The Feng Shui Alternative. Healing Your Environment

There is nothing that can improve your life faster than a clean and organised home and office.

Feng Shui or the Indian Vaastu Shastra which is similar in many respects but lesser known has an instinctive feel to me.  While I do not religiously engage in the moving of furniture or placing of fish I can feel a difference in the way a space is organised.  There is a natural preference to organise my house in the way Feng Shui practitioners describe anyway even without the description of the flow of chi.

As with any alternative the practice of Feng Shui works best combined with real action.  I remember picking up a book on Feng Shui and the relationship between ill health and the layout and location of buildings.  I respect it enough to consult with an expert before the kids and I build that straw bale home.

Has anyone here ever hired someone to assess their space?  What was that like?

I haven’t, but I have checked out several books which are often written for the Northern Hemisphere.  Because of the confusion between North and South eventually I read so much conflicting material I abandoned most of the stuff.  Also I learnt I’m not a great fish Mom (they are in safe hands now).  This in itself is probably bad Feng Shui.

I still maintain a small (but hopeful) collection of water fountains, symbolic artwork and wind chimes.

Just in case.

Blessings,
Keri Eagan
Alternative Healing Insights
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Agnihotra – Alternative Healing With Cow Dung

A few years ago I was attending a conference when a woman entered the room.  I mean, this woman entered the room and it was like all the oxygen had been sucked out.  She had those beautiful eyes like babies have early on and her presence seemed to radiate happiness.

I had never met someone like her and yet I couldn’t tell exactly what made her different.

When I finally spoke with her I asked her what she was doing that made her so happy to which she replied, “Oh, Agnihotra.  It’s an environmental Vedic healing fire that you perform at sunrise and sunset.  You have to have a special pyramid made out of copper to perform it and some cow dung”.

She went on to explain that about is being a Vedic super science for drawing prana (life force) into the environment and is a fantastic alternative healing therapy.  It also nutrilises and purifies the atmosphere.  The ash is highly charged with life force and micronutrients.  So the ash is used in many applications of organic farming for example composting, planting and in water that is sprayed on plants.

Oookay.  Didn’t see that one coming!  I smiled and nodded.  In the car on the way home I kept thinking about how the happiness filled the room around her.  Lets face it that was a weird response to my question.

Months later  I met her again at a healing retreat.  This time she performed a demonstration which didn’t seem to go that well because the dung she was using was still damp (needs to be dry to burn).  Still, willing to give anything a go especially something so unusual I obtained contact details of Lee and Fritz Ringma who own a Homa farm in Australia.

A “homa” farm is one which is built around the fire of Agnihotra.  They are farms combined with the practice of Agnihotra and the use of Agnihotra ash which has healing qualities and is spread across the plants.  This form of alternative healing is highly beneficial to the environment.

I was able to purchase a kit consisting of a copper pyramid of correct proportions, copper tongs, spoon, with detailed printed instructions and a cd so I could learn to practice the mantra uttered at sunrise and sunset.

Thinking I had nothing to loose I set about finding some cow dung.  I felt pretty ridiculous and told everyone I asked it was for my garden.  Still to embarrassing to collect it so I dragged along a friend so I could share the experience : )

It took about three months of repeated attempts before I finally performed it correctly (remember I was learning by instructions and a cd, not the best way of doing this).

Photo courtesy of Lee and Fritz Ringma

Actually it is my favourite alternative healing technique of all since it is the most powerful energy I have experienced.  As well as being the strangest.

I am very dedicated, but not good at the practice of Agnihotra.  The difficulty I have is in obtaining correctly dried cow dung.  Even in New Zealand where there are plenty of cows this can be a bit of a mission.

My curiosity tends to rule me and therefore in the future I intend to experiment with Agnihotra ash as an alternative medicine.  I’ve heard healing in this way brings the body back into ballance.  All I need is to find some dung…

A website you can visit to find out more http://www.agnihotra.com.au/

Blessings,

Keri Eagan

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