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Smart devices - the new Mercury?

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 01:41:38 -0800

The smart technology sector is booming with promises of convenience and instant-everything. All around us, all day and night, we have tech-products ranging from home automation and smart phones to fitness and sleep trackers, designed to alleviate our daily stress and hassles and increase our wellbeing. But how smart actually is this?

If these handy devices really helped in lowering our stress levels, why are we still exhausted and tired and feel the need for a wellness treatment or get-away of some sort? Why is the wellness sector growing with the same speed as ‘smart’ technology? Is there a correlation?

In many of my VIP consultations I encounter ultra-tech environments: beautiful extravagant homes equipped with latest technology such as automated lighting systems, ‘Alexa’ always at their service for any questions or music requests, the most stylish designed home offices with super speed internet and fancy wireless devices. I have even witnessed built-in USB wall sockets next to the beds (or even next to the pillow), so the phones and tablets never run out of power for those reading kindle books or watching movies before bedtime. And let’s not forget Bluetooth sleep trackers placed on the sleeper’s wrist throughout the whole night to monitor their sleep.

Despite all these apparent conveniences and ‘wellness’ devices, according to many of my clients, why do most of them still feel as though they can’t shake off their lethargy to leap out of bed in the morning. Why do they remain exhausted the next day and/or suffer chronic headaches?

Swarming around the Buzz of Wellness Design

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 12:48:23 -0700

Have you noticed how many busy bees there seem to be swarming throughout the Interior Design market? It seems our stay-at-home Covid cabin fever has grown a colony of suppliers each individually showcasing their own perspective within the Wellness Design beehive. While that is all good, it seems more difficult to find an accurate description and a complete set of guidelines and even a Google search results in more noise and confusion.

It would appear that Wellness Design is commonly referenced as design for Spa’s and health areas for relaxation, with lots of biophilia, natural materials and circadian lighting. But surely there is a far bigger pot of honey out there!

As a naturally environment-sensitive person I have alwaysfelt the need for 'feelgood’ environments and always arranged my own spaces to my own comfort needs. Even while staying at hotels, visiting restaurants or Spa’s, I have always instinctively chosen the place without that annoying AC streaming directly onto my face, or moved away from noisy loudspeakers or water features, and preferred sitting with a view to the door, and away from too much light glare or busy areas.

Unfortunately, I always had to make compromises as those ‘perfect’ places are hard to find, and I concluded this might just be my very personal ‘mania’! But when I then came across Feng Shui for the first time, my instinct for positive environments suddenly made sense and I knew I was onto something.

There are rules out there for creating positive spaces, but it seems no one has ever put them together from the myriad of various sourcesand perspectives, especially when it comes to incorporating the ancient wisdom from imperial China.

It was then when I learned that ‘energy’ is far more than ‘power supply’ or ancient myth,...Read More

Want to understand the ancient practice of Feng Shui in the modern world?

Mon, 13 Apr 2020 07:23:18 -0700

Feng Shui has become a well-known term over the last decades, yet there still remains much confusion and a lack of clarity as to what it actually is and what it is not. One can search in Google, Instagram and YouTube to read about decoration and colour principles that display beautiful Interiors and apparently making offers that will change our lives to the better. Is this Feng Shui in our contemporary lives?

So first, let’s understand what is Feng Shui and what are it’s aims?

Feng Shui is a practice that analyses our surrounding energies and aims to manipulate those energies to our benefit and more specifically to enhance our health, wealth and other life aspects.

Appreciating the above statement, and then acknowledging the potential power it has, it is not surprising that a power such as this might want to be kept secret.

This desire for secrecy is further explained when we look into the discipline of Feng Shui and how it developed over the last 3000 thousand years in China by geomantic scientists (those who study the environmental energy).

These scientists, the Feng Shui Masters, were commissioned and held captive by the emperors of the Chinese dynasties, believing that the practice of Feng Shui would secure their ruling power. The emperors’ Feng Shui Masters were even sentenced to death if they ever chose to spread their knowledge amongst the common people.

Only during Chinas civil wars and cultural revolution in the 20^th century when the Feng Shui Masters fled the country, they were able to spread and sell their knowledge among the common people and further abroad in other continents.

Even today, this powerful knowledge is traditionally still passed from Master to disciple. This explains why there is even now very few resources and...Read More