Do you have a vision of your ideal life? Do you know how to get it?
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My story:
I became a feng shui consultant because I wanted a life of natural beauty and spiritual harmony. But when I first started on this path, the physical circumstances of my life were anything but.
I lived in a dingy, tiny, walk-up apartment in New York City; an apartment which got its one moment of direct sunlight between 2:03 – 2.18 pm each afternoon, when a shaft of light would squeeze between the buildings and pierce my bathroom window.
I always imagined having a view of the ocean in my dream home, so I decorated my bathroom in an ocean theme. A translucent blue shower curtain caught the light and hinted at Caribbean waters. Bath towels with tropical fish, some seashell bath soaps, and a vase filled with fake sea grass completed the look.
I had a vision of living at the beach, but all I had was the vision. I couldn’t see how, when, or where this beach life would manifest. Yet studying feng shui started to open my mind to a radical new vision about physical space. It was a theory that would be proven again and again in my work with hundreds of clients over the years:
You have to tell your home what you want.
To me, the best way to do that was to turn my home into a reflection of the life that I envisioned. My boyfriend (now husband) and I had just moved into the tiny apartment together and wanted to redecorate our bedroom (which also doubled as our dining room, living room, and office!) I shared my beach vision with him and found that he too had a passion to live on the water. So we decided to decorate our bedroom in a tropical “South Pacific” theme. We papered the walls in grass cloth, carpeted the floor in sisal, installed a ceiling fan and hung billowy white curtains on the windows. Even when it was snowing outside on the gray streets of the city, in our home it was perpetually 80 degrees and sunny (and not just because of the forced heat in our tenement building!)
When we create a home that in some way mirrors the life we want to live, we attract that life to us. By contrast, when we unconsciously surround ourselves with furniture, images, and clutter that we don’t need, or don’t want, or items that are associated with bad memories or past relationships, we simply keep attracting those situations into our life.
As we turn our home into the former, and shed the latter, our home starts attracting our vision. Try it, it works!
Sure enough, my life started to move in better and better directions. My feng shui business became a full time job, I then went to school for interior design which increased my business further. My husband’s new career in finance became more successful and allowed him to work online, from home.
As our incomes increased we were able to start taking vacations, and traveling to real tropical locations. We began exploring the idea of living on an island.
We grew to love our tiny home, but needed more room. So we started to visualize having the apartment next door. Sure enough, it soon became available! We grabbed it and combined the two apartments into a very sweet, livable space.
I continued the beach house theme in the new apartment, but more grown up this time. The newly acquired apartment would have a sleeker urban sophistication, but with a lot of tropical warmth. It was like the luxury resorts I envisioned staying in when vacationing in St. Bart’s or Bora Bora. Having visited some of the islands I had dreamed about, it now became easier to imagine living in these places. As we got a clearer sense of what we wanted, I began decorating the house more deliberately. We could viscerally feel that we were moving closer to our dream life.
A few years later, I think it is fair to say that our dreams have manifested. As I look out my window at the Pacific Ocean, the turquoise water and sandy beach lie 23 floors below my luxury high rise in Hawaii. My husband is working in the next room, and we are about to go swim with sea turtles.
As great as this life is, we have more dreams ahead. We hope to eventually buy a home on an island not quite so crowded as this one – so we are decorating our current home in order to attract our next one.
But in essence we have done it. We took a silly blue shower curtain and turned it into the Pacific Ocean. We live our dream. This stuff works. Try it.
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Year of the Rat: Feng Shui Tips for 2008
Let's Call This Year a Wrap
Practice What You Preach
The Feng Shui of Current Events
The Secret of Feng Shui Design
Decluttering in the Technological Age
Feng Shui Tips for 2007
Selecting a New Home
Feng Shui Success Stories
Living Your Dream
Feng Shui and Water ...
Feng Shui for the Brain
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