February 16th marks the arrival of the Chinese New Year – Earth Dog. The earth element is one of grounding and supporting the birthing and manifesting of your goals, dreams and aspirations.

Aligning the Earth Dog energy with the new energy of 2018 which adds up to an 11 (represents spiritual doorway) will provide a beautiful, supportive and spiritual container for eliminating what doesn’t support you in manifesting your truth, power and your divine expression in your life.

By applying the sacred principles of Feng Shui while shifting and recalibrating the energy of your home and life, you can prepare your environment to support you in embodying love, vibrant health, abundance, spiritual growth and more.

I am excited to announce that starting Friday, February 16th, the 22 Day Paradigm Shift Activation program begins! Allow me to be your guide to facilitate this effective and dynamic program that many have participated in and transformed their lives on many levels.

To learn more about the specifics and to sign up, click here!

“I have witnessed thousands of individuals successfully transform all aspects of their lives since I began this work in 1996. The foundational work is my part of what I offer in this workshop. Your energy reveals your past and your desires for the future.”

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I have partnered with Alisa Weldon of well+done DESIGN to develop a life coaching and branding workshop series called Change Is Good. After years of collaborating with individuals, we have decided to bring this into a group setting. We have one simple goal which is to create a space and process for you to:

• Uncover your true potential
• Transform your fears into freedom
• Discover the energy of your true self
• Understand your core essence and embody the archetype of you
• Tap into new ways to bring your dreams into reality
This workshop is set up in 2 sections with tools to help you understand:

1. The energy of you and how your past has had an affect on where you are today.
2. The essence of you and what you want to manifest moving forward to live a more fulfilled life.

In a small group setting of 8, we will facilitate informative working sessions and hands-on creative engagement activities. You will tap into your playful side, spark your mind to think differently and allow you to uncover new ways to express yourself. This workshop will allow you to transform your life in an impressive way. A healthy lunch, snacks and drinks will be provided and we’ll gather food requests after registration.
I am an experienced, dynamic and insightful personal development coach and educator. I am an energy catalyst and change agent who is committed to supporting personal transformation. Since 1996, I have worked with individuals, companies and executive leadership teams to create positive change within their lives and their business. Alisa Weldon is an inspiring creative catalyst, designer and problem solver. She thrives on developing messaging for individuals and businesses to inform the development of their brand. Alisa helps uncover the essence of you and creates a new story to impact all marketing channels. Since 1994, she has worked with numerous small businesses and large corporations. She leads the well+done DESIGN team with strategy, message and brand development as creative director.

We are in an age where we all seek a deeper connection to ourselves, family and our work. Our desire to be your catalyst to attract the best life has to offer. Join us on this fun, enlightening and life-changing experience.

Austin, TX – Austin’s well-known Feng Shui expert, Stacy Davenport, can now be found online at www.StacyDavenport.com. Her wisdom as an energy catalyst can be found in the new book Healthy, Abundant and Wise releasing May 25, which includes stories by inspired individuals who got there, live there and discovered their innate power along the way. Purchases made on May 25th include many bonus gifts.

Davenport is an experienced, dynamic and insightful certified Feng Shui expert, development Coach, Akashic Records Consultant, life-purpose Hand Analyst, educator and author. Her engagement is an energy catalyst for others. Strongly committed to the art of personal and professional transformation, she has spent more than two decades coaching individuals and business leaders on how to create positive change within their lives and their businesses. In Austin she has been featured on KEYE TV news, Good Life magazine and the Austin American-Statesman.

Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of improving every aspect of one’s life by enhancing one’s environment according to the principles of harmony and energy flow. Davenport has worked with over 3,000 individuals from around the world and their spaces through Feng Shui consultations and space and energy clearings.

Davenport uses Feng Shui principles and space clearing processes to encourage energy flow in both homes and businesses. For example, in all five locations of milk + honey spa, she strategically placed red envelopes filled with rice and spices, and placed crystals in the walls during construction to set intentions.

“When you make an effort to keep the energy around you and within your home and business clear and flowing, you pave the way for all sorts of great opportunities and success,” says Alissa Bayer, the owner of milk + honey spa. Bayer raves about results from working with Davenport.

“The unseen world of subtle energy within a structure directly affects our lives – emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually,” Davenport says. “Each of us is deeply influenced by the world around us and the condition of the energy in our environments which flows on horizontal and vertical grid lines.”

Prior occupants and events in any space leave an energetic imprint in this grid that creates positive or negative influences on the environment and all its current occupants. This energy grid holds stuck, stagnant, and negative energetic imprints and their influences.

“In order to allow in the energy of what you desire, the energy of ‘what was’ must be neutralized, released and recalibrated,” Davenport explains. “Without changing the energy of the space, you will still have the same problems… energy is impressed on matter.”

Davenport uses a powerful and life enhancing process called Energy Grid Recalibration. During this process the detrimental energy pockets and their influences upon personal and professional environments are neutralized, cleared and re-calibrated. The end result is an environment that is balanced to a higher level of dynamic coherence which supports harmony and good fortune thus enhancing one’s personal, professional, financial, emotional and spiritual life.

Feng shui is the Chinese art of positioning important objects to enhance the circulation of “chi,” which is often translated as air, breath or energy flows. This practice originated over 3,000 to 6,000 years ago to balance energies in an inhabited space to guarantee good health and fortune. Feng shui became popular in the states in 1972 after Richard Nixon visited the People’s Republic of China.

“When we shift or enhance the energy of a living space, that energy then supports us to attain our goals and dreams. If a living space is cluttered and messy, that is the energy working through one’s life,” said Stacy Davenport, who studied with master feng shui expert Lin Yun from Beijing, and is currently a feng shui consultant in Austin.

Stacy attributes all of her success to the feng shui that she has incorporated in her life. By rearranging the furniture according to feng shui principles, she said she became more financially successful.

According to feng shui experts, by incorporating a few tips to enhance the layout of your bedroom, you can elevate your happiness. It’s best to make adjustments on a day-to-day basis and not try to reorganize your whole space.

Most importantly in feng shui, it’s essential to de-clutter your living space.

“It’s vital that we remove those items that are old, unused and broken from our living space,” Davenport said. “I always encourage others to remove 27 items from your home to open up the space for something new to come in. These 27 items can come from cabinets, closets, garages or drawers.”

Davenport is inclined to use the number 27 because two and seven add up to nine, which is an auspicious number for feng shui. The bagua grid, a main tool of feng shui that’s used to evaluate how energy moves by vibration in a given space, has nine sections.

A good tip for those who are feeling the stress of the approaching end of the semester is to clear your study space of clutter, and you’ll find yourself able to focus better. Make sure that your living space doesn’t become a storage area, and since doors are associated with opportunity, leave the entrance to your room clear of any disorder.

“I’m more productive when everything is organized and neat,” said multimedia journalism junior Jackie Ruth, who has an interest in feng shui. “I try to make sure my desk doesn’t have anything on top of it so I can get stuff done when I need to.”

A tip for any singles out there who are looking to find a mate: According to feng shui principles, if you clear out a few unused items and make way for empty space, it will create the emotional space to increase your liveliness and allow for new relationships.

“Look over your spaces and just intuitively scan it for whether it feels good or not,” said feng shui consultant Amy Bourland. “If something bugs you, figure out what it is and get rid of anything that brings you down or bothers you. If you are unsure, try putting some things in a closet and see if it feels better when it is not around.”

If you can’t find the strength to rearrange furniture, focus on merely bringing life to your bedroom.

“Add lots of green, growing plants and think of your spaces and places as energizing and overflowing with wonderful energy,” Bourland said.

While some aspects of feng shui focus on your connections with others, most are centered on improving yourself. A lot of this focus is on where you rest. If you don’t have time to rearrange your entire bedroom, pay attention to some important tips for your bed to ensure the increase in energy that comes from a restful night’s sleep.

Feng shui advises that you place your bed diagonally across from your bedroom door. When you have a clear view of the entrance to your room, it creates a feeling of security while you sleep, allowing you to be completely relaxed.

The foot of your bed should never point directly out of a door that leads outside of your room. Feng shui states this bed position is like a coffin and doesn’t allow for even traffic to flow in and out of your room. It’s also recommended that those looking for a more restful sleep get new bed pillows.

There are hundreds of feng shui tips, and it’s virtually impossible to incorporate every one of them into your life, but if you try a few at a time, you may see some changes in your chi and stress levels.

“By working with the ancient feng shui principles, it allows me to manifest whatever I desire easily,” Davenport said.

There’s something changing at Fulmore Middle School on South Congress Avenue. Administrators report fewer major behavioral incidents among students this year, the school’s soccer and basketball teams are on a winning streak, and substitute teachers who used to avoid the campus now regularly seek assignments there.

“I’d say the climate of the campus has changed for the better,” says Steve Maddox, assistant principal at Fulmore. “There’s a calmness. The changes have been subtle.”

Maddox says two different substitute teachers have recently commented how students are more attentive and that overall student behavior has improved. And, he says, teacher turnover is down dramatically.

This wasn’t always the case. Fulmore has had its share of problems associated with urban middle schools, from major behavior problems that lead to automatic expulsion, to low test scores.

What’s going on? A new disciplinary plan? A more rigorous academic schedule?

Feng Shui.

Two years ago, feng shui master Stacy Davenport began a program to bring the philosophy to local schools. She began by donating dozens of hours to Fulmore, fi rst applying feng shui concepts to the administrative offi ces. She and several volunteers rearranged the furniture, re-hung pictures and painted walls. Gone are the school’s stark, cold colors of bright blue and white and in their place are tones of sandy brown. The back wall of the offi ce is now a bright red.

Maddox says the effect has been palpable. “The offi ce feels more conducive to getting work done,” he says, adding that there have been other changes that are less quantifi – able. “When kids get sent to the of- fi ce, they come in angry. But now, it’s like they sense the calmness in the offi ce, and they seem to calm down, too.”

Davenport did more than move furniture and paint walls. On two subsequent visits to the campus, she performed a yu wai, or exterior space clearing. For a space clearing, Davenport mixes rice, which symbolizes abundance, with the brightly-colored minerals realgar (arsenic sulfi de) and cinnabar (red mercury sulfi de), and one-hundred-fi fty-oneproof rum, which represents energy. Davenport tosses the mixture around the perimeter of the building’s foundation, in a methodical motion of three overhand tosses, followed by three underhand ones.

“What this does is it pushes out the old energy, and brings in the new, positive energy,” she says.

Inside the school, Davenport and her volunteers used a mixture of salt and alcohol to wipe down nearly every surface in the school, including more than one thousand lockers, desks and chairs, as well as doors to more than seventy classrooms. Davenport says the process brought a renewed energy balance to the sprawling campus.

“What happens in buildings is that energy gets imprinted into a space,” says Davenport. “The school was built in 1911, so all the students who had been there before had left part of their energy in the space, and we went in and cleared it out,” she says. “Think about when you buy a house, the first thing you do is clean the bathtub. From an energy perspective, that is what I do. I clear away the old energy and welcome in the new.”

“Doing this work for schools is so important,” says Davenport. “If children can have a spiritual, safe place that is warm and welcoming, then they can do their best work.”

Davenport also works with large businesses and has given feng shui blessings for Mecca Gym downtown at Fifth and Lamar and the new Seton Medical Center Williamson in Round Rock.

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Others swiped desk tops, shooing dust.

Obregon, the school’s dropout intervention specialist, said the space is a shelter for some students that have difficult family lives.

The scene had all the trappings of a typical scrub-the-corners deep-clean. Except for Stacy Davenport who took care of the less tangible gunk.

Stepping gingerly around the room with a thin foot-long copper rod, Davenport paused as the limber metal started spinning counter-clockwise. The sudden rotation signaled bad energy. She waited until it righted, bobbing up and down.

Davenport, a feng shui consultant who organized the event, said she thinks about peace during those quiet moments.

“As humans, we clean our surfaces,” she said. “My gift is to read the unseen aspect of energy and life.”

About 12 volunteers, including two of the school’s students knocking out required community service hours, tackled the principal’s office, cafeteria and classrooms with cleaning supplies and essential oils to clear the campus’ bad energy.

Children soak up negativity, Davenport said. And with teacher fears about layoffs, budget cuts and the emotional baggage that students cart into the building

day, she said the school was a natural choice for volunteering her services.

According to Texas Education Agency, 80 percent of the school’s students were economically disadvantaged in 2010-11; 50 percent qualified as “at-risk.”

Saturday was Davenport’s second time clearing the energy at Fulmore Middle School. In 2006, she incorporated other elements of feng shui, painting the walls of the administrative office and installing wind chimes in the courtyard.

She attributes a drop in absenteeism and teacher turnover in the wake of her work to the healthier environment she and about 30 volunteers labored to create.

But not everyone is convinced, including some Fulmore teachers.

To the skeptics, Davenport compares the energy she clears to a bathtub in an apartment that 20 people have rented. What would happen if you never cleaned it?

This year, volunteers replaced red signs that urged students to stop bullying, name calling, teasing and threats with charts encouraging positive behavior. Davenport tossed a concoction of rice, rum and powder meant to clear the energy around the school’s perimeter.

Eventually, she said, she hopes to clean one school in the district every month.

“Kids, for me, they’re the future,” Davenport said. “Keeping a safe and harmonious environment helps them.”

Walking into a freshly cleaned room, Obregon exhaled.

“Immediately you sense it,” she said. “It feels lighter. I just feel happier in here.”

Read the article on Statesman.com.

Photo credit: Rodolfo Gonzalez

Imagine that you had won the following *PRIZE* in a contest: Each morning your bank would deposit $86,400 in your private account for your use. However, this prize has rules:

1. Everything that you didn’t spend during each day would be taken away from you.

2. You may not simply transfer money into some other account.

3. You may only spend it.

4. Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another $86,400 for that day.

5. The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say? Game Over!”.  It can close the account and you will not receive a new one.

What would you personally do?

You would buy anything and everything you wanted right? Not only for yourself, but for all the people you love and care for. Even for people you don’t know, because you couldn’t possibly spend it all on yourself, right?

You would try to spend every penny, and use it all, because you knew it would be replenished in the morning, right?

ACTUALLY, This GAME is REAL!!

Shocked??? YES!

Each of us is already a winner of this *PRIZE*. We just can’t seem to see it.

The PRIZE is *TIME*

1. Each morning we awaken to receive 86,400 seconds as a gift of life.

2. And when we go to sleep at night, any remaining time is not credited to us.

3. What we haven’t used up that day is forever lost.

4. Yesterday is forever gone.

5. Each morning the account is refilled, but the bank can dissolve your account at any time WITHOUT WARNING…

SO, what will YOU do with your 86,400 seconds?

Those seconds are worth so much more than the same amount in dollars.  Think about it and remember to enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than you think.

So take care of yourself, be happy, love deeply and enjoy life!

Here’s wishing you a wonderful and beautiful day. Start spending?….

“Don’t complain about growing old!”

Some people don’t get the privledge…

THE MAGIC BANK ACCOUNT THE AUTHOR IS NOT KNOWN. IT WAS FOUND IN THE
BILLFOLD OF COACH PAUL BEAR BRYANT, ALABAMA , AFTER HE DIED IN 1982.