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West Meets East© By Caroline Patrick BorNei Certified Red Ribbon Professional of the International Feng Shui Guild
Creative Cuts Can Make Room for New Ideas
I feel like a makeover, do you? How do we start? First, decide what type of makeover you would like. Next, make a quick sketch of your current home. Draw the street, shape of the lot and then a likeness of the house. Don’t stress over the drawing, it is just a simple scribble to find where the makeover needs to start. Your home takes on the qualities of the people living in the house, and sometimes the lingering ideas and energy of the previous owners. When we become tired, angry, sick and lifeless, the house has become tired, sick and lifeless also.
Now look at the overall floor plan. What rooms need extra attention and a touch of loving care? What bugs you the most about this room or rooms? Does the floor need to be replaced, is the plumbing leaking, and is there enough lighting in the space? Do you hate the color of the walls or curtains, or want to bury the picture sweet Aunt Hilda or Uncle Harry painted in their latest crafts class? Has too much furniture given the appearance that the home has little square footage?
As an experiment, consider for a moment that “we” are the house. Our head is the front door; our organs are in the center; our hips and feet are at the back of the house; and our arms, hands and fingers stretch out to the front right and left rooms of the home. Using this stick man idea, we can zoom in and take a look at the Health of the dwelling. Similar to a Chinese Medicine diagram Chart of the body, you can see how the house reflects our health issues when the chart is overlaid upon the floor plan.
Crazy idea? That’s what I thought when I first tried this method for locating clues to why the home and its occupants were out of balance! Now, think of the hallways being the arteries, the electrical representing the nerves and the plumbing as the kidneys. Ask yourself, “If these are reflections of the body, they must need room to function. I should make some creative cuts.”
Take a look around you. Can you walk across the room without running into coffee tables? Are you tripping over wires on the way to the bathroom? Does the kitchen smell? Where is the litter box? There is a better place than the kitchen! Is there standing water under your house? Are all your lights shining straight up into the air, or does your child have a cozy quiet spot with a downward concentrated light to raise his/her grades with high-energy Chi?
Creative cuts are the best way to transform your home into a balanced environment. Delete, delete, delete … Get those trash bags out and fill them with the excess, clean up your computer, get rid of old addresses to leave room for new friends and Helpful People. Send the old furniture to a thrift shop. I would rather have a vacant area in my house than to have furniture blocking a door, which happens in many rooms. Blocking a door can block the voice of an adult.
PS. I will be coming to Benicia soon! A class is forming at Earth Touch Healing Center down on Grant St., 7:00 pm, April 7th. I can’t wait to see everyone. Call soon (707) 746-1566 to register, as space is limited in the cute brick building. I have lots to share, all new. I will be sharing Feng Shui secrets cures I have never shared before. How to increase money Chi and personal Chi. How to reevaluate, restore and reclaim your power in this economy. Please call for a private consultation, there are a few spaces left. I will also be doing work in Napa and two classes in Redding, CA on Friday evening the 16th & Saturday the 17th. For more info, call (503) 208-2960 or email to caroline@fengshuiartistry.com
Any suggestions given in this column are only for entertainment. Please contact your physician for any medical or herbal advice or diagnosis. Caroline Patrick is not responsible for any misuse of her advice or suggestions. Caroline Patrick Bor Nei is a certified Feng Shui Practitioner and a Red Ribbon Professional of The International Feng Shui Guild. Her abilities as a consultant and artist are widely known in the US and abroad. Caroline has completed over 5000 consultations for individuals, large and small businesses. Return clients appreciate the value of her suggestions both mundane and transcendental, providing support on multiple levels. As a college art instructor for many years, Caroline understands the power of color, its symbolism and the visual effect images have on individuals and their surroundings. Her home base is Portland, OR where she continues to write, teach, paint, do illustrations and give herbal medicine making classes. She is available for Feng Shui consultations; Feng Shui art consultant, advises builders, architects and mentors a few serious students. Call (503) 208-2960 or email caroline@fengshuiartistry.com
Caroline’s “West Meets East” weekly newspaper column, can be read from an archives on her website www.fengshuiartistry.com
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