Many of you have noticed that I’m always talking about adjusting our spaces as a way of manifesting in our physical environment. When we create spaces that speak to who we imagine ourselves to be in the next several years, we create a continuous, inspiring, encouraging home or office that helps keep us feeling entitled, energized and focused on our greatest goals. What we think about, we bring about. And our space can have a great deal to do with how we manifest our dreams.
Take a look at your space right now…. What do you see?… How would you describe it? If your home or office was a person, what kind of personality and temperament would they have? Is it focused, bland, empty, Zen, frenetic, lively, intense, bold, pretty, sweet, delicate, powerful, heavy, light, small, expansive? Put words to what you see and feel about your surroundings.
Then take a look at YOU. Where are you right now in your life? Where would you like to be? What traits do you have that are keeping you from that dream? Where do you sense or notice any imbalances or extremes?
Once you take note of these traits, you can then being to create your plan, your focus and your intention for your new space. To give a clearer example, let’s take my home as a sampling of what I mean….
When I first started feng shui, I lived with 3 other roommates in cramped, dirty quarters and sleeping in a bedroom that was 100% stark white. I was struggling financially, struggling with my weight, and struggling with my self-confidence. Then I read “The Western Guide to Feng Shui” and started making my space beautiful. I surrounded myself with pretty things, rich textures, and inspiring artwork. I added soft pastel pinks & yellows to the walls. I did the best I knew to do. And I felt better, I got a great new art directing job, my finances tripled and I was losing weight! Not bad… not bad indeed.
Then I met my teacher, Jackie — after helping me manifest a new, more expansive, mature (and FAR more beautiful) apartment, things REALLY started to blossom. My space expanded, and my life expanded right along with it. But I brought all the things, colors and beliefs from the previous apartment. At least, that is, until Jackie’s next visit.
Jackie opened my eyes to what I was creating unconsciously. What I was most struggling with was self-confidence, yet deep inside I am a strong, passionate, dynamic woman. My environment (and my internal mental gremlin) told a far different story. Jackie helped me see that the colors I chose were still soft and gentle, and where I was wanting to go in my life was far from that. I needed clarity, focus, energy and drive. So she helped me design a space that was bold, beautiful and dynamic. Within no time at all, I saw the effects of this energetic influence on my life. My relationships transformed, my career was booming, my income was going up and up and up steadily, and I was feeling more like the confident woman that I’d always imagined I could be. It was this design and this bold dose of confidence that I attribute as a large part of what allowed me to manifest “Fun Shui” so effortlessly. What a blessing beyond words…
But after shooting a tv show and all the intensity and time that went into making it, the experience had left me needing more quiet and R&R. I had been working so much that my space and it’s arrangement spoke to a woman who worked all the time. And that’s basically how my life was going. So once again, Jackie to the rescue! She saw what I needed. She intuitively felt where I was, and where my body and spirit longed to go. And she helped me create a space that spoke to that next step in my evolution and path. With a calm Zen airiness and simplicity (yet with an equally bold blast of fire and fame!) she’s once again helped me design the “medicine” for my home and my life. I’ve spent much of this New Year’s time sorting, purging, releasing and repainting in order to allow my space to once again become an inspiration. Thank you Jackie, thank you Universe, thank you Megan & Lauren (who have spent the entire week with me painting my ceiling red!)
My point in telling you this is to help show you:
1. How having help and support when transforming your space is vital.
Even I, a feng shui practitioner myself, need a neutral outside party
(just because I can see other’s homes clearly doesn’t mean I can
necessarily see my own blind spots). We all need that external mirror
to help reflect our imbalances, shine a light on our beauty, and to
inspire us out of our comfort zones and on to the future that awaits.
2. How important it is to always be open to the flow and change of
things. As our lives unfold, our homes must too in order to provide us
with the forward inspiration we so desire. Your space will NEVER be
done. As long as you are alive and breathing, your home will be
evolving right along with you…
3. The powerful results that can be achieved through powerful shifts in
our environment. I believe in feng shui because it has worked for me. I
believe in feng shui because it has changed my life. And there’s
nothing better than that…
