Hello & Welcome to The Feng Shui Money Couch where I talk about Feng Shui and other Woo. My name is Laura Beatriz Carrillo aka The Feng Shui Lady.
Today I am going to talk about my personal Shui and share my ongoing journey with you. As you feel yourself changing internally, you will find your environment shifts with you.
Listen, there’s no such thing as PERFECT Feng Shui. It’s a moving target. 😉
GOOD Feng Shui is the goal and that means an environment that evolves and pivots with you. Such that change is an ongoing practice. 😀
You are not static, your circumstances are not static and as such your environment is not static. 🙌
Your environment is a mirror or reflection of Your Evolution. The reality is that if you don’t see a reflection of change in what’s around you, then you are not fully evolving. 🪷
When you allow for growth; change and expansion is reflected in your environment. ✨
That includes everything from your home, your inner circle, what food and entertainment you consume and what you give your energy to. The recent eclipse season had a dramatic effect on who and what I give my energy to. 🤯
I also had an epiphany as a result of the Venus Retrograde about my physical space. I decided to revisit my environment and look at my space and circumstances as if I was working with a client. 🤓
I questioned both my circumstances and my surroundings. I asked myself if I was happy and what I would like to see differently. These are the kinds of questions I would ask you.
I decided to give myself a VIP Feng Shui Experience! Seriously! I even filled out my new and improved client intake form. I decided to walk myself through an actual client experience. 🧐
When I treated myself and my environment from the vantage point of a practitioner, I was able to see with my Feng Shui eyes what I couldn’t see as the person currently living in my home and circumstances. It was an enlightening experience. 😎
I came up with new activations and adjustments for my prosperity Gua for example. The Prosperity Gua is the area of your home that represents your wealth.
I replaced a lovely mirror which was perfectly good Feng Shui with a new Tapestry depicting a captivating Zen Drawing that represents good fortune and harmony. While the mirror was fine there; the Tapestry is a powerful visual cue that serves as an activation that I placed with specific intention. Every time I look at it now, I feel inspired by the composition and energy of the artwork. The piece is thought provoking and engages my imagination around the interconnectedness of everything and how the universe is working on my behalf.
It’s a series of three overlapping line filled circles. The separate forms come together as one composition representing heaven, earth and humanity. In Feng Shui we work with 3 kinds of luck Heavenly luck, earthly luck, and human luck. Two out of three we have agency over, earthly luck which refers to our physical actions we take towards our goals and human luck which refers to our attitude and energy or chi. Heavenly luck is divinely guided by destiny and karma. I love staring at the figures and experiencing their relationship to each other. I can’t emphasize enough how powerful the imagery in your environment is to creating your narrative and lived experience.
As I referred to earlier nobody has perfect Feng Shui. In my home for example I happen to have a portion of my Skills and Knowledge gua that’s missing and lives just outside my front door. This energetic Center called The Skills & Knowledge Gua and also referred to as the Wisdom Gua is just as important as Love or Money or any other energetic center and theme. It represents Information we seek to teach others and Information we want to learn and acquire for ourselves. A portion of this energetic center resides just outside my front door.
The interesting thing about this is how focused I have been this year on learning about sales and marketing and discovering how to integrate business systems and strategies as an entrepreneur.
I also have a lot of Knowledge I want to teach and share with the world around Feng Shui. So I definitely don’t take for granted this energy center and its interesting that it’s the only Gua at a deficit therefore calling for my special attention.
In Feng Shui your front door or entrance is referred to as The Mouth of Chi/Energy. It’s one of the most important power centers of your home and where your blessings enter. Of course I have cures in place for the missing portion of The Skills & Knowledge Gua but when I was doing my personal report and treating myself as a “VIP Client,” I suddenly came up with more creative and advanced additional cures to really energize this area. It was like puzzle that needed solving and it was time to figure it out!
An inviting entrance is incredibly important in Feng Shui. Things like a Welcome Mat and a Wind-chime help activate and welcome chi here.
So what I decided to do was update my welcome mats both inside and outside my home with 2 brand new matching super bougie ones.
As I pondered the best activation for this Gua I decided to incorporate the image of a majestic mountain which is extremely supportive in Feng Shui. I scoured the internet for welcome mats that depicted a beautiful mountain landscape. Since I can’t hang a picture of a mountain outside my apartment and there’s no room for one near the front door, the welcome mats are the perfect vessel for this imagery.
The new Mountain mats will serve as a cure to help connect the portion of energy of my Skills and Knowledge Gua lives outside my apartment with the part that’s inside. The mats I chose also have a flowing river running down the mountain which is very auspicious. Water features or imagery that flows into the home represent abundance and money entering the home so in effect the mats will also beckon abundance into my home. I ordered 2 of them from a vendor in China and they will take several weeks to arrive. I can’t wait!!!
I should also mention that the element for the Skills & Knowledge Gua is Earth. One of the most powerful ways to depict earth element in Feng Shui is with a scenic mountain.
In Feng Shui Mountains represent support, protection, and stability—the feeling of having something strong behind you. Because this is my skills and knowledge gua, this kind of support is very important.
Over the last couple years I have invested heavily in mentorship and advanced training in both my field and in developing my sales and marketing and business systems. As an entrepreneur it’s hard to wear every hat, so I sought training and support in these areas.
Other associations with Mountains include:
* Support and backing: dependable people, mentors, colleagues, and resources.
* Security and protection: a sheltered setting that helps you feel safe and rooted.
* Strength and endurance: a solid foundation and the ability to remain steady through change.
* Authority and steadfast leadership: mountain imagery has also been used to symbolize a ruler’s stability and support.
I feel strongly that implementing this new cure will be powerful for me. The timing of it will also align with and support my integration of all of the elements that I have been taught over the last couple years and in my most recent mentorship container.
Learning about something new is one thing. Applying it is another. Integration takes time and practice. As mentioned, I recently completed a Feng Shui Business mentorship container and since then I have been actively applying and integrating all that I have learned into my business processes, my social media presence, my networking and my lifestyle.
Giving myself this VIP treatment has been a great exercise! You can’t always see yourself and your situation as clearly as someone looking in from the outside with a fresh lens.
PS ~ This is akin to why therapists still need therapy! 😆
I stepped out of my life and reflected on it as I would a paying client. I started by completing my intake form applying that information to my protocol for a Property Report. Then I dove even deeper and gave myself a VIP overview with a thorough analysis of all my Guas and energy centers. I lazered in on all the area’s of opportunity, potential cures and activations just as I would a client. 😍
I uncovered what could be improved because I was looking at it from a fresh lens. The lens of a practitioner. 😘
I came up with creative work arounds for what was missing. I don’t have some of the more typical options I would recommend to someone who had agency over their front yard. In that case I would recommend planting something or digging a crystal into the ground to square off and symbolically complete the missing Gua.
Just outside my front door is a concrete public hallway that I don’t have agency over. I am limited to a door mat and a couple plants on either side of my door.
I have recommended people use paint to draw a the sacred symbol called the trigram when they are confronted with a missing Gua ending up in their driveway or the sidewalk but my building has strict rules and that wasn’t an option for me. Instead I used clear and invisible fingernail polish to accomplish this with a transcendental cure that nobody sees.
The cool thing about Feng Shui is that it’s a physical language and you can get creative by thinking outside of the box for solutions. The obstacle is the path so to speak. It comes down to a practitioner’s imagination and ability to problem solve.
In any case, I had a bit of fun solving the missing piece of the puzzle called my Skills & Knowledge Gua using my very own Skills & Knowledge. Haha; see what I just did there.
We can always improve upon things and elevate ourselves. This was an experiment that turned out to be groundbreaking and fun for me! 🤯
I also wanted to be able to share the client experience with you without exposing an actual clients personal information or report.
That was the original impetus for using myself as a case study. Now I am excited to be able to share aspects of the client journey with you like walking you through the intake form or sharing portions of a property Report. Also providing examples of recommendations one might receive in a VIP FENG SHUI EXPERIENCE with me. Just like I am sharing with you today. 🥰
Every Client report is unique to your home and circumstances but the structure and format is the same.
I am currently in the process of making all the aforementioned adjustments to my space and will keep you posted on my progress! A big part of this process has been the editing and purging of my closet which I recently shared with you on a previous episode. That was in m Children & Creativity Gua. Since that purge, I have felt especially inspired and open to new possibilities and ideas. I also shared about the rotation of my art and resurrection of pieces I already owned which is very #venusretrograde. 😍
I will be documenting the arrival of my new Welcome Mats and memorializing the unique and specific cure I came up with to complete my Skills & Knowledge Gua. This Gua is also associated with the number 8 so I have 8 specific skills I am Mastering and will name in writing somewhere in this Gua along with the Trigram Symbol Associated with this area. So stay tuned! This is Feng Shui in real time and in my real life. Ok everyone thank you for joining me. I invite you to Subscribe, Like and Share to spread the love. Cheers everyone and Ciao for now!
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