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A Little Feng Shui Secret For Big Life Changes

Dana Claudat
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November 05, 2014
Dana Claudat
Designer & Feng Shui Master
By Dana Claudat
Designer & Feng Shui Master
Dana Claudat is a modern Feng Shui Master and founder of The School Of Intention Feng Shui Certification Program. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University.
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November 05, 2014

In nearly a decade of designing homes and working with people to make transitions and expand their lives with feng shui in my own way, there's one thing I've recommended to every single one of my clients.

It's not a bunch of sage, a broom, a crystal or anything with magical connotations. In fact, it's not furniture, and it's not art.

It's a journal.

Whether you choose a composition notebook, stacks of papers kept in an envelope, a three-ring binder, a sketchpad or a fancy diary, a journal is a life-changing tool.

After all, life is all stories, isn't it?

At the end of the day you'll have stories to tell, and more about tomorrow. Your memories are all stories. Your future visions are all stories. Right now you're reading a story.

Your home also tells a story. Your experience of space and life is personal, and it is all rooted in stories. Journals help you to see stories in fresh and innovative and incredible ways.

While I know this isn't the traditional (or in my case, nontraditional) feng shui tip you may have been expecting from me, I believe this is the one thing that helps all kinds of energy shifts and other more "ethereal" ideas come to life in a very practical way.

Journals declutter your mind. When you keep a journal, you start to move ideas out of your mind and onto a page. Instead of holding onto ideas, they pour out into a place where they can start to be sorted and examined with much more clarity.

Writing can show you where you're stuck … and show you ways to become more free. Just like how certain areas of your home collect clutter (like that junk drawer near your kitchen), themes and patterns emerge when you write that show you where and how you are getting stuck in a clutter of ideas or beliefs that you might not easily see in your day-to-day life.

The magical part of this process: It is very hard to complain and worry about the same things on paper, every day, watching yourself write them by hand, and not be moved to take action.

Journals also help you see how far you've come. It's amazing to me that I can move forward in really big ways and somehow forget that I've taken these steps forward.

Are you in the same boat? It's easy to forget where you started, and easy to ignore progress, you know?

With a journal, you can look back and see just how much you have grown and expanded. It was the promise of being able to see my own progress through life that convinced me to start a lifelong journal habit. Looking back even to last year's journals is always eye-opening!

On an academically scientific note, journals can be a form of therapy. One of the luminaries on the topic of writing as therapy, James W. Pennebaker, has demonstrated that a regular habit of writing for at least 20 minutes a day in a journal can increase your immune system, decrease symptoms of depression and anxiety, and lead to better grades for students.

By all means clear and clean and design and feng shui your home. But, also, keep a journal!

Dana Claudat
Dana Claudat

Dana Claudat is a modern Feng Shui Master and founder of The School Of Intention Feng Shui Certification Program. In the last 15 years Claudat has pioneered her own approach to Feng Shui that is rooted in infinite possibility, creativity and empowerment. Rather than hope for lucky results and outcomes, she helps her clients to create them every day.

She’s a Stanford-educated art historian with more than a decade of experience in design yet her approach to space is simple. Claudat is a longtime mindbodygreen contributor and instructor (she may have had a hand in the hundreds of plants in mindbodygreen headquarters!), and her work has been featured in design and lifestyle publications around the world.

You can work with her from wherever you are in the world in her online Feng Shui Camps and through her Online Feng Shui Consultations.

You can sign up for her weekly Feng Shui Rituals, including rituals for every New and Full Moon, right here!

Read More About Dana Claudat

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Dana Claudat is a modern Feng Shui Master and founder of The School Of Intention Feng Shui Certification Program. In the last 15 years Claudat has pioneered her own approach to Feng Shui that is rooted in infinite possibility, creativity and empowerment. Rather than hope for lucky results and outcomes, she helps her clients to create them every day.

She’s a Stanford-educated art historian with more than a decade of experience in design yet her approach to space is simple. Claudat is a longtime mindbodygreen contributor and instructor (she may have had a hand in the hundreds of plants in mindbodygreen headquarters!), and her work has been featured in design and lifestyle publications around the world.

You can work with her from wherever you are in the world in her online Feng Shui Camps and through her Online Feng Shui Consultations.

You can sign up for her weekly Feng Shui Rituals, including rituals for every New and Full Moon, right here!

Read More About Dana Claudat

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