Feng Shui Your Way to Abundance
February 18, 2010 by Sondra
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Clutter clearing is single most important Feng Shui practice for promoting abundance. Begin by thoroughly cleaning and de-cluttering the furthermost left hand corner of your home (judging from the front entry), as this is the “wealth area” of the house. When finished you may choose to place a small water fountain in that area or a picture of a body of water, as water symbolizes the flow of abundance. Be sure that when you turn on your fountain, or hang up your picture, you hold the intention of “activating prosperity” in your mind.
Check the condition of your mailbox. Increasing its attractiveness will increase the chance that money will want to come to you! The front entry of a home has an impact on the flow of wealth as well. Be sure that the stairs, concrete, porch, door and windows are properly maintained and clean. Spruce up this area by bringing in fresh flowers, plants, wind chimes and/or a new welcome mat. If you wish to go all out, you can place an outdoor fountain in your front entry way, with the water flowing towards the door on the outside. The next tip is particularly great for your office, if your own your own business. Upon entering your front door, place a model ship (make sure you choose a ship with sails at full mast) and position it so that it is entering your home or office.
My sincere hope is that you have fun with this, as you roll up your sleeves to bring prosperity into your life via Feng Shui. If you find that you apply any of these principals and you have amazing success stories and are willing to do so, please send me an email with your story. Abundant Blessings to you and yours forevermore!
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Sondra Lockhart Schmid has worked as an active tarot card reader since 1999. In the last two years she has incorporated numerology as part of her readings. Her variety of metaphysical knowledge includes hypnotherapy, astrology, angels, numerology and she practices the Law of Attraction. She and her husband currently own and operate www.foryourchi.com as well as the Global Consciousness website www.higherlight.org.
Contact info: Phone: (478) 227-2580 Email: foryourchi@gmail.com
The Pinocchio Effect
February 18, 2010 by mary
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I’ve come to realize that, however well intentioned, for the most part human beings are not particularly honest.
People lie for all kinds of reasons. We might BLUFF to win at cards or tell the infamous FISH TALE. Who could it hurt? Some use WHITE LIES to avoid hurting someone’s feelings. I’m guilty! We could tell an EMERGENCY LIE when the guy next door is in a rage about his wife’s affair. I know I don’t want to get involved! There’s the LIE OF OMMISSION, when we don’t tell the whole truth because some things are better left unsaid or when we’ve been asked to keep a secret. BARE-FACED LIES and LYING THROUGH YOUR TEETH are those lies that are so obvious, you walk away shaking your head. Then there is the damaging CONTEXTUAL LIE, which leaves someone with a false impression because the truth is taken out of context. And FABRICATION; in my opinion the most dangerous to both the teller and the listener because it is an outright statement told as truth when we make assumptions or when we have no valid proof.
We’ve all lied at one time or another and we started young! As children we learned from experience that not telling the truth would avoid punishment, so by the time we reached about four and a half years old we were able to tell a convincing lie. Apparently lying isn’t exclusive to humans either. I remember reading a story about an ape who had been taught American Sign language. He pulled a sink from a wall in an angry rage, and when asked who did it he blamed his pet kitten! So what is the message we are sending to those who learn from our example?
A lie is a low-level energy source floating around out there in the cosmos. When told there can only be two outcomes. It could be uncovered or remain undiscovered. In order to keep the original lie neatly buried, more and more negative energy gets piled onto it. With every new lie told this negative force gains size and momentum and eventually, BOOM! It’s out there for the world to see. Just think of all the mighty politicians who’ve gone to great lengths heaping lie on top of lie to avoid falling from lofty perches, only to have the naked truth revealed in shame.
We are highly critical of those great big lies from public figures, but have we stopped to examine how the lies in our own lives are affecting the energy around us? I’ve recently witnessed a close friend in turmoil over discovering his partner has been a high functioning, undercover alcoholic for most of their thirty years together. This lie has made him question if anything in their relationship has ever really been true. Then there is my business associate who is experiencing financial hardship. She was offered assistance from several people she trusted, only to find out from another source that her integrity is now in question by all of them. Most distraught, she is now questioning all of her relationships, because she no longer knows whom to trust.
As the ultimate believer in the law of attraction ~ not so much in the way the Secret depicts it, but from a Feng Shui perspective in that everything is energy and that we attract situations to us that vibrate at the same high or low rate as we do ~ my first questions are “What secret are you keeping? How honest are you being with yourself and others? What are you doing that attracted this dishonesty to you?” We are all the makers or breakers of our own circumstances so we draw to ourselves every single thing that happens, the good or not so great.
Honesty doesn’t mean telling everyone every thought that runs through our head in a day, however deception of any kind is a different matter. It breaks down confidence and creates distrust. Lies erodes our integrity and our relationships with others. More so, it obscures our relationship to ourselves and our Spirit, as our Divinity is only revealed through love.
So here’s a challenge. Are you up for making a sincere effort to be honest with all your words and actions for one full week? Please let me know how you do!
~ Go with the Flow!
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An award winning Television Producer/Director/Writer for over 30 years, Mary Giuffre sidestepped mainstream media and created SoulWater EnergyWorks to focus on the greater good. An Emotional Empath, Mary has been a student of metaphysics, energy and spirituality since her early teen years. Studies under a Native American Shaman, Energy Healers and many Spiritual Teachers have enhanced her natural ability to tap into the energetic flow of our inner and outer environments and she has been identified as a Master Energy Mover. Now a Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader, Certified Practitioner and Mentor practicing and promoting Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, Mary’s finely tuned abilities adjust energetic balance to enhance harmony, prosperity and overall well-being, Creating Flow in Your Life!
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Whose Truth?
For a few weeks now, I’ve been engaged in an online conversation about TRUTH with a person I know to be wonderful loving Spirit. A Christian theist who believes mind, body and Soul in following what many believe is the only TRUTH, that of the Bible and I honour his choice.
However, what I know for sure is that facts are merely observations from one point of view. Ask any witness what happened at the scene of an accident and you will get several different interpretations, each completely accurate in the mind of the observer, so I’ve come to see TRUTH as being a very subjective thing. What many refer to as Personal TRUTH.
According to my friend, “TRUTH is absolute. Take for instance a simple truth in mathematics. 2+2=4. That is true for everyone.” He went on to say, “…when Jesus makes the claim that “I am the way and the TRUTH and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”, either this is true or it is not, not both. One must decide whether or not to accept the TRUTH… Are you absolutely certain there is no such thing as absolute TRUTH?!!”
Well, when it comes to knowing the unknowable, yes I am.
I’m thankful that my Catholic roots instilled my belief that there is much more to us than flesh and bone and that we wouldn’t exist without our Spirit, however most of what I was taught just never rang true. I’ve always seen the Bible as a series of stories, which helped us from going too far astray. We were not there to actually hear the spoken words, so how could any one be absolutely certain they are true? Even when I was a church-going Catholic I couldn’t see taking the Bible as “Bible” when there was one text for us and a variety of different versions for the multitude of other Christian faiths! It all comes down to what we believe and belief is subjective. Taking us back to the formulation of Personal TRUTH. So here goes.
My best understanding of the Divine comes through my own heartfelt experience. My God is everybody’s God, completely accessible with all communication lines open 24/7 and no need for a go between. She is a perfect egoless Being requiring no worship. Why would a perfect egoless Being require worship? My God would never turn away His creations based on their Personal TRUTH. I just can’t imagine a line up of beautiful loving Muslim or Jewish Spirits floating around aimlessly in the universe because of their beliefs. I don’t need a doctrine to tell me this is true. It just doesn’t make any sense to my heart. Devote Christians can quote all the Bible verses they’d like. As I don’t put the same faith in those words that they do, they don’t hold the same meaning for me.
I do not accept that we are separate Spirits searching for God outside ourselves. However, I do believe that Jesus was God in the flesh, but I also think we are ALL sparks of the Divine, which in our humanness, with our inflated egos, over rationalizing and excessive thinking, we’ve pushed down the knowing until our Divinity has become unrecognizable to most of us. I believe that Jesus, like the Buddha and others before and after Them were enlightened beings ~ wide-awake, while many of us are still in various stages of fitful sleep. And I believe our current physical form is one of hundreds, perhaps thousands we experience before reaching our own enlightenment.
I experience my God as my Highest Self, my Higher Power, the Best part of me. I’ve stopped searching outside myself and found everything I need inside, as that’s where I feel at peace and where I receive the Best answers. This is not narcissistic, as my Spirituality connects all of us together. This isn’t about thinking I’m God. It’s about knowing we are ALL God, one Spirit with a longing for ALL of us to stop thinking we are separate from God.
I have not come to my beliefs without thorough investigation through mind, heart and Spirit. I’ve formulated them based on endless discussions, like the one with my friend, as well as reading the texts and the interpretations of many Religious and Spiritual sects from Catholic, to Aboriginal and Buddhist, to the teachings of a man whom I believe to be the most recent incarnation of the Christ Spirit ~ Meher Baba, who lived in India and dropped his body in the ‘60’s, to the wisdom of many of the Spiritual teachers of today.
I take great joy in exploring the unlimited realm of possibilities our Divinity holds, however I also believe that even when we transition from this physical state, complete knowing is not possible until we’ve reached our own enlightenment.
So here’s another thing I know for sure. As a Spiritual seeker, my Personal TRUTH is ever evolving.
~ Go with the Flow!
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greater good. An Emotional Empath, Mary has been a student of metaphysics, energy and spirituality since her early teen years. Studies under a Native American Shaman, Energy Healers and many Spiritual Teachers have enhanced her natural ability to tap into the energetic flow of our inner and outer environments and she has been identified as a Master Energy Mover. Now a Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader, Certified Practitioner and Mentor practicing and promoting Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, Mary’s finely tuned abilities adjust energetic balance to enhance harmony, prosperity and overall well-being, Creating Flow in Your Life!
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Heaven Sent
On a chilly November day in the Gatineau Hills, a dainty little ladybug sat in patient anticipation, watching intently from her perch on an exquisitely polished stone. The appointed day had arrived and now as she waited she reflected on the melancholy afternoon when she accepted this assignment.
That day had seemed perfect to her in many ways. A warm glow from the late August sun held the chill from an early approaching autumn at bay. Small chattering groups were gathering near her home on the hillside and excitement was rising in the flamboyant little beetle. She so loved to be surrounded by people, but as she gracefully flitted through leaves and around neatly arranged bouquets of fragrant blossoms it seemed rather odd to her that despite her brilliant scarlet and black ensemble, she went virtually unnoticed.
As the crowd quieted, the lovely little lady looked on. She noticed deep shadows falling despite a cloudless blue sky and as she paid closer attention she heard a lone saxophone lamenting in a rhythm meant to soothe broken hearts. One woman in particular seemed unbearably distraught. The ladybug had never felt this feeling before and wanted so much to escape until she heard a gentle voice on the breeze whispering through the nearby forest grove. “Please wait for her,” it pleaded. “She’ll return before the snow flies.”
The little ladybug had heard about ‘the Voice’ before. Her elders told elaborate stories of the glory days when Ladybugs earned their time-honoured name. It was said that in the Middle Ages insects were destroying the crops and when the farmers prayed for help, Mary the Mother of Jesus called in the red and black ones to answer their prayers. In gratitude the farmers named these helpers, “The Beetles of Our Lady”. Eventually ‘Ladybug’ was the name that stuck and now she had heard the call herself.
It was early afternoon when a car pulled tentatively into the hillside parking lot. The leaves were gone now and the spiky grey branches on barren trees made the place feel so desolate. As the driver opened the door, she pulled her coat tightly around herself. It wasn’t the chill in the air so much, as the fact that she was there to see her husband’s tombstone for the first time. When she walked this pathway before, she was surrounded by loved ones. This time she took the journey alone with only a camera in her pocket, so she could send a photo to loved ones who lived on the other side of the country. She lingered a while with her face to the wind, allowing it to dry the salty tears that trickled down both cheeks and when her eyes cleared, she turned to admire the stone. “Everything he deserves,” she thought as she snapped a photo and hurried away much quicker than when she arrived.
She couldn’t face downloading the photos immediately. It was just a bit too much to bear for one day, but her courage returned early the next morning and with a few clicks of her mouse there it was, an elegant tribute to the man she loved so dearly. Everything that happened in the past year came rushing back to her and she was flooded with emotion. She just couldn’t stop missing him and longing for something to reconnect her to everything they shared, she sat staring into her computer screen, focusing more closely on the details of the stone. There seemed to be an odd marking beside the date. As she zoomed in closer and closer, the tiny little ladybug revealed herself.
“Are ladybugs good luck?” she Googled frantically. In an online article by Angel Therapist, Dr. Doreen Virtue Ph.D. she received her answer. “You can be sure that heaven’s sending you a loving message whenever you find ladybugs in unusual locations…The angels say, ‘Ladybugs, like hearts with wings, are our love-letter carriers from Heaven above.’”
We are energetically connected to all of Nature and cultures worldwide consider animals and insects messengers, bearing news from the etheric realms. If we take the time to watch and listen, Nature Spirits are always ready to deliver exactly what we need to hear and through them the Divine will provide guidance and reveal the wisdom of life’s mysteries. (Ted Andrew’s book Animal Speak is a wonderful reference for what Nature’s wonders are telling us when they show up in our lives.)
Through the days and months since his passing everything in me knew that her husband, who had a true connection with Spirit, would reach across all barriers to communicate with her in some way. She, a more ‘practical person’ (her words) wasn’t so sure. The day she revealed his Heaven sent gift, her joy was undeniable.
Wishing you Joy, Love and Peace for a Blessed Christmas, Happy Holidays and an Energized New Year!
~ Go with the Flow!
Check out my Feng Shui For Your Spirit Tips for a Merrier Christmas and an Energized New Year!
An award winning Television Producer/Director/Writer for over 30 years, Mary Giuffre sidestepped mainstream media and created SoulWater EnergyWorks to focus on thegreater good. An Emotional Empath, Mary has been a student of metaphysics, energy and spirituality since her early teen years. Studies under a Native American Shaman, Energy Healers and many Spiritual Teachers have enhanced her natural ability to tap into the energetic flow of our inner and outer environments and she has been identified as a Master Energy Mover. Now a Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader, Certified Practitioner and Mentor practicing and promoting Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, Mary’s finely tuned abilities adjust energetic balance to enhance harmony, prosperity and overall well-being, Creating Flow in Your Life!
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So, What IS Feng Shui For Your Spirit?
I knew when I started my practise a few years back that most people had only a vague idea of what Feng Shui is all about, but it wasn’t until my teenage nephew totally cracked me up by asking his mom if she was using “Aunt Mary’s Hippie Magic again!” that I realized just how shrouded in superstition Feng Shui really is.
Well, there’s truly nothing magical about it! In very simple terms: Feng Shui is an ancient science based on the movement of energy. It has roots in China dating back about 5,000 years, as well as in other cultures worldwide that have also been studying the art of balancing and harmonizing energy flow. Additionally, modern science has proved that everything from rocks to animals, to our human bodies and Spirits is made up of energy and that all things vibrate in sync with the universal energy that surrounds them. (Check out the film or book What the Bleep do we Know?)
The purpose of contemporary Feng Shui is to find the best environmental arrangement for people to live and work up to their fullest potential, physically, mentally, emotionally and Spiritually, so positive intention ~ an energetic thought form ~ is also part of the energy or life force Feng Shui works with, because everything in our universe is energetically connected.
Too many people still think the chaos they experience is created by external energetic forces, so they come to me looking for quick Feng Shui fix hoping a well placed mirror and a new colour on the front door will make all the difference to their troubled existence. Although adjustments to our surrounding help make us feel better in the short term, I have proven to myself time and again that our thoughts are the energies that create our reality, so in order to apply effective and long lasting Feng Shui enhancements to our environment, clear, heartfelt thinking is imperative first.
When confusing, hectic or disordered thoughts haunt us, achieving this clarity is much easier when using what I refer to Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, which assists in moving energy from our heads to our hearts so we can stop thinking chaotic stuff and start acknowledging how we feel about things instead!
Feng Shui For Your Spirit© incorporates the Bagua Map traditionally used for mapping our homes, in a unique way. I use it as a Soul-searching guide to discover where we’re losing our positively charged life force. The Bagua Map is divided into eight areas (surrounding a grounding centre section), which relate to all aspects of our physical, mental, emotional and Spiritual existence:
WEALTH ~ ABUNDANCE ~ PROSPERITY
FAME ~ REPUTATION
RELATIONSHIPS ~ LOVE ~ MARRIAGE
CREATIVITY ~ CHILDREN
SPIRIT ~ HELPFUL PEOPLE ~ TRAVEL
CAREER EDUCATION ~ KNOWLEDGE ~ SELF CULTIVATION
HEALTH ~ FAMILY
ALL sides of life deserve equal attention and respect, which in turn create balance and harmony, so by creating a personal Feng Shui For Your Spirit© Bagua Map and exploring the positive and negative feelings we hold about each area, we can easily recognize our blessings as well as issues that require the attention of loving energy.
To support Feng Shui For Your Spirit© growth I’ve also developed a card system to be used in conjunction with the Bagua Map or on it’s own. Addressing our inner work allows us a more complete understanding of what we feel in every situation. Meditating on these or other heartfelt concepts found in the Feng Shui For Your Spirit© Card Deck for a few minutes everyday will allow divinely guided energies to create flow in your life.
Accept that this moment is all you ever have.
A peaceful, loving world starts with you.
Generosity is good for your soul.
Trust your inner wisdom.
Stay present.
Loving energy heals all.
Disengage from heartache.
Live free from negative thought.
Gratitude is the only prayer you really need.
Your own ego is the only thing that leads you astray.
Combining these two simple Feng Shui For Your Spirit© techniques makes it much easier to recognize and implement the enhancements we need in our internal and external environments, which help maintain inner peace and create a stress free life!
~ Go with the flow!
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deClutter Fairy Dreams!
I’ve spoken with too many people lately who are concerned about lack of motivation and creativity, slow progress in life and love or dwindling to nonexistent business. If this applies to you stop reading and look around you ~ I’ll wait ~ My guess is there are lots of things directly within your eye line that are cluttering your space, right? Well, I truly believe despite what we hear about the state of our economy, that we create our own reality, so by examining our own surroundings we’ll see the first blocks to the flow of prosperity and the energy of abundance!
I’m sure many of us have deClutter Fairy Dreams. Just think with one swoop of her wand all your junk would POOF! disappear. Well good luck with that! Although it may be overwhelming at first, the deCluttering process can be a truly Spiritual experience and it is probably the fastest way to transform your life, because getting rid of what you no longer need, makes way for brand new and exciting opportunities to flow in!
So we’re clear, clutter is all the junk you don’t need or use that’s piled up around your house or office. It’s too many shoes in a heap up at your front door. It’s those empty jars on dressers or countertops and the pile of un-filed documents on your desk. It’s that bunch of magazines you never get around to reading and it’s also the basket of laundry that never seems to make it to the drawer before you wear it again.
Just because you can’t see clutter doesn’t mean it won’t affect you. Junk that gets stuffed into closets and drawers and into our basements and attics is also a dangerous offender. Dirt sticks to clutter and causes energy to get stuck. Stagnating energy makes us feel tired, unbalanced, & depressed. It also promotes confusion, procrastination, disorganization and failing health. Clutter causes physical, mental, emotional and Spiritual fatigue that hampers your inspiration, muddies your thought process, makes you edgy, tired, disconnected from Source and it can literally block business from coming through your door.
Where your clutter resides says a lot about the unresolved issues in your life. For example OVERHEAD CLUTTER ~ cluttered attics or high shelves can cause headaches because it suppresses higher aspirations. Ask yourself this. Is there something in the future you’re afraid of?
If you tend to have TABLE-TOP CLUTTER ~ stuff that accumulates at about hip level, like on desks or counter tops, you could experience fertility or digestive problems. Tabletop clutter is about what’s problematic in the present. So, is there something disturbing going on right now that’s keeping you stuck?
FLOOR-LEVEL CLUTTER or basement clutter can cause foot or ankle problems and it almost always means you have unresolved past issues that are preventing you from moving forward. You’ll need to get over them before you can truly reach your future goals.
And so the deClutter-Soul-Search begins.
I’m sure there are plenty of items in your attics or basements that others could use. Empty your closets and give those fabulous clothes you’ve dieted out of to someone in need. File that stack invoices. Either dust those desk trinkets or get rid of them. Have someone edit your too wordy website ~ yes unnecessary words are clutter too ~ and watch your energy, prosperity and Spirit soar!
~ Go with the flow!
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Breaking N.E.W.S.
The formal exchange of information has been part of human culture since messengers ran from city to city in ancient times and the town criers of early North American settlements clanged their bells on street corners. The word NEWS is an acronym for North East West South and the purpose of NEWS agencies is to report factual information from all four corners of the globe, which specifically answer the W-Five questions ~ WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? WHY? My personal experience however, has provided a distinctly different perspective.
I started my television career over thirty years ago spending a great deal of time in newsrooms, waiting on tender hooks for the final word on a lead story so I could scurry to an editing room and string together shiny bits of hype that would draw audiences to nightly broadcasts.
In the summer of 1990, when the Gulf War broke out I was recognized as an expert NEWS promoter and was immediately drafted by the Never Ending War Stories department for an extended tour of duty. When I finally escaped nine months later, somewhat shell shocked, battle worn and totally disillusioned from watching facts being spun into dramatic stories which damage the Human Spirit, I promised myself that Negligently Eroding World Sanity was not how I wanted to make my living and ever since I’ve been an expert NEWS avoider.
When NEWS is turned on in my environment I immediately tune out because in my opinion there are No Ethical Words Spoken. Here’s how it really works: As regular people and events are far from NEWSWORTHY, reporters manipulate information with Narrow-minded or Exaggerated Words, Separating the haves from the have nots, the popular from the ordinary, as well as countries, cultures, and communities in order to exalt the outrageous. I believe NEWS reporting has degenerated into a divisive medium, which distorts human expectations and emotions through sensationalized spectacles. In other words they produce Nothing Ever Worth Sharing.
Emotions are conductors of energy and energy gathers momentum relative to the frequency of the emotion feeding it. When we see something disturbing we are either compelled to take action ~ which enhances positive energy ~ or in most cases we just get upset or depressed over our inability to do anything about it ~ which rapidly adds to a pre-existing vortex of doom. Allowing ourselves to absorb a constant barrage of Negative Energy Waves, Suppresses our Spiritual connection by creating a fearful and anxious environment, which is the polar opposite of our Divine nature.
Love is what we are. One of our greatest gifts is thoughtful compassion, which originates from our Source. I find it so unfortunate that most of society has been programmed to seek outside of Self, continually waiting for some external authority to provide or affirm our opinions. If people would at very least turn off the sound on their TVs they could formulate their views with their hearts, based on what they see going on around them, rather than allowing some all knowing broadcast authority to tell them how they should feel and how to respond to current events. Better yet if you can’t make a positive energetic contribution, it’s best not to take in the NEWS at all.
I do realize that Not Everyone Wants Sensationalism, but it is apparent from the ratings of NEWS broadcasts that we are truly in the minority. It’s time for more of us to speak out against this Needlessly Exploitive World Sabotage. Any takers?
~ Go with the flow!
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An award winning Television Producer/Director/Writer for over 30 years, Mary Giuffre sidestepped mainstream media and created SoulWater EnergyWorks to focus on the greater good. An Emotional Empath, Mary has been a student of metaphysics, energy and spirituality since her early teen years. Studies under a Native American Shaman, Energy Healers and many Spiritual Teachers have enhanced her natural ability to tap into the energetic flow of our inner and outer environments and she has been identified as a Master Energy Mover. Now a Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader, Certified Practitioner and Mentor practicing and promoting Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, Mary’s finely tuned abilities adjust energetic balance to enhance harmony, prosperity and overall well-being, Creating Flow in Your Life!
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Feng Shui Remedies for Increasing Your Luck and Bringing Great Fortune
October 1, 2009 by shayne
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Feng shui does wonders to those who seek good or better fortune. The whole idea of is to employ good fortune feng shui remedies in proper positions to attract or bring about positive chi into their surrounding environments to benefit the lives of the users. Feng shui is surprisingly very easy to use, and is proven to be very powerful.
Enhancers or cures placed in the right orientation aids in the harnessing of good energy or positive chi which brings about and maintains harmony in the area that it is meant for, and brings more wealth, good health, prosperity and happiness to those who use it.
Learning to activate all energies will truly benefit you with increased luck and good fortune.
The most potent of the feng shui remedies to increase your good fortune is the symbol of the dragon, it’s also one of the most popular feng shui remedies that’s used today. It is said to create the precious cosmic chi that brings good luck and increased wealth into our homes and offices. Combined with moving water, the dragon’s representation and power are even more increased. The north area is the best place to display this dragon-water feature combination. This will bring your career endless success. If placed in the southeast, it will surely bring you plenty of financial luck.
The elephant is also an excellent good fortune feng shui symbol. It is said to represent power and prominence that is usually associated with the head of the family or company. The elephant is also said to be the granter of wishes. Placing an elephant in your office brings about successful business deals and endeavors.
The laughing Buddha symbol is also especially powerful in increasing your luck with family and children. He is said to bring good luck and an abundance of positive chi.
You can use feng shui remedies such as wind chimes to create a natural balance of energies in your life. This will also attract happiness and good fortune into your home.
The number 9 is considered a lucky number and is an overall power number in the attainment of good fortune.
Windows, especially if able to open fully outwards, are also good focal points for attracting wealth into your life.
Any cure that you choose to employ should come with a distinct, honest and willed intention. Before you move anything in, out, or within a room, make sure that it is clear that you are doing so to attract good luck and wealth.
It is also advisable to do the same when you are thinking about or intending to add something or remove something from the room. Ask yourself questions like, “What will this mean for my fortune?”, “How will this affect me?”, “Am I following correct Feng Shui theory?”
Remember that good fortune comes not only from the physical, but the emotional plays a big role in the cultivation of your goal as well. Make sure that YOU are ready for whatever the good fortune feng shui remedies will bring.
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Goal Tenders
HR Interviewer: “Where do you see yourself in five years?”
Me: “I really don’t know. I don’t set goals. Never have. I think that’s why I’ve been so successful.”
HR Interviewer: Blank Stare
Our society is stuck on goals. Too many people I’ve met manage their lives a lot like a sports match. They feel it’s their duty to plot out rigid step-by-step manoeuvres, pinpointing exactly what they want and where they should be on life’s playing field, then mapping exactly how they propose to go about getting there. They feel most unacceptable to themselves if they don’t live up to their own expectations by scoring the winning play and even worse, if they miss the mark, they make themselves sick with worry about what their competitors will think of them. But they still make it their life’s mission to tend their goals!
If by chance you’re not in the game and don’t have any specific goals, the population at large figures you lack ambition or the drive it takes to succeed in this materially driven society of ours and that you live a terribly irresponsible life, always flying by the seat of your pants.
The way I see it here on the sidelines, compulsive goal tenders are most comfortable being busy busy bees. They are constant doers filling their lives and minds with visions of grandeur, keeping their agendas filled and life predictable, mistaking doing for purpose, relentlessly seeking outside themselves for what will satisfy the inner longing for something they can’t quite put their finger on. At the extreme, these obsessive goal tenders push others aside in their quest for personal gain while in constant pursuit of the next achievement that will bring them happiness. The trouble with this mode of thought is that happiness is a state of being that can’t be reached by doing anything.
Unfortunately the goal tending gene usually gets passed on from generation to generation. Doer parents are out there shuffling their Mini-Me kids to ballet lessons, math tutors and gymnastics competitions ~ pushing five year-olds to meet schedules that would rival that of a seasoned executive and leaving those precious innocents sad, tired and completely stressed out. With all that endless striving and no time to creatively express their blossoming spirits through joyful, spontaneous play, for these unfortunate little “human doings” depression is a real life possibility. The teen suicide stats say it all.
For me, not having goals doesn’t mean a lack of ambition or purpose. I see goals as self-imposed limitations! If keep my eyes focused directly on the prize, I could very easily miss out on all the exciting opportunities dancing merrily on the periphery and that’s what I believe we’re here to experience! So instead, I’ll always do the next alluring, amusing or beautiful thing that comes along and if that doesn’t feed my soul, I pray the seat of my pants grow wings and helps me connect with something else!
~ Go with the flow!
An award winning Television Producer/Director/Writer for over 30 years, Mary Giuffre sidestepped mainstream media and created SoulWater EnergyWorks to focus on the greater good. An Emotional Empath, Mary has been a student of metaphysics, energy and spirituality since her early teen years. Studies under a Native American Shaman, Energy Healers and many Spiritual Teachers have enhanced her natural ability to tap into the energetic flow of our inner and outer environments and she has been identified as a Master Energy Mover. Now a Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader, Certified Practitioner and Mentor practicing and promoting Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, Mary’s finely tuned abilities adjust energetic balance to enhance harmony, prosperity and overall well-being,
Creating Flow in Your Life!
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Spirituality Is Not Religion
My relationship with religion comes from a childhood and adolescence as a mini Catholic and although I loved to sing my heart out in the choir on Sunday mornings, even as a little kid I never really bought into the whole religion thing. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not down on Roman Catholics or any other religious individuals for that matter. I realize they are all just people doing the best they can to get through this life, but personally I never really got it. Actually, I still don’t.
The way I see it, most religions have a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices that carry huge and treacherous personal penalties if individuals fall out of line. Most religious people I know are a devoted, unwavering, meticulous, but fearful lot. They’ve studied a human interpretation of scripture that says “the man upstairs” is this all-powerful angry creator guy who is judge, jury and executioner of everyone and everything. I think it’s pretty reasonable to be afraid of that story!
As I refused to buy what religion was selling, I took off on my own joy ride, leaving behind anything that had to do with God or whatever anybody else chose to call “Him”. However, after of ardently avoiding any thought or opinion in this area, a need for some Divine intervention was dumped squarely on my head a number of years later and I was opened up to seeing our Creator in a whole new way. God was no longer about religion and the oneness of ALL that is became very apparent.
My life’s experiences have allowed me to recognize and accept that from rocks to humans, we are all spiritual beings living a human existence. This is not something I feel the need to prove to anyone else, but is a KNOWINGNESS I feel to the depth of my being, so my relationship with spirit has absolutely nothing to do with church God.
As the world’s been fighting “god inspired” wars pretty much since the creation of religion, we’re all aware of how easy it is for people to argue about their chosen faith. For me, spirituality means that ALL things are part of life as we know it. There can be no argument about whether there IS life, or whether all things are part of life because we’re all here, partaking of everything this life has to offer. So all people participate in Spirituality and agree with it by default! They don’t necessarily know or accept that they do because they don’t understand that the meaning of Spirituality is nothing more than life itself ~ as it really is!
In the simplest terms, I see Spirituality as our ALL connected universal energy, our Greatness, our Divinity. We’re ALL here as ONE, sharing love and respect for ALL that is. There are no Spiritual rules, no Spiritual expectations and absolutely no fear of Spiritual damnation. Our Spiritual essence knows we are here for only one reason. LOVE. Because LOVE is ALL there is.
~ Go with the flow!
An award winning Television Producer/Director/Writer for over 30 years, Mary Giuffre sidestepped mainstream media and created SoulWater EnergyWorks to focus on the greater good. An Emotional Empath, Mary has been a student of metaphysics, energy and spirituality since her early teen years. Studies under a Native American Shaman, Energy Healers and many Spiritual Teachers have enhanced her natural ability to tap into the energetic flow our inner and outer environments. Now a Motivational Speaker, Workshop Leader, Certified Practitioner and Mentor practicing and promoting Feng Shui For Your Spirit©, Mary’s fine-tuned abilities adjust energetic balance to enhance harmony, prosperity and overall well-being by Creating Flow in Your Life!
Mary Giuffre ~ Specializing in Feng Shui For Your Spirit © www.SoulWaterEnergyWorks.com, www.ActsOfJoy.com
Executive TV Producer ~ Partner in inspirtainment inc. www.inspirtainment.com
Co-Creator ~ Partner in W.A.V.E. Web Design & Marketing www.WeAreVirtuallyEverywhere.com
