Welcome to DESIGN FROM DIVINE (formerly “Choncey”), a unique Interior Design studio that does Residential and Commercial design based on Feng Shui rules.

FENG SHUI is an ancient Chinese science of creating harmony in your life through receiving positive energy Qi and sharing it with people around you. It is a system of interior design rules following which you can accumulate this positive energy at home, office, wherever you are.

What we do:

• Space planning according to Feng Shui
• 3D renderings
• Corporate Feng Shui
• Feng Shui for restaurants and stores
• Dowsing for Geopathic Stress areas in your home or work space and curing them
• Purifying energy and smudging ceremony
• Selecting the right colors for the walls, recommending brands, choosing finishes
• Choosing right furniture
• Go shopping with you or order for you online
• Choosing the lighting
• Choosing accessories
• Recommending professional licensed contractors
• Graphic Design Services: Brochures, Flyers, Business cards, Posters, Calendars, Menus, –Postcards
• Paintings

718-300-0917

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Happy New Year! Wishing you a very prosperous year, filled with happiness, health, wealth and harmony.

It is time to move your wind chimes and pagodas from South East Sector (Wealth) to the Center.

This year the Flying 5 Yellow Star is going to be in the Center.

The #5 Misfortune Star is the most dangerous & vicious of the nine numbers in Flying Star system, especially in this Earth Period 8. Generally known as Five Yellow or Wu Wang, it is a very unfavorable star which causes all kinds of misfortune i.e. sickness, losses, tragedies, accidents, calamities and obstacles to success. Being in the CENTER palace in 2013 means that its Earth energy is further strengthened and that it will affect the whole household or work place. Everyone should be wary of the obstructions and difficulties brought on by this malicious yellow star. Hence, it is vital to subdue its evil influences before its destructive force spreads and wreak havoc everywhere. The influences of this vicious star should never be underestimated. Remove anything associated with Fire energy, moving objects i.e. fan, television from this area. No gatherings or noisy activities here. Knocking, digging or any renovation works are a big no-no. Exhaust the malevolent Earth energy of the Wu Wang with metal energy based on the 5 element weakening cycle. Established cures for the nasty #5 are the Five Element Pagoda, Five Element Ringing Bell, and Brass Coins. Remember to make every family member carry s protective amulets for added protection. Prevention is better than cure. (from http://buy-fengshui.com/articles-flying-star-feng-shui-2013.php)

To protect your home or your work place from the bad influence of this star place a 6 rod Metal Wind Chimes at that Sector!

You can get your windchime here: http://www.fengshuibestbuy.com/SL11910-windchime.html

Also 5 Element Pagoda will be very good remedy there especially if you prefer silence to the melody of the windchime!

You can get your Pagoda here: http://www.fengshuibestbuy.com/SL11897-fiveelementpagoda.html
If you follow these recommendations this year will be a very lucky for you!

Wishing all of you a very Prosperous and Happy New year!

Feel free to call 718-300-0917 or email us if you have any questions: designfromdivine@gmail.com

I found this amazing Audio Book called “The Power” by Rhonda Byrne and I had to share it with you! It is so inspirational, every time I listen it I learn something new.

Here is a link: The Power

It is a guide how to get anything in life you want!

It shows you how to create life full of love, joy and harmony and it shows you how to get out from the unpleasant situations easily and get back to harmony.

I love love love this video! You will definitely benefit from listening it.

Enjoy!

Hope each one of you enjoyed your Summer and now Autumn officially started and its time to work effectively! (don’t like the word “hard”).

I usually write long posts and I know all of you are very busy people so I made a commitment to be brief, productive and effective via my posts.

I want to share with you this amazing video from Robin Sharma (who is coaching billionaires how to produce more results in their lives). Please really do these things that he offers and you will see results! I am on track It works!

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about energies. How everything around us has energy and it is not only us people or animals and plants but absolutely everything has energy around itself.

I shared my thoughts with a friend and this is a video she sent me right after our conversation! One more provement that what you focus on – you will get it

I’ve been in enough people’s homes to say that a lot of times people’s environment is a big blind spot for them! We are getting so used to the places we live that we wouldn’t notice a unicorn in the middle of our living room!

It is very important to have good energy at your home, to have harmony and peace there. This is the place where we spend 2/3 of our lives! And we are responsible for the energies that appear there! Everything and everybody has energy and it is constantly changing depending on our emotions, our words, our actions. Here is a scientific proof by Ph. D. Korotkov:

(You can visit his website here: http://korotkov.org/ and find many more interesting articles about energies or biofields. )

It is very important to have clean homes and work spaces! Why? Cause even if we are used to a mess around us – our subconscious mind always notice this disorder, always focus on it, and remember? What you focus on – you will get more! and you will always feel emotionally and physically tired, frustrated, sometimes even angry in places full of clutter, the energies there are like water in a swamp.

Look around with a “fresh eye” like if it is not your home, like you came to visit. Look at your surroundings and understand for yourself that things you didn’t use for 6 months – you just never going to use it! Be generous! Give it away to people with less advantages in their lives! For someone those things might be useful and you will make another person happier! There are plenty of “Salvation army” places all over around the city where you can donate cloth, furniture, anything!

Most of you will say: “but I have no time to constantly clean everything!” You don’t need to constantly clean everything. Just develop a new habit of putting everything back to where it belongs after you used it! Also visit a Container Store, they have plenty of inexpensive options how to store things with a style.

After you finish to clean your apartment – burn some sage, you can get it in the “Whole Foods”. Sage is a plant that grows high in mountains and has higher energies that release when you burn it and it’s smoke is purifying your space.

After all is done – you will feel so much better at your home or work! It is guaranteed!

And remember when you have a bad mood at home “out of blue” – look around and clean the energies!

Much love to all of you!

I always had been thinking why do people meditate? At first when it catch my interest I saw a person on some video and what I saw was a person who just sits with closed eyes, do nothing, than stand up happier and more harmonious and than says how good was his or her meditation! And for me back than it looked like the most unproductive time spending! I was something like: “What? Instead of doing something useful you suggest me to sit calm with closed eyes? and how is it going to help me in life?”

Than I decided to give it a try, cause it looked like every second person I meet meditate, and I didn’t try yet! But first I need a proof a scientific proof that it will work! So I started to read books, articles from healthy online magazines and there are few medical researches that proof positive changes on the physical and mental levels of our bodies. For example this one, by famous Dr. Mercola: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/07/12/how-meditation-changes-your-brain.aspx

Or this one by “Psychology today”: http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200304/the-benefits-meditation

And I though: “OK, it is obviously worth to try! People become happier, cut their stress in half and become more focused on whatever they are doing for living”.

But then the next question appeared: “There are so many techniques! Which one is the one that will bring the most benefits?” I decided to try to meditate myself at least 15 minutes a day and I chose the most plain kind of meditation: just sit straight, relax all your body  and concentrate on your breathing and don’t think about anything. And it worked! Partially… I did it for about a year and a half but always had a feeling that this is not it yet, there are ways to improve! Well the most difficult part was “don’t think about anything” You try yourself! Just now close your eyes and don’t think about anything for a minute! Just a minute!

See what I’m talking about? Our brain is crazyyy! Even if you thought you are normal! As soon as you close your eyes millions of thoughts are entering your mind and don’t let you relax! You understand on your own experience, on your own body how stressed you are, how your head is constantly trying to think of many things in the same time! And you expect to be happy and live in harmony? And concentrate at work, on people whom you love, your hobbies? Ha!

So I started to make a search how can I find a true and the only correct way of meditation? And my prayers were answered (as usually, and I’m very thankful for that)!

A friend of mine (she also meditated about 15 min. a day) sent me a link where she went for 10 days and as soon as I read it I got a thrill allover my body! Like someone gave me an electroshock! This is it! Thats the answer on my prayers! I must go there no matter what! And the best part this is completely FREE!!!! It is based on donations only!

It was a 10 days silence meditation! Its called “Vipassana meditation”. Here is a link: http://www.dhamma.org/

Before I came there I wanted to see if I can be completely silent for 10 days, it was like a challenge for me! What if I go “ku-ku”? Well silence was actually the easiest part, it helps you to relax and stay away from worrying what to say, what people will think, etc. all this garbage that we have in our mind that constrain us from concentrating and do what we really want to do!

Now why you cannot talk for this time you are there?

Because this whole thing is like a “deep operation” on your mind. And when you have a deep operation you need a clean environment! That is why you need to stay there for 10 days, where you will only concentrate on purifying your mind. And you don’t have to do anything else! There are people there who will take care of you, just because they love people and want them to get the same wisdom and liberation from sufferings they got. They will cook for you, provide you with a room, clean after you! There is also simple and beautiful nature, fresh air and clean water! Its so peaceful, so relaxing, so harmonious…

So why can’t you talk? Because one of the rules is to abstain form telling lies! And a lot of people even if they don’t lie at least they like to exaggerate. But its also a lie! And any lie is poisoning your mind! You have to stay away from it at least for these 10 days to get this technique properly!

During these 10 days you will learn to see things as they really are! Not the way you see them from your perspective, distorted by your emotions, thoughts and fears, but the way things really are! We people put meaning in everything we see! Its unbelievable! Someone looked at you in a strange way and you decided for yourself: “What a mean person! Why did he look at me this way?” You don’t know what is in people’s head! What if this person had gas and he was trying to hold it, and you made all this story on your head already!

In this 10 days you will learn how to eradicate your mental impurities and it will liberate you from your sufferings. “Vipassana is a way of self – transformation through self -observation”! You will learn how to discipline your mind, how to live live consciously, aware, balanced and happy. You will learn how whenever difficult situation comes in your life to not react on it, but observe it, and it will give you balance and ability to take the best decision. It gives you tools and during this 10 days you will extensively practice how to use them.

Why can’t we get all these techniques from reading books? Because reading is a theoretical part of learning anything in live, vipassana teaches you experiential way of learning! You will learn everything “on your own skin” and that is why you will not forget it it! Its like when you was a child and if you ever burn yourself you learn “on your own skin” I better don’t do it again!

After these 10 days you really come back transformed and happier and full of love to life, to people. And there will be a transitional time in your life right after the meditation when same stress triggers will appear, and you might not remember in the beginning how to go through it and might even react on them same way like you used to do, but then you will remember a new way you learned, and next time you will do better and better, and your mind will be calmer and calmer. It is all practice. You’ve lived your life whatever years and did things your old way that obviously didn’t work that well, and caused you a lot of troubles, and now you got the new tools to live a better life, to enjoy every moment of it, and you need time to adjust yourself to this new tools and it might take longer than you expected and you will still be able to remain calm and happy and harmonious.

I would totally recommend it to any person I know, that I want him or her to be happy, to be free from sufferings, to live in real peace, in real harmony.

“MAY ALL BEINGS BE HAPPY”! S.N. Goenka

If you decide to register you might see that there is a long waiting list. Don’t get discouraged. Put your name on waiting list or on the next available session, a lot of times the place might get free the last moment and you can go earlier. But even if not remember that everything comes to your life in a perfect moment when you need it the most! So whenever you will go  - it is the right time for you!

BE HAPPY!

By materials from ”About.com, Feng Shui” by Rodika Tchi.

Feng Shui Tips for Poison Arrows in the Bedroom

Why is Sha Chi – Poison Arrows bad feng shui in my bedroom?
Energy wise, sha chi, or feng shui poison arrows, are exactly what they sounds like – arrows of strong, attacking energy pointing at your personal energy field. It weakens your energy and is certainly not promoting good health and well-being.

How can I identify the feng shui poison arrows, or sha chi, in my bedroom?
Carefully look around your bedroom with “feng shui eyes” and detect all the feng shui poison arrows, called sha chi, pointing at you while you are in bed. Be it from the nearby nightstands, from a further away piece of furniture, such as a chest of drawers, or from a sharp wall corner – be sure to neutralize all the sharp energy aiming at you.

The easiest way to identify the feng shui poison arrows is to get into your bed and from there inspect all the items in your bedroom – do any of them have sharp corners that point at you while you are in bed? After visually inspecting the furniture, look at the decor items – is the sharp corner from the nearby painting sending you a sharp arrow? How about the modern shape tall and square candleholders? Last, take a look at the walls and see if there are sharp, protruding corners that are pointing at you while you are in bed.

How can I remedy the effect of feng shui poison arrows in my bedroom ?:
First, be sure to identify all poison arrows; you might be surprised at how many of them you missed the first time. Second, use your creativity, as each poison arrow will ask for a slightly different feng shui cure, or remedy.

In some cases, a slight repositioning of furniture will be sufficient. For example, repositioning the bedroom art or decor items, as well as slightly moving the nightstands, will sometimes soften, or shift the aiming of arrows.

In case of a protruding wall corner, or a piece of furniture that cannot be moved, try working with fabric to soften the sharp energy, or an appropriate for your decor scheme artificial plantthat can go over the sharp edge. I have often recommended and have seen clients implement the rounding of a sharp corner – it might not be the cheapest or the quickest solution, but if you plan to be in your home for a while, it is definitely worth looking into. Ask a friend, a contractor, or go to any home improvement store for answers on how to round a sharp wall corner.

Once you have identified the sharp energy – sha chi in your bedroom, I know you will find the right feng shui solutions! The gift of awareness often comes with the gift of problem-solving, so be bold and be creative. After all, it is your bedroom!

Read full article here: Full article here: http://fengshui.about.com/od/fengshuiforbedroom/qt/sha_chi_bedroom.htm

As I promised here are the powerful tips how to get abundance in your life!

Everything in the world is energy and vibrations. You can notice it for example when you talk to people. Some people  are easy to talk to and a pleasure to be with and others you feel like you want to find an excuse and disappear. Have you wondered why? Because the atmosphere, the vibrations around happy, successful people is pleasant and around unhappy - unpleasant!

You might also heard that rich people attract even more money and poor attract even more poverty! You would naturally think : “But that’s unfair!” It is not about fair or unfair, it is about where people concentrate their energy on! On what they focus!

When you want something your vibrations need to match the vibrations of what you want.

Wealthy successful people focus on the success, on how to improve and grow and unsuccessful people concentrate on their losses, unpleasant moments, they digest on and on if someone told them something, they are constantly  in their thoughts and out from reality, they are only talking about how unhappy they are, and how it is everybody’s fault. You can immediately feel the vibrations around such people are low, you might feel tired faster and want to leave and not talk to them.

To lift your vibrations  concentrate and pay attention only on nice, beautiful things around you, be thankful for what you already have and talk about things that you want, that make you feel good and would inspire others! Stop talking about things you don’t want! You attract them!

I know it doesn’t sound easy but we really need to take charge over our words. Words are powerful! You want prove? Notice next time when you start complain to someone how your body respond to your negative words. Notice how you get this “stretching” feeling in your chest and like something is stuck in your throat. Here is a scientific proof below.

These are the videos by a Japanese scientist Dr. Masaru who experimented with reaction of water on positive and negative words. He froze water samples from the same source and put them in many petri dishes. He wrote positive words on some of them and negative on others. Then he watched in the microscope. The dishes with positive words formed beautiful perfect shape crystals and with negative didn’t form any crystals and were just ugly formations.

Now think about that: people are more then 70 % consist of water! So by thinking bad things, talking bad things we program our water! And we become it! whatever we think and say!

If you want to attract abundance – concentrate on abundance, talk about it, look at beautiful things to lift your vibrations!

Here is a powerful money affirmation that I started to listen every morning not long ago, about a week or so. And I can see at my work that I get so many more opportunities, my days became so much more productive, I receive amazing clients (I work in Real Estate), my phone rings off the hook! I attract serious clients from allover the world! It worked so fast! I am very happy and grateful and I want to share it with everybody!

Listen it and repeat consciously! You will create powerful new vibrations, vibrations of  success, wealth and prosperity, you will attract new opportunities! Do it every day in the morning so you will build your own day and will not just live your life by default.

Enjoy and have a productive week!

Sources:

• “One Day My Soul Just Opened Up” by Jyanla  Vanzant
• Conversations with my friend Chanda Hopkins
• Landmark education Forum and Advanced course

Some people ask me: “I did everything you say and its seems it worked for everyone you did your Feng Shui consultation but me! What is the problem? Is it something wrong with me? Or is this Feng Shui doesn’t work?!”

So there is a time that you have a desire to change something in your life: to be more successful, to get love, to get new job, etc.

Look at your life now and imagine what would it be in lets say 5 years from now if you continue to do everything you do same way that you normally do? Do you like the picture?

If yes – keep doing!

If no – here is what you might want to consider. Everything we have in our life always comes from a simple formula:

“Thoughts + Words + Actions = Results”

“One Day My Soul Just Opened Up” by Jyanla  Vanzant

I want you to become aware of what your thoughts are, what your words are (what you always sharing with people around you) and then … what are your actions?

Yes you might place all the essential attributes in zone of “love”, “money” and “career”, and as soon as you  did you might feel different, you might feel how your energy uplifted! Congratulations!!! 50 % of work is done!

And then your routine day comes and you step in the same path you’ve been already. You get a negative thought or feeling, you share it with people around you (words) and since you already did two essential things out of three you unconsciously, mechanically doing an action which produce the results that you have now. “So what do I do?” you ask me.

I can tell you what I do and it works amazingly. I started it no long ago, new knowledge comes to me every day and I am thrilled to share it with you. I constantly get so many mini miracles through my day and I am so grateful for each one of them!

As soon as a bad thought comes I DO NOT pronounce it, I DO NOT share it with anyone. I SUBSTITUTE it with a good one immediately and what I DO pronounce is that “I am grateful for…”  (whatever I want to happen)! Remember words are powerful!

I believe in God so this is how I understand how everything works. Remember in Bible first was a WORD. God SAID something and it appears!

He could do all things by himself after he made us people, but then what would be left? God wants us to be co-creators! And he gave us same tools that he uses: Thoughts + Words + Actions = Results

When you wake up in the morning, do your hygienic routine, have breakfast and go to work you don’t create your day the way YOU want it, and than you just fight back whatever happens to you during the day.

What you CAN do to change it just wake up a little bit early and create your day! How? By positive thoughts and affirmations (words) and than you’ll  produce actions that will create results that you want! Start your day with listening this affirmation. You can stay in bed and listen to it and repeat every word.   

In this way you will create reality you want. Do it for 30 days and you’ll see how much your life will change!

Next time I will send you an affirmation that can do a huge difference in your career situation and of cause money

Stay tuned!

Sources:

• “One Day My Soul Just Opened Up” by Jyanla  Vanzant
• Conversations with my friend Chanda Hopkins
• Landmark education Forum and Advanced course

The Power of Words

Want to have an extraordinary life? Be creative and powerful? Start with being thankful for what you already have in your life!

Think how many things you’ve already have now and you don’t even notice. You take it for granted. You not only not notice it you also spend most of you life complaining about things you have or happening to you. You don’t realize you are actually creating them, you think they are happening to you by itself and the only power you have is to react on the events in your life. You don’t realize how powerful are your words and thoughts.

Well they are!

And instead of wasting them on complains you can spend them being thankful for wonderful things you already have in your life. Even if you don’t have something yet – start by saying “thank you” for whatever you want that it is coming into your life! It is so powerful! The thing is when you are saying “thank you” for something you don’t even have yet – you are putting FAITH into your words! And we all know FAITH makes miracles to happen!

This is how you can start your day to make it creative and positive.

If you believe in God, Universe, whatever you believe created life on this planet you can say:

“Thank you God, Universe, etc. for this new beautiful day that you gave me. Thank you for filling my day with love! For giving me energy to go through day and do great things in life. Thank you for making me strong and healthy. Thank you for new knowledge I receive every day! Thank you for showing me how can I achieve …. (whatever you want to achieve) so easy and effortlessly. Thank you for giving me power to improve people’s  lives by empowering them and leave every person I meet today happier and stronger. I am blessed and protected and so many beautiful events are happening in my life now! Thank you!”

Make an experiment. Be thankful every morning for 1 week and you will see how significantly this week will be better than others and if you like the results – make it your new healthy habit and part of your lifestyle!

Have a beautiful happy day!