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A Tribute To My Feng Shui Master (4) 风水师傅荣誉奖励 (四)

In my earlier blog _________________, I talked about watching motivational videos and being resilient in life. Watching motivational videos is akin to putting a battery in your back. It helps to increase our confidence, so that we are able to bounce back from failure, adversity and setbacks. No risk, no gain. What is the point of life? What is the point of living if we don’t let life change us? Some people want it all, but I don’t know about the others. To say the least, the latter are people who are happy to let things remain status quo. They don’t mind if their status remains the same for the rest of their lives. Then there are the really timid cats who are too scared to try anything. Mind you, these timid souls are not ignorant! On the contrary, people who read a lot sometimes outsmart themselves because they think of all the possibilities. Too many possibilities that they are paralysed by their own fears and anxiety.
在我以上的博客_________________,我谈到时常观看激励视频的好处。你知道吗? 观看激励视频就像给自己充电, 它教导我们的同时也有助于增强我们的信心。 如果将来失败,我们就能从逆境和挫折中恢复过来。没有风险,就没有收获。我们人类为什么要活在?如果我们不让生活改变我们,生活的意义何在?有些人想要一切,但有些人属于乐于让事物保持现状的人。他们不介意他们的生活状态永远保持不变。有些人有如胆小的猫,害怕尝试任何东西。这些胆小的灵魂并不是无知, 也不是没有常识!相反的,阅读很多的人有时会自以为是,想到所有的可能性! 他们因为自己的恐惧和焦虑, ‘瘫痪’到什么事情都不敢尝试。

The first time I applied a FOC Feng Shui tip, I had to smile more____! At that time, my smile muscles were stiff from not being used, so I practiced my smile to perfection!______  Did you know that a million thoughts went through my head before I even tried out this FOC smile more____ Feng Shui tip? And then another billion thoughts went through my head again when I practiced my smile to perfection_____? Of course! In ______, I told you about my ‘monkey mind’. If I don’t make an effort to control it, it has a mind of it’s own and it just goes wild thinking about everything! Even till today, my ‘monkey mind’ does not spare me from it’s wild imaginings! When I first read the life-changing “Feng Shui Tips” book, these irrelevant thoughts raced through my mind:

  1. Who is this author, and why should I trust her? She can or not?
  2. How will I know that what she is teaching me will work? Was she trained by a Professional?
  3. It’s fine if it does not work, but what if something bad happened?
  4. Maybe it’s not in my ba-zi to be successful, so no matter whether I use Feng Shui or not, I will remain a failure.
  5. What if it did not work because I mis-interpreted what she is saying? Have I understood what she is trying to teach me? I’m worried because sometimes it is hard to fully understand what is written.
  6. How I wish I could ask somebody whether I have interpreted the words correctly!

My ‘monkey mind’ and my logical mind spent a long time, each trying to convince the other. Fortunately, my logical mind won, and I decided it was ok to try! After all, what is there to lose? I was broke for the longest time, my husband could not save himself (much less save me!), and Mr Dress-Very-Well was just that (his only positive was that he truly dressed-very-well!). Then when I decided that I wanted to try smiling, my ‘monkey’ mind again battled with my logical mind on what type of smile I was going to adopt. I spent my teenage years in the Orthodontist clinic, and though the braces managed to align my teeth to ‘conceal’ my lower protruding jaw, I ended up having a ‘diastema toothy grin’ (for some reason, the Orthodontist fixed my teeth in such a way that there still remains a big gap between my lateral incisor tooth and my canine tooth. That’s the meaning of diastema.) Haha! If you are really interested, you can Google “set of teeth” and go analyse my teeth structure!  😆

But anyway, I wondered whether people will keep looking at my ‘diastema toothy grin’? Will they think that my teeth were yellow? What if I ate vegetables for lunch, and there was a piece of green stuck in my teeth?!  Oh no!!!! After practicing 100 types of smiles, I decided that my ‘diastema toothy grin’ was my best megawatt smile, and so until today, I still use my ‘diastema toothy grin’ when I want to get you on my side!

My point is: (1) everyone will have their own doubts, and (2) we will have our own set of worries. But we should not be paralysed by our own doubts and worries! I don’t think that these doubts and worries will ever disappear from our lives. It is only when you have done what you need to do, then you will know whether the doubts and worries were legit in the first place! So trust the Feng Shui Master that you have decided to follow, read their teachings well, and then ‘work with’ him or her to the best of your abilities! Don’t overthink the situation, and don’t get paralysed by your own fears and anxieties. Only then will your chosen Feng Shui Master really be able to help you! In my case, my Feng Shui Master was an experienced writer, she had written in proper English, she has a proven track record, and her book had also been proof-read by her publisher. It is as good as it can get! I will not fail as long as I concentrate and read her book properly! Because all along, it was only my own ‘monkey mind’ monkeying around with my logical mind!

在我第一次使用无需花钱的风水提示时,我发觉了微笑的力量____!那时候,我的微笑肌肉因为没有被使用而变得僵硬,所以我练习了我的微笑, 熟能生巧!______读者们, 你们不知道吧, 不过我尝试这个无需花钱的微笑提示之前,我头脑里有一百万个念头!在______中,我告诉过你我有’猴子头脑’。如果我不费心去控制它,它会有自己的思想,它会疯狂地思考一切的一切!!!即使到了今天,我的’猴子头脑’还是没有放过我!我第一次读那本改变我人生的“风水提示”本子时,我脑海中浮现出这些问题:

(一) 作者是谁?我为什么要信任她?她行吗?

(二) 我怎么知道她教的会起作用吗? 她有受过专业训练吗?

(三) 如果它不起作用没关系,但是会不会发生什么坏事? 到时怎么办?谁来救我?

(四) 可能我命不好, 八字相克, 不管我有没有使用风水,我都会失败。

(五) 如果风水不起作用,是不是因为我误解了她在说什么?我真的了解她想教我的吗?我很担心,因为有时候, 写的和做的不一样。

(六) 我好希望我能把所有疑问问某人!

我的’猴子头脑’和我的逻辑思维花了很长时间,彼此试图说服另一方。幸运的是,我的逻辑思想获胜了,我决定试一试风水!反正我还能失去什么?我自从大学毕业没钱最长的时间,我的先生无法救自己(更不用说救我了!),而’穿了一身名牌‘的白马王子事实上是世界上欠了一屁股债的可怜虫!我决定尝试微笑时,我的‘猴子头脑’再次与我的逻辑思维作斗争,我应该采用我的哪一个微笑。我青少年时期在正畸医生诊所度过,尽管牙套帮我对齐我的牙齿, 顺利的隐藏下颌突出的下巴,但由于某种原因,牙医在我前面的牙齿之间留了一个‘起眼’的差距, 使我笑起来觉得有点尴尬。

如果我现在开始微笑, 别人会继续看着我个‘起眼’的差距牙齿吗?他们会觉得我的牙齿不白带黄吗?我在午餐吃了蔬菜后,如果牙齿上有一块绿色蔬菜卡住,怎么办?还有种种问题!在一百种我的微笑当中, 我任然选择了露出我着个‘起眼’的差距笑容, 应为我觉得这是我最好的兆瓦微笑! 直到今天,我仍然用这个笑容收买人心。  😆

综上所述:(一) 每个人都会有自己的疑惑, 和(二) 我们都会有自己的担忧。但是, 我们不应该被我们的怀疑、 疑惑和担忧瘫痪!我始终认为我们的怀疑、 疑惑和担忧不可能从我们的生活中消失。唯有你完成了你需要做的事情之后,你才会真正领悟以上的怀疑、 疑惑和担忧是否多心了!

所以,请相信你们的风水老师,既然你们已经决定跟随他们,阅读他们的教导,一起尽最大努力是一定要的!千万不要想过多,不要因自己的恐惧和焦虑而瘫痪。只有这样,你选择的风水老师才能真正帮助你!我的风水老师是一位经验丰富的作家,她应用了正确的英文写作,她有良好的记录, 同时她也把她的书交给编辑‘质量检查’过。 能做的都做了!只要我专心阅读她的书,我一定成功!反正, 一直以来,是我自己的’猴子头脑’在作怪, 搞乱我的逻辑思维!对吧! 可恶的‘猴子头脑’! 👿