Following the Chi
Omtimes.comAn Exclusive Interview with the Feng Shui Specialist Consultant Ken Lauher
An Om Times interview with Feng Shui consultant Ken Lauher
When it comes to blending the spiritual with workers and your family experience health, the practical, Ken Lauher is a true expert. A success and happiness. You have to be aware Feng Shui consultant who has studied with of the opportunities and the occurrences that His Holiness Lin Yun Rinpoche and Steven happen in your life. If they seem to be Post (the First American Teacher of Feng positive, you should follow those Shui), among others, Ken advises individuals, opportunities instead of resisting. Those businesses and organizations on how to experiences will lead you to your true self and achieve their goals related to finding love, allow the Universe to open its plan to you, increasing ǡDz ǡdz Ǥdz and more. He uses the ancient Eastern art of Feng Shui, the arrangement of objects in a In the past year, Ken has appeared on the space to maximize the flow of chi, relying on a NBC's Weekend Today Show and TLC's highly intuitive approach that is based in the DzǨdzǡ as a result of his positive power of intention. intentions to share his knowledge of Feng Shui. His website, where he posts daily Feng Dz g Shui 'cures' without Shui tips and words of wisdom, receives acknowledging your true intentions can drive thousands of visitors per day. These efforts ǡdzǤDz help Ken fulfill ǯ purpose, which is to know, you have all of these products in your help others connect with their true self and home hoping it will help you. When your live a more fulfilling life. situation doesn't improve, you throw everything away because you're tired of Ken took time out of his day for this interview purchasing items that drain your bank with OmTimes, where he talks about the Tao, account and make your place look like a shares key Feng Shui practices, and reveals a Ǥdz bit about his own spiritual journey.
Many people know the word, but may only His principle advice for those seeking have a vague idea about what it is. What spiritual fulfillment and the path to a better exactly is Feng Shui? ǫDz Ǥdz ǡDzive Feng Shui is about harnessing the Chi (life in harmony with your space, you, your energy) of your living environment to help you achieve your goals and live a more fulfilling life.
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Nature and unstuck, move forward toward their goals the spaces and find peace, harmony and balance. we inhabit provide us What were some of the changes you noticed with the when you started using Feng Shui in your own ability and home? energy to It significantly helped with my own anxiety. stand up At times I had mood swings and depression. I when we get started sinking really deep into that black knocked hole of depression. As I started using Feng down, reach Shui, I became more stabilized and more our goals, centered. and more importantly, It also helped me increase my income restore balance to our lives. dramatically. In the past I worked on Wall The spaces where we live and work have a Street. I did very well at the time, but for quite significant role in shaping our destiny. The a few years, I was in a slump; I was really quality of our luck -- and lives -- can be vastly having a difficult time financially. Once I improved by the practice of Feng Shui. started incorporating Feng Shui techniques into my life and into my space, that changed. I tripled my income. I began to seize more How did you first get Started in Feng Shui opportunities. I began to stop living small and consulting? What made you realize this is the to start networking and socializing again. means by which you want to help people? When I was young, I always had an interest in Can you share a bit about your own spiritual Feng Shui and the Eastern arts. As young as journey? Back in college I attempted to age seven, I was moving large pieces of meditate, and at that time for me, meditating furniture around in my bedroom to make the was putting on an Enya CD and sitting on the space work better for me. At one point, I couch in the dark. I just tried to relax. It thought I would be a Japanese landscape and wasn't until I met His Holiness Lin Yun garden designer. Rinpoche that I started to realize the true power and the techniques in meditation. Once As I got older, I started to dabble in I learned how to apply spiritual techniques in meditation. I was seeking balance, and I knew meditation, I began to develop spiritually and there were different ways to do it. As I connect to the Universal power. Once you learned more about Feng Shui, I started to experience that, everything else happens apply it in my own life and I noticed dramatic naturally. differences as a result. I applied myself to the three-year BTB Feng Shui Master's Training How does your spirituality integrate with Program, started helping others, and that's what you accomplish with Feng Shui? Before I really when I got energized about Feng Shui. I go on a consultation, I go through a started to see how Feng Shui was impacting meditation process. It helps me understand: others' lives, giving them the ability to get Dz ǫdz
Omtimes.com meditation process also centers me so I'm masters. One person open to listen and to experience the space in you quote often is order to best benefit others. Wayne Dyer. How did you first encounter What was it like working with His Holiness Lin Wayne's books, and Yun Rinpoche and Steven Post? What were what do you like about some of the things you learned from them? It's his method of truly an amazing, life-altering experience to teaching? be around not only that type of knowledge, The book that really but that type of energy. It just makes you a started to open me up better person. I would be amazed every day to Wayne Dyer was by the stories, what I learned, and what I Dz personally experienced in the classes. To me, Thoughts, Change Feng Shui is just one of many tools to help Ǥdz you reconnect to your true self. If you can his review and connect to your true self, everything else analysis of the Tao. Each week, he meditated becomes easier and more natural. and focused on one verse from the Tao Te Would you call that the definition of Ching. That really got me understanding his ǡDz thought processes, and that led me into other ǫdz I think so. It's my definition. And that's reading. I haven't had the opportunity to my personal goal, to help others connect to meet him yet, but I look forward to that some their true self. All these tools and techniques day. I truly believe he is on the path of and self-help, including Anthony Robbins, bringing awareness to others. He is someone I Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra -- they're all just greatly respect and enjoy being in the space helping you connect to your Universal self, he creates through his teachings and writings. your true self. Once you do that, you're able to not only see the truth, speak the truth, but You use a form of Feng Shui called Black Sect also be the truth. Buddhist (BTB) Feng Shui. What is the difference between BTB Feng Shui and other A lot of people involved in spiritual Feng Shui philosophies? There are a variety of exploration wonder: How do you know when different schools of thought on Feng Shui. you've connected with your true self? I think if They all are set up to help you accomplish you're asking the question, you're not there. your goals and live a more fulfilling life. The When you become your true self, it's an all- predominant difference between Black Sect knowing experience; there aren't necessarily and other Feng shui approaches, like Flying all these mundane questions. It's more about Stars or Eight Mansions, is the way you assign simply being present. When you get into that the ba gua to the space based on how the chi space, you know it. You experience bliss, and enters. We arrange the ba gua based on the everything else gravitates toward you, rather front door or how the chi enters the space, than fighting against you. When you're in that and the others are based on the cardinal space, you're not asking that question. directions: North, South, East and West.
In the Daily Thoughts section of your website, Would you say BTB Feng Shui is more intuitive you post quotes from a lot of great spiritual because of that? The BTB method
Omtimes.com incorporates the mundane, which is the What are some other basic Feng Shui tips you physical, and the transcendental. The physical could share? The basic thing to understand is incorporates things like moving a couch or that Feng Shui is just a simple process to see bed for better flow of chi. The transcendental the chi, acknowledge the chi and harness the aspects are the invisible forces you can't see, chi, so that you improve your life and achieve but still impact the home. That is a crucial your goals. point for BTB. The more you study the In Feng Shui, three areas of your home are spiritual aspects, and the more you study most important: the entrance or front door, meditation, the more intuitive you'll become. your kitchen -- in particular, your stove -- and Those skills will help you truly begin to your bedroom. understand how to be of service to someone else. Feng Shui is about understanding the The simple act of making sure your front door patterns of your life and the energy flow of a can open a full 90 degrees will let the space, and how to take opportunities and the chi advantage of the into your home. If the chi patterns. When you're and the energy and the feeling stuck in your opportunities aren't able life, you can use Feng to get into your home or Shui to break the cycle, into your life, anything and then position else you do is not really yourself for new going to have an impact. patterns or new habits Number two is looking at that will help you your kitchen and making accomplish what you sure the stove is in order, want. clean, and that your kitchen is functional. The You used a Feng Shui stove and kitchen term people may not be represent how you're familiar with. What is seen in the world and the ba gua? how you earn your A ba gua map is a tool money so you can use used in Feng Shui to that money to help others map a room or location and help yourself. and see how the The third aspect is your different sections correspond to different bedroom, making sure your bed is in the aspects in one's life. These sections are command position -- making sure you're not believed to relate to every area or aspect of directly in line with the door but that you're life and are divided into such categories as positioned so that you can see the door. fame, relationships/marriage, children/creativity, helpful people/travel, career, inner knowledge, What exactly is chi? family/ancestors/health, and Chi is life energy. It's basically the energy of wealth/blessings. the universe. Everything living is comprised
Omtimes.com of chi. if you look at a house, a lot of land, or a forest, you'll see that some areas have no animals around, the vegetation is dead or dying -- it's not very vibrant. Then you go to another area, and you see the grass is green, the trees are growing, the birds are singing -- that place has positive chi.
Dz ǡdz follow your heart. Although we have to do things daily that we might not love or are truly passionate about, there's no reason you can't start living your dream today, and being the person you truly want to be and aspire to be today.
To learn more about Ken or to schedule a Feng Shui consultation or space cleansing for your home or business, please visit www.kenlauher.com. Ken's website offers daily Feng Shui tips, words of wisdom, and a free Name Grader application, http://www.kenlauher.com/name-grader/which can determine if the name you've selected for your Child, pet or business will bring good fortune.
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