Dear Karen,

How does our summer residence affect us when we are not there? I mean could we use it for temporary storing of things or does that affect us too when we are not there?

- M.B., Denmark

Karen's reply:

Temporary storage of reasonable quantities of anything anywhere is not a problem, providing they are stored in an organized way and do not block the flow of energy in the space too much. The problems start if things are left for a long time and the energy stagnates around them.

Where long-term storage is concerned (more than a few months), things stored in your main home will affect you more than those stored in your summer residence. However, as you are connected to everything you own, the reason for storage also needs to be looked at. If, for example, you are keeping things indefinitely in your summer home because they may come in useful some day this will impact on your energy far more than items you are keeping for say, 6 months, until you move to a new home and have somewhere to put them