May 02 2008
Yin Yang Spirit
Welcome to Reba’s Ying Yang Spirit Page. Reba is a Feng Shui Practitioner and Astrology Expert. She will share her expertise and knowledge with readers to demonstrate how they may improve the energy of their home and environment with Feng Shui. Reba will also be writing on Astrology and how using it can give us insight and knowledge about our path and how we interact in our lives.
Healing: An Energy Perspective
By: Reba Jean Cain
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.
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.
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.
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.
Feng Shui: Your Front Door
By: Reba Jean Cain
Are you interested in learning how to work with Feng Shui in your home? If so, a good place to start is with your front door. In this post, you will learn how to assess the Feng Shui of your front door, then apply Feng Shui cures to correct any problems you discover.
Your front door is one of the most important parts of your home from a Feng Shui perspective. It is your connection to the chi (life force energy), which ultimately is responsible for creating all the good things in your life – love, career success, money, health, etc
Considering how important it is, you may want to use the following Assessment to determine if your front entrance needs some Feng Shui help. The front door and entrance area should be clean, well lighted, welcoming and visible from the street.
- Does your door have a good coat of paint? Is it free of dog or cat scratches? – The physical condition of the door makes an instant first impression on visitors. A shabby front door blocks chi from coming into the house, which does not support success, health and happiness. Apply a fresh coat of paint if your front door looks shabby.
- Are there dead plants, leaves, overhanging bushes or empty flower pots at your front entrance? If so, clear the dead vegetation and clutter and add seasonal pots of plants to keep the energy fresh and energized all year long. Geraniums in the summer are especially good as they are red and call in chi.
- Is there a welcome mat or welcome plaque that creates an inviting feeling? If not, add a mat that causes you to feel happy and uplifted. Round or oval shapes are good to off set the yang angles at the front of most homes. Also try to include all the five elements –wood, fire, earth, metal and water – in the design of the welcome mat.
- Do you have a long straight side walk that leads to your front door? If so, this creates a poison arrow aimed right at your front door. An excellent way to cure this problem is to add plants in a staggered fashion on both sides of the walk to create a curved effect.
- Is the doorknob loose and wobbly or does the door stick? Loose doorknobs make it hard for the home’s occupants to get a handle on their lives. Stuck doors, especially the front door, are usually a reflection that areas of your life are stuck. Purchase new doornobs if needed and realign the front door so it does not stick. This often is not simple to accomplish. However it is crucial to fix a front door that sticks and will be well worth it for the shift that will occur in your life.
If your front door is not in excellent shape according to this assessment, adjusting its Feng Shui will support you in creating more success, health and abundance in your life.
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The Financial Crisis: Feng Shui Help
By: Reba Jean Cain
These are intense times and you may find your emotions zooming up and down and also allow fear to creep in as you watch the chaos of the stock market. There are things you can do to support yourself in staying peaceful. The more you can stay peaceful, the more you will be an energy match for the good you want in your life. So I have given some tips below on how to do that plus a look at what is happening astrologically. Finally there are some simple Feng Shui cures you can install in the financial sector of your home.
Here is a look at the financial crisis through the eyes of astrology, Feng Shui and spirituality plus suggestions of what you can do to cope.
- Do everything possible to not buy into fear and panic. Just remember that your thoughts and intentions create the reality you experience and no matter what everyone else is experiencing you can still be in peace and live a happy life. How to do that?
- Do your spiritual practices daily, whatever they may be, to keep your connection with source.
- Ground your self each day, cleanse your aura and surround it with light so that the chaotic energies of others around you can not penetrate your energy field
- Take negative friends, family or naysayers out of your life for now until things change and it is easier to stay positive and not buy into their fear.
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Treat yourself to those activities that cause your body to relax and your brain waves to go to alpha. This could be a walk in nature, a fishing trip, a bubble bath, a massage, body work or the Lightbody Activation – anything that feeds your soul. The more you can remove your mind from your finances and vibrate at peace, the more you will be an energy match for the good outcomes you want to attract.
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Feng Shui the financial area of your home. This would be the far left hand corner of your house as you stand at your front door. There is a vortex of energy in that corner and how it vibrates impacts the details of your finances. There are three things you could do. First, make sure there is no clutter there. Clutter contributes to both stuckness and chaos in your finances. Now add a rock or some other heavy object to symbolically stabilize your finances. Third, to increase your investments to their original value or higher, add something purple or an item that represents abundance, such as gold coins or a very valuable or expensive item. Say a prayer or chant that these items activate your finances in a good way. Surrender it all and focus on gratitude for all you already have – family, health, friends, etc.
Astrological Energies Now Unfolding:
Astrologically, what is happening is a cleansing of the old ways of greed, dishonesty and imbalance. Pluto, the planet of transformation, has activated the energies that rule all that is now unfolding. The sign Capricorn, which Pluto is now influencing, rules government, big business, CEO’s and the traditional way. It will be in this sign for the next 16 years.
Pluto is just finishing its sojourn in Sagittarius, where it has been for the last fourteen years, transforming religion and travel. Now its assignment is to transform all that Capricorn rules, plus all that it rules. Pluto has rulership over finances, particularly big money, crime, hidden things, debt and other people’s money. So you can see how the times are ripe for imbalances in government and big business to be exposed. Pluto tears down old ways to rebuild in a new in and better way. This deep transformation is simply what we are now seeing. This cleansing is facilitating the consciousness shift we are now experiencing.
What You Can Do To Help:
In your prayers and meditation, you can help this process by visualizing a gentle transformation where all people on the planet work in co-operation and harmony for the good of all. A good time to do this is on Saturday October 25th at 9:00 am in the Pacific time zone, 12:00 noon Eastern Time Zone. There is a world wide meditation for the world soul. To see how to participate go to this link: http://www.childrenoflight.com/wwm13.htm There are lots of details on what to do, but just doing the two invocations near the bottom of the page at the appropriate time in your time zone would be a very loving contribution to Mother Earth.
Use those suggestions above that call to you and feel yourself more in charge of the unfoldment of your life.
Blessings to All!!
