Issue 8

• The Magic of Your Differences - Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and James Sniechowski, Ph.D, Best Selling Authors, and Guest Writers
• The MESHE Concept...A Path to Soulful Living  - Karen Deborah Farris, Guest Writer
• Touching One's Soul - Edward B. Toupin, Guest Writer
• Color Cures Part II - Kalyn Raphael
• Waterfall - Susan Hadinger

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From smoke and dirt to pollution and oil, it is amazing how much gunk can collect on a window over time. I sit here in my office looking out the window that appears to look the same as it did when it was new, but wondering why it was always a gray overcast outside. I was just used to the slow collection of crud so I never really noticed how opaque the window was becoming.  It took a lot of cleaner, four rags, and a lot of elbow grease to make the window acceptably transparent again, but it'll never be the same as it was when it was new.

 Just as with the window, from birth, we all collect some level of gunk on our souls.  This gunk consists of misinformation, prejudices, conflict, trauma, and myriad other experiences that layer over our creative insides.  These layers slowly change the way we see our world by creating an opaque film over our soul's eye.  With that we begin to see the world in a way that we assume that it is and not necessarily in a way that it truly exists.  Our reality becomes tainted preventing us from perusing and becoming everything that we could possibly become. However, somehow we need to clean off that gunk to obtain a clear view of life.

Writing to Clear my Vision
 After 15 years of sharpening pencils and banging on the keyboard, I am still amazed at the things that happen as I continue to write.  In the early days, I simply did it because it helped to pay the bills and it was fun to see my books at the bookstore.  But, as time passed, I began to realize that the more I write, the more I learn about myself, and the more layers that peel off of my soul. 

 I must say, that the most fulfilling experience I ever had as a writer was . . .

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© Copyright 2003 Edward B. Toupin. All rights reserved.

 Edward B. Toupin is an author, life-strategy coach, counselor, and technical writer living in Las Vegas, NV. Among other things, he authors books and articles on topics ranging from career success through life organization and fulfillment. For more information, e-mail Edward at etoupin@toupin.com or visit his sites at http://www.toupin.com or http://www.make-life-great.com.

In Color Cures, part 1 of the last issue, we talked about colors as they relate to yin and yang energy Matching appropriate energies is what Feng Shui is all about. A space is said to have good Feng Shui, or auspicious Feng Shui, when beneficial energies are clear, unblocked and flow. One level of energy in a space is isn't it's colors. Creating a change to increase our beneficial energies an be done through choosing appropriate colors.

            In addition to the yin or yang vibration of color, we also want to use color to create the right mood for the right space. Colors also hold an energy vibration, which we see on the color spectrum, and that need to be considered when making color changes. Strong colors, like red, are very energetic and are inappropriate for yin rooms such as bedrooms, where we rest and relax. Black, a yin color, would be inappropriate for active rooms, especially spaces of business.

            It is important to spend a little time thinking about what mood is appropriate for the space we are working with. When we are focusing on the mood and energy, we want for a space, we can look at the following three factors.

                        Is this room basically yin or yang?

We began to think about matching the rooms' activities using yin and yang energy in the last issue. Basically, yin energies are quiet and calm. They help us focus inward, which we experience in the quiet of a library. Yang energies, on the other hand, create activity in an outward fashion. Yang energy is the primary energy we try to harness to keep businesses active. It is important to match our space with the proper energy level, because most businesses don't want their sales office to be as quiet a library!

             What activities occur in this room?

            Some rooms are easier to identify as active, like a home office, or inactive, such as a bedroom. And yet, we have many rooms in between these two extremes. We quickly run into questions like, what energy or color is appropriate for a room like a living room, a kitchen, or a waiting room (in an office)?

            Feng Shui has two aspects to it, a scientific side of flying the stars, and an intuitive side in which we need to rely on our own intuition and ability to work with energy. If this makes you nervous, don't be! Although some of us are more intuitive and more able to sense energy, it is something that we all have the ability to do. If our ability to sense energy is underdeveloped, then we just need to learn to open to energy.

            Focus on one room at a time as you work to determine the best color(s). Spend a little time in your room. Ask yourself what activities this room currently used for? Are you happy with the way the room is currently used? How do you want this room to change? Sometimes rooms are used in a way other than the way you intend them to be: kids play in the living room and the dining room table is used as a second home office! This means that your living room and dining room, in this example, enjoy more active energy than the office or play room. Spend five minutes discovering this for yourself. Sit in the home office and then in the living room and see how each feel, how inviting they are and what activities they encourage. Based on the answers to these questions, you'll have a better idea about how you would like to change the energy in your focus room.

            The third area of focus is the flow of a space. As in the example above, if your living room is being used as a second home office, this will partly be due to the energy that is present in the living room, which is determined by someone with strong intuition or by flying the stars.

            The flow of a room is key to how we feel about a room. Rooms near the entrance to the home, office or business, near a window or a patio area tend to have the best flow. Other times, rooms that have auspicious stars in them will automatically have a more positive and inviting flow.

            The rooms we avoid and spend less time in are those with less flow, those that harness inauspicious Feng Shui. These rooms tend to feel stuffy, stagnant and boxy.

            Think of your focus room. How is it's flow? Outside of hiring a consultant, only you will be able to answer this, as energy must be sensed. Books and other resources will provide a guideline to help you determine the energy of a space, but it will ultimately be up to you to determine. What does the flow need? Do you need a lot more activity or just a little?

            As you look at the energy vibration that you want in a space, yin or yang, you narrow your color choice as an active or calm color. Next, as you focus on the activities going on in your space and what you wish them to be, we sense how much color-energy we need to add. The flow of a space will be a final determining factor in our color choice.                            

            Back to our dining room example, we know that a dining room is a yin-yang energy mix, leaning toward more activity. To lessen the unwanted office activity, we need to choose a color that holds more yin energy, slowing down the flow. If our dining room is in an area with a lot of energy movement, like near a large window or patio area, then we'll lean towards more quieting, yin colors. Calming an active area like our dining room, can be done using darker, warm colors. Dark shades of rose, forest greens and deep blues will be key in this room.

            If, on the other hand, our living room has the opposite problem and it is too inactive then we'll need to choose yang colors. An inactive living room may be due to a lack of flow, which adds to a lack of activity. Our living rooms are the place where, like a dining room, we connect with others and socialize. Living rooms can, therefore, symbolically represent our reputation and connection in life, on a personal and sometimes professional level.

            In the case of an inactive living room, activate the flow by opening curtains and windows. Choose to paint this inactive area a light color so that activity and light bounce off the walls. Allow your color to work with other elements, such as light and movement, so that you strategically choose colors that bounce light or emphasize the most active area of a room. A yin living room that I worked with, for example, had a fireplace and French doors, but was still too cold energetically. Adding a butter-yellow to the walls worked to warm and activate the energy. Strategically adding a darker shade around the fireplace and the French doors supported the activity, or the yang energy in the room.

            Using color in a space is simple when we can sense the energy of a space. Sensing the energy begins by looking at some structured clues, like how active the space is. Use your own intuition to decide what yang and bright colors and shades of colors will activate the energy of a space or what yin and quiet colors will mellow out a space, creating a quiet and cozy room!

Love & Light,

Kalyn

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 Do you have Feng Shui questions or comments? Email your Feng Shui comments to: kalyn@feng-shui-flow.com 
Kalyn is a Feng Shui Consultant trained in Hong Kong by Raymond Lo. Her consulting services will be introduced in next month's issue!

Feng Shui Abundance Tip:

    In Feng Shui we work with energy, shifting and changing it to enhance its effect on us and our lives. This is primarily done using universal laws of energy.
    However, you don't have to be an expert to work with energy and to attract abundance into your life!
Try this simple tip: Financial abundance is tied in with our creativity. People think that money comes from working long hours or working hard, but it really comes from creativity! Try bringing more creativity into the work you do now and allow financial abundance to come into your life!

    Do you wish to enjoy a life of abundance? Sure, it sounds great, and you think that it is too good to be true! It is not too good- it takes work on your part!
    If you are willing to open to life, to change some behaviors and to learn how to how to attract abundance into your life, then try the Manifesting Abundance Series! The series was created for students who wanted to experience more abundance in their lives, and they are! The Manifesting Abundance Series includes two CD processes to help you bring the energy of abundance in, and an Abundance Workbook, an 8 week workbook with daily exercises and behaviors to help you know what abundance really is.

You won't know abundance until you breath it, feel it and think it-
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by: Susan Hadinger
email Susan at schading@hotmail.com

I reach through the watery veil
Grasping for connection
Yearning for love 

How to trust
As things change
Like water 

Undulations
People appear big
Then grow small 

How to hold
On to the bigness
In yourself and others

 Reach through
At just the right time
And hold tight 

Or maybe
Just maybe
It’s not timing at all

 Then
As I stop trying
To reach through
Stop trying to hold on 

Sit still for a moment
I notice something

 That which I have
Been trying so hard
To reach beyond
Suddenly comes into focus  

The waterfall
Life, love, beauty
Is all there

Has always been there
Right before my eyes

And as the light
Bounces off the moving water
Sparkling like diamonds 

The enormity
Of this realization
Sinks into me

As I step into
The flow
I feel each drop

Rushing over me
Through me
Infusing me with

An infinite capacity
To love and trust
Trust in everything

Trust in me.

 - Susan Hadinger

Issue 8