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With the average credit card debt balance at $3000 per family in America, it’s no wonder that more people are looking for ways to reduce their debt. The economy seems to be on a downturn, but that doesn’t mean your finances need to go in that direction too.

All you need to do is to learn some basic Feng Shui techniques and tips to make sure that your checkbook doesn’t just stay balanced, but that it stays heavy with extra money.

What Debt Means Energetically

The concept of debt is something that you need to look at from an energetic point of view as well. Thinking about it logically, debt is incurred when you extend yourself too far and when you try to live beyond your means.

This can happen for a number of reasons – all of which might point to other areas of concern for your Feng Shui balancing.

• You might be buying more because you’re depressed
• You might be purchasing more items to impress others.
• You might spend more in order to make someone fall in love with you
• You might have debt troubles because your job doesn’t pay enough

You can come up with your own reasons, but that covers the most basic reasons for getting into troubles with money.

In order to create a debt free life, you need to learn how to not only change the way you look at money, but also to begin to look for things that might be negatively affecting your ability to handle money.

Stopping Debt Before It Starts

If you don’t already have troubles with debt, you’re one of the lucky ones. But that doesn’t mean you should necessarily sit back and relax. Money troubles can happen in an instant and that means that your credit rating can plummet quickly before you even realize it’s happening.

So, let’s stop it from happening.

Here are some basic tips and techniques for keeping your money energy balanced:

• Make sure you keep the back left corner of each of your rooms in your home clean and clutter free. You probably already do this, but just in case you don’t, now’s as good a time as any to make sure these energy centers can move energy easily.
  

• Create a system for maintaining your financial records that is energy positive – Make sure you keep your financial papers and bills well sorted and easy to find. Too often, money problems actually transpire because people don’t know where their important documents are. Or troubles can happen when you hand onto old papers that you don’t need.
  

• Be positive when it comes to money – It’s all too easy to complain about money matters, but this will draw negative energy into your home and into your banking. Make sure you are always focusing on the fact that your money health is healthy and happy and find positive ways to look at bills and money owed.
  

With just a few simple changes, you can begin to see bigger changes in your financial health – and you don’t have to be one of the unlucky ones with debt troubles.

Already in Debt? Dig Yourself Out

So you have some high credit card balances, maybe a mortgage that is getting harder and harder to pay? You’re certainly not alone. And worrying and obsessing about it isn’t going to help either. So, instead of berating yourself, let’s talk about how you can take charge again with Feng Shui.

• Create a bill paying station – Preferably in the furthest left hand corner from a door, set up the bill paying station where you will handle all of your financial dealings. This will help you keep everything in one place, plus it will create an energetic center for your finances. This is where you pay things off and that’s going to encourage the energy of repayment.
  

• Make any step you can – Too often, people think that they need to pay off their credit cards entirely or it just doesn’t mean they’re making any progress. But even little steps can help out a lot. Even just paying a little more than the minimum balance on your credit cards will help you increase the energy of repaying your debts, while also reducing the interest you will be charged.
  

• Consider adding symbols of money to the wealth and prosperity part of your home – Pictures with money on them or pictures of things you will buy once you are out of debt will help encourage the positive energy of getting your finances under control. Whenever you begin to feel like your money situation is never going to get better, you should look to these images to inspire you and to increase your energy to struggle on.
  

You can pay down your debt, even if it’s not overnight. The truth is that people are paying off their debts every day – and with these Feng Shui tips, you can be the next success story.

Maintaining Your Financial Health

Once you’ve managed to settle your debts and start seeing money in the bank again, you should be actively working toward keeping your financial health. Here are some easy ways to do this with Feng Shui:

• Post the final payments on credit cards in an area where you can look at them – Congratulating yourself on your successes will ensure that you continue to have the energy to maintain your good financial habits.
  

• Pay attention to your finances – Often, people get into financial trouble because they don’t look at their credit card statements or they simply don’t pay attention to the money they spend. Instead, make a pledge to yourself to pay attention, even if it’s scary. Only by facing your fears with money can you overcome them for good.
  

Debt may be America’s favorite pastime as of late, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be something you’re stuck with forever.

You can dig yourself out of debt and prevent yourself from becoming a part of the stressed and strapped population.

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When you’re feeling stressed in your life, it’s not generally because other people are putting too much pressure on you – though that’s what most decide is the trouble.

Stress is generally the result of our own decisions and errors in judgment.

We take on too much work, too much responsibility, and then other things in our life begin to fall by the wayside, leaving us feeling unbalanced and unable to keep up with the demands placed upon on.

Ideally, we should be learning how to say ‘no’ to things in our life that we don’t want to do, but when we’re already vulnerable due to mismanaged energies in our home, it is only more difficult.

Instead, you might want to start off with Feng Shui adjustments to help you manage your environment and eventually the rest of your life.

When You’re Stressed Right Now

If you’re feeling the heat in your life right now, you need ‘emergency’ Feng Shui cures.

You want to start off by taking a moment to breathe. Simply breathe in and out to regulate not only your heartbeat, but also your energy. Find the center of yourself, the part of you that is quiet and calm and reassured that all is well, even when it doesn’t feel that way.

Once you can created a bit more peace and calm, you can then begin to clear away the energies that are stressing you.

• Look around the room – To start things off, take a look at your space. Are there areas where you have clutter or a mess? If you do, take note of these spaces and begin to see what spaces feel as though they need the most attention.
  

• Find out what’s wrong - By looking at a bagua, you can begin to see what these messy areas correspond with energetically. For example, if you notice that the right side of your room is cluttered, you might begin to think about how your family life right now is unbalanced. Look to the areas of clutter not as messes, but rather as ways to diagnose your stressors.
  

• Clean up the clutter – Stress is only enhanced by the presence of clutter in your life. To make sure you are as stress free as possible, you want to remove as much clutter from your space as you can. And no, this doesn’t mean you can just hide it somewhere else. You need to remove the extraneous things from your space and make sure they don’t come back to stifle your energy flow.
  

• Add neutral colors to your space – If you are feeling stressed, try to find a way to add something cool in color and soothing. Blues and light purples are a great way to enhance your energy. Find a scarf that you can drape over yourself or over something in your direct line of sight. Or you might want to remove items that are brightly colored as they can draw too much energy to a space, leaving you feeling drained and chaotic.
  

• Add a water element – Water is a very soothing element to have in your space when you are stressed. Not only is the sound of the water calming, but it also helps you shift the energy of your space, allowing your worries to wash away. Think about placing a small fountain or a fishbowl in your space if you can. Or if you’re in a space without these features, head to a local pond or find pictures of water to post in your office as a substitute.
  

When You’re Constantly Under Stress

For some of us, stress isn’t just a condition of our current situation; it’s something we will deal with every single day.

It can help for you to have long term Feng Shui cures in place to try to prevent as much energetic disturbance as possible. You don’t want the quick fixes, you want cures that help you retain your sanity every day.

So, whether you are a doctor or in another high pressure position, you might want to try these fixes:

• Don’t have things in your environment that you do not love – For example, if there is anything in your environment that reminds you of stressful times, remove it – immediately. The same can be done for your wardrobe. Only wear things that feel good and that make you feel good as you move throughout your day.
  

• Surround yourself with images of happiness – You want to keep pictures of your friends and family close by as well as in your family areas of your home (the left side of your rooms from the entranceway). This way, you can constantly remind yourself of the things that really matter.
  

• Make sure your doorways are always clear – When you block the entranceways of your rooms, you are blocking the career and life path energies of your world. And that is generally where most of us find our stress’s source. Make sure you can easily enter and exit the rooms of your home so that you’re not stifling any positive energy.
  

• Add plants to your environment – Plants are natural energy transmuters. They take negative energy from the environment and turn it into healthy and prosperous energies. Of course, you will need to make sure you are taking care of the plants to ensure they can continue this important work.
  

• Consider soothing sounds – As you enter into the world of jarring energies, you might want to add soothing sounds to offset the stress these noises can bring. Things like soothing music and chimes are a great way to add positive energy back into your life.
  

Stress may be something that’s entirely under our control, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t going to be stressed from time to time.

With these Feng Shui ideas, you can start experiencing more days of peace and calm, which can make the ‘bad days’ a bit easier to bear when they do come.

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Wouldn’t it be great if you could make more money than you’re making right now? There are few people who are completely satisfied with their current income – and with good reason.

More people report feeling underpaid in their jobs than ever – but that’s not a surprise since employers are trying to cut costs (read: payroll) as their own budgets fall out of balance.

But the good news is that you can make more money than you are right now, if you use some simple Feng Shui tips to help balance that money energy in your self.

Yes, it’s easier than you might think too.

The Power of Abundance

Wanting more is a great start to having more in your life, but you need to realize that the energy of wanting is an energy that signifies that you don’t already have all that you need.

Got that?

What you need to do is to start looking at the power of abundance and the power of manifesting what you desire. You need to start looking at your life and believing that you CAN have all that you want – and probably more.

To do this, you need to follow these simple Feng Shui tips:

• Talk about your income as though it’s higher than it is – Now, this doesn’t mean you should be boasting about numbers to your friends, but you should begin to look at your life as something that’s not hindered by money troubles. To yourself, remind yourself that you are making X dollars. You can even take a past pay stub and change the amount of money that is listed on it. Post this ‘new’ pay stub somewhere you can see it easily to remind yourself of where you will be soon.
  

• Create plans that depend on you making more money – By putting out the energy that you will be making more money in the future, you will begin to set the universe’s energy into action. Start thinking about a trip to Aruba or Europe or whatever exotic place you’d like to travel. Research the trip and don’t worry about the prices. Plan out the trip as though you were going tomorrow. Hang up reminders of this trip in your wealth and prosperity corner.
  

• Surround yourself with abundance – A plain apartment or home is not the best energetic setting for someone who wants more money in their lives. While you might now have a lot of extra money to spare, you might want to treat yourself to ‘rich’ things that will show you how your new money-filled life will be like. For example, you can buy yourself fresh flowers once a week and enjoy them. Or you can fill your home with friends to restore the energy of having a lot in your life, even if it’s not money right now.
  

Getting What You’re Worth

Whether you’re working for someone else, have your own business or looking for a business to start, you know that you’d like your paycheck to be a bit bigger than it is right now. But if your boss doesn’t seem to be giving raises, you don’t seem to be getting picked for promotions and business opportunities seem unavailable it’s time to take action with Feng Shui.

1. Move your desk to a position that allows you to see the door – This is going to help you see new opportunities and to increase your visibility in the workplace. If you can’t move your desk (some people can’t), try placing a mirror beside your computer to help you still view the door whenever you are sitting down.
   

2. Add a bamboo plant to your office space, preferably near the entrance to your space. These lucky plants are not only easy to take care of, but they also enhance the prosperity of your setting, no matter what your job. They’re not called lucky bamboo plants for nothing.
   

3. Make sure your space is well lit – In order to let the energy of more money come into your space, it needs to be bright enough to attract that energy. Turn on your lights, open the blinds, etc. If you can’t seem to get enough light in your space, bring in an additional lamp to help out.
   

4. Don’t keep dead or dying plants around – You might have had great expectations for a plant in your office, but if you haven’t been taking care of it and it’s beginning to wither, it’s attracting the energy of death to your desk. And that’s not going to bring energy to your money desires.
   

5. Dress for success – This old adage has value in relation to Feng Shui. If you’re not dressing as though you already have the job you want or the salary you desire, you’re simply dragging your energy down. Instead, come to work in neat clothing that’s appropriate for someone in a slightly higher level at your company.
   

6. Take time to visualize your increase in income – Even if your company isn’t handing out raises right now, that doesn’t mean you can’t think about what you’d like when they do. In your mind, envision the positive qualities you exude, and then ’see’ them bring in you the income you want.
   

7. Be positive about all added income sources – It’s easy to get upset with your boss if you are only offer a 50 cent raise per hour, but when you complain about this, you are downshifting your ability to make more money. Instead, be positive about every increase in your job’s pay or responsibilities. This will open up the doors to greater opportunity.
   

When you want to draw money to you, you need to create the opportunity for it to come to you. If this means that you start applying for high paying jobs, then you should. If this means that you should start looking for secondary or primary income opportunities you should. After all, what’s the worst thing that could happen? You could get the opportunity of a life time.

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If you are feeling undervalued at work or home and find that you are only getting a trickle off the ocean of money flow, it may have to do with how you spend your money.

We all are working double duty to provide for our families and ourselves. We have become a population of people who are always looking for the best deal, the largest quantity for the lowest price. With the internet, we can now shop 24 hours a day.

But what values have we given up to get the best price. As a society we believe that to make money you have to take advantage of someone who looses. In the end we will lose.

Have you ever wondered why the hugh flow of money doesn’t make it’s way through you bank account? You must realize that every dollar you spend creates a lively hood for someone else. When you become overly responsible or even stingy in your spending you are holding back the flood gates of money flowing to you.

If you truly value what you purchase, pay the value it is worth. Stop trying to get the best deal, each time you do, you create the energy in your life to be under valued and to provide more for less. You shoot yourself in the foot each time you do it. If you want to be valued for the work that you provide then you must value the people who provide to you.

Take a look at tipping. A waiter or waitress is paid a wage that no one can live on. Their employers are counting on you to subsidize their livelihood. If you don’t value them no one does.

Many of us now shop at the large quantity stores. How long will 24 rolls of toilet paper last you? What the manufacturers are doing is selling you more for less. It appears that this is great for you and the manufacturer, but in the long term it’s bad for both of you. You can only use so much toilet paper. You are not going to purchase more than you need and you have now undermined yourself.

Don’t get me wrong. I believe in healthy competition but this energy of ignoring the value of a product has our society in a spiral of not being valued.

We as a society are so consumed with getting the best price that we have almost no consideration for what the products do to our environment. Think about it, would you be willing to pay $1.00 more per gallon of gas if you knew that it would provide a clean healthy environment for your children’s children? If you don’t start thinking about this now, you will be responsible for their doomed fate.

Many manufacturers often give product away for free. This is a healthy way to get you to try their products. If you like them, then support this manufacturer by purchasing their products, when you do this manufacturers will be forced to start providing better quality products that support our environment.

Stop the price shopping. Stop looking for something for nothing. There is a price for everything and in this case the price you pay is your flow of money and your value. As a society what are we doing to each other and ourselves?

Create a flow of money in your life. I am not giving you license to get into debt. I am asking you to start looking at the value of what you pay for what you purchase. Start looking at the flow of energy that you are creating with the transaction. Start creating the energy flow of value. Be grateful for the products you receive instead of the great deal. The more grateful energy your give out the more you will receive.

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We live in an abundant world. Money doesn’t disappear off the planet, it just changes hands. The key is being in the flow so that abundant money flows into and out of your hands continually.

You get what you think about. If you think you can’t afford to get your leaking roof fixed you won’t and never will. If you think that you are un-lovable you are. If you think that you are out of control of your life you can create sickness.

If you believe and trust that money, opportunities, joy, health success are always flowing to you, you will have the money to fix your roof, love, vibrant health and more.

I know that this sounds like woo woo mumbo jumbo, but it isn’t! Let me explain how you keep yourself in poverty consciousness and how to get out of it.

You try to have abundant thinking, you say an affirmation once a day, but behind the scenes, a tape with an automatic loop is playing every second in your subconscious that says “I don’t see it, so it’s not true”. Here is how it stacks up on a daily basis:

· 1 point for the abundant thinking,

· 86,400 points for it’s not true thinking.

Then there are all your helpful friends who confirm the automatic loop. You try to be positive and affirm what you want. Your friends roll there eyes and snicker shredding any hope you had of joy and success, dragging you back into the all familiar rut.

This is why you can’t get out of the poverty consciousness. Years and years of subconscious programming, and well meaning friends who are afraid that you will get out are running your life.

Successful people march to their own drummer. They take back control of their lives. They do not listen to the nay sayers. They create their own dialog that they listen to. They are selective about who and what they allow into their daily lives. People, who do this, set themselves on the track for drawing into their lives true abundance and success.

Below is a list that will help you get on your own track:

• Keep your dreams, goals and objectives to yourself or to a limited number of trusted friends and family who support you.
• Repeat your affirmations often during the day. If you don’t believe them, keep telling yourself until you do.
• Listen to your self talk. Each time you find yourself thinking that you can’t, tell yourself you can and move on to another subject. Don’t battle with the subconscious, just train it!
• Take a good look at the people that you associate with and ask yourself if having them supports your dreams. You may want to limit your exposure.
• Take a good look at what data you allow into your world: television, movies, newspapers, reading. If it does not make you feel good get rid of it. Your friends and family will let you know if something really important happens.
• Feed your subconscious with positive up-lifting information. If you want to re-program your subconscious your must be diligent in this effort.

It all sounds so simple and it is. You just have to be disciplined enough to live it and do it!

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“The path of least resistance”, we have all heard that before and think it’s for the lazy or underachievers. Many have been programmed,” it takes hard work to be successful” or “there is no gain without pain”. Well I am here to tell you that hard work is for limited thinkers. The concept of hard work keeps you so busy that there is no time to achieve your goals and dreams. The path of least resistance is the way.

I want to address this in relationship to change. When something happens in our lives that we don’t like we immediately think I have to change that! We struggle to not do it again, to resist temptation, to stop compulsive behaviors. But stopping is difficult if not impossible!

Stopping habitual behaviors is like trying to stop the sun from setting, stopping the wind from blowing or stopping the river from rushing. Unless you are Moses, it takes an act of God! So why push against the river to achieve your objectives? There is another way.

Instead of moving away from what you don’t want, try moving towards what you do want. For an example: Instead of moving away from debt try moving towards financial independence. You say “they are both the same thing!” But they are not. When you focus on your debt it becomes an immovable object. The intense energy and amount of time you spend thinking about debt just creates more of it. If this intense energy and focus could be directed towards financial freedom you would be on your way. It is not how do I get out of debt. It is how I make more money!

It is a small little shift in thinking that will make large changes in achieving the desires of your heart.

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The key to manifesting your goals and dreams lays in your ability to believe in the power of the universe.  Many people are so used to the “Work Hard” philosophy and the “If I can’t see it, it isn’t real” mentality that they remain stuck in their problems not able to manifest no matter what cure or consultant they hire.

 Have you ever heard the phrase “you don’t know what you don’t know?  Often, it is true.  When I decide on a goal, if I have to make it happen all by myself I would be completely frustrated and it just might take forever.  You see, my view is limited by my experience and I don’t know all the possibilities.

 I believe in and rely on the Universe (or for you it could be  god) to bring to me the people and situations to make my dreams a reality.  When I live my life like this I am always amazed and delighted to see how it all comes together.

 When you are writing your affirmations and setting your goals, you don’t have to know how all the detail of how make it happen.  Rely on the power of the Universe to open the doors.  Just keep and eye and ear open for the opportunities.  You never know where they may come from.

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You can be living the life you desire. If you find yourself in a place where you are not, it is time to change your perception. It goes back to “is the glass half full or half empty?” Perception! We are all limited in life by what we perceive.

Have you ever had a disagreement with someone and been totally confused because they just couldn’t see what you were talking about? I think we have all been there. It’s because of the filters of perception!

Most people hold on to their views of the world as if it is life or death. They hold on because it is what (they think) makes them who they are. What they do not understand is that it is this holding on to a limited perception that holds them in a life of mediocrity.

When we open ourselves up, our life expands to unlimited possibilities. You can start creating these unlimited possibilities by writing and speaking affirmations for your life.

You can utilize the subtle energies in your environment to assist you in manifestation.

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Feng Shui is about using the subtle energy in everything to your  benefit. But you must be able hold the energy of belief in the  possibility of your dreams becoming a reality to become a Master of Manifestation. 

 “What the mind of man can conceive and believe he can achieve.”

Napoleon Hill

The key here is belief.  Not belief in the unknown, but belief in the abundant Universe we live in.  

As soon as you speak your desires, the Universe (or your God) moves into action to make it a reality. But if you change your mind,  go into disbelief or let someone else steal your dreams by telling you “you are crazy”, you stop the universal energy from creating your  dreams and set into motion the not having.   This is one of the laws of our Universe.

You are only limited in life by your belief, or non belief in the  abundant world that we live in.  You are the Master of your world  and can use the subtle energy in your environment to create the life that you choose to live.

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Many people write me in distress about the circumstances in their lives looking for a Feng Shui Cure that will help them. 

 Cures and Enhancements are important in setting and creating the energy that you desire in your life.  They do not make the energies that you have already created disappear.  For what energy you create you will experience.  Cures and Enhancements only set the stage for what you are creating for your future. 

In our microwave society today most people are looking for a quick fix,  like going to a doctor and getting a magic pill for what ails them only to  find themselves dependent upon the pill for static quo.  Once you  understand Feng Shui and use it properly, you will create the freedom from living a life of mediocrity. 

All energy is good.  There is no bad energy.  There are different qualities of energy like Sha (hard) or Chi (soft). It is only your perception of  energy that makes its bad.

 If a situation appears to be bad, you are missing your golden   opportunity.  The appearance of a bad situation can be the catalyst that pushes you to make new and different decisions. It will show you the truth and reality of the moment if you only open your eyes and mind to the path that lays before you. 

I know that this is probably a new and maybe even a difficult thought, but take a look at your situation. Take out the filter that says it is bad and just look at it for what it is. Know that this situation is what you have created to catapult yourself into the new life that you desire. 

If you continue to look at it as bad it will remain bad.  If you know that it is in your best and highest good and look at the situation for your benefit, it will set you on the path to the life you have dreamed of. 

This is Feng Shui or the way of Wind & Water, the way of energies in your life.  Just as you choose to set cures and enhancements to create beneficial Chi in your home, you can choose to see the abundant blessings in each moment of your life.  Open your eyes and your mind and you will see your path.

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