Feng Shui Your Mind

I want to share with all of you how excited Maureen and I are about the adventure we’re on as authors of Feng Shui Your Mind.  Today I realized that, for the past couple of months, we’ve been consistently hearing stories about people loving our book and naturally inspiring their friends to read it.  People have told me along the way, ”a book has a life of its own.” Now I know what they are talking about — it’s all about energy.  In fact, everything is energy, especially the thoughts you allow to live in your mind!!  When Maureen and I were writing our book, I was constantly engaging her in a little envisioning about our book…”let’s envision that people get as pumped about our book and find it as life changing as we do.”  Maureen, being the sweet, go with the flow kinda gal that she is, would always join in.  Together we infused our little book with our intention that it be carried by the Universe to people who want to create a much better life through ease and effortlessness.   And so it is!  My heart is filled with appreciation.  And a ton of awe.  Yes, it’s true…everything is energy.  When we declutter what does not serve us and envision what we are ready to experience, the Universe answers our call.  We love hearing from all of our readers.  We love you!!  Please feel welcome to share your stories with us so that we can share them to inspire others.  The ripple effect in action.  Life, with a Feng Shuied Mind is magical!!

What if there were a way that you could experience more joy, love, peace, fun and prosperity in your life through less energy and effort on your part? I have noticed that the more I align my energy with universal energy, the expansion that I co-create with the Divine shows up with increasingly greater ease and effortlessness on my part. What am I talking about? In our book, Feng Shui Your Mind, we say that “when you discover how to harmonize your energy with universal energy, the results are amazing–doors open, opportunities arise, and life feels truly magical!” This morning I was thinking about how magical my life has become. And I was thinking, what has shifted within me? I realized that I have been practicing the age-old principle, let go, let God, more consistently than ever before! How does this work in a practical sense? Let me tell you. Once I declutter my mind that has me convinced that things have to happen according to my mental idea of what should be happening–I choose to let go. I turn it over to God, knowing that I have already tried my best to make things happen. That choice allows me to go through my day using less energy. This feels great because I have created the space for the Creator of the universe to take over. This simple but incredibly powerful daily practice has resulted in the bennies that the principle promises to deliver. Doors have opened. I have been blown away by the support that has shown up in the form of incredible people and opportunities who are excited about helping me live my purpose–to uplift and inspire others. In the past, there was a part of me, Maureen and I call the cluttered mind, that felt the need to push and kick the doors down which appeared impenetrable. That takes tons of energy to do and also doesn’t work! I invite you to join me in this amazing practice. Just let go and turn things over to God. Believe me, the rewards are so delicious, you won’t want to go back to the old, energy-draining ways of the past!

This week has been a great week for me. It actually started a little rocky with interpersonal disagreements between me and two people in my life. If you know me, this wasn’t so easy for me. I’m a pretty agreeable person and I really strive for peace in my relationships. So when I wasn’t getting that, it was throwing me a little. My energy was way off.. But then… in a most serendipitous way, I ran into this quote —

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.” ~ Melodie Beattie

And boy did that ring true for me. As soon as I looked at these conflicts as opportunities to expand my consciousness, I felt my mind shift. Gratitude really is the most amazing tool we have. It can totally Feng Shui Your Mind in an instant. No one puts it better than Eckhart Tolle, who said,

“Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is at this moment.”

So I invite you to use gratitude right now as a tool to declutter your mind. Feel grateful for everything in your life — even the challenges you struggle the most with–

We are going on week 4 of our 6 week live global teleclass, Feng Shui Your Relationships~Living in the Flow of Love & Abundance!! I am having such a blast teaching this class with my dear friend and colleague, Rebecca Grado. What a journey this has been for us…meeting amazing kindred spirits from all over the world who are committed to expanding their consciousness. We have been applying the power and wisdom of Feng Shui to relationships and recognizing that the ultimate power to transform our relationships resides within us! And last week we looked at the relationship between love & abundance. Rebecca said something that has stayed with me all week, “Abundance is a vibration”. Wow, I have returned to that idea many times this week, reminding myself that my vibration is determined–minute to minute–by how well I am keeping my mind Feng Shuied. What a fun way to stay in the flow of abundance! When I notice that my energy isn’t as joyful and optimistic as I’d like it to be, no problem. I just do a little decluttering, which allows me to feel better instantly and even breathe more deeply as soon as I replace the cluttered thought with my new, inspired thought. Then it’s really cool to notice the synchronicities that show up, the thumbs up from the Divine as I like to think of them. For example, while we were teaching the class on abundance, I got a voice message from my daughter-in-law telling me that her aunt saw my book and wanted to purchase a copy. I love paying attention to synchronistic happenings because they remind me that when I keep my energy in the high vibe of love and abundance, I am positioning myself to manifest my heart’s desires.

So last week we were talking about letting go. And Jill has some observations to share after focusing on letting go this past week. Whenever I felt the impulse to try to control things because I was concerned about how they would work out, I noticed what fueled the impulse. Underneath the urge to try to control things, was anxiety. The anxious feelings kept me from feeling joyful anticipation about what was to come. From an energy perspective, I was mismanaging my energy. In trying to control things, I was wasting my energy and time, because I had no control over outer circumstances. As I practiced letting go this week, I discovered that my energy was so much better because I focused on using my energy efficiently. Whenever I found myself concerned about how something was going to work out, I decluttered my anxious thoughts and then practiced envisioning how I wanted things to turn out. What a great shift! Looking back over the week, I am so grateful that I practiced letting go because I realize that I spared myself from the kind of suffering that happens when we don’t let go because we’re stuck in fear, too busy trying desperately to control Life. And, the Universe abundantly rewarded my efforts. Support for deepening this practice came from people who truly want to see me step into my most powerful Self. We had sweet conversations that amplified my growing awareness that letting go, letting God is really like having a magic wand. But, it only works if you use it! So, try it yourself this week. I’m going for another week & I can hardly wait to see what gifts await me from the Universe!

So we asked you last week to pay attention to your thoughts and specifically to those thoughts that bum you out.  And even if you didn’t get a chance to do this, there’s no time like the present!  Start right now! The more mindful you are about these thoughts, the more masterful you become at transforming them to reclaim your energy.  Think of this process as your Feng Shui Your Mind “muscle”.  The more you do it, the faster and easier it will be to get out of any funk.  And anytime we ask you to do something, we like to do it ourselves!  So the past week, we both took time to see if anything was getting in our way.

Maureen noticed that for the first time in over four years her practice was slower than its usual pumping pace.  It had been quite some time that she hadn’t had to think about growing her practice – so with this new lull, she noticed old feelings of doubt arising.  After about a week of letting her cluttered mind get the best of her, she decided to transform the lull into a new, exciting space where she would attract different types of patients.  Her husband is an ex-professional tennis player and he has always encouraged her promote her business to tennis players.  While this was interesting to her, she didn’t really have any connection or ideas about how to do this.  Funny enough, as she moved from fear to faith around attracting enough patients, three new patients with tennis elbow called her out of the blue because of a recent newspaper article about the success of acupuncture with tennis elbow.  That’s what we’re talking about!!

At the beginning of the summer, Jill was feeling anxious and frustrated, knowing fully the power of our book, Feng Shui Your Mind, to uplift and guide people to live their dreams — yet feeling stuck about our next marketing steps.  Maureen suggested marketing via the internet, however, we didn’t have the time or knowledge to make it happen.  So instead of freaking out, Jill decluttered her mind as soon as she noticed her energy being compromised and then envisioned the perfect “angel” to help us out.  Within a day, she was referred to Joanne Sposito –an internet marketing guru who happened to be the ideal person for us!  A few days later, Jill was also asked to be a guest on two different blog talk radio shows.  In reflecting about what’s been happening, Jill’s realizing that the more relaxed she is about manifesting her dreams, the more she lives in the flow of universal energy.  In other words, the more opportunities arise through total ease.  Decluttering creates the space for them to show up!

So take a close look at what’s bugging you and practice embodying deep unwavering faith that you can manifest what you want.  Imagine that your desire has already manifested and allow yourself to feel in your body what that fulfilled desire would feel like.  With the energy you reclaim (from decluttering your thoughts), you are free to practice your power to envision and embody your true desire which is key in attracting it to you!