Take Action! 1 Way To Increase Your Results by 120%

His Holiness Grandmaster Lin Yun Rinpoche, foremost expert in Feng Shui, once said that intention can improve the results by 120% when you make any positive change in your life.

In Feng Shui, we use mundane solutions, transcendental techniques and the power of intention to create change in our lives.

For instance, if you wanted to make more money, you might ask for a raise or find a second job. That would be a mundane solution.

A transcendental solution could involve adding a water element to activate and energize the wealth corner or career section of your home.

But if you combine these actions with a strong, powerful intention -- visualizing the feeling of security you'd get from greater income, or how much you'd enjoy driving around in that new car, you can achieve results greater than you would from mundane actions and Feng Shui cures alone. As every goal we have comes down to a feeling that we want to experience.

Have you ever desired something so badly that you simply knew it was yours -- and could feel the emotions associated with having it? This is the power of intention at work.

Thoughts?

Five Surprising Factors That Can Change Your Life

Would you like to live a perfect life? Esteemed Feng Shui Grandmaster Lin Yun once said that those who want to live a perfect life may find themselves in an insane asylum.

The truth of life is that misfortune can occur. Even if you create a game plan to achieve your goals in life, your career or love, and follow that plan everyday, you may find the outcome is not what you expected.

Imagine planting a garden. You cultivate the land, plants the seeds, water them everyday, keep your garden free of weeds and make sure it has the proper amount of sun. You fully expect a crop of vegetables but instead, bugs get at the plants, leaving you with nothing but chewed up leaves.

That's because there are other factors besides free will and intention that influence our lives. Black Sect Feng Shui masters believe there are five major factors that influence our lives, along with a host of smaller ones, including our family circumstances, our responsibilities, our place in society, and our ability to give and receive help.

When we use Feng Shui to improve our lives, the arrangement of objects and use of color in a space are only part of the equation. We can also take mundane or practical steps, as well as spiritual measures, to improve our situation.

Let's explore the five factors that affect our lives according to Chinese philosophy.

1. Fate - In spite of its definition, our fate or destiny is not immutable. By using Feng Shui, we can begin prepare for the likelihood of certain events, and take action to possibly alter our fate to a more desirable outcome.
2. Feng Shui - How our environment affects our chi, as well as our influence on the space around us.
3. Karma - The cause and effect of our actions. Some people view karma as, "What goes around, comes around." Karma is like the concept of a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a monsoon halfway across the world. Small actions cause profound changes -- on your life and the lives of others.
4. Education - Education gives us knowledge and opportunities that make us better prepared to deal with whatever our fate brings.
5. Luck - These are life's variations in fortunes, the ups and downs. To some degree, however, we can all make our own good luck by addressing the other four factors in order to prepare us for a better outcome. Let's look at the old adage, "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Receiving lemons represents bad luck, (in this example) but we can use our education, Feng Shui, karma, fate, and even make adjustments to our chi to create a profitable lemonade stand with those lemons.

As we learn to control the factors of our life, we can turn what we view as an "unlucky" existence into a life filled with luck, wealth and success.

So what do YOU think?

How to Judge the Feng Shui of a House Before You Buy

When buying a house or selecting a new place to live, it's important to consider the people who lived there previously. In fact, this should be your top points to ask about or research prior to considering a purchase of a new home.

But assessing the Earth chi in a space, the natural elements that surround the home, can also provide insight about whether a home will be auspicious, attracting good fortune for the people who live there -- or not.

Here are some ways to assess the Earth chi surrounding a home before you make the decision to move in. Consider each of these factors, along with your overall impressions of the home as you approach the property and then enter through the front door.

Animals - Look around at the animals in the neighborhood and on the property. Many animals we consider good luck or bad luck (like a black cat) are based on cultural biases. Deer, in most cultures, are considered auspicious. Even more telling than their species is the overall health of the animals you see. For instance, if you see a neighborhood cat, it should be well-fed, have a clean, healthy coat and be full of energy. Sick, dull, listless animals could be a warning.

Plants - Trees and other vegetation should be lush and green in spring and summer, healthy in winter and fall. Is the lawn thick and green and full of life, or yellow, brown and dead -- if there's a lawn at all.

A yard that's primarily dirt or dead grass could be indicative of underground water problems or unhealthy chi. Compare the state of the vegetation to neighboring properties for a good idea of the overall chi of the space.

People - We are what we see, and we become what we are surrounded by. When we look at our five closest friends, we see a reflection of ourselves.

Look at your potential neighbors and decide, “Is this the type of person I would like to become, too?” Is the neighborhood filled with successful professionals or families struggling to make it? Is homelessness prevalent in the area or is the town thriving? You can tell a lot by looking at the conditions of the surrounding homes, but it's even better if you have the opportunity to meet your neighbors before moving in.

Events - As you evaluate the people, you also want to evaluate the events that have affected them in the recent past. Has the neighborhood been home to a lot of robberies, deaths, or car accidents? Are houses on either side in foreclosure or facing that possibility?

Look for a neighborhood with low crime rates and few inauspicious events, such as house fires, flooding, robberies, accidents or divorce. Seek out an area where your neighbors enjoy their lives with good health, wealth, happiness and upward mobility.

Spiritual events -  As you evaluate the overall Feng Shui of a property, also consider the “signs” you receive while you are there. Oddly synchronous positive events could indicate good fortune should you choose to move in, while events you view as “bad omens” could be a sign to run away. Signs may be open to interpretation, but some will be universal.

For instance, if you approach a home to find someone blocking the space where you intended to park, a dead bird on the porch, and then the key breaks as you try to enter the home, it could be this is not the home for you.

Feng Shui Your Bedroom to Take Control of Your Life

Once you've found the Central Palace of your home, you should also consider the central line. This is the line that runs through the central palace, dividing your home into the front half and back half. Your main entrance is located in front of the central line. Rooms such as the bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom may be located behind the central line.

Feng Shui Placement of a Master Bedroom
Since the master bedroom is one of the three most important areas of a home in Black Sect Feng Shui, its placement is especially important.

The master bedroom, along with other bedrooms, should reside behind the central line, in order to give its inhabitants greater control of what's going on in the household, as well as in their life. A bedroom behind the central line also offers other benefits, both spiritual and mundane.

A bedroom located behind the central line:

- helps inhabitants sleep better, by separating the yang activities of the outside world with the inner sanctuary (yin qualities) of the master bedroom

- offers more privacy for intimate activities, as well as a sense of privacy and security in the home

- reduces the danger of robbery

- reduces the chances of having difficult or misbehaving children, by putting the head of household more in control of the home and its inhabitants

- gives the master of the house a sense of control, just as a CEO leads a company from behind-the-scenes, with a desk behind his subordinates, and a general observes and controls his army from the rear

Feng Shui Cures for a Master Bedroom in Front of the Central Line
If a master bedroom resides in front of the central line of a house, at least one of the people in the room may not sleep at home very often, and may even have a bed in another location, sometimes implying a marital affair.

Additionally, the “master” of the house may feel more like a servant or doorman. The bedroom's placement may affect the person's sleeping habits, as they will not feel great separation from the yang activities going on outside the home. It could result in feelings of restlessness.

A bedroom forward of the central line puts the people who sleep there in a subservient position, and may result in the room's inhabitants feeling out of control of their own destiny and fortune.

If you cannot move the master bedroom because of the layout of your home, you can position a mirror on the interior wall of the bedroom, facing toward the front of the house, so the image of the bed appears deeper in the home than it really is.

A Second Floor Bedroom
A bedroom on the second floor -- again, as long as it is behind the center line -- is good Feng Shui, unless it feels so far removed from the rest of the home that those who sleep there feel out of control. If an upstairs master bedroom feels far removed from the front entrance of a home, hang a shopkeeper's bell on the front door or on the door frame. It will ring and alert the master of the house to the comings and goings below, resulting in a sense of greater control.

You can read more about how to Feng Shui your bedroom for success, love and more in this article.

Feng Shui Master Helps Shape Cemetery Garden

By Christine Morente, San Mateo County Times

SAN MATEO — King Tong Chan's mother will finally rest in peace.

For three years, her bones were kept in a temporary spot inside Skylawn Memorial Park after spending nearly 10 years in a cemetery in China.

According to Chan, family members are allowed only a 10-year lease for a plot. After that ends, the bones have to be moved or cremated.

Now, his mother awaits burial at Eternity Gardens at Skylawn, a relief to the 81-year-old, who also purchased space in the cemetery garden that adheres to Feng Shui principles.

The grand opening was Thursday morning.

"It will bring fortune to my afterlife," Tong said in Chinese. Michael Wong of Pacifica helped translate.

Eternity Gardens was created to emanate prosperity for future generations.

The 9-acre cemetery is outlined in the shape of an eagle, its wings outstretched.

The powerful symbol was made to fly toward the Pacific Ocean, or eternity. At its back is the coastal mountain range nearby Highway 92.

So far, $18 million worth of space has been sold to families. Eternity Gardens would eventually encompass a little more than 6,000 plots.

"They (the Chinese) really care about the end of life, and we respond to that," said Allison Rodman, a spokeswoman for Lifemark Group, which owns and operates Skylawn Memorial Park and other funeral homes, crematories, and mausoleums in the Bay Area.

Eternity Gardens was the group's final phase of a $100 million project that also built the Lifemark Center last year.

Hong Kong Feng Shui master Eagle Wong consulted in the building of Eternity Gardens.

Feng Shui is an ancient practice that focuses on the placement and arrangement of space to achieve harmony with the environment.

Adrienne Wong, in charge of landscape architecture for Eternity Gardens, said Feng Shui masters were initially hired by Chinese emperors to determine where they need to be buried.

How that perfect spot is chosen is based on the four pillars of destiny, which is the person's year, month, day, and time of birth. The place of birth also is important.

"The Chinese believe that the soul or spirit of a person still lives and still helps the family," Wong said. "They can help for a thousand years."

Eagle Wong said the right burial site will bring a strong and beneficial energy to nourish the person buried there.

Eternity Gardens also features upright grave markers. Wong said they would work as antennas to attract the right signals, benefits and good luck from above.

During Thursday's opening ceremonies, Taoist monks from San Francisco blessed the area, and traditional Chinese lions danced to ward off evil spirits.

Lifemark is still waiting for a permit from San Mateo County to allow burials. It's expected to come next week, said Chuck Hotchkiss, general manager of Skylawn Memorial Park.

Ben Kwok of Pacifica hasn't bought a plot yet, but considers it one of his top choices because of the surroundings.

The 54-year-old wants to be buried facing east, toward Hong Kong.

"Hopefully, there's an afterlife I can see," Kwok said.

Source: InsideBayArea.com