Feng Shui your spring cleaning rituals By Nicole Noles Collins AP www.vitalichiacupuncture.com
and the microcosm are always connected, and it helps us stay connected to both the external universe outside of us and the internal universe within us.
Many of us grew up with weekly Saturday cleaning rituals as well as Spring and Fall deep cleans. A physical and energetic deep clean twice a year not only reduces germ and mold loads but also helps keep you in harmony with the seasons. From the Daoist perspective, Spring is the time to wake up and prepare for rapid growth and expansion. To do that though, requires cleaning out the old energy, physically and energetically. A physical deep clean accomplishes this efficiently, but tuning into Feng Shui principals to target specific areas of the house can help us create beneficial changes in major areas of our lives, too.
As each season progresses many times we unintensionally accumulate clutter or create poor feng shui in our enviroment, which in turn creates obstacles in our daily lives. This can be as simple as inefficent daily routines that eat up precious time during the day to challenges in major areas of our lives. Although each area of our property, house and office are equally important in feng shui terms, there are four specific areas to target that can help straighten things out quickly and set the stage for the rapid growth that spring can bring. These four areas are the entrance, the stove, the main bed, and desks.
Feng Shui, which translates to Wind Water in Chinese, is a discpline that concentrates on harmonizing the relationship between a person and the universe using conscious placement or removal of objects in a person’s enviroment as well as meditation and internal cultivation techniques. It is a practice that looks physical but is mostly energetic and esoteric. It is a constant reminder that the macrocosm The Empty Vessel — Page 24
In feng shui, the entrance, or the Mouth of Chi, is the main gateway to the house that brings all the chi into the house. Although the Mouth of Chi is typically thought of as just the main door to the residence, it is important to use your feng shui eyes and assess the flow of energy leading up to the door. If you live in an apartment building, you may not be able to change anything, but it’s still a good exercise to help you tune into your environment.
