aren’t happy to greet the day is a bad relationship with a co-worker or boss or employee, Feng Shui can help you change that! Anger, backstabbing, negativity, squabbles and pettiness are toxic to your career and your health. These distractions drain your energy and bank account and are the worst of toxins you’ll face each day.

How do you reclaim your joy and wealth? Discover the easy secret to successfully eliminating negative emotional energy.

· Plant your day: Write a new script

· Send them off with mirrors (weird but it works) Read More…

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | May 11, 2008

Secret to Buying a Happy Home – and Avoid Trouble

The Secret to Buying a Happy Home

-or- How to avoid a divorce, illness, job loss, or worse..

“I wouldn’t buy that home if you paid me.” Imagine what it’s like to know the intimate details of someones life and their problems just by looking at their home.

Why would you want to imagine what it’s like to live in their shoes?

When you buy a home, what you are buying is the next phase of your life. By the end of this article, you’ll know some major things to look for.

If you buy their home, you will begin to live the same life. If it’s a wonderful life, buy now. But unless you use “feng shui eyes” you could be in for an unexpected turn of events. In my experience, homes don’t lie. Rarely is a home so toxic it can’t be solved, but it does happen. Most often, the energy can be adjusted but if you don’t know the difference–you’ll be in for trouble.

Things that matter:

The Outside: Neighborhood, Land, Style & Layout
The Inside: Style, Layout, Colors, Shapes & Items
The History

Feng Shui wisdom can save you a trip to the divorce attorney or worse. If you find a home that you love and that home has some challenging Feng Shui issues, you can usually reverse the negatives by making some changes that won’t cost a fortune: that’s the beauty of the science of Feng Shui.

The Outside – The Neighborhood
determines your ability to be effective in the world

1. A healthy and vibrant neighborhood: good life force means you won’t be drained or asked to devote YOUR energy to keep it vital. It will support you rather than drain you.

2. A healthy business district, health trees, well-maintained homes, gardens and streets.

3. Not directly near a cemetery, hospital or church –while these are important aspects of a community, living too near these can deplete your own health. Avoid living near a prison or municipal buildings such as Fire Station, Police Station or water treatment plant.

Office Feng Shui: Your Power Position

Office Feng Shui

Two Biggest Office Challenges to Success
The beauty of knowing Feng Shui: engaging the energy world to affect the physical world.

Can’t get ahead? Not getting the promotion or the income you want? Clients jumping ship? You might wonder what the layout of your office has to do with it. Your environment directly affects your ability to do your best work, it even affects what you’ll get paid, if you’ll get a promotion, or how many clients you attract and keep.

Two things to look at when snuggling in to your office are: are you in the Power Position and how do you like your co-workers?

Are you in your Power Position?

What do you face each day? A wall? A post? A window? Another person? First we’ll look at where you sit, then we’ll look at what you face each day that determines your failure or success.

Step 1: Put yourself in the power position. I call this the “Godfather” position. When I was a teen, I watched “The Godfather” and amazed at how much energy went into how the “wiseguys” positioned the “Don” for a “sitdown”. Later, when studying Feng Shui, I realized it’s the most important thing for setting yourself up for success. You will be most supoorted by the space you are in if your seat/desk is deep in the room, your back to a wall, you are not in “line of fire” between a door and a window and you have a full commanding view of the space and what is coming in the door. Think of a CEO’s office, this is where her desk will be.

If you work in a cubical and cannot move your chair, carefully place a mirror on your desk or computer to reflect what is behind you.

I say ‘carefully’ because mirrors are very powerful ‘cures’. A mirror cure can

Double your (fill in the blank). If a mirror is reflecting a clutter or piles of paperwork to process, you will double your workload or chaos.
Facing too close to the door it will push away opportunity.
A mirror can also be used to ‘call in’ whatever it is showing you, if you can see the bathroom or a crabby co-worker, that energy will become more a part of your life (yikes!)

Place the mirror so that you can see what is ’sneaking up on you’. It doesn’t have to be large, you can usually find a convex (bowed outward) small mirror in the auto department at a department store. Knowing what’s behind you, you’ll feel more in control, safer, more secure, less tense and be able to relax and get accomplished in less time.

Who is with you?

“The worst of the environmental toxins is a toxic relationship.” Deepak Chopra, MD

If one reason you aren’t happy to great the day is a bad relationship with a co-worker or boss or employee, Feng Shui can help you change that! Anger, backstabbing, negativity, squabbles and pettiness are toxic to your career and your health. These distractions drain your energy and bank account and are the worst of toxins you’ll face each day.

How do you reclaim your joy and wealth? Discover The Secret to Successfully Eliminating Negative Emotional Energy.

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | April 28, 2008

The Real Reason Most Homes Don’t Sell

The Reason Most Homes Don’t Sell

The unseen isn’t unfelt, the unfelt isn’t unreal.

The #1 reason your home won’t sell is energy. Even after increasing the curb appeal and following the practical “sell your home faster” tips your home may be on the market for a very long time because of energy. Of the three types of energy that will prevent your home from selling, energy of emotional attachment is the most common. I have experienced this and seen it many times. What is it and what do you do?

Here’s an idea of what you could be dealing with. These are real stories about real people:·

· Your own (un-admitted?) attachment:

o Kathy and Jim and their three children lived in suburbs of Pittsburgh: Jim’s job was downsized and he was sent to New England. 5 hour commute between Pittsburgh and New England each week was hard on all of them. After a year of seeking work closer to ‘home’ the situation was draining their finances and their family energy. Sadly but willingly, the house was on the market and the family prepared to move.

When we met, I asked: “who doesn’t want you to move?” The tearful answer came from Kathy: “none of the neighbors want us to leave.” Her words said one thing, her tears told me it wasn’t just the neighbors but she didn’t want to move.

My next question, “What would you love to have happen?” She answered, “If my husband could find a job here, we…but there’s nothing and the economy’s…” off she trailed with the “why it couldn’t work” mantra.

We got to work. We made a few changes to the outside and inside so that it would have better energy to show for selling. I also recommended that she make changes to the house to bolster the career area so that her husband could find a better job regardless of where they lived. (That’s another post.) Six weeks later they received news of a job opening in Pittsburgh, he took it and to this day they are still in Pittsburgh and happy in their lives. The emotional attachment to the home was strong enough to draw in the perfect solution.

Had she not gotten really clear about their emotional attachment and needs, they could have drained themselves the rest of their lives because they were not following their hearts. In this case, making a few simple feng shui changes, turned the situation around to a very happy ending. Case closed.

Emotional Attachment to your Home

· Other people’s emotional attachment:

o Farm in Western Pennsylvania: on the market for 6 years, family needed to move closer to the city for school and business. Over the 6 years, the price was lowered to almost bargain basement. Then something sad but inevitable happened. The owner’s mother, who had been ill for a long time, died. Less than two days after she passed on, the couple received two serious offers and a bidding war ensued. The price actually went UP and the home sold. What happened? In younger days, the owner’s mother lived there with the family and helped to raise the children. She often recalled those times as “the happiest days of my life.” Although she no longer lived in the home and she was not an owner, her emotional attachment to the house and land was strong enough to prevent it from being transferred to another. Her attachment prevented the sale and not until her death did she release her hold on it. With some gentle Feng Shui, her emotional attachment could have been removed and allowed the home to sell sooner. Who knew? Now you do.

· ”Other worldly” attachment:

o Real Case Study: A rental property didn’t sell for two years (and hadn’t rented for 1). I was called in to offer Feng Shui solutions. We enhanced the wealth area, changed some furniture placement, used a mirror to reverse the negative effect of a ‘condemned’ building next door, and a few other Feng Shui adjustments to handle sloping land, an imposing wall outside the front door and finally, did a space clearing. The Space Clearing, I encountered the energetic imprint of deep fear, hatred and child abuse. After this ‘emotional’ attachment (the attachment of this emotion to this space) was cleared the home sold in 6 weeks.

What is the secret to changing this energy?

· You get clear

· Take action: clear your spaces.

Get clear

This only takes a few moments. Just ask yourself, “who doesn’t want to leave this house.” Or “is there anyone or anything that is preventing this house from selling?” Sit quietly and listen for the answer to come from your heart.

Realize that you may get a strong answer, but sometimes it takes another person to help you because sometimes you aren’t ready to face the answers. Then you can take action with Feng Shui help to unlock those emotional attachments. For instance:

· Look to see if anything large is in the far right corner of your property or your home. This could be a large piece of furniture, an item that you are attached to, or a large piece of outdoor furniture in your yard. If so, remove it immediately and you’ll unblock the energy.

· Stop calling it “our house” and start referring to it by its address.

· Talk to your home as though it’s a beloved part of your life. I have seen that homes have energetic attachments to families and that energetic tie can prevent a sale as well. Tell the home that you need to leave, that there will be another wonderful family who will come and care for it and needs it’s protection and love.

When I have had clients use these and other tips (following them completely) their homes have sold quickly and for more than they anticipated. Other tips: I’m working on that post right now. Stay tuned.

Take Action: Clear your space

When I was a young child, I remember our priest coming to bless our new homes; I remember hating that we had to leave, the curious little girl in me wanted to know what he was doing to our house.

It was common practice for a home to be blessed by clergy when we moved. In every indigenous culture, house blessings and space clearings are common and in Bali, a daily practice. Blessing your home before you move in, each day you live there and blessing it as you prepare to leave helps you in deeply important, yet unseen ways.

You can do it yourself but I always recommend engaging a professional (your clergy or a professional Feng Shui consultant trained in space clearing).

This Piece is Very Important:

If you do a Space Clearing yourself take note of all small changes. This is an area where ‘what you don’t know, can hurt you.’ If you try this and find you get sick, have weird thoughts (more than normal J), have more fights, etc., it’s time to call professional help. There is a “Do It Yourself Space Clearing” book and CD that is very helpful by Christan Hummel. Also, Denise Linn, one of the world’s greatest teachers and my mentor, writes beautifully and details the steps for a space clearing in her book Sacred Space. It takes your time and your devotion but you can do this yourself. (I am also a resource for you as well www.designandfengshui.com, I can teach you or do it for you onsite or remotely.)

Address the energy of your home, how it “feels.” If you identify and clear the influences that lie beyond our five senses, you be amazed at how quickly your home or business will sell, and nearly every time often for more money that you thought.

Selling your house? Do you know how to determine if this is really right for you? Even ambivalence will delay or halt the process.

Are you ambivalent about leaving? About the future? Are there spaces with creepy feelings in your house? Have you ever done a space clearing? Do you want to know how?

Posted in All Articles by Fawn, Creating Your Dreams, Family, Feng Shui New Year 2008 Tips, Healthy Home, Home Buying & Selling, Life, Real Estate, feng shui | Tags: feng shui, Happiness, Heart's Desire, Home Selling, Life, Mirror Cure, Real Estate, Sell Your Home, Space Clearing, Spring Cleaning

Posted by: Fawn Chang | April 25, 2008

13 Ways to Celebrate More Often

I took it as a personal challenge to write this post. As I read an article by a friend of mine: “Five Good Reasons to Celebrate More Often.” I kept thinking, “Yes, Tom, you are so right, yes, I need to do that, yes, but ‘how’? How do you do that?”

Did you ever hear the phrase: “The shoemakers’ kids go barefoot” or understand the implication behind the term “a busman’s (or postman’s) holiday”? Both of these speak to the idea that we sometimes end up ‘last’ in our own priorities. Are you celebrating someone else but ignoring your own self-appreciation? I was.

All day long I give encouragement and insight to my clients, love to my children, support and enjoyment to my friends, booja-booja’s to my dogs and every squirrel that darts out in front of my car. Once, my son, when still young enough to be in a car seat said: “Mom, how come when you drive everyone is “sweetie” and when Dad drives everyone’s ‘as—–‘?” I laughed my head off, thinking about how much ‘slack’ and ‘sugar’ I give to everyone I meet. But I am brutal on myself. ..Medieval-type brutal. My ‘to do’ list is long and I don’t often pause to say, “wow–you go girl!” Do you?

In his article, my Coach, Tom Volkar, explains WHY it’s vitally important to Celebrate, why it’s a basic human need and the dangers of not doing so. I don’t believe Tom is referring to going on a drinking binge, but to really acknowledging and celebrating your successes. I call them “heroic moments” and I know they are the stepping stones of being a divine human and living a great life. I have to admit, there was a time when I was so distraught that just the fact that I got out of bed one day was, to me, a heroic event. I gained a pure and deep admiration for all the small heroic acts that each of us perform daily that go unacknowledged.

Because I am so hard on myself to constantly improve, do a better job, etc., this is something that Tom and I have had frequent conversations about. So it’s ‘up’ for me, to celebrate and Tom convinced me of the need for it. The question I always answer for my clients and students is “how” to do what it is that will get you where you want to be so my next question to Tom was going to be: “Ok, Coach, How?”

So I gave myself the task of this post to see if I had any answers inside me for me. I realized these are things I do sometimes and could do more often. Okay, I’ll cheat a bit, do you have any ideas about HOW to celebrate? Do you identify your own heroic moments? How do you celebrate?

How to Celebrate

1. Name it and frame it – realizing the titanic effort associated with getting out of bed one morning during my divorce and the fact that I actually did it, and got the kids to school, fulfilled my commitments and on top of that made the day look normal for my children turned my day around. Identifying what seemed like a ‘given’ but actually was took about as much effort as any Olympic event was huge for me. What ‘ordinary’ things you do can you name? And then applaud the Herculean effort you put out to “just do it.”

2. Breathe it in – celebrating doesn’t need to be another thing on your “to do” list. Pause, follow step one, and then breathe.

3. Smile – that simple act has bonus physiological effects on the body: try it. Your heart lightens, your emotional state elevates, endorphins release into your bloodstream. You can add the “cherry on top” by sending your eyes skyward. Try it. See if you notice that you might spontaneously inhale; that’s your connection with Divine grace: Inspiration!

4. Take yourself on a date – I love to do this. Set aside a few hours and go do something with and by yourself. I love to take myself to a movie, or take a magazine or book and go to dinner, order a glass of wine, sit quietly snuggled in my corner booth and allow the waiter to pamper me by bringing me delicious food.

5. Draw a poster and hang it where you’ll see it – remember high school or college or even someone coming home at the airport? Those signs: Welcome Home Bobby! We Love You. Congratulations! Do it now, grab a piece of paper from your printer and make yourself a poster. Hang it on the door you enter your home or tape it to your wall! Great Job Sally! You did it.

6. Send yourself a card or thank you note – I love this. Whenever I go on vacation, I send myself a post card. I usually get the postcard when I am back home and going through the ‘re-entry into real life’ dance. It’s a wonderful reminder to me that brings back the fun that I just had. I send myself birthday cards, too. You’ll laugh when you open the mailbox. Send yourself a ‘good job’ card, it’s really fun.

7. Do a ‘happy dance’ – if you have a dog you know what this looks like. Every time I come home, my dogs are so happy to see me. In one of his comedy routines, Jerry Seinfeld talks about his dog and says, “it’s as though they are so excited that you found your way home again…hey, he did it, he found his way home again.” Just thinking about this one makes my tail want to wag.

8. Give yourself a ‘high-five’ – There’s a commercial that I love and sometimes in a time of self-doubt I call it to mind and it makes me smile. It’s shows a guy, Hal, going through his day, perhaps it’s to a job interview (I’m not sure) and through the magic of television, everywhere he went up to that interview, appeared a bleacher section filled with people applauding, “Go Hal!” Did you see that one? I don’t even remember the product (oooh, the marketers would be upset) but I do remember the cheering section and how cool that would be to have my own pep club following me around.

Ok, this is where I got stuck. I could have stopped here and changed the title to “8 Ways…” but I want more. I want to go beyond and really overdo it on the Celebrating because I’m so behind. Can you help me? I need 5 more ways that someone would ‘celebrate’ themselves, their own being, or their accomplishments. How do YOU celebrate?

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | February 17, 2008

Green OR Healthy? Why the Choice?

On the road to personal and global health, we shouldn’t have to choose: Green OR Healthy.

Fluorescent light bulbs causing migraines and worse.

Although they use less electricity and run cooler than incandescents, they have been posing minor and now severe health risks.

Migraines, epileptic seizures, decreased immune system function, nervousness, inability to focus and depression are some of the results of time spent with fluorescent lighting. Incandescent bulbs are scheduled to be completely phased out in both the US and the UK by 2012.

What are our options? We have a few:

The Canadian Center for Occupational Health says that some of the problem comes from the “flicker” effect of the fluorescent light bulbs. That ‘flicker’ effect is inherent in the operation of the bulbs as bursts of electricity ignite the gas inside the tubes. The effect is worse in older fixtures. According to the CCOH, you can reduce the ill-effects of ‘flicker’ by buying new fixtures which have electronic (rather than magnetic) ballasts, by replacing your bulbs frequently and making sure all parts of the fixtures work perfectly.

A study done by the CCOH also showed that employees whose offices were located on upper floors (where there is greater exposure to daylight) suffered less ill effects from the bulbs.

Question: If there is a way to reduce stress, inability to focus and immune system suppression, and help our children in schools, our employees everywhere (hospitals, banks, prisons, you name it) shouldn’t we DO IT?

“Flicker” is not the only issue. Most of us use ‘cool-white’ bulbs, and Jacob Liberman, OD, Ph.D., in his groundbreaking and hopeful book Light: Medicine of the Future, suggests that we can reduce the ill-effects even further IF we use the correct fixture and ‘full-spectrum’ bulbs. These bulbs are more costly initially but when that cost is weighted against our ill-health, increased crime rates the figure becomes minimal.

Consider just this ONE study:

“…The development of full-spectrum artificial lighting…prompted Ott to further investigate the possible negative effect of improper lighting on health and performance in human being. In 1973, Ott and the Environmental health and Light research Institute undertook a study involving four first-grade classrooms in Sarasota, Florida. Full-spectrum, radiation-shielded fluorescent light fixtures were installed in two of the window-less classrooms in Sarasota, Florida.

“Full-spectrum, radiation-shielded florescent light fixtures were installed in two of the windowless classrooms, while standard cool-white fluorescent fixtures were installed in two other identical windowless classrooms that served as controls. Concealed time-lapse cameras took random sequences of student and teachers in the classroom. Although teachers were aware of the program, neither they nor their students were aware of when they were being photographed.

“The photographed results were significant. Under the coo-white fluorescent lighting, some students demonstrated hyperactivity, fatigue, irritability, and attentional deficits. In the classrooms with full-spectrum lighting, however, behavior and classroom performance , as well as overall academic achievement, improved markedly within one month after the new lights were installed. Furthermore, several learning-disabled children with extreme hyperactivity problems miraculously calmed down and seemed to overcome some of their learning and reading problems while in the classrooms with full-spectrum lighting.

“This study additionally demonstrated that children in rooms with full spectrum lighting developed one-third the number of cavities in their teeth as children in the classrooms with standard cool-white fluorescent lights.” Liberman, Jason, Light: Medicine of the Future, Rochester, VT: Bear & Company Press, 1991

Empower your home:

If you must use fluorescent bulbs, use new electronic fixtures and full-spectrum bulbs.
When possible, daylight is best. Take advantage of the healthy properties of sunlight.

Think you can’t more daylight into your home? Think about installing Sun Tubes (aka Solar Tubes, Sun Tunnels…do an Internet search) which allow natural daylight to enter even your ‘captive’ rooms. There are many companies making and selling them; be sure to use a reputable installer.

Here is a link to the Daily Mail article:
Energy-Saving Bulbs Causing Migraine Headaches

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Posted by: Fawn Chang | February 12, 2008

Weird Energy

Weird Energy: “What’s Going On Lately?”

Posted Feb 2008

I have been asked more than a few times, “What is going on lately?” Last week was a really weird and wired week for a lot of us.

If you have been experiencing turmoil, seen or been in auto accidents, had a bad fall or know someone who has just lost their cool, perhaps an illness has taken a turn for the worse, then you are probably experiencing the effects of some very powerful Astrological influences. Bottom line: fast moving, explosive energy, new beginnings after breaking down old structures that can’t hold the weight of what you NEED to be doing with your Life Purpose. [The specific details from Master Astrologer Rick DiClemente: solar eclipse in Aquarius with Mercury Retrograde, with Chiron, with Neptune and Mars nearing opposite. to Pluto ~ watch out for March 4. For your Astrology, contact Rick DiClemente 724-622-8079]

Things will feel more intense as we near March 4. Don’t hide under your bed, use this time to examine and recreate the structure of your life. If you do it now, it won’t surprise you when the “universe” does it for you.

Here are a few tips for the next few weeks:

Feng Shui for the Inside:

Be aware of what is around you and inside you.
Be careful (Full of Care) when you are moving through your day.
Don’t loose your cool / drive too fast / don’t try to multi-task while you are driving
Speak your truth with kindness and clarity.
Run your words through your heart before you spew them out your mouth.
Check all your details, use good maintenance practices
After you’ve done all that: let go and go with the Flow

What I do: Before I begin my day, I sit quietly for 10 breaths and mentally create it. I say and see ”smooth, easy travel, delightful journeys and conversations, I see myself responding beautifully to all that is around me and I see it all responding back with love and beauty.”

This really, really works.

Feng Shui for the Outside:

Wear something yellow, beige or brown to ground your energy.
Clear out the center of your rooms, your desk, your mind.
Get enough sleep. Make sure you turn your TV off to go to sleep or boot your TV out of the bedroom.
Do what you can to center, ground and care for yourself.
Add something FUN and uplifting in every few hours of your day

Feng Shui gives you a way to look at your world and life and minimize your effort to get the highest result. Feng Shui is practical and magical because when you do the work, it works. It is not an excuse to be careless or not take care of “business.”

So be thorough, check your details, roll with the punches and go with the flow. Assert yourself kindly and clearly and do something FUN for yourself each few hours.

I wish you all smooth sailing and lots of love as we near the Holiday of the Heart.

Love,

Fawn