Clutter Clearing – Hot Topic for Feng Shui

“I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna!”

Oh, I can just hear you now. We all hate it. I hate it, you hate it, your neighbor hates it, even your MAID hates it. Yes, your maid hates it!

What?

Cleaning. We all hate to clean. If somebody tells me they actually like to clean, I will first ask them if they’ve had a recent head injury, and, if that’s a “no”, then I’ll find out if they belong to a cult group.

My grandmother used to say, “cleanliness is next to godliness.” Not to be irreverent at all, God rest her soul, I miss her dearly, but back then I would ask, “Where is God?” She would point mysteriously up to the sky, all the while looking at me with that wise and meaningful “now don’t ask me any more questions” grandmotherly look. (I was a very young girl at the time.) So, see, I started to think that cleanliness was up there, not down here, since it was next to God, up in the sky, and I would wonder why she was always cleaning. I figured she wanted to fly because the clouds were so pretty and this was her way of maybe making that happen. Oh, the creative little mind of a child!

Seriously, though, in Feng Shui, the first step, and most important, is to Clear Out your Clutter! Entire books have been written on this subject alone. So, if you think you’re the only person in the world who still has 25-year-old wedding presents sitting unopened in a trunk in the attic, think again. You’re not alone! And no, we don’t buy the excuse that you’re just waiting for them to become antiques! You’re a packrat, like millions of others around the world. And there’s hope. Seriously, from one recovering packrat to a future recovering packrat, you can do it. You can throw away your stuff. Get rid of everything you don’t love.

Many experts recommend thoroughly cleaning the home or space in a good old-fashioned way, bringing out the mop, broom, dustpan, and vacuum cleaner, before performing any clearing ritual. This could be as simple as soap and water or as complex as using every different type of cleaning compound on the market. During the cleaning process, a lot of negativity will remove itself simply by removing the filth. Dust, cobwebs, dirt, and accumulated grime carry their own negative vibrations and make it easier for outside negativity to find a home inside your home. So, get rid of it. And keep it clean once you get it clean.

If you want to learn more about Clutter Clearing and Feng Shui, be sure to visit our new and developing site, www.thefengshuilife.com . It’s worth a look-see!

Signing off for now, Suzanne Linwood

Feng Shui – Mini-Background

Good day, good evening from me to you and yours! What do you want to know about that funny-sounding Chinese thing that people do to make their homes magical? Fung Shway is how to say it. But what is it – in a nutshell? Here’s an excerpt from The Feng Shui Life book (available on the site) that will give you an idea.

Feng Shui is an art and to some, a science of design and placement promoting the idea of living in harmony and balance with our environment. It originated in China thousands of years ago. The term itself means wind and water, referring to the flow of movement through any area. Although it is partly derived from some of the tenets of Buddhism, Feng Shui is not a religion.

Black Hat Feng Shui relies on simplicity more than the traditional forms of Feng Shui. Focusing on creating a nourishing flow of chi throughout the home, it puts more emphasis on the individual’s, family, or company intentions for change when working the process. Non-traditional “cures” are used so one may easily add décor or accessories that suit their taste, beliefs, and style, rather than Oriental objects and symbols that have no personal or spiritual significance to them. This flexibility, while still rooted in principle to the older schools based on form and structure, allows those who may otherwise shun the use of Feng Shui to embrace and benefit from the practice.

If you want to learn more about Feng Shui, be sure to visit our new and developing site, www.thefengshuilife.com . It’s worth a look-see!

Signing off for now, Suzanne Linwood

Feng Shui Wealth Colors

What color is your money? Your paper money? Mine’s green. Guess what? That’s one of the colors to invite wealth into your life! Want more? Purple, long considered the color for royalty, and their inherent wealth, is another major wealth-booster.

Just to get serious for a moment, a lot of people are looking for wealth these days. If it’s get-rich-quick, they want it. You’re not one of those people, I’m sure. The fact of the matter is, not much in life happens quickly. We don’t really grow old quick, though sometimes it seems that way, our kids don’t grow up quick, though it seems that way, and we don’t really get rich quick. But, the good old-fashioned way of getting rich, smart work, hard work, smart spending, smart investing, and time – that’s like getting old, watching our kids grow up. It’s truly a matter of years – ten years, fifteen, twenty. Can you get rich in ten years? Absolutely! Certainly in fifteen or twenty. Make up your mind to do it. Put your mind to it. Oh, yes, and use these colors in your home. Here’s a few questions to ask yourself about wealth from The Feng Shui Life book (available on the site) that will get you started.

What do I believe about wealth, prosperity & abundance?
How do I feel about wealth and money?
Do I have long-standing negative beliefs that I don’t deserve to be wealthy or that good people don’t become wealthy?

Tough questions, but your answers are pretty important. Do you really want to be wealthy? Think about it.

If you want to learn more about wealth and colors, be sure to visit our new and developing site, www.thefengshuilife.com . It’s worth a look-see!

Signing off for now, Suzanne Linwood

Meaning of Yin Yang and Bling-Bling: What’s Feng Shui Got To Do With It?

Once upon a time, I was a little girl and loved my precious books. Every Saturday, my poor preacher-man daddy and poor preacher’s wife-our-life-is-like-living-in-a-fishbowl mama would take me to the local library with a cardboard box and we would fill it up with books to keep me busy during the week. Now, before you think I was truant or something, I did go to school, but that just wasn’t enough. To read the life stories of Marie Curie, Joan of Arc, Betsy Ross, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Florence Nightingale, and everything else I could get my chubby little hands on was what I lived for in those days. Oh, those were the days. I don’t remember what happened, but one horrible day, I didn’t have any books to read and got desperate. That was the day I read the dictionary. And that was long before, can I say long before, the days of bling-bling. So, if you’re wondering, bling-bling was not in the dictionary. But “Yin” was. And so was “Yang”. As a little courtesy to you, I’m including a definition for each of these terms and hope you’ll find them interesting.

“Bling-bling” (usually shortened to simply “bling”) is a hip hop slang term that refers to elaborate jewelry and other accoutrements, and also to a lifestyle built around excess spending and ostentation.” Wikipedia

Yang: Active, creative, warmer energy and elements in your environment, as well as in yourself. Masculinity, angular features, light, heat, and dryness all are features of “yang.”

Yin: Cold, dark, wet, soft, passive, reflective, and still elements in your environment, as well as in yourself. Femininity, rounded features, and inertia could be described as “yin.”

If you want to learn more about yin and yang (and Feng Shui bling-bling), be sure to visit our new and developing site, www.thefengshuilife.com . It’s worth a look-see!

Signing off for now, Suzanne Linwood

Welcome to The Feng Shui Life!

The Feng Shui Life is designed to help you achieve balance and wellness in your life through proper placement of everything around you. But when you’re not feeling well, moving things around isn’t going to fix it in a short period of time so here are a couple of ideas to bring your health back into balance.

One Key Feng Shui Tool: Aromatherapy
I love to steam essential oil of lemon for hours at a time when I have a cold. There are some studies that have shown this oil actually has the ability to kill certain bacteria and viruses. That’s probably true – to a degree. To be honest, I once tried to treat a case of walking pneumonia this way, and believe you me, it did not work. Thank Heaven for antibiotics! Go Z-pak! Go Z-pak! Right at this moment, I have a pot of water simmering on the stove with a little cinnamon oil in it. It’s good for boosting your mood when the sky is gray and the weather dreary. Essential oil of peppermint will do the same thing and almost everyone loves the smells of cinnamon, peppermint, and lemons. Just don’t try mixing them together – trust me – start with just one at a time. You’ll love it!

Here’s an excerpt from what Wikipedia has to say about essential oils:

“An essential oil is any concentrated, hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants, which are called aromatic herbs or aromatic plants. They are also known as volatile or ethereal oils, or simply as the “oil of” the plant material from which they were extracted, such as oil of clove. The term essential indicates that the oil carries distinctive scent (essence) of the plant, not that it is an especially important or fundamental substance. Essential oils do not as a group need to have any specific chemical properties in common, beyond conveying characteristic fragrances. They are not to be confused with essential fatty acids.”

What’s new? If you want to learn more about essential oils and aromatherapy, and what they have to do with Feng Shui, be sure to visit our new and developing site, www.thefengshuilife.com . It’s worth a look-see.

Signing off for now, Suzanne Linwood