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Sep 20, 2024 | 
edgemagazine.net | Carole Hyder
There’s not much argument anymore that there is a connection between the concrete and the conceptual. Sometimes, this connection between concrete and conceptual creates a consciousness of its own. Artists, musicians, and authors will tell of their experiences of being lifted out of their presumed and planned direction with their art, music, or plot into something they hadn’t expected. An exciting intervention took place that was beyond them which was better than what they had planned.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
edgemagazine.net | Carole Hyder
The theme of releasing clutter is top-of-mind these days. Magazines write about it; articles appear in newspapers; and, of course, there’s the internet. There are several methods for dealing with clutter: the KonMari method, Swedish death cleaning, and, more intentionally, Feng Shui. It is unanimous that clutter can make you feel stuck, keep you from moving forward, and exhaust you. Clutter manifests itself in many ways.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
edgemagazine.net | Carole Hyder
A seminal study done in 1979 by Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer entitled “Counterclockwise” explored the question of environments and how they can impact people. As you’ll read, she unknowingly was exploring the Feng Shui principle that someone’s space can impact their life. Langer created an environment that reflected 20 years prior (1959). The decor, furniture, magazines, television programs, and music all reflected that of the ’50s.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Jill Metzler Patton |Carole Hyder |Pilar Gerasimo |Wanda Urbanska
Items in a medicine cabinet (or bathroom drawer or shelf) have a way of proliferating. “We think, well, this is a medicine-y, first aid-y, bathroom-y kind of thing, so I guess I’ll just throw it in the medicine cabinet because I don’t know where else to put it,” says certified organizer and life coach Sara Skillen. Next thing we know, the space is stuffed — and good luck finding the tweezers.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Jill Metzler Patton |Carole Hyder |Heidi Wachter
Bills to pay. Receipts to file. Appointment reminders, report cards, grocery lists. If there’s a vaguely important piece of paper in the house, the home-office desk draws stuff to it with the force of a rip tide. And even with the mostly digital nature of office work, the biggest desk can still feel too small for active paper files and office supplies. Why Decluttering MattersThe home-office desk serves as a de facto to-do list for our lives, so it feels especially overwhelming when it’s a mess.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Jill Metzler Patton |Carole Hyder |Laine Bergeson Becco |Andy Steiner
The nightstand is the command center of the bedroom: We want everything within arm’s reach after we’re tucked in. While sleep experts recommend using our beds only for sleep and sex, many of us use them for multiple purposes, including reading, working, studying, even eating. “When we treat our bed like a workplace, then it tends to collect more,” says Laura Benko, author of The Holistic Home: Feng Shui for Mind, Body, Spirit, Space. Why Declutter Your Nightstand?
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
experiencelife.lifetime.life | Jill Metzler Patton |Carole Hyder |Erin Peterson
Bedside Table ⋅ Home-Office Desk ⋅ Medicine Cabinet ⋅ Kitchen Table/IslandFumbling in the dark, my hand pawed at the box of tissues and the stack of books on my nightstand, traced the base of the lamp and the container of earplugs, mistakenly grasped at the bottle of lotion, then whack: There went the glass of water. Lights on. Towels out. I was up in the middle of the night once again, sopping up a watery mess. I wish my bedside table were the only cluttered area in my home.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
edgemagazine.net | Carole Hyder
The Chinese Solar New Year is always celebrated on February 4th. The Lunar New Year, however, is based on the movements of the moon, so it varies substantially. This year the Lunar Year begins on February 10th. The “typical” arrangement between the two events is for the Lunar New Year to precede the Solar date; when it follows February 4th, this situation is called a “blind year.” It doesn’t take a lot of insight to anticipate this could be problematic.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
edgemagazine.net | Carole Hyder
One of my goals for writing my book Conversations with Your Home was to seed the idea that your house has had a life and history of its own before you moved in. Even if you’re the first owner, there were builders, architects, and contractors who influenced the space. So, your home brings with it its own story – situations while being constructed, global occurrences, and universal timing. If it was occupied prior to your arrival, the way it was used prior to you moving in creates chapters as well.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
edgemagazine.net | Carole Hyder
There’s a substantial belief that the term “after life” is now a mistake conclusion. Rather than thinking life is over once we die, we now have some data that says there is life after our time here on earth – a different form of life perhaps, but life, nonetheless. During a Feng Shui consultation recently, my client mentioned that her deceased cat was still hanging around. She could hear her purr from time to time and felt her cuddle up next to her in bed during the night.
