Jack Canfield walks through setting up a sacred space for meditation or prayer, then explains feng shui basics and how moving furniture, adding plants and crystals, and creating a wealth corner supposedly boosted his income and relationships. He recommends what to include: meditation seat, spiritual teacher photos, crystals, prayer beads, uplifting books, and suggests decluttering 30 minutes daily.
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Hi, I'm Jack Canfield, and today I want to give you a few tips to help you learn about how to create a sacred space for meditation, contemplation, or prayer. I want to encourage you to create a special space in your home or your office that is strictly dedicated to meditation, deep contemplation, personal reflection, or prayer. I want to encourage you to create what I like to call a sacred space, a comfortable place that is specifically dedicated for pausing from the pressures and the stressors of your everyday life, where you can unplug and meditate and reflect in peace and quiet. There's an ancient Chinese art of spatial energy balance called feng shui. The word feng means wind and shui means water, and these elements of wind and water are the cornerstones of Chinese spiritual health. Good feng shui is associated with good health, good fortune, and good energy, while bad feng shui is associated with misfortune, bad energy, and negativity. Feng shui is based on the idea that whether you're in your home, at the office, or in your garden, your surrounding space is composed of energy. And when the energy is correctly arranged, you experience good luck, better health, better relationships, and more prosperity. Now, my experience with Feng Shui started 20 years ago when a feng shui master came to my house and introduced me to the basic principles of feng shui. One day later, we had many of what are called corrections. We moved our bed and one of the beds of our children. We moved some furniture in our living room. We changed the direction that my desk faced. We decluttered my office. We removed the painting, added a few plants, placed a few crystals around the house, placed a small globe in what is described as my wealth corner, determined the best place for my wife and I to meditate and place what's called a Chinese money frog inside the entrance of our house. Now, my wife and I were pleasantly surprised at the huge difference it made in our lives and in the lives of our children. And over the last 20 years, it's led to major increases in our income, business opportunities, the number of invitations to speak internationally. That's what the globe and wealth corner was all about. In fact, after I started being gone overseas so much, my wife Inga demanded I remove it. She said we were gone way too long. I was never home, it seemed now we've also experienced smoother and better relationships, better health, better sleep, and a greater sense of happiness and overall fulfillment. Now, overall, in our life, there's been more ease, less obstacles, and a great deal of more flow. Generally, in every area of Our lives success has been more effortless, and one of the best aspects of this has been to create a sacred space for meditation and deep inner work. Some people dedicate a whole room to this, a meditation room that's off limits except for meditation for prayer, for spiritual reading and journal writing, and a place to repeat their affirmations and do their visualization exercises. Now, for my wife and I, it's just two separate corners in our bedroom. And once you've decided where your sacred space will be, you can decide what to put into it. It could be as simple as a meditation bench or a chair. It could be an elaborate altar with objects that are sacred to you on it. This could include pictures of people whose qualities you admire and aspire to, pictures of your spiritual teachers, such as Jesus or Buddha, Eckhart Tolle or Byron. Katie. It could include crystals, flowers, plants, sacred objects and gifts you've been given, or a set of prayer beads and spiritually uplifting books like the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, or a book of poems by the Sufi poet Rumi. Now, my sacred space is simply a cushioned meditation seat with a few sacred objects nearby that include a small bell that was given to me and blessed by the Dalai Lama, a piece of amethyst, a feather that was given to me by a shaman in the rainforests of Ecuador, a medal from Medjugorje, which is a town in Bosnia in Herzegovina where the Virgin Mary allegedly appeared in 1981 that one of my students brought back to me several books written by spiritual teachers and my gratitude journal. Now, whether your sacred space is a whole room or simply a chair in a corner of one room like mine, when you create it with the constant intention of consistently using it for the purpose of connecting to God, Source, infinite intelligence, the quantum field, or however you refer to your higher power, you will create a space that every time you enter it or sit down in it, will anchor you into that deeper connection. Now, my sacred space includes a couple of good speakers for I can have some music if I want to deepen my meditations. Two of my favorite pieces of music for meditation are Angels of Comfort by Ayasos, that's I A S O S, and Music for Meditation by Inner Splendor Media. Now, you can also use guided meditations and visualizations, which will help to keep your mind from wandering when you first start meditating. Next, you should make sure your space is free of clutter. This is very important because clutter in your outer world is a reflection of clutter in your inner world. And you want your meditation space to be a place that helps you create a clear mind, so keeping it free of clutter will help you do that. So here's your homework to complete after watching this video. First, start by taking some time to declutter your life. Even if you just spend 30 minutes clearing away some clutter, you will start to feel the impact of it. Imagine what 30 minutes a day would add up to over a month. That's about two eight hour days that can make a real difference in your life. Next, create a dedicated sacred space for meditation and contemplation. If you already have your own space at home or at the office for meditation, let me know about it in the comments. So thanks for watching and remember, nothing will change for the better until you do. Now, if you found this video helpful, make sure you like it, share it with a friend who may need it, and subscribe to my channel for more videos like this one and for some additional resources on meditation and mindfulness and visit my website at jackcampfield. Com. Thanks again for watching.
