When asked what I do for a living I respond with, "I transform mundane space into sacred space through sound interior design, feng shui and sacred geometry principles – applied for your instant gratification in a 1-room, 1-day process."

The truth is, I get paid to re-create space and make it more beautiful.  But my mission is to help you transform your life via transforming your home.

The immediate, visible result of every 1-room, 1-day interior redesign is more beauty because a redesign is just good, sound design principles at work for you, applied to your specific space with your specific possessions.

When asked, many clients say beauty was the original goal of investing in the redesign service, "I wanted the room to look prettier!"

Because good design is also good feng shui, I ask my redesign clients to experience their room-makeover at that deeper level – as good feng shui, and better yet, as sacred geometry, the root of good feng shui – if they choose to.  Many do.

That’s when beauty becomes a natural by-product in the space instead of the ultimate goal.

The goal becomes to experience transformation.

An interior redesign creates balance, harmony and beauty in a space because it is based on sacred geometry.  But it’s not the only way to experience transformation.

I share the lessons I’ve learned while labyrinth walking here to challenge you to apply them each to your own life.  Better yet, I challenge you to go walk a labyrinth for yourself to experience the transformational power of sacred geometry.

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Sacred Pilgrimage in Bakersfield, California:

Labyrinth Walking

Are you seeking a quick rejuvenating pilgrimage close to home, for your higher good? 

A great way to experience spiritual balance and harmony is to visit the beautifully landscaped, permanent labyrinth on the eastern grounds at St. Philip the Apostle Church and walk it.

The ancients believed they could use sacred geometry to transform themselves, so they walked labyrinths, one of many sacred geometry tools. 

Metaphorically a labyrinth represents a spiritual journey, laid out symbolically on the ground so it may be physically walked.

Here are the lessons I learned while walking and some tips to help you navigate your own labyrinth:

Every step in life must be taken by faith.  Life can be confusing when you don’t know where you’re going, so having a plan is important, but walking the labyrinth reminds me to take small steps of faith to get me to my goal.

Labyrinths are tight spaces with tight turns.  When I make the turn too fast, my knees hurt.  Unwelcome changes in life may come suddenly and take us in the opposite direction of where we thought we were traveling.  Equilibrium can be lost around the curves in life and on the labyrinth.  The lesson is to move deliberately toward the center, but move slowly through the changes to keep my balance.

I’ll miss the turns if my focus is elsewhere.  So I concentrate on the path in front of me.  Viewed from a distance or drawn on paper the pattern of a labyrinth has always reminded me of a brain – undulating folds, hemisphere divisions – so I imagine I’m traveling into the mind of my Creator.  When I get to the center, I shall know as I have been known.

I’ve come to the labyrinth for inspiration.  On the way toward the center my mind is spinning with ideas; God speaks; I want to stay forever in the flow of divine inspiration.  Veteran walkers also use the journey toward the center as a purgative.  So along the path I conscientiously release negative vibrations.

At the center of the labyrinth, my heartbeat slows.  I’m pierced with love.  You cannot look on the face of God and live.  Glimpsing divinity brings change; life, my old life, former life, mundane life, can not continue.  On the way back out of the labyrinth, I’m aware of a shift in my perception; like a giant magnet pulled along my spine and realigning my molecules.  My center of gravity has shifted.  I’m resonating with the heartbeat of the Universe.  I trust every step and turn in my life will be for my higher good.

Rejuvenation, balance and harmony, available locally and open to the public daily at 7100 Stockdale Highway, Bakersfield, California; Easter is the traditional season to make a sacred pilgrimage.  For your higher good.

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Resources:

http://www.gracecathedral.org/labyrinth/

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