Exercises in Awareness: Shapes and Patterns

Step outside and look around with the intention of noticing shapes and patterns.  Look up - find the shapes within a tangle of tree branches.  Look down - see the rounded horizon where white snow meets what's beyond.  The spiral of a shell, the crystal perfection of a snowflake.  Organic geometry.

Has Your ecoBowl Grown a White Velvety Surface?

If so, congratulations!  You are experiencing one more reminder that your ecoBowl is organic and made by Mother Nature herself.  The white velvety substance is called Bloom and is actually honey crystals.  If you prefer your ecoBowl shiny, simply empty and rinse with very warm water.  This will melt the crystals and Voila!

Here's a little more about honey and the amazing bees that make the sweet magic happen!

Honey Bee Feng Shui Tip of the Day

Luminescent Spirit of the River ecoBowl

Placing water in your home is very beneficial because when coming into your home, Qi looks for water to help it stay.  Remember, wind carries and scatters Qi but water retains it.

Our Spirit of the River Honey Bee ecoBowl is an easy way to incorporate water into any room of your home and also benefit from another Honey Bee Feng Shui truth: candlelight is always best.

Key Principles of Honey Bee Feng Shui

HARMONY.

From the late 14th century, Middle English armonye, Old French armonie, Latin and Greek harmonia.  Meaning: agreement, means of joining, framework, agreement of feeling, concord.

As you know, Feng Shui, literally translated into english, is "wind-water." This is a shorthand, taken from this passage from Zangshu, or Book of Burial, by Guo Pu:

Qi rides the wind and scatters, but is retained when encountering water.

 The goal of Feng Shui is to create harmonious spaces by enhancing the positive flow of Qi, or Life Force, using Nature's elements.  This, in turn, creates harmony in our lives.  Remember the law: when your space changes, you change too - so best to pay close attention to the ways in which you, or others, change your space!  And, don't forget - harmony is a relationship, not a one-way street.  Harmony is not created at the expense of others, or at the expense of the earth. 

Exercise in Awareness

Pick a room that you spend a lot of time in - your office, your kitchen, your living room.

Next, make a list of the objects in that room you touch on a usual basis.  Pens, utensils, counter tops, phones, keyboards, couches, light switches, carpet, etc.

Make a note next to each object in your list with the material that object is made of.  Is it plastic?  Is it wood?  If it's wood, is the wood covered in a poly finish? 

Bee in Flight

Thank you for pollinating!

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Creating Inner Positive Change through Changes in Our Environment

If the space around you changes, you do too.  It's a law! Take advantage of this reality with Honey Bee ecoBowls® and put Nature's energies to work for you.

Spirit of the River
Honey Bee ecoBowl

A little Nature can go a long way.  Consider adding our Spirit of the River Honey Bee ecoBowl® to your dining table.  It's luminescent, so when our hand-crafted pure beeswax floating candle lights up your room, your Honey Bee ecoBowl® will glow, too.

What Trees Can Teach Us

Coastal Redwood

The awe-inspiring Giant Sequoia can easily live in excess of 1,000 years.  Absolutely the largest living thing on earth, Giant Sequoias have grown to 375'-that's taller than the Statue of Liberty, which stands 305' from base of pedestal to torch tip.

Although the entire root network of a large Sequoia can extend for acres horizontally, it is likely to remain within 3-6' of the surface.  The majority of the Giant Sequoia's roots are actually tiny, threadlike feeder roots that spread from larger roots near the base of the tree.  Even these "larger roots" are unlikely to be greater than 2-3' in diameter.  For a living structure that stretches 250-300' into the air and weighs 12 million lbs, this is an astonishingly delicate foundation.

On Environmental Powerlessness

When confronted with so many examples of deterioration in our ecosystems, "not thinking about it because I can't do anything about it" is a common response.  Acid rain, deforestation, extinction of species, sullying of habitats, you name it - there's enough environmental despair to go around.

Teacher and Scholar Joanna Macy has some interesting thoughts on this "just ignore it" reaction:

Logically, this is a non sequitur: it confuses what can be thought with what can be done.  When forces are seen as so vast that they cannot be consciously contemplated or seriously discussed, we are doubly victimized; we are impeded in thought as well as action.

Why Is Adding Nature to Our Indoor Environments Important?

For tens of thousands of years, human beings lived deeply connected to the Natural World- its spaces, its cycles, and its species. We are a part of Nature and have evolved in profound connection with other beings and elements of Nature. And yet today, 95% of our time is spent indoors, shut off from Nature's rhythms and energies.

"If human history for the last 40,000 years were represented by just one hour, then the amount of time that we have been living in such extreme isolation from Nature would be represented by only a few seconds." - Denise Linn, Feng Shui for the Soul

The Element of Wood

In the Spirit Realm
meditation ecoBowl®

In Feng Shui, brown has a very stable and nourishing energy.  It has been strongly associated with the Wood element.

Wood element is considered important because it is both strong and bendable, and is identified with new life and new beginnings.  It is used extensively to "correct," or offset bad flow of Qi.

Your Own Personal Dance of Joy

Is there a place in your home or office that seems to suffer from a lack of proper energy flow?  When you walk through or sit in it, does this place feel stagnant, weighty, or just plain "stuck?"  One of the easiest ways to liven up a stale space is to infuse it with a boost of Qi courtesy of a living plant.

Dance of Joy
ecoBowl® Duo

You might try one of our most popular Honey Bee ecoBowl® Duos, the Dance of Joy.  This cheerful arrangement has a small footprint and features a soil-free plant with loads of soul!  To care for it, simply remove the plant from the landscape, drench whole plant with water 2-3x/week, and place back in your ecoBowl®.

And because we hand-craft our Honey Bee ecoBowls® from pure beeswax, environmental harmony has never smelled so sweet!

You'll be surprised at how quickly your new Dance of Joy will spread its lively energy all around your room -- and into your spirit!

Discover Honey Bee Feng Shui at Presence of Nature!

New Beginnings
Lucky Bamboo ecoBowl®

Naturally scented sweet by the honey bee, each earth-friendly Honey Bee ecoBowl® is hand-crafted with care from beeswax in our Maine workshop to help us create harmonious home & workplace environments and enhance our well-being.

According to the ancient practice of Feng Shui, we can create harmony in physical spaces by balancing Nature’s elements (including Earth, Wood, Metal, Fire, & Water) which increases the positive flow of Qi, or Life-Force.  The positive flow of Qi creates healthy environments that nourish & sustain us on a daily basis.