#positive energy spaces

[harmonyhealinghub]

Feng Shui: Balancing Your Space for Harmony and Positive Energy Shaina Tranquilino January 5, 2024

In today's fast-paced, technology-driven world, finding balance and tranquility in our lives has become more important than ever. Feng Shui, an ancient Chinese practice dating back thousands of years, offers a unique approach to creating harmony and positive energy within our living spaces. Whether you're looking to improve your home or office environment, incorporating Feng Shui principles can have a profound impact on your overall well-being. At its core, Feng Shui is about the flow and arrangement of energy, known as "Qi," in our surroundings. By understanding how Qi moves through different spaces and how it interacts with elements such as light, colour, furniture placement, and natural materials, we can create an environment that supports and nurtures us.

One key aspect of Feng Shui is decluttering. Clutter not only overwhelms our physical space but also affects our mental state. According to Feng Shui principles, clutter blocks the flow of Qi and hinders opportunities from entering our lives. By removing unnecessary items from our surroundings and organizing our belongings thoughtfully, we can open up space for new possibilities.

Another fundamental principle of Feng Shui is balancing the five elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Each element represents specific qualities and characteristics that contribute to a harmonious environment. For example:

1. Wood symbolizes growth, vitality, and creativity. Incorporate wooden furniture or plants to introduce this element into your space.

2. Fire embodies passion, excitement, and transformation. Use candles or bright colours sparingly to bring in this element while avoiding overwhelming effects.

3. Earth signifies stability, nourishment, and grounding. Decorate with earthy tones such as beige or brown and include natural materials like stones or ceramics.

4. Metal represents clarity, precision, and efficiency. Introduce metallic accents or décor pieces made of metals like copper or silver to enhance this element.

5. Water embodies calmness, reflection, and abundance. Add a small fountain or mirror to create the illusion of water in your space.

Additionally, paying attention to the Bagua map can help guide you in optimizing different areas of your home or office. The Bagua is an energy map divided into nine sections, each corresponding to a specific area of life such as health, wealth, relationships, and career. By aligning these areas with their respective elements and enhancing them accordingly, one can attract positive energy and improve various aspects of life.

It's worth noting that Feng Shui is not about blindly following rules; it's about creating a space that resonates with you personally. While general principles are essential to consider, ultimately, trust your intuition and what feels right for you.

Incorporating Feng Shui principles into your living or working environment can bring numerous benefits. It can enhance overall well-being, boost productivity and creativity, foster harmonious relationships, increase abundance and prosperity, and promote better physical and mental health.

If you're new to Feng Shui or unsure where to start, consulting with a Feng Shui expert can provide valuable insights tailored to your specific needs. They can help assess your space and make recommendations based on its unique characteristics.

Remember that Feng Shui is a continuous process – regularly reassessing your space as circumstances change ensures that the energy remains balanced. By investing time and effort into creating a harmonious environment through Feng Shui practices, you'll find yourself surrounded by positive energy that supports your goals and aspirations.

[sysig]

*You’re starting to feel very sleepy... (Patreon)

[authenticcadence18]

Twice this week I have received comments on Can’t Help Falling in Love critiquing my use of tags and I’m just like?

those “extra” tags have been there for four years? no im not going to delete them?? I think if it truly was a big issue one of my moots/writer friends would’ve brought it up to me by now???

I use tags to express my creative voice and personality. And I DO include lots of real tags.

if someone makes something FOR FREE and it’s not harmful maybe just say what you like about it and move on?

like? do yall like my tags?? have my tags dissuaded you from checking out my stuff??? because I’ve been posting on ao3 since 2019 and this is the first time anyone has ever brought it up :/

[cringefailvox]

WRITING IS EASY AGAIN WE'RE SO FUCKING BACK

[uncanny-tranny]

You're allowed to be proud of yourself for achieving things that are not seen as achievements or are seen as "just the norm."

Sometimes, the achievement is reaching where others have always been, and it isn't about being normal, but about the things you have done to achieve a goal. You can celebrate and be proud no matter how "small" a feat it is

[cocoabuttavasa]

healthily floating.

[georg-prime]

Is alcohol really needed to have fun?

I don't know how to tag this and if anyone will/could help but, I've seen people say before they wished there were places to gather that wouldn't have alcohol. I'm guessing in the way bars are opened in the evening/at night, while coffee shops usually close early (at least most of the time, since they usually open during the day).

The coffee shop Time Out Space I talked about here, was opening until 9-10pm, but they had almost no one showing up so at some point decided to change a bit their opening hours, but it still didn't work unfortunately.

Now the people who run it think it must be because they don't sell hard alcohol (except for one type of light Korean beer but people have to also buy something to eat with it, for license reasons). They see bars all around town completely full every night, like so crowded people can't even find sits sometimes, and would even stay standing outside some bars with their glass awkwardly hovering until a group leave.

I think they simply didn't find the right partrons yet, people who have money to spend and would be into pop culture and would rather have a nice calm place to eat and drink soft drinks, and be able to play games and/or discuss nerdy stuff. I believe people who don't like super noisy full of drunk people bars exist, and it's sadly just hard to reach people through social media if you're not constantly pumping content and sharing pretty things, but being able to sell alcohol still wouldn't help them.

Does someone have ideas to be able to attract the right regular clients attention? Or are they right and the problem is the lack of alcohol?

[not-the-living-ghost]

Holy cannoli, Twitter Sucks!!

[girlelle]

shine bright like the stars

I love to see stars shining bright in the night sky.

ahh - so beautiful!

but there are stars that we will never be able to see.

because regions of space are moving away from one another, the first population of stars to form in the universe are now too far away for us to see them.

there's still hope, as we can still try to spot them indirectly from the energetic bursts of radiation they emit at the end of their lives

such a beautiful sight when stars light up the sky

we can shine bright like the stars and emit all the positive energy everywhere! be everything you want to be and shine bright like the stars.

happy Monday night

[quietwingsinthesky]

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[pastafossa]

how long did it take for your fanfiction to start getting some recognition? did you "advertise" it or "promote" it in any way?

i know that people say this doesn't matter, but i feel like even if you love writing the feeling that you're just talking to yourself gets pretty exhausting at some point. so i'm not talking about having thousands of readers but rather like. what's your advice to have readers at least?

- someone who hasn't even started writing their ideas yet...

LONG POST INCOMING.

First I want you (and everyone else reading who may be struggling with this) to know I'm absolutely with you and generally think 'it doesn't matter' is a horseshit answer. It's this weird thing we do in fanfic that we generally don't apply to other artforms that I've seen. If you're a painter, a playwriter, a novel writer, and you say, 'I want at least a few people to love my paintings, I want some people to come see my play, I want my novel to be published and do at least ok' we all support them, we nod, we agree, we talk about how they can do that successfully. It's considered normal to want some amount of success. But hold up fanfic instead and it becomes, 'how dare you want that praise, you're being egotistical, you should be writing only for yourself'. I'm not saying you can't do that - there are some who do - but it's definitely this bizarre switchup to say there's this single artform in which we can't want attention on our work and that there's something wrong with us if we do. That can be an absolute creativity killer depending on what kind of writer you are (hi, extrovert writer here who only gets writy writy juice from social interaction - aka comments and discussion. So I totally get it being exhausting just doing this on your own).

So let me say this categorically: you're allowed to want things. You're allowed to want kudos, comments, and hits. You're allowed to want messages and asks. You're allowed to want some readers you can talk with about your story.

You. Are. Allowed.

Ok, now that that's out of the way.

Edit: more below the cut cause I didn't realize the length of this on mobile

TRT definitely didn't get popular overnight. The first four chapters were sporadic, and then I took a hiatus due to life things for a couple years. During that time, it kept slowly ticking up bit by bit on AO3, with occasional comments. Iirc it was hovering somewhere around 700 kudos by the time I came back in Jan 2021 - and that's a awesome! It's big! But it's also a number that was gained over a few years, to put it in perspective. It absolutely took off after I came back though, and over the past 2 years both TRT's popularity and the stats of my one-shots in the fandom have grown. Part of that's just the time frame (TRT's been up about 6 years), but it's also due to a couple things that I think built up TRT's popularity.

Building a tumblr presence was huge. Ironically I didn't really intend to do it for advertising; I just wanted a place readers could ask questions or we could all freak out about Matt or I could post some drabbles or updates on the fic. But considering the fact that AO3 and tumblr are the top fic sites online, I wound up promoting my fics unintentionally just by being a friendly, happy tumblr user and fandom goer. All I did was follow the courtesy rules I knew - post stuff regularly, reblog, comment, make friends with other writers, just be friendly in your neighborhood because you love the lady with the gif flower shop on the corner or the wise old pizza maker who serves hot fandom takes all day long. I built familiarity with my writing and name by posting short fics, and by taking part in challenges and prompt lists and short requests for drabbles if I saw them, though that's something that's hard to do if you don't have time (I've got less time now, but I started this blog in the early pandemic so I had aaaaall the time in the world to write and was using it to stay sane). I tagged religiously because I LOVE tags, but that helped, too. Tumblr's search system is half broken but the half that works means people CAN find your writing even if they aren't following. Doing all this over here got me a huge boost over on AO3.

I will say that if you can have a fandom tiktok presence, there's a lot of fic reviewers, edits, and good stuff that can get your fic some readers (I've had some people do this on tiktok for TRT and it sent a surge over). I personally haven't done anything there yet, in part because while I'm on tiktok I try to keep my actual, real person accounts separate from my fic/fandom accounts and i haven't bothered to make a second account solely dedicated to the Pasta name yet.

Longfics on AO3 have the advantage in fic stats in the sense that every time you add a chapter, it gets bumped to the top of the front page and you get seen again. Eventually a lot of people will click out of curiosity. They may not, however, give you a lot of user subs or add to your other fic stats at first, whereas if you do a bunch of oneshots you're more likely to get user subs but less hits on each fic. This is a decision you'll have to make, and I know folks in both camps who built their followings using different methods on each. Either way, it helps if you're posting regularly, either in a long fic or one-shots. I call this the Stephen King method, who said he just writes a ton and throws it all at the wall, and eventually you get enough good despite the bad that you start building a following.

Learn learn learn. This is standard fic advice I always give, but it's still relevant. I think one of the reasons imo TRT has done so well is that I've spent a lot of time over the years learning how to write and edit - I read a ton of books (sometimes just to figure out HOW good authors structure their stories), I took a lot of English classes, I've taken some creative writing courses in my spare time. That two year hiatus was heavily spent doing a lot of research and practice around an original novel I want published one day. And I used ALL of that in TRT, just to see what it was like to put it all together. Be hungry for knowledge, be hungry to learn. The more you learn, the better your fic will be, and the more people that will click.

That learning also includes a looooong string of fanfics that started at a very novice level (hello 12 year old me), to fics that were ok and did moderately well but weren't anything huge. Hell, I had a tumblr account for my previous fandoms before I wandered over to Pastafossa, and while those fics did decently, I never had the huge reaction I've gotten here. But I used each and every one of those fics to learn and grow and adapt. Treat your own fics the same way. If it doesn't get hits, try to learn from it before moving on to the next idea a little wiser and a slightly better writer than before. There will always be people who start to follow you along the way.

A small one, but important: I swear to god, do not shit-talk yourself. Not in the summary, not in the tags, not in the A/Ns. I'm not talking, 'this is my first fic!' That's fine. I mean trashing your own work. Shit like, 'ha ha this sucks, it's terrible but oh well' will absolutely lower your stats, because people will believe you and will ditch your fic. On top of that, it's just mean to yourself, and as I said above, you want to be a good person in the fandom neighborhood. That means not breaking the windows of your own house.

People generally think of summaries as a side note, but a shitty summary can absolutely tank your stats. Treat it like the rest of your fic - this is the trailer before the movie, and it's a huge element of what gets people interested in the first place.

Lastly, like I said at the top, the biggest factor is time. There are people who post one fic and explode in popularity, absolutely. But far, far more little followings are built on the bones of time, of abandoned fics, of muttering and highlighting phrases in books in the middle of the night, of trying and trying and trying until we have at last have a breakthrough and then drag that breakthrough forward with us to the next fic. TRT is absolutely one part lightning in a bottle - the biggest success I've ever had anywhere with my writing, a confluence of fandom factors and world events that gave people (and me!) time to write and read. But it's also standing on the back of whole lot of fics I wrote that look like everyone else's: ones with no comments, low interaction, insults; ones where I had precisely zero idea of what I was doing, but wanted to try anyway. And the way I got through that, as a writer who needs interaction in order to create, was by building friendships in fandom so that even when a fic didn't do all that well, I still had friends I could talk to about the characters, the world, the fandom itself. I asked friends to look them over and give advice. I had friends being my cheerleaders. And if you're an extrovert like me, or just a writer who needs that to create, then those connections are vital as you build up a following.

That's a lot of what I've done. I know there are other ways to build a following, but this is generally what I've done, what I've learned to do, and it seems to have worked. Just remember that there are no bad fics - just learning opportunities. Learn something, and that fic's a success, and work as hard as you can to make those fandom connections to carry you through the process.

I absolutely hope to see your work around one day, so that I can be on of those followers!

[tenrose]

I hate living in this world.

[ongawdclub]

G o o d

E n e r g y

[zaethiopica]

Going through it as per usual

[wyaxbros-apparel]

[great-tusk]

For the fandom ask: what about Pokemon? :3

TY FOR THE ASK!!! I accidentally ranted so much about a character who I hate because I couldn’t talk to anyone about it. It’s refreshing to post my real opinions on characters. Breaking my silence on the worst character in the entire Pokémon franchise LMAOOO. I have, well let’s call it very strong opinions about him.

I also get very passionate (positive) about the Oaks.

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most)

Definitely Blue LMAO. I think about him 24/7.

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped)

The whole Deino line. I can not explain the affection that I feel for those guys. They don’t give me cuteness aggression (the idea of hurting those little guys makes me sad), but a part of me feels a parental instinct. That’s my baby. I need to take care of them and make them happy and feel whole and themself. To stop the turmoil in their brains and replace it with a warmness that settles deep in their heart.

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave)

Hop. He’s very sweet and constantly trying his best and falls into a bad mental state that causes him to be so insecure that he tries a bunch of different Pokémon and strategies. He’s trying to follow in his brother’s footsteps despite it not being the right path for him. His family doesn’t have a single picture of him on the wall. Hop essentially has his emotional needs neglected (when Leon hears how shitty he’s feeling, he just goes ‘oh silly Hop… what a stupid worry! why would he think that?!) and relies on the player as one of the only people to treat him with kindness.

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)

I LOVE THE OAK FAMILY SO MUCH, and Daisy Oak shows up in the Kanto and Johto games. She just lives with the Professor and Blue. In Johto, she grooms your Pokémon and even gave me Blue’s number. She’s so much fun. She’s a contest winner, she has tea at the same time daily and will let you drink some with her if you show up in the hour that she’s having it, and will groom one of your Pokémon while you’re there to make them nice and happy!!!

She doesn’t appear in any spinoffs, although Blue and Professor Oak both mention her in a spinoff. Professor Oak says that she and Blue are both energetic and awake in the morning, and Blue says that she’s constantly telling him to come visit home. (SHE LOVES HER FAMILY SO MUCH!!!!!)

She’s even the only named Kanto character who doesn’t appear in LGPE. I miss her </3. I love her dynamic with the rest of the family.

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)

I’M NOT EVEN KIDDING. Professor Oak is so controversial in the fandom for no fucking reason. Telling his grandson that neglecting his Pokémon’s emotional needs isn’t abuse omfg. And Blue takes that lesson to heart and starts treating them better and becomes closer to his Pokémon, and it makes him a stronger trainer. Professor Oak haters DNI. That is my GOAT. He bagged a baddie who he never stopped treating kindly, he takes care of his grandchildren all by himself, he has autism. He’s so much fun 👍.

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason)

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell)

Under the cut because of how severe my hate is for a certain Pokémon character who is introduced in the Gen 9 DLCs and has a name that looks like K____n. So if hate towards him is upsetting to anyone, do NOT click that read more LMAO. It is multiple paragraphs detailing all of the reasons that I hate him.

If anyone is unfamiliar with this character (Kie.ran) and/or dislikes him, please join me in my hater world where we will frolic in a field and make each other flower crowns and talk shit about annoying characters.

These are both the same character. My least favorite character in all of Pokémon. He is worse than any anime character, any other game character, anyone else in the entire series. In a game with a whole subplot about how bullying is wrong, HE JUST GETS OFF SCOT FREE AFTER BULLYING OTHERS. WITH NO APOLOGIES TO PLENTY OF THE PEOPLE THAT HE HURT. A kid who he DEMEANS and ACTIVELY KICKS OUT OF A CLUB for not being the most active due to having a home emergency seemingly doesn’t show up in the game again because he got bullied and forced out of an activity that he enjoyed, and most likely used as a coping method considering he had serious things going on??? And this fucking asshole is never expected to apologize for it. HE JUST APOLOGIZES TO ME??? And my character seemingly forgives him. I wish that I had the option to not do that. I will only EVER consider forgiving him if he APOLOGIZES TO EVERYONE THAT HE HURT and shows at all that he will do better.

He is a pathetic incel who can’t accept being rejected because a Pokémon liked someone who treated her well instead of someone who idolized the idea of her being cruel.

A lot of people try to justify his cruelty by being like “OH IT’S OKAY THAT HE HATES US! BECAUSE WE LIED TO HIM!!!” Our character seems to be fairly young and has two other characters who know him better (including his grandfather, who’s his legal guardian!!!) tell us not to tell him. Are we supposed to think that we know him better than his family in the five minutes that we’ve spent with him?

And there are other Pokémon characters who are dicks, but none who expect you to immediately forgive them despite doing nothing to earn it or showing that they will not do it again the second that they get a chance. Also, none of the others are so annoying. He whines for the entire DLC while simultaneously acting like he’s the strongest trainer ever. He just cries and whines the whole time. Ghetsis didn’t kill my family or become a terrorist irl. This character annoyed me, a real person in the real world so bad.

Also, the second that he sees the Pokémon who chose to go with me with her own free will, he uses the name that people used to hurt her. I can not believe that people in the fandom are genuinely like “omg I wish that I could give her to him 🥺🥺🥺. he would treat her so well,” when he starts demeaning her the second that she exhibits her own emotions and feelings instead of being the cruel Pokémon that he idolized.

I didn’t lose a single Pokémon in the fight against him. (And they weren’t even EV trained or anything. No legendaries, either! Just a skill issue on his part for acting like he has any sort of skill when compared to a VGC player.) I am so in sync with my team and aware of their movesets, items, abilities, and the layout of battles that I could genuinely defeat him blindfolded.

I like to imagine that when we went down to Area Zero, I shoved him off of the edge and watched him fall until he became out of sight.

I have every tag related to him blocked because it pisses me off to see him. I have no clue how he became such a liked character when he’s such a POS.

Fictional abusers and villains and evil hoes can be compelling (even the ones who freakily mirror my exact trauma, which has happened in a game, so I dislike that abuser, but I still find her interesting as a character since she isn’t the one who abused me because she’s actually a woman from a video game). On the other hand, fictional characters who are annoying will never be compelling to me. I manifest their downfalls. Also, why are you making a bully supposed to actually be nice and easy to forgive?

I need him to be sent to superhell because it will pmo if he ever shows up in another game.

Anyway, my mind cannot be changed on this. Anyone who wants to tell me otherwise can type your take out and then delete it because that’s the same as what would happen if you sent it to me.

As a thank you to anyone who read all of that, you get to look at the Build-a-Bear that I need so desperately.