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Do you appreciate what you have….?
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 cry 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?
Do you want to make a change or stay the way you are…?!
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….
“… love and beauty can never leave you…”
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“When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.”
- Eckhart Tolle
Are you shrinking away from the Magnificent You?
I have always admired Ms. Williamson for the messages that she spreads in the world that not only enlightens but reminds us of our greatness. Here’s a favorite that I’d like to share with all of you.
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. 
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
— Marianne Williamson
What I would suggest is not to only read it. Print this out. Put this on your bedside table, your fridge, your desk… make it your bookmark. I believe the world will be a much better place if we all are reminded that all of us have a seed for greatness in us. Question is, what will we do with it?