Where Energy Flows

Traditionally in feng shui the career area is about what you do for a living, but it can also refer to your passions in life. In recent years it has become popular to talk about passions as if they were everyday common sense sort of things – as if we all could concisely describe our passions and were actively living them. 

In teaching Soul Coaching classes, I find that one of the reasons people have difficulty manifesting goals and dreams – using the law in of attraction in their lives — is because they do not know precisely what they are. The Career Area is as much about exploring passions as it is about helping your career to flourish.

It is interesting to note that the trigram for the career area translates to Deep Water. It means the process of going deeply inside to find the quintessential nature that is you. This is deeper than passions (or another way to put it is what lies underneath your passions). Most of us actually have more than one passion, with each representing a different phase or time in your life. Some of these naturally fade out out and then return with renewed interest. So you can say that the Career area is also about change, or alchemy. If you look at the nature of water, this is very fitting because water changes shape radically, from cloud to fog, mist, rain, snow and ice; from fresh to salt water, yet underneath water is quintessentially water. Similarly with passions, if you look closely enough, you will discover there is a common thread that runs throughout your life in these passions, one which relates to your values and inner purpose. This will connect you to the quintessential nature that is you, and will tell you what you need to feel whole. 

Working with the Career Area is an opportunity to transform your life from ’settling’ to choosing your life. Working with a life coach is often very beneficial in exploring these questions. As a Certified Soul Coach as well as being a Feng Shui Master, I have combined the two modalities into some unique offerings. You can read more about this at Feng Shui Coaching.

Traditional Feng Shui Enhancements to Activate the Career Area

Locate the Career Area of your home. (Click here to see the bagua map). To enhance your career or explore your passions in life, use some of these feng shui enhancements in the Career area your home:

Locate the Career Area of your home. To enhance your career or explore your passions in life, use some of these feng shui enhancements in the Career area your home: 

 The colour for this area is black or very dark shades of other colours

• Add items related to the element of water such as fountains and water features.
• Use images and symbols of water - oceans, lakes, or waterfalls.
• Mirrors represent the element of water.
• Include objects which remind you of your career such as diplomas and awards.
• Put items that represent your passions in your life.
• Add items that represent your journey, inner search for meaning or wholeness in your life.
• Since fire puts out water, anything related to the element of fire should be reduced or eliminated. This include symbols of fire: images of the sun or sunsets, candles, fireplaces, sun colours (red, orange) and triangular shapes. Electrical appliances are also the in the fire element family, so consider removing any extraneous electrical gadgets.

© Deborah Redfern, 2008. All rights reserved.

Your bedroom — it is the first room you see every morning, the last one you see at night.  It sets the energy for a peaceful, rejuvenating slumber and then sets the tone for the day.

So the first question is, do you sleep well in your bedroom? (Some people sleep well, but only after they get up and move to another room.)  If there are sleeping difficulties, do you lie awake trying to get to sleep or do you fall asleep easily but wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep?

What is your mood in the morning? Does your bedroom help you easily start your day or does it immediately set up roadblocks and obstacles, (e.g. you trip over objects on the floor, can’t put together an outfit, and then discover something isn’t clean or needs to be ironed, you discover a run in your last pair of hose and your shoes need polishing.) But hopefully not all of these on the same morning…

Where a professional organizer or clutter clearer would help you with organization, a feng shui consultant’s role is much broader. As a feng shui consultant, my job is to educate and suggest solutions on a wide area of topics, and also to work with your agenda — what you have called me in to help you with. While generally (in the Interior Alignment™ school of feng shui anyway) we won’t poke around in your closets to see if you are neat, if closet organization is on your agenda we will. But we will also look at the colours in your bedroom, the layout of furniture, artwork, symbols and how you use your bedroom - for example is it also a home office?

And while it depends on what your agenda is — what you want to work on — there is a universal ‘good feng shui’ bedroom formula. It goes like this (in no particular order):

1. Restful colours.

2. No TVs, computers, or exercise equipmement.

3. Matching or equal-sized bedside tables and lamps.

4. Artwork that is uplifting and symbols that support your goals and dreams.

5. A room layout that creates a feeling of safety and support.

6. A room that reflects who you are at this time in your life.

Copyright Deborah Redfern 2007. All rights reserved.