A disastrous move into a dream home, what a nightmare. How Feng Shui came to Mel’s rescue after she’d tried everything – from various colour schemes to several completely different furniture rearrangements of furniture – and still the dream home didn’t feel right. Finally, we exploit opportunities with Feng Shui so that Mel and her family can live happily ever after.
Exploit opportunities with Feng Shui of a dream home with bad vibes
“When we moved into our dream home on the ‘right side of town’ Feng Shui was the last thing on my mind. My first thought was: “Oh god, have we bought the right house?” I spent the first 18 months agonising over it and constantly moving the furniture around to get it to feel right.
“Having spent a fortune acquiring the house, I imagined having to spend a fortune getting it fixed. I remember seeing a programme on TV about overweight people where they bleeped a device every time they had a negative thought. If I’d had such a device, I’d be setting it off all the time because I felt so badly about the house. So much so it had me in tears – often. I wondered how I was going to break it to my husband that the only solution was to move again.
“Then by chance we started doing some design work for Mary. When my business partner heard what it was she did, she had a quiet word in Mary’s ear to see if she could help me because I was close to meltdown. We’d started the business about the time I’d moved into our dream home so everything I was going through was impacting her too.”
Remove the energy blocks
“Talking it through with Mary helped me enormously in three ways.
“First, as a professional Feng Shui consultant, she understood exactly what I was going through – and why. I felt validated and it was such a relief not to have to believe I was an ungrateful, crazy woman anymore.
“Second, Mary confirmed that the blocks to the flow of energy I’d felt were real – and there were more besides. We quickly moved to potential solutions, which included taking two walls down on the ground floor and some significant work to the garden. Mary said it was relatively unusual to find herself recommending this but, in my case it was the only answer because the flow of energy started all wrong at the front door.
“Third, we rearranged the lounge immediately under her guidance and, for the first time in 18 months, I felt the furniture was in the right place even if it wasn’t exactly the furniture we wanted long-term.”
Husband on board
“I hadn’t appreciated how much my husband knew the house had been getting to me – yet was hiding it. He took Mary to one side during the first consultation and impressed on her how important it was that we sort it out and he’d do whatever it takes.
“In the interim I made an Intuitive Vision Board at Mary’s workshop. I was able to show this to my husband and it helped him to see the ‘big picture’ for the home I had in mind – and he liked it very much. Even though I hadn’t consciously set out to re-create my home on the Board, as it transpired my vision was all about the new house we were in and not about moving to another. This was reassuring at least.
Dad on board
“It’s funny how this energy thing works. My Dad is a builder and he too picked up remotely on the important shifts taking place in our home. He rocked up one morning, without invitation, saying: “I’m here to take a wall down” – and he did.
“With the first wall gone it encouraged me even further to clear, clear, clear … stuff from cupboards and surplus walls. And what a huge difference it’s made.
“As I stand inside my front entrance, seeing it through Mary’s eyes, I can feel how the energy now has a clear way to meander like a river, connecting all the downstairs rooms in a coherent whole. And I’m appreciating all this from a lovely, empty hallway that was once rammed with stuff, which Mary declared was a top priority to sort out on her first visit.
Children on board
“Now the whole family are on to Feng Shui. Having watched me lug furniture around for so long, I caught my eldest (9) stuck in a doorway recently calling out: “Mummy, help. I need to move this out of my room.”
“Between us all we’ve released about a third of the contents of the house, including a whole load of toys. With only a tiny bit to go, we’ll be complete in time for my 40th birthday. Such a relief.
“The house is transformed and I feel SO different about myself and my relationship to it. The timing is perfect too because the modifications we’ve made are having an effect on the business. It’s all set to take off beautifully, with my creative energy now free to focus on design and not be distracted by the home.”
Mary Nondé
Mary is an Intuitive Feng Shui practitioner and passionate about creating our living and working environments mindfully. She has trained in the Western School of Feng Shui and Denise Linn, USA and has been working in homes and offices since 1995.
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