It’s hard to believe that August is almost over!  My focus this month has been “Back to School for Adults." Since the kids have just gone back to school, or are going back soon,  adults have more time to explore the many tools available to us for accessing our inner knowledge. Feng Shui is one of those tools. Bau-Biologie, or Building Biology, is another tool. As a Certified Feng Shui and Building Biology Environmental Consultant, I combine these tools to assess the flow of Chi, or life energy in a space, as well as the “health” of a home or business. 

If Chi is stuck or stagnant, or rushes through a room instead of meandering, evidence of those issues will be found in the life of the person or people who live or work in that space.  Also, if a space has a drain in a certain area of the space, or has a piece “cut out” of the floor plan, those are situations that need to be addressed, or “cured.”  If a home or building is “sick,” that will also show up in the lives of the people who live and work in the space. Building Biology helps us to understand how to mitigate such issues. The spaces where we live and work affect our lives in many ways.

As a consultant using both tools for over twenty years, I’ve seen many examples of how stagnant or rushing energy and sick buildings have drastically affected the personal and private lives of clients.

For instance, one of my clients was having a terrible time getting good, solid, restful sleep. In fact, she really couldn’t sleep at all and her health was suffering as a result. When I evaluated her home as part of my consultation, I discovered that she had a bathroom in the center of her home which, according to Feng Shui, indicates the potential for ill health and requires a cure. I also gave extra attention to her bedroom because of her sleep issues. I searched her bedroom with a meter and discovered that she had an air purifier plugged in right behind her pillow. The air purifier was emitting high electromagnetic fields (EMRs) so the solution was to move it away from her bed. After adding the cure to the bathroom and moving the machine, she was able to sleep more soundly and her health improved.

In another consultation I encountered a client who had suffered a stroke several years after moving into her home. As a Building Biologist, I’m aware that it can take up to three years for the results of being subjected to electric magnetic fields (EMRs) to become apparent. As I performed the consultation, I checked her bedroom and noted that her bed was against a wall that appeared harmless, but when I continued evaluating the space with a meter,  I discovered that the building electric meter was located on the outside of that wall and was emanating high EMR’s. We moved her bed to a safer, lower EMR field location, but it happened to be in front of a doorway, which is not great Feng Shui. That was still the best location for her bed due to the EMR fields, so I provided a Feng Shui cure for the doorway/bed situation. After my consultation, she had no additional episodes and slept much more soundly.

Yet another client moved into a new apartment that had brand new carpeting.  Brand new carpeting sounds wonderful, but it can be dangerous to your health. Within just a few days after moving into the apartment, she was taken to the hospital due to an allergic reaction to the high off-gassing of the new, synthetic carpet.  This is a perfect example of the need to pay close attention to the items we bring into our homes. This client opted to move, but  it is possible to remove the off-gassing from the space with ozone (used while the apartment was vacant) followed by open windows and fans to clear out the toxin.

By tuning into the energies that fill and surround our homes and workplaces, we can better understand why we feel the way we do. Many times when we look for a place to live or work, we don’t give serious consideration to the energies of the location. If your home is a cute little historic cape cod surrounded by two-story homes of 3500 square feet each, you’re probably going to feel oppressed. If your home sits in a cul-de-sac and has the incoming road heading straight to your front door, you’re going to feel that energy rushing into your home. There are many energies to take into consideration. When discussing Building Biology and Feng Shui, I feel obligated to note that there are some serious health risks due to the prevalence of wi-fi. Yes, there have been amazing technological advances that make our lives easier in many ways, but we must also understand that those advances have consequences and be aware of what we need to do to protect ourselves. If you’d like more information about wi-fi and the risks involved, please visit the website of my fellow Building Biology Environmental Consultant Oram Miller at http://www.createhealthyhomes.com/  .  I advise all my clients, at a minimum,  to turn off the wi-fi in their homes before they go to sleep. 

Building Biology and Feng Shui each offer ways for us to work and live with the energy around us in a way that enhances our lives and cares for the environment. If we take a moment or two every day to be still and aware, we can tune in to how we really feel about a situation or a place. That moment each day allows us to access our inner wisdom, while the tools of Building Biology and Feng Shui help us understand the wisdom and dig a little deeper. These tools, especially when used together, give us the opportunity to enhance the flow of life and energy we live with.  You can learn more about Building Biology at   http://hbelc.org/   If you’re interested in a review of the flow of life and energy in your home or business, or have questions about this information, please contact me. I can combine the assessments into one consultation and give you a summary review with referrals to appropriate professionals for mitigation, as needed.

Be wise, be safe. Your surroundings have a huge impact on your health and well being!

Namaste, Carol

When you mention “dowsing” some people immediately flashback to the cartoons of our youth and imagine an old prospector walking around with a “Y” shaped stick, searching for water or gold. Dowsing is so much more! Dowsing can help you discover more than water or gold...it’s a tool to help you access the divine wisdom within.

Dowsing is classically known to access information regarding earth energies, such as underground water veins, ley lines, and geopathic stress which can impact people and plants in negative ways. Dowsing is also a methodology for tapping into our inner knowledge, or as Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist, called it the “collective unconscious” or “super conscious.”

As I’ve mentioned this month with my theme of “Back to School,” there are many tools we can use to gain access to this higher plane of consciousness, and dowsing is one of them. Learning to use dowsing and/or another of these tools is like having a card or a key that allows us access to a library of unlimited knowledge.

There are several different dowsing indicator tools, but I normally use “L” shaped dowsing rods or a pendulum. A pendulum doesn’t need to be expensive, and you can make one out of just about anything....a piece of string or fishing line with something weighted on it ( a button, a paperclip, a Chinese coin, a stone or crystal, etc) is a pendulum. Some metal or crystal objects seem to respond better for some folks, but it’s up to the one doing the dowsing. Some people prefer to use “Y” shaped dowsing rods. It doesn’t matter what type of indicator tool you use; it matters only that you are focused on the question at hand, and comfortable with the indicator tool and how it indicates responses to your questions.

As I mentioned above, I usually use the L-rods in my dowsing practice. Each dowsing session is always started by asking 3 questions: Can I? May I? Shall I? while you hold the rods tightly. The rods will move back and forth to provide the answer to your questions. Once you get approval to move forward, you can ask just about anything you want. Remember to always phrase your questions in a positive way. When you’re focused on a question in your mind and seeking an answer via dowsing, you are entering into a conversation with your higher self and the spirit guides who are there to help you.

In my Feng Shui practice, I look to dowsing when something is puzzling me. For instance, when doing a consultation for a couple whose sleep was being disrupted even though their bedroom was arranged for the enhanced flow of chi, I decided to go to my dowsing rods to find out what was creating the sleep disturbance. My dowsing session showed me underground water veins that were negatively impacting their sleep. Simply moving their bed to another location provided relief. I’ve also used dowsing to stop ants from entering a building. When we dowse to identify  ‘stuck’ energy, and are then able to clear that energy, that clearing opens the portals for us to access our inner wisdom more easily in our own surroundings. Robert and Charmion McKusick, long-time dowsers that I met at my first dowsing training, have built some very interesting products to help clear negative earth energies identified by dowsing. I frequently use their products (as I did when I diverted the ants with success) and  often recommend their products to others. Their products are available at this website http://emfblues.com/biomagnetic-research-inc/ .

Dowsing is also great for finding things. One day I took an assistant along to a Feng Shui consultation in the Pocono Mountain area. We’d brought lunch and planned to stop at a park and find a picnic bench where we could eat. On the way back to the office, we weren’t finding any picnic tables, so, as my assistant drove, I dowsed to find a picnic table location. We came to a street and the rods indicated we should turn right on to a street with houses along it. I asked if the picnic table would be on the right side, then asked if it would be on the left side. As the rods were saying “YES” to the left, we looked and there was a little grove with a pavilion and picnic tables!

I learned to dowse years ago at the annual summer conference of the American Society of Dowsers. The conferences and workshops they offer are incredible. Please check out all they have to offer at their website at http://www.dowsers.org/  .  I think once you investigate dowsing, you’ll see that it’s an amazing tool that offers access to the divine wisdom within.
Who knows, I may teach a class and show you how!

Namaste,
Carol

It’s back to school time, even though it’s early August. It seems that school starts earlier every year, with some schools in the south starting in the first or second week of August. While we’re surrounded by sales and advertisements for back to school supplies and clothes for kids, let’s take a look at “back to school” can mean for adults.
When I was a child, I got very excited about going back to school. I think we, as adults, can get just as excited about this time of year if we look at it as a time to continue our education in non-traditional ways. As I mentioned in my Chi Insight video on Wednesday, I started working on inner development and looking inward at a very young age. I remember being told, “everything is inside you” and “you contain all the wisdom” but I didn’t understand that as a teenager or when I was in my twenties. Now I understand and realize that we each contain the wisdom of the ages, we just need to learn to access that knowledge. There are several tools we can use to tap into our inner wisdom.
This week I’ll look at the I Ching (pronounced ee-ching), an ancient Chinese book of divination based on eight symbolic trigrams and sixty four hexagrams which are interpreted in terms of the principles of nature and yin and yang. When using the I Ching, we can throw sticks  or Chinese coins have a yin side and a yang side. When you look at the coins or sticks after the throw, a pattern emerges creating 2 trigrams, or one hexagram. After the pattern is discovered, the I Ching book, "Book of Changes and the Unchanging Truth" by Hua Ching Ni,  is consulted to look up the pattern and see which characteristics are noted for each of the hexagrams.
The I Ching doesn’t tell us what to do, but instead offers insight and things to think about regarding whatever decision we're contemplating or issue that’s on our mind. The I Ching offers a new perspective and ways of thinking about an issue and, in that way,  helps us access our inner knowledge and guidance. We all have the inner knowledge we need, but sometimes we don’t trust it or ourselves.
To learn more about using the I Ching, join my class in Lansdale, PA at The Lansdale Public Library, 1:00 - 2:45 pm  on Saturday, August 13th.       Follow this link for more information  http://www.carolcannongroup.com/upcoming-events.html
There are many ways we can access our inner knowledge and various tools, like the I Ching, can help us. This month I’ll be taking a look at several of those tools. The important thing to remember, no matter what tool you use, is to take a deep breath, get focused, and learn to trust ourselves and our knowing of the ageless wisdom.

A couple more things....

My birthday was August 2nd and it’s been a wonderful week! In gratitude, I’m offering a gift to you for my birthday. I’m offering two Birthday Specials only available until 11:59 pm on Sunday, August 7th. For more information follow this link
http://www.carolcannongroup.com/services.html

And, there's still time to join the Feng Shui Your Prosperous Life series in Hamburg, PA. Videos are available for any classes you might have missed. Contact me for more information.

Namaste,
Carol

"You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be, and ever was."
~ Anthon S. Maarten, "Divine Living: The Essential Guide to Your True Destiny"