Thinking too hard

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I was chatting to a neighbour about the plans for the wall to divide the home office from the conservatory.   She was aghast.  Didn’t I realise that I’ll be blocking off the energy flow around the house?   I looked at her blankly and then I remembered.  She’s into Feng Shui in a big way. 

Wish I’d kept quiet about my wall now.  My tuition has begun.  I am an earth sign, my kua is 9 and my lucky direction is east.  I need to be wearing greens, browns, blues and blacks.  I should avoid purple, red, white and grey.  Next week we are mapping out my bagua.  No I have no idea what that is, no doubt I will find out next week.  Anyway it seems that my wall should be OK as long as I get a glass door and I put plenty of plants and wood furniture in the east area. 

The strange thing though is that I did follow one of her instructions and I have given the house and my office at work a good tidy up.  And since doing that I do feel a lot better in myself emotionally and physically.  So is there something in this Feng Shui after all? 

Something else has also happened to get me thinking.  I got into a casual conversation about my fluctuating energy levels with someone.  His immediate reaction was that it’s all down to my biorhythms. 

I keep a daily diary which records things like energy levels etc.  So I did my biorhythm chart for the previous month and compared it with the diary.  The results were spooky.  On every single day I felt particularly tired my physical biorhythm was in a negative phase.  My emotional biorhythm also accurately tracked how my mood swings have been. 

I’m now very tempted to try to organise my life over the next month so I take full advantage of the days I’m in positive phase.  However I think that if I have the idea in my head that I’m going to be tired on a particular day then it could influence how I feel. 

One of my friends says I shouldn’t think so much, it’s not good for me.  Perhaps she’s right.  I have read a lot of self help books lately and some of them have not been at all helpful.  I am so anxious to do everything I possibly can to get a good recovery, but maybe the answer is to stop trying so hard. 

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  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I feel like telling you your fortune along the lines of Dame Osiris Gnomeclencher.

    "Cross my palm with silver and I will reveal all."

    "Your lucky number is seven, your unlucky number is any sung by Ken Dodd …"

    As for having a tidy up, it always makes you feel better, until you can't find the wotsit that was under the heap next to the thingumy, you know, where I left the doh-dah last week ...

    As for reading, I've bought the latest (and allegedly last) in the Tales of the City novels by Armistead Maupin. This time it's focusing on Anna Madrigal, and he's using flashback chapters giving Anna's background. If you haven't already read the 8 books preceding this (as well as the others that tangentially refer to some of the Tales characters X years on) then get started!

    I find fiction, operas, films much more use than set help books. You suddenly realise your situation is a little bit like a character's and by following their way through their problems you find a way through yours. The only self help the self help books give in my bitter, twisted, cynical opinion is the bank balances of the publishers and authors, says he looking for new cookery books with simple (underlined S-I-M-P-L-E) recipes that don't feed the 5,000 nor require a truckload of ingredients. Gluten free flour miser seem to require at least 3 or 4 different flour varieties.

    Sorry, I'm off on a moan. I've no idea why, I'm feeling pretty chipper today!

    Normal service has now been resumed.

    Bye, love & hugs

    Tim