My experience with Feng Shui
I think I first had my home Feng Shui’d in 1999 or 2000. Of course I waited until my husband was out of town. Don’t worry he knew I was doing it, but yes he was a little concerned… Were we going to have to change a lot? Would it be expensive? Would he like it? Anyway, I’m happy to report that it was nothing but a positive experience for both of us. Turns out we didn’t have to do a lot. Whew! We had a pretty good grasp of Feng Shui principals on our own. Who knew?
Anyway, after experiencing the changes that went on in my life after making a few changes I was sold on Feng Shui and became determined to learn everything I could about it. This is a constant theme in my life when I become interested in something! ha ha. I began taking every class that Chris Blanchard, our local feng shui consultant, taught. I loved them! I recruited all my friends to come to classes, and I eventually hosted a monthly class in my home for a group of about 10-15 friends. We’d cover a different topic each month… The Relationship Gua, Career Gua, Clearing our Clutter… on and on.
I still needed more, so I persuaded Chris to take me in as an apprentice so I could deepen my studies. Bless her heart she went for it! She created an amazing curriculum for me complete with class studies, field work and a final exam. I got to accompany her on appointments which was such an amazing gift. I learned what really happens when you go to apply all the fundamentals. It’s not always a neat and tidy as it is in the Feng Shui books! I also learned how to share recommendations with clients… That can be the tricky part. It’s very important to use those intuitive abilities when determining what is appropriate to share and not. You certainly don’t want to overwhelm someone, or force them into something they are not yet ready for. She was also very good at pointing out what people did right! That is a nice touch, because it’s easy to pick out everything that is “wrong” but wrong really depends on what the person is wanting in their life. Maybe they are in a space where they need to be private and protected for a bit. In that case something that could be a negative in their Benefactor Gua might actually be working perfectly for them at that time.
Living in a resort area we did a lot of appointments with Real Estate Agents. Chris really developed a fantastic way to apply Feng Shui to help sell properties. These appointments were always a lot of fun… and a lot of physical work. We would get in there and completely rearrange furniture, move paintings, etc. We would be filthy and exhausted after some of these, but it was so exciting to hear they sold! There was usually a lot of freedom because many of the owners of these properties just wanted to sell and were not attached to things looking a certain way.
After my training we decided to write a book together. I knew that Chris had many books inside her waiting to come out and felt like I could share with her what I knew about writing books since I’d written one. That is how Sell Your Home with Feng Shui came to be…
