At Least a Dozen Ways You May Not Have Thought of to Make Your Home Environment Radiate with Peace

1. Burn unscented candles with prayer intentions embedded into them.

2. Keep everything in order. Get organized. Chaos creates more chaos. Clean and straighten as you go.

3. Keep your decor simple and refined.

4. Cover your television screen with a beautiful tapestry when it is not in use.

5. Keep your home aired out by opening doors and windows periodically.

6. One simple fresh flower or a plant will impeccably enchant the room.

7. Light a Himalayan salt lamp in each room. It purifies and deionizes the air. Explore Evolution Salt.

8. Keep your home accessories and supplies vegan and fair-trade friendly. They carry a vibration of non-aggression.

9. Watch and feel how energies feel in your home and shift furniture until it feels better.

10. Make your home decor meaningful to you. Your home reflects who you are.

11. By all means, post a picture or a statue of peace hero in your home such as the Buddha, Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi, or Kwan Yin. You will be surprised at how it makes the room feel.

12. Have a set of tingshas, a bell or crystal bowl nearby and gently clang periodically to clear the energies of the room.

13. Never hesitate to do yoga in your living or bedroom. The energies you generate will uplift the room.

14. Play a continuous "OM" soundtrack in the background. The best one we've found is Eternal Om by Dick Sutphen. Or play chanting Buddhist monks. Their guttural chanting is amazingly comforting. Here is an amazing cd by Deval Premal and the Gyuto Monks (Tibetan Mantras for Turbulent Times) that is enthralling, reverential and moving. [All proceeds of this CD are directed to the Gyuto Monastery in Dharamsala, India; the Phowa Project; and Veggiyana.]

15. Use color and light therapies to bring gentle vibrations into your home. See our blog post of June 20.

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Feng shui is (in Chinese thought) a system of laws considered to govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to the flow of energy (qi), and whose favorable or unfavorable effects are taken into account when siting and designing buildings and rooms.

You can become a feng shui expert OR you can simply tune in to how placement and orientation of objects and sounds in your home FEELS. You will know immediately if a placement or addition is right for you just by the way it feels. Tune in to both ways: the way it was before and the way it is with the changes you have made. Your answer will tell you all you need to know!

It doesn't take a super built out plan or a lot of money to make your home environment the kind you desire. It merely requires:

• simplicity

• order

• a touch of creativity

You can transform your home in a matter of minutes just by clearing out the old and chaotic, rearranging items and adding sound and good vibrations to your living environment.

21 Short and Long Term Ways to Cope

Everybody runs into rough patches. That's the nature of life. Here are 21 enjoyable ways to transform the heaviness of life into light. Pick and choose.

1. Try not to isolate yourself. Align with a positive minded and emotionally healthy friend or friends. Reach out and share.

2. Read spiritually uplifting books in your time of need; try reading The Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East, or Autobiography of a Yogi. Your life will be changed.

3. Read and study A Course In Miracles. There are concepts in the book you can immediately put into practice for your peace of mind.

4. Read success coaching books by people like Brendon Burchard.

5. Step out into nature for a walk or a visit. Let nature embrace and love you. It works. You'll feel better.

6. Get out of town for a few hours. Drive to a place you've been wanting to visit but kept putting it off. Enjoy the change of scenery.

7. Remember that nothing is permanent. It will pass.

8. Have at hand or in memory a number of mantras to repeat either aloud or silently that resonate with you.

9. Turn on some music and even better, sing and/or dance to it. The physical exercise of dancing will change you.

10. Adjust your physical posture. If you address your physiology, your mental will follow suit. Stand or sit erect, relax your face and make yourself smile.

11. Go be in service to someone somewhere. Don't put it off. Do it now.

12. Set up reminders in your smartphone to cue you throughout the day to stop for a moment and acknowledge the Divine lives within you as you.

13. Interrupt your pattern. Stop doing everything the same way every day at the same time of the day. Mix it up. Right now. Get up and do something different.

14. Watch a comedy. Get laughing. You can't ever laugh too much. Laugh till it hurts!

15. Pray. Call on your celestial guides to help carry you through your challenge. They can't help if you don't ask. They are waiting to respond to your call!

16. Set up an altar with an unscented candle(s) and pictures or even statues of your favorite spiritual figures throughout history. Say your prayers in front of this altar and know you and these people are one and the same, you have only to realize it.

17. If you can afford it, go get a massage right away.

18. Cleanse the energetic envelope that surrounds your physical body by smudging it with sage or whisking a bird feather through it. Keep cleansing the bird feather by sharply whisking it down towards the floor every few seconds. You can also sounds bells or gently beat a drum in your energy field (also known as your auric field).

19. Resolve to change the behavior that has brought you to a place of overwhelm. Choose just one thing to change and then take one small action toward making that change and do it immediately, no matter how small or trivial that action might seem.

20. Refuse to entertain all thoughts simultaneously which lead to overwhelm. Practice and learn to deflect them. You have the power, not they. This will help you to be in this moment NOW where there can be no overwhelm or worry. Practice being in the now by reading and studying the works of Eckhart Tolle.

21. Be with an animal. Go get near some animals, even if cows or horses grazing in a field. Adopt an aging animal from a shelter. Spend time with your neighbor's pet. They will all be present to you. They have no judgment.