Feng shui your home and change your life

Feng shui your home and change your life

By Karen Kingston

DENPASAR (JP): Feng shui is the ancient art of balancing and
harmonizing energies in buildings to enhance the lives of the
people who live or work there.

Put simply, we spend many hours of our lives inside buildings
and they do affect us for better or worse. So it makes a lot of
sense to find out how get the best out of them.

My own approach to feng shui is rather different to that of
other practitioners because I work directly with the energy of
each space.

It all began 24 years ago when I discovered I could sense
energies with my hands. The history of events is recorded in the
walls and furniture of a building in the form of subtle
electromagnetic imprints, and through reading and interpreting
these it is possible to detect everything of significance that
had ever happened there.

Traumatic or repetitive events become more deeply embedded and
have a correspondingly greater effect on present day occupants.

To begin a consultation, the first thing I do is go around the
entire inside perimeter of the building, taking an energy
reading. I describe the process as being able to read information
with my hands in the same way as I might read a book with my
eyes.

Mattresses, as an example, are very absorbent. People leave a
complete energy imprint of themselves in their bed. I usually do
a first pass to read what is happening with them on a physical
level and then further passes, if necessary, to fine-tune to the
mental, emotional, sexual and spiritual levels. It's actually
easy to feel this energy and most people can do it. The tricky
bit is to tune in to the right level and translate the
information accurately.

Space clearing

The more I have developed these abilities, the more obvious it
has become to me that people living in homes with fresh, vibrant,
free-flowing energy are mostly healthy, happy and successful, and
people living in homes with stagnant, stuck energy are exactly
the opposite.

The first book I wrote, Creating Sacred Space with Feng
Shui, describes a 21-step Space Clearing ceremony which anyone
can do to clear this stuck energy out. The book became an
international bestseller and was Amazon.com's best-selling feng
shui title of 1998.

To give you a better understanding of what Space Clearing is
about, try this. If you are reading this article inside a
building, just stop for a moment and take a look around you. Is
it physically clean?

Hopefully it is. But is it energetically clean? Unless you
have space cleared it, it very probably is not. In the same way
as everyday living generates housework on a daily basis, we also
generate psychic debris.

And just as physical dust, cobwebs and so on collect in
corners and nooks and crannies of a room, stagnant energy does
too. If you are living in a place that other people have lived in
before you, then the problem compounds because their energy will
still be in there as well.

A while ago I did a consultation for a woman in America.
Through energy sensing I discovered that the previous occupant of
her apartment had been a man who suffered severe and persistent
severe headaches. She admitted she had never had more than an
occasional headache in her life before moving to the apartment,
but she was now experiencing some excruciating ones. Space
Clearing cleansed these frequencies from the building and her
headaches disappeared.

One house I visited in England had seemingly excellent feng
shui. It was reasonably well situated, beautifully decorated,
full of elegant furniture and decorative objects. It looked
ideal. But when I took an energy reading, I immediately
understood why the people in the house had been depressed since
they moved there two years ago. Embedded in the walls was the
energy imprint of the previous owner.

By fine-tuning, I discovered this was an elderly widow who was
so grief-stricken when her husband died that she fell into a
hopeless depression for the remaining 10 years of her own life.
This residue of grief was still hanging in the air and profoundly
affecting the new occupants. Space Clearing cleared it out.

"It feels so different it's hard to believe we're living in
the same place," they told me a week later. They said it felt as
if a huge weight of rocks had been lifted from on top of them.

Clutter

Whenever I come across clutter, its energy field is
unmistakable. It presents an obstacle to the flow of energy and
has an unpleasant, sticky, unclean feel to it, like moving my
hands through unseen cobwebs.

This is what first made me realize that clutter causes
problems in people's lives. It also has a distinctive musty,
pervasive odor that I can smell if I walk into someone's home,
even if the clutter is hidden away from sight. Actually, if I
tune in, I can also smell it in a person's aura (the energy field
around their body) if they stand near me, because they become
imbued with the smell of it.

But don't worry about this if you ever meet me in person --
there is so much clutter in the world that I don't tune in too
often! The good news is that after clearing clutter, this
unwholesome, stagnant energy and accompanying odor quickly
disappear.

Most people have no idea how much their clutter affects them.
They fondly believe it to be an asset, or at least a potential
asset after it has been sorted through and organized. It is only
when they start clearing it out that they realize how much better
they feel without it.

People who hoard clutter say they cannot find the energy to
begin to clear it. They constantly feel tired. But the stagnant
energy that stacks up around clutter actually causes tiredness
and lethargy. Clearing it releases new energy.

One woman wrote to tell me: "I stayed up late to read your
book and got so 'wired' that I couldn't sleep. Finally, I got out
of bed and started clearing my clutter until four in the morning!
I had to go to work the next day but didn't feel at all tired."

It is important to realize how fundamentally intrinsic clutter
clearing is to the whole practice of feng shui. Most books on the
subject mention it only in passing or not at all. Perhaps they assume
their readers have already dealt with this issue, but of course the
truth is that most have not.

I do not consider clutter clearing to be one process and feng
shui to be another. I have come to realize that clutter clearing
is one of the most powerful, transformative aspects of feng shui
there is, and in most cases, feng shui cures; enhancements are at
best only minimally effective until this has been done.

The bagua

The feng shui bagua gives further insight into the problems
caused by clutter. The bagua is a grid that can be laid over the
plans of any building to read off where each aspect of your life
is located. So in your home there is an area that is to do with
prosperity, one for relationships, another for career, one for
health and so on. Clutter in your prosperity area will block the
flow of money in your life.

I once gave some feng shui advice to a woman in Bali who then
began clearing some of her clutter to improve her business. She
was puzzled as to why nothing improved as a result of this until
she discovered that her staff had diligently been rescuing
everything she had thrown away and storing it in the prosperity
corner behind her house!

Another person living in America recently wrote to tell me:
"After reading your book I was motivated to take a day and clear
all the junk out of my home. I worked for 13 hours straight and
got rid of stuff I'd been hoarding for years, especially the
items in the prosperity section of my home. That was on Monday.
Today is Thursday and in the mail I received a check for US$8,775
from a relative as a gift. Needless to say, everyone I know is
hearing about your wonderful book."

The writer will be teaching a selection of her most popular
workshops at Kamandalu Resort in Ubud, Bali, on March 9, March 11
through March 13, and March 18 and March 19. For further
information, contact Miranda at 0361-285027/081139 8554, or e-
mail: ekabawana@denpasar.wasantara.net.id. Or visit Kingston's
website at www.spaceclearing.com