(Excerpted
from Prosperity Lessons)
by
Ralph & Lahni DeAmicis
Helping clients through the buying and selling of houses is a constant
component of a Feng Shui practitioner's work. Many times the person
selling a house is driven to seeking our help in desperation. Their
house is sitting on the market with barely a nibble and the strain
is starting to show. There are energetic locks that can block a sale,
but they are easily opened if you know the key. We have a very high
level of success getting houses sold, and in fact are regularly consulted
by other Feng Shui practitioners to help them with slow moving properties.
Our
record for a sale is fifteen minutes. We did a phone consultation
with a couple who had their house sitting on the market for six months.
They immediately made the relatively simple changes we suggested,
and fifteen minutes after they finished the changes the phone rang.
The person on the line was interested in the house, and proceeded
to buy it. Usually it takes a little longer. There are three steps
in getting a house sold.
First,
making sure the owners are ready to sell. The process of getting the
house sold is much easier when the people are truly ready to move.
Sometimes one member of the family simply doesn't want to let go.
Other times they intellectually want to move, but emotionally and
physically they are still tied to that home.
They
have painted their energy on that space daily, and it dutifully reinforces
who they are, and who they've been. Their mind wants to leap into
the future, but their emotional body is afraid of change. They are
wary of abandoning the sense of identity that their home instills
in them. They may resist making the changes, or simply delay making
them.
Even
if everyone else in the house is ready to move one foot dragger can
prevent the sale. A part of the purpose for the adjustments is to
facilitate a change in their attitude. On the other hand when people
are ready to move but the house is not selling often times there's
one essential thing standing in their way. This is the natural patterning
of energy that they've formed in turning this house into a home. It
encourages stability, not movement, and home sales are about moving
on. Once you adjust, and sometimes disrupt this pattern a sale comes
quickly.
If
you wonder if a change of address must always be disruptive, consider
the words of Ben Johnson, "Three moves equals one fire!" Here's the
second step. When you move into a house it is important to anchor
it. When you want to move out you have pull those anchors up. How
do you anchor it? Using a compass find the most southerly point in
the house (True South, not Magnetic South). Now place something heavy
there. If you have several floors concentrate on the lowest one, but
place something heavy on the same point on the upper floors as well.
Ideally you want to use a stone or metal sculpture, but something
equally dense will do.
When
you are ready to sell your house move anything heavy out of this grounding
spot. That's how you pull up the anchor. Finally here's the third,
and most complicated step where we actually change the homes emotional
pattern. This is the real key to selling houses. We make our adjustments
based upon the personal Bagua. This is the Bagua orientated upon the
formal front door of the home. While the compass works well for the
universal and social energies, orientating the Bagua based upon the
front door is especially effective for the very personal issue of
buying and selling a personal environment.
Many
practitioners will automatically respond that to sell a house it's
important to activate the wealth section, and the helpful people,
travel section. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Why? People
are often unaware that the corners have both a Yin and Yang component.
If you activate the entire corner both parts have a vote and it starts
them off into a complicated negotiation. While Yang is adventurous
and ready to move, Yin is timid and inclined to nest. If you want
the sale to move along you have to tilt the scales in favor of the
Yang. Remember we're using the formal front door as the reference
point.
The
Yin side of the money section is the far third of the left wall. This
is the area of stable resources, including real estate. It can be
stubborn and intractable. Often times houses that are stuck on the
market have a heavy piece of furniture stuffed full of family pictures
and silverware sitting there grounding those resources. You have to
physically lighten up the Yin part of the corner. That piece of furniture
needs to be emptied out, put on a movers' dolly, and possibly shifted
to the right side of the house away from the grounding points.
The
Yang part is the left third of the back wall. This is deal making,
resources in motion, and people who serve as your agents. The Yang
part of the money section benefits from anything that moves light
or sound and lifts the energy. You can put a lamp on a timer, hang
a chime outside the window, or place a piece of cut crystal on the
windowsill. Do whatever it takes to increase the amount of Yang energy
moving through this part of the corner. As a result you'll find that
your agent works more effectively for you.
In
the helpful people travel section the Yin part is the near third of
the right-hand wall. This area relates to the sharing of power and
the management of combined resources. It can be secretive and suspicious.
It is important that the Yin section be clean, open, and not burdened
down with unresolved, disorganized clutter. In this way you avoid
stimulating the potential buyers fear of hidden problems in the property.
The Yang section is the right third of the front wall. This is the
area of planning for the future, offering and being open to help,
and optimism. It's optimists who buy property!
The
Yang part of the corner includes a third of the wall that faces the
world. The For Sale sign is best placed in this section of the property.
This tends to attract a contract that is pleasant, orderly and good
for everybody. Anything you can do to attract attention to this wall,
both inside and out, will accelerate the sale. Once again lights on
timers, chimes, crystals, wind socks, red trimmed garland on the For
Sale sign, will serve to catch the eye, and gather in good fortune.
The
Yang part of this section is typically considered lucky because it's
a risk taker. You've got to play the game to win. There's one more
place that needs to be addressed in this personal Bagua. This is the
middle third of the back wall, often known as the fame section. It's
helpful to realize that the Chinese concept of fame is intrinsically
linked to ones heritage. We see this in the fact that the words fame
and family have the same root. The middle third of the back wall is
the traditional place for the hearth, warmth and food.
One
of the fastest ways to turn a house into a home is to place your oldest
sideboard or hutch there and fill it with family pictures and heirlooms.
It will make you feel immediately at home as it serves as a powerful
emotional anchor for the entire family. When you want to sell your
house put those pictures in a box, tie the handles of the hutch together,
and move it to some place in the right side of the house. The preferred
spot is along the front wall that faces the outside world. The ideal
spot is in the Yang part of the travel section.
Although it is most important to deal with this on the main floor,
since it represents the current life, make sure that this same family
spot on each floor of the house is also lightened up. These three
steps address the three levels of the issue, the intention of the
family, the magnetic flow, and the emotional patterning.
The
speed at which the house is sold depends upon how quickly the owners
make the changes. Dramatic changes bring dramatic results, although
sometimes a gentle and patient touch is preferred. Why? Because it
allows the heart the necessary time to gracefully depart from a home
once loved.
Drs.
Ralph and Lahni DeAmicis were directors of one of America's largest
and most modern professional Feng Shui practitioner programs, based
in Philadelphia. Their books Feng Shui and the Tango, Happiness
Lessons and Prosperity Lessons, from the Feng Shui Fuzion
Series are transforming the practical applications of environmental
design in America. For a complete directory of their articles and
a catalog of their books and other products, visit www.SpaceAndTime.com.
Copyright 2002 Ralph and Lahni DeAmicis
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