The following causes of sha, or secret arrows, when visible from your windows, can have subtle and negative effects on your nerves and contribute to your professional and financial problems.

• A road or driveway that runs directly toward or away from the window
• A sharp object, such as a spire, that is directly in line with or points directly at the window
• A building with a steep, pointed roof within view of the window

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Libra, seventh house, Venus

Part of body

The bladder, kidneys, lumbar region, haunches to buttocks, adrenal glands, lumbar nerves and blood vessels.

Potential ailments

Kidney and bladder disorders, eczema, lumbago, abscesses. Read the rest of this entry »

Some of the most recent research conducted on the brain - the organ that produces human mental activity - proves that the man currently uses only a small part of its capacities.

Construction of the human brain is based on two hemispheres; one specialized in logical reasoning, the other responsible for intuitive understanding. Experiments have shown that, if the two hemispheres are separated, they are no longer able to communicate with one another, one functions are taken over by other hemisphere. It’s like the human body could adapt to survive, like “should know” that it needs both types of knowledge, both the rationale, and the intuitive.

Some experts consider that, during his prehistory, one man held the sixth sense, the telepathy. It says that only education and objective conditions adapting to human survival would have reduced the importance of relationships and cerebral thinking, like all human faculties that have been left to dawdle, telepathic sense (mental communication), atrophied. Read the rest of this entry »

Various Feng Shui arrangements can be built into the decor of stores and retail businesses to help achieve higher turnover, ensure harmonious working relationships between staff and employees, and guard against burglary. To start with, selecting the site of a store should be done with care. You need plenty of Yang energy. Busy roads are better for business than quiet roads because there is plenty of Yang energy in busy thoroughfares. Traffic should not be moving excessively fast since this also carries all the luck away.

The location of a store is all- important, so invest as much money in the best location you can afford. Make sure your retail outlet, restaurant, or place of business does not have too small an entrance. Read the rest of this entry »

The choice of colors and color combinations affects the Feng Shui of a company because all its correspondence and publicity materials will display these colors. Some lucky combinations of colors include:

Black lettering on a white background. Black and white is an auspicious combination because it reflects the Yin—Yang balance and also signifies the harmony of the elements. Water is black, which stands for money, which derives from metal, itself signified by the color white.Thus, black and white for corporate offices and boardrooms is auspicious. Read the rest of this entry »

The most immediate effect of being hurt by poison arrows is usually financial loss orillness. The severity of these misfortunes depends on the individual’s astrological chart. Usually young children are the first to succumb to illnesses caused by harmful poison arrows. Thus, if you have only recently moved into a new home and your children seem to take turns getting sick, or when the bug seems to be passing from one occupant of the house to another, look around for secret poison arrows. This is the first line of Feng Shui investigation.

Usually the negative effects of poison arrows outside the home are far more powerful than thosefound inside the home. Read the rest of this entry »

Dreamwork can offer an antidote to resentment, which often creeps insidiously into relationships. Resentment stores up grievances, each building on the one before until we no longer recognize our partner as the person we love. Instead we see only their faults, often magnified out of all proportion. If we tune in to our dreams together, we can release such resentment before it reaches crisis level. Read the rest of this entry »

Listening, understanding, and self-expression form the bedrock of any relationship. We take these skills for granted because we use them in conversationevery day — through words and observations. It is almost impossible not tocommunicate with others, but to do so effectively — without hasty judgment orprejudice — is significantly more complex than it may at first appear. Read the rest of this entry »

The earliest relationships infants have are with their primary caregivers. A parent and a baby often engage in simple visual and touching games with each other. Infants also make facial gestures at strangers. The interactions between an infant and his or her primary caregiver have been likened to a dance in which each partner takes cues from the other in a scene that almost seems choreographed. This process of using feedback from each other to gauge social interaction has been called reciprocal interaction, and it often depends on the primary caregiver’s ability to respond to the cues given by the child.

A good connection between an infant and primary caregiver is often the result of something called the goodness of fit — the fit between a child’s and a caregiver’s temperaments and styles. I’ve often heard parents say that each of their children had a different temperament and that learning to respond differently to each child was a challenge at times. Some children may be very outgoing and seek social stimulation, but others can be shy and may require a lower-key style of interaction. I think part of the art of parenting is knowing how to match up with a child’s temperament — it often represents a significant challenge in therapy with children. Read the rest of this entry »

Alcoholics Anonymous uses the term “stinking thinking” to describe the kinds of thoughts that a recovering alcoholic has when he or she thinks negatively and contemplates taking a drink. The simplicity of this statement should not be mistaken for a lack of wisdom. The power of thought should never be underestimated.

Cognitive therapy is a popular and well-researched form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the power of thought. From the perspective of cognitive therapists, psychological problems, such as interpersonal difficulties and emotional disorders, are the direct result of “stinking thinking.” In other words, maladaptive thought processes or cognitions cause these problems. “Stinking thinking” can have a tremendous impact on our psyche because we analyze and process information about every event that occurs around us and our reactions to all of these events. It can look something like this:

A (losing my job) –> B (my thoughts about getting fired) —› C (my emotions thought processes about the event) Read the rest of this entry »