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as they share ‘Before and After’ stories
about their clients’ Love-lives.
Ya can’t make these stories up!

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WSFS Valentine’s Day

Valentines Day reminds us to romance our homes with the things that make our hearts sing. Karen and Terah’s stories can give you some great ideas on how to make the environmental embrace of your home better than ever.

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2012 is a year that adds up to 5. The 5 with the 2′s and 1 in 2012 tell a story of what type of energy we need to work with this coming year. It will be important for all of us to be flexible, for this will be a year of change. Five is a number about freedom, flexibility, change, travel, legal and/or government issues, confronting situations or setting limits and boundaries with those around us.

This would be a year for us to look at our lives to see what changes we want to or need to make. Then it is up to us to make the decisions and take the action to make those changes. It is easier for us to adjust to change when we implement the change, instead of having a change forced upon us.

Here are some questions to ask ourselves during a 5 year. What changes do I need to or want to make? What do I need to do to implement these changes? How can I make these changes that are forced on me work to my advantage? What can I do right now to keep me going in the direction I want? The more we use these questions to make decisions and take action, then the more likely we will be able to find solutions or make progress to our goals.

We should stay away from focusing on negative thoughts about the changes, as that could drain our energy, and may cause us not to make the changes we need to.

If legal or government situations should arise they could could end up working to our advantage.

If we work with the energy of the 5 year we will head towards a better quality of life during the 6 and 7 year (2013 and 2014).

To find out specifically how 2012 will affect you read the article I wrote for 2011 entitled “The Year 2011 and How to Use the Energy of the Year by Numerology (Personal Year, Personal Month, And Personal Day)”. This article will tell you how to calculate your Personal Year Number and what that will mean for you in 2012. You will find a link to this article on the Fun and Free page of my website http://www.alifebydesign.net/FunandFree.html

Now is the time to create a 2012 Vision Board: a collection of images and objects that represent the goals, dreams and visions of all the goodness that 2012 has waiting for us in the wings. No matter what the collective experience has been these last few months, we as individuals still have needs and priorities; And, when we focus on those specific things we want, they can manifest quickly and delightfully.

Some start a new board each year and store them year after year. Others archive a photo of each year’s board for their album. Others add new layers each year to the same board, being careful to keep exposed those images and items with which they still resonate.

At the end of the year, review, circle or check off the images that manifested, so that over time, you have an ongoing record of your dreams fulfilled!

How to create a Feng Shui Vision Board

Liv Kellgren (pronounced Leev) has combined her talents to become a creative and dynamic practitioner: As an Essential Feng Shui® consultant and presenter, she artfully integrates Interior ReDesign, Environmental Psychology, Organizing, Face Reading, Directionology and Fashion Feng Shui into her practice, creating a tapestry of solutions for your Western Lifestyle.

Liv has also authored articles for e-zines and print publications, and has appeared on podcasts and radio shows including Event Solutions, Conscious Movements, In the Den with Dr. Jenn, and was the co-host of Feng Shui Radio on World Talk Radio.com. She is currently the Programs Director at the Western School of Feng Shui™. Since 2000, she has directed all of WSFS’s programs and supported Alumni during the learning and start-up phases of their practices.

Today, she is a creator of Conscious Environments and consults regularly for residences and all types of businesses – from home offices to 40,000 square foot corporate offices. She specializes in solopreneur offices, locally owned & operated businesses, non-profit headquarters and her clients are ready for transformation into excellence!

“As a Feng Shui consultant and Environmental Healer, I study the relationship between you and your space. Together, we can create paradise while honoring your unique taste and individual style. Conscious Environments believes that the quality of your physical space is in direct correlation to your quality of life, and uses a tapestry of solutions to gracefully combine what you what with what you need.” – Liv

Please feel free to contact Liv for a custom Vision Board workshop for your group. 760-579-9519
calm @ consciousenvironments.com

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Obviously, these gifts are from the God/dess/Universe – I am only providing some keys to receiving them. Not to mention, they are already yours! Still, in this lifetime we have the opportunity to spiral ever-closer to the center of them, which the exercises below will allow you to do.

Please re-gift by sharing with anyone you think may enjoy them. Since they come from an Infinite Source, they will never run out. Besides, what we send out comes back to us multiplied – so, literally, the more the merrier!

(At any time, please feel free to repeat any of these activating exercises to refresh its associated gift.)

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The Gift of Serenity

To activate this gift, drink at least 8 ounces of pure water. Then, ideally in a serene natural setting (but really anywhere where you won’t be disturbed will do), sit comfortably, with your spine straight, close your eyes, and place your left hand over your heart, and your right hand over it. Begin to simply notice your breath as it goes in and out. When your breath naturally begins to deepen and slow down, on the inhale, think: “I breathe in serenity.” On the exhale, think: “I breathe out everything else.” Repeat at least two more times, and then continue for as long as feels right to you.

Additional benefits of this gift: clarity, stillness, energy, self-love

The Gift of Authenticity

This gift is about being in alignment with your most ideal life path. To activate this gift, draw a bath and dissolve one cup of sea salt in it. Light a white or off-white candle and perhaps a stick of incense. Hold your hands over the water and say: “This water, like the sea from which the salt within it came, represents the ocean’s darkest depths. I call on the spirit of the ocean deep to infuse this water with joyful flow and fearless authenticity.” Get into the water and relax deeply. When you feel ready, with your eyes, closed, think: “I follow my bliss. I know my bliss. I live my bliss. I am my bliss.”

Additional benefits of this gift: joy, harmony, inspiration, enthusiasm, flow

The Gift of Synchronicity

Each life has its own unique rhythm and flow. And, when we are in alignment with that flow, everything just seems to work. More often than not, we “just happen” to be in the right place at the right time, and both seen and unseen worlds seem to be conspiring to help us with even the tiniest things – and this is synchronicity. To activate this gift, put on instrumental or chanting music that relaxes you, uplifts you, and helps your energy flow. Stand comfortably with your spine straight. Relax and take some deep breaths. Hold your arms out as if you are about to hug someone. Turn in a counterclockwise direction three times, each time saying, “I now clear the decks for divine support and harmonious flow.” Then stop for a minute and take a centering breath or two. When you feel ready, spin in a clockwise direction three times, each time saying, “I am perfectly supported by the Universe!”

Additional benefits of this gift: harmonious travel, abundant parking spaces, miracles, helpful people, luck

The Gift of Creativity

We are a species characterized by creativity. There is no one through which divine creative energy does not want to flow. And when it flows, we feel joyful and relaxed, comfortable in our own skin, and able to transmute our challenges into blessings and our struggles into beauty. This nourishes our health, along with every other aspect of our life. To activate this gift, hang a prismatic crystal (like this one or these ones) in a sunny window so that it splashes rainbows throughout the room. (If you don’t have a sunny window, simply stand in the sunlight with the crystal.) As you gaze at the dancing rainbows, say, “Divine light shines through me in a way that it shines through no one else on earth. I reflect rainbows! I dance with the Infinite!”

Additional benefits of this gift: healing childhood issues, healthy relationship with children, playfulness, uniqueness, fun, laughter

The Gift of Romance

Whether we are in a partnership or not (or whether or not we desire to be), romance and sensuality are essential nutrients for the well-rounded happiness of human beings. To activate the gift of romance in your life, in the morning, on a Friday during a waxing moon, obtain one pink rose and one red rose. Change the sheets on your bed, make your bed, and then strew all the petals from both roses across the top of your mattress. Leave them there until before you go to sleep. Then, collect them and place them at the base of a tree (or in a flower bed or compost bin if you’re in a city).

Additional benefits of this gift: friendship, relaxation, inner and outer beauty, attractiveness, peaceful sleep

The Gift of Radiance

Your essence naturally shines brightly like the sun – why hide it? Instead, allow your beautiful, nourishing light to radiate forth, sharing warmth, healing, and sustenance with the world. To activate this gift, stand outside, in bright sunlight while the moon is waxing and in a fire sign (Aries, Leo, or Sagittarius). Place your hands over your heart as you become aware of the blinding brightness of the sun. Close your eyes and acknowledge/visualize that your heart light is even brighter than the sun. Open your arms outward like you’re about to hug someone and see this light expanding from your heart and filling your entire body and aura. Say, “I shine like the sun. I am known. I am seen. I am loved.”

Additional benefits of this gift: positive attention, respect, fame, success, charisma

The Gift of Abundance

To activate the gift of abundance, as soon as you awake on the morning of a new moon, get out of bed, lift and open your arms as if you are about to receive blessings from the heavens. Lift your face and visualize golden coins and sparkly golden light coming down from the sky and completely surrounding your entire body and energy field. Say, “I happily receive wealth and abundance.” Then, bring this energy deeply into your being by then placing both hands on your heart. As you feel this abundant light pulsating within you, say, “I am wealthy and prosperous beyond my fondest dreams.”

Additional benefits of this gift: luxury, financial windfalls, unexpected blessings, gratitude, present moment awareness

The Gift of Resilience

Weathering the storms of life builds character, seasons our life experience, and invariably brings us back to the things that matter most: family, friends, and feeling connected to Mother Earth and all her many inhabitants. The gift of resilience helps us to send our roots deep so that the buffeting winds only make us stronger. To activate this gift, stand so that your spine is aligned with the trunk of a flourishing, vibrant tree (it’s OK if it’s in it’s most wintry, leafless state as long as you know it’s healthy). Feel your feet on the earth and energetically send your roots deep into the earth, like the tree’s. Then visualize/feel yourself growing upward from the top of your head with the tree. When you feel that you are sufficiently merged with its energy, say: “My roots go deep and my branches reach high. I am vital, I am strong, I endure.”

Additional benefits of this gift: health, longevity, giving and receiving support from others, healing longstanding family and past life issues, keeping calm/carrying on

The Gift of Balance

Once you have activated all the other eight gifts, weaving them together in a balanced, harmonious way will infuse you with a feeling of profound wellness and bliss. To activate the gift of balance, when the moon is in Libra, sit comfortably, with your spine straight. Relax, close your eyes, and take some deep, cleansing breaths. When you feel ready, visualize a sphere of glowing white light encompassing your entire body. Give yourself a gentle hug and declare: “I am serene and authentic. I experience synchronicity. I express myself creatively. Romance and radiance, and abundance are mine. I am resilient. I am balanced. I am free. All is well in my world. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Blessed be. And so it is.”