Live with what you love (or is it useful). If you don't like or care for an article and it's not useful, why continue to allow the object to inhabit your space? Sometimes we might think we love an object, it may or may not be useful, however we know within us that when we see it, that it brings our energy down rather than lifting it up. The presence of these articles in our environment is detrimental to our leading happy, productive and fulfilling lives.
Ensure every item you surround yourself with (including the people in your life) lift your energy! If you are in a less than excellent work situation, minimize your contact with those who drain your energy even if that means removing yourself from the premises during lunch and having other commitments after work. Use this time to develop your mind. Read a personal development book. Watch an inspiring movie/video. Listen to a motivational tape. For 6 months I would take myself off into the park at lunchtime and read the same book over and over, Norman Vincent Peales "Enthusiasm makes a difference". Did my co-workers care? NO! Did I feel like my life was changing? NO! Did the people I interacted with on a daily basis notice any difference? I don't think so. Through circumstances I moved to a new town and discovered that I attracted a different quality of people into my life, people whom I enjoyed hanging out with that I wanted to be more like them.
It's the little things we do on a daily basis which create the changes in our lives. The change is subtle and only becomes apparent some time down the track when we look back and see how far we have come. Gee what a difference that made, even though it doesn't seem like much at the time.
Subtle changes in our habits and in our environments cause profound changes in our experience of life.
My bathroom is mission brown tiles and barely pink walls. Recently I painted one wall a vibrant bright blue and what a difference it made, especially with the new gorgeous gold, brass towel rail which replaced the plastic mission brown one. Every morning as soon as I see the wall it brings up a smile.
Much of what I share about Feng Shui seems like small insignificant things, but these seemingly unimportant items maybe make a ¼% difference in our experience of life. (I reckon that the book and wall are 2% each.) Most of us have 40, 60, 200 of these less than excellent items in our environments which even if not consciously aware, our sub-conscious remembers and nags away at us about them on a daily basis. That's a 10% 15% or 50% difference in our experience of the quality of our lives. How we feel emotionally. The quality of our connections with loved ones, neighbors, co-workers, clients, employers, suppliers. Our enjoyment of life. Are we enthused and excited by life or just getting by. The more we feel good, the more uplifting hormones our bodies produce. The better our connections with the people with whom we interact and the more opportunities that present themselves to us.
Put Safety and Comfort first and Beauty will follow. Our two most important pieces of furniture are the chairs that we sit on and the beds that we sleep in. Are these ergonomic for the inhabitant, you?
Express and organize yourself in your environment. A place for everything and everything in its place. Make sure the items you surround yourself with speak to your heart; don't just place them so that it looks 'nice' for others.
