Clutter is trapped energy that has far-reaching effects physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. The simple act of clearing clutter can transform your life by releasing negative emotions, generating energy, & allowing you to create space in your life for the things you want to achieve. In Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston, pioneer of a branch of Feng Shui known as Space Clearing, expertly guides you through the liberating task of clutter clearing. You will learn:
Why you keep clutter ... How to identify and clear clutter in your home or workplace ... How to clear clutter from your body, mind, and spirit ... How to stay clutter-free ...
WHAT IS CLUTTER CLEARING?
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Feng what? The problem with clutter The effectiveness of clutter clearing What is clutter exactly?
Feng Shui
Feng Shui is the art of balancing and harmonizing the flow of natural energies in our surroundings to create beneficial effects in our lives. These natural energy flows were well known and understood by the ancients, and knowledge of them still exists in some cultures today. In Bali, for example, which is my home for half of each year, the people still live in total harmony with both the seen, physical world and the unseen energy world. Daily offerings at hundreds of thousands of household shrines throughout the land and an endless procession of indescribably beautiful and very highly evolved ceremonies in the island’s 20,000 communal temples ensure that balance and harmony is maintained. This, to me, is Feng Shui at its best – not just a set of principles applied to an individual building for a specific result, but a whole island of three million people in tune with the sacredness of the land and living Feng Shui as a complete way of life. I have a tremendous affection for the place.
Chapter 1: FENG WHAT? I once met a woman who set off travelling around the planet with little more than the ticket to her first destination in her pocket, but she had one extraordinary skill – the ability to read palms – and no matter where she went, she was never short of a place to sleep or food to eat. She would pick a local restaurant or hotel, meet the manager, and offer to do palm readings for guests in return for food, shelter or a small wage. When I met her she had been doing this for three years, had already visited more than a dozen countries, and was having the time of her life.
I have found that Feng Shui has this same universal appeal. When people discover how much their home can affect them, for better or for worse, they are usually fascinated to learn more.
My Approach To Feng Shui My own approach to Feng Shui is rather different to that of other practitioners because I work directly with the energy of each space. Over a twenty year period, I have developed the ability to see, hear, smell, taste and sense energy in enhanced ways, so to begin a consultation the first thing I usually do is go around the entire inside perimeter of the building, taking an energy reading with my hands. The history of events is recorded in the walls and furniture in the form of subtle electromagnetic imprints, and through reading and interpreting these I can detect everything of significance that has ever happened there. Traumatic or repetitive events become more deeply embedded and have a correspondingly greater effect on present day occupants. I am also able to find areas where the energy in the building has become stagnant and discover what needs to be done to improve its flow.
The rising popularity of Feng Shui in recent years has been extraordinary. I first discovered a passion for working with energy in buildings in the late 1970’s and began teaching Feng Shui publicly in 1993. When people asked me then what I did for a living and I told them, their common response was a puzzled look and a “Feng WHAT?” Nowadays they generally nod wisely and the conversation simply glides on. Just about everyone has heard something about it these days.
What is clutter exactly? Whenever I come across clutter, its energy field is unmistakable. It presents an obstacle to the flow of energy and has an unpleasant, sticky, unclean feel to it, like moving my hands through unseen cobwebs. This is what first made me realize that clutter causes problems in people’s lives. It also has a distinctive musty, pervasive odour which I can smell if I walk into someone’s home, even if the clutter is hidden away from sight. Actually, if I tune in, I can also smell it in a person’s aura (the energy field around their body) if they stand near me, because they become imbued with the smell of it. But don’t worry about this if you ever meet me in person – there is so much clutter in the world that I don’t tune in too often!
The good news is that after clearing clutter, this unwholesome, stagnant energy and accompanying odour quickly disappears.
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