Excerpts from the Website of Nancilee Wydra
Feng Shui is the science of how human beings connect with their physical spaces. Feng Shui evolved in China through several millennia, developing in various schools and sects and draws from Taoism, a Chinese philosophy. The words feng shui literally mean "wind water". The practice came about as an effective way for people who lived in the mountainous regions of China to protect their dwellings from harsh winds and dangerous water.
Coming to America changed feng shui in response to a completely different culture with a diverse set of customs, symbols, and traditions. We often synthesize wisdom and knowledge from all of the schools of feng shui while filtering out cultural and geographical proclivities, and placing heavy emphasis on current social and physical sciences. Some fields that support Feng Shui include geology, meteorology, cultural anthropology, molecular cell biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, physiology, and psychology, to name a few.
Feng Shui is an information system that reveals how a home or workplace can affect health, relationships and self-actualization. Our experience in life cannot be isolated from the language of our environment.
“Where we are is as important as who we are.”
When merely a few cells old, where we are situated in a womb determines if we will survive. But our survival is not the only biologically programmed determinant. The threads separating us from many other species is the cognition of our own condition.
“We strive to be happy.”
The relationship of person to place provides simple, easy-to-implement solutions for inauspicious conditions of an environment, that can tip a balance in our favor. Feng Shui fills a void at a time when we are beginning to acknowledge that our experience of place is integral to a quality life.
Friday, August 11, 2006
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Tips for Selling Your Home Quickly & Profitably
Selling your home is a completely different experience than living in it, and it requires a very different mindset. When you are creating a home to live in, your goal is to make it comfortable for you and your family. When you are selling a home your goal is to make it look like a model home. Forget the reality of every day living. Just make it look good so you can sell it quickly and for the highest price. The longer your home is on the market the less your chances are for getting the price you want.
1. Depersonalize. Pack up all of your most personal and visible belongings so that prospective buyers can imagine themselves living in the space.
2. Make it look spacious. Remove enough furniture and accessories to make every room look big and uncluttered.
3. Say no to clutter. Pack it or throw it away, but don't try to hide it, because perspective buyers will probably find it!
4. So simplify each room until it has just one function so that buyers will not feel confused.
5. Don't hide any great architectural features behind furniture, drapes or accessories. And if there is no architectural focal point in a room, create one by accessorizing a coffee table, dining table, window, bed, or bookcase.
1. Depersonalize. Pack up all of your most personal and visible belongings so that prospective buyers can imagine themselves living in the space.
2. Make it look spacious. Remove enough furniture and accessories to make every room look big and uncluttered.
3. Say no to clutter. Pack it or throw it away, but don't try to hide it, because perspective buyers will probably find it!
4. So simplify each room until it has just one function so that buyers will not feel confused.
5. Don't hide any great architectural features behind furniture, drapes or accessories. And if there is no architectural focal point in a room, create one by accessorizing a coffee table, dining table, window, bed, or bookcase.
What You See Is What You Get!
Is Your View Working for You? We have all heard the saying "What you see is what you get.", but for now I'd like you to think of it in a different way. "What you look at is what you get." The things that you see the most every day have a definite influence on you and on your life. If you have a positive reaction to what you are seeing, then that object or view will have a positive influence. If you have a negative reaction, then you are looking at something that is a negative influence, on both you and on your life experiences.
Take a few moments to think about the places where you spend a lot of time, and how you feel about what you can see when you are there. Think about the view from your bed, your favorite easy chair, and your seat at the dinner table, in addition to what you see from your desk or workspace. Is there something you can do to change your view when you feel that it is having a negative effect on you? You may be able to decide which item is causing the negative feeling, and remove it or screen it from your view. And see what you can do to add something that you really love, to enhance the positive effect of your view.
When you want to do something to improve the quality of your life, decide what you want to get, and make sure that is what you are seeing!
Take a few moments to think about the places where you spend a lot of time, and how you feel about what you can see when you are there. Think about the view from your bed, your favorite easy chair, and your seat at the dinner table, in addition to what you see from your desk or workspace. Is there something you can do to change your view when you feel that it is having a negative effect on you? You may be able to decide which item is causing the negative feeling, and remove it or screen it from your view. And see what you can do to add something that you really love, to enhance the positive effect of your view.
When you want to do something to improve the quality of your life, decide what you want to get, and make sure that is what you are seeing!
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