Dr. Dana Show & Tell Introduces Melissa Yamaguchi a master in Feng Shui, My Energy - My Life.

Welcome to Dr. Dana's Show and Tell. My name is Dr. Dana Churchill and I'll be your host today. I'd like to bring on an amazing guest who's changing homes one at a time and her name is Melissa Yamaguchi and she's a feng shui expert. Come on. Hi there. Have a seat. Thank you. Watch your step there. So how are you? How are you doing today? I'm doing beautifully. Oh wait, there's a choice, right? Yeah, it really should be. Should be. So you do feng shui, you change people's homes and I know you work with stars and A-list stars and presidents and you're pretty sought after, I guess, right? People are interested in the concept of energy and how they can take some control and ownership over their lives. Much more now than they were two years ago. Well, if the pandemic taught us nothing, it taught us that in order to have a more satisfying life, we have to have some modicum of control. It taught a lot of people a lot. Yeah, absolutely. So let me know, I'm not, I mean, I've heard of the word feng shui like a million times, but I never had anybody do it for my business or my home. So and you were saying before you would look at their year they were born, like their Chinese sign or their zodiac sign and they would match that up with their environment. How does that work? So do mine. So you, by our own assessment earlier, you were born the year of the in January. So it's a lunar calendar. So I always think of it as like a pair of lungs. It's moving, right? So you, according to your energy, I would then determine which is the best direction for you to be sleeping, which is that, which of the colors that are most conducive to the vibration of your body. So I love blue. Does that make any, does that make any sense? I'd have to do your entire, it's not just your year, it's your month, your day and your hour. It's a full energetic DNA of you. And the reason that's so important is because there's not one size fits all when it comes to feng shui. A lot of misleading information will tell you that your front door has to have this and the back of the house, but that's not necessarily true because if it were your home, I would have to completely make it according to your energy. So just having a big old bamboo money tree isn't necessarily going to bring you a lot. Well, that's good no matter where you are. That's a good thing. But the fastest way to alter and to control the energy of your home or your environment, your office space is through color. And it's the most effective way. I mean, paint certainly and plants, those are the two most effective alterations. Like yellow or pastels, yellow or not too, not too dark. I like bright. I love the sun. I mean, bright is really important to me. Well, there's a lot of energy in that, but it may, it can change and shift. And that's the most important thing is that if you were to take the energy information of a mother who had just given birth, as opposed to a woman whose husband had just passed away, there's a whole different energy spectrum as it is obviously. But then I, then I would come in and make some alterations in the different homes dependent upon the energy of the time. So you would move the furniture around? Move the furniture around so that there's flow. You want to optimize the flow. You would, you would alter color. You would bring in plants, you would move it. And I would also work most importantly with the inhabitants of the property. So if I were to feng shui a home and make it as, as perfect as possible energetically, it's all for naught if the inhabitants aren't healthy. So if they're not breathing and eating and sleeping and doing and meditating and doing all the things to create the, the original house in balance, then the house means nothing. So it's multi-fold. Nice. I love it. So you're going to give us a little display. I am. It's right. I am. Okay. Do you have any words of wisdom to tell the audience, you know, how they can start to do this? I mean, move their coffee cup to the other side. The most, the most important thing to share really is that you declutter. Now people will confuse feng shui thinking it means, it means hyper-organization and cleanliness. That's a nice bonus. But the truth of the matter is you have to be uncluttered to optimize flow. If there's things around and you're stepping over to get into your home. So you must remove things that are creating clutter. And secondly, you should remove things in your home that no longer serve you or speak to your spirit. If you have something that was given to you by somebody who betrayed you or who sued you, it would serve you well to remove. Ex-wife, ex-husband. Move it away. They're never, it's like, just get rid of it. Carry on. That'll actually block you from even going to the next relationship, a lot of times. It would. And, and also giving that away. And if It's a nice piece of art or a gift and you give it to someone else. You're not giving them that energy It wasn't attached to them. It was attached to this relationship So you're practicing an attachment giving it a way to create good flow for yourself as well Let's do it Hi, we're back with Melissa Yamaguchi and she's gonna go over these amazing diagrams of how she understands feng shui to explain very simply to you So the first thing that I brought Dr. Churchill is the is the picture of the bedroom This is an ideal setting because the first thing if you'll notice the nightstands are the exact same size. Yeah my house My wife's much bigger So, I don't we don't need to go into counseling I already know what that means So what we tell me backstage when we have when we have a bedroom where one of the nightstands is much smaller Much more cluttered it that it doesn't create parity and balance in the relationship And what we're striving for is balance Even if you're single you want to strive for the balance on either side of the bed the next most important thing to note here is there's no window behind the bed and The headboard is high enough to support you when you're sleeping. It's a it's a it's a protection while you're asleep And so this room the colors please the the residents the most and work with their feng shui And so we created incredible balance with this looks peaceful. It does doesn't it? So this right here is a is a crude little drawing here But I want you to understand that a lot of people have aspirations of living high on the hill. Yeah, especially here, California Yeah, they want here They imagine that this this overview of people down below and the ocean probably gives them an advantage But the bad thing about this in Feng Shui is that the positive energy struggles to reach you But then it leaves you quickly The most auspicious the most the luckiest if you will do place to have this house would be right here Down at the base of the mountain with the mountain behind you much like the headboard protecting you as you're Monrovia and she's just one street away from the base of the mountain. They're just a super grounded amazing person Yes, it's full of energy. That's another important thing. You just said they were grounded Grounding is a major component of Feng Shui barefoot in the home Not only does it keep it clean, but you're grounding while you're at home walking barefoot in your home It's a little even mind if the bear and animals come swimming. They're cool and leaves you feed them Really does the final one that I brought to share with you is an overview of a blueprint whenever Some whenever I've been hired the most the number one thing I asked for the bagua The most important thing that I asked for outside of their birthday is a blueprint of their home Okay, so if you are on a budget for example, and you say well I cannot Feng Shui my entire home Then I would say then please consider the master bedroom the entryway in the kitchen if that's all you can do because altering the energy of their Assures your rest Assures that your food is is nourishing the body and assures all that come and leave are there to serve you instead of hurt you But if this were your home How I decorated the entryway and everything else would be is largely dependent upon yours and your wife's energy, okay? Absolutely. So talking about the bog walk as we studied it in college a little bit in Chinese medicine Yes, I don't really remember and what we do with the bagua it which means eight trigrams Is that we take we take this as a blueprint and I would then place the bag well over the physical blue And that would tell me so if you're if your home was The do south then I would place the the career which is the south of the bagua I would place that over your entryway But if your front door was north then I would place your reputation and fame which is the north of the bagua Over here. I mean, excuse me. I reverse X you over over your entryway So that's that's how the bag well comes into place and then yin and yang The constant balance finding this constant male energy female energy symbiotic inner balance of the home Thank you so much for the opportunity