FENG SHUI CONSULTING: 
A HEARTS DESIRE OR A SOUL'S CALLING?
By NANCY SANTOPIETRO 

 

"Feng Shui & Health: The Anatomy of a Home" 
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-March 6th, 2002
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"Feng Shui:
Harmony By
Design"
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Throughout my travels and workshops I have had numerous opportunities to talk with many gifted individuals who are seriously considering becoming a Feng Shui Consultant. It has been so encouraging for me to see all these wonderful people coming forward wanting to join this incredible community of “Feng Shui Energy Workers”.  I also have had the privilege to witness their struggles and quandaries about how to go about becoming a consultant, finding a mentor or choosing a training program. Often they have expressed to me the difficulties and concerns regarding the time commitment, financial expenses and which educational program to choose.  Many were frustrated that answers weren’t coming quickly enough or without effort. They mistook their confusion as a deterrent, and not part of the energetic alignment process.  This process, when entered, is a very important one for it helps you to clarify your own personal intention of “what you desire verses what will ultimately serve your higher purpose”. 

And although sometimes it is quite stressful, collectively, this process creates a magnetic field around you that will ultimately pull in the right opportunity, mentor or training program. Your experience then, becomes yet another manifestation of the alignment process that happens through Feng Shui as you begin working with its powerful forces of energy. Being called to change careers, move out of state or end a relationship is not uncommon as your life realigns itself for a different path. This comes with the territory and honor of doing “bigger picture work”.

No one is spared from this process, for it takes a very special soul who is willing to look at his or her life honestly, directly and accept graciously what is mirrored back. Every one of my colleagues can attest to this process of constant change, challenge and commitment. Each one brings their personal experiences, life issues and triumphs to all the work they do, the classes that they teach and the training programs that they design. All these aspects need to be honored, respected and energetically considered when researching which mentor or training program to consider. I often tell my students to first do their research, then use their intuition to guide them to the right program or teacher. I encourage them to base their decision on how they “feel” on a gut level, then ask for spiritual guidance on which program will ultimately serve their path, if they wind up as a Feng Shui consultant or not.  

As Feng Shui evolves we become more sophisticated in how to apply its age-old principles to modern day life and along with those discoveries comes an enormous responsibility to not only honor tradition, but also the lives and individuals that we are working with.  If Feng Shui is to be embraced as a serious profession, then it must be afforded the same dignity that all the other helping professions require.  In our culture, credibility is attached to the learning process, and the learning process is attached to higher education, literature, books, mentoring, workshops, classes, and training programs.

In our society, work that is of direct service, human caring, esoteric counseling, or spiritual guidance is often not judged by the same standards that other professions are valued.  These psycho-spiritual professions are usually underpaid and not taken very seriously. Unfortunately, we have been socialized by this same belief system and internalized the “less than” message attached to many of our important professions.  This “programming” has directly impacted on how we view our own work and how we value and place emphasis on what we commit our time and resources to.  We not only have to be trained in a qualified way, but value the study process as important as applying to Harvard for Medical School or Columbia for a Law degree but along with all that also comes personal commitment, life style change, and a financial obligation.  If we are going to honor our own work, we need to apply the same system of value that others and ourselves would apply to other more “mainstreamed” professions in society. Just as it takes several years to acquire a medical or law degree, we need to see the value in the “great buffer of time” and embrace how our own life transformations are part of the training process and not something that happens outside of it. 

In my opinion, the learning process should be perceived as a life long endeavor.   After almost fourteen years of study, I still make it my business to sit in on Professor Lins’ Feng Shui 101 workshops at least 4/5 times a year. I honor the old adage that states, “Once the teacher, always the student”.  

To me, it really doesn’t matter which school of Feng Shui or which mentor one chooses for their educational process.  What is important to me is that one chooses a teacher or program  (or many) that does not minimize, undermine, or devalue the very important life work that Feng Shui is here to do.

A Feng Shui Practitioner’s work can be very joyful and rewarding, but the commitment process requires each individual to be the clearest conduit they can be in order for universal guidance to pass through them for direction and to assist others in their healing process. Believing that a weekend workshop or a five day training is enough to begin your practice as a consultant may be true or not, but thinking that you are no longer in need of continued training and processing is a false misconception. In truth “we are only able to take our clients as far as we are willing to go ourselves”, and the “perpetual student syndrome” should become part of our life long spiritual practice and commitment to excellence.  Advanced Feng Shui work in the next millennium will ask of us to work with individuals from a heart, soul, and life path perspective.  Along with that commitment should come a willingness to be trained in the “multi-dimensional processes” of Feng Shui work and the willingness to do our own personal confrontation and healing work.

Often as I speak to students who are inquiring about the process of becoming a Feng Shui Consultant, to my dismay, I see them speaking through their own life experience of internalized limitations.  Concerns such as time, availability, financial resources, and lack of convenience re: travel, are all very real, but mundane conundrums.  Some of those issues are actually the “grist for the mill”; the cutting edge obstacles that sharpen your clarity and help you define if Feng Shui is an interest versus a life path. 

Feng Shui as a profession, is not for everyone.  Although many are called to do this work, ultimately, few are chosen.  The obstacles are part of the process to help you define that calling.  For in that calling, you make a bigger commitment than to the profession itself, for you are committing to ultimately helping the planet to make its quantum leap forward into the next millennium.  Understanding as much as we can about that process of change, and its impact on the client, planet, and world at large, is crucial to applying Feng Shui for its highest good, and for its true purpose of what it is here to do.

Although we are taught, (and I do personally teach this) the importance of Feng Shui and how it impacts on our relationships, career, and finances, in truth, that is only one superficial layer of what it is truly here to transcend.  The more we resolve to studying its scientific benefits, effects on health and committing to understanding the deeper and deeper realms of its gifts, the more will be unveiled and shown to us to help us aid human sufferings, and the limitations of the human condition.

Feng Shui will be a very important player in the transition for higher achievement, and good, in the next decade.  My request to you is that when considering Feng Shui as a profession, apply those considerations with the same dignity, expectations, and commitment that you would to any or all other work of value.  The universe has given us the environment as our schoolroom to help understand not only the nature of life, but also the power of the life force.  And through that exploration we directly affect individual lives and the quality of human existence.  

When challenged by mundane concerns, regarding your training program or a Feng Shui consultant, explore the nature of their origin, and if those concerns ie: financial, travel, time, are a reality, I encourage you to honor them. Then set forth your intentions to your higher power and ask for those obstacles to be lifted if it is part of your life’s path to do this work.  If the obstacles are not removed, then accept and trust that they were placed there not as a block to your life’s work, but as an impasse to help point you in the correct direction.  Often, these obstacles are not a detour at all, but provide you with the universal gift known as “the great delays”. That gift, when graciously accepted, will act as an energy field that is lovingly realigning the variables that are needed for your specific life path to unfold. 

As a Feng Shui enthusiast or consultant, our first lesson, and challenge, is to accept unconditionally this process of “life changes”.  Many times, if given the situation, then given choice, it would not be what we choose for ourselves… consciously.  But, the universe is always working in Divine Order, and trust that there is no mundane obstacle that exists on the planet that is bigger or greater than the Universal plan.  So, if it is part of your Karma, your work here on the planet to be a Feng Shui Consultant, then the first step of the process is your commitment to see that work through.  Once you open up to the willingness to relinquish control, face your fears, and allow the changes that are needed to take place in your life, the obstacles that once served as a deterrent will be lifted because they will no longer be needed.  The age-old wisdom of the Chinese adage states that there are five main factors that will determine your life: destiny, luck, Feng Shui, accumulated good deeds and…education. Learn to draw on all of them and you will maximize your life’s potential.   

Nancy SantoPietro is an Internationally known Feng Shui Consultant, Lecturer and Author of Bestselling Feng Shui: Harmony By Design and Feng Shui & Health: The Anatomy of a Home. Her consultation company Nancy SantoPietro & Associates located in Brooklyn, New York provides consultations for businesses and homes throughout the country and internationally.   Her training program “The Accelerated Path”™ Feng Shui & Chakra Energy System trains Feng Shui Consultants for work in the next millennium. For information, call (718) 256-2640

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