Plant. Love. Pray. Coping With Eclipse Energies.

“If you adjust your ch’i well, your good ch’i will influence your heart. If your ch’i is good, love is created. And, love develops good ch’i.”
– H.H. “Professor” Lin Yun

The summer sky is ablaze with change. Eclipses and retrogrades activate profound advancement in humanity. But if all we experience is chaos and conflict while they transit, can we ever imagine we could live in grace under fire and find a softer, easier way to evolve? Yes! There is sacred way and your home is the key player.

If you are new to my blogs and presentations, I decorate interiors for the soul. Calmly arranging your space depopulates stress. Adjusting design details that cause conflict opens each room to love, beauty and abundance, waking up the spirit in your home and helping you cope with heavy energies, especially the current eclipses.

You can deflect those curve balls the cosmos has thrown at us by implementing a firewall of peace with good luck adjustments. I have selected six to help you get started living in grace under fire and finding your way home to love.

Shift If your luck is not good, every 9, 18 or 27 days, change some aspect of your furniture arrangement. You are changing the ch’i using the sense of touch. Your life force will be adjusted and awakened.

The best approach is move items that have not been moved recently. For example: your bed, the dining room table, the couch or the crock pot. You only need to lift the bed or table and then put it down in the same spot. The same holds true for objects that have been stored. At the moment the item is moved, the area beneath begins to breathe and shift. The space is revitalized, and the auspicious Ch’i begins to fill your home.

Alleviate If you or a family member or friend are suffering from an intangible stress. If you feel the weight of the world but you can’t quite put your finger on what’s causing it, make an adjustment in Helpful People. Nuance: in the office, the bedroom and the yard strengthens the effect.

Stabilize One of the best cures for calming the heart and mind:
Materials:
A circle of red paper
A brand new black pen
Tape

Procedure:
• Hold your breath and write “security” (with the new black pen) on one side of the red circle.
• In the same breath, write your name on the other side.
• Place the circle under your bed or chair, with “security” side facing the floor (adhere with tape)
• Visualize security and/or stability in your career, marriage, health, finances etc. You can also extend your visualization to include the stability of your family, your neighbors and everyone around the world. You might even wish for the stabilization of an unsettled, national or worldly, financial, social or political situation.
• Reinforce with the Three Secrets, using the Expelling Mudra to eliminate all obstacles (If you want to details I request nine red envelopes for this section, email me bette@shenmenfengshui.com).

Nuances:
If you write “stability”, you also may be able to help:
A child who cannot concentrate.
A parent whose child cannot manage time.
A wife whose husband frequently spends time away from home.
An employer whose employees quit again and again.

Plant Professor Lin was asked what to do when we live in an area that is vulnerable to floods, hurricanes, avalanches, earthquakes and natural disasters. He said planting trees will help vulnerable areas. He said, “Plant bamboo in every gua of a vulnerable area. You can also place bamboo in your home. It can be a picture of bamboo, a wall hanging, a flute from the Yun Lin Temple or a bamboo curtain. Bamboo is hollow, it bows in the wind. It provides peace, safety and support and drives away negative forces.

Love The secret to a successful life is performing a good deed daily.
Do these without expectation. Helping another person you shift not only their reality but yours as well. A kind deed improves your luck, circumstances and income. For emphasis do nine good deeds a day. But if karma has eclipsed your good luck, perform twenty seven good deeds in one day. Your sincerity is the most important part. Performing good deeds will strengthen your cures.

Pray Creating an altar in your home invests your home with an illuminating focus. It can contain a candle, incense, flowers, a crystal, a holy icon such as a Buddha and an object of personal meaning. Visiting the altar daily infuses your home with grace and your endeavors with a positive influence.

A well designed space allows you to access positive energy at all times. Call upon me to help you arrange your home where you feel fully supported. I am available for a full consultation or for an hour telephone conversation, Feng Shui A La Carte. Think of it as a fairy godmother for your house.

What I have discovered about our homes is that creating a heart healthy space leads to peace and contentment. The bedroom is where it begins. Start with my complimentary pdf: 27 Bedroom Concepts To Maximize Your Health, Happiness and Peace of Mind. Design your space to your best advantage. Subscribe to my blog and special offers. You’ll receive this valuable Feng Shui Guide as a thank you gift.

Celebrate Home. Earth Day 2019.

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“If we did not take care of Mother Earth where would we live?”
– Louise Hay, Hay House Publishing

Are you as astonished as I am by the beauty on this planet? I am ever grateful to Gaylord Nelson, senator from Wisconsin for proposing April 22, 1970, the United States’ first Earth Day. And I am excited that we have this annual opportunity to honor where we live. Earth Day’s influence has been immeasurable. It spawned laws that protect the environment: The Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act and the Environmental Protection Agency. Our quality of living would be greatly diminished if not for these measures.

If you’ve ticked Earth Day 2019 on your calendar and you want to make a difference, here are a few suggestions:
Pick up litter
Start a compost bin, at home or at school
Recycle or set up a recycling station
Turn off water when you brush your teeth
Switch to online bill payments rather than paper bills
Use public transportation
Turn down your water heater
Install energy efficient lights
Plant a tree
Eliminate single use plastic – plastic bottles, plastic forks and knives, etc.
Start a garden, indoors or outside
Make art from trash or otherwise re-purpose waste
More ideas at my 2016 blog Make Earth Day Everyday!

These simple Earth Day 2019 actions have a big impact on lifting the burden off of Mother Earth. But if your heart is not feeling the call to action, if you are seeking “the why” and haven’t found an incentive that touches your senses, I believe Rabbi Leah Novick’s explanation of Nature’s capacity to inspire humans may shed light. “They say the rocks dance strong, the plants sprout, the animals bring a powerful energy, and human beings bring speech and culture to the world. But we’re all unified in that the Shekhinah, the divine presence moves through all of us. From the Kabbalistic, the mystical perspective, it’s like this is where God comes through at the human and the earth level; that there are all different layers or levels in the Tree of Life in which the God energy is expressed, but the Shekhinah energy is the accessible divinity, the divinity that we can apprehend through the senses.

…when there is pollution and violence on the planet the Shekhinah takes the option sometimes to ascend into the Seven Heavens….so when we do good works, when we pray, when we meditate, when we sing, when we host people, when we give charity, what we do is pull her back down….(we feel purified and at ease – Bette Steflik) what we do makes a big difference in the world.”

I hope you enjoy Earth Day 2019 however you choose to celebrate, contemplate or honor your relationship to our dear beautiful, planet, Earth.

Have you decided this will be your year? “Boldness has genius”… start with one hour of Feng Shui A La Carte. Think of it as a fairy godmother for your house.

What I have discovered about our homes is that creating a heart healthy space leads to peace and contentment. The bedroom is where it begins. Start with my complimentary pdf: 27 Bedroom Concepts To Maximize Your Health, Happiness and Peace of Mind. Design your space to your best advantage. Subscribe to my blog and special offers. You’ll receive this valuable Feng Shui Guide as a thank you gift.