Feng Shui Friday

I teach courses on Feng Shui and I also incorporate it in my coaching practice and in my own home. It is a wonderful tool in creating a more tranquil and enjoyable life. I am dedicating Friday's blog to all things Feng Shui.

This is the third week of the nine week Bagua Map course. The Bagua map shows where the nine areas (guas) are located in your home.Each week I will give you tips on how to enhance one of the guas in your life in each area of your home. This week I will cover Abundant Blessings.

The abundance blessings area, often referred to as the money corner, isn't all about money. It is located in the far left area of your home and it is about being grateful for all of your blessings. I like to refer to this gua as the gratitude area. What we are grateful for expands.

Ways to enhance this area;
*Always start with cleaning and decluttering.
*Pictures and objects that symbolize abundance to you.
*A fountain or picture of raging water.
*The color purple or gold.

My gratitude area is outside due to a screened porch and deck that juts out of the back middle of my house. I marked the corner with a bird feeder. I   love watching the birds from my kitchen window. Right now there is an abundance of snow.

I have a garden overflowing with tiger lilies under all of that snow.

When you have an area outside, it is important to enhance the adjacent room's area.  Right now my fruit art is in the far left in my kitchen. Now that is some yummy grateful abundance !

Have fun! Remember Feng Shui is pronounced FUN Shway. Enjoy making your home a mirror of your wonderful life.

Blessings,

Virginia

Monday's Course In Miracles

Those who witness through me are expressing through miracles, that they have abandoned the belief in deprivation in favor of the abundance they have learned belongs to them. ACIM

Remember, abundance belongs to all of us.

Blessings,

Virginia

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Monday's Course In Miracles

For you will be content only in magnitude, which is your home. ACIM

Friday's Feng Shui: 12 Ways to Boost Your Abundance

One of the most asked Feng Shui questions applies to receiving more financial abundance.  The principls of Feng Shui offer some wonderful tools to open yourself up to more abundance in your life.

1. Go to the Abundance are of your home (far left) and deep clean it. Make that area sparkle.

       2. You can read my post on enhancing the abundance gua here.

       3. Clean out your wallet and purse.

        4. Clean the far left corner of every room in your home.

      5. Make sure something that symbolizes abundance is in the abundance corner of every room.

     6. There are two super power rooms, the entryway and your bedroom. Enhance those two areas. You can read the post here.

     7. Set time aside each day to reduce your clutter. Even just 15 minutes a day will make a huge difference.                                           Only keep what you absolutely love.

     8. Be more generous. Nothing boosts a spirit more than generosity. Giving and receiving are the same energy.

     9. Watch your thoughts and your words. Try to change scarcity thinking to receiving thinking.

     10. Be grateful for what you already have.

     11. Make noticing abundance a habit. This time of year all you have to do is go outside and see everything in bloom.

     12. Most importantly,  remember : YOU ARE ABUNDANCE!

     

        

What are you asking for?

The Course of Miracles invites us to really think about what we are asking for. The premise being that we already have what we want.  Most of our asking comes from a place of lack, which in the eyes of the Universe, doesn't  exist.

It is quite preposterous to claim that you already have what you are asking for.  You don't have the new fancy car, enough money for college tuition,  that new handsome lover or anything else on the list.

However that thing you are asking for isn't really a thing at all. You actually want the feeling that having such a thing will bring you. You want more money to feel secure, and abundant. You want a lover to feel loved. You want that new car to feel important. You want that new job to feel like you are adding value to the world.

Ask yourself why you want it?

Then focus on finding ways to feel that emotion.


Years back I was stuck in a vicious cycle of monetary lack.

"I have no money."
"I never have enough money."
" I need more money."
 "I really really, really,really need more money."
 Every day those thoughts were circling over and over in my head. The more I thought them, the worse it became and the worse I felt.

I had to change something fast.

 I wanted to feel abundant.  I wanted to be able to give freely.

I didn't have to look far to see abundance. Abundance had never left. My perennials were bursting in color.  I was freezing and canning the many vegetables from my garden. I spent an afternoon at the beach with my children. I was simply bombarded with the abundance already in my life.

One day that same summer a young mother's car ran out of gas right in front of my house. She explained to me in tears that she wasn't getting paid until tomorrow.  I gave her gas I had in the garage for the lawn mower as well as the cash I had in the house. She cried in gratitude, yet she was the one that helped me. I received the gift of giving freely which is what I so desperately wanted.

None of these things changed my bank account.

My bank account didn't need fixing.  My thinking and noticing needed fixing.

ABUNDANCE FROM LAST YEAR"S GARDEN:

Blessings,

Virginia

Mondays Course in Miracles

My daily spiritual practice includes studying The Course in Miracles. Each Monday I share a quote from the text.


For you will be content only in magnitude, which is your home. ACIM

Mondays Course in Miracles

My daily spiritual practice includes reading and meditating with the Course in Miracles. Each Monday I share the days meditation.



I will receive whatever I request. ACIM

The thing I love most about getting older is that I appreciate more and I surround myself with friends that do the same.

I got an email today from a dear friend. My friend was ecstatic about the dandelions sprouting around the garage.

After the dandelion gush,the email read, "Spring is really here!"

A dandelion equals love and joy.

I have watched many a person,myself included , trying to rid their yards of dandelions. Yet a dandelion is a sign of spring. AT LAST!

I replied back that I have perennials popping up through the snow.  I said a prayer to those courageous and full of trust perennials,"Please teach me."

Nature teaches us, nurtures us, and shows us everything we need to learn.

Spring has come!

Amen

Blessings,
Virginia.

Let's do spring together in love of dandelions and the courage and faith of the perennials. virginiamccormack05@gmail.com.

Cleaning: A Spiritual Practice

I spent most of today cleaning. This wasn't the basic Saturday's  chore cleaning. This was an all out deep clean and clear out endeavor. I cleaned in places that nobody would ever see. I even cleaned behind the fridge.

As I scrubbed, tossed stuff in the garbage, and tossed stuff in the Goodwill box, I knew I was doing something much bigger than cleaning my house. I was also shining up my perceived dark parts of my soul and making room for even more goodness to come into my life.

I found many treasures within myself and one physical treasure that got me teary. The beautiful little pot my 20 year older made for me when he was in fifth grade now is a focal point of my kitchen.

                          
Anything can bring you back to spirit, even cleaning.

Blessings,
Virginia

Feeling warm in gratitude.

As the complaints of the bitter cold circulate. I can only feel gratitude.

The furnace is working overtime. Yet it is working and there is ample oil in the tank.

The drafty windows feel a bit draftier. Yet a space heater keeps me company in my office.

There were complaints this morning about wearing jackets. Yet my children all have warm jackets that fit.

My van is 13 years old. Yet it started and took me safely to where I needed to go.

I skipped the drive through coffee. Yet enjoyed a steaming cup of tea that warmed my hands while I sat on the couch and watched the birds.

Soon the house will be bustling with teenaged energy. Yet we will share the warmth of a family meal.

The warmth of home. Gratitude.

Feng Shui & Abundance

One of my many joys is teaching others how to utilize the principles of Feng Shui in their home. The beauty of Feng Shui is that it doesn't matter where you live. You can enhance the energy of a studio apartment in the same manner as you would a mansion.

The major principle of Feng Shui is to only surround yourself with things you love. That means getting rid of clutter. Any time you clean out a cabinet, drawer or even closet you are enhancing the energy of your home. Remember, if you want wonderful things to show up in your life you have to make room for them.

If you are intending to increase your abundance, the first step is to clean out.

The space in your home that is associated to abundance is the farthest left corner of your home from your main entryway.  Go to this place in your home and try the following FengShui Tips for Abundance:
   *Clear out all clutter.
   *Clean till it shines
   *Hang pictures of anything that symblizes abundance for you.
    *Make sure there is nothing broken in the area and that there is nothing that reminds you of bad times.

Enjoy
Blessings,
Virginia

In my coaching practice, I help my clients use the principles of Feng Shui in their personal journeys. i would be honored to help you as well. Cantact me at virginiamccormack05@gmail.com