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….