Interview – Inner Voice

The object is, you want to be balanced so you want the house to be centered on the lot. A regular lot is ideal. Many things can be said about the shape of the lot, whether is resembles a money bag, (collecting good Chi) or a dust bin (where your money is filtering through), the shape of the lot can impact the wealth-acquiring abilities. Frank Lloyd Wright said,

Find the best place on your lot and then build your house so you can see that spot.

Basically, we’re looking for it all to be balanced, well placed, not too far forward or backward, just use good design sense.

If there is a flaw or problem within the structure, and we use this mystical bagua, we can see what area is affected in their lives. The clients will usually tell me. No one has ever said that they have more money than they can handle! The wealth area is often a very important area. The areas on the bagua begin at the front door (career); the back of the house is fame; on the left, in the center, is family and health; on the right is children and inspiration. Then we look at the upper left as wealth and the upper right as partnership or marriage. The lower right is helpful people and travel, and the lower left is knowledge and accumulated wisdom.

So you place it on the lot itself. You can even place it on the doors to individual rooms, but that get a little confusing. The bedroom is one the most powerful places to use the bagua, because that is where we are in our most receptive state (during the night when we are asleep) and open to the influences of the space around us.

There used to be a saying,

When the feng shui master comes, be prepared to move.

But that is not real practical. The feng shui that I practice through Professor Lin Yun is that we are not asking people to relocate. To achieve the same effect we can use mirrors to open up spaces. Many inexpensive cures can change the energy and give you that same feeling of facing the door allowing you to see who is coming in – without actually spending a lot of money.

I also use multifaceted leaded crystal balls. Crystal is powerful. It runs computers. These crystal balls are man-made and when sunlight runs through them, they make beautiful rainbows and the colors become very important. We also use them as acupuncture needles. Feng shui is part acupuncture of the house. We can stimulate the corners by hanging a crystal ball on a cord in that area of the house. Whether it is in the attic or the basement, or just in a room where the chi gets stuck, you can stimulate that a get the energy moving.

You see, we are appealing to our senses – sound, sight and touch. We look for sound to elevate or life chi. If you hang a string of bells, or a wind chime, you know that sound will alert you as someone walks in. That is very effective in helping you feel calm. Every retail establishment, or any place dealing with walk-in traffic should have a bell, if not a security system to let you know when someone enters your space. Wind chimes lift your energy too. They should have a pleasant sound, a sound you enjoy. Bamboo flutes are also used in feng shui. Just hanging them represents the sound element and they are a good cure if you have oppressive beams hanging over you. Wind chimes or bells also serve as primitive burglar alarms. We need to know when someone is going to walk in. It is a way of freeing up our energy, of subconsciously listening for someone to come in.

Using the bagua, I can see what area is cluttered. If the knowledge area has the garbage cans in it, this is a good sign that the client needs to simplify and get back to the basics of what is important. We always look to see what has been placed in the wealth area, especially in retail businesses. If there is a toilet in the money area, wealth might be literally flushed away and we need to change that energy so money will stay with them. On the other hand, a library in the knowledge area is a good thing. So you see, we actually use the house to support the goals of the people who live in them.

I get a lot of feedback. There have been good results from changing the position of the bed, or changing the room, or fixing the door so the doors align between the rooms. In moving children’s rooms around unruly children often became much calmer, by simply changing their bed so they can see the door, they feel they have more control of their lives.

There are many stories of people that get money just after they have added a crystal to their wealth area. They get a check or promotion they’ve been wanting for a long time. You can say it is coincidence, but it happens so often that I feel it has to be attributed to some of the changes that we have made.

People will call when they are looking for a job, and we will do some things to energize the career area and then they get the job! In another case someone took down a crystal someone else in the house had put up because they felt it was in the way. Well, she lost her job! So, we can see things work both ways.

Some people ask if these cures will work even if someone in the family doesn’t go along with feng shui. Well, one time we were working on a kitchen area and the man left the house when I arrived. He didn’t believe in feng shui at all. His wife put up mirrors in the partnership area of the kitchen. She called me later to tell me that he was changing dramatically. that he was more helpful – especially in the kitchen! So even though her husband didn’t go along with what we were doing, he still responded to the cure. In fact, she said, the whole family was more helpful and were congregating more in the area that we worked on.

I am always working on trying to make people more comfortable in their space and they do respond. That is my goal as a feng shui specialist.

We are dealing with houses and space on all levels and people always feel so much better about their space after we have done some of these cures. When we’ve adjusted things on the wall of health, for instance, we have seen people’s health improve.

The helpful people area is very important. If a client has only one crystal, this is the area where it should go, because when you have the help and support of the people around you. Everything else just clicks.