Creating a sacred space is an essential step in fostering an environment conducive to spiritual ascension. Such a space serves as a sanctuary, free from distractions, where you can meditate, pray, practice yoga, or engage in any other spiritual discipline. Cultivating this space will enhance your connection to the divine, to your higher self, and to the universe.

Here is how you can create your own sacred space for spiritual growth:
1. Choose a Suitable Location:

• Consistency is Key: It can be a small corner in a room, a dedicated room, or even a quiet spot in nature. The important thing is that you feel comfortable and at peace in this place.
• Avoid High Traffic Areas: A quiet location where you won't be easily interrupted or distracted is ideal.

2. Cleanse the Area:

• Physical Cleaning: Start with a thorough physical cleaning of the space to remove dust and clutter.
• Energetic Cleansing: Use sage smudging, Palo Santo, or incense to clear any stagnant or negative energies. You can also use sound (like bells or singing bowls) or saltwater for purification.

3. Establish Boundaries:

• Let family members or housemates know that this space is special and that interruptions should be limited when you're there.
• Some people use curtains, screens, or other partitions to define their sacred space physically.

4. Select Meaningful Items:

• Altar: Consider setting up a small altar or shelf where you can place spiritual or symbolic items.
• Symbols: Include items that resonate with you – be it crystals, statues, photos of spiritual figures, or sacred texts.
• Natural Elements: Incorporate plants, water features, or stones to connect with the Earth's energy.

5. Incorporate Comfort:

• Seating: Have a comfortable cushion, chair, or mat depending on your practice.
• Blankets & Shawls: These can be useful if meditating in colder conditions.

6. Use Ambient Lighting:

• Candles: These create a serene ambiance and can be used for meditative focus.
• Soft Lamps: Avoid harsh overhead lights. Instead, opt for gentle lamps or fairy lights.

7. Incorporate Fragrance:

• Use incense, essential oils, or scented candles to set the mood. Scents like lavender, frankincense, and sandalwood are popular for inducing a calm and meditative state.

8. Soundscapes:

• Play calming music, chants, nature sounds, or binaural beats to enhance your practices.
• Alternatively, silence can be powerful. Ensure the space is insulated from disruptive outside noises.

9. Limit Technology:

• Avoid bringing phones, laptops, or other electronic distractions into your sacred space. If you use them for music or guided meditations, set them to "Do Not Disturb."

10. Maintain the Space:

• Regularly revisit and rearrange if necessary. Keep it clean, both physically and energetically, to ensure it remains a space of peace and positive energy.

Conclusion
Creating a sacred space is a personal journey. Your space should reflect who you are and what helps you connect to the divine.

​Over time, as you consistently use and energetically charge your sacred space, you will find that merely entering it can shift your consciousness, making it easier to attain states conducive to spiritual ascension. Remember, the intention behind creating and maintaining this space is just as important as the physical components within it.
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Feng Shui is an age-old Chinese practice, focusing on the flow and balance of energy, or chi, within a space. The principles of Feng Shui assert that how we arrange our living and working spaces can impact various aspects of our lives, including our wealth, health, and happiness.

​When it comes to wealth and prosperity, specific Feng Shui techniques aim to enhance the flow of wealth chi.

The entrance of your home or workspace plays a crucial role in Feng Shui as it is the main point through which energy enters. Ensure your entrance is clean, well-lit, and inviting, symbolically welcoming wealth chi into your space.

​A door that opens inwards invites energy in, while a clutter-free entryway encourages positive chi to flow freely. Also, placing a water element like a fountain near the entrance symbolizes wealth flowing into your life.

In Feng Shui, the southeast corner of your home or office is known as the wealth corner. Activating this area can help to attract abundance.

​You can energize this space by placing wealth symbols, such as a money plant or a wealth ship sailing into the room. Adding elements of wood and water, like a wooden bowl with water or a healthy plant, can also enhance the energy in this area.

Water is a potent symbol of wealth in Feng Shui. Aquariums with vibrant, healthy fish, water fountains, or images of flowing water are great additions to your living space.

​Position these water elements in the north or southeast areas of your home or office, which are associated with career success and wealth, respectively.

Clutter and disorganization can disrupt the smooth flow of chi, potentially blocking the path of wealth and prosperity.

​Regularly decluttering and organizing your space invites positive energy and opens channels for wealth chi to flow. Also, fixing things that are broken immediately helps keep the positive energy of abundance from leaking away.

Feng Shui offers a unique lens through which to view wealth and prosperity. It emphasizes harmony and the free flow of positive energy in your space.

​While these tips offer a starting point, it is worth remembering that Feng Shui is a complex system with many layers. It can be beneficial to work with a Feng Shui consultant who can provide guidance tailored to your space and aspirations. 

Regardless of how you choose to apply Feng Shui, the key lies in fostering a space that feels good, inviting, and abundant, which in turn can help attract prosperity into your life.

​It is so difficult to get simple naturally made furniture items in clear bold colors!

One of the things I have been meaning to do for sometime is to have a bold but cozy décor! It's almost impossible to find furniture in such awesome colors. And it's not even about paying a lot of money. Even if one is willing to shell out the cash, such furniture is just not sold here locally in Calgary. The closest thing I could find was some synthetic, pressed wood red side tables in a European big wig furniture chain! ;)

​This simple naturally joyful color is very pleasing to the mind and enlivens the senses- making them even more conscious of nature...

Feng Shui- coloring such artifacts can really help with Feng Shui decoration. Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese knowledge on balancing energies in various areas of the room & the house; which in turn helps to balance various aspects of one's life.

Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese Art of Placement which brings about harmony and balance in an individual's life- thus leading to a sense of relaxation and well-being. The adepts at Feng Shui claim that the environment plays a very important role in a person's life and state of mental and physical health. The person becomes like their environment.

​Hence if the environment is peaceful and full of joy, a person living there would also feel content and well and along the same lines, if the environment is full of discord and disharmony, then the person would feel uneasiness which would further lead to not only states of deprivation but also states of mental and physical diseases.

In Feng Shui, we find that incense is predominantly used for the following four important purposes-

1. Incense is used to cleanse and purify the environment/room space.
2. Incense is also used to clear and uplift the "air" in one's environment/room space.
3. Incense is also used in Feng Shui to bring about balance and harmony to the environment in a room.
4. As an offering to the deity at the prayer altar.

Typically, we find Feng Shui incense which represent the five elements-  Earth, Wood, Metal, Fire and Water. According to Feng Shui each of these five elements have an optimum location in the room/home space and they also need to be maintained in a particular balance to create health and harmony. Such Feng Shui Incenses help by bringing about balancing of these elemental energies.

The other type of Feng Shui incense deal with the type of outcome one currently seeks in their life. Examples of such type of incense are the ones called health, prosperity, recognition, love etc.

Some of the Feng Shui incense are also based on the principles of Chinese Astrology along with the Chinese Art of Placement fundamentals.

Thus, we find extensive incense usage in Feng Shui to balance the energies of a room, which in turn brings about a sense of health, wealth and well-being.

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Have you ever entered a room and the air seemed so thick and palpable that you could sense with certainty that something was wrong? Well, you felt the strong energy in that room. Probably somebody just had a strong heated argument or even a fist fight in that place and the air still had all that strong energy of anger and hate!

Usually, such energies disperse out with proper aeration and also as other “good and pleasant” things continue to happen in the room. But there are times that something extremely hurtful or hateful (i.e. anything with strong emotion) has happened in a place- that took place over a prolonged period of time. In that case, those energies tend to get stuck and continue to stay in that place. Obviously such negative stuck energies are not going to be helpful and conducive to the well-being of the folks who are in close quarters to that place, particularly living in such a place!
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It is for such reasons that ancient cultures used to conduct special prayers and moving rituals when they moved into a new place. There are special mantra chanting which are also conducted to clear such stuck energies. Smudging is probably the easiest of all remedies and can be easily conducted while praying and sending positive energy and intention- clearing any stuck spatial energy patterns.

Of course, here we are speaking about negative energies. Since they are the ones which bring about discontent and discomfort. But positive energies can also continue to be there long after those people/instances!

For e.g. I still remember the beautiful trek in Assisi to St. Francis monastery, where St. Francis used to live and pray for years on end. Even as you step into the town of Assisi (in Italy), you feel a kind of calm pleasantness. Even the “energy non-believers” commented on how suddenly everything seemed more calm and serene! That is why visiting temples and other sacred places has such a profound helpful, healing and calming effect on people. 

The other energy that tends to impact the spatial energy of a building/house is how and where it is constructed. For e.g. you may have heard that it is not advisable to sleep with your head in the north direction, since the north pole of our body’s magnetic field will be in constant opposition to earth’s magnetic north pole and over time, this could manifest as ailments and other issues in the body.

Also, some people feel more sense of unease when they are in basements, particularly where it is a few levels beneath surface ground. That is why ancient folks (and even some wise modern day builders) use principles of Vaastu (ancient Indian science) and other such spatial energy considerations while choosing new plots for community planning and building construction.

Just want to mention an important side-point: all electric appliances will have an associated magnetic field (since it is electro-magnetic energy). When electricity is passing thru the wires, magnetic energy is also present at right angles to it, so in an outward vector!

Because of this it is advisable to ensure that all major electric appliances (including television) are placed much away from your place of rest and relaxation. So not having heavy electric appliances like television in your bedroom will help in creating a soothing ambience and allow your body to relax better.

​We all put up several paintings and wall-hangings in our home. Artwork that is truly in sync with our personality or that which brings up special, happy memories are particularly effective in making us feel cared for and nurtured. This is true for all the décor in our house, but wall-art in particular tends to have a strong subliminal effect on our psyche.
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Because of this, both Feng Shui and Vaastu Shastra provide many guidelines on the type of paintings and wall-art we should have/not in our home. In case you are not familiar, Vaastu Shastra is the ancient Vedic science of Architecture and Spatial energetics that ultimately serve to enhance the lives of those who inhabit in a particular space- such as a home, office, shop and so on. Feng Shui on the other hand is the Chinese spatial guidance to improve a person’s overall well-being.

​Even though both these methodologies serve a similar purpose their guidance can vary and personally I have found that it is important to keep both their principles in mind and it is very helpful to adapt as many principles as possible from both these systems.

Now coming back to wall-art… as per Vaastu Shastra, it is extremely inauspicious to hang any kind of painting, photo-images, sculptures or any other home décor items depicting horses in the house!! Even though this guidance is about all decorative items, it is particularly applicable for wall-art, as our wall hangings have maximum impact on our subconscious mind. 
 
​This also applies to any kind of religious artwork! Many people who follow the Vedic principles in their life, tend to have the famous scene from Mahabharat, where Lord Krishna is driving Arjun’s chariot, as wall-décor in their house. Even though it is great to have an image of Lord Krishna in our home, having an image of horses in the house is definitely not recommended.
 
Such art work tends to create fights, arguments and stress in the lives of people living in the house. There always seems to be some kind of strife and/or discord that people will experience between themselves. Such a home does not have the cherished spatial energy of peace and tranquility.

So, something to keep in mind as you plan out your living space. Fill your surroundings with artifacts that help to improve and enhance your well-being and stay clear of decorating your home with horse-paintings or images!

Special Note:   There are some schools of thought which do indicate that having a horse painting of running horses (running towards you) when placed on the east wall of the house can bring much vitality into the home and all its residents. There is some truth to the matter and like with all home decoration photos and paintings, one really needs to understand the exact type of picture that would truly be beneficial. So, if you are in doubt then it is better to steer clear of animal photos and instead pick from myriads of  other options.

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​Vaastu Shastra is an ancient Vedic science for the placement and geometry of land, plots, buildings and other living spaces. Many consider it as the Indian Feng Shui. Though unlike Feng Shui, Vaastu also addresses the engineering and architectural points that need to be considered for building construction (depending on its proposed use). 

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