Depressed and Ugly Remedies - by: Jane Kifer

There is a great remedy for feeling depressed and ugly. Maybe you are just feeling depressed, or maybe just ugly, or maybe a little of both or a lot of both. And if you think the remedy is too much, that means you really need it and need to do it even longer. If you are depressed and down and sad and feeling blue. Go buy flowers! Every Day for 27 days , go buy flowers. Put them in a new area of your home each day. Throw away the old ones as they start to wilt. First sign of gravitational sad decent in the flower, it's outta there! Get a new type of flower each day! Try and go to a new location to get them each day. If that feels overwhelming to do it for 27 days? Do it for 36! If that is beyond anything you could imagine, go for 108 days! It works! Get up, get out, get dressed - Go buy Flowers! I recently ordered dresses, many many dresses. Some fit nicely, some were questionable and some were downright awful and my son asked me what was wrong and why I was wearing a table cloth! But in trying on all these dresses, styles and colors, I wouldn't normally reach for, I realized I felt pretty and girlie. Jeans fit me differently in my aging body, and while that was my staple and garment of choice, I realized and admired my friend who wears dresses so easily, comfortably and beautifully. It sort of makes you feel pretty without even trying. it's like eating a Brie grilled cheese sandwich and drinking wine at noon in your kitchen, its the decadent beauty of the French they seem to embody in the every day. While we are at it, how about wearing red lipstick for 18 days. Talk about adding a little sex appeal to your essence! Italy here we come! This is an energetic shift, Wearing the dress or lipstick doesn't make you prettier, it's setting up rituals that reprogram your subconscious and makes you feel prettier or with the flowers, happier. 27 days, 36 days, 72 days, 108 days! Do it, watch it shift! See the results. While we are at it, if you would like more respect at work or to be in a more commanding position in your job because you are the boss but feel less credible, How's your outfit? Where's your desk? Let's start reprogramming in healthy, positive ways!

The Roof Over Our Head and the Rock Under Our Feet - by: Jane Kifer

My boyfriend and I recently moved in together. As we moved into this new space, I suddenly, like a bump on the head, realized a direct correlation with his life and his old space. His sweet little bungalow lifted above ground- teetering over the carport, offered a sweet haven of isolation. He lived there about 8 years. It was beautiful and quaint. There were resounding themes he dealt with, which started to feel like a script or cliche to me, but for him were very real active things he dealt with regularly. They were his reality for sure. He said many many many times that he didn't feel supported. Well poof! How could he with a 3 car open air space beneath him where neighboring tenants and he parked thankfully to escape the no parking ever beach traffic. And his bedroom was in a loft. Cozy, romantic, yes, BUT he could not stand up fully at all. Ever. He bumped his head many times just climbing into and out of the space. He also never in the time that I knew him was able to reach his full professional potential. He has the skills and the credits but his jobs in that time period, seemed to fall short of his full capacity. He is capable and worthy, embodies greatness easily and comfortably but he was unable to fully stand to his tallest potential in the jobs he was in and his bedroom! Also he would get stopped from forward momentum. I don't think the couch placed right when you walked in the door was a good choice. You actually had to turn around and close the door in order to move passed it, or you would walk into the couch. As we were discussing this the other day at what I thought was a pretty cool analysis, he looked at me and added " Huh, All true and yeah, You had a foundation, but it was crumbling" HA! TRUE! My old house was literally crumbling under and around me. Walls cracking, floorboards disintegrating from termite damage and it's about to be demolished. Oh My God! I love it!!!!

New Home, Old Ghosts - by: Jane Kifer

We are in our new home! Wahoo! It is beautiful, amazing and dreamy and the type of home I used to HOPE I would one day live in. As I made shifts with my stuff and understanding about myself, and studying and practicing Feng Shui, it has absolutely materialized. I did many clearings and blessings upon moving in. I picked auspicious days for new things to move the beds into the space. It's beautiful. As I situate myself in my new home, unpacking, nesting, arranging and getting life together in this new space, with a different sort of intention than I ever did before, I have noticed something. I have noticed the recessed ghosts of old parts of me lifting out of me, out of the top of me , my shoulders, my head. It is like spider webs being blown away by the wind. In my old space, no matter how much I changed, painted, got rid of and moved around, though it felt cleaner and different as I transitioned through my divorce and worked on understanding and healing old childhood wounds, there was still a sort of imprint left in deep crevasses I didn't even know I could never get to. Changing my space feels like the ultimate deep cleansing. It's beautiful. Sometimes when I have felt things leaving me as I have made transitions, I have felt so deeply sad- feeling it pass through me as it leaves, because I have lived with those parts for so long, they are a part of me, they have helped to form me, they make me who I am, BUT going through that molting process over and over, eventually leads to a new starting point. A new vantage point. A new level for allowing things in with the unwanted, useless, dead parts gone. Eventually you do make it through the muck, like the lotus flower, to bloom. That sounds so cliche, but it's true. One day the grime can and does disappear. But it takes work! and desire! Imagine if a snake carried around it's old skin forever. That makes no sense! When you feel like you are in the mud and it is dark, just think of the pink petals at the top that are about to bloom!

Voice, Body, Thought ~ Making Dreams Come True - by : Jane Kifer

Intention. Mind, Body, Spirit. If you are going to pray, move your feet. No matter your religion or lack there of, whatever your intentions are, your expectations for yourself or a situation you get them. There are three parts. Say it OUT LOUD. Do some sort of physical movement that expresses it with your body. And feel it, be it prayer or a light shining out of your soul, or visualization. This all works no matter what you believe. Adding these three components materializes life! You are speaking to it, you are physically creating it, you are feeling it - All into being. You could be catholic with your rosary, pagan with your rituals, Muslim with your physical prayers and fasting. You can translate this trinity of intention in anyway that suits you, as long as you have all three parts. In our studies, there is a certain ritual or blessing if you will, that empowers whatever we actually do for a site or a business. It works, it always has. I had other versions in my life before my Feng Shui studies and it always worked. Voice, with some sort of physical representation and feeling, MAKES IT HAPPEN. I did this in my life without even consciously knowing it. I now use ancient practices: Buddhist, Chinese and Indian Mantras and practices that have been used for thousands of years. I feel connected to the other realms as I speak the words and feel the light and use my hands. Try it! I promise.

Dust, Energy, Whatever - by: Jane Kifer

As I pack my life and go through my things and sell furniture to move, I wondered what would shift as all this chi is getting stirred up. Old stuck energy in boxes, dust bunnies, out with the old and in with the new- all getting reorganized and rearranged. I am making a conscious choice, what goes and what stays. Our life is being boxed and moved. Everything in the box has made the guest list of staying in my life! As the process really started to unfold, My son got really sick for a week! Stomach flu, then I broke my toe! Then I also got a horrible cold. Interestingly enough, I am still happy to move and do all the stuff. But it is interesting because I wondered what would unfold as all this stuff got shifted around. This is the smoothest move and most supported I have ever been in making this type of transition and as far as I am conscious of, I am not stressed. I guess it is inevitable though that there is stress and it all needs to come out somewhere. And as much as it is slightly uncomfortable, we are actually doing pretty well. Happy and excited for this new chapter! Welcome!