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Feng-shui-confused?

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“It’s a myth”

” Really?!?!”

” Yes, whether you place it there or not, it won’t make a feng shui difference ”

” Are you sure? ”

” Look at it this way, have you been getting results since you placed it there? ”

” Well, no….. ”

” Because it’s essentially just decoration “.

Most of my clients who come to me have already done some feng shui on their own based on books and internet research. That’s how I started too. But when I realized that I got more and more confused with all the contradicting information out there, and also not getting much results from it, I decided to delve a bit deeper in finding TRUE feng shui teaching.

The biggest confusion is the bagua, especially if used in combination with flying star feng shui. One main distinction one needs to make is, the bagua ( and in fact I don’t use this school of feng shui much at all in my consulting practice ) is stagnant and states that one corner is always for a specified life aspiration. Whereas flying star feng shui ALWAYS takes into consideration the auspiciousness and inauspiciousness of certain areas based on the energetic flow that is derived from a certain calculation.

Therefore an auspicious corner is not so the whole year, there are stronger months, there are weaker months. This is why my consultation includes a monthly energetic chart that is there to remind you which energies are afflicting parts of your house, and for me I always look to protect these 3 main areas:

- main door
- bedroom
- kitchen

So it’s not unusual for clients to panic when they THINK their money corner is afflicted for the year, what they don’t realize until I advise them is that for one, they have more than 1 potential money corner, and I let them know what’s the energetic pattern for the year and how it’ll look for specific months as well so they can prepare in advance.

How are YOU protecting your main door, bedroom and kitchen?

“Help! My bathroom is flushing down my wealth!”

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If I get a dollar for every time I hear / read this concern, I’d be a `thousandaire’.

My dear readers, if your bathroom is in the Southeast corner of your house, and you’ve been advised that this will give you money problem because every time you flush you are making your money go down the train, be ready to heave a huge sigh of relief.

Guess what…. that’s a myth.

Unless your bathroom is in such a state that it’s filthy and in a constant state of disarray and lack of upkeep, as will be the case if this is happens to any part of your home / office as feng shui is all about keeping the energy clean and uncluttered, then you have nothing to worry about.

Bathrooms nowadays, unlike back in the olden days, are a crucial internal part of the living quarters. Gone are the days ( thank God ) of outhouses. Bathrooms nowadays are also well decorated, are easily kept clean and can even achieve the status of being the “spa-like retreat” in your home, therefore it no longer bears the heavy burden of keeping you away from your birthright to financial comfort.

If you are finding that your financial luck has taken a turn to the worse since you’ve moved into certain space, don’t be too quick to blame it on the bathroom. It can be the placement of your bedroom, your bed, your door…. Affliction from within and from outside your house / condo. It can be a wealth affliction in your own birth chart.

Feng shui remedies can be simple to carry out, but proper auditing is far from simplistic. So if you are experiencing bad luck in certain areas in your life, do make the time and maybe even financial investment to find the right teacher / practitioner to guide you down the right path. Making that step will quite likely save you months, even years of heartache; and can help you take steps towards remedying the true reason for the affliction as opposed to merely blaming it on the woeful placement of your bathroom.

 

 

Feng Shui and science

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I get an adrenaline rush whenever I bump into skeptics.

 

Whether the topic is about the existence of a Higher Power, the possibility of reincarnation,  destiny… why bad things happen to good people etc, the main argument thrown at me would be : ” Where’s the scientific proof in this?!”

 

Now, I am not a scientist but I have always been awed by the narrowing gap between science and the “woo-woo world”. Instead of me trying to explain things, I’d like to share with you some links. As is my main stance in all of these conversations, I am not here to convert anyone into believing what I believe. As a feng shui practitioner and spiritual seeker I am always questioning as well, and always looking for answers too. These messages have crossed paths with me, therefore, check it out:

 

My main favorite to illustrate how everything is energy, and how one thing reverberates on a higher energy than others ( thus illustrates the principles of feng shui that we suppress negative energies and strengthen positive energies with specific items ):

 

If you take 2 glasses of water, one glass written with the word LOVE and the other HATE, if you freeze the water and look up the crystals under a microscope you will a difference in them – the water from the LOVE glass will form a beautiful crystal; the one with the word HATE will be murky. Check out his full length documentary or book, Messages in Water for more info.

One more day before my $100-off promotion ENDS!!!

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Alright dear readers! This is it! I’ve been running around like a headless chicken catching up on my audits, and enquiries are still coming in hard and fast about consultations with me. It’s been a great ride and I’m loving the fact that my newly-acquired clients are now, truly and emphatically, my new-found friends!!! Kindred spirits, as Anne of Green Gables would say!

My deadline with the $100 off your consultation fees will end tomorrow, so if you want to make use of it connect with me NOW at safrina@fengshuiandprosper.com.

I am fully booked in Feb, but if you want to make use of the offer you can confirm a future date with me through a 50% deposit before midnight tomorrow, and the rest can wait till date of the audit.

Shoot me an email now. Safrina@fengshuiandprosper.com.

Do you appreciate what you have….?

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Friday night. I’m working on my laptop while watching “A Summer in Genoa” with Colin Firth, I bawl every time his character’s daughter cries in her nightmares, longing for her mother who died in a car accident.

In front of the television with my laptop working away…. I stop. I think of my daughter who’s safe and sound, asleep in her bed. Healthy and full of life. I think of my husband of almost nine years still looking at me with that glint in his eye.

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In my line of work as a feng shui consultant I obviously ask my clients during our initial consultation, ” what areas in your life would you like to see a change to?” They’ll tell me they’re looking for The One… or they’re wanting to figure out if the career path that they’re on is right for them… or that the moment they move into another house their luck seems to take a turn for the worse… or that their business no longer thrives as it once did.

It occured to me that while it’s important for me to understand the situations that my clients want to see a shift in, it is equally important for me to maybe remind them as well that there is always, always, something to be grateful for. I was told once that if you’re not grateful for what you have, why would the Universe give you more? Imagine, if you gave someone a gift and they don’t appreciate it, would you be inclined to keep giving more gifts to that person?

I used to have a gratitude journal that I write in every night before I sleep. I would pick 3-5 things that I am grateful for that day ( can be as simple as seeing a baby smile during the a stressful time of the day…. sometimes it’s in getting a client from the most synchronistic opportunities… ). While I now devote those minutes before bed to mantras, meditations and visualizations, perhaps it’s time to pick it up again… Anyone care to give it a go?

 

 

“What feng shui products do I need?”

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Going through my email and with all feng shui enthusiasts wanting to get ready to update their feng shui for 2012, I realized this is the perfect timing for me to address one question that I get all the time :

” What feng shui items / amulets do I need to carry for 2012?” What if I told you that you don’t need to do all that…?

I used to do consultations based on what we now refer to as new-age feng shui, where it places a lot of emphasis on placement of asian-looking items around the house. With Classical feng shui which is what I practise now, however, you no longer need to limit yourself to these ‘feng shui objects’ to suppress bad energy or strengthen good energy. Once you step out of that box – feng shui possibilities are limitless!

While I still recommend some pertinent feng shui items for my clients, I have done away with many other items that are no longer considered necessary.

If you can’t place a water fountain, do you know that you have alternatives to activate wealth stars…?

If you need to suppress the Wu Wang #5 based on Flying Star Feng Shui, or the Illness #2, you can pretty much go to any home decor stores and look for.. let’s say a copper statue, and you’re on your way. If you need to suppress the #3, a good-sized bright red item will be more than sufficient.

This will work, provided of course, that you have plotted your chart properly. I can’t stress this enough, for if you get the house period wrong the whole chart is a write-off. If you don’t know how to determine the facing or the direction of your house, then your whole chart is useless. If the mountain stars and water stars are placed incorrectly, you run the risk of activating the negative and weakening the positive – which would be tragic!!!

It’s hard to say this without coming off as self-serving, but if you want to make sure 2012 is a strong year for you and you don’t want to risk going the wrong path where your feng shui is concerned, getting a properly-certified practitioner is of the utmost importance.

My mantra as usual, is this : feng shui works – if you work it right!

 

 

 

New year audit – get a head start on 2012 and save $100 off your feng shui audit!

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Lay down feng shui foundation for a strong 2012 & save $100!

Energy is always shifting – will your home / office be supporting or breaking you in 2012? Take $100 off your home and business audit. Make sure you optimize good energies and suppress negative energies – before it’s too late.

Email me at safrina@fengshuiandprosper.com to take advantage of this offer – ends January 31, 2012!

*** Offer only valid for on-site feng shui audits ( long-distance audits not applicable ) for Toronto and GTA area

Moved bed = get a gig for a Tom Cruise movie!!!

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Just wanted to quickly share an email I got just earlier today from a client in LA whom I did bazi analysis as well as home audit for, another testament to the power of doing feng shui FULLY and COMPLETELY, with no pieces of the puzzle missing, no cutting corners, and no ” I want my life to change but I’m not willing to do what you recommended me to do”.

” Safrina gave me a feng shui consultation and in particular suggested that i move my bed so that it faces west in order to improve my financial cash flow.  I reluctantly shifted the bed on the prescribed date and was quite surprised to receive a totally unexpected job offer that very day to do some ADR on the new Tom Cruise film, Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol.   The gig was a well paying one that will see me receiving ongoing residuals from the film.  Coincidence?  Maybe, but from now on I am paying more attention to my energetic patterns.  Thanks Safrina.”

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… My dear readers, what is the price you’re willing to pay by not placing your bed correctly…???

 

Do you want to make a change or stay the way you are…?!

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This topic has been gnawing on me for a while so I decided, once and for all, to bear my heart and soul about this topic – why do people say they want to change but are not willing to do the actions necessary to make that change?

I’ve seen many different personality types over my admittedly young career as a feng shui practitioners. Some come to me when their situation is already in dire straits and I tell them we can try our best to diffuse the bad energy, but when there’s already so much havoc already wreaked, you can’t expect feng shui alone to get you out of that situation ( which is why, over and over again, I will stress meditation, prayers, good deeds and visualization practices to be used in conjunction with feng shui practices ). Whenever I dispense holistic ways of dealing with an issue, sometimes it gets dismissed as too inconvenient.

Some clients are new in feng shui but are open to implementing the recommendations I laid out. Some have already seen the results from feng shui in past audits but are taking chances in not updating their feng shui every year ( which is very, very important as energy patterns do not remain stagnant, it’s always moving so you need to observe the movement to protect and to strengthen yourself ). Some are willing to do some of the smaller actions that yield small results, but balk at doing the real groundwork of making positive changes in one’s life.

As I speak with my clients as a feng shui practitioner, I always find myself in situations where I also wear the robes of a life coach, spiritual counselor and normally after a few times communicating with my clients, their confidante. I’m not only there to give recommendations as a feng shui consultant, I’m also there to listen as a spiritual sister.

Self development guru Tony Robbins would give an analogy in his book Awaken the Giant Within, of a fly that is trapped in a room but keeps bumping its head against the windowpane trying to get out of the room, not realizing the door behind it is wide open.

Why, if you want to see a different result, would you not be open to trying to DO things differently? I am saddened when I see this happen, in my consulting as well as around me. My teacher reminds in her gentle ways that if they don’t listen, it’s not in their karma to receive that opportunity to grow. As with anything, I suppose, I will have to learn to let go and wish them well….