Earth Spirit Living by Ann Marie Holmes

Author:Ann Marie Holmes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2006-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

A CALM CENTER

As noted in chapter 6, the center of a building should be a still point in the structure, maximizing the potential of the central energy column. A high-use area such as a bathroom, kitchen, laundry room, fireplace, or stairway can be a source of stress and disturbance when located at the center of your structure because of the way it affects this energy column. Furthermore, the water flow in a bathroom, kitchen, or laundry room adds a vertical motion that distracts from or disperses the Center’s rhythmic horizontal cycling. Similarly, the vertical action of a stairway and the excitable quality of a fireplace introduce opposing movement that impinges on the Center’s ability to optimally recycle a structure’s energy.

Even if you are not fortunate enough to have a courtyard, lobby, or sitting nook located in the Center, you can enhance its function by toning down overactive qualities and allowing a more balanced energy for the building and its occupants. Remedies for balancing an overactive Center are in part 4.

Again, when choosing remedies it’s important to remember that there is no one solution, and the more of your own attention, emotion, and creative energy you invest in your solutions, the more effective they will be. For example, one client and his family had their living room in the center of the house. This is usually not problematic, but this living room had many doors and was a busy traffic area in their home. The continuous coming and going in the central energy column area was adding a hectic quality to their family life and interfering with the restorative function of the Center in their home. Since Jim loved to make furniture as a hobby, I recommended that he make a round table for the center of the room and place it with a conscious intention to create a quality of centering, stillness, and focus, even in the midst of activity. A round area rug under the table would further anchor these qualities. It was a solution that he could really pour his creative energy into, and he reported that the new arrangement did result in increased peacefulness with their children and a more harmonious feeling in the home.

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