Harmony Blog

JOY at the Center of Your Home
What I’ve observed after working with many different homes is that the feeling of what is placed at the center, or how the center area is treated, sends out a ripple effect to the rest of the entire home.

At the Heart of Organizing
Clutter-clearing and organizing are a big part of feng shui, no doubt about it. There are all sorts of practical systems out there to help with getting and staying organized, and they do work if they’re a good fit for the organizing style you have inherently.

Testing the Quality of Energy in Your Environment
This technique, testing for the spin of the spaces where we live and work, is one of the most valuable pieces of information I have come across in all the years I’ve been practicing feng shui.

Beautiful Images for All the Senses
“Imagery”, in a feng shui context, usually means paintings, photos, all we visually see. In reality, sensory input from any of our senses – sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste, plus kinesthetic awareness of how we move through space – produces an “image” in the brain.

Simple Space Clearing
The practice of Feng Shui includes many different techniques and types of information. Compass School feng shui assessments, which I have provided for 18 years now, require study and experience, as do several other aspects of understand what affects a property.

Love Where You Are
A while back a friend sent me a card with a drawing on the front of it of a woman dressed in a business suit addressing several other business people gathered round a meeting table, her pointer aimed emphatically at a downward spiking graph behind her.
![Organizing With Your [Inner] Five Year Old](https://www.hollandfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Organizing-With-Your-Inner-Five-Year-Old.jpg)
Organizing With Your [Inner] Five Year Old
When my older son was five years old he shared a bedroom with his younger brother who was three. Between them they reigned over a small bedroom kingdom of many toys and books acquired from doting relatives.

Balance Your Environment, Balance Yourself
Balance is a state of centered equilibrium. When we are in balance we can respond creatively and appropriately to every facet of our lives – relationships, work, physical health, creative expression and spiritual focus.

Parking Lot Epiphany
On a beautiful day in December of 1996, I was walking across a parking lot in Kailua-Kona on the big island of Hawaii, and out of the blue I had a realization that stopped me in my tracks, and changed the course of my work.

JOY at the Center of Your Home
What I’ve observed after working with many different homes is that the feeling of what is placed at the center, or how the center area is treated, sends out a ripple effect to the rest of the entire home.

At the Heart of Organizing
Clutter-clearing and organizing are a big part of feng shui, no doubt about it. There are all sorts of practical systems out there to help with getting and staying organized, and they do work if they’re a good fit for the organizing style you have inherently.

Testing the Quality of Energy in Your Environment
This technique, testing for the spin of the spaces where we live and work, is one of the most valuable pieces of information I have come across in all the years I’ve been practicing feng shui.

Beautiful Images for All the Senses
“Imagery”, in a feng shui context, usually means paintings, photos, all we visually see. In reality, sensory input from any of our senses – sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste, plus kinesthetic awareness of how we move through space – produces an “image” in the brain.

Simple Space Clearing
The practice of Feng Shui includes many different techniques and types of information. Compass School feng shui assessments, which I have provided for 18 years now, require study and experience, as do several other aspects of understand what affects a property.

Love Where You Are
A while back a friend sent me a card with a drawing on the front of it of a woman dressed in a business suit addressing several other business people gathered round a meeting table, her pointer aimed emphatically at a downward spiking graph behind her.
![Organizing With Your [Inner] Five Year Old](https://www.hollandfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Organizing-With-Your-Inner-Five-Year-Old.jpg)
Organizing With Your [Inner] Five Year Old
When my older son was five years old he shared a bedroom with his younger brother who was three. Between them they reigned over a small bedroom kingdom of many toys and books acquired from doting relatives.

Balance Your Environment, Balance Yourself
Balance is a state of centered equilibrium. When we are in balance we can respond creatively and appropriately to every facet of our lives – relationships, work, physical health, creative expression and spiritual focus.

Parking Lot Epiphany
On a beautiful day in December of 1996, I was walking across a parking lot in Kailua-Kona on the big island of Hawaii, and out of the blue I had a realization that stopped me in my tracks, and changed the course of my work.