How to back up your Android phone
There are a few ways to backup your android system image. One way is to use the Android Debug Bridge (adb) tool that is included in the Android SDK. With adb, you can create a complete backup of your system image including your data, settings, and applications. Another way to backup your system image is to use a custom recovery image such as TWRP or ClockworkMod. These recoveries can create a complete backup of your system image including your data, settings, and applications. Google can store the majority of your data on your Android device,...
read moreOnline Dating Safety and How to Recognize Red Flags
One of the key questions surrounding online dating is whether these platforms lead to long-term relationships. Some 53% of adults under 30 have ever used a dating site or app – including a quarter who have used one in the past year. This compares with 37% of those ages 30 to 49 who have ever tried online dating and smaller shares of those 50 to 64 (20%) and 65 and older (13%) who say the same. “They are being tricked meeting up with people. And once they are getting there, they are actually taking money from them and things like...
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Create the Environment that Creates You
I was explaining to someone what I do and this line came to me: Create the Environment that Creates You. We understand that “You are what you eat”. Feng Shui is based on the understanding that you also are your environment. Our food creates us from the inside out. Our environment creates us from the outside in. After you stay in an environment for a period of time you adopt its qualities for better and for worse. When I work with clients I assess where they are in their personal and professional lives right now. Their environment tells...
read moreFeng Shui, Urban Planning and Architecture in Singapore and Hong Kong
I recently returned from a trip to Singapore and Hong Kong, two countries where feng shui is used everywhere at every scale. Singapore has used feng shui for many of its urban planning decisions for decades, using water, buildings, roads and civic structures to allow it to receive and hold the best energy it can, and to make the most of it’s energy over changing times. In the process it has transformed itself from a tiny, dry land into one of the most successful countries in the world despite its’ small size of 700 square kilometers. This...
read more2013 癸巳 Year of the Snake
According to the Chinese calendar, the energy for the New Year comes in tomorrow, February 4, 2013! I’ve been busy advising clients how to prepare their properties and themselves to best maximize the positive potential of this coming year, and minimize any tendency for challenges. 2013 is the year of the Yin Water Snake. Those of you with homes, businesses and building projects facing or backing to the East, Southeast and Northwest directions in particular, as well as those facing or backing on the Southwest and parts of the...
read moreHappy New Year!
Today is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one! – adapted from Brad Paisley Part of the training of a traditional feng shui consultant is the honing of one’s character over many years. My master taught us that our thoughts are like a movie projector on our foreheads projecting ahead of us the path we will walk. In other words: “What you think about you bring about“ and… “What you focus on expands“ – authours unknown Lets create the best year the world has ever known by...
read moreArticle: Capture Winter’s Rapture
Traditionally feng shui practitioners have always been trained in the full range of chinese arts including face and body reading, and traditional chinese medicine. Here is a link to an article of mine appearing this month in Vitality Magazine: Capturing Winters Rapture I wrote the original article, originally titled Opening Up to Winter, over 20 years ago when I had the pleasure of co-running East West a traditional asian medicine based health and wellness centre in downtown Toronto. It was a treat to read my thoughts from so long ago...
read moreCommon Misconceptions About Feng Shui
Misconception 1: Feng Shui is Interior Design. Truth: In Feng Shui the exterior of a property is much more important than the interior. The positions of roads, landscape features such as water and mountains, how the land slopes or does not slope around the building(s), and the effects of neighbouring buildings determine the quality and quantity of the energy that gets to the property. Feng Shui is about energy and there is much more energy to evaluate and harness outside than inside. Misconception 2: Feng Shui involves placing crystals,...
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