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Re-Nature Feng Shui

Module 6: Clutter Clearing &

Creating Sacred Space

Questions/Comments

• Module 5 – Divination

Copyright 2016 Re-Nature Consulting LLC

Module 6 Assignment

• Do one of these ceremonies on your home.

• The Metal Element

• Visit Alex’s website (http://alexstark.com/category/how-to) and email or post on Facebook group something that you’ve learned that you found valuable and inspiring. (There is so much here!)


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Today

• The Metal Element• Clearing Clutter• Creating Sacred Space


What is Your TRUE Nature?Wood – The

Pioneer

Ambitious

Active

Competitive

Courageous

Productive

Resourceful

Resilient

Visionary


Fire – The

Wizard

Warm, Intense

Dramatic

Magnetic

Passionate

Enthusiastic

Dynamic

Prefers lots of friends

Water – The

Philosopher

Calm, Deep

Playful

Refreshing

Dreamy

Flexible

Insightful

Reflective

Prefers to be alone

Metal – The

Alchemist

The Father

Discerning

Strong, Ordered

Precise

Refined

Confident

Speaks against injustice

Earth - The

Peacemaker

The Mother

Nurturing

Responsible

Grounded

Supportive

Reliable

Protective, Simple

Trustworthy

The Metal Element

The Metal Element is the archetype of the Alchemist –with the ability to transform energy with the breath.


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Emotional Nature

• I am able to express and release sadness and grief

• I love structure yet am flexible and adaptable to many situations that arise in life

• I have great intuition and use it often it in my life• I speak up when I witness injustice

• I am able to release my tendency to control in challenging situations

• I often take the position of authority and leadership in work and outside of work

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Metal in Nature


Metal Energy in the Home

• Metal is organization & refinement –task of filtering and refining, removing all that is no longer needed.

• Metal is beauty – incorporating art in all of its forms into your home, be it through images, music, fine furnishings, sculpture, dance, etc.

• Metal is minimalist – spaces that adhere to form over function – sharp geometric lines and asymmetry, use of lots of metal, white and black.

• Metal is connection with the sacred in our everyday lives – creating an altar in your home is a wonderful way to acknowledge the Metal Element.


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Brass, bronze, silver, etc.

White, off-white, gold,

silver, gray, pastels

Round, oval, circular

shapes; arches and

domes

Gemstones, polished

stone and marble

Art with metallic, gold or

silver leaf finishes or

featuring the sky

Metal in Your Home


Connecting with your breath

• Anger - breathe smoothly and freely to remain calm

• Anxiety/fear - consciously broaden and deepen your whole breathing to feel safe

• Depressed - allow a fuller inhalation to match the exhalation to stimulate your chi and help you access the emotions hidden within the depressed behavior.

• When feeling hurt, under attack or when old emotional patterns are threatening to take control - get back into the NOW by centering the breath

We have the power to transform our emotional state.


If you are irritated by every rub how will you be polished? - Rumi


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What is Clutter?

The Clutter Test• Do I need it?• Do I use it?• Do I love it?


Also…

Things that are unorganized

Too many things in a small space

Anything unfinished


• Feng Shui is about creating spaces that are uplifting for spiritual, emotional and physical well-being.

• Clutter blocks and stagnates Chi.• We cannot create Feng Shui spaces when Chi cannot

flow freely

What Does Clutter have to do with Feng

Shui?


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Both Extremes

• Very yin – contributing to sluggishness• Very yang – contributed to anxiety


“Whatever we are not conscious of will be expressed in our environment” – Psychologist Carl Jung

“Clutter is postponed decisions.” – Barbara Hemphill

“Clutter is a way that Unhappiness expresses itself.”

Metaphor

Clutter = blocked and stagnant chi


Where and What

• Look at where the clutter accumulates• And what type of clutter there is


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Room by Room• Entry/passageways

• Bedroom

• Family Room

• Kitchen

• Bathroom

• Basement

• Attic


By Gua

Prosperity & Abundance

Fame, Reputation & Recognition

Romance & Relationships

Family & Health Creativity & Children

Self-Knowledge & Spirituality

Career & Life's Path Networking & Travel

Front Entrance


How to Combat Clutter

• “Clutter is postponed decisions!” –Ann Bingley Gallops

• Start small – clear one drawer or one small pile a day!

• Create 4 piles – to keep, for charity, to sell, to throw out – the “to keep” pile should be 20 – 30% of the items

• Great tip for clothes – when hanging new season, hang backwards and see what you’ve actually worn and not!

If necessary, hire a Professional Organizer!


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9 Tips

1. Start with the 3 most important areas: front entry, bedroom and kitchen

2. Determine the primary purpose of the room and use that as a guideline

3. Remove and sort through everything in an area

4. Ask the 3 questions: Do I love it? Do I use it? Do I need it?5. Use categories for sorting: keep, toss/recycle, donate/sell

6. Do not pass GO! Get rid of those items immediately!

7. Create zones and homes for everything that remains8. Open windows and door to let air and chi circulate

9. Transcendental cures – Move 27 Things, and Laugh & Stretch


• What do you want MORE of in your life?

• “When I get rid of my clutter, I will allow more _________ into my life.”

Visualization exercise

What’s in it for me?


Seen and Unseen

• We’ve been dealing with the “seen”…• Now the “unseen” clutter


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Negative Energy

• From your past experiences in the home• Unwanted guests• Predecessors


Creating Sacred Space

Ground breaking, earth healing, space clearing, commercial dedication, blessings, and other specific ones – healing, fertility, soul retrieval, etc.


What is Space Clearing?

• Changes the qualitative content of an environment

• Revitalizes the energies of the space exhausted by use, stress, or suffering

• Shifts the energies to a new and different purpose

• Dispels malaise, disease, unwanted spirits, or other detrimental forces.


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What is a Blessing?

Invokes the powers of the Cosmos to aid in creating the most auspicious environment for the performance of the task envisioned for the space


BE the Cure


Tools• Altar cloth

• Ceremonial/Ritual objects – statue(s), icons, images, mala or rosary beads

• Sound – singing bowl or bells• Elements from nature – sea salt, crystals,

flowers, shells, rocks, etc. • Fire – candles

• Smell – essential oil sprays

• Offerings – you can incorporate an offering, such as incense or fruit

• BTB-specific items – cinnabar (or paprika), realgar (or turmeric), ceremonial plates and bowls


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Toxic Minerals• Cinnabar powder – contains mercury

– Powerful yang substance – Expell bad chi and evil forces

– Brings good fortune

• Realgar powder – contains arsenic– Improve and strengthen chi


Substitutions• Paprika or chili powder• Tumeric

OR forgo the powder and use highest proof liquor

5 Element Altar


Bagua Altar


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Shamanic Altar


“To create a sacred experience, guide yourself into that space and then bring viewers in to become participants.” – Alex Stark


Guidelines

Prior to consultation

• Pack necessary items • Meditate

At consultation

• Set up altar

• Gather participants• Assign duties, if necessary (open doors and windows as

you go through home)• Light candle

• Center and expand your energy to take in the room, perhaps the property

• Calming Heart Sutra or other prayer to call in assistance from spirit realm


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Space Clearing

• Go to front door and ask permission to proceed

• Circle the home in clockwise direction

• “Shake down” the energy in all the corners as you say “Om Ma Ni Padme Hum”

• Once you go through each room and each level of the home stand at front door

• Imagine all negative energy being whisked out through the windows and doors

• Rinse hands and arms


Blessing

• Back to altar or center of home

• “Yank up” the energy of the home by using softer, higher vibration tools (higher-pitched bells, lighter incense, etc)

• Can do the clockwise movement around entire home again or stay at altar or center of home

• Infuse the home with intention.

• Back to the altar to give thanks and gratitude to all who assisted in the higher realms.

• Blow out candle.


Exterior Rice Blessing

• Best to do between 11am – 1pm or 11pm – 1am• Do the Heart Calming Sutra (Gatay, Gatay, Para Gatay, Para Sum Gatay,

Bodhi Swaha)• Fill bowl with rice and small amount of cinnabar and realgar• Using a dropper, count 108 drops of rum into rice• Mix with middle finger (left hand – women, right hand – men) while reciting

OM MA NI PAD ME HUM, 108 times• Visualize ten thousand Buddha’s light entering the bowl• Go out front door of property and throw three handfuls of rice up into the

air – visualize the chi of the land is uplifted and space is blessed and recite OM MA NI PAD ME HUM

• Throw three handfuls of rice out horizontally – visualize that you are feeding Hungry Ghosts and spirits and recite OM MA NI PAD ME HUM

• Throw three handfuls of rice to the land – visualize that you are planting new seeds and recite OM MA NI PAD ME HUM

* You can also go to each area of the Bagua and throw a total of three handfuls (up, horizontal, and down) and bless each area of the Bagua, stating intentions for each.


Teaspoon cinnabar or paprikaSmall bit of realgar or tumericBag of white rice (not quick rice)Newly purchased bottle of Bacardi rum for use in ceremonial use onlyDropperCeremonial bowl

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Chen Pei

9 pieces of chen pei (dried tangerine peel)One large orangeA new white plate to be used only for ceremony

One tea candle

• Place tea candle in the middle of plate• Cut 9 round pieces from orange• Arrange the 9 pieces of chen pei around edge of plate and

intersperse the 9 circles between the chen pei• Light the candle and burn each pieces of chen pei as you would

incense, making sure to get the smoke into each corner and closet in the home. Move clockwise direction from front door, visiting each area of the bagua. Chant OM MA NI PAD ME HUM.

• After going around the house once, place plate on the stove where it can remain with candle lit until client needs to use the stove.


Method to Change the Chi by Sense of Smell

Timing – best between 11am – 1pm or 11pm – 1am (height of Sun and Moon)• Add 9 capfuls of rum to a bowlful of rice. Then add 1 tsp of paprika• While mixing with middle finger of right hand chant OM MA NI PAD ME

HUM 9 or 108 times• Visualize that the light of millions of Buddhas shine into the mixture, and

that powerful blessings are being infused. The rice is saturated with Buddha’s light.

• Cut 9 round pieces from all 9 oranges (108 circles). Break up each into small pieces in the bowl.

• Open all doors and windows in the house if weather permits• During this time, visualize that the chi is already changing.• Starting at the front door move through house clockwise and scatter pieces

into all corners. Client may participate as well. Say OM MA NI PAD ME HUM as you scatter the pieces.

• While scattering, use both the Giving Mudra (palm and rice goes upward) and Sowing Mudra (palm and rice goes downward).

• When complete, do the Three Secrets Reinforcement, visualizing that all inauspicious chi is gone from the house and being replaced by auspicious chi and the light of thousands of Buddhas.

* What you hold in your heart during this ceremony is most important of all.


Bacardi rumCeremonial bowlUncooked ricePaprika or cinnabarNine fresh oranges

Tracing the 9-Star Path

• Stand at the front of the property (curb) or the home (inside by front door)

• Hands in Temple mudra:

• Start at “3” and follow the 9 Star Path (chart below) and say “Om Ma Ni Padme Hum” at each “star”

• When you get to “2” you have completed one cycle. Do 8 more cycles, starting at “3”.

• All the while you are envisioning negative energy being disrupted from the structure and property and dissipating into the sky.

• You can even do this on a person. Do the 9 Star Path on their torso, front and back


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The Challenge…

Connect with the Metal Element

• Spend some time observing the night sky

• Share your experience on our FB page


OTHER SLIDES


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Clutter…


Impacts of Clutter

• Physical• Emotional• Spiritual

• Difficult to get around • Difficult finding things • Inability to clean well • Impacts the physical body • Physical stagnation

• A result of unhappiness in life• Emotional stagnation • Can create feelings of isolation• Symptom/contributes to depression• Impedes the flow of chi in your home • Leads to stagnation in many or all areas of life!

• Inability to develop and grow spiritually• Inability to move forward in life


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Re-Nature Feng Shui Module 6: Clutter Clearing & Creating ... · emotions hidden within the depressed behavior. ... Self-Knowledge & ... * You can also go to each area of the Bagua