Welcome to Quantum Waves of Wellness. I’m Dr. Paula Apro, and today, I'm going to dive back into my journey with Feng Shui—an ancient practice that shapes the energy of our spaces to align with success, harmony, and abundance. If you’ve ever felt like your home’s energy is blocking your flow—whether it’s your income, creativity, or overall well-being—then this episode is for you.
I’ll be sharing how I transformed my home’s energy, the surprising discoveries I made along the way, and how these small shifts created unexpected results—like a sudden $2,000 windfall! If you’re curious about how shifting your surroundings can shift your life, stick with me.
I had to put my Feng Shui projects on hold for a few months because I was away from my home. But I'm back, and I quickly got to work tearing apart my house. Truth be told, it was mostly the excitement about wanting to Feng Shui the bleep out of our house that motivated me to cut our "escape from the Maine winters" short and return home a month early.
I have to admit that after over a week of freezing cold, grey skies, and a very muddy dog I had my doubts that I made the right decision to come back to Maine early. But after less than 2 weeks of cleaning, decluttering, and rearranging, I'm confident that the crappy weather was worth the gains I've already gotten from the good energy.
One of the highest priority spots in your home is your front door. This represents your income, and if you want to keep it flowing in strongly, you need to have a clean and decluttered entryway. I almost completely disregarded this first step because I thought our entryway was pretty good. It's a wide-open, decluttered space, and I didn't think there was much to do.
Until . . . I read about the other doors in your house. I just mentioned that the front door represents your income, but what I didn't realize was that your back door represents your "passive income." Now this was pretty important to me because I'm more focused these days on creating passive income. I mean who doesn't want passive income, right?
And I have to admit that I'm a bit puzzled by the fact that I have one front door, two side doors, and a back door. The books I've read so far don't make mention of all these extra doors and the thought of this just makes me laugh. My house and all its doors are a perfect analogy for my business life. I literally used to carry around 5 different business cards for the 5 different businesses that I was running. I guess when you count my basement door, I actually do have 5 house doors in total.
So the more I read about entryways, the more interesting things got. I read further to learn how important it is that the entryway that you use the most is clean and decluttered. This is because it sets the tone for how you feel when you enter your home. If you are stepping into a dirty mess, well, that sets your energy for how you will feel in your home.
This one really got my attention because we never ever use our front door. The only time it opens is when we receive a package. It's our side door leading to our garage that was the problem. This is the primary way we enter our home and it was a doozy.
We go from the garage, through a long breezeway, and enter our home into the mudroom/laundry room. Not only was the mud/laundry room that the door opens into a mess, but the very long breezeway that connects the garage to the house was a disaster!
Talk about scattered energy as we entered our home. I guess I never really considered the breezeway as part of our actual house but as far as Feng Shui goes, there is no doubt that IT COUNTS! And boy did we have a lot of work to do.
You know all those things that don't really have a good place inside the home? And all those random things you acquire? In our case, a never-ending supply of rocks and driftwood. Yes, we live on the coast in Maine, and I just can't resist beach combing. But where do you put all these things?
And speaking of living in Maine, anybody who lives here, or visits, understands the enormous challenge of dressing. It's not the same challenge that dressing in CT presented. I no longer have to worry about fashion or accessorizing, but trying to figure out how to be comfortable during the ever-changing Maine weather is impossible. Maine requires an enormous amount of jackets, coats, gloves, hats, and shoes . . . . holy smokes, you can't imagine how many different types of footwear you need. Ideally, I would wear three different pairs of shoes for one walk through my neighborhood during the springtime, AKA "mud season."
So is it any wonder why my life, my career, and my energies have been so scattered? I really wish I had taken some before photos of our breezeway but honestly, it would have been embarrassing. God bless my husband and his 100% belief and support for all of my crazy energy-inspired ideas. He took on the task of cleaning up this breezeway and made it his #1 priority. It's not quite done yet, but here are a couple of pictures of the progress. All the clutter has been removed.
This place is so clean right now that it pains me to walk through it wearing shoes. And we now have more storage than things to fill it. This is great because it's allowing more space for passive income to flow in!
And now, when we enter into the mudroom/laundry room it's far less cluttered. Many of the items that were overstuffing our closet found a new home in the new and improved breezeway.
This project is not yet done but I want to tell you of something pretty amazing that happened literally the day after my husband installed the new carpeting and removed all the objects.
I have been in a 4-month battle with an attorney who took our $2,000 retainer and never did a lick of work. I have tried and tried to get our money returned, to no avail. While my husband was still working in the breezeway, I started the tedious process of filing an official complaint with the Maine Bar Association, when suddenly, out of nowhere, an idea came like a lightning bolt from the heavens.
I remembered that I used our credit card for this retainer, and despite the fact that the charge was made over 6 months ago, I called my credit card company on the outside chance that they could help. Within 10 minutes, I have a dispute filed and a $2,000 credit on my card. I was stunned. Why hadn't I thought about this before? Hmmmmm, maybe the scattered energy in my passive income channel just wouldn't allow it.
I am so excited to see how else this newly flowing energy will impact our lives in positive ways.
I hope you don't mind me jumping away from the information on healing the soul. I promise to get back to it, but this Feng Shui stuff is so much fun and living proof that changing your energy can change your life. Not sure where I'll go next week, but please hit one of those subscribe buttons if your enjoying my stories.
Quantum Waves of Wellness is meant to inspire you to change your energy to improve every aspect of your life.
And as always, thank you so much for listening. I'll see you again next week.
