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Beautiful Ganesha temple in Singapore

Written by Karen Kingston Monday, 22 February 2010 10:15

I admit it, I'm a temple junkie. Growing up in England, I visited every church and cathedral I could find. When I visit a new place or country, I ignore the usual tourist destinations and head for the most sacred places I can find. And during my 20 years of living in Bali, I didn't make it to all 20,000 of the temples but I had a darn good try.

So being in Singapore recently for a few days, I took the opportunity to revisit a beautiful little Hindu temple in Ceylon Road, tucked away in the back streets of the Tanjong Katong area about 20 minutes from the airport.  It's called Sri Senpaga Vinayagar temple and is dedicated to Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed god, known as the Remover of Obstacles and the Lord of Beginnings.

I arrived at 6.00am and sat on the spotlessly clean granite floor watching the entire purification ritual conducted by the priest and his assistants in preparation for the morning puja. Using billowing flames of camphor, jars of cleansing water, Sanskrit ritual words and a temple bell, the Ganesha statues were purified and then adorned with brightly coloured garlands of flowers. It was very well done.

For me the best bit was when the musicians struck up, one man playing a loud drum and the other a delightfully raucous instrument that looked a bit like an oboe and sounded like a shrieking elephant. It was utterly chaotic and wonderfully mind-numbingly loud.

Being a bell connoisseur, I wasn't so impressed by the clanky, monotonous bell the priest used, which sounded more like a street seller's cart bell than a religious artefact. But I was fascinated to see that even a bell of that poor quality did a reasonable job of purifying the space and summoning the presence of the deity. Without the ritual it would have had no effect at all, but within the context of the puja, it worked.

If you're ever in Singapore and would like to experience this yourself, read these guidelines for visitors, but don't worry too much about dress code. We went in regular western clothes and didn't feel at all out of place. Many of the Indian devotees were also dressed in western-style clothes. Just be sure to take off your socks and shoes before entering and leave them outside.

It's an exhilarating way to start the day, and a really good way to experience the best of India without actually going there.

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Space Clearing for a fresh start in a new home

Written by Karen Kingston Sunday, 14 February 2010 06:40

You sit down in a restaurant. You expect a clean table, not one with other people's food spills still on it.

You order your food. You expect clean plates and eating utensils, not ones encrusted with previous customer's meals.

You move in to a new home. You expect a clean space to give you a fresh start. But if anyone has lived there before you, this is usually not what you get. You get the equivalent of a dirty table or plate, imprinted with the energetic residues of the previous occupants to some degree or another.

In Feng Shui, this is called 'predecessor energy', and clearing it is one of the principle uses of Space Clearing.

If the building is a fairly new one and the previous occupants were healthy and happy there, then the imprinting is probably lightweight and not such a problem (continuing the restaurant analogy, the equivalent of a few crumbs that can be easily brushed aside with a simple Space Clearing ceremony).

But supposing you move into a place where the lives of the previous occupants did not go so well (think terrible food with cockroaches crawling all over the restaurant - sorry to be so graphic). Failed relationships, financial difficulties, chronic health problems and many other human woes may be imprinted in the walls, and after you've lived there for a while and got soaked in the imprints you'll very probably start to experience similar issues yourself. The history of predeccesor energy tends to repeat itself.

People in this situation often lament, "It all started going wrong when we moved here". Yet unless they know about feng shui, they rarely put 2 + 2 together and realize the problem may be the house, not the time period they've been living in it.

Moving to a new home is one solution, although an expensive and time consuming one. If there are serious feng shui design flaws, or if the building has serious geopathic stress or electromagnetic fields creating health hazards, then this may be necessary. But if it's just a matter of clearing out predecessor imprints, a deep and thorough Space Clearing ceremony will do the job.

If you're in good health, you can do the ceremony yourself, following the 21 steps in my book, Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui. Otherwise call in the services of one of the professional space clearers I've trained. Though I say it myself, they do a brilliant job, way beyond what you could do yourself.

To give you an example from my own life of how Space Clearing has helped, Richard and I were in Sydney recently for two months and rented four different self-catering apartments during that time to experience living in different parts of the city. Each had substantial predecessor energy of one kind or another when we arrived, which initially made us feel like we didn't want to stay there. But Space Clearing cleaned them up immediately. Even I was suprised at the difference the ceremony made in the last place we stayed in, which had sen quite a bit of usage and initially looked to be beyond redemption.

These were not cheap rentals, by the way. We paid a good rate for them and they were generally well furnished and fitted out. But rented places have imprints of hundreds of previous occupants and these were as saturated as they come.

The beautful thing about Space Clearing is that it allows you to clean up the energies of any place you live in so that you can truly have a fresh start there and make it your own. There's no need to live with someone else's leftovers ever again!

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Lower prices for Space Clearing products

Written by Karen Kingston Saturday, 13 February 2010 07:27

I'm setting up everything here in Bali before I leave so that Space Clearing products will continue to be available through the spaceclearing.com online stores based in the UK and USA.

And better still, for as long as their current stocks last, the stores will be holding the new lower prices that were introduced for many products in December 2009.

During challenging economic times, it’s more important than ever to maintain the energy of your home and workplace so we’re keeping all our prices as low as possible to to help you do this :-)

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Energy imprints in secondhand things

Written by Karen Kingston Sunday, 20 December 2009 08:43

Ever wondered why it is that most people prefer new things to secondhand?

Apart from the fact that new things are generally in better condition than secondhand things, a large part of the joy of new ownership lies in the fact that they arrive in your life like a blank slate, ready for you to use and imprint with your own energy to make them feel yours.

You can save a lot of money buying things secondhand but the drawback is that they nearly always have some level of energetic imprinting from the previous owner. The more the item was used and the longer the person owned it, the more imprinting it will have.

Of course, if the previous owner was someone you love or respect, this can be a good thing. It's also the reason why so many people seek to own an item that once belonged to a celebrity, because some of that person's energy will be imprinted into it.

But most objects you acquire secondhand, including antiques, are unlikely to have such desirable histories. It's pot luck. You have no idea what embedded imprints you'll be taking home with you or how they will affect you. More often than not, they will have energies that hinder rather than help you in your life.

Most brand new items, by comparison, have no discernable imprinting. This is certainly the case with factory-made items where there has been no human handling at all. Man-made items may have slight imprinting, and hand-crafted items or pieces of art in which the creator had some emotional involvement will have considerably more imprinting. In my experience, just as much discernment is needed when acquiring these types of items as with secondhand objects.

So, can anything be done to clear out imprints? Well, yes. Space Clearing is designed to do just this. It can be used to clear imprints from objects as well as from buildings.

Knowing how to do Space Clearing means secondhand things become much more appealing, especially in the case of items such as furniture. Secondhand furniture is generally a much healthier option than new because by the time you get it, it is likely to have finished outgassing. Modern furniture made of materials such as wood laminates, particle board, plywood, upholstery fabrics and foam can take anything between two to ten years to finish outgassing toxins such as formaldehyde, during which time you will be breathing in the fumes to some degree or other, depending on how well ventilated your home is.

So while it's lovely to buy things new, when it comes to furniture or anything that outgases, it's a curious fact that these days secondhand is a much better option.

Copyright © Karen Kingston, 2009

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