Archive for June, 2010
What is true prosperity to you?
For most of us, prosperity means that we are able to live a lifestyle of comfort, beauty, pleasure and joy. We have enough of everything, and our needs as well as our desires can be met.
Have you taken the time to incorporate the first 4 Feng Shui prosperity tips? If not, I encourage you to explore them and incorporate the tip or tips that resonate most with you. For those of you that have incorporated the first 4 tips, here’s the 5th and final tip in this series.
The final step to creating a space that truly supports prosperity is to enhance the abundance area of your home.
Your home and each room can be divided into 9 life areas. Abundance is one of these areas. To find the correct zone, stand in the doorway leading into your home and face into the room. The back left corner is the area associated with abundance.
To enhance the abundance area of your home, apply each of the previous 4 steps to the home or room:
1. Identify your goal, your reason for wanting change
2. Clear clutter
3. Power positioning
4. Surround yourself with beauty and inspiration
Abundance is further enhanced by incorporating the colors red, blue, green and purple; you can do this with a piece of art, a poster, paint or even a plant that incorporates these colors. Lucky Bamboo is a great plant choice!
Place an object in your abundance area that speaks to you of prosperity. It can be a beautiful, healthy plant or a picture of your family, beautiful crystals and stones or simply a written affirmation. It can even be money itself! Be creative. Choose whatever feels right to you. Think back to your definition of prosperity and choose something that represents abundance to you.
Need inspiration? On the abundance area of my desk, I have a beautiful glass vase filled with Lucky Bamboo. In front of that sits a spectacular amethyst orb and a natural crystal.
Want to know where your prosperity area is? Click for FREE Bagua map
To learn more Feng Shui tips for prosperity, listen to my podcast here.
© 2010 Harmony Life, LLC by Laurie Bornstein
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What is prosperity to you?
True prosperity is the awareness of abundance in all areas of your life. To gain a balance and appreciation of abundance in all areas of your life follow the next step in my Prosperity tips and you’ll begin to, make space for abundance and opportunity.
What are you facing as you gaze out from your bed or desk? What do you see? What do you gaze upon during your working day or when you wake up in the morning?
What we see, our view, can offer us inspiration, vision, and an uplifting sense of energy. It can also deplete, depress and block us. A blank wall, a closet or a bookshelf, jumbled with an assortment of things, can make it hard for us to find inspiration.
Create an inspiring view by positioning your desk or your bed so you have a full view of your office or bedroom and a beautiful view in front of you. A beautiful, inspiring view might include a window filled with the abundance of nature, it can also be a beautiful picture, art, sculpture, a healthy plant, or simply a color that energizes and uplifts you.
You can also create an inspiring view through the use of mirrors. Position a beautiful mirror so that you can see out the window while seated at your desk or laying in bed – in fact, you should also position the mirror so that what you do see reflected is the best view possible. That might be a reflection out a window but it can also be a reflection of a beautiful object, art, a plant or even a lamp.
Are you compelled? Inspired? If not, change your view.
Perhaps you are inspired by a wonderful ocean view, or a view of the garden, or a view of mountains. Even if you are not able to actually see those things from your window, you can choose art that creates the environments you find inspiring.
Choose to create an environment that supports abundance. A blank wall or bulletin board isn’t motivating or compelling, but a beautiful poster incorporating colors you love and a subject that you find inspiring is.
Remember: You are profoundly affected by the environment around you, take the time to make it an environment you want to be in.
To learn more Feng Shui tips for prosperity, listen to Laurie’s podcast here.
© 2010 Harmony Life, LLC by Laurie Bornstein
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Visit www.harmonylifedesign.com to learn more
What is prosperity to you?
While it’s true that money does make many aspects of life easier, it is also true that money doesn’t bring happiness. True prosperity is the awareness of abundance in all areas of your life. To gain a balance and appreciation of abundance in all areas of your life, make space for abundance and opportunity. How?
3. Power positioning
In Feng Shui, your relationship to your home and the objects in your home is vital to creating a nurturing and supportive environment. And your relationship with your environment is determined, in a large part, by how and where you place the items you have.
Positioning relates to how much time you spend in a given space, and how you feel about the space you are in.
The three most important areas in your home with relation to positioning are:
1. position of the front door
2. placement of your bed
3. placement of your desk
Let’s talk about beds and desks. Arrange your bed or desk so you are supported by a wall behind you and you face into the room or office. Your position should provide a full view of the room and the door into the room. When your view is expansive, so are your opportunities!
Bed Placement
Placement of the bed holds the key to successful rest, rejuvenation, and restoration as well as symbolic representation of a solid foundation in life.
Arrange your bed so that the headboard is positioned against a wall. Your position should provide a full view of the room and the door into the room. When placing your bed, try not to align your bed so you’re directly in front of the door, or even overlapping the door. The energy coming through the door can be disruptive to your sleep and creates a sense of discomfort, even if only subconsciously.
Desk Placement
Your desk is the heart of your office. The placement of your desk is critical to the success and prosperity you enjoy in your professional life. If your desk is turned away from the door, facing a wall, your vision is literally blocked – so are your future opportunities!
When you make sure that you have your desk positioned in such a way that you have a solid wall behind you, open space in front of you and position the desk so that it is not in the direct path of the doorway, this is known as the command position. In this position you have complete control over the office and the work you do.
The best positioning follows these guidelines:
- Have a solid wall behind you for support.
- Position yourself so you are able to see the entrance to the room you are in.
Do not position yourself so you are in direct alignment with the door into the room or space. - Never have your back to the door; it’s hard to be an active part of the environment when you are physically turned away from it.
- If you must position your bed or desk where there is a window behind you, be sure to strengthen your position by placing a credenza or other large object between the desk and the window behind you. For a bed, use a solid headboard and close the blinds or curtains at night to create the impression of a solid wall behind you.
Following these simple steps will help you turn your house into a home that embraces a sense of comfort and warmth – you’ll feel better too!
To learn more Feng Shui tips for prosperity, listen to Laurie’s podcast here.
© 2010 Harmony Life, LLC by Laurie Bornstein
WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR E-ZINE, BLOG OR WEB SITE?
You can, as long as you include the copyright and the following information:
Feng Shui Teacher, Designer and Entrepreneur Laurie Bornstein, is the author and creator of ‘Feng Shui Lifestyle’, her FREE monthly ezine filled with Feng Shui and Lifestyle Marketing articles and tips, empowering and inspiring you to live and work in comfort, balance and harmony.
Visit www.harmonylifedesign.com to learn more
What colors should you use for your website? The world is your oyster. In the world of Feng Shui, colors have relationships with one another. Some are supportive, others aren’t. Let’s talk about five or six colors.
Green is the color of new beginnings. It’s the color of flexibility, it’s the color of health, and it is literally the color of money. It is supported by black and dark tones. If you’re looking to develop a strong business with lots of opportunity for growth, make sure you incorporate green.
If you want to have a strong successful career, incorporate black. Black is the color of adaptability; it’s associated with career energy and it’s representative of the water element.
If you need greater clarity, a crispness, focus and direction, consider white. White is associated with clarity, expansion and development. You can use white as the color of your text block. And if your text is black, you’ve incorporated clarity and also strong successful career. Good to have clarity in our careers.
If you want to seek great recognition or supportive relationships, incorporate the color red. In addition to prosperity, red is also associated with both our reputation and our relationship. Red can be intense, so a little goes a long way.
If you want to experience great abundance, consider incorporating red or purple tones. Both of those colors are strongly associated with prosperity.
If you want to create a sense of vibrancy and excitement, consider incorporating yellow or a yellow tone. Orange is a color that shares aspects of both red and yellow, Yellow is associated with warmth, with expansion and with mental stimulation.
To create a look and feel that’s enticing and compelling, use two or three colors – complementary of course, but not so much that it becomes overwhelming and dominating. It’s all about flow. Too much is not a good thing.
You use color in your business name, your logo, your page subheads and even the color of your text and text block. All of these unite and combine to create the look and feel of your website. Each of them should seamlessly flow into one another.
When selecting the color of your web page, your images and your text really consider the relationship the colors have to one another as well as what your intention for your website is. When you choose your colors this way, they won’t only look good but they’ll feel good. They’ll energize your web pages, supporting your goals and aspirations.
For more hints about how to use color in your website, click here to listen to Laurie’s podcast.
This is a very exciting topic for me. Designing a website with the principles of feng shui is design that feels good. Design that embraces a sense of balance; balance in content, balance of text and graphics, balance in color.
It’s a site that embraces who you are and what you do in such a way that your visitors are inspired, interested and they’re compelled to go further.
A website basically does one of two things:
- It offers information
- It sells a product, (whether that’s a tangible product or a service)
A website offers your reader an opportunity to get to know you.
What’s this have to do with feng shui? Feng shui is about working with the energy, the dynamic of a space, whether that is an internet space or our living and working spaces. Feng shui is about balance, it’s about flow, it’s about creating a sense of welcome. Feng shui makes the difference between a website with information but no interest to one that has visual interest, balance and compels you to stay.
I remember when I first created my website, I had no idea how to write it. I didn’t know in what order to put the pages. I didn’t know what colors or what type of design or font to use. I didn’t know anything about it, but I did know that in order for my website to attract the type of clients I desire, it had to sound like me; it had to feel like what I do.
First steps:
- What is the purpose of your site?
- What do you want your website to do for you?
- What is your intention?
Once you’ve determined these things, it’s time to begin writing. Write directly to your ideal client. Use your unique voice, your own words. Write with passion. Everyone loves passion, to attract your ideal client you must speak directly to them and in a manner that attracts them to you. The best way to do this is to be true to yourself and who you are.
Not sure where to start? If you have a brochure, that will make a perfect outline for your website. If you don’t have a brochure, begin the process of writing by drafting an outline of your services, the benefits your services provide your clients and what your client can expect. Once you have your outline in place, fill it in with text that flows from one point to the next. Read what you’ve written out loud; by doing this you’ll be able to tell when your words do not flow well or don’t sound like you. This step is invaluable. It’s easy to write in a stiff, unnatural voice and the only way to catch this is to read it aloud.
Text is king, no matter how your website looks, if it doesn’t have something interesting to say no one will stay.
Your website can be a single page or if you have more than one service it can have several pages. The length isn’t as important as the focus is. Take your time writing, this is the foundation of your site.
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