Feng Shui* is a powerful tool for getting and staying organized! Read Claire's blog to learn how user-friendly Feng Shui can be. (With OR without the Chinese décor.) Learn how to use your environment to feed your vitality and well-being. Move through your life with lightness, ease and energy -- fueled by an intentional environment that has that incomparable "good Feng Shui"!
Traditional Feng Shui wisdom states that moving 27 things can activate enough energy to potentially change your life.
Why not use this wisdom to free yourself of 27 unused items? That's right. Get up right now, get a garbage bag, and go room to room with the aim of simply letting go of 27 items that are no longer serving you.
When de-cluttering your clothes closet, pull out all the clothes you are keeping for nostalgia's sake and store them elsewhere. Consider an airtight storage bin in the basement dedicated (and labeled) for that purpose.
Make it a game.
Stagnant chaos symbolizes old thoughts and patterns that "mess up" the quality of your life.
Take an inner inventory:
Do you have attitudes and feelings that keep you from enjoying life?
Are you chronically annoyed, confused, or impeded from moving forward?
If so, make a commitment right now! Decide to clean out those pockets of stagnant chaos and renew your own inner environment.
The following is an example of an affirmation you might use as you clear your stagnant chaos:
"I clear and clean my body, heart and soul, knowing that the more I let go of the old, the more I attract new, inspiring, enjoyable people, places and things into my life. I trust that my...
7 "Clear the Way" Questions
As you bravely face stagnant chaos in your own home, know that you are inviting transformation to occur.
In attending to the old, you are clearing the way for many new positive opportunities and blessings to flow into your life.
Ask yourself these questions as you touch each item:
Do I love it?
Does it love me back?
Does it support who I am NOW in my life?
Does it act as an environmental affirmation for me?
What positive and/or negative thoughts, memories, or emotions do I associate with it?
Chaos is a natural part of the life cycle. Because we can't live without creating chaos on a regular basis, it's very useful to understand that there are two kinds of chaos.
ACTIVE CHAOS
This is the kind of chaos we see spinning around a chef as she prepares a feast, or around a painter as she creates a masterpiece. Even in the presence of dirty pans or spilled paints, we are drawn to their "mess" like bees to honey. The energy hums and dances as a new creation is being born. Our excitement and curiosity are piqued.
Active chaos has to occur to birth anything—from a fine meal, to a new garden or a lovely work of art. The key to keeping chaos active...
If you don't feel grounded in your environment but don't know why, I invite you to get curious about it – in a gentle way. Begin to think of an organized environment not as a "should", but as a wonderful foundation for the life you are creating and the person you are becoming.
Feng Shui and organizing are intimately inter-related. At this intersection lie some very powerful tools for personal growth, such as:
De-cluttering creates a vacuum into which new blessings can flow
Getting organized frees up a tremendous amount of life energy, (also called "chi"), to focus on what really matters
Your inner life begins a rich, fertile conversation...
You want your home to be warm and nurturing, to feed you with good energy, but it is sometimes a territory of chaos and overwhelm. You seek that elusive feeling of being truly, deeply welcomed in your own space.
You've come to the right place.
Here, in this blog on "Easy Feng Shui & Organizing: Home as Sanctuary & Springboard", you'll find plenty of ideas to help you do just that.
Plus, you'll be inspired by success stories where you can perhaps learn something to apply to your situation.
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Post your questions, stories and musings, and we'll work together to create a more "enchanted home" for you. You'll also find...
Claire O'Connor of Enchanted Home, LLC, has been a Feng Shui Consultant and Professional Organizer since 1996. She's helped hundreds of clients shape inviting, intelligent, deeply functional spaces which have the power to make life easier and to nourish well-being everyday.
Claire studied with the visionary Feng Shui architect Tom Bender and is a 1998 graduate of the Western School of Feng Shui in San Diego. She is a member of the International Feng Shui Guild and NAPO's prestigious Golden Circle.
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