Nancilee Wydra

September 2, 2010

Vacationing Until After Labor Day!

Filed under: Feng Shui — Intelligent feng shui @ 5:24 am

You’ll be hearing from be after Sept. 6th!

September 1, 2010

Feng Shui Secrets to Having People Listen to You

Filed under: Feng Shui,Physical Sciences,Science,Social Sciences,Tao,Yin/Yang — Intelligent feng shui @ 5:23 pm

Pyramid feng shui is a rational, scientifically based approach to how place affects the human condition.

 Ever wonder if people are focusing in on what you are saying? Or worst yet, do you notice eyes drifting away or morphing into that blank stare that indicates that your words are not penetrating into their brains?  If the answer is ever yes then reading how using feng shui principles to reduce lack of focus will help to reduce if not eliminates mental wanderings and drains focus.

 When you want others to listen to you:

 Do not sit in front of a daytime window for attention will be dissipated.  Biologically the eye is drawn to light.  Thus, try to have a light on you since the eye naturally gravitates and remains on the most lit area of a room.

  •  Place yourself facing the entrance of a room since open doors or passageways offer another biological seduction, distance.  Yes, in any space with edges (walls) the eye seeks the furthest distance. 
  • Be careful that there is nothing moving within a three foot area surrounding you.  Again the eye is geared toward paying attention to movement.

 Be sure that what you have to say includes actually or visually “doing”.  Even ideas that seem to have nothing to do with personal involvement can be conjured up with a call to action.  An example might be to vote for my candidate because…and then you can evoke a picture of going to the headquarters and getting a free bumper sticker.  Included in all the necessities of staying alive are physical actions, thus as all teachers know some of us learn best kinesthetically. 

  • Mitigate any discomfort with color.  For example if you are in a crowded space evoke white or the rejection of all colors.  In a cold space evoke warm colors to counterbalance discomfort. It could be as innocuous as mentioning that my candidate gave a speech dressed in a clean, white shirt, or did you know that my candidate has more blue ties than any other color.

 

  • If your audience is at a distance of over 40 feet be sure to wear a strong diagonal line or colors with long lengths like red or orange. A suit jacket with a cut away neckline is often all the diagonal line you need or a tie with a diagonal stripe.  Again the eye seeks diagonal lines before right angled ones.

 

So while this may not seem like rocket science, if you do these things, you will discover that people are more likely to focus on what you are saying.  And who doesn’t like to be heard?

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August 27, 2010

Blue Moon, Two Moons or Just Plain Moonshine

Filed under: Elements,Feng Shui,Science,Social Sciences,Tao,Yin/Yang — Intelligent feng shui @ 9:09 pm

 Pyramid feng shui is a rational scientifically based way of understanding how place impacts on human behaviors.

What does it matter if there are really two moons circulating the earth tonight or just that Mars comes very close to the earth, appearing like a moon? What matters is that we all need to believe in magic even when the reality is merely a sleight of hand or trick to avert attention. My life would not be as thrilling if I were to doubt the opportunity to experience something special and when harmless, any belief in magic can unlock innumerable possibilities. Ask any child.

August 23, 2010

Why the Aged are Not Considered Sages

Filed under: Elements,Feng Shui,Science,Social Sciences,Tao,Yin/Yang — Intelligent feng shui @ 5:32 pm

Pyramid feng shui is a rational scientifically based way of understanding how place impacts on human behaviors.

I had a phone conversation with my brilliant friend Uma who was telling me about a book called “The Sage’s Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for the Second Half of Life.” A discussion of this book led us to ponder why distant cultures and other eras assigned wisdom as a enhancement of getting older when today, age is considered an impediment, something to override.

What occurred to me is that in ancient times the life experience one’s grandparents was very similar to current-life styles.  Technological and cultural alterations were infrequent and changes occurred slowly like molasses pouring from a jar.  Today, they enter into the mainstream with the force of ballistics. 

Considering this how can today’s aged, who have been dealing with life in the fast but not lightening speed of change even be current, no less savvy about the new? 

I remember my successful and street-smart father giving me advice about business from his early twentieth century perspective.  He was sage in the context of his generation, but I shudder to think how a hedge fund manager would regard his perspective.  Dad’s counsel worked in the world before the Internet, before money outdistanced product in the marketplace.  His wisdom was caught in the web of time and today, his views would seem naïve, outdated, anything but sage.

In a world that is changing faster than a speeding bullet, those of us who remember when the trigger was engaged are apt to be dismissed as easily as a spent cartridge.

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August 19, 2010

A Gift from the Gods Can Alter our Carbon Footprint

Filed under: Feng Shui,Physical Sciences,Science — Intelligent feng shui @ 8:35 pm

 A week of lectures about alternative energy here at Chautauqua Institute  illuminates the  crisis we’re in and the solutions we have.  A most inspirational lecturer and expert about an under considered alternative, Dr. Habib Dagher, Director of the AEWC – Advanced Structures & Composites Center at the. University of Maine, spoke about wind power, what has been done, what can be done and what his State Maine is doing in this area.  It was the first speaker that gave me hope about how we can solve our carbon energy crisis. 

Let me briefly lay out why.

Nuclear energy while free of carbon footprint is riddled with the accumulating affects of what do to with the spent radioactive fuel rods.  While France is beginning to recycle fuel rods, which means to reactivate them, still  these highly dangerous materials must be transported, worked with and are in the vicinity of the public.   The security associated with any compromise of nuclear plants is far too high a price to pay when we have a non-toxic alternative, free for the harnessing.

Dr. Dagher, a brilliantly enthusiastic supporter of wind energy stole my heart.  He suggested that there are enough coastal places in the USA to build wind plants that would equal in energy the output of a nuclear plants.  Especially windy are the oceans twenty miles off the Northeast coast of the USA,  Florida and parts of California, Oregon and Washington.  Not to mention a swatch down the center of our country as many of you have seen in T. Bone Pickens’ advertisements.

The technology is there and Europe is far ahead of us in putting these wind generators in place.  If you are interested in watching his explanation of how these plants are built go to Fora.tv and watch Dr. Dagher’s video.  You will be amazed and become, as I have, a proponent of wind power. 

August 16, 2010

Bravo 2010 Chautauqua Dancers

Filed under: Feng Shui — Intelligent feng shui @ 2:45 am

To my dear dancers summer 2010

Hold onto your dreams even when they seem to take you where you least expect it.  You alone know what is in your heart and while your path may be incomprehensible and seemingly askew from your intent, you will be surprised to discover that it will lead you to the front door of your hopes and desires. 

No one ever succeeds without failing.  But fear not stumbling or falling short of your own demands for they can be the spark that lights the way into your perfection.  Do not be afraid.

What is so special about you is the resolve you permeate into focus and hard work. It is the core that can guide your through a meaningful and fulfilling existence. 

It is with the greatest admiration that I thank you for being part of my life this summer.

Love

Nancilee

August 12, 2010

The Value of Abrupt Irregularity

Filed under: Elements,Feng Shui,Physical Sciences,Science,Tao,Yin/Yang — Intelligent feng shui @ 11:24 am

Patterns, those comforting iterations that we fall into like a needle in a 78 record’s groove.

Yes, they make life easy.  They automatically propel us into an action that results in predictable consequences.  We wake up stumble into the bathroom, exit and then perhaps, walk the dog, make a morning hot drink, shower, – you get the picture we are routin-ize.

So why do we wonder why we can’t change?  How can we walk down a different path when there are no alternatives?  That’s why I want you to think about abrupt irregularities.

Name a behavior you wish to alter and describe the pattern in your home environment that support unconsciously duplicating of these behaviors. Here’s one of mine and how I can change them.

If you were to visit me at home, you would find the kitchen clean, the bed made, all surfaces clean and orderly with the immense exception of my desk top.  Piled with papers in no particular order, it is a storm in a sea of calm  Normally, I would never take a visitor to that space for fear of revealing the desktop chaos. 

What abrupt irregularity can I do to change this pattern?   Since I care about how things look in the rest of my home, how about moving my desk to a public area so that it could not be hidden from view forcing me to alter its housekeeping?  This idea came to me  because this summer, I have rented a space that only has one main room that houses, the sitting, eating and my office area.  I am motivated to keep my desk tidy.

Try an abrupt irregularity in your home and let me know how that change alters behaviors you want to reverse.

August 10, 2010

To My Son “You Can’t Throw Out Your Past Like a Broken Toy

Filed under: Feng Shui,Tao — Intelligent feng shui @ 6:00 am

Pyramid feng shui is a rational scientifically based way of understanding how place impacts on human

You can’t throw out your past like a broken toy

Even when it seems as if it is irrelevant, even detrimental

Like the two cells that expanded into the universe of you

Tossing a handful of them away doesn’t augment

It diminishes

Make peace with bruises and infractions

Like an amputated limb they never disappear

You will always be your own all

The all of your past

Always embedded in the now

And the nows of the future

Even when I am not

 

August 8, 2010

Reinventing the Wheel or Not

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Pyramid feng shui is a rational scientifically based way of understanding how place impacts on human

The words of Edward O. Wilson, a Harvard biologist and author of “Consilience” (Knopf, 1998) are to me the most exciting evidence that reality is much larger than one imagines. He writes: “all tangible phenomena, from the birth of stars to the workings of social institution, are based on material processes that are ultimately reducible, however long and tortuous the sequences, to the laws of physics.” This suggests that the amount of mysteries in this universe are but patterns that repeat themselves over and over again, just like a woman or might make when selecting a mate for the umpteenth time. We tend to repeat ourselves and so does everything in the universe it seems. That the same pattern that forms cancer is the same pattern that is inherent in the structure that harbingers the downfall of a society. That the righting of wrongs is the same pattern that is inherent in healing. This coupled with the knowledge that our brain is used mostly (80%) to communicate intra brain and body and that we literally speak to ourselves more than we speak to those around us or within our own mind is the foundation upon which I have structured my ideas about healing. Whatever your personal choice for affecting healing is, it must be completely tried and trusted for then it will match the archetype pattern that champions your healing. What kind of healer are you? Do you choose to ignore and “muscle through” an illness or are you careful to follow every directive given to you by a trusted medical person? Whatever your illness is, don’t reinvent your wheel. What has worked for you in the past will work again and what has not won’t. Sometimes, it takes a completely different approach to augment positive results. For example, if I say I will be careful and watch my diet to loose weight, I can tell you right here and now that I won’t loose an ounce. The only affective dieting for me has been to be on a very ordered, structured regiment, exactly the opposite of what I want to do. Of course, there are the dieters that constantly fail on an ordered, structured regiment. Thus, the first step to healing is finding out what pattern has in the past worked for you and then repeat it. Some wheels don’t need reinventing and some do. Only you know which they are. 

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August 4, 2010

All You Need is Love

Filed under: Elements,Feng Shui,Physical Sciences,Science,Social Sciences,Tao,Yin/Yang — Intelligent feng shui @ 8:26 pm

Pyramid feng shui is a rational scientifically based way of understanding how place impacts on humans
Again Chautauqua Institute continues to deepen my understanding of what humans need to thrive.  It was not an esteemed speaker at the Institute, but my dear friend Merle Citron, teacher of the year in Ewing Township public schools 1991 and 1999, who told me about the orphans of Iowa.   We were talking about how important early childhood experiences are to formulating the rest of a person’s life when she told me about two psychologists, H.H. Skeels and H. B Dye, who, during the 1930’s, tested their radical hypothesis about thriving and nurturing.  They transferred 13 out of 25 of the most seriously retarded infants to Glenwood State School, an institution for adult mentally retarded patients who ranged in age between 18-50 and had a mental age range of 5-12 years old.   Each of the 13 infants, who averaged 19 months old, was assigned to a retarded woman who then had to take care of her infant in every way. Under supervision they changed diapers, fed, hugged and talked to their charge, just like a mother would do.  The other 12 infants of the group of 25 remained at an orphanage which was considered a good one with a highly trained staff (Henslen, 1995).    It was assumed that the slightly higher intelligence of the 12 retarded infants who remained at the orphanage would be considerable higher than the 13 infants with lower scores who were cared for by a retarded person.      
 

Two and a half years later Skeels and Dye tested the intelligence of the 13 orphans raised by the retarded women against the intelligence of the dozen infants left back at the orphanage as a control group.  The results were astounding. The IQs of the infants who had been cared for by mentally retarded women had risen a whopping twenty-eight points while the IQs of the control group at the orphanage had dropped thirty points!  The scientists had made an incredible discovery! Being cared for, cuddled and loved is more important than anything else for intellectual development.  Merle tells me that follow up studies on these children showed that most married, some went on to receive a college education, and all lived a normal, happy life.

Yes, George, Ringo, John, and Paul…all you need is love.

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