Feng Shui your face - by: Jane Kifer

WHAT?!?!?!?! I have been wanting to post this for a while but I do now know enough to even consider starting the conversation, but my son just walked through the kitchen and said the funniest thing, so now I have to share it. Warning, slightly gross! So I have been wanting to say " Did you know you can Feng Shui your face? or your body?" Not kidding? I have no idea how or what that exactly means, but recently I have been reading and understanding that different guas represent different body parts. You could apply the ba kua/Feng Shui map to your face and body. And the "door" literally represents the mouth of the chi or energy. So that I get. But I am still in the dark about the application or understanding of the rest. Maybe certain ailments? and seeing which gua they are in and applying adjustments to shift the health of that part of your body and area? I am guessing here with intuition and smarts, but I am far from knowing what this all means. BUT! My son just walked through the kitchen and said, " If your poop is green does that mean your body's Feng Shui is funky?" I laughed out loud and said " Maybe, or the fake colored popsicle you ate yesterday, which in turn would make things off yeah." And I thought, "Now I have to post the face body Feng Shui thoughts." I'm thinking that if say your hip is out, that that gua would need to be adjusted in the home, a clear indicator that something is off! This may not be Feng Shui, but just plain correlative. I always think that our bodies are a physical seat for the emotional stuff that swirls around and in us. Another "house" so to speak for the energy we live- in us, around us and through us.

Yin and Yang- The complete Tao - by : Jane Kifer

HOLD ON! I know I am all about getting rid of stuff and clearing out spaces and making space to allow goodness to come. BUT the opposite side of the coin must also be embraced. I'm seeing that as I move through my house and think I should get rid of certain things, I realize I actually have an emotional attachment to certain things and use. That is good too.I say KEEP IT! Letting everything go is an imbalance without the realization that we should also hold on to parts also. There is a special blanket from a special person that I got when I was 13. My kids use it , I love it, it is special. I realized I was trying to force myself to give it away. I spent a lifetime holding on to everything afraid to let anything go because of my past, now that I allow myself to give stuff away, so much is unleashed and embraced, However, it's like the pendulum swinging in the opposite direction, slowly coming to a calmer,balanced center swing. So I am going to hold on to the blankets that maybe aren't the prettiest, but mean so much to me.

Feng Shui works!- by: Jane Kifer

Dreams do come true! I knew if I hung in there long enough and kept believing things could turn around, they would! So yes it is true! We got the house!!!!!! A M A Z I N G~ I feel lucky! Things seem to be aligning so beautifully and coming to fruition. It sort of feels like I worked for a long time to come to this point and goodness was in the eaves of my life and now it is flowing to me easily with a direct line and access to making my life better. I could say it is coincidence, and I could also say that clearing out old shit and dealing with my stuff and having intentions and doing the mantras and meditations and the work got me here. It is sort of a dreamy house of perfection and perfect for our needs right now. Thank you universe. I like physics and energy.

Feng Shui Defined - by: Jane Kifer

As my Mentor quotes an ancient Chinese poem " The Winds are mild, The sun is bright, The water is clear, The trees are lush" It represents harmony between heaven and earth. He goes on to describe that establishing such harmony in our homes and communities brings good vital energy to us, bringing more opportunities, goodness and joy. I feel the following words describe this seemingly mystical physical science best. And I quote my mentor "Feng Shui involves awareness of the many ways housing location, buildings, and environment can affect a person's daily activities and moods, and influence health, economic life and relationships. Feng Shui promotes happiness and success by adjusting the interior and surrounding environment of a home or workplace to overcome factors that oppose us and to strengthen what already benefits us." (The Modern Book of Feng Shui, by: Steve Post) Enough said really! Now that doesn't sound weird does it? That sounds totally practical realistic and great I think! And makes it all make so much more sense. Only took years of learning to get to. But thankfully I am now here.

Ironic? I don't think so!- by: Jane Kifer

I do find it interesting that the day my friends from Crump and Pal came to pick up the 20 bags of stuff, power tools, fabric, yarn, etc, neatly piled in the middle of my garage, I received a nice order and check from a t.v. show for my jewelry and found out we were top of the list for a house we are applying to live in! Like in minutes it all materialized. NICE, I like how that works! Poof, physical and energetic lines had a clearer path to get to me without all the "stuff" in the way. Keep it coming, keep it coming, what else can I get rid of lingering around in the eaves of my life and or right in front of my face? Oh that damn steel bat in the yard and the pogo stick my son uses once a year to jump rope with, NOT KIDDING. Maybe I should keep the pogo stick, this house we want has a pool and he could pogo/catapult into it! Hmmmmmm I'll keep you posted, literally.

Scents - by: Jane Kifer

I wore a Rose scent for years! Rose essence saved my life coming out of my divorce. I needed LOVE! Flowers helped, not kidding. I wore young living Rose oil, then moved on from that to Rose spray and Weleda Rose deodorant. I loved it, lived it, wore it- not over powering, but I liked it. The ritual of spraying it and the scent. For 5 years I loved it. I longed for a scent of my own. I had found it. It was perfect. Then! A couple weeks ago, I sort of felt like my energy dropped when I would put it on. I was wanting something new. My deodorant stopped working and soon I didn't even want to wear the spray. I needed a new scent. I didn't know what but something needed to shift. It worked for me so well for a time and part of me thought " You can't change this is the scent you are, you chose, you have loved!" But that's exactly the point, it was all past tense, it isn't where I am today! So I got rid of it. Moving on. I found a new deodorant that works and I love, I found a new spray scent that totally rocks my world and I am good! Just the mere expectation in myself that I should keep wearing it because it is my thing was making me feel obligated and bringing me down. That's not healthy!

All The Single Ladies! All The Single Ladies... - by: Jane Kifer

Do you know how many times I walk into a house and there are images of one, single woman all over! Especially in the bedroom and the relationship wing. Really? And why you might ask is this important? Oh I don't know, all the complaining these people do about their lack of love life, or breaking down - one sided relationship. LOOK AT THE WALLS! It reflects! It is a clear projection and reflection of a core factor being perpetuated. Keep the beautiful image, but carefully select where it goes.

Grime - by: Jane Kifer

I'll admit it, I don't like dealing with it! GRIME! Slime. The yuck under your stove, top of the fridge, the walls!??!?!? When my old amazing antique Wedgewood stove broke and a repair man came, he pulled it out to deal with it and he looked at me and slowly uttered with his southern draw, "Y o u, maht want to take dis oppOtunity to deal wi dat." As I looked at him, paused and turned my head in the direction he nodded towards, I saw the GRIME. The dust and built up YUCK from tenants ago that wasn't even mine! Not only was I carrying my junk in my home, but other people's junk too! EEEEWWWWW, I scraped, wiped, cleaned and did it all again. He patiently worked and waited and once I felt it was clean, he pushed the very old stove back. JUST WIPE IT! This is a lesson I definitely need to tell myself! It literally is a reflection. What do we allow on our surface, in the eves of our psyche? At our foundation? Interesting to consider. Jane Kifer

Broken Things - by: Jane Kifer

The object BROKE, the metaphor is HUGE. Whenever I accidentally break a cup or something, I always try to back track and see exactly what I was thinking about at that time. It's usually pretty interesting to say the least. I have hung on to very special pottery for most of my adult life, that a very special, grandmother like person made. I hung on to every inch of it in an effort to hang on to every inch of her. Even if it was cracked and leaking, even if it was chipped. I needed to. She was my safety as a child. She saved me, she was the one who was there! IT was the least I could do! She was so very special. I needed to cling (because that is the word I choose to use, it clearly has other connotations...) to any connection I had left to her that I could maintain now that she died - she died 21 years ago! It occurred to me through studying Feng Shui, that this was not healthy. As much as I love and loved her as much as she helped form me and I value her, I am literally clinging to the broken parts. Not the alive, vibrant parts of her. I needed to let it go. I took a photo of it, which used to work for me, but even that, I see now, is clinging to some of the broken pieces. I will delete them, but this was a helpful way for me to transition into giving things away, it was a start. I can let these these special shards of pottery go when I put them in the green bin to go back into the earth. When I recently let go of about 6 items of hers, I laughed out loud and suddenly realized she was laughing at me for keeping all that broken stuff for all those years. If she were alive, and I can hear in the alive part of her spirit now, she would have smashed them to the ground and said, "LET GO JANE, they are broken, why do you want these?!" Once when I was making jewelry with a German steel tool, I was pondering something about my intention around a certain area in my divorce. I was wondering if in setting certain boundaries, I was being rude and mean and if I was looking at all the parts. As I twisted the wire around the beads in the necklace I was making, all of the sudden, the German steel unbreakable- last 20 years tool, snapped off! Flew across the room and shot straight into the wall! I sat there, slightly frozen and looked up where it flew and hit and thought, "Oh shit." I was still. I thought, "Oh my god, I am really glad that didn't hit my eye. That would have sucked." Then it metaphorically hit me! Poof! What? Do I need to be hit in the head to "see" it?!?!?!? and make it clear for me? That thought I was having when it all went down, suddenly became VERY clear, and I stopped second guessing myself based on fears. All of those broken things we hold on to: intending to fix, intending to glue, intending to make into art, intending to take to repair, intending to give to someone who could easily fix it. GET RID OF IT! You are literally hanging on to the broken parts. Let them go. Perhaps look at it as if the "thing" is telling you it's time and purpose are OVER, say thank you very much and move on!