Jessica Ackerman
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Jessica Ackerman Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Feng Shui, Design
- Career Focus
- Author, Feng Shui Consultant, Designer
- Affiliation
- Wall Decor and Home Accents
Jessica's mission is to bring the power of Feng Shui to her work as a interior designer. She spends time with people showing them how to live in harmony with the energy around them.
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Cleanliness and Prosperity: Are they Connected?
In today's busy world, all too often a clean house is considered to be simply a luxury. With everything else that needs to be attended to during the day, it can be easy to skip cleaning chores in order to spend time on tasks that are viewed as being more important. However, what might you be sacrificing by not keeping your home clean, neat and de-cluttered? Because a messy home can have a detrimental effect on positive feng shui energy, your clutter may actually be causing you more problems than you might think.
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Feng Shui Tips for Recent College Graduates
If you have recently graduated from college, you probably feel as though you are on the threshold of starting a whole new phase of your life. Although change can sometimes be a little stressful and even scary, it can also be exciting and exhilarating. Just as is the case with all "new beginnings," basic feng shui principles can be used to help get your post-college life started out right. Here are a few basic tips you can follow that will help you transition from your life as a student to your life as a college graduate. Clear Out the Old
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Create a Relaxing Environment with the Calm Energy of Water
Good feng shui principles and practices can be quite helpful if you are trying to design a relaxing environment. In today's hectic world, a place within the home where one can go to escape the stresses of life can be extremely beneficial. Whether you are designing a home spa, meditation room, garden room or an outdoor retreat, you can harness the calming energy of water to help create a more relaxing and harmonious environment. Visualize Water in Your Environmentr
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Using Feng Shui Principles in Your Vehicle
Although most times we consider feng shui principles when decorating our home or office, you can also use feng shui in many other areas of your life. Because the average person spends so much time in their vehicle every day, commuting back and forth to work, cars and trucks should be considered as ideal environments for the application of feng shui principles.
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Create a "Centered" Dining Room with Feng Shui
When decorating your home, it's important to remember that certain areas need to be given special consideration. The kitchen and dining room are two areas that can be extremely important to the "heart" of your home. The dining room should be a place where your family can come together to enjoy each other's companionship. It's also a place where meals should be shared instead of simply rushed through. Today's busy schedules and hectic lifestyles may make it difficult for families to enjoy their meals together.
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Start the Year off Right with Feng Shui
Because most people associate the start of a new year with the opportunity for a new beginning, it can be a great opportunity for adding a bit of feng shui to your life and home. This year, don’t waste your time making New Year’s resolutions that you probably won’t keep. Instead, spend your time productively by finding new ways to add more positive energy to your life. By doing so, you’ll be able to enjoy a more enjoyable, peaceful and productive life throughout the entire new year. Spend Some Time in Reflection
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Feng Shui Tips for Your Child's Playroom
When designing and decorating your home, it's important to remember that nobody is too old or too young to benefit from the ancient art of feng shui. So, when you are decorating your child's playroom, try using a few feng shui principles to energize the space. You'll find that the room will become a more pleasant place to be, promoting your child's creativity and natural sense of curiosity. Here are a few tips you can use right away to enhance your child's playroom. Add More Energy
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Feng Shui Gardening Techniques
Using feng shui techniques in your outdoor gardens will not only increase your enjoyment of your yard, but will also attract positive energy to your home. Size is not important when planning a feng shui garden, because your focus is going to be on adding traditional feng shui elements to your garden, even if it is quite small. Adding “Good” Energy Your garden can be looked at using the same feng shui theories that apply to the inside of your home. Your goal will be to strengthen each of the areas to maximize the amount of good energy.
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Using Feng Shui to Help Illnesses
Whether you are simply sick with a common cold or someone in your home suffers from a chronic illness, feng shui can often help. Because feng shui is based on energy, you can harness the power of this energy to improve a person's health. Energy is constantly moving throughout your home, whether it is good energy, bad energy, or both. When you are trying to improve your own health or the health of another family member, you will want to focus on ways to increase the good energy while decreasing the bad energy in your home. Fighting Negative Energy with Positive Energy
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Create a Patio Sanctuary with Feng Shui Touches
Whether you have a large outdoor deck or a smaller patio attached to your apartment, this area can be used as a relaxing sanctuary as well as a place to entertain. Whether your patio is large or small, the refreshing outdoor atmosphere makes it the perfect spot to create your own personal sanctuary. By following feng shui guidelines, you can make your patio an even more effective area for relaxing. Here are a few tips that you can use to create your own patio sanctuary. Assess Your Space
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Cleanse Your Space to Clear Out Negative Energy
Many times a home or office can have a tendency to accumulate negative energy over a period of time. It could be that there were some bad experiences that occurred in the space that were the cause of the lingering bad energy. However, sometimes the feeling of negative energy can occur simply because the space doesn't seem to be your own. This is often the case when you move into a new home or apartment, or when you get a new office or cubicle at work. If you experience a general lack of comfort or even downright uneasiness in your living or work space, it can help to cleanse the area.
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Sensible Clutter-Busting Ideas You Can Implement Right Away
Sensible Clutter-Busting Ideas You Can Implement Right Away Do you find yourself picking things up from all over on your way to answer the doorbell? Are you forever looking for important papers, the first-aid kit, or the nail file? Is there a possibility a first-time visitor might have a problem distinguishing your bedroom from your storeroom? If you answered “Yes” to all three questions, you have a problem. You’re human, but you’re probably descended from the animal family Sciuridae which are inveterate collectors: squirrels.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Jessica Ackerman
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. — Christian Nestell Bovee
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. — St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)