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A New York Feng Shui Consultant Explores “Hauntings”

Whenever people think of “A Haunting” in relation to Long Island—just 45 minutes from New York City they automatically think of The Amityville Horror House. Made famous by a book and movie of the same name, it claimed that a house located in Amityville Long Island was haunted due to the terrible incident in the home.

 An entire family murdered—it later revealed that one of the sons, Ronald DeFao had killed his entire family while they were sleeping. Although most New York Feng Shui Consultants believe very much in Predecessor Energy, I believe this later turned out to be a hoax.

There IS one place on Long Island New York that I have visited once before and tend to stay away from. It was the earliest stories of Hauntings I’d ever heard as a child. I went once at night and found the place SO eerie, I had never traveled the road again. Until recently.

 I am speaking of Mt. Misery Road located in Huntington New York. Mt. Misery did NOT get it’s NAME from the Haunting, it was actually called that from earlier settlers who found the roads too difficult to travel on. Some people say there are UFO’s there. Many have seen ghosts wandering around in the darkness. The road at night is completely dark and very narrow---actually there is nothing to indicate the END of the road except a piece of wood---pretty easy to miss.

There are also reported to be “Men in Black” there. Residents report seeing these men quite often, and they are always spotless….even in the rain they are reported to be dry. History says there was a hospital on the grounds at one time. Some say it was a psychiatric hospital that burned down, reportedly taking the residents with it. In the end, Mt. Misery is best known for “MARY’S GRAVE.” The ghost of Mary who is buried nearby and died a tragic death on the road, she now refuses to leave. She is said to be a being who is earthbound. Say what you will, Long Island has it’s share of Haunted Areas. It’s interesting that many of my photos from that day DID not come out…..hmmmm.

These are the ones that did:

The Long and Winding Road...

Cheery Sign Post

Three Sixes--Painted on the poles

Shoes?

The Woods...

The End...No Warning and No Lights.

 If you're ever inclined to visit Mt. Misery Road in Huntington Long Island--bring your GPS.  And lights!

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Carole Provenzale and Laura Cerrano founded Feng Shui Long Island & New York in 1997 and provide Feng Shui Consultations onsite for New York City - Manhattan - and all of Long Island for Homes, Offices, Retail, Businesses, Renovations, Studios & Condos, Renovations and New Construction.  Also available for workshops and lectures and works closely with Realtors to assist in the sale of homes.

The Chinese New Year 2009:  Feng Shui Advice from a Feng Shui New York City-Manhattan Consultant.

Things you MUST do to start YOUR year off RIGHT!

Posting about the Chinese New Year has become a Feng Shui Long Island and New York Consultant's Tradition.  The ENERGY of this time of year is magnified by many and very intense.  Here again are a list of things I do as a Feng Shui Consultant in New York City to ensure success for the coming year in ALL aspects of my life

I urge you to try them as well.  They are inexpensive and simple and they DO work!  The Chinese New Year in 2009 begins on January 26^th and lasts for 15 days.  You might even want to celebrate with a nice Chinese Dinner but book NOW-These festivities in New York City sell out FAST.

Remember, too, that ENERGY FOLLOWS INTENT.  In The Secret it is called the Law of Attraction, in Feng Shui we use the word Intention.  Here's to The BEST 2009-The Year of the Ox-for ALL of you!

• Pay down your credit cards bills or make an early payment.  Anything you can put to those bills show that you have every intention of paying them off as soon as possible.

*         A Few "C" Words:  Clean.  Clear the dust and the cobwebs from your space AND  your mind.  The very act of cleaning helps to energize your space. And start the year off with a new environment.

 *          Clutter-or DE-Clutter in most cases.  Remember the rule of thumb with Clutter                

                                IF YOU DON'T NEED IT, USE IT OR LOVE IT, GET RID OF IT. 

                                            Allow plenty of room for the new energy you are creating.

• Make some changes:  With the New Year and this very auspicious time, make some changes in your life or in your routines.  Take risks, start new plans, open yourself up to possibilities that you might never have dared to dream.  It's time to be truly open to changes that come your way---Look into EVERY opportunity that may come your way before turning it down!

     *     Add Fresh Flowers to as many rooms in your home as possible.  In Feng Shui,fresh flowers signify fresh ENERGY.  Remember to get some colors mixed in to help signify all the elements of Feng Shui.

• Add a bowl of fruit in your kitchen ( your area of nourishment and considered by Many to be the most important room in your home).  Fruit signifies ABUNDANCE in ALL Areas.  Create some for yourself this year and every year.

• Open the doors and windows as close to midnight or AT midnight if possible.    By Doing this you are letting in the New, Fresh Energy.

• Burn a candle if you are home-blowing it out just around midnight as well.  Send your intentions OUT and truly Celebrate this day....It is by many accounts, a New Day to start all over again.

• Try to resolve any "unfinished business."  Particularly, if you can make amends  with someone you've had difficulties with in the past.

         *     Make a Blessings List:  List All the wonderful things you Do have in your life  And all the things you have to be grateful for.

• This is the time to use Red Envelopes if you have them.  Fill 9 Red Envelopes With 3 like coins...3 nickels, Dimes or Quarters.  Place them in the WEALTH areas of your home according to the Bagua.  NOTE:  They do NOT need to show!

• Respect your Money.  Don't throw it back in your wallet or pocketbook, put it in order in your wallet. 
• Replace any burned out Light Bulbs.  Light up your space...and your life.

     *    This is a wonderful time to Smudge your home using pure, Native American   SAGE. If you have not done this in the last six months and are not allergic toSmoke, walk hrough EACH room of your house paying particular attention to                                   .          Corners where Energy can linger and become stagnant.

  **    You can also clear your home by

           Using SOUND techniques.  Ringing a bell or even chiming a spoon on a crystal Glass will accompliish this.

• Clean your mirrors. Your mirrors are a reflection of YOU.  You should see Yourself clearly so you can see exactly where you are going in life.

• A Special Note for your Home Office or Office Desk:  You can use Feng ShuiPrinciples on them as well to connect your home and your business.  An upcoming post will provide more information if needed.
• You're going to be making some changes in your surroundings right now that will have a huge impact on the coming year.  Please remember:  Simply making these changes will not be nearly as effective unless you put your INTENTIONS behind them. 
• FOCUS on what you really want in your life this year.  Every single time you make a change, keep in mind WHY you are doing it and what you wish to create.

                                                        HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! 

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Feng Shui Long Island and New York was established in 1997 by Certified Feng Shui Consultant Carole Provenzale.  Along with Laura Cerrano, Feng Shui Long Island provides on site Feng Shui Consultations for all of Long Island and New York City-Manhattan and distance consultations by phone.

Feng Shui Consultations are available for Homes, Offices, Businesses, Retail, Corporations, Renovations and New Construction.  We also work closely with Realtors for Home Redesign and Pre-Purchase and teaching the Art of Feng Shui to Real Estate Agents.

Activerain:  A Feng Shui Consultant's Journey to 300,000 Points

If ANYONE had told me in October, 2006 that I would EVER reach this milestone (or still be on this site), I would have NEVER believed them.  NEVER!  This post should be dedicated to my friends but the group specifies it has to be about the JOURNEY....and what a Journey it has been!

Although I signed on at that time, having found a blog and going to the source to "check it out" I stumbled on JUST ANOTHER SITE.  So I thought.  I signed up and didn't think about it again for a few months.  I had a big presentation for The Long Island Board of Realtors on both Feng Shui and Home Staging to present-and I put all my Energy into putting it together.

Coming back, I decided to just introduce myself;  With something PROFOUND of course.  I believe the title of my first post was "Hi All."  Suffice to say it didn't go over very well.  Neither did my next post about Home Staging and Feng Shui.  I did get one comment from our very own Val Allocco who welcomed me to the site and lived nearby.

While Feng Shui is commonplace in New York, I didn't realize it wasn't even KNOWN elsewhere-or that there were some very serious misconceptions about it-AND the Consultants that practice it.

After posting for a while, I seriously considered getting off Activerain.  I'd had no comments (although I DID have a few not very nice emails asking me to leave).  I don't know why I persisted to be honest.  Maybe just because I hate giving up---or maybe it was more.  IF I could GET PEOPLE TO READ ME, MAYBE I COULD CLEAR UP SOME OF THOSE MISCONCEPTIONS.

I started posting to other groups-and started getting comments.  I was stirring an interest with just a few people-and then a few more.  When my posts got featured is when people noticed me-many wrote they didn't even KNOW a Feng Shui Consultant was on this site.

Business picked up--and up.  But that isn't what keeps me here.  As big as Activerain has gotten, we are FAMILY.  Who help each other out and truly DO care about one another. 

Through UPS and DOWNS  I have received support, encouragement and help.  And have sent lots of blessings and continue to do so to all those that have helped me along the way.  Bless you all, each one of you is Precious to me.

There IS a Feng Shui Consultant on Activerain!  My advice to anyone just starting out on here---it can begin as a lonely road but DON'T GIVE UP.  Those who are meant to find you will.  And remember some of my mother's favorite words:

"If you want to HAVE A FRIEND, YOU HAVE TO BE ONE."

Blessings to every SINGLE one of you who has helped me along the way....I would not be here if it weren't for you.

I thought I'd leave a few of my favorite posts during the last two years on ActiveRain.

FUN Feng Shui in New York City: What ELSE does a Feng Shui Consultant do?   What incredible things you find in New York City!

Let's Talk About Predecessor Energy: A Feng Shui Post from Feng Shui Long Island   What you SHOULD know about Energy in Homes.

Can LOCALISM Posts Actually HURT You? Today I got my answer.....   Why I belive in being REAL.

Mirror, Mirror----WAIT! Don't Hang Me Yet!! by Feng Shui Long Island   Any questions about Mirrors?

Some Posts Just HIT You REALLY HARD By Feng Shui Long Island

FENG SHUI EYES by Feng Shui Long Island, New York City   Another way to see the World

What's in the HEART of Your Home? UPDATED! A Feng Shui Home in Pictures..... Health issues in a home---You Can SEE them.

Activerain: BENEFITS VS. RISKS   Just because it was so much FUN to write :)

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*Carole Provenzale has been a Certified Feng Shui Consultant since 1997 and is the Founder of  Feng Shui Long Island providing Feng Shui Consultations for all of New York City and Long Island and Online/Phone Consultations for those at a distance for homes, offices, businesses, corporations, renovations, and new construction. 

On a call I received recently on the North Shore of Long Island for a Feng Shui Consultation, my client could FEEL that the energy in his home had changed.  Along with new financial issues and relationship problems, he knew about Feng Shui and KNEW the renovations had something to do with what he was feeling.  He had recently moved to Oyster Bay from Manhattan.

He told me he had searched the Internet and come across my name-and that he'd found my blogs and read many of them.  They made sense to him he said and told me he'd been reading about Feng Shui for quite a while but needed an "expert."

When a prospective Feng Shui Client tells me they can FEEL the Energy is off in their space, even if they don't know WHY, I believe them.  I do believe you can feel subtle changes in your environment as well as the bigger ones.

In this case it was recent renovations he'd had done in his home.  From a Feng Shui Perspective, we often like to see a home BEFORE renovations to review plans and to provide blessings prior to the beginning.

The Energy in a space moves rapidly during renovations and to help slow it down and ensure it goes well we like to use both Interior and Exterior Blessings.  In addition, reviewing the floor plans is a wonderful idea so we don't create any issues from a Feng Shui point of view.

This remodel was done in the Kitchen-the "HEART" of the home.  It also happened  to be located in the Relationship area of the Bagua.  Money had become an issue he told me, as well as relationships. 

Knowing that, I left the kitchen until the end.  By that time he had a thorough knowledge of Feng Shui Principles and using the Bagua.  Aside from a wall they had added which cut the kitchen off from the rest of the home-making energy work harder to get IN there, he himself noticed what he was feeling-BECAUSE NOW HE COULD SEE IT.

The wall was one issue and I gave him some suggestions on how to make the space look and feel "open" again.  This is what he saw in the kitchen---or I should say, in the RELATIONSHIP PART OF THE KITCHEN.

A bunch of sharp knives.  Sharp objects give off a "cutting" energy and we tend to keep them out of sight.

A clock:  Clocks and watches can give the feeling of passing time; Our precious time ticking away. I personally don't advise many clocks to be around.

A blender.  Where else would you find a blender then in the kitchen?  But think again of the ENERGY of a blender-it cuts and chops things up.  They should be out of sight when not in use.

Placement of objects IS important in Feng Shui by the Energy they emit.  Aside from the wall, they were relatively simple things that my client was feeling....he's going to make some changes through his house but I loved that HE could see exactly what he was feeling.

*As per my client's wishes, no photos were taken.

http://www.FengShuiLongIsland.com

*Feng Shui Long Island & New York was founded in 1997 by Carole Provenzale and Laura Cerrano and provide Certified Feng Shui Consultations on site for all of New York City-Manhattan and Long Island.

Creating Your Own Road Blocks

Whether it's a Feng Shui Process or anything else in life you want to create do you ever wonder if you're somehow standing in your own way?

We do everything we're supposed to do....we INFUSE our Energy into things we want to change, we make physical changes in our surroundings, we TRY very hard to keep positive thoughts and we sometimes find we are STILL NOT GETTING WHAT WE WANT.

Why IS that?  It seems to work for other people.....

I do tell ALL my Feng Shui Clients in New York to not just make changes in their surroundings but to do it with INTENTION.  I also do something most Feng Shui Consultants don't ask their clients to do.....I ask for them to take time and write out their intentions on paper which is enclosed in the RED ENVELOPES given to me at the end of the consultation.

I do not read them....but I do ask my clients to do it for two reasons.  While writing them out they are really infusing their energy into these Intentions and putting their focus on what they want to create.  I also "work" with these envelopes for 9 nights following a Feng Shui Consultation. 

I will often "see" things differently then we had discussed or have them do something additional.  We were told years ago to remember to work with the envelopes always, they are an exchange of ENERGY.  And over the years have had some amazing things happen with this energy.

I had written before about "The Law of ALLOWANCE" and at the time, it wasn't widely received...."Give up?" people asked me.  That's not what I'm saying at all.  I have seen when people make simple changes and focus they will often get exactly what they want-and MORE.

But as humans we are impatient.  Maybe what we WANT isn't what's BEST for us.  Then it's not likely that no matter how much we focus on it, it's going to come.  Please put your intentions behind every thing you do and the changes (big OR small) that you make.  And then wait, have patience and ALLOW the very things that are supposed to come into your life to enter.

They may not be exactly what you THOUGHT you wanted....but they ARE the things that are supposed to come your way.  Embrace them, they came for a reason.

I was reminded of this recently by hearing again a favorite saying of mine:

"When the Tides of Life turn against you

 And the Current upsets your boat,

 Don't waste your tears on what may have been---

 Just lay on your back and FLOAT."

Can anyone tell me where the wisdom of these words came from?  Maybe it's time some of us just "Floated."

*Feng Shui Long Island & New York was founded in 1997 by Carole Provenzale and Laura Cerrano and provide Certified Feng Shui Consultations on site for all of New York City-Manhattan and Long Island.

http://www.FengShuiLI.com