Pat Heydlauff

Pat Heydlauff, president of Energy Design, helps people eliminate chaos and stress at home and within oneself. As a consultant and speaker, Pat uses color, design and organization principles to transform clients' lives. Her proven methods remove clutter and disorder, while enhancing personal growth, improved relationships, prosperity, and joy. Her new book, "Feng Shui: So Easy a Child Can Do It," provides changes that lead to personal success and abundance. For information on her consulting, speaking and artwork, visit: www.Energy-by-Design.com or call: 561-799-3443.

Articles by Pat Heydlauff

A Gratitude-Filled Thanksgiving helps Create a Better Tomorrow
Feng Shui your Thanksgiving Holiday by surrounding yourself with positive energy on the outside and positive thinking on the inside. With Thanksgiving almost here, Hanukkah, Christmas and the New Year ahead, by being grateful for the small things you will find the holiday season filled with more hope, peace and joy within.
Overcomplicating Your Life... Let Go of the Old to Create the New
The secret is to let go of the old. Unclutter your thoughts and use positive energy thinking. How to enjoy the journey while being efficient and effective so you can be more productive and profitable.
Creating Holiday Joy without Breaking the Bank
The holidays will be different this year for most because of the economic upheaval. It isn´t just children having a hard time dealing with making-do or going-without. There are a number of things you can do to create holiday joy without breaking the bank.
Negative Thinking Cannot Live Where Positive Thoughts Resides
Every thought on which you are utilizing negative energy will bring about negative results. Even the most positive people in the world find themselves with occasional negative thoughts. I´ve developed a simple formula to help you expose your negative thinking and get you well on the road to shifting your thoughts to positive ones.
Create Personal Stability and Security
We have truly hit a point in history where "everything you think, say and do matters" because that is how you create the future while living through today. Get rid of negative thinking by uncluttering your mind. You can only succeed if you have a plan and take action.
Four Ways to Generate Good Fortune
Tips to generate good fortune by creating abundant luck. Everyone has been touched by this economic downturn. Use Feng Shui as a tool to help you create more optimistic thinking and positive energy.
3 Creative Ways to De-Stress
Clutter in any form is a personal energy drainer. Replace negative thoughts with positive "will-do" thinking. Here are some ways to de-stress and create calm and success.
Feng Shui and Fine Art help to create Good Fortune
Artwork, whether originals, prints or posters, needs to fit your personality. When buying art for your home or office, it is important to know what type of energy the art will provide you.
Feeling Out of Balance? Create Balance with Feng Shui
Use Feng Shui principles to find balance and create new energy to attract good fortune. Determine what parts of your past were filled with negative energy, and following these simple steps to create positive energy and balance.
5 Ways to Remain a Company Asset Using Feng Shui Principles
Are you an asset or a liability to the survival of your company during this economic downturn? Whatever it takes to help a business survive needs to be done because it means jobs survive.
Take Feng Shui with You When Traveling
Here are a few simple Feng Shui principles you can apply to your travel plans. A successful, enjoyable and relaxing trip begins at home. Preparing your home is a critical key in using positive energy to create calm stress free travel.
The Feng Shui Solution for Creating "Downtime"
You need peace and quiet to give you the opportunity to rest. Here are a few tips to unclutter and unwind that will create relaxing energy.
Peaceful Bedroom Energy Helps Deal with Stress
Decorate your bedroom with the use of Feng Shui energy to calm and encourage personal relaxation. Colors and visual images are very powerful when decorating.
Isn't Feng Shui Just About Placement?
Today, there are at least four basic Feng Shui schools or philosophies. Listed is a four-part plan for Feng Shui living.
Calm the Crisis Frenzy…Take Action
Feng Shui and economic hard times having everything to do with the recession. It´s all about making the right decisions in life and making it though a crisis.
Un-cluttering Your Time Puts You In-Control
Do you control your time? When applying Feng Shui principles to your life, balance is the key.
Fill Your Relationships with Romance, Respect and Rapport
Evaluate "Relationship Energy" at Home and Take Action. Having and maintaining good equal relationships are a very real problem for many.
Three Ways to Increase Efficiency
Personal efficiency, effectiveness and productivity decline when clutter and chaos are on the rise. By un-cluttering and organizing, you will not only increase productivity, efficiency and effectiveness but reduce overall stress and medical care costs.
Three Steps for Getting Motivated
The positive energy of completing one project will help you focus positive energy on completing the next project. Re-energizing and self-motivation are all about making a plan and taking action.
Choose to Thrive not Nosedive in 2009
Take control first of your thinking, then your actions and surroundings so you can create the future you want in 2009. Nothing will change from the way it is today if you don´t act upon your new thoughts.
7 Steps to Getting Things Done in 2009
Use Feng Shui as a tool to help you create your new future. A simple energy shifting formula will help you… find out what it is.
Feng Shui Gifts Ideal for Holiday Giving
Don´t have as much money to spend as last year on Holiday gifts, and really don´t want to use plastic? Why not try something a little different this holiday season, and best of all, inexpensive?
Feng Shui Your Holidays
Lights, sounds, and music are some of the holiday´s positive energizers. Feng Shui is relevant and has everything to do with the holidays.
Thanks Giving Overcomes Doom and Gloom
Do you have an attitude of gratitude? Here are ways to create the attitude of gratitude. Create a gratitude journal.
Stress-free Holidays Aren't Just a Dream
You don't have to dream about a stress-free Holiday season. Planning ahead is the key for a joyous Holiday with family and freinds.
Take Control of Your Life; Take Control of Your Future
When everything in your life seems to be on hold, life can become stressful. In Feng Shui, when something is standing in the way of achieving or receiving those things you are striving to accomplish or receive, it is called blocked energy.
De-stress…use the Feng Shui Approach
Stress can lead to burnout very quickly and become debilitating if left unchecked. Use some of these techniques to unclutter your world and eliminate the chaos in your surroundings so you can live a calmer more peace filled life with much less stress.
What You Wear Matters
The choice of clothing, its color and shape can make or break what you are trying to accomplish on any given day. Did the clothing each political speaker wore, support their intent and their message?
Create Personal Calm and Peace Using Feng Shui Principles
Learn how to increase the positive energy in your world. It takes a lot of positive energy to deal with all the negatives that surround you.
How to Make a Better Tomorrow with Feng Shui
Feng Shui really does work when you apply it. Learn just five steps to a better tomorrow.
Olympic Opening based on Feng Shui Principles
The Olympics are being held in the land where the Ancient Chinese gave birth to the thought process of living in harmony with their surroundings, later called Feng Shui. What is the key to balancing with Yin and Yang?
Feng Shui, the Original Green Lifestyle
Create your home and life to be in complete harmony with your surrounding environment. Improve your quality of life and that of the environment.
Taking Care of You...A Feng Shui Priority
In the world of Feng Shui, taking care of yourself should be your number 1 priority. Here are a few simple steps you can follow to help reduce stress.
Change that Really Works
Change, when it is the right change and is put together with a good plan really does work. Change that really works results in living a life filled with more joy and less stress.
To Create Good Luck, Use Feng Shui
Good fortune energy can be enhanced in a number of ways. You are limited only by your imagination when energizing the good fortune area of your life.
Are You Seeking a Balanced Life Portfolio?
Create you own balanced lifestyle portfolio. Follow the three steps that are a basic investment that leads to balance in your self-worth portfolio.
Reenergizing Yourself Restores Productivity and Prosperity
What's going on behind the scenes? What's your missing link? It's time to look deeper. Find the problem and create the solution.
Creative Solutions Begin in Silence
When you are faced with a problem that you need to solve, your subconscious mind takes over. Develop the habit of silence. Get a clear mental picture or listen for the right words to describe your problem.
Vision Boards - Great Energy for Children Too
A Vision board is used to help capture childrens' dreams when they are young so they can make them become a reality as they get older. As children get older they will understand that they are actually creating a plan for their future and that they are in-control.
Change Your Thinking – Change the Results
How to deal with the issue so you can change the results. You cannot change anything unless you are aware of the fact that you are stuck.
Coping with Natural Disasters
We all realize the obvious real-time destruction pales in comparison to the enormity of the loss. Without hope, life has no future.
Build a Bridge to a Better Tomorrow
How to deal with major and overwhelming issues from the past. The only way to build a positive energy bridge to the future is to let go of the past.
Don't Just Cope with Life... Create It!
Positive energy in your life and personal environment and the principles of Feng Shui are all tools. Learn how to create what you want and so you can thrive – not just survive?
Feng Shui Formula for Fun
Are you taking life too seriously? On a scale from 1 to 10... what is your number? A simple formula for fun.
Feng Shui Your Time - Be In-Control of Your Life
How to take control of your life. Here is an in-control action plan.
Creativity is the Answer
Creativity is the answer to a more balanced you. Find the missing link in the flow of energy in your life.
Kitchen Savvy Leads to Abundance
Organize your kitchen for a healthy life. Your kitchen is important when it comes to prosperity and abundance. Here are some tips that provide your kitchen energy savvy.
The Hi-Tech Dilemma - The Feng Shui Answer
Are you struggling in the hi-tech world... learn some Feng Shui principles to help. What is the price emotionally to us in this hi-tech world? Be aware of the downsides of technology.
Real Estate Market Down - Time to Buy?
Can you get a real deal if you buy a house now? The purchase or sale of a home has to do with energy.... find out how. Whether you are a buyer or a seller, make a list.
Does Feng Shui Matter?
Do you want to be in control of your life? Do you want a better life? Are you using positive energy in your enviroment?
Recipe for Positive Thinking
Positive thinking can change your life for the better. Balance and positive energy creates positive thinking.
4 Steps to Attracting a Mate
Are you just beginning your search for a mate? Here are 4 steps to attracting that perfect person in your life.
10 STEPS TO IMPROVE WELLBEING
Improve your physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing; you are important. Here are 10 steps to show you how....
Energize Your Front Door - Energize Your Life
The first impression someone has of you and your home is from your driveway. In Feng Shui the front entrance to your home is incredibly important.
An Ancient Concept – A 21st Century Way of Life
Feng Shui is an important aspect is that it helps you balance your surroundings/environment through the use of color, shape, and sound. Then there´s the placement of household objects and art....
Is Clutter Standing in the Way of Your Success?
Steps to control your clutter and energize your success! De-clutter your home and workplace to achieve your objectives. From a Feng Shui perspective you can determine if something is clutter by asking yourself a few simple questions....
Feng Shui Ideas for Celebrating Valentines
Valentine's is a time for coupleness – a time to express fondness and love - and an opportunity for sharing a togetherness experience that can create a lifetime of memories enjoyed well past one day. Several Feng Shui positive energy gift suggestions follow to help you make Valentine´s memories that live well past an otherwise busy day.
Excess Free Advice Causes Uncertainty
Well intentioned people often give abundant but not helpful advice. Unfortunately, the more you listen to these supposedly well-intentioned people, the more confused you become and the more out of control your logical thinking becomes. Learn to take back your self control.
Are Old Ways Not Working? Create Change NOW With a New Roadmap!
Create a new roadmap to your future that will serve you well in the 21st Century. Make use of that yellow tablet to begin the groundwork for your new roadmap.
Is Your Life Out of Control... Use Energy By Design
Creating energy by design is the application of Feng Shui principles to your surroundings, activities and thoughts. Start taking control of your life by making an Energy by Design list.
Getting Rid of Negative Self-Talk Leads to Success
Have you started your new year with great intentions? Have you made a list of resolutions you wish to keep? Have you even gone so far as to start on your list, but in the back of your mind you keep hearing this nagging voice saying “why bother – it won’t work, it won’t make a difference?” Or, “it ju...
Is Your Bedroom Designed for Sleep?
Do you work hard all day but have trouble shutting your mind off at night when you should be sleeping? Are you doing instant replay of millions of thoughts and things that happened throughout your day? Or, are you worried about something that will happen down the road to yourself, one of your childr...
Stay Focused, Stay in Control
Does your life feel like you are on a merry-go-round but you don’t quite know how to get off? Do you think you are “in control” yet deep down inside really know you are not? Is everything around you happening at warp speed with you in the center on permanent fast forward? This happens to all of ...
Begin the New Year by Being Grateful
Whether you are one of those people that dread seeing the arrival of another new year or are full of eager anticipation doesn’t matter. What matters are your attitude and your thoughts when the new year arrives. Your attitude and thinking set the tone for the whole year ahead. When you begin a n...
Plan for a Successful New Year by Looking Back
With 2008 fast approaching have you started thinking about what’s ahead? Will your new year be better than 2007 or at least as good? Will your relationships, health and income improve or at minimum, not get worse? And, can you do anything to make it better? Or, do you find one year melting into the ...
7 Ways to Keep the Warmth of Christmas All Year
Do the songs “I’ll be Home for Christmas,” “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” or “The Christmas Song” with chestnuts roasting by the fire best describe your typical Christmas Day. Or, does your Christmas seem more like “The Nightmare of Christmas” with the Grinch taking away all of the joy? Whet...
Feng Shui Workplace Strategies for December
Is this the time of the year your workplace is extremely hectic and overloaded with work or is it business as usual? Or, is this the time of the year that everything seems to grind to a halt – you cannot to get an answer from anyone for anything and you certainly seem to be unable to close a deal or...
Feng Shui Holiday Tips to Reduce Stress and Increase Joy
Stress comes wrapped in many shapes, sizes and packages during the Holiday season. People in our country celebrate as many as three or four holidays during this time of the year. And, each one comes with its own distinct set of stressors that can by far overshadow your potential for joy. For som...
Save Time, Improve Relationships... Create Calm
Just how much time do you lose everyday looking for things? Do you or your spouse if you are married, have stacks of stuff everywhere? Are you holding onto things from your childhood or teen years? Do you save everything and never get rid of anything? Would you feel comfortable if unexpected g...
7 Great Feng Shui Gifts for Holiday Giving
With the holidays fast approaching, I am often asked “is there such a thing as a really good Feng Shui gift?” “What should I look for when trying to purchase a great Feng Shui gift for someone special on my list?” “Is there a terrific Feng Shui gift I can give my boss?” The gift list requests go on ...
Is Feng Shui Good for Children?
Can Feng Shui be used to encourage children to study and follow the family rules? Does Feng Shui work in the nursery? Will using Feng Shui to balance the home make a difference in your child’s life? Simply put, does it work just as well for children as adults? These are only a few of the many que...
A Grateful Thanksgiving is Great Feng Shui Energy
Thanksgiving is the one holiday per year that seems to be the least commercialized and the most heartfelt. It is the holiday where the focus is on family, friends, food and being grateful for what you have. The hustle and bustle of this holiday has a lot less to do with commercialized gift giving an...
Gratitude Creates Great Stress-Eliminating Energy
Before you get all caught up in the holiday rush of shopping, entertaining, shopping, baking and more shopping, now is a great time to reflect on and be thankful for all those positive things that have happened in the last 12 months. All too often we get way too busy which results in creating our ow...
Feng Shui Helps You Take Charge of Your Life
Are you tired for waiting for the other shoe to drop? Is it time for you to move on? Do you need to decide you can no longer rescue someone else from their chosen future? Have you pushed a permanent pause button for living while silently watching your life slip by? Imagine what tomorrow would be ...
Feeling Out-Of-Sorts... Look at Your Surroundings
Do you and your house feel out-of-sorts? Do you notice something is not quite right when you walk into certain rooms of your home? Do you wonder on occasion whether your house is contributing to your lack of well-being? These are the feelings associated with the lack of balance in a home. If you ...
Emergency Preparedness is Good Feng Shui
Whether you live in the southeast and face potential hurricanes, the Midwest with floods and tornados or the West Coast with earthquakes, fire and mudslides, being prepared for such an emergency provides you security and peace of mind. Being prepared and having a plan is the positive use of energy a...
Eliminate Structural Flaws that Create Imbalance
Structural flaws are found in every house whether it was just built in the newest most prestigious development, is a solid home that dates back to the middle of the last century, or is on the historic register. The flow of energy creating balance and harmony in a home is often relegated to the circ...
Improve Focus by Getting Rid of Energy Blocks
Do you feel like some days you are on a merry-go-round because you cannot focus? Do you feel like every place you look you face unfinished projects or each corner you turn there is yet something more to do, take charge of or care for? Is your life a constant set of circumstances that seem never endi...
Opportunity and Prosperity Can Be Yours
Are prosperity and peace of mind at the top of your wish list but the bottom of your action plan? Is prosperity an elusive ideal way of life? Is peace of mind a dream you feel can never be your reality? Is opportunity knocking on your front door but never enters? More often than not, prosperity a...
Prosperity Begins at Home
Whether you are hoping to find a better job, looking for advancement and a raise, simply needing more money just to make ends meet or trying to live off a fixed income, prosperity and income growth begin at home. It doesn’t matter whether you have an office, workstation, cubicle or a corner of the s...
Attract Good Fortune
Much has been written recently about the law of attraction or creating your own good luck. "The Secret" which has been featured everywhere on television and talk radio has brought much attention recently to the thought process of attracting good fortune into your life. Creating good luck through...
Dramatic Change Requires Grounding Energy
Do you find yourself going through massive change in your life? The kind of change that creates major energy shifts because a vacuum has been created. The unexpected change that occurs when you’ve lost someone very close to you that had some control over you like a spouse, parent, sibling or even a ...
Eliminate Holiday Stress... Use Feng Shui
Are you already beginning to panic with the holidays looming in the near distance? Do you get weary just thinking about holiday shopping, entertaining, the crowds and the expense? Or, have you learned to proceed peacefully through the holiday season using Feng Shui as your guide? The holiday seas...
16 Ways to Feng Shui Your World
Improve your health, wealth and happiness by using a few key Feng Shui principles. The basic concept of Feng Shui is to bring fresh energy into your home and surroundings while getting rid of clutter and stagnant energy so you will enjoy a more balanced and less chaotic life. It is about shifting en...
It's All About Positive Energy
The positive use of energy can help you improve those areas of your surroundings and life that bring you discomfort, concern and worry. By shifting energy drainers to positive energy, everything can be made better. Whether you consider Feng Shui to be the placement of things and the flow of energy t...
5 Steps to Help Things Go Your Way
What should you do when nothing seems to be going your way? How can you get past those endless times of nagging doubt that just keep lingering in the back of your mind? Where do you turn when you run into a “brick wall?” These are all questions I’ve faced and get asked often when speaking to groups ...
Can Using Feng Shui be that Easy
When I’m out speaking to groups I’m often told by various audience members that Feng Shui is very confusing. They read one book and learn one thing and then read another book only to find out that it is in conflict with the first book. Even though they really are interested in Feng Shui and woul...
Create Positive Energy When Remodeling
Are you contemplating or in various stages of remodeling, restoring or refurbishing your home? Would you like to remodel but find just the thought of it is overwhelming? Are there specific things you wish to accomplish besides laying new flooring and new counter tops such as creating a balanced flow...
Does Your Fall Schedule bring Chaos and Stress?
With fall fast approaching, children going back to school and returning to a “normal” schedule; now is the time to prepare for the more hectic busy season ahead. Does your fall routine create a calm more peaceful time in your life? Or, are you like millions of others that already have so much to do ...
Feng Shui, a Way of Life for the 21st Century?
Feng Shui is more relevant today than it was 3000 years ago. When the Ancient Chinese discovered the use and importance of incorporating Feng Shui principles into their lives, it was a matter of survival for their culture and civilization. They found that by harvesting, harnessing and using the posi...
Feng Shui Your Office to Create Success Energy
Does your office support you energetically? Are the colors on the walls conducive to productivity? Is the entrance to your office clutter free, and welcoming? Does it reflect a successful business? Whether you work in the corner office of a multi-story commercial building, a cubicle in a medical ...
Feng Shui Your Life to Help You Find Mr./Ms. Right
Whether you have already found Mr./Ms. Right or are looking in earnest, Feng Shui will make a positive difference with existing relationships or finding the Right relationship. How often have you, your friends or your children said “I just can’t seem to find the right person to settle down with an...

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