Soundform said:

you might say you don't feel these changes and you might never feel them at all. the ways the human brain works is a tremendous amount of power is placed in faith (both conscious and unconscious), until you can overcome this obstacle you will be a prisoner of your own mind and be susceptable to the conditioning of your perceptions by others.

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A much more practical perspective on the matter is that your subconscious mind is associating different patterns in one's environment with past experiences. Placing goofy shit around the area is simply placebo ; the items themselves have no power beyond the mental power they are given, and they aren't resolving some external energy field. Tuning into one's mind and finding the actual cause of one's own feelings (i.e. they were created by one's own mind, not one's environment) and transcending it through becoming more aware is a much more effective step towards furthering one's personal evolution than adopting unsubstantiated beliefs in "negative energy".

The only thing feng shui is good for is practicing the act of conscious intention, which is a great thing, but it isn't due to anything but the meaning that one is associating with one's environment. When one places objects in one's environment with conscious intent to create an experience, it subsequently creates the experience, because one's own mind is responsible for the experience in the first place.

Now you understand the origin of your own feelings.

OrgoneConclusion said:

Why is it every single newbie wants us to repeat stuff that has already been covered endlessly without doing a lick of research? Is this now the spoon-feeding forum?

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Jesus Christ on ice skates, lighten up.

It is unreasonable to expect that everyone who enters this forum will have the same understanding. There is no preliminary test to ensure that everyone has assumed a specific level of understanding in order to be accepted in this forum, nor should there be (especially if that would mean that everyone posts like you ).

Why be so condescending to people who clearly haven't reached the level you expect, even demand? Why not use more effective means of teaching them, to help alleviate the concern one has?

AlteredAgain said:

that's quite impressive but not everyone defines their reality by the absence of something.

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In my opinion, everyone should define their reality by the absence of themselves. Most people define their reality by the fear of the absence of themselves. It is entirely unnecessary, doesn't prevent the actualization of the imminent absence of oneself (death ), and obstructs our present experience of the totality of reality, occuring right now. Everything is happening right now.

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and was told it's used in a number of rituals to ward off evil spirits and get rid of negative emotions

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There you have it folks. Someone told him. Can't argue with that level of veracity. Its right up there with "I read it in a book" and "I saw it on TV"...

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that's quite impressive but not everyone defines their reality by the absence of something.

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fireworks_god said:

OrgoneConclusion said:

Why is it every single newbie wants us to repeat stuff that has already been covered endlessly without doing a lick of research? Is this now the spoon-feeding forum?

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Jesus Christ on ice skates, lighten up.

It is unreasonable to expect that everyone who enters this forum will have the same understanding. There is no preliminary test to ensure that everyone has assumed a specific level of understanding in order to be accepted in this forum, nor should there be (especially if that would mean that everyone posts like you ).

Why be so condescending to people who clearly haven't reached the level you expect, even demand? Why not use more effective means of teaching them, to help alleviate the concern one has?

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Soundform said:

i need to clear my room of negative energies, usually i place a bowl of sea salt in the middle to absorb them but i had a friend tell me he uses a smudge stick and i want to try this method out. i don't have one of these but i do have alot of incense, would that work instead?

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None of that will do the trick. Burn the house to the ground and then leave the area forever.

Soundform said:

well i've been doing this for a while and i know how far i need to go in order to convince myself something will happen. choosing random objects and hoping they do the job won't really work in this case.

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you guys don't get it... i'm not asking whether what i believe in is real or not. your opinions mean very little to me.

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Soundform said:

well i've been doing this for a while and i know how far i need to go in order to convince myself something will happen. choosing random objects and hoping they do the job won't really work in this case.

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Come on man. There is no negative energy in your room. It all resides inside your little noggin.