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Merry Menopause
Nancilee,
Over the past few months my partner
and I, both graduates of the Feng Shui Institute of
America's professional certification program, have done
numerous consultations with women suffering
perimenopausal and menopausal symptoms. Balancing
the environment for our clients has become a challenge
because each case requires a different approach
depending on the phase each woman is going
through. Have you come up with any rule of thumb
that we can use as a guideline when working with these
clients?
All are extremely uncomfortable in
their environment, even though this was not the case
before their symptoms appeared.
Best,
CS and SW
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Dear CS and SW,
In order to understand what to do
about a client's problem it is first necessary to
understand the context. Therefore in pyramid feng
shui the first question to ask is what is
menopause?
The answer is that menopause is a
natural biologic event, not an "estrogen deficiency
disease." At menopause, the decline in ovarian
hormones (particularly estrogen) may result in
short-term, unpleasant effects. Menopause happens
to all women who live long enough, but it affects each
woman uniquely. While ceasing to have to worry about
birth control is freedom for some, it can be coupled
with midlife emotional and social crises.
One thing is true for all women:
menopause is a signal to start -- or continue -- a good
health program when entering this new phase of
life. Like any household appliance, car or
furnishings, without care and maintenance our bodies may
no longer serve us as well. That means that it may
appear harder to do things that in the past were easy.
Menopause is a life passage that often
will not go smoothly without making positive adjustments
and changes. For instance, it is not unusual to
experience negative feelings about something or a place
that heretofore didn't affect you negatively.
Menopause is a time to reevaluate goals by redefining
what makes you smile each day. Letting go of
former goals may be a start. Ask each woman to define
"new" goals for herself for one, five and ten
years in the future. Once new goals are defined, a
home can be shaped to support these dreams.
When I experienced surgical menopause
I used the change to springboard myself into writing
about feng shui. Having thought and taught feng
shui for almost 15 years, I knew it was now or
never. I had been a metal smith but the physical
intensity of that work was no longer as easy as it had
once been. With the knowledge that I was in fact
losing visual acuity, flexibility and some bone loss, I
realized that the dangers of my former work outweighed
the results. For me the onset of less than optimum
physical ability catapulted me into altering my home so
that it would support the dream of writing about how the
environment influences people's reactions and
interactions.
What happened? What became the
end result? Well, I became a writer and this period has
become the most productive, contented period in my life.
So:
- Define you new goals
- Reshape the space to allow dreams and
goals to actualize
- Then fly
Life is a process and the process is
always in flux.
Love,
Nancilee Wydra
Author of Feng Shui Goes to the Office and 5 other feng
shui books
Nancilee Wydra,
Feng Shui Master and author of six books on feng shui
travels the country lecturing and consulting for Fortune
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first nationally certified professional training program
on feng shui in the country.
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