sweeping my front porch

I've been fascinated by feng shui for the past couple of years because it feels like it's helping to balance out a missing piece for me—I've spent so much time pondering the inner and spiritual worlds and feng shui is all about working with the physical world.

And I love the recognition of how our physical spaces affect us and that our homes can be a powerful ally. 

My favorite feng shui practice right now is sweeping.

I liked to sweep long before I knew anything about feng shui—I think it's kind of meditative and very satisfying and I liked thinking about all my generations of ancestors who also swept their floors.

People have been sweeping for a very long time.

And sometimes the vacuum is just too loud. But when I learned its meaning in feng shui, my love for sweeping made even more sense to me.

Sweeping in feng shui supports clearing out old energy and welcoming in new energy. And I've learned that sweeping outside your front door is a great place to start, because your front door is where all the energy of your home enters. Your front door is known as “the mouth of chi” because it represents the place where all the energetic nutrients enter your home.

So I've been setting an intention and sweeping outside my front door as an embodied and symbolic gesture for clearing out stale energy and welcoming in a new flow and vitality. (And by the way, my front porch area area was really dusty—and that metaphor isn't lost on me!) It feels good and I think my house likes it too!

What do you think? Do you like to sweep? Do you find yourself wanting outer/physical reminders of the inner work you're doing to clear out old patterns or energy? Try some sweeping. And let me know how it goes. 

With care,
Brianna

p.s. A little more on the magic of sweeping...

photo by Daniel von Appen