alt="Yin yang symbol "/> Yin Yang [Balance]
The universal symbol for balance. For our purposes, the light half represents everything you can experience with your five senses in the physical world. The dark half represents everything you feel with your intuition, i.e. your gut feelings.
[Huna Principle]
A Hawaiian symbol of healing. The root translation of Kanaloa means the great peace or the great stillness. The pattern represents the web of life; the symbolic connection of all things to each other. Generates subtle energy known as Ki in Hawaiian.
Meditating on the lotus brings harmony into all aspects of our being, within and without. The lotus is known for producing beauty (the flower) out of something ugly (the mud), which symbolizes our human struggles of taking something difficult and making it into something beautiful.
Feng shui is about how to create more flow in our lives. The wave represents the flow of the river of life. How we allow that flow and how we navigate the river directly affects our experience.
Preface
Ever heard of feng shui? In a word, the concept means balance. In a sentence, it refers to the balance of energy within a space. If you’re thinking that feng shui means moving your stuff around, you’re right; that’s the most well-known form of this concept. But there’s a point at which our outer environment stops having a profound effect; it’s really your inner self that allows the good energy you’re welcoming into your home to affect you, so it makes sense that the definition of feng shui can easily be applied to another environment: You.
That’s what this book is about—feng shui for your “inner house,” or the application of traditional feng shui principles to your intellect, emotions, energetic body and physical body; in other words, to your mental, emotional, spiritual and physical sides.
If you would like an image, picture a small mental energy center around your head, a small emotional energy center around your heart and a larger spiritual energy center outside of your entire body. The energy center of your head represents your thoughts and intentions. The energy center of your heart represents the power that fuels your intentions. The energy center around your body regulates how much energy you draw to yourself at each moment. Each of these energy systems (as well as anything you ingest) influences and affects your physical body.
Inner feng shui is the idea of balancing all sides of yourself using the same three-step process you would apply to your outer spaces like your home, office and car. The three steps are: declutter, organize, and beautify.
Why should you feng shui yourself from the inside out? If certain areas of your life aren’t progressing in a positive direction, you may be stuck. If you find that your romantic life isn’t progressing, your finances aren’t progressing, or you don’t feel good or healthy in your skin and you keep coming up against the same spiritual lessons over and over, consider this: the inner reflects the outer and the outer reflects the inner. Cleaning house internally is a big step toward making space to allow what you want to flow to you. By applying the three-step process of decluttering, organizing, and beautifying to your energetic and physical self, you clear the way for the grandest vision of your life to become reality. It’s an attitude: you can have it all.
How do you get it all? It’s a process that requires honest inner digging. Some people believe that we get what we aim at, big or small, right or wrong. Our intentions direct our thoughts and actions toward our goals like arrows that fly toward their target. What happens if you aim at one portion of your life, such as work, but not others, like your health or relationships? It’s likely that at some point you will have to stop what you’re doing (being a workaholic) to help bring your life back into balance. This creates a win-lose outcome. But if you conceive of the bigger picture of your life and aim at it in its entirety at one time, you may be surprised at what is possible.
That’s not to say you have to work on everything at once; you don’t. Simply keeping the bigger picture in mind as the backdrop behind everything you do creates a win-win situation where all your needs are met, and it sets the stage for waking up in a more balanced tomorrow. What you excavate by doing the internal digging creates clarity of the vision you want for yourself, and what you need to do to get it becomes crystal clear. Once you’re clear, you can manifest everything on your wish list.
With that in mind, this book is designed to lead you on a journey through the nine feng shui areas of life (Abundance & Prosperity, Passion & Romance, Fame & How You Are Seen in the World, Career & Service, Health & Balance, Family & Past, Creativity & Future, Wisdom & Self-Awareness, and Faith & Benefactors) and encourage you to reflect on how those parts of your life currently feel. These areas are part of a westernized system of feng shui known as Black Sect feng shui, and they relate to something called the Bagua map. This map is generally applied to a home or property, but in this case, we’re navigating a path to your best you.
My feng shui master was Hawaiian and always included teachings from the ancient Hawaiian Huna secrets in his feng shui classes (huna means secret). He later created the Tibetan Hawaiian Feng Shui Foundation where I was trained. There are many crossovers between the principles of Huna and how they relate to energy and intention, which we will explore along with the feng shui principles in this book.
If the actions presented in this book feel good to you: start now. If they feel overwhelming: stop, and resume later. Sometimes a little bit at a time feels really good. Break the process down into bite-sized chunks and create your own path. Your ideal life is waiting for you and you can get there at a pace that feels just right to you. Let’s get started.
Abundance and Prosperity
“The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.” —Mary Webb
Feng Shui Principle
Color your world
The best colors for abundance and prosperity are deep purples, grounding golds, vibrant reds and grand greens. Think of the celebrations of Mardi Gras, the colors of the fall harvest and ceremonies of royalty.
The Highest Good Principle
I think that many people in life are concerned that if they get what they really want, something bad will happen. W.W. Jacobs warned in his 1902 short story The Monkey’s Paw: “Be
