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    Let Go Courageously and Live with Love: Transform Your Life with Feng Shui
    Let Go Courageously and Live with Love: Transform Your Life with Feng Shui
    Let Go Courageously and Live with Love: Transform Your Life with Feng Shui
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    Let Go Courageously and Live with Love: Transform Your Life with Feng Shui

    By Laura Staley

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    The essays in Let Go Courageously and Live with Love are the stories of a feng shui consultant who has been a daughter, mother, wife, and now single woman with adult children.They explore the theme of mustering the courage to let go of belongings, thoughts, patterns, and relationships to live a beloved life. Using insights gleaned from her feng shui training and her work with clients for more than a decade, Laura Staley shares inspiring ideas for you to consider for your home and life. You will gain practical and profound ideas about creating a life you enjoy inside a home you love.-----“This book captures the deep beauty of feng shui. Laura’s voice rings clear with authenticity, vulnerability, and strength, as her stories move you into the kind of self-inquiry that can reveal hidden treasures in your own life . . . stories I’ll read and be inspired by again and again.”Terah Kathryn Collins, best-selling author of The Western Guide to Feng Shui
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHillcrest Media Group
    Release dateJul 19, 2016
    ISBN9780997458411
    Let Go Courageously and Live with Love: Transform Your Life with Feng Shui

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      Let Go Courageously and Live with Love - Laura Staley

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      It’s a joy to share with you these short stories of my journey with my two great passions: family life and feng shui. During the past 15 years, I’ve lived in three homes, and each of them has needed varying degrees of transformation. My gateway into the study and practice of feng shui came after a life-altering flood of the finished basement of my first home. Although it looked like a muddy and messy challenge, the flood gave birth to my career as a feng shui consultant and my life purpose.

      Learning to live with love and let go with courage has involved deep and sometimes painful self-discovery. In the process, I have had to create a core love of myself. Seeing that I lived with unloved belongings helped me realize that I hadn’t been loving myself or even knowing who I truly was. When I read that I could live with belongings I loved, this idea awakened me and felt so right. Thus, the wisdom of feng shui has helped to guide me in needed directions. Letting go, while challenging, has been a key element of transforming my life, just as it was essential to transforming my home.

      I’ve let go of once-beloved possessions (and the never-beloved ones, too) that weren’t going to be part of my life as I went forward. I’ve let go of patterns in my life that were not serving me. I’ve let go of two homes that I’d loved and that had made me feel deeply safe and supported. I’ve let go of contact with family members with whom I was experiencing toxic patterns—and later resumed some contact when a deep healing took place. I’ve let go of beloved pets who loved me unconditionally. I’ve let go of a husband and a marriage, and my dreams of what that would be in my later years. I’ve watched both my children leave my home under very different circumstances. I’ve let go of the security I once had about what my life was and how it was going to unfold.

      These essays flow out of these experiences. Most of the essays conclude with a list of ideas you can consider for your home and life. The essays span the time period from my initial discovery of feng shui through 11 years of being a consultant, educator, and speaker. They are organized chronologically for those of you who enjoy reading a book from beginning to end; you may instead want to open the book to those essay titles that most resonate with your life right now. A handful of the essays address areas of the home you may choose to clear and enhance. Several essays focus on the importance of clearing our minds of thoughts or beliefs that disempower us and choosing ones that uplift us. Still other essays focus on the safety and comfort of belongings. All of the essays embrace the transformational power of feng shui and the ways that integrating these ideas into your life can create positive change.

      Simple and sometimes subtle feng shui ideas, when implemented, have had powerful and positive effects for my clients. The title of this book, Let Go Courageously and Live with Love: Transform Your Life with Feng Shui, summarizes the main message of this ancient wisdom. Let everything go that you do not need, including thoughts and relationships that have negative effects on your life. Live with people you love, pets you adore (if pets bring you joy), and belongings you treasure. Learning about feng shui can be a process that shapes who you are and how you experience your life and your home.

      You can unveil your most deeply held dreams and get rid of ones that were given to you by others or expected of you. You can take similar actions with your belongings. Most of the time you know when something is only taking up space, standing in your way, or even causing negative thoughts and feelings.

      I hope these essays help you discover what you love and what you don’t, and give you ideas about ways you can live with love. As you read these essays, be inspired by the ideas that will work for your life and your living space. Know that your home and life tell a story of challenges and dreams, heartaches and hearts’ desires. You can transform your home and life through courageously letting go of what no longer inspires you and living with love. Read on, my friends!

      FROM A FLOOD TO FENG SHUI

      Birthing a Purpose and a Passion

      It’s Valentine’s evening and my husband and I are watching a romantic comedy that I no longer remember because the experience that unfolds creates a shredded document in my brain’s file folder. A personal drama silently sneaks in while we cuddle on the couch in the family room of our finished basement. Our four-year-old daughter and 18-month-old son sleep soundly as water seeps into our utility room. Up through a drain, it flows from a convergence of rain, melted snow, and an improperly installed 60-year-old sewer pipe. Walking toward the bathroom, I step onto a squishy carpet, soaking my socks. I call to my husband.

      As a couple we react quite differently. My husband minimizes the potential for damage, thinking that the water will stop and recede. I hysterically overreact; I imagine a deep swimming pool of water causing the basement walls to cave in, all our belongings to drown, and our home to implode. We do nothing but yell at each other.

      THE WATER WILL STOP FLOWING!

      SAVE THE STUFF BEFORE OUR HOME IMPLODES!

      The water, meanwhile, wells forth, indifferent to our argument. It soaks the entire carpet in every inch of our downstairs living space. Our son cries out for his nighttime breastfeeding. With ice-cold wet feet, I creep upstairs.

      I return to my husband’s side, wide awake and calmer. I see that the unrelenting rise of water has finally shifted his attention to action. He’s in grab-and-go mode. Finally united in focus, we grip as many items as we can from the family room, guest room/office, storage room, and utility room, and then we wade through the icy water, drag them up the stairs and through the breezeway, and dump them onto the garage floor.

      My brother and sister-in-law, after my desperate midnight phone call, generously arrive to help us. They carry out boxes, toys, chairs, and lamps, but so much remains below, unsalvageable, drowning in the ice-cold blackness that is almost knee-high. Hours later, we hug one another, our bodies drained and our faces sad, as we say goodbye. They keep saying how sorry they are and asking if we are sure there isn’t something more they can do. We thank them many times through a haze of weary defeat. We assure them, It is just stuff. No one is hurt. Everyone is okay. We’ll be okay.

      I close the garage door as their car headlights retreat into the rainy, cold night. Turning around, I see my husband weeping. Having only seen him cry one other time, I am broken open by this sight. We hold each other and shake with sobs. At 4 a.m., we collapse into bed.

      Much of my life, I have known that out of challenging situations good things can be found. I look for the silver lining like a persistent treasurer hunter. In the days that follow, I search diligently for the purpose of this heartbreaking experience. Fortunately, the answers arrive within weeks.

      A month later, while I am visiting my husband’s family in Florida, my beloved sister-in-law unknowingly becomes my muse. As we walk through her

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