Greetings!   

I just finished listening to Denise Linn's 3-week on-line course "Cooking up a Fabulous Year". Not only did she and her daughter Meadow share tips from their new The Mystic Cookbook: The Secret Alchemy of Food, which is just beautiful (and only $20), as always she shared some especially interesting ways to support your intentions (with new ways of thinking) and "step into your majesty" this year.

1.  Not why but how.  Never ask yourself "why" you can't do something because it "presupposes the focus of the question and affirms you are that way".  If you ask why am I not losing weight or why is my business not growing, or why is my life so cluttered, you "presuppose" that truth for yourself.  Instead ask HOW.  How can I be more abundant?  How can I be more slender and healthy? How can I find more clients? How can I let go of too much stuff?  Immediately your mind will go to work to help you find out "how" and begin searching for answers...because you "presuppose" you already are slender and healthy, finding more clients, getting rid of stuff, abundant.

2.  Celebrate when others succeed. There is enough to go around. When others' success is celebrated "life hears and catapults you into new opportunities. Sincere and genuine congratulations (an act of power) removes jealousy so it doesn't affect your ability to succeed too."  You've heard me say a hundred times, "where intention goes, energy flows". Feng shui is defined as the 'art of placement'. When you place your genuine intentions for the success of your friends and business colleagues with power, you send that energy to them and draw it to yourself as well.

3. Act as if.  Denise says that the simple act of imagining that you already have what you desire generates the energy to manifest it.  This can be achieved in your body language, the way you think (feng shui as metaphor), and what's going on in your environment.  Denise suggests you hold your body "as if" you are already healthy, confident, abundant, feeling incredible.  How would your body look when you FEEL this way? Standing or sitting taller? Chin up? Shoulders back? Practice! Act as if.  Then be aware of the way you talk and think.  In my book, Weeks 18 and 25, you are encouraged to pay attention to your words because they may show up in your environment. Create a mind-set and an environment that supports who you are and where you are going.  Act as if you are already there.

This week each time you go to your car to head for work or errands, practice walking the way you would if you felt more confident, successful, abundant, happy, incredible.  And like the children who remind their parents when they use 'bad' words to put 'bad word' money in the jar, stop and listen to how you are talking to yourself.  What if you had to pay someone for negative thinking? Add one thing in your home or office (a book, fresh fruit, a money jar, a list of potential clients) to shift the energy toward new ideas, new ways of thinking and the New Year you are creating.

 Until next month

Wishing you Simplified Interiors

Kathie Seedroff  

Thursday, February 7

6:30-9 pm

2013 the Feng Shui Way!

Join me for networking, wine tasting, and my presentation on getting ready for the New Year--the feng shui way.  Take home easy and inexpensive ways to immediately create good feng shui and set the stage for an amazing 2013.  My book Hey! It's Feng Shui Friday!, 52 weeks of tips and information, will be available (WWW special 2 for $20--$10 savings) to guide you through a year of  improving your life, home and office one week at a time.  $10 at the door. DTC Women, Wine and Wellness meets every 1st Thursday at Your Fabulous Body Studio, 7355 E. Orchard Rd., #400, Greenwood Village (Quebec and Orchard)

Setting your Intentions for 2013 Year of the Snake

January 27 class was rescheduled (Birgit and I were both sick)

NEW DATE: Sunday, February 17

Time: 1-4 p.m.

Location: The Art Connection at ABC Custom Framing

2550 S. Colorado Blvd, Denver (next to Joanne Fabrics)

Investment: $49 each includes instructions and supplies

Register:  The Art Connection

Come paint with us! Birgit Whitelaw, art instructor and Kathie Seedroff, certified feng shui practitioner, will help you create your own unique piece of art designed to fill your feng shui intentions for 2013.  Learn what the Snake has to do with it.

No art experience necessary--just the desire to create and have fun! Wear old clothes that can get paint on them.

Questions?  Call Kathie at 303.947.7790

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