Feng Shui
I am at the halfway point now with shedding an old life. This year, 2008 is the year that I make change in my life. I’ve been procrastinating with my divorce and really have been just ignoring it. Soon, I’ll get through this and leave it behind me. I now realize that, I can shed the past and move on without feeling like I have left something important behind in my life. Of course this is just mental stuff, I’m talking about.
I’ve read about the art of feng shui which is the ancient Chinese art of balancing and harmonizing the energy of a place to create health, wealth and happiness in the lives of those who live or work there. So, I’ve been thinking about my life in these terms. Clearing the physical clutter from my life and getting in a place where everything that I own is something that will add balance and harmony to my life and not be a proverbial anchor around my neck. Once done, will in turn help me achieve the mental happiness I seek.
So, I have taken the time to walk through my home and record the things in my life that isn’t adding any value to me achieving a happy life. I’ve carefully recorded the things that I’ll take care of room by room, either I’ll sell it or give it away. I’ve also made another category that requires me to take care of un-finished projects that I want to keep in my life and will add something to living a happier life.
I’ve used four categories or simple rules to justify my discarding or keeping items.
1) Things you do not use or love
2) Things that are untidy or disorganized
3) Too many things in too small a place
4) Anything unfinished
This is a perfect time for me to establish this in my life. I am most likely moving in the next few months and will have to pack and move. I really don’t want to move stuff that isn’t going to make me happy or add any purpose to my life. So! Off it will go.
Feng Shui isn’t just about physical clutter, but is only the beginning. Feng Shui is based upon a set of theories and relationships and the harmonizing relationship between the “Heavenly” stem are called the five elements. These elements are wood, metal, fire, earth, and water. The real clutter is in the mind, the mental clutter of all kinds of loose ends and unfinished business. There’s the emotional clutter of hurt that is held onto and needs to be removed from one’s life like the clutter in a room. And there is the spiritual clutter which is everything that blinds your view of reaching your full purpose in achieving a happy and harmonies life.
The aim of feng shui is to enhance harmony and reflect a deep sensitivity with the natural order of life. This ancient Chinese study of the natural environment creates peace and prosperity when planned out with the rules set out by those that study feng shui. I hope to reach a point in my life that I can live a much simpler life with much fewer physical things as well as mental things preventing me from achieving the happiness I know I deserve.
Maybe this is the way and maybe it isn’t, but I feel that having done these things that I’ll be living a much cleaner and clear life without these “things cluttering” my life. Lofty goal I know, but I believe that it’s obtainable.
I’ve read about the art of feng shui which is the ancient Chinese art of balancing and harmonizing the energy of a place to create health, wealth and happiness in the lives of those who live or work there. So, I’ve been thinking about my life in these terms. Clearing the physical clutter from my life and getting in a place where everything that I own is something that will add balance and harmony to my life and not be a proverbial anchor around my neck. Once done, will in turn help me achieve the mental happiness I seek.
So, I have taken the time to walk through my home and record the things in my life that isn’t adding any value to me achieving a happy life. I’ve carefully recorded the things that I’ll take care of room by room, either I’ll sell it or give it away. I’ve also made another category that requires me to take care of un-finished projects that I want to keep in my life and will add something to living a happier life.
I’ve used four categories or simple rules to justify my discarding or keeping items.
1) Things you do not use or love
2) Things that are untidy or disorganized
3) Too many things in too small a place
4) Anything unfinished
This is a perfect time for me to establish this in my life. I am most likely moving in the next few months and will have to pack and move. I really don’t want to move stuff that isn’t going to make me happy or add any purpose to my life. So! Off it will go.
Feng Shui isn’t just about physical clutter, but is only the beginning. Feng Shui is based upon a set of theories and relationships and the harmonizing relationship between the “Heavenly” stem are called the five elements. These elements are wood, metal, fire, earth, and water. The real clutter is in the mind, the mental clutter of all kinds of loose ends and unfinished business. There’s the emotional clutter of hurt that is held onto and needs to be removed from one’s life like the clutter in a room. And there is the spiritual clutter which is everything that blinds your view of reaching your full purpose in achieving a happy and harmonies life.
The aim of feng shui is to enhance harmony and reflect a deep sensitivity with the natural order of life. This ancient Chinese study of the natural environment creates peace and prosperity when planned out with the rules set out by those that study feng shui. I hope to reach a point in my life that I can live a much simpler life with much fewer physical things as well as mental things preventing me from achieving the happiness I know I deserve.
Maybe this is the way and maybe it isn’t, but I feel that having done these things that I’ll be living a much cleaner and clear life without these “things cluttering” my life. Lofty goal I know, but I believe that it’s obtainable.