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Feng Shui Life Transitions: Creating Space to Support the New You and Your New Life

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People often call me for a Feng Shui help when they are going through life transitions.

  They want to make the most of this opportunity and “do it right.” 

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Feng Shui wisdom supports you through life transitions.

Feng Shui is especially helpful when you are going through life transitions. Some life changes you choose and some are thrust upon you.  Life transitions can be external like moving, doing a major home renovation, or life events like birth, death and divorce. Life transitions can be more subtle, internal ones like career change, empty nesting, and meeting health challenges.
 
 

Use Feng Shui to create a space that supports you, your energy and your vision of what you want to be is very important.

  Just like having the right clothes for the occasion helps you feel confident and do better, so does having the right space for your life transition. The wisdom of Feng Shui helps you feel better, be more focused and more productive in both visible and invisible ways especially during life transitions. In the process of creating the space, your goals and the steps to making them come true become clearer to you. Making choices about something solid, like your home or office, can be both grounding and reassuring, especially when you feel like the rug (figuratively and sometimes literally) has been pulled out from under you.

Arranging your space is a tangible way support the inner work of creating your new life. 

There is an old chestnut about the Chinese pictogram for the word “change”, it is made up of the root words for “chaos” and “opportunity”. We choose how we approach change: as an opportunity or as a catastrophe.

Creating space that positively supports you during life transitions is especially important.

Most subtle are the internal changes of personal growth.

  Take time to reflect on those changes, think about your ideal future, and the steps to make that real. This requires a special space and personal objects to honor that metamorphosis. This is where Feng Shui is most helpful.

Moving, both into a new space and into a new you, are great times to get rid of the old and make room for the new.

  Recognizing that we are constantly growing and developing. This means what had interest and meaning for us in the past may no longer be part of who we are. Letting go of the old, literally makes room for those things that reflect and support who we are now and who we are becoming. It’s OK to let go of the books about a subject or author that you used to love, but have outgrown.  It’s OK to let go of the half finished craft project that you have grown bored with.

Letting go of what belonged to someone who is no longer with you can be emotion-filled.

Get whatever help you need to do this.  Select those special treasures that remind you of the best of that person and the times you shared with him. Photos, gifts and mementos with particular meaning for you should be kept. Ordinary photos, gifts, unused items and possessions can be shared with friends and family or donated to a charity or recycled. Keep those things with the best memories for you.

When a new baby or child comes into your life, every part of your life and your house will be taken over by that little person.

It is especially important to make your own bedroom a sanctuary for you and your partner.  If your newborn is sleeping in your room with you, make sure that it still feels like your room, not a second version of the baby’s room.  Keep your romantic mementos out and visible. Remember, you were a couple before you became parents.

When a relationship ends, that is a time for a clean sweep.

Get rid of as much of the stuff that reminds you of your “ex” as possible.  If you feel it is too valuable to give away then sell it on e-Bay. Notify your “ex” of the calendar date when all of his/her stuff has to be removed from your place, or you will trash it or donate it to a local charity.  No excuses. You are not their free Ready-Stor.

Now that you have made room for your present and future, what do you want to do with it?

  If your creativity is moving from hobby to business, it may be time to move your work table from the hallway into that underused guest room.  I recommended that to one client. She gained not only more space, but closet storage, better lighting, a telephone/internet connection and privacy when she needed it.  She took this idea and made it her own, with big cork boards on the wall to display pictures that inspired new ideas and projects in process – so she could literally step back and really look at them.

One client called her new home office empowering.  It was a visible way to say to herself and the world that what she was doing was important.

Often when a relationship ends there is a need for healing.

  During this time your bedroom may need to be a sanctuary for you.  Be sure there is good lighting, dark rooms hinder healing. Feng Shui suggests you bring in some healthy, lush and colorful plants or flowers.

Enhance the Helpful People (friends) area of your Ba-Gua and the Inner Wisdom/Self Development area as well. Bring supportive people and energy into your life.

 
Bring in elements of whimsy. Place reminders of what you want to do for yourself with your future: travel to a place that you want to see, go to that exhibition that you are interested in, play the music you love, find new friends and partners. Be gentle with yourself. Live in the present and build a bridge to the future.

Lifestyle changes necessitated by career changes or health challenges really benefit from a space specifically created to support that need.

  Whether it is a room dedicated to this or a corner, making a space for exercise, meditation, healthy cooking and eating, creative self-expression will support your efforts.  A space that supports both reflection and action. 

Reflection without action gets you nowhere, action without reflection gets you nowhere faster.

3 steps to creating space for a new you

    1- clear out the old and what represents the “Old You.”

    2- set up working, creating, exercising, cooking or meditating space with everything you will need to do this and feel good about it.

  • Work table, desk, books, lighting, plants, inspiring art and mementos, music, aroma, appropriate seating for activity, rug or floor cushion, supplies.

3- Cleansing ritual Blessing ritual

  • soap and water cleaning
  • music
  • flowers and candles and prayer/intention

 

Contact Linda for help and support during your life transition.

How has Feng Shui helped you with a new chapter of your life? Share in the comments below.

image by Sid Mosdell

Holiday Greetings: Let It Dough

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Winter has truly arrived and part of the fun of this time of year is baking cookies. My family’s must-have cookie is my Grandmother’s Almond-flavored Spritz. My brother is our master spritz maker. His personal touch is to double the almond extract in the recipe and then add a little more. We pass around the bottle of almond extract, so each of us can get a whiff of that sublime elixir. While the cookies are baking the whole house smells divine.

Creative Whimsy by Christoph Niemann, The BEST Brownie Recipe – Ever, and Feng Shui Tips to Light Your Holiday Table

teddy bear playing with cookie cutters
Making cookies and other treats is fun.

While I can’t send each of you a batch of homemade spritz cookies, I can send you Holiday Whimsy by New York Times’ Christoph Niemann. With dough, cookie cutter and sprinkles he creates a delightful take on the world around us: Let It Dough.

For those of you who spell delicious c-h-o-c-o-l-a-t-e, here is a recipe for the simplest and best chocolate brownies ever.

To make your holiday table and the faces around it glow, check out this Feng Shui design tip.

Photo by ryochiji

Feng Shui Holidays, Or Can Money Buy Happiness? Yes and No

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Walking past a coffee shop two days after Halloween I shuddered as I heard Christmas music on their sound system. You know, the really cheesy pop-rock Christmas music. The kind of music that is an insult to both the holiday and music. Like it or not the holiday shopping season is upon us. Time for Feng Shui Holidays

Feng Shui is about harmony and balance – how can you stay in balance during the most frenetic six weeks of the year?

In the spirit of the harmony and balance of Feng Shui holidays, here is a brief animated video “Can Money Buy Happiness” with the fascinating information from scientific studies about how human think of, related to and handle money.

Key Points

    Money can buy you happiness – up to a point.
    Buying experiences brings more happiness than buying things
    Giving to others brings more happiness than buying things for yourself.
    If you are saving for a big experience – a trip for example – don’t forget the everyday little treats that make life fun.

Money and Feng Shui Holiday Shopping

If you know what family and friends want, then the hard part is done. If you have family who don’t know what they want, or friends “who have everything,” then your work is cut-out for you.

How to Give Experiences and Interactive (non-electric) Toys

Think local, and I don’t mean the local mall. If your town is lucky enough to have a Main Street shopping district check it out. Find a local toy or craft store. Look in your newspaper for plays, concerts or museum exhibits that your giftee would enjoy and order tickets. A local sporting event – even on the college or minor league level can be great fun. Go together to a movie starring someone’s latest swoon.

One way is to step back from the commercial machine that the holidays has become.

Tips on How to Enjoy Feng Shui Holidays

How to Light the Holiday Table
How to Make a Merry Christmas – Plus the Recipe for Katherine Hepburn’s Deliciously Easy Brownies

Links for My Favorite Shopping Places:

Artbeat: The Creativity Store
Creative Adventure Kits – Sand art for all ages.
Ten Thousand Villages – handmade, original and exotic fair trade stocking stuffers and gift exchange gifts.

Don’t Aim For Perfection In Anything

Not the holiday meals, the decoration of your home, or the perfection of the gifts you give. Martha Stewart will NOT be making a personal inspection of your home and holiday preparations. It’s the mishaps that make the best memories. My family still laughs about the sweet little Christmas tree we got one year. Only to discover, once we got it home, its trunk was bent like a dog’s back leg. My mother simply tied the tree to the stair bannister and everything was fine.

Add A Little Feng Shui To Your Holidays

Help everyone handle the stress of the holidays in their own way. And make this time of year more enjoyable and meaningful. Think of Yin and Yang: Active and Quiet. They balance each other and are the guide to harmony. Balance out the activities of the holiday season with quiet time, either with your family or by yourself. After some active snowman building (the weather gods willing) gather together for hot chocolate, cookies and a quieter holiday video (Patrick Stewart’s A Christmas Carol), time for quiet play with new toys, or curl up with the book you received. Recognize that some family members may have more need to be active, while others have more need for quiet time (a little Five Element insight) and plan your activities accordingly.

Wishing you the Happiest of Holidays!

Holiday season or not, contact Linda for Feng Shui help and sanity.

Feng Shui Master Bedroom Romance and Renewal: Yin and Yang

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Feng Shui Master Bedroom for Romance, photo canopied bed with antique quilt
Is this bedroom too Yin?

When I am working with a client on their master bedroom sometimes I have to give feedback that the room décor is “too girly” or “too Yin” and doesn’t reflect anything of the husband’s energy, personality and taste. My clients’ responses: “Of course, why didn’t I think of that!” Read on to learn how to simply balance energies for a Feng Shui Master Bedroom.

Master bedrooms are frequently an expression of the woman of the house. Many men defer to their wives when it comes to decorating their homes. Women unconsciously have a more “feminine” taste so the master bedroom becomes out of balance: too Yin and not enough Yang.

It is important for the Feng Shui master bedroom to express both Yin and Yang and the tastes and personalities of both partners so it can be both psychologically and energetically restorative.

Note: no person or thing is all Yin or all Yang. Everything contains a bit of both. By having both Yin and Yang, Feminine and Masculine, in your bedroom, you are balancing and restoring yourself.

For one couple this observation sparked a conversation. The husband asked that a silk flower garland above the headboard be removed (which the wife readily agreed to) and asked that a painting (one they both loved) be added to the wall opposite the bed. They were both happier with their “new” bedroom.

If you are seeking a mate

then include some items in the room that have the feeling of the gender you want to attract. A too “feminine” bedroom will be unconsciously uncomfortable for a man. NOT what you want for either of you. You can add a “masculine” touch such as lamps that have clean modern lines rather than an ornate base. If you want to attract a woman, then a feminine touch such as a simple vase of flowers can be the perfect touch.

If you are seeking more romance in your current relationship

don’t add red flocked wall-paper (a la 19th century bordello) to the room. A subtler and more sophisticated way to make a room more sensual is with fabrics: silky, satiny or velvety sheets, pillows (not too many) or bed covers. A simple sensual Feng Shui master bedroom cure is to use fabrics you want to reach out and touch.

Click on the links below for more ideas on how to make the most of your master bedroom:

Click here to see 6 ways to make your bedroom a sensual retreat

Click here to view a sweet Valentine video

Click here to contact Linda for your own Feng Shui Master Bedroom

or call her at 781-643-8697 to help you create a romantic bedroom.

Bad Feng Shui in China: 5 Tips For Good Feng Shui

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Feng Shui has been in the news and not in a good way.

houses atop a mountain in china, bad feng shui by corrupt officalsBad Feng Shui in Chinea. Corrupt Chinese public officials are being prosecuted by the central government for practicing “feudal superstition”, namely feng shui. These officials are not being prosecuted for simply using feng shui, they are being prosecuted for corruption and the use of feng shui.

The New York Times reported “from rural township party chiefs to the nation’s disgraced former rail minister” officials have used government funds to improve their personal advancement.” This is bad feng shui. In one case, county officials spent over $700,000 to move a 370 ton boulder six miles to ward of bad luck for their own careers. Feng shui is being used to get the upper hand over rivals with “dueling cures.” Citizens are angered by public funds being used for self-serving mysticism. The Communist government is legally prosecuting these officials on the grounds of corruption (and because feng shui is viewed as a competing dogma.)

This use of bad feng shui is reinforcing the negative reputation feng shui has as a superstition used for selfish ends.

Professor Lin Yun (my first teacher) taught that feng shui alone will not significantly improve your life. Feng Shui was one of five factors that influenced your success in life. The first two of the five are immutable, while the other three can be consciously changed.

The 5 Factors of Life Success:

  • Destiny – Each of us enters life with a destiny. The Chinese believe this is unchangeable. As a wise person you can learn what your destiny is and take steps to use it wisely.
  • Luck – Everyone has periods of good luck and bad luck. You can learn how to go with the flow.
  • Feng Shui – Feng Shui is the first of the changeable life factors. You can change the energy of your home and workspace to support and balance your personal element energies.
  • Karma – The Law of Cause and Effect. What you do has consequences. Karma can be energy carried from one life to the next and your choice of how you live with those energies. Karma can be what you do in this life – Instant Karma – “what goes around comes around”. Your actions can be planned or random acts of kindness, versus impulses to think only of yourself.
  • Education – Chinese culture has long honored education and the educated with good reason. With knowledge comes the ability to make smarter choices. As a wise person you learn about the world around and within yourself and then act on that knowledge.

The Secret of Feng Shui

Feng shui is not about “gimme”. The best feng shui techniques when applied to a life of corruption will have little-to-no effect. Clarity and purity of intention is most important. Feng shui used consciously to improve your life and the larger world will be more effective and powerful. So as you move that potted plant or treasured memento to a specific area of the ba-gua, think of your intention and the ripple effect it will have on you and the world. This is the secret to good feng shui.

Contact Linda to bring good Feng Shui into your home, office and life.

photo by See-ming Lee

Feng Shui Home Analysis: Recognizing the Good in Your Home and in Yourself

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A young family asked me to do a pre-purchase Feng Shui home analysis.. It was a beautiful Arts and Crafts home on a partially wooded lot. I noted some Feng Shui vulnerabilities. But what struck me most was how good the energy of the house was. Here was a house that had been truly loved.

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A Blooming Arts and Crafts House

Some Feng Shui books focus on what is wrong with a home rather that what is good about a home. This approach increases readers’ anxiety that if something isn’t perfect bad things will happen. I was fortunate that some of my early teachers showed me not only how to correct the vulnerabilities in a home, but strengthen what is good in a feng shui home analysis. In strengthening what is good in your home you support and strengthen what is good in you and your loved ones.

 “When you recognize the good in something it will blossom. This is especially true about your home.”  – Denise Linn

Denise also writes about the “Spirit of the House.” When a house is neglected or unloved its energy sags. When a house is well maintained and well-loved its energy lifts. House love makes a huge difference in the energy of a building – more than mere maintenance – and makes a house a home. No house is perfect. Most are a work-in-progress.

Feng Shui Home Analysis: What do you love about your home?

  • Is there a place where everyone hangs out and feels comfortable and connected?
  • Is there a space that catches the morning light?
  • Is there a quiet corner where you can relax alone, or snuggle with one of your kids…or your sweetie?
  • Do you have a space outside where you can bask in the sun or catch cooling breezes?
  • Do you have a place where you can display your personal treasures: the objects that remind you of the people, places and events you love most?

Take a look around and identify what you love about your house. If you don’t have one, then create it.

Metaphysical Bonus for You:

Feng Shui is about your house as a mirror of yourself. Most of this thinking is focused on decluttering and the Ba-Gua. If your house is a mirror of yourself and you have a hard time loving it, warts and all; then maybe you have difficulty loving yourself, warts and all. (Damn that inner critic). Working on something concrete outside of yourself paves the way for the work of inner growth. Ask your house what kind of love it needs. And then take care of your home’s need for nurturance. As you do so you will practice nurturing and loving yourself.

Happy Ending/New Beginning

: This family had already fallen in love with the house. The Feng Shui vulnerabilities where easy to remedy. Their offer on the house was accepted.

  • Fall in love with your house again.
  • Identifying the good in your house.
  • Create a home that you love,

Contact me for a consultation.

photo by rictor and david (Note: This is not my clients’ house. I protect the privacy of all my clients. The home in this photo is a Charles Greene-designed house in Pasadena.)

Create Your Own Feng Shui Cures to Enhance Your Chi

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Feng Shui is about Chi energy: universal Chi and personal Chi. Feng Shui seeks to balance the Chi of your home or office with your own Chi (5 Element Feng Shui).

When I work with Feng Shui clients I encourage them to display meaningful personal treasures and mementos to lift their personal Chi and enhance the Chi of the space. Personal is the keyword here and nothing is more personal than hand-made art either by a local artist or a loved one (or even yourself). Manufactured items that are not emotionally connected to a beloved person, place or event have no soul and no Chi.

The best way to bring soul and Chi into your home is with hand-made or hand-crafted items. I have a needlepoint pillow on my sofa. I originally made it as a gift for my mother. Every time I look at it I see its flaws (missed stitches and a twist in the decorative binding), but more important it also has a soft handworked feel to the tapestry and I remember how it had pride of place on my mother’s sofa.

If you don’t have the time or inclination for a needlepoint pillow then how about a quick craft project?

sand art mandalas, personalized feng shui cures
Sand Art party mandalas. Creative fun becomes personalized feng shui cures

Last week I had the pleasure of being part of a sand art party at ArtBeat.  We gathered around a table and in an hour (including brief instructions) we had created beautiful designs with colored sand and adhesive cards. We sprinkled and patted and etched our way to bliss.  As we were working on our projects, we were “in the zone.” Time stood still, we were relaxed and totally focused. And we could have kept going a lot longer on our projects if we had the time.

Not only did we create something lovely, but we experienced the joy of un-pressured creativity. It was a peak-flow experience that stayed with us for the rest of the evening.

Check out your local craft store/craft studio for projects for your kids, for your family or for yourself.  I am very lucky ArtBeat is nearby. If looking for crafts find those things that fill the creative zone between a blank canvas (which can be intimidating) and connect-the-dots (which allows for little originality and is boring).  Also avoid things with media character connections – they are limiting, people simply reproduce what they have already seen.

Take a little time to tap into your creativity. It will expand your mind, relax you and bring good Chi to you and to your home.

My next project? A decoupage folding screen/vision board [link], inspired by ArtBeat, to decorate my home and hide my home office desk.  I am amazed how quickly I get into “the zone” when I am sitting on my sofa and cutting out the pictures for my screen. Lots of enjoyable quick little steps toward the bigger result.

Feng Shui Basics for Home: Feng Shui Look vs. Feng Shui Feel

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The Key Concept of Feng Shui

Many Feng Shui blogs and articles (including my own) seem to only offer decorating tips and furniture arrangement ideas. Something has gotten lost – the key concept of Feng Shui: Chi. Feng Shui decorating and furniture placement should be in the service of enhancing, balancing and harmonizing Chi energy for your benefit.

Chinese calligraphy of pictogram for Chi
Each brush stroke of this calligraphy for “Chi” has a meaning.

Let’s take a minute and discuss: What is Chi?  and  Why do we need it?

What is Chi?

“Chi is the invisible, intangible, animating energy of the universe.”  – Stephen Post

Chi is the “life force” or “breath of life.” Ancient Taoists believed everything in the universe contained Chi.

  • There is Chi in the heavens – Celestial Chi – Compass school Feng Shui
  • There is Chi in the earth – Earth Chi – Land Form and BTB Feng Shui
  • And there is Chi in our bodies – Traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and Tai Chi.

Why do we need Chi?

You absorb the Chi in your space – good, bad or stagnant. This is experienced as energy, and physical and mental health – good, bad or stagnant. Feng Shui seeks to bring harmonious Chi into your environment to support your personal Chi.

How does Feng Shui help you receive Chi?

How do you get Chi into your home or workspace?

“Chi floats like air and is drawn to water.” – Chinese proverb.

The words “Feng Shui” translate to “wind” and “water”. Chi is omnipresent in Nature. It enters your space through the designated front door or “mouth of Chi”.  Chi is a nourishing energy.

Chi can be blocked from entering your home or office by clutter. Decluttering is an important precursor to Feng Shui, not because being organized makes you a better person, but because clutter sucks up Chi. As Chi moves through your space it scatters its energy around like fairy dust. You then absorb that energy. Chi can be lost if it leaves your home too quickly.

If the Chi of your space is out of sync with your personal needs (your 5 Element Energies)  you will  miss this fine-tuning of your Chi.

If the Chi of your space is too Yin or too Yang it works against the feeling and function of the space for you.

Want help improving the Chi of your home or Office? Contact Linda Varone.

 

If you liked this review of Chi and would like to learn more about the core concepts of Feng Shui, please comment below. Let me know what you would like to learn in these blog posts.

Chinese calligraphy by Russell Eng Gon

Feng Shui, Romance And An Oscar-Winning Valentine Video

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Feng Shui and Romance

Valentine’s Day draws our attention to gifts, events and simple gestures that say “I love you”. Feng Shui encourages you to build that romance into your home and into your daily life, not save it up for one special day a year.

 

vintage valentine with young boy and gilr
Feng Shui romance is more than campagne and chocolates.

Set up your bedroom to encourage romance, or add romance throughout your home.

Romantic lighting is not just for the bedroom. Light is a form of energy. When added to a space it adds energy, yang energy. When light is dimmed or turned down that encourages relaxing and romantic yin energy.  In your living room, place a lamp or two next to your favorite sofa or love seat. Ideally used lamps with a 3-way switch or dimmer. Set the lights on low. Dim or turn-off the other lights in the room. Add wine or decaf cappuccino. Play some soft music. This is great for after dinner-for-two or after the kids are down for the night.

Create the space and time for you as a couple.

If that special someone is not in your life, do an intention and visualize that special person and what you do together as a couple.

My valentine to you.

This charming video of an Oscar©-nominated [now Oscar©-winning] animation short by Disney is an object lesson in getting the love you want.

A strong intention includes:

  • Identifying your goal.  (Paperman was a bit slow on the uptake.)
  • Persistent effort (He was persistent and used more than one approach.)
  • Accepting help that comes your way. (Paperman’s help was magical, but sometimes the most magical things in our lives look very ordinary.)

vintage valentine photo by Mark Gstohl

 

Feng Shui for Valentine’s Day and Beyond – 6 Steps to Make Your Bedroom a Sensual Retreat

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Chocolates, champagne, and silky camisoles are the stuff of Valentine’s Day.

Simple Feng Shui changes to your Master Bedroom help you celebrate Valentine’s day 365 days a year.

heart-shaped valentines candies
Simple Feng Shui changes in your bedroom for Valentine’s Day 365 days a year.

As a home and office design consultant, I often see clients with beautiful homes but their own bedrooms are merely functional. A room with a bed, a bureau and a bathroom, period. Not very romantic. Feng Shui helps you make simple changes to make your bedroom into a sensual retreat for you and your special someone.  Instead of a total makeover with bordello red wallpaper, architectural psychology lets you be more subtle and more effective. How about tactile delights, adjustable lighting, and artwork or mementos with special meaning for both of you?

Before you bring in anything new, start with a simple de-cluttering. Feng Shui tells us that clutter under a bed will negatively affect the energy of the people using that bed. So clear out that jumble of shoes. If you really need to store things under you bed, be sure that it is well organized and easy to access.

1. Touch – A sensual room has inviting fabrics. From chenille to cashmere, or satiny high thread-count cotton sheets, use fabrics that ask to be stroked.

2. Color – Colors create atmosphere. Even though red is the color of romance I do not recommend red walls. Red walls create too much fire energy and you will have difficulty sleeping. Also a red room will cause either heated arguments or hot sex, I can’t guarantee which. Red accents are great, but no red walls. I do recommend wall colors that have warm undertones. You can even find blues and greens with warm undertones. Flesh tones are especially good, from a beige pink to salmon.

3. Light – Overhead or recessed lighting is simply not romantic. Create the right mood with a lamp on each side of the bed. This will give the space energy and warm illumination. Use incandescent (Edison) light bulbs in those lamps to create pools of warm light, like candle light, that draw you in.

4. Sound – Play music: your favorite jazz, show tunes, or whatever your heart suggests. The sound of a water fountain can be soothing; while sounds of nature, leaves rustling in the trees, birdsong can be enjoyed through an open window.

5. Personal Decoration – On home consultations, I often see master bedrooms decorated as if only the woman of a couple, lives there. This is completely unintentional. It is important that there be decoration or personal mementos that represent each member of the couple and the couple together. I do not encourage crossed hockey sticks over the head of the bed, but include something from both of you.

6. Feng Shui – Identify the Marriage – Partnership – Romance corner in your bedroom. Stand in the doorway facing into your room, the Romance area is in the back right hand corner.  The energy in that area has a direct impact on the energy in your love life. First de-clutter it. Then place a wonderful memento of your relationship there: a current photo of the two of you or a souvenir of a wonderful trip you took together. You get the idea. If you don’t have someone in your life yet, then you can use symbols or metaphors: a picture or statue of a romantic couple, two flowers or two of something that symbolizes romance for you. Add an intention for romance and joy, now you can have Valentine’s Day every day.

I wish you much love and happiness.  Linda

photo by dave parker flickr creative commons