The Open Spaces Feng Shui Blog


The Earth Element: Stability and Nourishment

The Earth element is all about feeling grounded and stable no matter what’s swirling around you. As the element representing the Mother in Feng Shui, Earth’s role is to nourish and support you, providing a safe haven in a sometimes-rocky world.
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The Fire Element: Passion & Illumination

Bring Fire into your environment to illuminate your life with a feeling of expansiveness, enthusiasm and passion.
The Fire element is associated with Fame & Reputation on Feng Shui’s Bagua Map, the area that symbolizes your integrity, self-esteem a… read more »

The Wood Element: Growth, Vitality & Flexibility

Feng Shui’s Five Elements — Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water — bring the harmonies of nature into your environment.
Add Wood to your space when you want to encourage growth, flexibility and family harmony in your life.
Wood also ties in to you… read more »

Feeling Stuck? Try The “Magic Of 27 Things”

Do you occasionally feel absolutely stuck, when you don’t know what to do next or how to get out of your own way?
Feng Shui has a simple yet surprisingly effective method for getting you unstuck: move 27 things in your space.
You can pick each thing up and put it r… read more »

A To-Do List That Actually Works

In May of this year I learned — from Atlanta organizer extraordinaire Alison Carter — about a new way to manage my to-do list called the “Autofocus System.”
Created by Mark Forster, a time management expert in England, this is the simple… read more »

Having Faith When All Seems Lost

Every once in a while the wheel of life turns in an unanticipated direction. What seemed like a good thing goes sour; what began as a disaster turns out great.
A few months ago I lost all of my email, an event I was sure was a catastrophe. In fact, though, it turned out so w… read more »

Feng Shui’s Fabulous Five Elements

The Five Elements are one of the special tools Feng Shui uses to enhance your life at home and at work.
The Elements balance and harmonize your space with color, artwork, furnishings, textures and shapes.
If you feel out of balance, stuck, or in a negative frame of mi… read more »

Feng Shui For Healthy Eating

Interesting article in today’s NYTimes about how good health depends on who’s buying the food and doing the cooking in a household. I was not at all surprised to find that researchers discovered five types of “nutritional gatekeepers”… read more »

Vacation Feng Shui

Vacations are key for business success, especially right now when we need a way to avoid sinking under bad economic news.  We just spent a week getting distracted in St. John, in the Caribbean.  Here’s the magnificent view from our tent/cabin, where the F… read more »

Clearing Predecessor Energy

Yesterday I conducted a powerful Space-Clearing & Blessing ceremony in a spacious apartment in midtown Manhattan.
The clients were eager to transform negative “predecessor energy” that remained from the previous unhappy owner, who had di… read more »