Q&A Sunday: The Water Element as a Precious Resource

Guest User July 25, 2021

Can you talk about how water is connected to wealth and abundance?

Water is one of the five elements, or five phases, that we use as a tool in feng shui. In addition to water, the five phases include earth, fire, wood, and metal. Water is the element related to wisdom and career, as well as wealth. Your wealth and prosperity is a resource like water, and it flows like water.

I talked recently on the podcast about how fixing a leak in your home is a way of recognizing that water is a precious resource. Even one drop of water is so precious and meaningful, and we can receive a lot of teachings from that. When we take the time to care for our home, and take care of things like leaks, we also begin to consider ourselves precious and valuable. Something as simple as acknowledging a leak in your home, rather than ignoring it, and taking the time and effort to fix it, is really a way of recognizing how precious water is. This also connects to valuing the wisdom of others and our own innate wisdom, since water is connected to wisdom.

Feng shui translates to wind and water. Feng is wind, and shui is water. These are the most important elements that we need as humans to thrive. We need our breath, which is wind, and we are made up of mostly water. We need these two things in order to thrive.

I encourage you to look at how you work with the water element in your life. It could be something as simple as fixing a leak. It could also be thanking the water that you consume. We need water so much, to cleanse and hydrate our bodies. The small gesture of thanking water and acknowledging its preciousness will trickle back to how you value your own preciousness.

by Anjie Cho

If you’d like to learn more about feng shui, check out Mindful Design Feng Shui School at: www.mindfuldesignschool.com

Q&A Sunday: Feng Shui and Closets

Guest User July 19, 2021

What does a closet symbolize in feng shui?

There’s a lot of information you can learn from your closets. One way to look at the symbolism of a closet is to see where it is located according to the feng shui bagua. In case you’re not familiar with the bagua, it’s a three-by-three grid that lays out different areas of your home that are connected to different life aspects. If you know how to lay the bagua on your home, it can be interesting to see where the closets end up. If you’re not sure how to lay the bagua, you might want to download Mindful Design’s free bagua kit, or sign up for an upcoming session of Practical Feng Shui to get a mini feng shui consultation.

You’ll also want to notice which closets are cluttered or unused. Sometimes people have closets that they never open, or closets that they just throw a lot of things into. Closets can represent hidden or unacknowledged issues in your life. May you have a closet you’re afraid to open because you need to go through it. There might be a lot of emotional baggage connected to that closet, and it might be interesting to see which area of the bagua map it aligns with.

For instance, an unused closet in the benefactors area may represent helpful people that you’ve had in your life all along but have not yet tapped into or recognized. Noticing a closet in this area might just be a nudge to look a little more closely, and open the door that has been there all the time. It may simply mean you have to ask for more support.

A cluttered closet in your wealth or abundance area might mean that your wealth is tied up or buried under personal issues or blocks. If you have a closet in the career area, maybe there’s a path that you have not yet seen in your career. Are you open to seeing a different direction for your career or life?

I invite you to take a look at any cluttered or unused closets in your home, and get curious about what they might be telling you!

by Anjie Cho

If you’d like to learn more about feng shui, check out Mindful Design Feng Shui School at: www.mindfuldesignschool.com

Q&A Sunday: Feng Shui for Your Bed

Guest User July 11, 2021

I’ve heard that it’s a good idea to replace your bed linens often. Why is that?

Your bed represents you, so it’s one of the best places to implement feng shui adjustments. One simple thing you can do is to take care of your bed, and acknowledge the preciousness of your bed and the support it offers you.

One way to care for your bed and acknowledge its support is to regularly change your bed linens, and to buy the highest quality bed linens you can. You spend a great deal of time in bed, and you are surrounded by your bed linens for about a third of your life. Take a moment to audit your bed linens: are they non toxic? Organic? Are they of high quality? Are they full of holes? All of this reflects upon you.

Also, your skin is your largest organ, and you absorb the energetics of how and what your bed linens are made from. This means that it’s helpful to pay attention to them, refresh them often, and keep them clean.

When it’s time to let your bedding go, there are a lot of ways you can repurpose or recycle it. I like to donate my old sheets to animal shelters. You can also find textile recycling nearby, or cut them up and use them as rags.

by Anjie Cho