Love Note from Anjie: Rest

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rest

it's a warm drizzly gray Saturday morning in New York City. today I'm contemplating rest. I've been sick for over a week now with COVID.

if you know me personally, I'm probably the busiest person you know. as we say in the Buddhist world, I'm in the Karma “activity” family (more on that another time!). The only time I really slow down is when my body falls ill. but it's always tough, as I prefer activity.

so to keep it short.

here's a reminder to take time to rest and recouperate when you need it. you have my permission :)

 

New at the Holistic Spaces Store

Sun Moon Mirrors

Sun Moon Mirrors are sacred ritual objects used for many purposes in BTB Feng Shui. The sun side has been exposed to 24 hours of sunlight, the moon side 24 hours of moonlight. There is a wide variety of uses for a Sun Moon Mirror. You can carry this tool around at all times for protection, sleep on it for more clarity or put one above your head at your desk. If you are making a feng shui adjustment using one of the feng shui mirrors we have, you can use this Sun Moon Mirror as a more powerful option. The obstacles are our greatest teachers and make us who we are, and teach us true compassion. Each 3" doubled sided round mirror has been blessed and created with positive intention by Senior BTB Feng Shui Teacher, Katherine Metz. Now available at the Holistic Spaces Store.

UPCOMING IN-PERSON/VIRTUAL CLASS

Clearing Your Space: Feng Shui for Abundance

We’re approaching the end of 2022. In feng shui, it’s helpful to clear your space during transitional times like this.

Hope to meet you IN PERSON or Virtually

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Sun, Dec 12 at 6:30 PST (9:30 EST)

$33 In Person at RA MA Los Angeles or $26 Virtually on RA MA TV

Open for enrollment

Reset Your Home and Spirit

Our annual New Year Reset Package is now open for enrollment!

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COMPLIMENTARY CLASS:

Winter Feng Shui

Activate the mandala of your space for the Winter Solstice

Join me and the RA MA crew for the complimentary events for the RA MA Holiday Wellness Salon

Wed, Dec 7 at Noon PST (3pm EST) Virtually on RA MA TV

Limited Edition Charm

CHI-hua hua

These are Limited edition CHI-huahua charms!

In BTB Feng Shui, it is auspicious to carry a three-dimensional Dog with you during the Year of the Water Rabbit 2023. The Dog is the best friend of the Rabbit and will bring protection and good luck.

The Holistic Spaces 2023 Feng Shui Charm Keychain for Protection & Luck is handmade, with eco-friendly hemp cord, using feng shui dimensions.

with a restful heart and mind,

Anjie

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Love Note from Anjie: Gratitude

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gratitude

another quiet cool afternoon in New York City. it's not Saturday (when I usually write these), but it feels like Saturday because the holiday… which brings us to the topic of the moment.

Gratitude: “the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.” –Oxford Languages

after looking up the definition, as well as contemplating lojong slogan #13 (see below), I was invited to consider gratitude in way that includes, rather than rejects. Gratitude can offer us a different path that includes all of our experience as good, meaningful, as well as essential. All parts of me, including what I consider ugly, inadequate, or shameful, are valuable and deserve acceptance, appreciation, and kindness. all of your experience is included.

 

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LOJONG SLOGAN #13

Be Grateful to Everyone

Remember this holiday season that we can also offer gratitude for those in our life that we find the most challenging, who are often our family members or the ones closest to you.

They “blow your cover” as Ani Pema Chodron says here. Trungpa Rinpoche also taught that “if everything were lovey-dovey and jellyfish-liked, there would be nothing to work with. Everything would be completely blank.”

The obstacles are our greatest teachers and make us who we are, and teach us true compassion.

UPCOMING IN-PERSON/VIRTUAL CLASS

Clearing Your Space: Feng Shui for Abundance

Our inner and outer environments are interconnected and interdependent. Our homes are our bodies. We’re approaching the end of 2022. In feng shui, it’s helpful to clear your space during transitional times like this.

Anjie Cho smiling and sitting on the floor surrounded by flower petals

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In this workshop:

  • Let go of the qi no longer serving you to invite space for new

  • Learn about clearing your space with feng shui for abundance

  • Review five different ways to shift the energy of your home

  • End with a virtual space blessing

Hope to meet you IN PERSON!

Sun, Dec 12 at 6:30 PST (3:30 EST)

$33 In Person at RA MA Los Angeles or $26 Virtually on RA MA TV

Open for enrollment

Reset Your Home and Spirit

Our annual New Year Reset Package is now open for enrollment!

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Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

COMPLIMENTARY CLASS:

Winter Feng Shui

Activate the mandala of your space for the Winter Solstice

Join me and the RA MA crew for the complimentary events for the RA MA Holiday Wellness Salon

Wed, Dec 7 at Noon PST (3pm EST) Virtually on RA MA TV

ON THIS WEEK'S PODCAST

Gratitude Bagua Mandala

Laura and I put together a super fun episode all about gratitude this week on the Holistic Spaces Podcast.

My favorite part is where we go through the entire bagua mandala and offer suggestions as to how you can energetically offer gratitude from a feng shui qi perspective using color and bagua location.

with heartfelt gratitude,

Anjie

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Love Note from Anjie: Celebrations

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celebrations

today is quiet, the air crisp and dry. I'm visiting my in-laws in Athens, Georgia for my nephew's bar mizvah, an honored rite of passage and celebration at the age of thirteen in the Jewish community.

In feng shui, this time - the fall - is also considered a time celebration, a time to offer gratitude and enjoy the fruition of the harvest. it's important to look at and acknowledge time.

I was thinking about why I like to title these weekly love notes by date. and why I begin by noting the weather at the moment. for me, it's a little celebration to stop - feel - and notice the phenomenal world. what will you celebrate today?

 

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from the Shabbat opening meditation:

WELCOMING DOORS

May the door of this synagogue be wide enough to receive all who hunger for love, all who are lonely for friendship.

may it welcome all who have cares to unburden, thanks to express, hopes to nurture.

a feng shui ritual

One Good Deed a Day

The first feng shui adjustment my mentor Rosalie prescribed for me was "One Good Deed a Day." My go-to deed at that time was to open doors for people. I would literally run to get the door for anyone. But what happened was by opening doors for others, I was opening doors for myself.

Try "One Good Deed a Day" for 27 days...and see what doors you can open in your life!

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Did you see this?

Smoke Blessings

offering tools:

  • dried botanical (you can dry your own tangerine peels or juniper)

  • a candle

  • firesafe container

instructions:

  1. start at your front door, the mouth of qi.

  2. circumambulate the space clockwise, hugging the wall on your left

  3. chanting OM MA NI PAD ME HUM

  4. visualizing the smoke is filling your home with love and protection

  5. close with a humble offering of gratitude

May all you walk through doorways with compassion,

Anjie

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