How to Feng Shui: Children and Creativity Life Area

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By Vikki Albers
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Feng Shui: Children and Creativity Life Area

The sun sets earlier but not as early as tomorrow, and the weather cools. This is a good time to stay indoors where it is warm and smells of hot chocolate. But what are we going to do? Clear clutter ala Feng Shui? No, we’re all pretty sick of that. Let’s tickle our senses of creativity and make something. Don’t know what to make? That may very well be why this article plopped itself onto your cyber lap.

Difficulty: Easy

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An intention to expand our thoughts around children and our own creativity

Step 1

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What shall we think about in the autumn? (I can usually ask for guidance and get an answer faster than Dorothy can click her red, sparkly heels together.) How about the ancient Chinese art and science of Feng Shui and the Children and Creativity Life Area? Now we’re talking!

In Feng Shui, Children and Creativity co-exist because on a very deep level they are the same. Creativity is that which is personally ours, profoundly ours. The thoughts we think, lyrics we write, communities we build, and the children we birth. All these gifts spring from the core of who we are.

Children and Creativity are everywhere, in one form or another. This Feng Shui life area is to the center right looking in from your front door. Metal is the element, round the supporting shape, white the color, and ‘three’ the number.
Step 2

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To summon a creative muse be sure this area is clean and clear of clutter; then add enhancements. This is a wonderful location for a bell to ring or images of creative projects – your own or someone else’s.

Your ad agency is struggling with ideas for your new product? Place their business card and an image of your product (wrapped together in aluminum foil) in this area setting an intention for great success for one and all. If you don’t want anyone to see such a weird and silly thing, put it behind a picture or in a drawer.
Step 3

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Experiencing writer’s block? Place a clean, fresh writing pad with three sharp pencils on your dictionary and thesaurus in this area. I know. You don’t write with a paper and pencil and your computer is in your office in the Family Life Area. That’s all OK. What you want to do is stimulate the energy of Creativity. That is why the enhancement is placed in the Children and Creativity Life Area.
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Having trouble thinking of a new approach to an existing situation? Any ‘props’ that might relate to what you are thinking about placed in that area would support you. You may also want to write an affirmation for a solution you’ve not yet thought of: “I choose and am grateful to realize a fresh, new outcome to this situation that serves the best interests of everyone/everything touched by this.” “I choose and am grateful that –name- and I are able to agree on the next step to take in this process for the Greater Good of all.”

I like to start affirmations with ‘I choose and am grateful’ but you may begin with whatever words have feeling and meaning for you. For this life area, please write on white paper.
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A music box is an excellent enhancement here – the musical movement is metal, and the tune an inspiring-sound. Experiment with an illustration of three ballet-dancing hippopotamuses from Walt Disney’s Fantasia – white tutus, of course. Set an intention to dance in a BIG, sure-footed (albeit sometimes clumsy) way into your Creativity. (It is good to sprinkle humor throughout all Feng Shui life areas.) Engage your imagination – play with this.
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If it is a child you wish to create, enhance this area with images of a Mom, Dad, and Baby employing the energy of ‘three’, or try two siblings with a new Baby. A silver baby rattle with a pretty white bow would energize the Chi here along with a music box playing Brahm’s Lullaby. Set the intention that is in your heart.

Do not place photos or images of other family members here (your parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, etc.). You are looking to your children and your future, not back into history. Those family photos may lovingly be moved to the Family Life Area.
Step 7

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Shine a fresh light on the every day. Nudge yourSelf to ‘try it a different way’. Open to re-create an old experience. This Feng Shui begins within. Go ahead. Take a peek. You will love what you see.

In gratitude and with an intention to serve,