Maria Blanco- Feng Shui Miami: Feng Shui Chat

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Hey guys today I want to welcome Maria Blanco from Feng Shui Miami. So Maria is a fellow Feng Shui practitioner. Welcome Maria. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.

So very glad to be here today. Yes I really we've connected before a little bit and we just kind of got to talk in and I thought it'd be nice to just have a light art conversation about Feng Shui. So no topic in particular but I would love you to talk about kind of how you got started doing Feng Shui. Yes definitely it's it's an interesting story Candice about 26 years ago my son was diagnosed with autism and my brother lived in California at the time and he had a lot of friends in the entertainment industry and it was a big thing back then there in in LA where he lived and a friend of his that was really into Feng Shui. I said you know I think you might want to get your sister involved and learn a little bit about Feng Shui and send her this book this might help her.

And you know I received the book it's the Western Guide by Tara Catherine Collins I read the book and it really changed everything around me and ever since then is where my passion and love has grown for Feng Shui. And I basically just started to you know do things around my house and 10 years later I really started to you know kind of practice it with friends and family because they started to see you know the things and whenever they come to my house they'd always tell me you know feel so peaceful here for so great and and that's how it all started for me about 10 years later I started to really hit the streets and help people and and here I am 27 years later. Awesome so you just did so 10 years pretty much dedicate to studying and learning and everything and then started applying for other people so you also came out of a corporate career and you're kind of transitioning now into your passion which is Feng Shui what were you doing before or during all this time when while you were practicing Feng Shui what was your profession during this whole time that profession has always been in television entertainment. Which is part of why I kind of you know very low especially now with all Instagram and everything I had to really make a decision because being working and I worked in television news and I really couldn't expose myself too much and this is really my passion and and it's just in doing so I I turned 50 this year and I said you know I think it's time for me to really focus on what I love and and this whole COVID situation has really made a lot of people kind of come out of the world. I think it's a lot of of their comfort zone and kind of say you know what should I be doing for myself and then that's when I really started to say you know now now it's just time to go full time into this and again here I am full time.

I mean that seems to be a really big trend and I kind of attribute that to this shift in energy I mean we're coming into this period of femininity you know you follow Feng Shui you follow a little bit different school but no doubt you've probably heard the term period nine which is supposed to be this period nine it's supposed to be a you know a cycle of you know the divine feminine and I think a lot of women are really finding kind of their power and leaving traditional careers. Even like high positions and they're really turning to doing more holistic work and really finding fulfillment and other passion but I think that's amazing that transition is really amazing. It is and that's one of the reasons why I decided I really really need to try to get this information out there and in regards to Feng Shui because again there are so many schools so many different schools and then you know we tend to get confused and then that's when we like give up and say oh forget it I don't want to try it and it's such an amazing amazing thing to try that that's why I think now is the time to really help you know in this generation this generation it's there are a lot more holistic like you said that I heard a niece of mine that she's 22 and she said you know we're all about plants and I was like hmm that sounds interesting like you know everything's changing and these kids are becoming more aware of their surroundings and everything that's around them at all times. Yeah that's so true I mean my young is child like they'll tell me like you know I want my plants are up my rocks here like they you know collect crystals and so I really do also again see that with this kind of Gen Z generation where we see they really are I think reaching back towards more natural ways holistic reusing and repurposing items you know they're really conscious about the environment you know that I think it's a really beautiful generation that we're raising you know. Yeah and going back to autism you know my son he does pick up a lot of just recently he did go through a little bit of an episode I wanted to actually try to get him involved with this podcast and have him talk a little bit but he just turned 28 and you know funny psychiatrist once told me every seven years we shift and he has a lot of things that I want to do.

And he has shifted every seven years ironically and this year he's made a shift and he started suffering from panic attacks about two weeks ago really bad and one of the first things he asked me was mom I need to redo my room and I said yeah you need to clear some clutter let's just and he's part of the way that he was able those those two first days that he was really really bad with the panic attacks. One of the things that made him kind of veer his mind off was fixing his drawers he had these two drawers that were just full of junk and junk and I just put in his mind I said you know what this is a lot of energy here that you have a lot of old stuff let's clear out and he got rid of a bag of clothes and he cleaned out two or three drawers and you know you yourself work your mind you know and he himself started to tell himself okay this is part of you know this change that I'm going through and I'm going to clear out and it really helped him it really really helped him and he's really happy. He helped him and and I feel like it helped me because every time we do his room it's in my helpful people in travel area so whatever he gets boosted up and does his room I feel like okay now we're going to get some more helpful people around we're going somewhere. That's true you really do have to look at like what sector is this clutter affecting you know how is it how's it impacting us you know yeah every time every time I do you know little gatherings and I and I tell people I I just show them the bag will map and I say go back home. And look at what you have in whatever area of your life and see what's there just take a look at what's there you know even artwork I remember I had a client that had an artwork very famous famous artist from Argentina and as soon as I walked in the house you know the first government attention was that artwork because it was really it was beautiful but at the same time it was very it had some scary things it had like a like a horse stable in the back and and there was like a person faintly you can faintly see the person so the drawing was a person wasn't really you know a focus in the and it just to me it was a little bit and then it then it had these two horses that were with these nights and they were like the two horses were like on on on their two back legs and they're like the two nights are for each other it was kind of to me very weird and one of the first things I asked was you know what does this art mean to you and she's like well it just means a lot of money because I paid a lot for it and and and the gentleman he's you know he's got a thing to his heart and I said but look at it what does it really tell you one of the biggest complaints she had was they couldn't sit at the dining table to have dinner their family was just like they couldn't sit down and I said to her you know what and ironically I walked into her room and I saw this beautiful beautiful quilt of a Buddha thrown on her bed and I said I have an idea let's just try something right now which is this is what you know Feng Shui is about I took this quilt we took it to her dining because this art was massive there we mean her we're not going to be able to move it at that time and I said let's just place this quilt over this artwork and leave it here for a week or two and and let's see how how you feel the minute we put that that quilt over the artwork it completely changed the whole the whole ambiance the whole feeling of the room and you know that's what the Feng Shui is about is just you know artwork colors you know making the ambiance around you and you being you know you being you know what it's how it's affecting you and that's what it does to my son so to him his favorite thing is you know sharks and fish and and that's what he makes his room about and that's another thing too that I try to also teach in the Feng Shui is that I practice is if you know if your favorite color is red by means and your bedroom is in your money corner and it's like you know no you shouldn't have red there because red is fire it's going to burn your wood it's going to you know if that's your favorite color and you want red there and that's what's going to make you feel powerful and great and and every morning wake up and you see some red there I'm going to tell you to put the red there but we're going to comment with a little bit of water and the water also makes wood grow so that's the Feng Shui that I like to practice and and and teach Yeah you're you're completely right it's all about balance and it really is about making yourself feel good in a space too because again I mean we we've talked about this before we practice in different styles of Feng Shui there's so many different styles.

But I I told people that too I'm like there's is a lot of color suggestions I make there is not necessarily artwork suggestions but more of like you know elemental kind of suggestions for placing you know whatever sort of displays they want whatever kind of decor they want you know some some suggestions that kind of help balance it out with the elements and you're you're right if you don't feel good you know you're like I really hate you know pictures of the ocean but you suggest that I put a picture of the ocean you know in my career area or my my North area right. You know you're not going to resonate with that because you're not going to like it and so I told people stick to their style of thing but you can add in these decorative touches and stuff to kind of balance out the element. That's definitely you want to feel good about it and that kind of raises to our Feng Shui a item so we're kind of talking about this a little bit before we started. A little bit about taking some of the superstition out of Feng Shui and so I think a lot of people have the conception or the misconception maybe of looking at you know maybe what they have in you know a restaurant or and they'll have like a Buddhist statue and they'll have you know different little mom's itries not kinds of stuff and so those items aren't necessary to Feng Shui and so I know you like to also take some of the superstition out of it. Yes, I definitely do one of the things that I always get is you know like I personally sometimes you know hang my coins and you know my my red tassels and but you know some people don't want that and and that is something that I definitely try to explain is there is you can definitely it is boils down to what makes you feel comfortable if I am going to tell you.

That you're going to put a money frog facing your door in your entrance and that's going to bring in all the opportunities to you if you believe in it you're going to be okay with it you know but some people are going to be like I'm not going to put a frog in my living room and it's not going to bring me money and and then that's where you say okay that's not so there's different function clients that's that's definitely something I deal with so I have some that will want me to go there and tell them to put certain things. But it definitely is a myth because you don't need it if if you're not into it you definitely don't need it you work with shapes you work with color you work with elements you know that have to do with it so again you might not like a frog but you could like a fountain and that then would bring in you're going to put a fountain that's going to roll in words to your house and then that's going to mean the same thing as the money frog. So there's definitely different ways and you know you can add pillows with different things that that can bring in a career bring in the colors black so that's you know different ways of getting out of the myth of of definitely having to have those things. Like black, black, black, black is a great it's a great great fun, Shweta to follow as well because you know people it's it fun, Shweta also has to do with intentions you know it's how you you do things I clean with intention I move furniture with intention I you know whatever whatever I do every day I do it with intention so that's also a thing you know that if you know if if you're going to do it with intention you can do it with the stuff without it it's still. So I'm going to work fun Shweta is still going to work.

Yeah and it's so interesting because I mean we can practice two totally different styles and still have the same insight about help a client or similar insights that help a client so I think it's so interesting. We love also to work with other fun Shweta consultants like yourself because I if I have questions I know I have somewhere I can go to that's going to help me that's going to that I can also say to my client you know let me refer you because I do have a lot that say no I want to practice for pillars. I have function with consultants that I know that practice for pillars and I would definitely say then you know what if that's what you connect with I'm going to connect you with someone and I'll connect them with that type of fun Shweta school that they learn because again it's wherever you fall. If you fall in and you understand it and you like it that's that's what you're going to follow. And so that kind of brings me to the next point to you were saying a while back that you practice of course like the Western style, fun, Shweta, but you were looking at learning as an Eastern style you were looking at like flying stars and you're kind of interested in that but you shy to wave from it.

Can you tell us more about that what what kind of brought you to that decision. Yeah so definitely the first school that I went to with Terry personal college the first thing she said is you need to learn four to five different schools there's many there's different you need to and also. The the the the I mean you have to learn certain things and I said okay I really liked the one that I did with her but I said i'm going to do it and that's when I learned black sect I took for pillars I did flying stars and the flying stars did catch my attention because. It was a weekend of a lot of information and the minute I got there the first thing that they talked about was the yellow star the you know that that it's the bad star and that year it happened to be in the entrance of my house so the first thing they had us to was to a you know a big map of your house and everybody was excited and. When I noticed that the star was in the entrance of my house I said okay so I learned a lot of stuff you know that weekend it was great great information.

But I found myself that when I got home the first thing and the first thing I told my husband was like oh my gosh you know this bad stars in the entrance of our house so we have to focus on this part of our house. And I got home all excited about doing all these things and learning this new function and and also positive parts because there is definitely positive sides to it you know you definitely have your good stars but I noticed that my focus was on that bad star that was in the entrance of my house and. Days later my husband said you know since you got home from this you know teaching that you did you you've come home with a totally different look on function like I've always heard you talk positive everything is about positive and now you're looking at a negative like what happened what kind of. Functioned you learn and I started explaining to him and I started realizing that yeah I I brought all negativity to my mind year was tough that year was I was like do I follow this do I not do I continue and I saw a lot of negativity come to me and my mind not to me but to my mind because you bring it on to yourself. But just every time I walk into my house I was like what am I going to do let me go back to my book let me and and then I said do I want my clients to feel like this like that i'm going to go to their house and say you know got to be careful because this star brings you sickness like no I don't want to do that so that's why I kind of realize and said I I really think I'm going to go you know back to my form back to my western and I changed everything.

I and I haven't really practiced it myself since and again, if I have a client that that wants to practice it again I will forward them to a person that does because I think it is amazing as well. But I that's that's where I said I will stick to my Western school and that's what I've stuck to. No, so yeah, I think that makes such excellent point because you can create so much fear around something if you choose to focus on like the negative aspect of it because I do that mini school of fun. yeah i'll just continue talking but i'll just put the disclaimer a bit we both have barking dogs today and it's just going to it's just going to probably be that way so it's okay so if you hear a little part of the background it's just. It's just going to happen it's okay but yeah I think we create so much fear around looking at the negative aspects of it and like I said last month I did a podcast and focusing on the country of positives and it really was based on what you said you know.

I think we can get caught up especially when we learn new stuff yeah there's four you know negative there's negative flying stars you know. And then there's but I always tell people like there's more positive flying stars and there are negative flying stars and honestly. There are you know we got there's a lot taken to consideration that you don't learn initially. You know just kind of in a even in a weekend of learning flying stars because they have certain strengths of them certain things can aggravate them certain things can agitate them. And sometimes they're just kind of neutral and if they get activated there's always ways to calm that energy down so I think that's kind of what we need to focus on when we start looking at.

Some of those energies especially yearly energies that come in and they can be negative like there's a lot of positive like let's just activate the. The tar out of the positive sectors of our house and focus on those positives and. And again if I would have if I would have focused on flying stars I would have you know by now but an expert because you know you that's the school you follow and like you said it has so many positive things to it too. Because it definitely does and and and I love the way that that you all work with the numbers and you know it's it's and and it's got its niche it's got it's you have to be that person to be able to practice that and be able to really you know give the information the right way. Yeah that's true because you don't want to create the fear you know another thing like so this month you know this year of course of the tiger year you know I love it's a lot of consultants during the month of August you know because it's the monkey month you know and so it is known as the your breaker it's the animal sign of clash of the year you know.

And so if there is a lot of like you know there's going to be accidents or some of you really events are going to be all these things happening. I was just like man that really kind of baby jump into like no we really need to focus on the positive aspect one of the lunch week consultancy classical consult with Joey Yap group Kevin Chan here's kind of talking about it as like if you you know see a car accident right there's a car accident that happens. And you can either be an observer of the car accident maybe you were in the accident yourself maybe you're just driving by and you don't really notice that you're just trying to give a point to be you know maybe you're trying to help in the in the accident you're trying to help somebody so there's a lot of different aspects I think to look at you know in terms of like yeah there might be things happening but how is it going to affect you you know and yes it's how it's going to affect you. Yeah and I really do think just you know certain months affect you more certain years of actually more but I think again like I was just taught to activate the crap out of the good sectors and the good stars for the year. And that will take care of a lot of the energy the opposing energy that comes in.

Yeah. Yeah. And again in Western there's you know there's a bad because I mean I'll give you a great example in my house I have a big problem I have my money corner of the house is I tend to of my yard let me change that of my yard is the you know the prettiest part to me of my house but guess what that's where my dogs decide to do their number two. So you know what now I'm always looking back here and I'm going like why do my dogs have to poop here in my money corner so then I started to like change it around so now I'm like okay so now I'm like alright so what does dog poop do supposedly it's you can fertilize grass with it right so now I'm like it's fertilizing my wealth to try to find the positive side to it because again there's a negative there's and people are going to have things that they're that you can't do anything else. You can't do anything about you know so in Feng Shui you just find your way around it and and always just try to find the positives.

Exactly like I know some people ask about it's in corners or what do I do if this is here and again it's like we'll just you know make it as good as you can and focus on the best sectors of your home best energies. I have heard that dogs are attracted to like high energy areas you know and they activate the area so I would just think of that movement is keeping your wealth area active that's what I was actually. Exactly it's always activity going on in there. As long as you keep a clean I think it's fine. Yeah exactly.

As Maria mentioned she started practicing Feng Shui because she really wanted to help her son who's autistic as well as find an outlet and focus for herself to stay balanced. Having a child that's autistic presents a unique set of challenges and works she explains how she uses Feng Shui to gain clarity where we focus on our energy into an area of her home that may need attention. Being a mom to you know someone that that has these attacks it's very hard because I kind of it kind of like wants to like I kind of want to feel it for him you know and I can't because I got to be in control. And a lot of things that I start doing is I find myself that those days first thing I do is I pick up my books I have many different Feng Shui books I mean I have one next to me also from Terracan. I have a next all the time and I feel like that's what comes me and then I'll just I'll open it to whatever page and I'll say let's see what it tells me to do and if it tells me something about backyard or whatever then I'll go to the backyard and I'll do something there and I'll see what can I spruce up what can I throw away what can I.

And that's how I kind of deal with it as well because it's not it's not easy being a mom to to someone you know that has these challenges. Kind of talked about supporting mom and dad to like with a child that has autism especially when it's very extreme you know where they're violent or acting out and stuff like that and yeah that's one thing I think that shouldn't be ignored to is your own self you know. Yeah you know moms and moms and dads need a break too and the parents suffer too yeah that's why how I got into meditating I mean that's how all of this world came to me and it was all because of you know my son being autistic I needed to find you know that calm and that you know that that that that that thing that because I mean I have faith I don't I that's definitely something I have is faith and but besides that I needed something physical. I needed something that that could take my time and that that I could learn something and and again that's you know that's how it all started and it was all because of you know change colors and that that's been a big thing for me with my son is the whole color thing for his room I mean he's we've played with many colors and he knew he'll tell you that no reds no those stimulating colors for these kids are not good at all. I need just you know something subtle and and a lot of them you know just can't have a lot of busy things going on and sometimes we don't know that as parents we want to decorate their rooms and we want to do this and we want to do that and sometimes you know you have to let them you know create their own space you know his his room is all like I said fish and and sharks and stuff so I always say our vacation tend to be always in the ocean.

We can't get away from those. It's real calming to him I'd be interested to know what his four pillars were that would be interesting to see how I feel like extra water extra metal extra you know yeah that you know that is something that I've always wanted to also look into his is like his numbers and you know I know he's a cool number six I believe but like other you know things that might have to do with his body I'd be definitely interested in that that we have to sidebar on that. Yeah for sure. Definitely his birthday I'll take a look yeah I'll take a look and see you know if something body wise can you know because maybe the element you know his body element is fighting you know so yeah that would definitely be something super cool. Yeah that'd be interesting to see yeah I know sometimes there's extremes and start like if somebody has trouble conceiving a child you know they have a lot of womb issues you know there's definitely stuff like that and then sometimes with mental health.

There'll be like extra water extra metal you know so there's definitely things you can look at you know like I knew my daughter was like I knew she was there's definitely there's a lot we can tell from looking at you know looking at the numbers it's it's it's a fascinating for that numerology is just it's incredible but that's a whole other world and itself my gosh but it all ties together. Yeah it all ties together and in the end it all ties together. Yeah. For all energy that's I mean that is that we're all energy everything around us is energy and and that's just what you need to try to make sure and balance all the times around you. Yep I agree I agree.

Maria is just about everywhere in Miami so be sure to check out her love events and contact her to see where she's going to be next. I kind of tend to you know network with a lot of women entrepreneurs because like you said we're coming out this whole COVID thing like this woman empowerment is it's good it's good and they tend to do little events and and and I always I always look for events that I can squeeze in and talk just to give the information you know it's it's great to give knowledge about Feng Shui and and there's just so much confusion about it. So I always like to be able to talk about it and and again all types of Feng Shui and when they come up with questions it's being able to answer them and they always feel like they leave those little events with like hmm and you always get a call you always get a call from them so yeah it's a really cool women's event and we always have like you know ladies that do jewelry and ladies that sell creams and and we get a bunch of women together in a restaurant and we talk and we have a great time. Have a great time and I get my word out there awesome so in the Miami area keep definitely follow so you all put all the links to all your stuff in the show notes anyone in the Miami area to make sure you follow up with links and the show notes and that you'll keep anyone updated of course on local events and then you do definitely promote consultations and everything else so if anyone needs to get a hold of you they can just find the link in the show notes. Definitely awesome thank you so much for my amazing thank you so much I love love the fact that we connected again this is you know it's a group thing it's it's it's we all got a you know power up and and get the word out there and get as much information about everything about everything.

Yes one thing that is powerful and and it's it's all about getting the information out there. Yes one thing I love about connect with the fun should consultances everybody has kind of a niche you know and I know you're very knowledgeable of course on autism and then you work with the you love work with the elements about some the elements and so I just love that we can connect we can again like you're talking about referring if we need to refer people you know we have this lovely network of. Bunchway sisters and brothers I think. Awesome nice to talk to you like wise okay bye bye for free energy mapping of your floor plan please check the link in the show notes. To support today's podcast going to learn fung shwee dot com sign up for emails leave a review and share it with your family and friends.