Feng Shui for Spring!

Spring is a wonderful time of the year to start cleaning out your home and yard. Just by opening the windows and letting the fresh air inside, you will be changing the stagnant chi to positive energy. With the new growth of the season, it is important to breathe new life into your environment and life.

No matter how much you de-clutter, there is always more of it to do, especially since you had the whole winter to store things, make new purchases over the holidays and put those things away that you are sure you will use “one day.”  You may want to start looking into your closets and donating clothes to your favorite charity, or you can see if any of your family and friends would like any of your clothes or items you no longer need, want or like.  Remember, local hospitals or daycare centers would welcome any toys or craft items that are no longer used.  Of course, your local schools will always take working printers and computers, craft and art supplies, and paper!  The good news is that you can also get a tax deduction letter from them if your donation is substantial. 

This is also a good time put a small bird bath or water fountain near your front entrance to invite positive chi into your space, which will bring positive opportunities to you. If you live in an apartment, add a small water feature (fountain or fish tank) near your architectural front door to accomplish the same goal. 

A fresh coat of paint will do wonders for your space and mood. Choose the proper color for the space you are painting; if you can’t afford this, add a few decorative touches like pillows, sofa blankets, coffee table books, candleholders, curtains, statues or paintings with the recommended colors to get the proper energy in its rightful place. 

Let the light into your home. Put up sheer curtains or pleated shades that can be opened from the top so you can maximize the sunlight and immediately feel re-energized while still maintaining your privacy. 

On a more personal note, this is also a time to let go of the past hurts and injustices that you had endured and look forward to a bright new future filled with endless possibilities. 

As you watch the bulbs bloom into brilliant splendor, you may envision yourself blooming into the person you would like to become. Leave negativity and fears behind and try to have a more positive vision of your future.  You are the only one who can create your future, so will you create it filled with fears, doubts, worries, anxieties, procrastination energy, indecision and the weight of the world on your shoulders? Or, will you create one in which you are in control of your life where you finish projects, handle things as they come and count your blessings with a grateful heart?  Only you can decide this, however, which one sounds more promising?

Once you are open to the possibilities around you during this glorious rebirth of Mother Earth and ourselves, you will see that everything is possible and you are the only one to make all of your dreams come true.

Here are a few suggestions to bring positive energy into your yard and home. 

• Hang beautiful chimes from trees, your deck or house gutters for a melodious sound to relax and calm you while they are actually negating negative energy around your environment.
• Hang up whirl-i-gigs to promote positive chi to circulate around your property and remove any stagnant areas of dead or dying chi.
• Plant bulbs, annuals, perennials in bright colors. To correctly place the right color in the right area of your yard or garden, follow the Ba Gua colors in your handouts.
• Burn white sage throughout your home, closets, bathroom, cellar, and attic and around the house to ensure negative energy or negative chi is removed while keeping the windows in your home open to allow the negativity to escape from your surroundings.
• Place 60 MM aurora borealis crystals in windows that get the morning sun so that rainbows will dance on your ceiling and walls. Each room should have many colors in it for balanced energy.