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Every day we go into the world to create and make our way, be it
to a job or a business. We enter each day with the attitude of
accomplishment and achievement. However, for most people, during
the day we meet some sort of obstacles or roadblocks. It could
be a customer who changes the scope of the project that you just
completed the night before, the bank who needs just one more
piece of information to complete the loan you needed yesterday
or the guy who cut us off in traffic, caused us to run off the
road and miss the most important business meeting of our career.
We rise to the occasion as each monster rears its ugly head.
Each time, we expend just a little bit more of our energy that
we had planned to use on another objective. By the end of the
day we are usually one, two or even three steps behind where we
wanted to be, worn out and ready to retreat to a place where we
have peace and serenity. This also holds true for our children
today. They encounter as much stress, be it different, in the
their worlds as we adults do. They are stressed by peer pressure
to act and be different than they are taught at home and by
television and the media to become something that they are not.
These stresses can be overwhelming and we are all looking for a
place where we can escape from these pressures. If this
description sounds familiar Feng Shui may be for you.

If everyday was like the one described above and you were not
able to rebuild your energy, you would begin to find yourself
running on reserves, feeling exhausted like you can never get
ahead of the game. Running on reserves can work for a while if
you are still in your 20’s and maybe even your 30’s but
eventually your reserves can be depleted and you are as the song
goes +running on empty. The stresses of each day are piled upon
the stresses of the day before and the day before that, until
you no longer have the patience and tolerance to deal with
seemingly insignificant issues as they arise. These stresses
also can make us feel less then capable, which makes dealing
with situations even more difficult. This level of stress when
not dealt with can start to impact your performance at work and
your ability to nurture and grow interpersonal relationships,
leaving you feeling like you are in a rut with no way out.

If your energy levels are at their peak you have a greater
chance of successfully creating new opportunities and dealing
with the day to day experiences and pressures. Feng Shui can help you.
You can have the ability to clearly see and deal with each issue
as it is and not through the filter of stress, frustration and
feeling less than. This clarity when added to peak performance
can assist you in achieving what ever you desire. We all have
had those rare days when everything came together, when you were
in the right place at the right time, when the answer to all of
your bosses questions were on the tip of your tongue. But how
did that happen? How can we create this on a daily basis?

To achieve this level of clarity and performance you must have
an environment away from the demands and chaos of the everyday
world, where you can go to rejuvenate, rebuild your energy and
find clarity. Many people think that they can find this state of
being on a vacation in Hawaii or some place similar. But,
usually this state of being is only temporary. This level of
being that you seek must be nurtured on a daily basis in an
environment without stress, tension and conflict. A successful
environment for nurturing your level of clarity, and performance
will be calming, uplifting and healing.

For most, this environment will be your home. The balance and
harmony in your home is a critical factor in dealing with these
stresses and are important for your success and happiness. When
a home feels calming and nurturing, with no distractions, you
can quiet the mind and sort out what is important and what is
not. You can create new ideas on how to proceed and how to
handle obstacles. You can start to see clearly what actions need
to be taken. When life is full of complications it is often hard
to distinguish the forest from the trees. If you have clarity,
you can sort out all of the issues and deal with them one at a
time, making clear decisions on each issue instead of
complicating each issue with other issues. This type of clarity
will also give you the ability to see solutions that you could
not see before.

Unfortunately because of the pressures of society to achieve at
all costs, some houses today have become purely investments and
places to impress clients, customers and friends. These houses
have been designed strictly for the purpose of business and that
is the master that they serve. In these situations the home is
completely ignored, leaving no refuge for the soul to
rejuvenate. Notice the usage of the words house and home. A
house is just a physical structure, where a home is a physical
structure that has been created for the purpose of nurturing the
soul. Ironically, if the house were used for the purpose of
nurturing and healing the soul, success in the outside world
would come much easier. In today’s fast pace world it is even
more important to create homes instead of houses. Homes designed
for business, investment and to keep up with the Jones’s, also
ignore family identity and intimacy. This loss of family
identity undermines the stability of the family and the role
models set for children. The loss of intimacy starts to
breakdown communication and the core of family relationships.
These problems just add to the stress level in the home,
complicating our lives.

If we are to be successful in life we must start to address the
environment where our ability to succeed is created. As many
psychologists have said and most people would agree, +we are
products of our environment. But what parts of that environment
shape us? How is it that some children who come from the worst
of neighborhoods are able to rise above the circumstances of
their external environment of crime and poverty? How is it that
some children who come from homes that are in the best of
neighborhoods and have ideal external environments end up with
drug or alcohol problems? Are the external factors in our
environment like the location that we live in or the size of the
home the factors that shape us? No, it has to do with the
internal environment we live in. That child rises out of the
ghetto because somewhere he/she received a nurturing environment
that allowed them to rise above the circumstances.

It is the internal environment we live in that plays an integral
part in creating the external aspects of our lives. If your
internal environment is one of balance and harmony, a space that
is nurturing, where you feel safe, secure and at peace, you can
let go of the days challenges and come back to your source of
power. Then you can start each new day refreshed and
rejuvenated.