What is Hypnosis?

What do Albert Einstein, Jackie Kennedy-Onassis, Henry Ford, and Mozart have in common? Give up? All have benifited from hypnosis to make positive changes in their lives.Hypnosis can help you to better understand yourself. It can help you to change bad habits into good ones. It can help you turn your negative or sad feelings into positive or happy ones. It can help you to effortlessly focus on almost anything in your life that you would like to change, while leaving you unburdened by analytical or pessimistic thoughts. Unfortunately, hypnosis and hypnotists have long been portrayed in a negative light by television, films, and other media. Most people are familiar with the image of hypnosis as a traveling stage show in which people are made to bark like dogs or act like chickens. We've been led to believe that, while under hypnosis people are unconscious and unaware of their surroundings. These and other misconceptions could not be further from the truth. A person of normal intelligence can only be hypnotized if he or she is willing to follow the hypnotist's instructions. The vast majority of hypnotists practice in offices not circus tents, and are deeply committed to helping people.To understand how hypnosis works, we must first learn about how our mind works. In simple terms, our mind consists of two components: The conscious mind, and the subconscious mind. Our conscious, or logical, mind performs analytical duties, rationalizes, uses willpower in attempts to change personal habits, and serves as our short-term memory. The conscious mind also contains what is known as the critical factor, which operates automatically when you are using your conscious mind. The critical factor can be thought of as protecting the status quo of your beliefs and must be bypassed in order for you to accept any suggestion that conflicts with your existing beliefs.The subconscious mind is where our brain deals with habits, emotions, long-term memory, and self preservation. It is the subconcious that the hypnotist focuses on. It is the part through which it is possible to bypass the critical factor entirely in order to open the door to positive change in your life. A good metaphor is to consider the subconscious as a hard drive in your computer which the hypnotist reprograms. When you have targeted a specific glitch, such as a bad habit, the hypnotist is able to guide you into a relaxed state where it is possible to reprogram your subconscious with positive suggestions that replace negative elements.Our conscious mind finds it difficult to change bad habits. For example, when a person decides to try and quit smoking, he typically thinks he can accomplish this through willpower alone, however willpower simply initiates the desire to change and is usually unsuccessful at eliminating the problem. The subconscious mind is able to change bad habits by readily accepting positive suggestions. Therein lies the secret to the effectiveness of hypnosis. Through positive suggestion hypnosis changes your beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors which you would like to improve. Some things that you can accomplish with the help of hypnosis are change your eating habits, stop smoking, conquer phobias, and improve athletic performance.If hypnosis is going to work for you, it is crucial to understand that a doubtful or negative response to given suggestions leads to their rejection. On the other hand, if you really want the change and focus on the suggestion with a positive attitude, trusting that it works, the suggestion is accepted and positive change happens. Trusting and believing in hypnosis is the first step to a successful new you! For more information, visit www.performancehypno.com.

Stop Smoking with Hypnotherapy

As an ex smoker, I can completely relate to the challenges involved in giving up smoking and to the feelings of guilt, frustration and embarrassment of being a smoker, when you would really rather not be. It’s just not socially acceptable now days and as a women, the fear of developing the classic smokers face, puckered lines, grey complexion and dark circles was enough to enable me to find my motivation! Fortunately, if you haven’t yet found the support you need to stop smoking forever, hypnotherapy can be an effective solution. Hypnotherapy Herts is a Hyoniotherapy practice based in Hertfordshire. In this article you can discover 5 of the ways in which Hypnotherapy Herts can help you stop smoking with ease and quickly. 1. A Free Consultation – Hypnotherapy Herts provides a free consultation to those who make the decision to use Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire to stop smoking. During this initial consultation motivation is assessed. This is a very important step in your commitment to stop smoking. A good hypnotherapist will not work with a person who is not really that motivated to make the change. If they do, they are wasting your time and money. Hypnotherapy Herts would help you to identify whether you feel things ‘must change now’. 2. Informal Change Techniques: Leverage At Hypnotherapy Herts, a range of techniques are used to move ensure that you will be completely ready to stop smoking for good. One of the ways that this is done is via a process called getting leverage. This basically means helping the client to recognise and experience the impact of the problem behaviour, such as smoking, on themselves and those around them. It involves bombarding you with information about the impact of your smoking behaviour on your body and mind and the dangers of smoking will feel very real to you after this process. It will help you find your motivation and will identify those who are not motivated. 3. Informal Change Techniques: Setting Well-Formed Goals NLP takes goals setting seriously and has developed criteria for goal setting that results in the goals being achievable and likely to be reached. Setting these types of goals involves you acting as if you have already achieved your goals to give up smoking. You will get to really visualise and begin to experience in your mind your life as a person who does not smoke. You will want to move towards this life after this process.4. Formal Change Techniques – There are several formal change techniques, which are effective for helping you to stop smoking. The most appropriate technique will depend on your unique problem. Here are a few: 1) The Swish Technique can be used if you wish to replace a highly contextualised problem behaviour with a more positive behaviour. It works to eliminate behaviours that occur in specific situations after specific triggers. 2) Parts Integration is very useful at uncovering the positive intention of your smoking habit and dealing with incongruent behaviour and feelings. 3) Like To Dislike – This technique is based on information about how we code memories in our brain. We tend to code things we like in a different way to things we don’t like. So, its possible to recode your memory of smoking into something that you cant stand. 5) Hypnosis with positive suggestion. Of course, part of your stopping smoking treatment at Hypnotherapy Herts will involve you getting to sit back and relax whilst your unconscious mind does the learning! During this process you will be guided to a deep state of relaxation, whilst the therapist also directs your unconscious mind with suggestions and metaphors to stop smoking. You will also be supported to develop positive coping strategies. Acknowledge that your smoking habit has served a purpose in the past, in that it has likely been a method for coping. Hypnotherapy and NLP techniques (neuro linguistic programming) will enable you to develop positive coping strategies that serve you in the present and future. Hypnotherapy Herts helps people to stop smoking in one session. In that one session you become a non-smoker and do not want to go back to being one. Free support is also offered for the following 6 months, so that you return for free support if you feel you need it. If you do return to smoking a free top of session is available. These are rarely required.

Your Personal Value System

When I work with clients around their personal value system, we look at the 10 most common values, and we work together to make sure these values reflect firstly, how you treat yourself, and secondly, what you expect from yourself before looking at others.The top ten are: Integrity. Humour. Education. Physical Fitness. Kindness/compassion. Family, Nature/Outdoors, Health, Honesty, Love. But there are lots more.There is no question, if your values aren’t clear to you, and your boundaries aren’t based on your values, how can your customers, your colleagues, even your family possibly know how to treat you, when you don’t know what’s important to you.Look at the important areas of your life and ask yourself “is my life at this level working?” Next, do that in your Personal, Business, Physical and Spiritual parts of your life. Remind yourself that at every moment you make a choice how you live your life and whether to live your life according to your values. And talking of values.What ARE your values? Being aware of your values and using them as the guidelines for your life means being aware and willing to interrupt yourself when you are repeating inappropriate patterns of behaviour and/or reactions to people, conditions and things. So when you see or hear yourself behaving in ways that are not aligned with your values simply interrupt yourself in the middle of learned behaviour that doesn’t bring you what you want.Because you boundaries – or lack of them – come directly from your values, write down your values …. do it now…….. and then ask yourself this question.Do I have this – or do this – for myself. Do I treat myself with kindness? With integrity? Do I take care of myself? Am I totally honest with myself? Can I laugh at myself? Do I love myself? You should be saying ‘yes’ when checking off your values towards yourself. That way you know, and others know what you stand for.For instance, when your boss dumps things on your desk at the last minute, before a long weekend, instead of sitting and stewing about it, do you bring your values into play? Is Integrity one of your values? Kindness? How do you handle that type of stress? Do you freak out? Do you complain to your friends or partners and do or say nothing to your boss. Or do you plan how you’re going to bring it up next week so that it doesn’t happen again?Write down your values. Explain each one in one or two lines and then imagine how each one looks. If honesty is one of your values, how does honesty look? Does it look like a person, or a shape or colour? Or is it an action of some kind? Then do that will all of your values.When that is finished, find a quiet place, turn on some soothing music, preferably without vocals……and close your eyes. Follow your breath and count down to 20 with each out breath so that your mind, body and spirit relax. Now imagine in front of you, on the floor, a large golden circle, and step into that circle…….allow yourself to feel the magic of that circle. Step into that circle. Now bring in your values, and line the inner rim of the circle with them, bring them in, one after the other, in all their shapes, colours and sizes, and let them take their place inside the golden circle with you. Now slowly, very slowly, make the circle smaller, until it just circles your feet and your values are surrounding you. Breathe in the energy of your values and the circle, and feel the energy flowing through your body, so that you take on the energy of these values into every cell of your body, mind and spirit. Feel the golden circle sending light up through your feet and throughout your body, and out of the top of your head. The energies of your values move with the light. And finally connects to the universal energies out through the crown of your head. If you simply do this exercise two or three times a day for a minimum of 21 days you will feel as though you have been re-born! And others will notice the change in you. You will feel more energised and much more comfortable in your own skin.Now you can begin to live the life of your dreams!!!

Health & Fitness with Homeopathy

Homeopathy is so rich in remedial agents that often its practitioners tend to rely on their drugs alone, and to disregard hygiene and other adjuvants to cure. Especially do they fail to work out diets in detail for their pa,tients. It is essential that they bother to do this for a number of reasons. In the first place, for the psycbological effect upon the patient. Patients want to feel that eiery scientific care is being given them, and that (he doctor takes flattering pains with them; and they need something to do, a caU to active co~operation on their part. Especially is this the last case when the actual remedy administration is in so pleasant, simple and sparse a form as Homeopathy prescribes. In the second place, without any drug of any kind, diet can do wonders for many types of cases as modern medicine so ably demonstrates. Let us consider, for instance, the value without any drug, of strict diets in such diseases as: Diabetes, nephritis, high blood pressure, renal colic and the uric add diathesis, arthritis, gall-stones and jaundice, gastric and duodenal ulcer, mucous colitis, visceroptosis, constipation, obesity, and last, but by no means least, tuberculosis and cancer. Every Homeopathic physician must be grounded in the classical dietary treatments; must know w.hen to give a diabetic the Newburg high-fat diet; and the difference between diets for nephritics and nephtotics; must enforce purio-free diets on the chronic renal colics; must be conversant with the Lippe diet for ulcer; and the LaheyJordan diet for mucous colitis (with its cream of wheat and celery, whose roughage combined with the concomitant rest prescribed does such wonders in those obstinate cases). The physician must know how to influence acidity; strong urine, asthma and eczema by dietary means. It is good training for us, and a helpful method of experimental control of our remedies, to start chronic patients who have some one of the above mentioned diagnoses, on diet and regimen plus Sac. lac. without any remedy, and see how far you can improve their condition .. Thus do we learn what scientific common sense will, and will not, do for us. Meanwhile you are getting closer to the patient's true similliml;i1J'l, and can give it in prepa-red ground, with startling and enlightening effect. Diet can often replace the use of drugs-a valuable help for the .Homeopath. Take a patient who has been 'living' on soda bica-rbonate for years. Teach them that soda, chemically alkaline, produces acid, physiologically, in the stomach, and train them to substitute lemon juice and the citrous fruits in general, and watch. You will be amazed that so simple a means will work so well. Meanwhile the soda intoxication symptoms will pass off, and your case values will begin to be unravelled. The physician must also at the onset remove articles of diet and diet habits of eating which hold the patient back from cure, and which cover the spoor on the trail to a 'totality', and therefore to subsequent healthful progress. He learns in this quest the idiosyncrasies to food on t.he part of the patient. These, as every Homeopath knows, are· of great help and import. In tnis connection there is a wise rule: Cbronic cases should not eat to excess that which they especially cra-ve, whereas acute patients may-and sbould-eat largely of what they crave, if the craving comes on with the illness. The most extraordinary lapses from classical procedure shmv admirable results when this rule is followed, But, be sure that it is a true craving, unusual, individualizing the patient's reaction to the (so-called) acute disease. The craving for and aversIons. to food in chronics will, of course, give you sound generals for your hierarchy of symptoms. If, in chronic cases the remedy is given, it will, little by little, enabIe the patient to assimilate that food which he craved, at the same time, quite reasonably, modifying the craving. For example, I have an Argentum nitricum patient who craved sugar and was ill from it, and who, under Arg. nit. no longer craves it, but can 'Cat it with impunity. Similarly, I have a Calcare!t child, who, after Calc., ceased craving chalk and indigestibles and can assimilate lime from the food. In conn::cdon with being made ill by specific articles of food several interesting points arise: Try at first to see whether it is a combination of foods which disagree, or the one given element of diet. A wise professor once told me that almost anyone could eat almost anythinr- if they ate it by itself. Next in the case of certain. acids, try giving cream cheese or cottage cheese with them. For instance, those with whom strawherries disagree, can often take stnnvbcrrics if cream cheese is eaten at the same time; and similarly with tomatoes. T.his also applies to shellfish in some paticncs. Beware the combinations of acids and sugars, starches with meat, III people with delicate di{~estions. Buttermilk will often so alter the colon's 110ra and fauna tbat putrefaction is regulated and much elll be digested which hitherto did not agree. A famous German Homeopath, Dr. Schlegel the elder, told me that if everyone would drink buttermilk die race would profit enormously, and if they would add honey (formic acid) and radishes (which are anti-uric-acid) even mor7 trouble ,would be saved. Remember' that onions help keep blood pressure down (the excitable Italians with their garlic and onions rarely ha·ve hypertension.) In idiosyncrasies of preference rather than actual agRravations, ingenuity will save much trouble. Your child or patient who will not take milk may enjoy it if vichy or seltzer be added, or if milk and cream are mixed balE' and half with ginger ale or sarsaparilla. Or the difference between hot and cold milk may change the dislike. Those needing iron who claim cabbage gives them gas can often take raw cabbage with sour cream dressing. Spinach pureed with egg chopped on it will tcmpt the anti-green child. Cider and raw apples are marvelous for thinning the arthritic patient. Brown sugar, molasses, maple syrup and honey will not haim him as other sweets will. These hints may seem feminine and trivial, but I assure you, they work. I hope the discussion of this paper will provoke much more lore in this line. There is another sphere where diet aids materially in cleansing the system. We have mentioned buttermilk and lemon juice. White of egg, with lemon or orange juice makes a detoxifying liver wash for the bilious. The egg album~n forms albuminates with t.he poisons wbich accumulate in the liver. Tea made from red clover blossoms and drunk, two quarts daily, helps the cancer patients and appears to cleanse the system. (An old German ad;u.t1allt). So far we have not even mentioned the i1l1ponant relationship between certain foods and the best action of our remedies. But surely you all know these symbioses and antagonisms. For example, Aconite and acids do not agree, coffee antidotes the action of Nux vomica. These relationships are legion and can be found in Clarke's Dictionary of Materia Medica and in many other of our classics, under the separate remedies.In Certain theoretical problems of enormous interest to me come up under this subject. For instance, we use articles of food as remedies. What reaction, if any, may these have on patients sensitive to them, even in the crude, comestible form? And vice versa, can we aid the suitable remedy by giving its crude counterpart as a food simultaneouslv? Furthermore, should we not make and prove the whole range of vegetables, fruits and nutriti~e articles, so that WhfO we find a p~tient with an idiosyncrasy to something we can compare his case with the proving of the offending food and. see whether it may not fit and aid? These foods should be proven on tho~e with a sensitivity to them. For instance, I should prove egg-plant, our friend, Dr. Roberts, has proved tomato, and a patient of mine, who is violently ill from even a d~sh of red pepper lurking in the soup-though he has plenty in his disposition-would make an admirable prover of Capsicum. These last considerations are offered to you as 'articles of diet'. Think them over, .digest· them, and give the society a valuable and full discussion ·of this too often neglected phase of concomitant Homeopathy.

Homeopathy For Our Children

Today I find that many moms are looking for the natural route for healthcare for their children. Homeopathic medicine offers safe and gentle care for all childhood illnesses. In Europe & Asia, Homeopathy has a fine history. It is well-recognized in England, France, Germany, India, Greece and other countries. Here in North America, it is still in the early stages of acceptance by moms used to the conventional medical treatment of their children’s health problems. With the rise in interest in organic foods and formulas for children, stores like Whole Foods and Planet Organic are beginning to stock Homeopathic mixtures for ailments such as teething, colic, colds, allergies etc. For those moms who are new to Homeopathy, these are a great way to begin. These medicines are clinically tested and are well-recognized in alternative medicine. The beauty of these natural alternatives is that they offer no side-effects, work quickly and are completely safe. I was a nurse trained in the conventional medical arena and I discovered the wonders of Homeopathy later in my life. I wish I had known this method of treatment for children and adults when I was raising my young family. Whenever new moms are faced with a fever, colic, vomiting, sleeplessness and exhaustion, there are homeopathics ready to help. For example, for colic & teething, Chamomilla works really well for the child who is upset, wanting to be carried about constantly, loving movement and who seems angry with the pain. I have seen Ipecachuana work in one dose in a baby who is vomiting due to a stomach upset from introducing a new food. I have seen sunken fontanelles (the “soft spot” on the head) in infants quickly reverse in some babies with a dose or two of Calcarea carbonica. There are remedies for diarrhea, vaccination side-effects, ear infections and any of the other common reactions to conventional meds such as decreased food assimilation due to frequent use of antibiotics. I encourage young moms to investigate Homeopathy for their children for all childhood complaints from growth problems to common illnesses. These are easily treated and do not recur. Homeopathy is not just a temporary band-aid treatment but offers constant improvement for all conditions in children. This includes recurrent, troublesome illnesses that do not seem to react well to conventional medical treatment. This also includes ailments in older children such as bedwetting, nightmares, anxiety, school problems such as decreased concentration, acting out, temper tantrums, etc. We women have a choice for our children. Use the benefits of conventional medicine such as diagnostic testing, surgery and emergency care and keep in close contact with your family doctor. Try Homeopathy to treat common childhood illnesses before resorting to long courses of antibiotics etc. Homeopathy is definitely worth the time and minimal expense and will, I guarantee, become a permanent part of raising your families. As a grandmother now, my three daughters will attest to the benefits of this wonderful, natural form of healthcare for themselves and their children.

Feng Shui & Fertility

There are many factors in our surroundings that can affect our health and well being in both a positive and/or negative way. More specifically, there are several areas of Feng Shui that can be explored when there are fertility issues. In some cases there are medical conditions that have been diagnosed however there are also many instances where the medical profession has found nothing wrong and the source of infertility remains a mystery.
Regardless of whether you are treating fertility using natural methods such as nutrition or more radical methods such as fertility drugs or in vitro fertilization, Feng Shui can support and increase the results of whatever action is already being taken. There are many important environmental factors to consider especially if you are experiencing any type of health problems.
Geopathic Stress (GS) is a naturally occurring energetic earth line that is toxic to many life forms including humans. These lines form a grid like pattern and their intensity is increased at crossing points. It is very common for someone sleeping on a GS line to experience compromised sleep quality, leading to a lowered immune system, and eventually manifesting into health problems. More specifically, in most cases this will cause decreased fertility and an increased potential for miscarriage.
Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) are manmade and result from the presence of electricity in our environment. Like GS, EMF also effects quality of sleep, immune system, etc. Our bodies carry an electric current which is DC or direct current while our homes electrical systems and appliances use AC or alternating current. These two types of current are not compatible as you will have experienced if you ever plugged a battery driven device into an electrical outlet. The resulting smoke, sparks, and inability to operate are similar to how our bodies react to sleeping in an Electromagnetic Field.
Be aware that we may be exposed to GS and EMF energy in our daily surroundings. The goal is to avoid them while sleeping as this is when we are most vulnerable. A good rule of thumb is to keep all electrical appliances unplugged or at least three feet from your body while sleeping.
There are specific areas of your home that can be examined in relation to fertility. The area of a building that is related to Children is the western sector. This area can be enhanced using the Metal element. Be sure the rooms in this part of your home are used on a regular basis. Also they should be uncluttered. This means no physical clutter as well as unfinished projects, things that are broken or unloved. Another area to pay close attention to is the bedroom which can be balanced using elements based on your four pillars. The element related to the reproductive system is water. In essence this means the plumbing in your home needs to be in good working order.
There are several advanced methods of analysis used by the Feng Shui expert and many of these can reveal additional factors that effect fertility. These systems identify specific directions, sectors, or elements that are related to health as well as other aspects of life. Examples of these include:
Ming Kua calculations, based on gender and date of birth, provide information regarding your auspicious and inauspicious directions. These are specific to each individual regardless of where they live or work. Ba Zai provides information about the auspicious and inauspicious sectors of a building based on Lo Pan Compass and analysis of the trigrams, five phases, etc. This information is specific to each building regardless to who lives or works there.
Flying Star is based on a buildings Lo Pan reading and age. These calculations are made using the elements of both time and space which makes it possible to examine the fortune of a building throughout different ages. In this system the area related to health moves according to cycles of time. Four Pillars charts are calculated using time of birth, yin/yang, five elements and a variety of other tools. This provides information on your constitution and character regarding strengths, weaknesses, and helpful elements. Using Chinese medicine an imbalance of elements could be treated using herbs. Using Feng Shui the balancing or supporting elements are introduced into your environment. Elements vary based on your personal needs. For instance wearing metal jewelry may enhance or decrease your ability to become pregnant depending on your chart. Similarly the presence of certain elements in your bedroom can have positive or negative effects for each individual.
Anyone trying to conceive wants to do every thing possible to become pregnant. While they may pay close attention to monthly cycles, nutrition, etc., these are internal aspects. By also examining the Feng Shui of their surroundings, an external environment can be created to support and enhance their efforts.
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Ten Simple Steps To Feng Shui Your Workday

Think about it. Every day we get up, go to jobs we don’t really care for and hold our breath until the weekend. When we finally get to Friday, we are relieved, but it is only for a short time. Saturday’s are taken up with all the things we didn’t get to do during the week because we were working so hard. All kinds of fun stuff like going to the cleaners, waiting in line at the bank and the ever popular food shopping. And please don’t forget the cleaning! Sunday’s if we’re really lucky we can collapse to get ready for another wonderful week. A friend of mine recently commented that she feels she is living a “Ground Hog Day” life and that nothing ever changes.Can changing our perspective and a little Feng Shui help? You bet it can! Here are some tips, some advice for not only getting through your day but enjoying it as well:

Grace your Entrance. To either your building, your office or even your cubicle. Put your name out there for people to see and let it remind you it represents YOUR space and your power. There is a very strong intention in putting your name out to the universe; use it as often as you can.

Bring things from home, things that make you feel good to surround yourself with. Lots of people bring in pictures and it’s a wonderful idea to create the spaces around you with people and things that you love. It can remind you of why you are working so hard and what you hope to achieve through your work.

Think positively! Positive thoughts not only give out good “vibes” to those around you (which you will get back) but thinking in a Positive way increases your energy and you can make better use of your time. Perhaps the author of “The Little Train That Could” knew exactly what he was talking about.

Grace a wall for all your accomplishments. Big or small, all these achievements that you’ve already made in life COUNT. Add to them things that you have never done but always wanted to: That trip to Paris that you never have time to take, ballroom dancing, another night class. Putting what you have already accomplished together with what you hope to create in your future shows you how far you’ve already come and how much further you can go in your life.

What is all this talk about Feng Shui Colors? While it’s true that Feng Shui is associated with different colors for the different areas of your life, primarily think to surround yourself with a color YOU love. You can later use the Bagua and determine which colors are appropriate in which areas from a Feng Shui perspective and add them as accent colors. However, your surroundings should be of colors that make YOU feel good.

Bagua your desk. Here’s a simple thing to do. You can get a Bagua online and print it out. Hold it in front of you with “Career” in front of you and use it as a layout over your desk. The exact center of your desk relates to health, you’ll want to keep that area clean and clear. What’s at the back left? That is your Wealth area and you just might want to put something there that is lucky for financial issues. Feng Shui Consultants will often say a Red Envelope with 3 or 9 coins in it is lucky for that area. Any relationship issues? Try looking at the back right hand corner of your desk. For relationships we ask you to look for things in “two’s”. Two little statues, a picture of two items together, or just two flowers (silk, not dried please) can sit atop your computer. Look at each area of the Bagua and determine what’s best for you to put there based on what you’d like to change or accomplish in your life.

The Five Elements. I know, a little more involved depending on whether you’re doing a room, a desk, or an entire exterior of a home or business. The Five Elements are: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood. There is a constructive and destructive force to the elements and you need to be mindful of that when using them. If you put them in a circle with Fire on top going clockwise to Earth, Metal, Water and then Wood you’ve got the right sequence. Some people wonder what to use when doing such a small space as a desk. Your Fire element can be as simple as something with the color red, which represents fire. For Earth? A tiny plant will do fine here in a little ceramic pot. You get the idea. No one even needs to know you’re using Feng Shui Principles!

There’s a lot of fuss about Clutter and rightfully so. If you’re surrounded by clutter please remember that it relates to your mind. You can’t think straight, you can’t find anything or you forget appointments. Whoever came up with the saying “A Place for Everything and Everything in it’s Place” was a genius. Get more organized and you’ll feel much better and more balanced.

In the world of cubicles many of us find ourselves is, there’s not much we can do to bring the outside in. Or is there? A small picture of a landscape that you love or a tiny desk top water fountain that you hear as well as see are different ways to feel in harmony with nature and your surroundings. If you’re lucky enough to have a window, check your view. It’s it’s not the most pleasing sight you’ve ever seen, hang a few sun catchers or a small wind chime. Change your perspective and you just might change your life.

Finally, don’t be so worried about changing things around and doing the wrong thing from a Feng Shui Perspective. There is nothing you can change that can’t be changed back if it’s something you’re not in tune with. Try different things out and find what’s making YOU feel better at work. It may not go with every Principle of Feng Shui but it’s whatever works best for you. And don’t be afraid of change, sometimes it’s good to get things “moving” (yourself included) that have been “stuck.”

While you still may get a touch of “Ground Hog Days” now and then, when you walk into your work space now you should feel a new sense of well being and harmony in your surroundings. That and a good cup of coffee are perfect ways to start your day at work!