Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Welcome back to Integrative lyme Solutions with Dr. Karl Feldt. I am so excited about the show that we have ahead of us. We have some phenomenal information that could save lives.
[00:00:13] Speaker B: You're gonna need to tune in to what's going on today.
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[00:00:24] Speaker C: Hello.
[00:00:24] Speaker B: Thank you so much for joining Integrative lyme Solutions with Dr. Karl Feld. I am your host, Dr. Michael Karlfeld. I've been in clinical practice since 1987. I've seen pretty much everything under the sun, worked with so many different Lyme patients, and I know what a devastating disease this is. That's why I'm doing this podcast to make sure that you are armed with the information that you need in order to be able to be successful in your struggle with Lyme. We'll be featuring authors, doctors, professors, and also people like yourself that have gone through the journey that you're going through, that have been where you've been and is now on the other side. And they get to tell their victorious story as to how they battle Lyme so that you can implement that in your life as well. Be sure to like us and write a review on whichever platform that you're listening on. What that does is it enables other people to see us more so that they have access to this information as well. So I'm so excited that you're tuning in and get ready for this upcoming show. It is going to be amazing. Well, Karen Row Carter, I'm so excited to have you on. You and I chatted before my radio show and like I mentioned, we can't run a regenerative medicine summit without regenerating the house. Right.
[00:01:54] Speaker C: Exactly. You know, it's kind of interesting how people just, I think they think health is just truly good luck or bad luck. And there's so many factors that can make the good luck happen. I don't know why people don't, you know, at least give it a try. Sometimes it's frustrating to me when people don't believe that their environment can make a difference, when the whole study of epigenetics is that's what it's all about. And, you know, even when you're trying to grow, get a plant to flower, you don't pick on the plant itself. You, the soil and the sunlight and the water and all of the environmental factors are what makes the difference in whether that plant blooms or not. And it's just so logical to me. I'm going to throw a bunch of metaphors out there until they get it, you know, it's just like, it's so common, common sense, you know, get your environment in order and it will change your life. So that's what I'm all about today. Hope you guys can hang with my fervor.
[00:03:02] Speaker B: I love it. I love it. Yeah.
[00:03:03] Speaker C: So passionate about it.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: And that's the thing. It's exactly like that. You know, you, you, you, you can't, I mean, you can't just think that you exist in isolation. And I'm so excited we're going to go through, you know, what you can do to your environment in your house. Yeah. How it is set up and how it impacts your body and how you can maximize your health. But let me first do a little intro of you so that all the people out there know how amazing you are.
[00:03:31] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: So Karen Rush Carter has an amazing ability to take the ancient art of Feng Shui and not only make it accessible and relevant, but make it fun. As you can all see out there, she's awesome.
If you read her national best selling Feng Shui book, Move youe Stuff, Change youe Life or Make a Shift, Change youe Life, you understand how she uses her lighthearted approach to writing and speaking to motivate her clients and audience to rethink their surroundings in ways that improve their health, career, relationships and more. As well as being an expert and best selling author in the field of Feng Shui, her credentials also include being a landscape architecture, a certified healthy home bowel biology practitioner, a longevity health counselor, and a peak performance coach. She has created a special opportunity for you to get your home, workplace and life in sync with your ultimate future. To stay tuned for that lace, I assume that we're going to offer something that people that they can get a feel and get a glimpse of the incredible world of Feng Shui and, and how that can benefit them so that they can kind of take that first step with you later on.
[00:04:53] Speaker C: Yes. Hopefully if I can make a compelling case to really investigate what's going on in your environment because it is making an impact in your life and be your own best detective for your health by looking around your environment, that's what I'm all about and hopefully I can help people cross that bridge and maybe if they want to do a consultation with me, I'm available.
[00:05:16] Speaker B: Awesome. Awesome. And there's so much to learn in brief regard to the house and how it's set up and feng shui ties into all of that. So how would you describe Feng shui? And I know you mentioned a Little bit about a plant. You just don't focus on the plant. You focus on the whole environment, the soil, the nutrients, the pests, all of these things around it. You can't just live in isolation.
What is feng shui and how long has it been around and why does it exist?
[00:05:50] Speaker C: Well, feng shui I would describe as a method of mindfully arranging your environment so that it supports you consistently. Not willy nilly, not if you're lucky. You know, you are arranging your life with purpose, your life and your surroundings. One begets the other. So we just figure out what you want out of life. We think about the changes that we need to make in the environment. And some people call it luck, but I'll use another little metaphor, kind of a thing. You wouldn't put your baby down by the edge of the pool to take a nap.
Is it bad luck that the baby doesn't survive that, or what are your chances of that? We're looking to position ourselves in the most likely places for health and success and don't do these things that are. Well, I guess I would say feng shui sort of delves into the things that you don't think might be nipping at your health and you just never considered that that connection could be something that could be taking you down in some way or another. So, you know, there are the obvious things. Don't put the baby down by the edge of the pool for a nap. And then there's the subtle things like, you know, is there a ceiling fan directly over your bed causing distress to your physical body or a beam or a sloping ceiling or something like that? So what's closest to you over the most amount of time has the most impact on you. So you can tell I'm, you know, like eight hours of the day sleeping. Boom. I'm going in the bedroom. Eight hours working. Where do you work? You know, there's 16 hours of your 24, if I can get those two places. So I'm trying to make it as simple, simple as possible. If I can get those two places supportive, then we've got something rolling here.
[00:07:50] Speaker B: Yeah, so. So for an individual that wants to, you know, we're talking about regenerative medicine, you know, optimizing your health.
So what are some basic principles? You know, even without. Because a lot of, a lot of clients call you and they say, well, I'm, I'm not successful at work or, you know, all of a sudden I need glasses or. I mean, all these different things that come, that can relate to the environment that they're in. But let's say you somebody that you have no idea who they are, and there's no complaints, but you just want to optimize. I mean, what are some basic principles to optimize your workplace and your home environment, especially your bedroom?
[00:08:35] Speaker C: Perfect. Well, if you think of the study of epigenetics, which you were talking about a second ago offline, your environment has an impact on you. And just as your environment has your. An impact on you, the perception of your environment has an impact on you. So you look at something that you're like, oh, that, that reminds me of my, you know, whatever, something negative. And then your nervous system gets in the fight or flight or something like that. Your nervous system is telling your cells to do something. And DNA can be changed this way, you know, so it just filters down. And so it could be a positive or negative way. We just want to bank our odds towards the positive. And some of the things that I would say without knowing anything about feng shui would be listen to your complaints.
I find that people literally say, what the pro. You know, I go into people's homes, I'm like, tell me about yourself. And I'm like, I'm just literally waiting for them to give me all the things. It's so simple. They tell me their complaints, and I can go and look at it in their environment.
People complain in architectural terms and our architecture and surroundings, we have personified. So it's very connected. You know, you say, it's like I'm running into a brick wall. Whenever I try to get a promotion or whenever I try to move forward in life, I'm just so stuck. It's like I'm running into a brick wall. And I'm like, I bet your desk faces a wall. It's not facing the. The breadth of the room, you know, looking way far away at the door over there. So it is comical sometimes how literal you can take your complaints and go look for that very complaint in the house. You know, we say breaking the glass ceiling. It's like, what that means women getting ahead in the workplace. What a weird arch term, you know, and then we say, my house needs a facelift. You know, now we're personifying our. Our house that it even needs a facelift. You know, take it to the plastic surgeon, right? So we're, we're. I'm trying to marry those two and listen to your complaints. So if you're not as sharp as you used to be, I would say, when was the last time you sharpened your knives? I mean, I'm just giving you just something so like beep. Like what? And I'm so stuck. Well, that usually comes into the clutter conversation, which we may or may not have coming up, but stuckness can be in the doors, in the drawers. You know, the door doesn't open up all the way because you've got a rack behind it. And, you know, anything that cannot move to its fullest, you're going to feel the stuckness. And what happens in your body, you start to get stiff and stuck and things aren't moving to their fullest length and those types of bizarre connections. I'd love for you to listen to your complaints, especially if you say something chronically like get in a little dyad, you know, husband, wife or partners or whatever, and, and, and say, you know, what do I say all the time? And they're like, you always say how burnt out you are, you know, something like that. And I would say I'm looking for a fireplace in the wrong position, basically is where burnt out might show up.
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[00:14:07] Speaker C: And so I'm. You know, I go into people's homes, I listen to their complaints. I hear where they are now. I hear where they want to be, and I bridge the gap. And I've been doing this for so long. I tell people most of the time, I don't even need to see your house to know what's. What's going on in it. I was. I speak on cruise ships a lot, and I was on a cruise ship, and I said that in the very first talk I did on the cruise, and I said, you know, I. I've done. Been doing this so long, somebody give me a complaint and I'll. I'll. Let me see if I can tell you what's going on, what's in your house? And it looked like a plant. You know, like, I put somebody. Because it was just. It was like the perfect. Thank you.
[00:14:46] Speaker B: It was just so right on.
[00:14:48] Speaker C: It was so right on. So lady, she's like, I cannot get up in the morning. Like, I'm not lazy. I want to. I. I just literally cannot get up in the morning. And I said, you have got a picture above the headboard of your bed that has the horizon in it or water. And I said, I would even go so far as to bet it's an underwater scene picture above the head of your bed. She's like, ladies and gentlemen, I have a freaking Wyland underwater scene under. Above my bed. And everybody's like, yeah, that's pretty. Like, come on.
[00:15:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:29] Speaker C: And it is the patterning. I am a pattern detective. You know, like a doctor just goes, what's that on. I don't know what that's on my arm. And they go, that's measles. And you're like, of all the choices, how do you know? I've seen it before. I have seen.
You know, I've been around the world looking in people's drawers and all around and listening to their complaints. And if you do that enough, it is.
It's just.
It's just pattern seeing. It's just making those connections.
[00:16:02] Speaker B: Yeah. You see it again and again and again and again and again.
It's fascinating. So it's almost like your. Your home, your environment, Creates a blueprint or matrix. And then your, your physical body is shifting to mirrors that energy.
I remember, you know, when I interviewed last time you were talking about, it was, I think it was an Asian, Asian family. And none of them had glasses except for this one, one girl had glasses.
[00:16:34] Speaker C: The middle daughter.
[00:16:35] Speaker B: Middle daughter. And you meant, and you over the phone, you said, well, check and see if such and such window is broken or it's a crack or something like that. And they came back and said, yeah, how did you know?
[00:16:50] Speaker C: You know, I know all the rules of the traditional feng shui, you know, so when you tell me something, it's going through several sims of the five elements. The bagua, which is the map of feng shui, yin and yang, the nine traditional cures, the, what I call contemporary feng shui, which is that bowel biology part, which is all the healthy home stuff where I go into people's houses and I test with meters and you know, I'm looking at electrical fields and, and electromagnetic fields and radon off, gassing, vapor emissions, all these things that the, the router, the WI fi, the microwave, you know, all these things that we have brought into our home that is surrounding us. And what's closest to you over the most amount of time has the most effect on you. You know, thumbtack, face up on Mars. I don't know, thumbtack face up on my chair. Yeah, it's there. So if it's closer to you, you will know the impact of it. So think about your immediate surroundings. Let's talk about the bedroom. You know, I would say no sharp metal anywhere near your bed. In your nightstand. Don't have any knives, weapons. I found swords, Ice picks. Yes. You Canadians get those ice picks out from under your bed?
I have found, you know, scissors, knives, like all kinds of weapons to protect yourself. And usually when people.
[00:18:17] Speaker B: So tell me about that. I mean, what, what, what, what does that do? I mean, a sharp object, will you have then a kind of sharp headache or. I mean, is it what, what?
[00:18:26] Speaker C: I usually find that people get cut, they have surgery. Oh, yeah. And, and oftentimes for some weird reason, it's the shoulders. And somebody told me, well, it's a shoulder blade and it's the blade of the knot. And I'm like, oh, good one. But you know, we're always making these connections. But I have found people multiple, you know, they put the flatware box of grandma's silver under the bed to, you know, hide from robbers or something. Multiple knives, multiple surgeries. And the blades of the Ceiling fan overhead, you know, not quite as much as a straight up knife or some object like that, but we try to get these sharp edges away from you. And so that would be one thing. And then people that are really desperate to feel like they feel vulnerable in their bedroom or they feel vulnerable in life usually aren't positioned well in that safe command position. We always just naturally want to have our back protected. And if your complaint is, nobody's got my back, they're talking behind my back, they stabbed me in the back. I didn't see that one coming. Those types of complaints, I'm just going to keep giving you the thing, the complaint and the thing those types of complaints are, your back is not protected. That would be a window above the head of the bed. That would be the head of the bed along the same wall that the bedroom door is on.
Weak, weak, weak positions. You want to be.
Think of the king, the pope, the priest, the judge, you know, do you ever see a big window behind them? No. Or their, their chair back? You know, Pope is like way up here. At least the judge usually has like a chair back up to about here, you know, you don't see him sitting on a little baby stool with no arms, no, no back, you know, and so we're looking for that command position you have, are protected. I think I've said before, the mafia knows feng shui. They don't even know they know feng shui. Their life depends on knowing these really basic rules about don't let your back be exposed. And so many people. Or you're forced in a cubicle where your back is exposed, you're in the little corner, doo doo, doo, working like a little, you know, worker bee. And your back is exposed. Nobody wants to be in the cubicle. They want that desk with four walls, solid wall behind them, see who's coming in the door. So those are the types of feelings which is kicking that epigenetic, you know, tipping the domino, getting you in a fight or flight or anxious state. This anxiety that's all over the world these days, everybody's anxious. You know, I'm looking at what's going on with that. And that comes from weak positions all the way to the 5G, you know, kind of stuff. So we're looking at the breadth of what's going on in your environment. The physically, I can see it stuff and the invisible stuff, like the radio waves, electromagnetic fields, things like that. So that's what I, I'm a little detective. Yeah.
[00:21:45] Speaker B: Well, and that's, that's great. And I love this for people that are listening, viewing this, that they can see that these little small things that you don't think about, you don't think about. I have a scissor my nightstand that seems practical. I need to use it at such and such time. You don't think that that is going to have an impact on you. But then recognizing these patterns and then, I mean, even though we're obviously not going to cover all of feng shui in an hour's interview, but just kind of get a taste for how the process works is key. And in your bedroom, like you mentioned, you spend eight hours there and that's where you regenerate, that's where you detoxify, that's where you process emotions from the day.
So there's so much that happens while you're sleeping. So that that's such a key component. And obviously EMF and 5G and unplugging your router and kind of, and cleaning up that electronically and signal wise is crucial. And that's step number one, one, one.
But then to recognize how you position the bed and like the painting above the head, what does that do? I'm curious. So the water, because you said, well, there's going to be some water scene. The water just kind of drains your energy.
[00:23:10] Speaker C: Then, well, let's think about how we are in nature. We breathe air, don't want to sleep below the fish. You know, we don't want to be underwater. And the complaint, I can't get my nose above water. Whether it is like I'm so busy or my real estate property, something like that is underwater, can't get, you know, things like that. I'm looking for where water is overhead. So we've got, you know, the stars and the sun and the clouds and the birds and the planes and the treetops and the bushes and the ground and the water is down low. And oftentimes the, the. I see a lot of boys bedrooms done in surfer theme. You know, the mom is like, I'm gonna get so cute, make it endearing. Design a surfer boy. And they've got that little wave with the little surfer in the tube and there's that water overhead. And that boy, generalized anxiety is his diagnosis. You know, I see that a lot where the water is overhead, you're going to feel anxious. And symbols are just as important as the real thing. You know, like a lot of the quantum field stuff. We talk about acting as if. And you know, our bodies can't tell whether it's real or the dream. So make Your dream a good one. You know, life's an illusion. Make it a good one.
So when we are surrounded by these patterns that are illogical to us or unnatural for us, we don't normally sleep lower than the fish or underwater. And that's so what primitively what shows up in our system, you know?
[00:25:03] Speaker B: Yeah. So, so what would be if you, if you had like the dream paintings in a bedroom? I mean what, what would be kind of the, the best things that you would think that you know, a person should have to sleep well, be regenerated, detoxify all of these kind of things, have a great love life. And, and yeah, yeah.
[00:25:24] Speaker C: Well that is you know like detect, you know, sifting out what exactly they're looking for. And I look for hitting the nail on the head. You know, people go harmony, balance. And I'm like, well can you tell me how much harmony do you need? How much balance do you need to know that I've done a good job for you? Tell me what that would be to make it a success where you would rave to other people that, that feng shui really worked. And they're like, you know, I'm like how many clients? How much more money? How many? You know, what, what are specific. Give me quantifiable things. You know, I, I get hired for the most bizarre specific things. You know, somebody wants to be a national best selling author. Somebody wants their horse, race horse to win the race. I mean just like the legal. Win the case. I mean I, I have a 100 on that legal thing, but that's a whole nother story. We're gonna talk about health here.
[00:26:22] Speaker B: It almost sounds like doping to fix your, your environment. Functly. Yeah.
[00:26:26] Speaker C: Make your horse play. Make yourself.
Don't need to do anything to the horses, but get it right.
[00:26:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:33] Speaker C: So yeah, so I'm, I'm just looking to create that. So when it comes to art in the bedroom, depending on what people are looking for, we might do something very specific for that. So it's hard to give throw a one size fits all Thing is what I'm trying to say here. If I were to choose, I would say photographs of nature.
Watch. Watch where the water is. Watch where the trees are. You know, depends on that pattern that we're looking for. But photographs of nature I would say versus architecture or versus people. Especially in the bedroom. I usually say nobody else's eyes but those who sleep there. So you don't want grandma, deities, you know, everything looking at you while you're, while you're trying to Sleep, that's for adults. You know, sometimes the kids, it's good to have the parents in the room with them. If they're not sleeping or they're running in your room at night, usually their bedroom is farther closer to the front door than the parents, which is why they're running back. You know, they're the infantry out front. They're running back behind the general to feel safer. So the position of the bedroom, the position of the bed, all these things makes a huge difference on why people are doing what they're doing. And they think it's just who they are. And I'm like, no, I can prove to you that kid will sleep in that. You know, let me show you. And they're like, they're gonna come in every night. And I'm like, nope. And you know, boom, first night they're sleeping in their bedroom.
[00:28:04] Speaker B: So those types of fascinating. You should have then the children kind of behind the general. Meaning that the, the parents bedroom should be closer to the door for the children to feel protected.
[00:28:18] Speaker C: That's why some of them do that. Sometimes the bedroom is in front of the front door. Like a piece of the house kind of sticks out in front like a big L shape. And you got to walk past that piece of the L to get to the front door. And the bedrooms are, are physically more forward than the front door. You're kind of sleeping out in the front yard, so to speak. So if you're in front of the front door, you will feel that vulner. Children especially, you know, think of all those built in homework desks that no kid ever sits at. The built in. They're always out at the, you know, the island or the dining room table or something like that. Rarely do they put themselves in that vulnerable position. Adults will just like, ah, they'll tough it out, you know, be in that little dunce position in the corner or that little subservient position in the cubicle. But kids naturally will show you where the weak, weak links are. You know, that's why you. What do they call that? Baby proof? The, the house? You know, they'll find every corner. You know, that's like the energy is all warbally right there because the corner is, is creating this bizarre energy field. And the kids are like, bonk. You know, and. Or your thigh. You're like, my God, where is this bruise? It's always on my thigh, you know, and just adults just blank it out. But the kids, you know, they're like the milk show you. But so we're Just paying attention from the obvious to the subtle.
[00:29:49] Speaker B: And things like mirrors. I mean that, like in the bedroom, you know, people like to have like a mirror to kind of check themselves, you know, see if clothes look good. I mean, how, how do they play into. I mean, are they something that's beneficial, harmful?
[00:30:05] Speaker C: Mirrors actually equal water in the feng shui world. So you don't want a mirror above your bed. I usually say you don't want a mirror anywhere on your headboard wall, the entire wall, because I've seen it. Even the new interior design thing is like putting mirrors above the nightstands. That's kind of a new fad or whatever, and I'm not a fan of that. When there's mirrors on the headboard wall, usually my clients are saying, well, those were the days back then. Everything when I was prom queen, it was. It's been downhill ever since, you know, so they're always looking back. Like those are the good old days. They're not looking forward. And some that mirror just gives them sort of a view back all the time. So if you are fighting to dream up a freaking. I love the future that I am creating and heading towards. If you can't even imagine that it might be something like you're constantly looking back with a mirror. So mirrors equal water. So you don't want a mirror higher than, you know, you're trying to get your nose above water. So we don't want to, don't want to put these mirrors up so high, especially where you're sleeping or spending a lot of time. And if you're reflected when you're sleeping, this is a weird little subtle feng shui thing that means you might not know, like those closet doors that are doubling the size of the room. A, it doubles the size of the room, which is creating more yang condition. Bedrooms should be more yin and cozy. And, you know, you want this smaller little space to, to sleep in. These McMansionized master bedrooms are really not supportive of a good night's sleep because of the square footage. Basically just the size of it. People don't like to sleep on the 50, 50 yard line of the football field. You know, they want the little cozy little, you know, the kids put the, the blanket over the dining room table. They want the yin, yin, yin positions. So we're looking for that. And when you're reflected, when you sleep, it's a little bit of your energy is trying to come back and restore you. And I'll just say just to give you a picture, if there's a mirror of you over there, you're here and there's a reflection of you over there. Maybe half is going to that person in the mirror and the other half is going to you. Just to give you sort of like how I would picture the energy you're getting, maybe half of the energy.
[00:32:36] Speaker B: So it's kind of like you have a split energy in a way, you know, so that now you exist in two locations, you know, within the bedroom. So you aren't really centered. I mean, you're, you're always kind of partly over there as well.
[00:32:49] Speaker C: Right. It's, it's. You're underwater, you're reflected. There's two of you.
You're, you know, could be creating that looking back position. There's lots of things that a mirror can do in a bedroom towards the negative. The only other time I would use it towards the positive is if you're stuck with the door on the same wall as the headboard of your bed. You could put a small mirror on the other side of the room, not reflecting you, but reflecting the door. So when you're in bed, you can look in front of you and see who's coming in the door without going, ah, who's come? You know, like, that's a nobody's got my back kind of complaint. So you want to be able to. Your bed, solid wall, no punctures, no doors or windows along that wall. That would be a great headboard wall to be able to see who's coming in the door, but not have the door directly in line with your bed.
So if you walk in your bedroom and you eventually run into your bed, you know, I would prefer getting out of the way. A feng shui cure for that. If you have that would be one, one way to deal with it would be to hang a crystal, one of those round, multifaceted, kind of like a crystal chandelier, like a Swarovski round beveled glass crystal. Hang a crystal from the ceiling somewhere between the door and the bed to use the law of refraction to break the line that's coming in that door and hitting you. Whatever that body part is in line with the door is going to be hit. I had a client as a major league baseball player and his son played baseball and he, he got hit in the head on the right side with the, with a pitch. So he got hit with a ball on the right side, but it was always his left side that he complained about. And the doctor's like, I don't know, I got hit on the right. And it's all healed. I don't know what that left is all about. They hired me and I come into his room. He's not even around. I don't even know anything about the kid. And I go into his room, I go, who sleeps here? And what's wrong with his ear? Or up from shoulder to head and on the left side and they're like, he's hit him right, but his head left on his left head hurts. And I said, well I, I can see why the left side of his head hurts because the, the door of the room is coming in and hitting the left side of the head of the bed. And they also had a lamp that, you know, like when you take a book and you, you spin it all the way around 360 and it makes those page, page, page, page all the way around. The, the lamp was just these strips of metal like in a 360, almost like little pages of a book when you pull the binding all the way around. And so I said, well, he's got these lots of sharp metal edges hitting the left side of his head and he's got that door coming in. And I said, we're, you know, I always like to do the X factor. We're going to do one thing. We're going to move him, his head of his bed over there out of the thing, see what happens. I, I can give you two, three and four and five. But why do five things that the first one works and they moved his bed over and they're like, that solved that. So.
[00:36:11] Speaker B: Oh, so, so no his, his weird pain here.
[00:36:14] Speaker C: Done, done, done.
[00:36:16] Speaker B: It's cool.
[00:36:17] Speaker C: It, it is so, you know, it drives me crazy when people have an illness and then they go to the doctor who doesn't see what, what environment they're in and they're like, fix it, fix it. And then they go right back into the environment that created that situation. I'm the house call doctor. I go in there and I find, you know, I find there it is, you know, I find the smoking gun, so to speak. And I usually say, let's just do that one thing, see what happens. And then we might do another thing. We might do another thing. But I'm, I'm pretty targeted these days where I can figure out, you know, the most highest bang for the buck kind of cure to do. A cure is just a fixer, a change to the environment.
[00:37:01] Speaker B: That's so cool how one of the things also that I think is fascinating is how the house is a symbol. I mean all the different Places throughout your house. You don't need to go through all the different places. But you know, you have like the lung area, you have this intestinal area, you have your relationship or intimacy area. And you, I mean, so you have a house that's divided into these different segments. So if you have a lung issue, you know, for instance, where, where would that be? I mean, where, where in the house would a person look for an issue if they're dealing with respiratory issues?
[00:37:42] Speaker C: That would be the front right hand part. If you, if you divided your house like a tic tac toe. Some people have strange shaped houses, but if you had a rather rectangular house, I would say if you have a strange shape house, do this in every room, using the door to the room just to give you guys something to do. But it would be when you walk, stand in the threshold of the front door and hold your arms out, and what's in front of you is in. What's behind you is, like I said, out in the front yard and over in the front right hand area. That is governed by the head. It governs the head and it also governs the lungs organ. And I see a lot of people with asthma that have a fireplace there. A lot of inflammation where the lung is supposed to be rule. And the lung is associated with metal element.
So fire weakens metal, melts metal, and so that is weakening the lung body part.
Trust me, when I started this, I was the most skeptical person there was. I'm like, you gotta be kidding. And I just started experimenting and you know, 30 years of this later, I'm like, I can't deny that that stuff works.
I usually don't say stuff.
So, yeah, so I'd be looking in the front right hand part of the house. And when we were talking about that middle daughter with the, with the eyes, and I, you know, there's a, there's a.
That your position in the family makes a difference as to what area of the house I go to.
Your body part, your, your life, situations like love, relationships, prosperity, career, health, those types of things. There is nothing in the universe that you can throw at me that there's not a, a place to go find it in. The map of feng shui takes a while to learn all these little nuances, but that's how I figure out where to go and what to look for. You tell me what your problem is. I want to hear the words you choose, and I go look for those in a specific area. We make a shift and change your life, which is. That's the Title of my second book.
I'm not trying to push it, but I'm like, I'm saying the title of my book.
[00:40:10] Speaker B: Good plug. Well, it's a reason you put that title because it's real. So. Okay, so that's fascinating. So in addition to the map relating to, you know, like, you're saying there's always a map and feng shui for pretty much anything. Yeah. Within the house. So we got the organs and then we, you know, throughout the house, then we have the positioning of, you know, like you said, I'm the middle child. I'm the dad, I'm the mom. Yeah. Any of those also will. Will have a place within the home.
[00:40:43] Speaker C: Yes. Time of day, time of year.
You can't throw anything at me. You know, I've done talks on just the most bizarre connections between some situation in life and. And that. So. But if I were to, like, throw, you know, I'm running out of time. What can I do to fix these problems? You know, people that are listening, they're like, give me more stuff. I would say make sure that the energy.
We're trying to get the energy in your house so you have enough to work with. It's like you're trying to collect energy. Like a big sack. Your house. Picture it like a sack. And the opening of the sack is the architecturally intended front door. So if that door is stuck or it's hard to find. If it's hard to find, your complaint is just opportunities don't come my way. Opportunity has a hard time coming to knock on your door. So make sure that front door is a happy, you know, inviting the door, the light works, the welcome mat, maybe some bright colors to attract the eye and energy towards it. Then once you get in the door, let's have the space to work with to get the energy to. To have room, to be there. Space equals opportunity. This is the clutter conversation. You know, if you're stuck with all this stuff from the past, you know, people get kind of old, and they get, like, slow when they get old. And I've proven to people, like, it's not necessarily just the age. It is. You have two Target bags and five Nordy bags and three Bed, Bath and Beyond bags yourself into a state of. Back when you were young, you're like, I got so much energy. And then when you get older, you collect all this stuff and you inherit all this stuff and you take on all this stuff, and it will slow you down.
So we got to get the energy in the front door. We've got to make room for new opportunities. If the glass is always already full of stuff, there's no more can get in. And then we need to position yourself in those spaces in the most safe and commanding respect earning without having to say a word positions there when you feel like people respect you, when you feel safe, your, you know, your nervous system is firing off and really assaulting yourselves with like these messages to, to produce cortisol and all types of negative things that affect your body. So it's, it all comes down the pike. So that's the, that's the, the way I see it.
[00:43:38] Speaker B: And, and that, that's a huge way of looking at things. I mean kind of really recognizing we, we only have a certain amount of energy and we want to conserve that flow of energy. We don't want to be using a portion of that, you know, where like you're talking about mirrors. You know, we're splitting our energy now we're over here and now we're here or you know, a lot of clutter. So now a lot of the energy is dealing with that clutter or you're positioning yourself but you don't feel safe.
And so now you're having to subconsciously continually protect yourself and, and that will then deplete your energy. So I love those, I love those components. One of the things I know that is a big deal and that's toilets, Bathroom toilets.
[00:44:27] Speaker C: The villain.
[00:44:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I know.
[00:44:30] Speaker C: I wrote this book. I get so many emails. Oh my God, I have a toilet. I'm like, you know what, congratulations. Because many people in the world don't.
[00:44:39] Speaker B: Yeah, bless you.
[00:44:41] Speaker C: Exactly. So we have to know where our energy leaks are. So energy is coming in, where is, is energy exiting and what's the position? And I do have my talk that I, that I do called the sleep poo poo cook talk. We have to make sure that the positions of sleep and poo poo and cook and poo poo and poo poo and you know, like, and we just have to, you know, who has one of those kitchens that right off the kitchen you see a bathroom door and you're like what's that bathroom door doing in the kitchen? Ah, come on now. You know. Or they've got the kitty litter box right next to the stove. You're like, ah, yeah, yeah, you know, so we're looking at the, the juxtaposition of sleep poo poo and cook. Some people. And I look at it in a three dimensional world, 3D. I look through your wall ceiling, you know so is poo poo directly above sleep? Is poo poo directly overcooked? You know, is there a wall where there's sleep on this side, poo poo on this side, and there's six a dry, you know, six inch plywood and two sheets of drywall between you and poo poo. So we're trying to get these arrangements in such a way that are healthy and safe. Back in the olden days, way back in the tribal days, you know, it's like you want to join the tribe because you're out in the lonely desert by yourself and you're like, please, can I join you guys? And like, okay, this is what we do. We sleep here, we cook here, we go poo poo way over there. You get caught going poo poo anywhere near here, you're out, because you're going to take us all down. Now, we have put all those in a certain amount of square footage and people aren't paying attention to that sleep, poo poo and cook ratio juxtaposition, you know, and so that's my job, to help people design. You know, I would say feng shui is, is like common sense meets quantum physics.
Because as a designer, a lot of it just made sense to me, you know, having a design degree, but then the nuances of the esoteric, you know, overlay coming onto it. It's like, it's. It looks magical, but that's when I say it's common sense meets quantum world, where most people don't know quantum physics, but it can be explained quite easily. I actually did a talk in the Stanford campus and to all the professors of the Stanford campus that have very tired, and I'm like, ooh, tough crowd. This is gonna be a tough one. And they were all kind of like, when I was talking, they didn't quite know if I should be accepted or not. And the alpha dog physicist stood up. Like, I think he could tell I was going down. Or they didn't know whether they should like me or not. And he stood up and he goes, I just want to let you know that everything she has said so far from a quantum physics point of view checks out. And then immediately I was sort of in the.
[00:47:48] Speaker B: My talk kind of went along.
[00:47:50] Speaker C: And then I like, we can miss it now. But it was funny how he felt like, I need to save her because they weren't buying it from their science background or whatever they were. Yeah, or so the quantum. I was blessed by a Stanford quantum physicist.
[00:48:09] Speaker B: And that's because I love Quantum mechanics. And I. And, and that's. It's just about the energy of things. I mean, I interviewed Amit Goswami, you know, talking about, you know, the quantum doctor, quantum medicine, quantum, you know, all the different quantum. And it's, it's so cool to see, you know, how these different patterns, the energies and how that shift to reality and how that creates reality. And so exactly what we're doing, we're shifting energy and we're shifting positioning of things and that then shifts reality.
[00:48:40] Speaker C: Exactly. Like I said, life's an illusion. Why not make it a good one?
A recent new feng shui tip. Turn off the tv.
My God, people talk about assaulting on the cortisol levels. Bing, bing, bing. Just feeling like you're fight or flight all the time is not helpful.
[00:49:01] Speaker B: So.
And I love the story. I think it was your grandma that was in the olden days, you know, when she thought it was so weird.
[00:49:11] Speaker C: Bringing in, when the outhouse came in.
[00:49:16] Speaker B: Up there, she thought it was so gross.
[00:49:18] Speaker C: So, yeah, when the, there was a time when the outhouse was out and the house was over here and poo poo was over there. And then when the outhouse came in, my grandma was in that era and she just could not wrap her head around people poo poo in her house. It just.
Yeah, it's just. Yeah, yeah. So now we're, now we've got one bathroom per bedroom and then a couple powder rooms. And then it's just, it's insane how much square footage dedicated to exiting energy there is in people's homes now.
[00:49:55] Speaker B: And it's exactly that. So that obviously that's an opening. So that's a draining of energy. And if it's right by where you're sleeping, kind of like you had the water over your head, it's continually draining your energy.
And then how about some toilets leak? I mean, you hear in the middle of the night they kick in and then fill up again.
Does that have an impact?
[00:50:23] Speaker C: I would say the state of your water directly shows and reflects the state of your prosperity and ability to hold money. I really find that people that have leaks and stuff are not holding on to their currency.
You know, the current of the water. Just think of it like that your, your, your flow is you're wasting water, you're wasting money. The rich people have the big fountains in front of their house and the poor people have stagnant, dirty water. You know, the state of water really tells about the prosperity level of people. So mind your water. Don't let it Leak away. It's worth getting paying the plumber to, to fix that, even if you don't have the money, because it will just be more money constantly going away. So fix it asap.
[00:51:12] Speaker B: So one of the things that people always are interested in is love life. Yeah, you're. Yeah, like, like I don't feel like I'm connected with my wife or my husband, and I really don't want him to touch me or I don't. I don't have any interest. I mean, what, what are places, you know, that people can look at in the home and what can they do to spruce it up in order to be able to maximize intimacy and love life?
[00:51:39] Speaker C: Yep. Well, there's a lot of what to. What to put in and what not to put in. A bedroom. I would say the master bedroom would be that love, relationship, passion, sex, you know, space that we're really looking to build relationship energy. And look, take a look at your bedroom. Is this the most romantic, hot, sexy spot you've ever walked into? You know, is it really calling you to, to. Is it making that opportunity available, or do you have to throw the ironing board and the kids toys and the stuff off your bed? You know, how easy is it does. Do you feel good in that space? Most people, they spend a lot of money looking good for everybody else in their master bedroom. They've got the leftover stuff from when they were kids, you know, furniture. And so it is the retreat within the, the, the sacred space of the house. And we want to make sure that just you two are held together. So ground zero would be the master bed. No work stuff, no workout stuff, no distractions from looking at each other. No. You know, I take away the tv. I've even closed the curtain on big expansive views. You know, if you're looking at the city skyline outside and you're not looking at each other. So I look at what is distracting you, taking those distractions away. And then of course I would say cold white is, is a killer of, of the heat of relationships. So I don't like a lot of the new white, white, white, white, white rooms, white bedding, St. A little, little too chilly for the, for the love making, I would say. And, and then. So ground, that would be ground zero in the bedroom. Like I said, nobody else's eyes but those who sleep there. We don't want the kids pictures and stuff like that. And then ground one. Ground zero is a bedroom. Ground one would be the dining room space. Make sure that the dining room space is available for a Chair for everybody. Everybody's looking at each other. And you have. So companion comes from pan. You know, the word bread in a lot of languages has that pan in it. So we're looking to break bread together to build companionship, to have good communication. And when all the chairs are turned towards the TV and nobody has. Nobody's looking at each other, I just look at how the chairs and the couches and things are arranged in people's homes. And I can see who's talking and who's not. And so get those sitting circles, pull the furniture closer together.
Don't think the architect has figured it out. And put all your furnishings up against the wall. Make the furniture work almost like a hotel lobby where they have those little living rooms in thin air. There's no walls around. There's living room here and there's living room right next to it. Back to back couches. That's weird, but it kind of works with the boundaries of the carpet that they've created. A little living room next to a little living room. So make the furniture speak to each other and forget the walls around it and. And pull. Pull things together a little bit closer in a little sitting circle. Don't have the pedestrian circulation cut through it to get from one part of the house to the other. If you're cutting through the little sitting circle, then the people on one side, it's a us and them. So don't break the sitting circle. The only thing that can be cut off in the sitting circle might be the television. You know, walk in between the television and the chairs, but don't walk between the chairs, because that is severing that sacred sitting circle of communication.
[00:55:17] Speaker B: I love it. Love it. And are there certain areas. I mean, you have the bedroom, you also have the dining room. Is there a certain corner of the house or certain that that also.
[00:55:32] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, the back right hand part of the house. So when you walk in your front door, go to the far back right area. That area governs the relationship and love, marriage kind of energy. There's family energy, there's business kind of things. But that back right area really holds the potential for relationships. So people that have a bathroom in the back right, they go, yeah, my relationship's in the toilet. You know, something like that they might complain about. So that's when we really work on, you know, undoing that neck, that pull that drain in the bathroom with our little secret little feng shui cures. Not secret, but they're the oddball things that a feng shui consultant might say Hang a crystal and do a mirror and the color red and, you know, those types of things that you just like, I don't know how this is going to do anything, but it works.
[00:56:32] Speaker B: So I'm curious. So how do you. So you can just. Let's say you have an. Actually, our bed. Our bathroom is in that corner, one of the guest bathrooms. And so how would. How would I kind of maximize. You know, kind of get rid of that draining energy? And I assume it doesn't matter, you know, if it's a prosperity corner or whatever corner it is. I would assume it's the same that you kind of shift the energy of that drain. Yeah. And down the toilet. Yeah. What would that be? I mean, you said like, hanging a crystal hanging. I mean, what.
[00:57:11] Speaker C: You know, I don't want to put you on the spot, but I usually ask my client, how do you describe the issue that's going on? You know, like, it's. It's like, I really want to hear from you, and then I can really create a cure that would counter that. But just in general, it would be something like a mirror face up to reflect the energy that is going down the drain back up. So you're using a mirror to reflect.
We're using the law of reflection, not the law of refraction, like we did with the. With the crystals. And so I usually. If you encircle something in red, I just had a client yesterday that had a giant gun safe right next to his bed.
And I'm like, come on, baby, talk about not feeling safe, Right? Grab a gun out of my gun safe. So things like gun safes, kitty litter boxes, things like that could be the toilet, could be the outgoing pipe of the bathroom. If you encircle something in red, red does two things in feng shui. It draws attention to and attracts energy. Like, come on. That's why some people say, oh, I painted my front door red to attract energy. Some people say I painted my front door red to stop that street that's coming straight at my front door. I live at the end of a T street, and boom. You know, so you can. Red does. Attracts, and red stops energy. So if you put a circle of red, the energy cannot get in the circle. So if you encircle the gun safe, if you encircle the kitty litter box, the trash can, whatever, or if you get underneath your sink and encircle the outgoing pipes, then the energy, the dirty water, is going down. But your intention is the energy does not go down either. There's two parts of every feng Shui cure, the physical thing that you change in the environment and the intention behind it. The yin and the yang, the fung and the shui. Fung is, is wind and water. So the wind half is the unseen forces. The shui part is the water. The seen stuff that you can move and manipulate. Three dimensional stuff, those two together. So your intention is a big part of the cure. Sounds like hocus pocus. But we all know that quantum world is all out there. And Professor Lynn, my teacher used to say it's about 60 to 70% of the cure is the yin half the intention. And I've. I saw him in places. He never moved furniture. He was like zap, zap, zap. Feel it Loot. I mean he, you could feel. You're like what just went by me. I mean he could move stuff without. You know, it was. It was wild to, to sense what that man was. He could knock you over without even touching you. It was crazy what that guy could do. And so we're looking at the yin forces and I, I now say he used to say 60 to 70%. I say 60 to 100% of the cure could be the yin half. If you know how to move energy, you don't need to move stuff, you know, so hone your mind and you can, you can make a life without, you know, wrecking your back moving stuff.
[01:00:48] Speaker B: I love it. I love it. Well, Karen, this is awesome. I mean this, this is so cool. This so incredible. And, and I, yeah, I love it. So how, how, how can people. You're mentioning that you're. You had a little offer and, and how, how can people get a hold of you?
[01:01:05] Speaker C: Yeah, well, they can, they can go to.
They can go to my name karenralcarter.com and there is a, there is a work with Karen. It's. I don't know if it's. If you see it on my. My name there down below. Karen R A U C H Carter and go to work with Karen. There's a virtual consultation there that, that you send in your floor plans, pictures, you know, and a worksheet. I ask you how rate your love life, rate your career. Has anybody died in the house? How long have you lived there? What's the address of the house, all these little details. And then we talk on the phone for a couple of hours and discuss what, what changes need to be make. And that is a $997 consultation. And then if you buy it and type in summit 400 su m m I t me and spelling and then 400 all in caps. You'll get $400 off of that. So it's over 40% off. Because, you know, maybe you're a little skeptic like I was in the beginning. And you might think that's not going to change your life, but, you know, it's like some people, I, I tell people, you know, I don't want people to say, thank you, you fixed my problem. I want to say thank you, you changed my life. You know, that's my goal, is to really propel people to get to their dream future. And quite often my biggest challenge is getting my clients to dream big enough. So many people just can't even, they're like, well, I got to take care of my mom and I got, you know, like, they're just so stuck in the have to's. They have not. Which is why the universe is giving them more of that Morassi type stuff. We want to project out. Boom. I am heading in that direction. Let Providence, the energy, like, look up Providence. It's the unseen forces that gather. And you didn't even do anything to propel it. You know, people, everybody's. I travel the world and I, I do it for fun, you know, like, I, I, I'm in Zagreb, Croatia right now, and I just, you know, I'm like, I make it. And people go, how do you do that? I go, I buy the ticket.
Somehow I get on the plane. Like, stuff, you know, it works out, but you gotta buy a ticket, you gotta commit to a future and watch Providence help you. Watch your feng shui work for you. You know, I am doing the grand experiment. Now, I know we're running long a little bit here, but I am doing the grand experiment. I experiment all the time. And when I tell people space equals opportunity, when I'm helping them declutter, I had to call myself to task and say, okay, well, how much space? What is there? Is it, could there be a too much space? You know, like, where is the line of space? So I legit got rid of everything. You know, I'm like the little, you know, Gandhi going around here. So I sold it all. I have, I have been home free for over three years now. May of 19. I sold everything. I have no home. I am home free. And that's the boy that puts a, that, that puts people in a cortisol level just hearing about that. So my, my assistant, she's like, I don't even know how you're doing it. And the opportunities that I'm like, I thought it was going to be X. It's X + ++. It's crazy how my life is unfolding. I would actually say I have hit the far end of it because there are so many opportunities. I get an analysis paralysis over which one to choose.
So I have hit that point where I'm just like, and I'm like, this is this, you know, in yin is yang and yang is yin and boom, it came back around. So I have hit the far reaches of that. So how much opportunity can you stand? I'm here to help get you there. And I put myself through it. So I have first hand knowledge of what an over watered house is, what an overwood, what an over metal, what an over earth and what it over fired houses. Those are the five elements. And now I'm experimenting with the space equals opportunity. I'm always doing something and so I am confident, you know, it's not like, hopefully this will work. I'm like, dude, I've been there and it works, you know, so that's, that's what I'm up to. And it sounds maybe crazy to some, but my life is here in support and in service of other people. And so I try to, I try to get as good at it as I can. So that's what I'm up to. So Summit 400 getting the virtual consultation and I'd love to. And I think if you go to moveitwithkaren.com that might be an easier entry into my website. You can fill out a.
You can join. It's called the move your stuff with Karen membership where you can send in questions and floor plans real quick and just ask me a question. In a group setting. The first month is free and you can unsubscribe after that if you just have one quick question that you want to ask me that we didn't cover today. So I just, you know, it's not like everybody has to pay a lot of money to, to chat with me. I want to be of service as much as I can. So the Move move yourself with Karen program, the first month is free. So feel free to join there if you have additional questions.
[01:06:47] Speaker B: I love it. I love it. Well, Karen, as always, thank you so much. I mean it's. Yeah, I always get blown away by everything that you say. I mean, this is so cool. Thank you so much.
[01:06:59] Speaker C: All right, bye everybody.
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