Adopting the lifestyle of Feng Shui provides each and every person with the unique opportunity to enhance and transform their life for the better emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and physically. Looking to the western Bagua map, I’d like to bring special attention to the area called, “knowledge and spirituality.”

This area speaks to the deep inner nature of ourselves. Think of this as the self-care department of the bagua map. It provides you with stepping stones to reflect on the daily activities that either support your spiritual development and well-being or hinder that connection. Besides displaying imagery that illustrates your spiritual beliefs, one of the recommended methods in how to create a stronger link is by journaling.

The act of journaling can help provide you with unique insights and moments of surrendering your worries, anxieties and stresses, thus offering opportunities to heal.

Benefits Include:

• Evokes mindfulness

• Helps you to achieve goals

• Strengthens your emotional intelligence

• Boosts your memory and comprehension

• Strengthens your Self-Discipline

• Improves Communication Skills

• Protes deep and profound healing through self awareness and reflection

• Sparks your Creativity

• Improves Self-Confidence

• and the list goes on (additional benefits to journaling)

In fact, I keep my very own journal by my bedside, this way if I have a creative idea, intentions I’d like to write down, thoughts or emotions I’m unsure how to process, I’ve now provided myself with a very accessible and safe outlet for expression. And journaling doesn’t only have to be in words,… sketching and doodling can also be part of it, or for those who prefer a more digital medium, perhaps you could use photography.

Another added level to this is by building a team of trusted helpful people that can further assist you along your journey of spiritual development, spiritual intelligence and healing. Perhaps this could be a combination of trained professionals, to trusted family members and friends. This provides you with a platform to learn, share, grow and even celebrate your breakthroughs and accomplishments!

Choosing to courageously dig deeper into the mindset of yourself and emotions that could be keeping you stuck, plays an integral role in the formula of successful manifesting. It’s important to remember, when adopting the teachings of Feng Shui into your home and lifestyle, it’s not just about physical ‘arrangements,’ it requires a certain level of participation in making the necessary mental, emotional and spiritual changes to help shift your perspective on life.

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New york city feng shui consultant Laura Cerrano has over with 23+ years of experience providing bicoastal consultations and workshops for residential, real estate developments, Fortune 500 companies, and healing facilities. She is currently conducting research for her upcoming book that focuses on bridging the gap between the ancient wisdom of Feng Shui and modern day science to establish the practice of Feng Shui as a credible form of assisted healing within the healthcare system.