Feng Shui: Project DECLUTTER

Neal and I have been studying feng shui(pronounced fung shway) for the past 2 months. If you are interested, this book has been very helpful to us. "Feng Shui Your Life" by Jayme Barrett. We found it at Barnes and Noble but we saw it at on amazon.com as well as at our local library.

Feng Shui , not to be confused with Kung Fu, is about energy. (I say that because we were talking to someone recently, I won't say who, who did confuse them! :) ) Everything and every space has an energy. Because you are connected to your environment, the energy of your home influences your health, your physical energy and your overall well being. Some of you probably think this sounds kooky but you really can't argue with it. Think about how you feel when your house is cluttered or there is a sink or a whole kitchen filled with dirty dishes. Even if you aren't looking right at it, you know it is there, and you know you aren't going to feel good until it is taken care of.

Clutter and messiness create bad or stagnant energy which effects YOU! The first step for us was to declutter. If you want to declutter here are some questions you might want to ask yourself while you consider which items you want to keep, and which you want to get rid of:

• Do I love it?
• Do I need it?
• Do I use it?
• Does it evoke a positive feeling and make me smile?

If you can't say yes to all or most of these questions, donate or toss it! When we decluttered we found that we were keeping a lot of things out of guilt or because "we might need it someday". We made a goal to make a place for every item we owned. If it didn't have a place or we couldn't find a place or make a place for it, it wasn't worth hanging on to. Getting rid of things that conjured guilt, sadness or anger in us or things that just plain didn't represent us anymore, was liberating. The rooms in which we have completed project declutter, are much more pleasant to be in now.

YOU SHOULD TRY IT!