Could Feng Shui Make Your Life Better?
“That’s weird!” I thought, tossing the magazine aside. It was 1998; I’d just read about Feng Shui for the first time.
As a Professional Organizer, I knew the importance of keeping our homes and workspaces uncluttered and organized. But the idea that changing the placement of something in my home would change my life felt... well, unbelievable.
But then I remembered my Dad, a scientist, saying: “If you want to prove something true or false, you have to experiment with it.”
So I experimented with Feng Shui. Skeptically, I made some changes to the “abundance” area of my home.
The next week, I received an unexpected large gift of money—AND was hired to manage a big organizing project for which I’d applied.
Curious, I made more Feng Shui changes. Months later, I was awarded a full scholarship (tuition AND books!) for my last year of college.
That’s when I started studying Feng Shui.
Feng Shui is an ancient technology based on the Chinese Five Element Theory, on which TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) and acupuncture are also based. The health disciplines work to create harmony in the body. Feng Shui works to create harmony in the body of the home and workspace.
In some areas of China, Feng Shui became oriented toward that region’s version of luck. Certain directions, numbers, and colors were lucky, some unlucky. I preferred teachers like William Spear, Denise Linn and Karen Carter, who pared away the fear-based overlay and focused on the ancient common-sense life-space-design principles.
In 2000, at a Space Clearing training in California, I met Jean Haner, who’d lived in China for many years. In Jean’s classes, I also learned Chinese Face Reading and the 9 Star Ki (the Feng Shui of the birthdate).
After I began teaching Feng Shui, a woman approached me in the hallway after church. “Are you the Feng Shui lady?” she asked.
When I nodded, she declared: “I’m single. And I don’t want to be!”
In Feng Shui, each area of our home can help us up-level a certain staging area of our lives. I asked about her relationship area.
“Oh, no! That’s the relationship area? In my house, that room is the junky one I never unpacked!” she moaned.
I asked her some questions, and she quickly made the connection between dating experiences that left her feeling awful and the current condition of her relationship area. I suggested she organize and beautify that room in ways that anchored her intentions for a supportive relationship. “And if you’re ready for a long-term relationship,” I shared, “write your intentions and place them on an altar with a piece of art that gives you the body-sense of already being in the love relationship you desire.”
A few months later, after the Sunday Service, she came running down the hall toward me with a happy, handsome guy in tow. “Melody, I cleared out my Relationship Corner and look who I found!”
She came to my Feng Shui classes over the next few years, to learn how to up-level their lives. I’ll never forget her happy glow when she announced their engagement.
One day I returned home to a voice message from a woman who’d been referred to me: “Can you help us? My husband and I both got laid off and we’re living in his parent’s cold dark garage...”
When we scheduled their session, I asked for their birth dates and prepared a 9 Star Ki Reading for them, which detailed their unique strengths. During our session, I described the value of those strengths to their ideal employers and recommended ways to weave that into their resumes. We did a Space Clearing and Feng Shui-ed for career and income. Within weeks, they both had great job offers.
In the last 20 years, I’ve used Feng Shui with hundreds of clients to manifest love relationships, heal the past, up-level health and wealth, and support happy families. I especially enjoy helping skeptical clients experiment with Feng Shui—and hearing their delighted results.
Resources
Sacred Space: Clearing and Enhancing the Energy of Your Home by Denise Linn
Feng Shui for the Soul: How to Create a Harmonious Environment that will Nurture and Sustain You by Denise Linn
Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life: How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect and Happiness by Karen Rauch Carter
Feng Shui Made Easy: Designing Your Life with the Ancient Art of Placement by William Spear
The Wisdom of Your Face: Change Your Life with Chinese Face Reading by Jean Haner
Grasshopping Through Time... Using Ancient Wisdom by Rex Lassalle