At a recent Mindfulness group session, a grandmother, mom, and her daughter, Sandra, shared the joy of Sandra ‘being home’ for a couple of weeks. “ #3 in the series – Cultivating Emotional Balance in the HOME ` Sandra, a recent college grad who interned with a Chicago company the past year, is home for […]
Mindful Feng Shui Spaces
Awareness / paying careful attention to the surrounding environments through all the senses
Where Is Your ‘Adult Timeout Space’ At Home?
#3 in the series – Cultivating Emotional Balance in the HOME. Our inner space and our peace of mind are affected by our outer space. Where do you go to cool down when you are angry, when you are worried, or just when you are overwhelmed by every day life in general? Instead of making […]
Does Your Home Environment Create Serenity?
#2 in the series – Cultivating Emotional Balance in the HOME CALM, describes the state of mind that we are all striving for today in the midst of chaos and burnout caused by stress. But how do we achieve this calm and serenity that we are looking for? What are the antidotes to stress? […]
How does the HOME set conditions for finding balance in your life?
Through scientific research, we now know that out thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and physical reactions are all interconnected. Change in one of the areas will affect all of the other parts, in either beneficial or adverse ways, as a chain reaction. This is #1 in the series – Cultivating Emotional Balance in the […]
4 Steps to Beat the Happiness versus Clutter Struggle
With April showers, mimicking nature, we start to think about clearing away our clutter … mental and physical. However, we no sooner clear it away, and then the same old process of accumulation starts over again. But why is this only a temporary fix even though it feels so uplifting to remove the chaos, and […]
Why Not Change How You React To A Situation… Starting at Home?
We begin to learn how to react emotionally to situations starting early in life at home and in school. Our homes are safe refuges from which we can slow down to honestly observe how we often create our own problems. I love the story of an old Cherokee Indian chief who was teaching his grand […]
How Plant Feng Shui Entices Millennials and Companies
Urban interior spaces need plant feng shui to reduce stress, both at home and at work, as square footage gets tighter and tighter. So millennials and large companies are turning to the #1 feng shui solution; plants. I have talked about this in earlier posts https://www.nadineoei.com, but please also read this informative article at https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/realestate/plant-loving-millennials-at-home-and-at-work.html. The […]
You May Be Sinking because you’re not Paying Attention to Your 5 Energies
Alice is on the verge of burnout. Susan still has energy late in the day to fully connect with family and friends even though they both have the same job. What is Susan’s secret for increasing her energetic capacity to excel at work, at school, and in all of her life endeavors? It wasn’t always […]