Find Success using Feng Shui
Find Success Using Feng
Shui.
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 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. 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.