Easy Feng Shui Tips to Enhance the Vitality of Your Apartment

Looking to feng shui your apartment since you can’t technically remodel it? Bringing peace and positive energy into your home doesn’t necessarily require knocking down walls. Whether you’re a deep believer in the Eastern philosophies of feng shui or simply want to redecorate your apartment, there are simple tips and tricks you can practice to improve the energy of your space without sacrificing your security deposit.

Laura Cerrano, a certified Feng Shui Consultant and the CEO and founder of Feng Shui Manhattan, tackles this topic daily in consultations and workshops locally, nationally and internationally. While she finds it important to clarify that feng shui is far greater than just furniture placement and interior design, implementing a few small changes in your apartment can be the perfect first step to changing your perspective and opening yourself up to new possibilities for a better life. 

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Feng Shui for Your Apartment: Easy Tips from New York City’s Leading Consultant Laura Cerrano

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Using Crystals to Enhance The Feng Shui of Your Home

I met certified crystal specialist, Rashia Bell, co-founder of THE CRISTALLINE in New York, during the 92Y 2018 "City of Tomorrow" Summit. We participated in the "Applying Healing and Wellness Modalities to Design" panel talk, along with Ellie Burrows and Deborah Hanekamp.

After meeting Rashia and discussing the principles of Crystal Healing and Feng Shui, I thought, what a great combination of holistic practices! Rashia has taken the time to share her wisdom and insights into the world of crystals and how you could use them inside your home. 

Question: What is Crystal Healing? 

Answer:

Crystal Healing is essentially using crystals to help harmonize and balance energy within the body. The foundation of it is the chakra points, as they are a subsystem of energetic pathways or channels within the body. Crystals hold energy based on how they were created by the earth and this energy allows specific stones to resonate with certain chakra points.  

The goal is to keep these pathways clear, but with the stress of life’s twist and turns this can prevent us from maintaining that homeostasis. In a one-on-one crystal healing session, natural stones are placed on each of the chakra points as you are led through a meditation and visualization that is being documented by the practitioner. Throughout the sessions the stones are being changed based on the energetic responses to help clear and remove any energetic blockages.

Question: How Do we Select Crystals? 

Answer: 

People are often very intimidated when selecting crystals. First and foremost:

• Visit a place that you can trust that has a knowledgeable staff.

• Listen to your intuition when being guided to a stone. It may not be the one you think you need, but most often is the one that you are energetically aligned with and will work for you.

• The most important is to touch the stone, feel the temperature and weight differences. Take the time to do so and don’t second guess your selection, just bring it home and let it do it’s work.

 

Question: What crystals do you recommend every home to have?

Answer: 

Stones that are of the utmost importance in a home fall into two camps, clearing, and grounding. The way we incorporate stones into the home is guided by the same principles as used in crystal healing on the body. We approach incorporating crystals into the home from the perspective of examining what is going on energetically with the people that inhabit the space.

Clear Quartz, Himalayan Salt and Selenite

• Clearing stones are those that have the ability to clear energy. Clear Quartz, Himalayan Salt, and Selenite can be used to help purify and clear the environment.

Pyrite, Fluorite and Black Tourmaline

• The grounding stones I feel are most important in a home are those that help block electromagnetic frequencies. You could use Black Tourmaline, Obsidian, Onyx, Pyrite, Hematite (the non-magnetic type if you are using on a device) or Fluorite. I place pieces of these stones on cable boxes, wifi modems, and on my cell phone at night.

Just like with Feng Shui, Crystal Healing also promotes the practice of removing electronics from inside your bedroom. Rashia suggests, "at a minimum your phone should be across the room because even if it is off you most likely still have it plugged into the wall and electricity is coursing through it. These stones can also act as a shield around you. Placing them around the perimeter of the bed may be useful."

Question: Is there scientific research that supports the use of crystals?

ANSWER: 

In the late 1800’s Pierre Curie & his brother Jaques, whom are both scientists, did studies on Tourmaline and other crystals and the ability of the stone to produce a weak charge of negative ions. That Ion creates pryoelectricity which has the ability to counteract the EMF.

You could also read "New way to absorb electromagnetic radiation demonstrated" published in 2016 by Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

The challenge when it comes to crystal healing in particular is no to experiences are alike. Because none of us as individuals have the exact same composition, or have had the same life experiences. I really think working with crystals is about learning to trust yourself. What you feel yet can’t necessarily explain. That is why I love to work with children, because they don’t question themselves or their experiences and their energy is much clearer so they have the ability to resonate with the energy of stones very easily.

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Feng Shui expert with 21+ years of experience. She provides bicoastal consultations and workshops for residential, real estate developments, Fortune 500 companies, and healing facilities. She is currently conducting research for her upcoming book that focuses on bridging the gap between the ancient wisdom of Feng Shui and modern day science to establish the practice of Feng Shui as a credible form of health care.