Spring home 'detox': energy cleansing to attract good vibes

Patricia traversa

09/17/2021 6:01 AM

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Updated 9/17/2021 6:01 AM

The spring equinox has motivated rituals and festivities since ancient times to begin a time of rebirth in which plant shoots gain strength, animals court each other and the sun begins to infect us with its vital energy.

Formerly, the vernal equinox marked the new year for various cultures and some calendars, such as the Persian, still maintain this tradition.

The Spring Festival in

China

- with which the lunar New Year is celebrated - paradoxically falls in winter, but its name precisely refers to the

expectation of spring

and the joy and preparations it generates.

The festivities and rituals include house cleaning, good luck symbols, farewell to the dark and welcome in the light.

But be careful, it is not that winter is negative and spring is positive, what is inappropriate is not

keeping pace with the transition

of natural cycles.

Winter gave us the opportunity of introspection, of rest and shelter.

Spring pushes us to move forward, to go out and display the capacity for growth.

Each cycle is necessary

and brings its qualities.

This is an ideal time to do energetic cleaning in the house to remove energy waste from the winter that says goodbye.

Therefore, I invite you in this note to renew your personal energy and that of the house to encourage your ability to green in this second part of the year.

Changes in temperature make it necessary to review the wardrobe.

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Accommodating habits: the house helps you

On the physical and organic level, it is advisable to give our body more

mobility

, make it feel lighter and more agile.

Outdoor walks, bike rides enjoying the sun.

The stillness and the heavier meals on cold days can leave us with extra kilos.

You can start to drop certain foods and increase your intake of others.

The

fruits and vegetables

fresh are replacing hot dishes and seasoned with spices that bring

Qi Yang

.

This is the ideal time to go on a

detox diet

.

Detoxification with short fasts or with natural juices and smoothies are used to cleanse toxins from the liver, an organ that, along with the gallbladder, have been associated since Chinese medicine with spring.

Changes in temperature make it necessary to review the

wardrobe

, to rescue lighter garments of light and cheerful colors.

In this process you can already take out what you did not use at all in this winter and what you determine you will not use in the new season.

Making room for the new helps doubly: you give air to your closet and you help someone who needs what you no longer need.

Total

synergy

of benefits.

Continuing with the habits, it is excellent to do

abdominal

breathing

exercises

and

stretching

very early, so that your lungs are better oxygenated and you start the most vital day.

An extra half hour in the morning can make a difference in your day, since leaving things at home or work ready will give you a bonus to take walks in the sun or take a yoga class in the afternoon.

A tip: rescue lighter garments and light and cheerful colors.

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Regarding these accommodations of

domestic and personal care habits

, I always point out that we must have the house as an ally, since with its dynamics and energy it can encourage or discourage successful habits.

Ultimately, we are the ones who design this creative and shaping matrix that is our home.

It is essential to make spatial-environmental changes to be able to consolidate successful habits in everyday life.

What is a successful habit?

The list is endless and personalized for each individual or family.

A successful habit can be: optimizing the times of daily routines, fostering spaces for dialogue, facilitating order and hygiene, internalizing positive thoughts about ourselves and life, detaching ourselves from things, innovating and challenging ourselves to change, healthy cooking, have a positive use of technology, take care of plants, focus on goals.

Make your own list.

The important thing is that the house accompanies you in the challenge of installing those successful habits for your life.

Because if she does not accompany this desire to live in a different way, it will be very difficult to acquire habits that lead to positive change.

For example, the order and well-planned organization of spaces and objects are great allies.

Organized Home: Prolific Spring

Looking ahead to the second part of the year, we gradually began to make balance sheets and estimates of what we would like to achieve in the months that remain until the end of the year.

It's easy to get overwhelmed or fall for endless, fuzzy targets.

That is why I always advise

welcoming spring with a well-organized house

, this will help clarify and calm thoughts, which in turn releases energy of worry making it available as useful energy to occupy yourself.

The sahumada is an ancient ritual to end dense energy crystallizations.

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To organize the house, we must first let go, and this always offers resistance because what we accumulate materially contains emotions, attachments, fears, postponements, which we try not to face.

Start simple.

There are 5 household items that are always in abundance at home:

-

Bags and papers

: old magazines and newspapers, receipts, tickets and expired recipes, in the bin.

When it comes to envelopes, bags, boxes, cartons and gift wrapping, it's always nice to have a small reserve to reuse them, but there is a tendency to gather too many.

-

Cosmetics and expired or out-of-use medicines

: Let's check toiletry bags and first-aid kit!

-

Clothes and shoes

: those that you have not used for more than a year, surely have a better recipient.

-

Ornaments and souvenirs

: the attachment to these objects that remain for years around is something that costs a little more to solve.

Take a deep breath, courage and recirculate: give air to those crowded shelves and tables, renew yourself with some beautiful object that inspires you, that works as an energy activator (a mandala, a Hindu elephant, a glass lotus flower ...). 

Fewer

and more beautiful

ornaments

shine and change the symbolic message of the decoration.

Plants are the great protagonists of the season.

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-

Kitchen utensils

: forks, spoons and teaspoons, lids of saucepans, containers, scooped cups and others.

It's time to make a selection: keep what is in good condition and you really need.

The kitchen symbolizes productivity, overloading it with things worsens the permanent disorder to which it is prone and blocks the circulation of

Qi

.

Remember that assigning clear functions to each sector of the house is of vital importance to facilitate daily routines and focus energy properly.

To avoid disorganizing invasions, I advise you:

• not taking things from work to the bedroom

  ,

  
  

• that children's toys do not invade the living room,

  
  

• avoid accumulating things other than nutrition in the kitchen,

  
  

• put the pictures of your children in their bedroom or in the west of the living room,

  
  

• not in the couple's sector (matrimonial bedroom, northwest of the living room),

  
  

• put things in their place as soon as you finish using them,

  
  

• I kept the entrance area clear instead of putting everything there right back.

Deep cleaning: smoked and flushed!

The

seasonal cleaning ritual

is the finishing touch and requirement to start with the house receptive to all the good that spring will bring.

So spend an afternoon playing happy music, opening the windows and moving the furniture that is always still, sweeping, vacuuming and mopping those hidden nooks and crannies.

Put the curtains to wash and vacuum pillows and mattresses in the sun.

Look at the ceilings and remove dust and cobwebs from lamps, fans and ceilings, always better with a damp cloth to avoid lifting the dust with feather dusters.

The turn of the

floors

: a good wash with water and vinegar, even the wooden ones are wonderful with this solution.

Do you dare to wash the

sidewalk

like our grandmothers did?

This ritual has been lost in the cities, the grateful neighbors: start by sweeping with a broom from the entrance to the curb of the sidewalk, put in a bucket warm water, a kilo of coarse salt and half a liter of lemon (it can be from the bottle) ;

I swept by moistening the floor with this solution.

The plants will nourish the eastern sector of the living room that activates the Qi of family and health.

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Then rinse with equal parts water and vinegar.

This way you remove

long-term

energy adhesions

that enter the soles of your shoes at home.

Returning to the

interior of your home

, the

incense

is an ancient ritual to end dense energy crystallizations, pollution and obstacles.

It is made with natural resins such as

myrrh

or

incense

burned in charcoal that flood the environment with a

purifying smoke

.

You can also use herbs such as

white sage, lavender and rue

, thanking these elements of nature for their assistance while you go to the last corner of your home.

Afterwards, it is

well

ventilated

and scented with natural, flower or citrus essential oils.

The house should feel much lighter and in harmony.

Finally, it

is a good omen to start spring with something new in the house

, it can be curtains, pillowcases or something for your kitchen.

Let's not forget the

plants

, great protagonists of the season.

If the light and temperature conditions are adequate, the plants will nourish the east sector of the living room that activates the Qi of the family and health, the northeast orientation of the room, corresponding to finances, and the north, which activates the area. of fame and reputation.

Outside, in

flowerbeds

, you can sow seeds or bring seedlings of specimens that will add vigor and health to your home.

Seeing them grow will surely be a source of inspiration to achieve your goals.

In general, plants with brightly colored flowers, those with thorns, those with spear-pointed leaves, bushy and aromatic plants, are all indicated to create energy fences in the external spaces of a home, balconies. , terraces, patios.

Never use specimens with spikes or spearhead blades indoors, because their Qi is aggressive and generates

environmental hostility

.

Are you throbbing spring?

If you haven't already, it's time to activate it!

By Patricia Traversa, director of the Official Center for Professional Feng Shui and author of the book “Change your life with Feng Shui”.

On Instagram: @patriciatraversafengshui.

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