Beauty almost always includes positive Feng Shui. Good modern design often means simplifying, so it often unknowingly incorporates basic Feng Shui.
Here’s a link to 10 backyard renovations, each and all of which bring beauty in simplicity. There’s only one problem: notice how angular and yang they are. If you like these ideas, soften the lines (bringing yin energy in) and enjoy the results.
If your home is considered as a body, the front door is the mouth. The chi (energy) comes in through the door and fills your home. If you want to help insure that positive energy comes in, pay attention to what Feng Shui has to say!
Someone is approaching your front door. It is dull, perhaps cluttered, not terribly attractive.
What mood gets conveyed to the approaching visitor? Nothing very positive, nothing very welcoming. When you open your door, you are greeted with, at best mild positive to negative and angry. You’ll have to deal with that.
But let’s change the picture. You stand at the end of the walk and visualize what would lift your spirits, make you want to come into the home? Flowers? A wonderful, colorful door, outlined by a trim that sets of the color of the rest of the house? A welcome matt in good condition, and a pleasing door knocker or a wreath reflecting the season.
Laura@mainelynautical.com
Someone approaching your home now is greeted by a home that welcomes and invites. Without their knowing it, their mood has been positively affected by the energy of your home. You brighten and lighten their mood without even saying hello. Is it important? Could it make your life easier and more positive? Yes. Take a critical look at your entrance and make it as wonderful as you can. It will be well worth it.
Oh – you come in through the garage? Use the front door at least once a day. Don’t close the mouth of chi just because you car is more important than your home and the people who come to it!
It’s New Year’s Day and in my neighborhood. like the greater part of Ashland, Christmas decoration are being taken down. Those, of course, that were not removed the day after Christmas. So the politically correct forces can declare an open victory against the religious aspects of this holiday. Many folks got their lights and geegaws up right after Thanksgiving, in order to match Walmart and Target. The expansion of the Christmas buying season has trumped anyone who found Christmas to be the celebration of the birth of the Christian’s Son of God. Material acquisition has trumped inward reflection and gratitude.
The next target? Obviously, the only one left! Thanksgiving. Madison Ave has yet to figure out how to 
commercialize the bird, however, Sarah Palin did a pretty good job on it not so long ago. It’s interesting to note that neither the Jewish High Holy Days, nor those venerated by Buddhists have fallen to the venal appetites of those who have elevated Money above Existence, Spirit, God or whatever such a power means. Does anyone see any human arrogance is such a path? What does it have to do with Nature and the real world? Not much , if anything, from this man’s point of view.
2014 is The Year of the Horse – and Chinese astrologers suggest we can expect Mother nature to step up larger and more dramatically as we keep climate change under wraps and in denial. Gaia is pissed off. Oh well, time for the Koch brothers to sell more Coors!
For some months now I’ve known that the monthly newsletter I send out for free gets looked at and then usually deleted. Often times later there is the desire to retrieve that information, but alas, the email has been flushed, So when I got the chance to create an archive of the past two years efforts, I jumped at the chance. Now it’s up and ready for use. I’ll add a category for it, but right now I wanted to let you know it’s out there and handy as a reference tool for those who wish to try doing some Feng Shui on their own. I think you’ll find some tips and tricks that will increase your happiness, reduce your stress, increase your nourishment, and make you more prosperous. Not bad for a freebie eigh?
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This time of year I find myself pulling all sorts of flotsam and jetsam from the garden. Then I remember that all the dead stuff is as much a part of the cycle as water is for growth. No yin, no yang. So what are we to do – what would Feng Shui have to say?
Simply break up the dead material into as fine pieces as you can and use them as compost. Breaking them up synergistically helps them break down into nutrients for living plants and soil. For the weeds which are trying to take over the world, put those into a 5 gallon bucket and fill it with water. Weight it down with a stone and let it rest for 3 days. Then pour the water onto you living plants. This weed tea is a valuable fertilizer that costs you nothing. You can then add the “tea leaves” to the compost pile.
Remember, using chemical fertilizers and weed killer, you destroy the life of the soil. Which means a) you must always use more and more chemical fertilizer because the soil can no longer do it’s work; and b) you have just decimated an entire living ecosystem in the interests of instant results. It’s not the way Nature works, it shouldn’t be the way you work.
What’s Feng Shui about this? You are using everything to build better nourishment and health. You are cleaning out a space, but not discarding, rather recycling. The results is aesthetically more beautiful and far more nourishing. That’s what the correct use of Feng Shui can do – so see you in the garden?
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