Learning from My Mom's Feng Shui

Posted by Kathleen Klein Mar 25, 2007

Next week my daughter and I will be at my mom’s helping her after she has shoulder surgery. While we’re there, I will have a chance to take a close look at her cozy home and see how she inadvertently uses feng shui in her life.

I say inadvertently because, though we have talked about feng shui, and she has considered it, she doesn’t feel that it has a place in her life. Be that as it may, my mom is one of the most peaceful people on this planet, and she has been a major influence to me my whole life, specifically when it comes to letting harmony rule her emotions.

She would rather see the best in everyone than to ever believe a negative thought. She seldom allows any destructive energy to enter her bubble. She keeps her cool riding hundreds of miles on a Greyhound bus with eight prisoners handcuffed together as they (the prisoners, not my mom) are transported from one prison to another.

My mom has always loved the ocean. Even after years away, she always returns. She lives a quiet life, a short walk from the beach, surrounding herself with pictures, artwork, and memories of her family and loved ones.

Through the years, my family has proven to be about as dysfunctional as the next. But in her Pollyannaish way, my mom has been there for all of us, helping us each to put one foot in front of the other, as is necessary in this journey we call life. I still have a lot to learn from her. Uppermost on my list is to figure out how she uses feng shui to her benefit, whether she realizes she’s doing it or not.