i everyone and welcome to another at relax with joan my name is joan kaylor and i am a family therapist here in peter's township i have such an exciting show for you today i have a secret to share with you my guest today is luanne sepic and she is a master teacher she is certified in fung shway interior alignment and let me tell you ladies and gentlemen this is a secret this is a secret that i am going to share with you because it is so exciting if you want a happy home life including counseling functionally interior alignment if you want your business to be even more successful than it already is or if you've had a slump in the last year or two you might want to consider not going to tell you what function way is luanne going to tell you what functionally is because she is the expert but she is my webmaster my business manager my bunch way expert so it's like my life is in her hands not to mention my business welcome to the show lou and thank you so much for coming well i am totally thrilled to be here and gosh you make in my head just  even bigger with all of those wonderful things that you described you doing for you and i'm honored to be your webmaster and work with you in your business thank you you're welcome well my  besides anyone out there who has been kind enough to see me for counseling this is my business secret or lou and her talents are my business secret lou and what is functionally let's go ahead and get started here so everybody understand as i think everybody's heard a functionally way but they don't know what it can do ok functionally is not anything you can order is take out a chinese restaurant  on the menu you're going to get wind and water it's good diet but it's not not something you eat function way is a chinese term for how to arrange your environment to support your life ok and so a function way practitioner is somebody who comes in and helps you adjust your home or your business so that it better support your life and your goals and the energy ok that you want to have in your ho so if if we feel like we are energy is just ok but we want to make it even better than mine meager understanding from you is the placement of furniture the colors of the home and where they are and that's according to what the goals of the family the birthdates of each individual member of the family who in came out my home has been a function weighed my business has been a function wait i'm function wait out the was it think what what is important when you first meet with them well there's a lot of different ways to do function way of the day and so in ancient chinese practices they actually looked at the birth date of the person the date that the building was created they looked at the compass direction where the sun rose where the sun set and they you know four thousand years ago it was different than now so there was no fire department there is no police department and you were really about taking care of yourself so it was about being secure in your environment making sure that you didn't die in the winter because the north winds were so strong  there was a really practical reason for having function way then and then they looked at what can you do with your environment to better influence you were success in life to better influence your health to influence your prosperity four thousand years ago health and prosperity were a lot based on food and water ok so a lot of the traditional fungi practices look at the water aspects of your home so that's like the bathroom they look at the food aspects of your home which is your kitchen and those are some key areas we don't live the same way the people lived four thousand years ago so obviously there's a little bit of a difference in our twenty first century  at birth dates when you come into this world on a certain day not everybody believes in astrology but i do you're kind of programmed not with a destiny but with certain characteristics certain ways your personality works and that's kind of like your programming for this wife time and so you respond to certain things more than other people so for example i'm a libra and libras tend to like pretty things and they like things to be all in perfect order that have to do with where you're going to entertain company because they like everything to be equal on balance somebody else who might be a sunshine of cancer they also like things to be about company but there's much more about nurturing somebody making sure all the food they want is there and if it's pretty that's nice but that's not the main thing and you think what that have to do with function way well when we function way somebody is how we look at their astrological  moon sign to see what's going to give them the most comfort in their home because what we want to do is create a home that you feel comfortable house if you want to think of it a home for your soul so that it's customized for you and so when we do a function way for a home we look at everybody in the family because we want to make sure that everybody in the family is represented and feels comforted and supported well i know that when you came out and my husband and i had you come out and do the consultation for functionally way one thing that i remember which is really interesting was in our bedroom our night tables his was straight and mine was on an angle and you said it would be better if yours was also straight too and just by moving my nightstand two inches and making hit it in a line with his nightstand we could feel a difference in the room and it was just get get the feeling that we're going to totally metaphysical on them and truthfully there's a lot of energy around us that we think about all the time we accept that there is electric light and that the television runs on electricity that energy we except that when you walk outside you feel the wind on your face that's movement that's energy ok so there is energy you know our environments all the time if you if you look at it from a very scientific aspect when you see colors you're actually seeing light waves that are bouncing toward you ok that energy waves that are coming towards you so when people say well what what does it matter what color my room is in terms of fungi well it matters because that's an energy that is affecting you not just what you see visually but it's touch in your body they've done scientific research in russia about color and they took a bunch of blind people blind from birth and they wanted to see if people could sense color with something other than their eyes so they trained them holding their hands over different colors of objects and after a period of time they could sense the difference between different colors they train themselves but feel the energy way now most of us go around being pretty oblivious to what color things are but the marketing people of the world know that we respond to color they know that if we're in  orange environment it stimulates our appetite and so you might notice a lot of food chains a lot of restaurants incorporate a lot of orange in their color scheme because it makes you hungry you know you sit there so marketers know the effect of color way practitioners also know the effect of color because when you want to program your space to support what you want to do in that space use of color and use of how you arrange the furniture all effects the energy of the space and what you want to create and when the one thing i want to make sure all of our viewers know before forget what is your web site and your phone number if anybody wants to contact you know sure my company's name is in harmony and my website is in or dash harmony dot word ok and phone number oh phone number seven two four three one six two four two eight zero right so i want everybody to have  information we're going to give it to them again eventually but when can you talk just a little bit about and then we're going to go quickly to a commercial but the health benefits of function way sure i'm on several levels ok the health benefits of function way in ancient times was looking at how you would create an energy template in your house that was about life or center g ok and energy growing and health and revitalization it would look at where you place the bedroom so that it would be in a place that was most restful so you might look at placing it more in the north side of the house where there was less energy that would disrupt your sleep you would look at positioning within the bedroom so that your bed was in what we call command position in the twenty first century we also have to look at some other things we need to look at what kind of electricity or electromagnetic influences you have in your space we almost want to talk to you about chemicals in your space because we have a lot of outside influences that they didn't have four thousand years ago and the other thing i wanted to point out with all your gifts and talents you use that for web sites you build websites i'm so blessed to have you build and maintain my website you consult with businesses including home so really any part of our business or home life you can come in and consult and give us suggestions on what would be helpful or just build the whole thing i can and also i teach courses workshops on function way and sometimes of people who want to be a functionally practitioner and sometimes it's people who just want to use these concepts in their life whether they're architects or designers were maybe they just own a business and they want to know how they can affect their work space or their their homes they've to be better supported for them so well i think we're going to get close to a commercial here and when we come back what we're going to do is we're actually going to put some photos before and after photos up for you all to see lewin's going to describe what you're looking at so before function way and after function way this will be really interesting so stick around we'll be right back fans water bottles glow the forms of aid cost more to ship than you think cash donations provide immediate and effective relief to those who needed without the shipping cost if we all do our part to gather we can provide help across the world to learn more check out see id i do america or because i want to change people's lives with the national endowment for financial education a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people just like you get smart about their money magnanti smart about money dot org today and start taking control of your financial life by everyone welcome back we're talking about funk sure a interior alignment today with lou and civic and we're going to start showing some photos so if we might have the first photo please of a before picture when could you tell us what's happening here sure and let me just start by saying that sometimes when people hear about function way they think that that means that you're going to use a chinese style of decorating your home and that's not the case it's really taking your own objects that you love and positioning them in a more effective way or more beneficial way so it supports your life so this was the home of a really great photographer and he had bought this building as both his home and his business and this is his living room now you're looking at this you might be saying i'm not sure that that looks like a living room i don't like a heater desk and i see a lot of stuff and and ok so he had some beautiful things but what happened was that he didn't have a personal life anymore he was so busy with work he was so immersed in his work that one of his frustrations was he just didn't have time with friends anymore didn't have him to have time with family and so when we looked at the template that he had set up of his space was very much work oriented now he had a whole separate workspace but his computer wasn't theirs his work files weren't there his equipment as camera equipment was not in his workspace so if we go to the next picture as we readjusted the space we moved the computer out we moved it up to his office and we'll see that in a moment we repositioned his furniture so that he actually had a conversation area that people could sit  chairs and the couch and still talk to each other the t v still there it's not that we got rid of his t v but we just changed it so that it felt more like a space that you would gather around we even created sort of a fire if you will with that red carpet in the center he owned everything that you see there we didn't he didn't go out and buy a bunch of things it was just repositioning his existing objects so that more supported his life well so we did that so that's the before and after for the asking and then you taught me about i just wanted to talk a little bit about the blog was the boss was every time i go in somewhere i start looking at what's in the left far corner what's in the middle what's over in the right far corner of the room and you taught me about that what is i hope i'm pronouncing it correctly are very good with your chinese today  on the somebodies floor plan and in ancient times people would use this very much in terms of a compass direction but we don't live as much in accordance to the land anymore or we live in big cities and we're kind of disconnected with nature and so the more modern way of using the bhagwat is laying it over looking at where the front door of your home is and then laying this grid over top of it then from that there are different areas of the home t correspond to different aspects of your life so if as you go in your front door if you look at the far left corner of your house that's considered your wealth and prosperity area if you look at the far right corner that's your relationship area so people will say well why is that and why does it work i don't know i just know that i worked with enough people that made changes and adjustments in those areas things change and shift in their life so i'm one of those people that if it works keep doing all i can personally attest that when llewyn came out and took a look at my office and i had had someone else in the beginning when i first opened my office in two thousand and five come out and she did a number of nice things but then lou in came in and being the force of nature she is all of us and she has challenged me i switch a few things around and i said both go ahead do whatever you like and trust in the course of about ten minutes she had rearranged my reception area rearranged my inner office it was amazing but in the far left corner of my office i have this big chunk of am and some am assist pebbles around it in my home in my office i have she taught me how to file my bank accounts and bills to be paid in the far left corner of my office and she taught me how to put them in certain color files and to be perfectly honest i don't want to give the whole thing away because i want you to call her but one of the little secrets that i'll share with you is lew and taught me to put on the tab of one of my files all bills are paid with plenty of money left over and that was exciting and yes ladies and gentlem all my bills are paid with plenty of money left over so there's a little hint for you lou and tell us what's going on in this photo right here well this is that same photographer's home and this is just a different shot of that living room you can see how far away the couch was from the t v there was no place for you to really entertain it was a very lonely kind of space and if we go to the next photo you can see that the other thing we incorporated into this space was actually a table set for two because what  wanted to do was bring some new special person into his life and there was really no place for this to be represented so again it was just using that aspect of putting a template in for what you want to bring into your life if we go to the next picture that again just shows you a different shot of the living room of his a before and again the next picture there's an after same object if you look around it's got the same things in his room it's just arranged more in a more suitable manner to bring in the energy or the template of what he was to bring in in his life so you have a red carpet underneath a table for two and then read of obviously has a lot of energy to it yes and so red when you use that in terms of function way is a is a way to bring energy or attention into a place now he loved red as he notices a lot of red and space and we call that fire energy and so looking at that he's got a lot of fire and to me a lot of action going on there we also have a lot of black and that represents what we call water energy and that is about more of an emotional kind of energy going within so we're looking at this in terms of balance it's very exciting space with all that fire and water going on we also have what's represented in there metal energy all the round shape all the white color and that's a color of clarity of thought that's really in trysting ok because what little i know for instance when you walk into my office and i have which you beautifully placed a table and i have a water fountain i love my water fountain and then i was thinking of putting a candle next to the found but then i thought wait a minute water puts out fire so that would not be a good idea so then i put my candle in the far left corner of the reception room i correct me later on that to encourage more prosperity and more relaxation in the reception room but i start thinking about where things should be placed in my own office and how it how the energy is in my office so it's just it's really interesting how this all works you know that if we can look at that last two shots this was actually supposedly the front door for his business oh my goodness he had a blocked off me actually couldn't go in there would be able to make a suggest even yeah so one of the key aspects of fungi is your front door are you welcoming in energy from your front door or if you have it cluttered up and how many of us walk in our front door and there's booths and there's bags and there's stuff what we're doing is we're representing that there's a lot it takes a lot for the energy of life to get through to our home because we've got it up loaded up to go next  that's where we just shifted some things around we moved his desk up stairs and come to the desk moved up stairs we actually took the folding screens out of the front door he created more of a welcoming path for the chief if you look at it that way and we even created as you were talking about the different areas of the bhagwat where his front door comes in is called are helpful people area and now he's moved his desk into the career or life path area so he's sitting in the career area of his bhagwat it was it was a big transformation for him and he also noticed a huge difference in his business i was going to ask about that after you know all these changes that you made for him did he notice any difference in his business in its home life he did he did he noticed that he was getting more people this is another shop where guests to come in and sit well he worked with them so again there was a lot of changes in his business but there's also a lot of changes in his personal life he actually was spending more time with friends getting to go out more he felt that there was more of a balance in his life so his business did very well but his personal life also flourished in a new way so that's what makes me happy about what i do is when people really begin to achieve what they want in life and one of the things you touched on john was in tension and you know some people can buy some function i books and then get themselves all nervous that oh my gosh my house is all wrong never never think your house is all wrong ok houses all of them are perfect for what we need to learn in life now that doesn't mean that you can't intentionally make some changes in them and so using intention using words thinking of things with power is something everybody can do i would encourage everybody watching the show to take a look around the room  sitting in right now and notice if there's any symbolism in that space that is negative or anything that brings them down or any words that don't represent what they really want in life a lot of times we put up things because they're fun or they're cute but the energy or the intention behind them is not as uplifting so even doing something simple by removing the things that bring you down get rid of them you know i know that you can't but if you just want to hide them away for a little bit and notice how different that know it will make it a huge difference in your life and one more time what is your website and what is your phone number i'm sure it is in or dash harmony dot word and my phone number seven two four three one six two four two eight and i've also trained a lot of wonderful practitioners in the pittsburgh area so if you go to my web site you can find a link there to find other people in the area and i'm sure you can find somebody who will be absolutely the right person for you i'll tell you what ladies and gentlemen lewin is as beautiful inside as she is out and alland the final oh so i'm so thrilled that she watched today and that you had a chance to meet lou ann and as you well know you will be playing this famous again if you check in with my show but i think this is really really helpful and it's another way it's another way to increase the energy in your life increase prosperity increase health and help you towards a more balanced and happier life so thank you so much for watching out there today and have a wonderful holiday very peaceful very wonderful abundant holiday and i will see you next time