Feng Shui By Any Other Name

Posted by Kathleen Klein Nov 19, 2006

I watched Joyce Meyer the other morning and then went out for (what I’m trying to make into a habit) my daily walk. There’s an urban trail near where I live that is just the right place for me to let my mind wander while I try to figure out my place in the universe.

What Joyce talked about was “rearranging and changing.” Funny how it works, but I find that when I need to hear something, it comes at me from all angles. She likened the rearranging and changing to a tree that has all of its limbs pruned. There is a feeling of bareness at first, but then comes new growth. The new branches and leaves and flowers are even more alive than what was cut.

I don’t know Joyce’s views on feng shui, but what she said made all the sense in the world to me. I’d been feeling a bit out of sorts, my daughter and I had been bickering at each other, and moving something around seemed to be the answer. The first thing I moved was our trunk of family photos.

Within minutes of moving one of the most cumbersome pieces of furniture we have (families can put a tremendous amount of strain on us) I felt tears come that I couldn’t stop for quite a while. Later we talked about some very heavy family matters. That evening we sat by a fire and all the stress of the previous few days was gone. All it took was a little moving stuff around.

And here’s more. I have a small round mirror that I have had hanging right inside my bedroom door for years. Time for a change, I thought. I relocated it to right inside our front door, prosperity being the goal. Within three hours, my daughter got a call for a job. Not only that, within 24 more hours, she got a call for another job. (She chose the first.)

Joyce calls one of life’s necessities “rearranging and changing.” Others may call it feng shui. What matters is how you use positive energy, or “chi,” to change your life for the better. See what little changes you can make in your environment and how they affect your life. Let me know what happens.