http://creativeharmony.org/blog Feng Shui Santa Cruz Style Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:35:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  When I was a working single parent and two of my children were teenagers, I was in therapy because I was having a hard time coping with some of the hairbrained decisions they were making. I would show up in the therapist's office, weekly, with the horrors of the previous week. It ... http://creativeharmony.org/blog/2008/09/29/feng-shui-santa-cruz-notes-when-all-else-fails-clean-your-altar/ As a human being, mother, grandmother, Feng Shui practitioner, etc., I find myself often frustrated when I can see things in someone's environment that may be contributing to various problems, but the person is unaware of the power of Feng Shui and is resistant to advice. Feng Shui is a practice of ... http://creativeharmony.org/blog/2007/12/29/feng-shui-santa-cruz-notes-simple-solutions-that-many-people-resist/ I survived another holiday and lived to tell about it! I bet I am in very good company. I don't know who invented holidays (formerly holy days), but I would like to revise the rules to change the focus from "How do I feel and what can I get?" to ... http://creativeharmony.org/blog/2007/12/26/i-survived/ I have been fascinated with light for a very long time. As a small child, I recall the beauty of light falling on garden ponds in my neighborhood (strangely, I felt free to walk into whomever's back yard I wanted to, whether I knew the people or not, but that ... http://creativeharmony.org/blog/2007/12/09/feng-shui-santa-cruz-notes-celebrating-light-the-mystery-of-darkness/ I think this is a good example of the reason many people cannot clear their clutter.This cat was recently given to me by my mother. She said it belonged to her mother and that it was a "lucky cat" full of nickels. When I brought it home I had absolutely no ... http://creativeharmony.org/blog/2007/12/09/feng-shui-santa-cruz-notes-why-clutter-is-so-pervasive/ In addition to being a Feng Shui Practitioner, I am also a Realtor. This combination of vocations puts quite a focus on the home. I realized recently that when most people are getting ready to make a purchase, they have a general idea what features they like in a home, but it ... http://creativeharmony.org/blog/2007/12/04/feng-shui-santa-cruz-notes-your-dream-house/ Many Americans grew up with the TV always on, even during meal times. In many homes, the TV is background for life. People watch morning, dinner-time and late evening news shows, and fill their minds with horrible images right before they go to bed! And some people leave the TV ... http://creativeharmony.org/blog/2007/11/04/feng-shui-santa-cruz-notes-turn-off-tv-or-radio-news/ I think it must be a survival skill that people get used to their own surroundings, and after a while can't see various problems. I find that it's always so much easier to see other people's problem areas . . . A case in point is my laundry room, which is ... http://creativeharmony.org/blog/2007/11/03/feng-shui-santa-cruz-notes-looking-at-surroundings-with-new-eyes/ http://technorati.com/claim/brkmyejiw" rel="me">Technorati Profile http://creativeharmony.org/blog/2007/11/02/technorati/ I love a clean, orderly house. You would never know that if you visited my house on an early Saturday morning. By the end of the work week, my house always looks like a madperson trashed it. The effect is the cumulation of a week's worth of not doing the ... http://creativeharmony.org/blog/2007/10/27/feng-shui-santa-cruz-notes-weekly-chaos-in-the-home/