Reba Jean Cain, Yin Yang Spirit

Feng Shui and Intention are a powerful pair. Used together, they can support you in reaching goals. Here’s how:  Feng Shui is all about the flow of energy (chi) through your home. Factors that affect how energy flows are furniture arrangement, furnishings, color, and all the items that you have in your home. In fact, your home is one big energy affirmation!  In other words, the combined energy of everything in your home pulses a message constantly. If you love your home and everything in it, it affirms love, comfort, and peace. If however, it is cluttered and you don’t like the colors or furnishings, it affirms uneasiness, anxiety and stress.    

An intention is a state of mind in which you have decided to do, be or have something, no matter what.  It is not an affirmation, or a plan or a goal, although these can support your intention. It is a way of focusing energy so specifically that it literally causes energy to coalesce into a certain experience, way of being, or attainment of an object.

Using the principle that your home is one big energy affirmation, Feng Shui can give your intention a tailwind. If  the energy of your home reflects the intention, the chi then affirms the intention constantly – just like a lighthouse emitting beams of light.

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Let’s chose the intention of exercising or losing weight, a seemly ever present concern in our minds. The area of your home that relates to health, according to the Feng Shui bagua map, is the center of your house and the center of each room. To support your healthy intention, place an item in the center that represents a slim body or exercising. This could be a photo of you at your ideal weight or a picture of you when you felt and looked healthy. It could be a collage of people running, swimming or doing the exercises you intend to do. It could also be a healthy plant or a round faceted crystal, used with the intention of drawing healthy chi to that area. Each time you see this item, your brain will be reminded, on a subconscious level, of your intention.

If you have unhealthy foods in your pantry, remove them. Make your kitchen pulsate healthy eating habits. Pull the exercise machine out, dust it off – have it look inviting and calling you energetically to use it.  One of the biggest problems related to weight is clutter. Clutter represents extra baggage, therefore extra pounds and lowered energy. 

Remember, nonverbally your home is affirming energy that supports your intention or not. Walk through your home and “listen” to what it is saying. Does it say good health and high energy or lethargy and extra pounds??

I am delighted to join with the other writers on this site to share my ideas on healing and on living a happy fulfilling life.  My perspective on healing is seen through the lens of the energy flow in our lives.  As a Feng Shui consultant, I’ll be writing about how the energy of your home impacts your life as you work with healing and change. As an astrologer I’ll share how the energies of the planets bring opportunities to heal and also to transform your life. And finally as an Energy Body Worker, I will discuss ways you can work with the body’s energy system to create healing and peace in your life.

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To lay a foundation on how energy functions in the different areas of your life, first consider your home and how day after day you live in this space and are impacted by what goes on here. Life force energy know as chi, qi, prana, or mana  permeates every molecule of space in your home.  As it flows through your home, it nourishes each area.  Chi creates the aliveness in your home just as oxygen creates aliveness in your body. if you feel uplifted and happy when you are at home, you probably have good Feng Shui.  If on the other hand, you feel stuck, depressed or anxious, the energy of your home may not be supporting you to heal and have the best life possible. 

A simple way to test the Feng Shui of your home is to walk through and see if there are places where your energy rises and places where it drops, and especially if there are rooms you avoid.  Notice if there is clutter in the areas where your energy falls, or if it is poorly lit or has furniture or artwork that reminds you of sad times. These things diminish the chi.  You have just experienced Feng Shui and how the energy of your home actually causes you to feel a certain way.

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Next, let’s explore how astrology impacts your energy as you move through your daily life. Astrology describes the cycles of nature.  The cycle we are most familiar with is the seasons – spring, summer, fall and winter. Our society has gotten away from living in attunement with the natural cycles and generally, we just live full-speed-ahead never considering that this yearly cycle is suggesting a certain energy flow. The seasonal cycle unfolds with a time for new beginnings (spring), productivity and blooming (summer), harvesting & reaping results (autumn) and finally rest and hibernation (winter). Some people have begun to use this cycle for eating, body cleansing and fasting, but in general it is ignored.  

Then there are the cycles of the moon each month when energies build during the waxing moon and energies decrease during the waning moon.  During waxing phases (new moon to full moon) start projects and things you want to grow and get bigger in your life. A simple everyday example is get your hair cut during this time if you want it to grow.  During waning phases (full moon to new moon) do things that you want to release or prevent from getting any bigger in your life.  Get your hair cut during this phase and it will not grow as fast.  These are examples of simple cycles.  There are other more complex cycles such as Mercury retrograde, eclipses and special sky alignments which also impact us. I will be writing about these on the Yin Yang Spirit page as they occur.

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And finally, consider the energy system of your body.  Your body’s energy system consists of your aura which is an energy field around your body; your chakras which are seven spinning vortexes of energy located up and down your spine, and your meridians which are the  twelve energy pathways that flow throughout your body. The health of your body is impacted by the condition of these three components of your energy system. How you feel each day – happy, spacey, depressed, anxious – is also impacted by this energy system.

If you feel spacy and unfocused, your energy system may not be grounded to the earth.  A simple way to become acquainted with your body’s energy system is to do a grounding exercise each morning before you get out of bed.  Visualize an energy root shaped like the root of a big tree running from your first chakra, located at the very bottom of your spine, down to the center of the earth. Feel how much more stable you feel and fully present you are.  If you can not tell a difference at first, keep at it.  You may need to train your “awareness muscle” to feel the more subtle energies of your body.

Consider how these three factors, Feng Shui, Astrology and the Body’s Energy System impact on an unseen level your health,  healing and happiness.  I will be posting regularly articles on these three areas to help you become more skilled in dealing with energy at all of  these levels.

Feel free to visit my web site at http://www.rebajeancain.com  You’ll find information on the services I offer in these areas and a list of the classes I teach in both Florida and the Pacific Northwest. I also offer  Feng Shui Consultations in both places. Astrology readings and Lightbody Activations are available in-person and on the phone. You may also want to subscribe to my free quarterly newsletter the Yin Yang Gazette.