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9~ April Whispers Sweet Silence

4/6/2019

Let's participate in Soulful Silence by Listening ~

Have you ever met someone who really listens to you when you talk? They are actively looking at you, without their cell phone, their eyes are on you, absorbing your words, and understanding your sentiment. When you are done talking, they don't rush to fill up the space with their talk. They do pause, reflect, and react with a wise, succinct, poignant response. It's one in a million these days, this precious gift of thoughtful listening without one's ego interjecting.

Someone who naturally has this golden trait is usually compassionate, kind, and gentle, a true giver. Interestingly, this trait can even be detected via texting. If any of you have ever regurgitated your every mood via texting to an unsuspecting prey, you may occasionally find one of these gentle listeners responding quite compassionately to your current rampage. You write some stuff, and then some more stuff, and then some more stuff. Then POOF! Like magic, the quiet, simple, and deeply intuitive wisdom coming from the other end calms you down in two seconds. It creates a space of introspection that is humbling. If only, through God's grace, we could be in our hearts, and do some soulful listening. Can you imagine the peace and healing that could take place?

8~ march into sweet surrender

3/24/2019

Sometimes enough is never enough, which is when Sweet Surrender comes into play. Oh the folly of being human, so intricately human, so deeply human, so viscerally human. Do you ever wonder why surrender is so essential? Why the Mystics and Saints describe it's bittersweet effects in both ecstatic and painful melodies?

Try it sometime and you will instantly be on a journey of infinite depth. The layers and layers and layers you must dive through in order to achieve this sweet state of bliss are too many to count.....and why count anyway? The freedom that comes along with this sought after experience dismisses the regular human misery of "keeping track of things" and catapults you into "one with all"....and trust me, "one with all" has no need for tallying. It only has need for the heart's growth.

Signs You Have Experienced Surrender
The very state of being human requires daily surrender. Whether we realize it or not, it is as essential as oxygen. We are either being forced into acceptance of a situation or we are choosing to surrender to a situation......IT IS EVERYWHERE!

Those of you who have experienced watching your child in a precious, simple moment, knowing full well that moment is fleeting and your child will never be the same...is growing and you can't do anything about it.....that's surrender.
Those of you who have lost your beloved pet....that's surrender.
Those of you who are caring for a loved one who is passing away....that's surrender.
Those of you who have loved another, but did not receive that love in return....that's surrender.
Those of you who have had to walk away from a person, job, or idea, because no matter how hard you tried to "make it work", it didn't "seem to work"...that's surrender!

Great news! All of us are on The Surrender Train already!!
Now, let's just see if we can work with Divine Wisdom more succinctly, humble ourselves a little more readily, and enjoy this new lightness of being more easily.

Signs You Need to Surrender
Grumpy much? Resistance to caring for yourself? Agitation at the core of your being, but can't figure out why? Happy at home, miserable at work? Miserable at home, happy at work? So many signs! So many signals! Our systems are telling us something. If we answer any of the above questions with a YES, pay attention and dive in to ecstasy.

Feng Shui Tips
1 - Pick an area of your life - health, family, relationship, career, money.
2 - Narrow it down to one challenge - I should be getting a raise but my boss refuses, my child is fighting me on everything, work is intolerable, my spouse is not being fun and romantic, my church group leader drives me nuts, I am uninspired in regards to writing my next novel, I want to spend more time playing music with friends but am not making the time for fun, etc.
3 - Write down the one challenge in a notebook and date it. Everyday for 7 days during Week 1 write this statement down. See what your body is telling you when you write it down, don't struggle with it or try to change it. Week 2 - Everyday for 7 days, write your challenge down and then write "I surrender this challenge to you, God. To Divine Wisdom. To Divine Guidance. To Divine Timing. Please help me with these struggles. Please help me see that you are working actively in my life and teaching me through this process." Feel what your body is telling you, don't try to change it. Week 3 - Everyday for 7 days, write "I release all pain relating to this challenge, I am giving and receiving your love to myself and others, I am open to your Guidance and am honored to be with you." Feel what your body is telling you, don't try to change it. Week 4 - Get creative and do something you feel inspired to do.

Please notice - Feel what your body is telling you...Don't try to change it !!!!!

7~ February feng shui tips

2/11/2019

Whether you feel it or not, the energy of this planet has shifted to a whole new level, and it's a spectacular one. Better than spectacular actually, and it's something people have been waiting for their whole lives. Now that "it's" ever present, what do we do? how do we harness it? and where do we go from here, other than up and up?

Here are a few simple ways to elevate and align with this high vibe divine cosmic shift:

Connect the heavens with the Earth, using your body as the conduit.
Eat the atmosphere using your breath.
Step away from your technology.....far, far away.
Is your music your friend or your foe?

There is absolutely no need to get into the exquisite details of how the shift is taking place and why (although, email me if you'd like to discuss!). Just know that the HIGHER energy is here, your old patterns are on their way out, trust your gut instincts, create with purity and light, and RIDE THIS HIGH BECAUSE IT IS BORN TO LAST.

Quick Tips
Connect the heavens with the Earth, using your body as the conduit - you say what??!! Spend a few minutes in the morning and a few minutes in the evening doing this, and if you are really into it, schedule a couple more regular visits to this flow during the day. Four times a day = ideal. Picture a brilliant effervescent light coming from the heavens, ascending onto this planet, flowing into the top of your head, cruising through your body from your head to toe (imagine the light making it's way down your spine and through your circulatory system), out through your feet into the Earth, from the horizon down to the core, from the core a quantum leap on up to the heavens. Amen to this!

Eat the atmosphere using your breath - you say what again??!!
This is good stuff. Similar formula as above. Ideal = four times a day, 10 breaths per session. Be still, breathe in through your nose, but it's what you are breathing in that is important. Breathe the vital atmosphere of the New Earth in, picture light particles, like snowflakes, as specks of God's awesome light moving throw your heart, lungs, stomach, and everywhere else. What we want from this? These tremendous pieces of vital energy are to replace and clean out the old ways. It helps to ground it from the breath, through your body, to the Earth. As above, so below.

Step away from your technology...far, far away.
I think this one is self explanatory, but I will give you a personal example just to highlight how this benefits you. A recent visit to Camp Verde, AZ turned me into a no tv, no cell phone use, and no computer kind of gal for 9 days. What happened? I listened to the silence, I sat in a hammock and looked at the stars, I didn't care what was happening to Kim Kardashian....it was BRILLIANT and the results were completely unexpected. Upon driving back to "civilization" and "regular life" I realized I was cured of the addictive desire to live a technological life. Doesn't mean I don't love technology and won't use it, it does mean I will plug into God's great Universe for my information and enlightenment, and not the raging media machine. Hallelujah.

Three days a week, set a curfew for turning off your phone, your tv, and your computer. Trust me, it's difficult to absorb this new Source when you have billions of things around you, most of which are not positive and which trigger addictive and unhealthy patterning. Please, go outside and look at the Stars, look at the dark night sky, breath in the air, just pause, have candles on in your home, dim the lights, read a book, or do nothing at all.

Is your music your friend or your foe?
Stop and really listen to the lyrics in songs. Easy to sift through this mess......are the words who you want to be? Or are they highlighting lack and pain?

Much Love to All !

6~ feng shui interview

2/24/2018

This 9 minute interview gives us a refreshing outlook on the evolution of Feng Shui by Corrie. A few insights are also included which show surprising ways in which feng shui principles can enhance and improve your life, in particular with finances and wealth.

5~ Feng Shui, chinese medicine, healing with stones and crystals

2/7/2017

Use stones to enhance energy
I have placed a clear quartz crystal on an octagonal light platform and placed it in the Abundance Area of my home.

Why?
It is pretty and promotes a sense of peace and awe within me. At night, whenever I look at it, I am elated!

Feng Shui Effects?
I am sending pure and clean emotions and energy to the Abundance Area. These positive frequencies are picked up by the Energies in the area and are then enhanced, multiplied, and encouraged to continue. I am happily adding Intention to my wishes of experiencing Abundance in all areas of my Life. This includes: Material wealth, Spiritual connectivity to the Divine, Emotional mastery, Awareness of ALL the greatness that is my life, and Deep appreciation.

Why the Stone Medicine Book?
This book integrates feng shui knowledge with Chinese Medicine. For example, right before I wrote this post, I decided to research which stones I have put in specific areas of my home and was amazed to find that my intuition serves me well! Last week I put the clear quartz on the light stand. I am loving the visual and the sheer delight I experience when I look at this. As I looked through the book I saw an "opal with play of light" that has a similar shimmery effect that my crystal on light stand has. So I looked up opal in the Stone Medicine book and it states: "Use colored quartz instead of opal when Dampness is part of the pathology."

Last week I came down with a lung cold that created phlegm. At the same time I put the clear quartz in the Abundance Area. An opal has watery qualities that do not help Dampness/phlegm conditions, they can make the conditions worse, but a clear quartz will not worsen the Dampness/phlegm condition, it is a dryer stone that will actually help heal that specific condition. It is an exciting process of discovery and very rewarding when you find confirmation that your intuitive abilities yield strong results.

This Stone Medicine book also describes which stones enhance feng shui palaces/areas. In my Career area, I have two obsidian stones. Obsidian is a perfect stone to place in the Career area because it has water qualities and is black.

This is such an interesting topic and it is difficult to stop writing! Expect to see more on this and please do yourself of great favor. Look through Stone Medicine and learn how to use the tools. As a practitioner I am always interested in learning ways to enhance my knowledge base so that I can help my clients in ways that resonate with them. As a human on this beautiful Planet Earth, striving and learning are two of the most exciting things to do.

4~ Feng shui your finances

1/27/2017

There is a rhythm to everything, including your finances.
There is also potential to be in denial about everything, including your finances.
Who out there knows exactly what I am talking about? If finances have made you feel awful, sticky, upset, gooey, uncertain, confused, angry, sick, or otherwise disposed of, then THIS BLOG ON FINANCES IS FOR YOU.

How does feng shui relate to finances?
Everything in feng shui relates to everything else in feng shui. Meaning, if one area of your feng shui energy pattern is altered, then other areas will experience a ripple effect. Of course, there are ways to emphasize something you want to change, and that area will potentially feel the bulk of the energy adjustment, but rest assured, once an improvement is felt in one area of your life, it will eventually be felt in all areas of your life. It is poetry in motion. It is beautiful. It is the I-Ching in action. This holistic, "we are all one" meme is so much more than an attitude. It is deeply embedded in the fabric of life. And how cool that the sages who absorbed this wisdom were able to tie it in to the flow of our environment, the very fabric of humanity.

In order to attain a state of awareness and peace about your finances, many of the areas of your living space/business may need to be adjusted and cleared. It is an exciting process and one that encompasses every facet of your being. If you think about it, finances = money = your time and energy = energy. Ultimately, Finances = Energy. What are you doing every day to create energy in your life? What are you thinking while creating energy? Who are you choosing to surround yourself with while you are "making money"? Are you exhausted and "just getting by"? Are you exhausted and "making tons of money"? Do you make a modest income but know how to manage your budget and live within your means?

Along with being a feng shui specialist, I am also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). What I have seen over the years has been incredible and it just proves to me that it is not how much you make, but what you do with what you make, that really matters. I have known the very rich to be broke. I have also seen people who make small amounts retire in comfort because they have lived within their means and planned well.

The nine energy centers in the feng shui pattern of your Home/Business are: Career, Skills & Wisdom, Family, Abundance, Fame & Reputation, Relationships, Creativity & Children, Helpful People & Travel, and Health. A change in any one of these centers will eventually influence the others.

Everyone's path to financial wisdom will be different. Some people may need to change CAREERS so that they will be happier in a different field of expertise, thus potentially producing a higher income (ABUNDANCE). Let's hope when they have a higher income they have the SKILLS & WISDOM to know how to spend their money wisely. Some people may come from a FAMILY that has instilled in them a sense of poverty. This impoverished mindset will need to be cleared so that they will feel better about themselves (FAME & REPUTATION), thus attracting better RELATIONSHIPS, which through networking (HELPFUL PEOPLE), will attract a CAREER that works well for them. Perhaps it is as simple as whipping up a feng shui cure in the ABUNDANCE section which will then draw in the money that they so desire.

Today, let's get practical.
It is time to assess where you are with your energy/money/finances.
PRACTICAL #1 - Examine your Abundance section
PRACTICAL #2 - Face reality now and get organized

Practical #1
The Abundance & Prosperity section is located in the far left corner of the space. What is in YOUR abundance area? When you are in this area of your home/business, how do you feel? What books are here? What pictures are on your walls? Is it clean? Is your dirty laundry basket here? Are you inspired?

A few things to enhance the area:
Purple, gold, green, red, plants, crystals (particularly amethyst), cash, moving things, pictures of loads of money and riches, and things you love.

A few things to remove from the area:
Old objects, dirt, dust, items that make you feel stressed or depressed, things that are not working, and too much fire (too many candles or a fireplace).

Practical #2
Get organized and face the facts of your financial status. This is going to be strenuous, so be prepared, be patient, and be kind to yourself. Hire a financial advisor. Create a budget. List everything you own (bank account, house, business, yacht, 401k, pension, real estate investment) and everything you owe (credit card debt, student loan debt, loans payable, mortgage). Got all that?

Here are some helpful links and remember, in order to know where you are going, you have to know where you are. THERE IS EXTREME EMPOWERMENT in this process of gathering all of your financial information. Once you have faced your financial facts and have all the information in an easy to use format, you can move forward with strength, direction, drive, and determination. Now go out there and make me proud.

Financial Advisors are your best bet because they will guide you:
www.xyplanningnetwork.com/
Create a budget using Suze Orman's free download expense sheet:
www.cnbc.com/id/27521403
Learn about practical financial matters through her website:
www.suzeorman.com/calculators/
Create a budget using an inexpensive tool called "You Need a Budget":
www.youneedabudget.com/

3~ feng shui fo shizzle!! are we having fun yet???

12/13/2016

The Creativity and Children section of your space

Adults must learn how to play, to revert back to what was once a magical land of delight and an oasis for pure bliss. Yes, I am talking about childlike qualities such as creating monsters out of bath soap, spraying your mom’s hair with a garden hose, marking up the walls inappropriately with too many crayons, laughing for no reason, making a necklace out of Cheerios, and so much more. Kids do not monitor their thoughts and actions like we do. Thank goodness they have not been burdened with adult programming. Let’s get back to basics gang. It is time to JAZZ UP THE CREATIVITY SECTION OF YOUR HOUSE!!!

When we aren’t creating or playing enough, we get stale. We laugh less. We look and act serious. We get stuck in many areas of our lives without even knowing it.

Where is the Creativity area in your space?
Walk into the main door of your home or room and go to the right wall area.

Signs that you may be in a rut:

Do you say “Ugh” a lot?
Are you angry and frustrated more often than you’d like to be?
Do you have seemingly unsolvable business challenges?
Is laughter a foreign sound to you?
Are your children having issues in school?
Are you having trouble having children?
Are you bored?

Ways to enhance the Creativity Section in your home or business:

Have milk and cookies and take a nap ANYWHERE in your house!
Place instruments, games, crayons, the TV, art, and bright lighting in this area
Put pictures of children and highly creative people in this area (Mozart! Einsteen! Grandma!!!)
Include metal, white and yellow items, anything round, crafts, art, bells
Write down a list of items in which you feel stuck, put it in this area under a metal bell, and every day you can ring the bell and thank the feng shui energies for helping you create fun solutions to draining problems.

Get this “stuff” out of the Creativity Section in your home or business:

Fire, candles, red items, pointy or triangular objects
Big piles of workpapers you haven’t organized
Serious items that bring your energy down

Play lubricates the soul, encourages laughter, lifts the spirits, opens the door for easy communication with the fairies, and is good for our overall health.

Take delight in the simple pleasures, and guaranteed, you will be smiling.

2~ feng shui for the removal of fear

10/5/2015

AFRAID AND FUNKY AND DON'T KNOW WHY?
Read below for helpful tips on how to remove all types of SCARY junk from your life.

Yikes!!!
This space makes me feel uneasy and unsettled. What's up with the lava lamp and hair brush? All joking aside, unless your system is energized by a mess, if your space looks like this you could have a nagging sensation that something isn't quite right. This kitchen plus the nagging sensation could exacerbate everything and catapult you into fear mode.

I'm cool with this posh white kitchen. Not every place has to be this clean and perfect looking, but you get the idea. It's relaxing to be in a space that supports your energy, rather than pulls at it. One caveat: some people who have immaculate houses may be riddled with fear. This fear is not necessarily revealing itself for others to see but can be detected at the unseen levels of everyday life.

How Does Feng Shui Help?
Identify your Fears
Remove your Fears
Acknowledge Your Success and Celebrate!!!

How Does Feng Shui Help?
Feng Shui supports you by applying time-honored principles to your environment. These principles have been around for thousands of years. Its approach is multi-faceted. By examining your mental patterning you can shine light on it and take action on many levels to support your well-being – by writing, by seeking outside counsel, and by examining your physical space. This helps to eradicate symptoms that have manifested in your space as well as your mind. By working on your mental state AND your physical environs, you are covering all bases, which will then direct your life in a positive way.

Identify Your Fears
For most of us, this is fairly easy. At any one moment we could rattle on about how many things we are afraid of in just one day. Keep in mind, when we get angry or depressed, we may actually be afraid. In other words, fear wears many faces.

Steps to Finding Your Fears

Set aside 15 minutes to be alone, any time or place - first thing in the morning; after work and before arriving home; in the car; waiting for your kid at the doctor’s office, etc.
Grab a piece of paper and a pencil.
List some fears. Write and do not monitor what you are writing. Go nuts! Even if your fears seem strange and you are embarrassed by them, no one else has to read them.
When you finish, pick three fears that you would like to address now and write them down again. For example:

                        - I am afraid of failing at my job.
                        - I am afraid of my mother-in-law
                        - I am afraid of getting my new shoes dirty.

Remove Your Fears
This gets to be reallllllllllllllllllly fun, if you like challenges. You can go as deep or 'not deep' as you like, and can handle your fears on three different levels, depending on your mood at the time.

Surface level
Middle level
Deepest level

I will indicate levels on the steps below so you can get an idea of how this system works. Do NOT mistake the ranking for the degree of importance, because each level is equally important.

Ways to Remove Fears

Affirmations (surface level): With a red pen, write the three chosen fears on a piece of paper. After each fear, write a positive phrase on which to focus. “I am afraid of failing at my job” becomes “I LOVE being successful at my job. It feels great!” Carry a copy of these positive phrases with you at all times and also put a copy in the Skills & Wisdom section of your home. The feng shui energies will help you acquire the skills needed to work through these fears. Thank them for helping. (Skills & Wisdom location: Walk in through your front door and take a left. Stay to the left and go to the corner area closest to the front door.)
Mentor/Counseling (middle level): Address these fears with someone who is a trusted healer. Please do NOT trust just anyone with this task. To find the best healer/mentor for you, write down on a piece of paper that you would like to find the best person to help you. Put this request in a silver box or wrap it in tinfoil. Then put it in the Helpful People section of your home. (Helpful People location: Walk in through your front door and take a right. Stay to the right and go to the corner area closest to the front door.)
Be a Detective (surface and middle levels): Look for a few items in your household that you have never really wanted to keep. Get rid of them (surface). If they make you uneasy, there is a good reason why they make you uneasy. This uneasiness blocks your ability to eradicate your fears because it creates uncertainty in your system. If you care to go deeper (middle level) with these objects, write down and examine why they freak you out or make you wonder. Don’t hold back. Be 100% honest with yourself. It’s amazing what you learn by doing this. Write about these objects for 3-9 minutes every day for the following three weeks.
Sit With the True Source of Your Fears, aka “Sit With It” (deepest level): All of your fears, believe it or not, stem from one thing. Select an object that represents your desire to know why you have fears and place it in the Helpful People and/or Skills & Wisdom section of your household. If you like to write, write about the subject matter. If you like counseling, talk to someone. If you meditate, do it. Into praying? Acquiring wisdom is an awesome topic about which to pray. (Skills & Wisdom location: Walk in through your front door and take a left. Stay to the left and go to the corner area closest to the front door. Helpful People location: Walk in through your front door and take a right. Stay to the right and go to the corner area closest to the front door.)

Acknowledge Your Success and Celebrate!

Cute kid Dancing boy Manly dude Happy in their own skin
You could be too

1~ the infinite blessings of a feng shui'd life

10/5/2015

I love Feng Shui. Short and simple and true, and most things aren’t these days so it’s nice to align with something that is. Why do I love it so much?

It’s infinitely versatile and can literally help with ANYTHING!
It appeals to this unending desire to create beauty, help people, and have fun while doing it.
I get to wear so many hats while consulting. Problems with your cats? Hey! I can help. Neighbors are making you crazy? Okay, there is a solution, let’s figure it out. Health issues? How about not eating so many doughnuts followed by whiskey chasers? See! Feng Shui is the REAL DEAL. What other profession can deal with such a variety of issues in such an effective way?
Feng Shui provides insights into the seen and unseen worlds. Surface issues in the home or business can create serious problems in different areas of your life. You can dig as deep as you’d like or sail along as simply as the breeze. Your choice. Either way, incorporating feng shui principles can impact your life in MAJOR and POSITIVE ways.

That’s it for now, but in future blogs, expect to see more praises to the infinite blessings a feng shui’d life can bestow upon you.