The last thing anyone needs in their personal or professional lives is more stress, more challenges and additional pressure to get more done in less time.  It's time to turn the tide and start experiencing more balance, more opportunities and more time for enjoyment.  In other words, it's time to Feng Shui the Green Way.   Creating your ideal Feng Shui environment is simply a matter of following my 3 step process: De-stress your environment Create a positive flow of energy Personalize your space De-Stress Feng Shui is a terrific way to activate the flow of energy in your office, your home and around your property.  But if your building is being stressed by negative energy outside and inside then all you’re really doing is circulating low level ch’i (energy) in your environment.  This slows down your ability to create the change you want, to the level you want and the results can be less than what you hoped for.   For example, lets say your children or your employees aren’t getting along with each other.  They’re arguing or gossiping and the teamwork just isn’t there.  If you use Feng Shui alone they may argue less but not significantly less.  They may agree to help each other out but reluctantly.  At first you’ll be happy because, let’s face it, some improvement is better than none but after a while you’ll be wishing for more again.   This is why it’s so important to dowse your property, home and office FIRST, then implement your Feng Shui plan.  Dowsing is an ancient "green" technique most commonly used to find water.  At Palm Beach Feng Shui use dowsing to cure the manmade and naturally occurring negative stress both outside and inside your building that make you and everyone else tired, angry, stressed out, on edge, tense or even unpleasant to be around.  Using dowsing to block this stress from your home and office keeps the “garbage” energy out so your Feng Shui can work much more effectively.     “My husband and I have been sleeping in separate rooms for over five years. In the seven years we have lived in our home he has never used the master bathroom. He is a workaholic. In order for me to get him to take time off I have to ask him to schedule it a month in advance.   The day Chris dowsed our home my husband began sleeping in bed with me again. He also started using the master bathroom. I was completely stunned because I never asked him to do it and he didn’t say he was going to. He even began doing home repairs that had needed to be done for years.                                                                                Carrie B.     West Palm Beach, FL

Flow Feng Shui is all about activating a positive flow of energy in your surroundings so that your environment feels more relaxed and balanced -- very green, right?  When both your yin (restful) and yang (active) energies are flowing together in your home and office your life and business flow better as well.   At Palm Beach Feng Shui we use only the classical methods of Feng Shui based on the 5 elements (fire, earth, metal, water and wood) -- in other words, we do Feng Shui the green way.  Since we want our clients to experience a positive  flow of energy for years to come (not just for a couple of months) we consider New Age feng shui to be a waste of time since you have to keep re-doing it over and over again.  Besides, who has time to do that?   Palm Beach Feng Shui’s combination of dowsing and classical Feng Shui takes your home and office environments to a completely different level than Feng Shui alone.  If we revisit the example of family or employees not getting along and just bring Feng Shui in to help with the problems we will definitely see a difference.  The arguing, gossiping and/or lack of teamwork would be reduced to a dull roar.    Combining dowsing and classical Feng Shui together you block the negative internal and external stress that creates tension in your home and office AND you’re Feng Shui plan is now circulating a more balanced flow of yin/yang energy.  In this kind of environment you’ll see teamwork increase, greater cooperation between everyone, less gossip and arguing loses its appeal.  This is because you’ve created a much more supportive and harmonious environment than with Feng Shui alone and it shows up as a bigger shift in the changes that occur in your home and office.    "I would never have thought of myself as a person who would be a good feng shui candidate.  I had heard of feng shui, but thought that is was a “new age” like concept that had more to do with aesthetics than something that could effect a positive change in a person’s life.  Having recently met Chris Barr and listened to her background, and her informative explanation of the art of feng shui and dowsing, I became intrigued.   Chris came to our home, “dowsed” it (everyone should have this done), and then did a feng shui analysis.    It has only been a short time since Chris made her recommendations, which my wife and I immediately implemented, but I have seen some beneficial changes.  Here is one.  Apparently everyone has a “best direction” and it is important that the headboard of their bed be directed toward that direction.  My daughter Rebecca’s best direction is west but her headboard was directed south.  The day Chris counseled us that we should change Becca’s room around my wife did so.  Becca was gone for the day and this was done without her knowledge or consent…a risky move if you knew our daughter.  When she came back that evening and saw her room she was ecstatic.   Our daughter is a wonderful kid, but she can be stoic and moody at times, and at these times we have found it best to “let her be”.  She has a difficult schedule with school work, basketball, competitive springboard diving and a job.  I have always attributed her moodiness to her feeling overwhelmed by her schedule and the pressure of performing well which she has done and will be attending BrownUniversity next fall.  It is not my imagination that since we changed her bed direction, Becca has been a different person.  My wife and I have noticed a marked change in her attitude.  She is more outgoing, she seems to be socializing more with friends, and she just smiles more.  Is Becca’s change due to feng shui?  I can't prove it, but her bed will remain in its current direction.                                                                              David Tassell       Jupiter, FL

Personalize Your Space Once you’ve made the positive changes in your home and office and you see and feel the results you definitely won’t want to let anything interfere with your new blissful surroundings.  That’s where personalizing your environment comes in.   Everyone is affected by their own 4 personal best directions and yours are unique to you.  By setting up your home and office to take advantage of your personal energy associated with your Success, Health, Relationship and Knowledge directions you can more actively manage the Law of Attraction and build on the foundation you have created with your classical Feng Shui activations.    “I finally got my desk and set it up facing the direction you said would be best.  That’s when things really exploded in my business.  We had our best week ever in the history of our business about 2 weeks ago and yesterday was the highest revenue producing day we’ve ever had.  And remember how I wanted to change the kind of patients we were attracting to a better quality of client?  Well, that’s working, too.  I’m now getting more of the kind of patients I wanted.   I’m even finding that I’m doing paperwork in my office now.  Before I would take it home because I hated being in my office but now I really like it there.  There’s just something about it that’s really appealing.”                                                        Michael Davis, Chiropractor                                          Royal Palm Beach Chiropractic                                                       Royal Palm Beach, FL   Destress + Flow + Personalize = Paradise Creating the ideal environment does come with some challenges you should be aware of: Your children’s friends will always want to play at your house. When your parties are over you will have to ask guests to leave. People will start arriving early to events you have at your home or office. You will get more done because you won’t be playing “moderator” in family or office conflicts as often.  You may even be able to take on a greater workload.  (I won’t tell If you don’t.) More employees will start coming in earlier and leaving later. If you’re like our other clients you’re going to need to figure out what to do with the extra 18 to 36 percent increase in revenue. Here’s what our Palm Beach Feng Shui clients are saying about us.   Are you ready to create the environment you need for the life you want?  Click here for our schedule of services.  We work with people all over the U.S. and Canada either in person or through distance consulting.   Questions?  Call us at 561.784.0884 or e-mail us at cbarr@PalmBeachFengShui.com.      Chriss Barr is a certified member of the International Feng Shui Guild and received her classical training from Feng Shui Masters Marie Diamond of Belgium, Joey Yap of Malaysia and Jon Sim of Singapore.