The Helpful People Box

In Feng Shui there is a specific area of the home associated with Helpful People and Travel. The area or gua as it is commonly referred to in Feng Shui is located in the front right corner of your home as you enter through the main door. Just like the name implies, this area represents attracting helpful people of any description into your life, along with opening more opportunities for travel and adventure. Not too long ago, I really became acquainted with this area of my home because I needed help, and I needed help fast!

Late last summer a little black and white feral cat started showing up around our home. Being the compassionate animal lover that I am I began to leave little bits of food out for the cat. Through time the cat became a regular fixture around our home and so was upgraded to having his own food and water bowls which were replenished twice a day. All seemed well enough until my husband noticed that “Glow” named after “his” amazing glowing yellow eyes started to get rather chunky. While my husband insisted that Glow was a “she” and was probably pregnant I held out insisting that Glow was in fact a “he” and that “he” had simply gained some much needed weight. Hello, didn’t he remember how skinny little Glow was when “he” first arrived on the scene?

One sunny afternoon in early December, 2012 while I was out on the porch cleaning the front door I happened to notice three little fuzz balls wobbling around the area by our well house. Immediately I went inside and grabbed the binoculars. As I made my way back out onto the front porch it suddenly became very clear that the fuzz balls were in fact kittens, three to be exact. In that moment it was undeniably official, Glow was a “she.” What started out as one feral kitty had suddenly morphed into four. Christmas had come just a bit early to the Blevins household. Oh joy!

I quickly ran inside and called my husband to share the wonderful news. Glow was a female and had three kittens! Needless to say my husband’s response could best be described as somewhat lacking in enthusiasm. As the weeks went by the kittens grew healthy and strong and of course were incredibly cute. In what seemed like no time at all the kittens were quickly approaching four months of age. Then it dawned on me that if I didn’t get Glow and the kittens spayed and neutered then my sweet family of four feral kitties would increase exponentially. The question was just how in the world do you go about trapping four feral cats and where exactly do you take them to get spayed and neutered? Enter “The Helpful People Box.”

Fortunately I had learned courtesy of my brilliant Feng Shui teacher, Karen Rauch Carter, how to create a “Helpful People Box.” Simply take a small silver box with a lid and write down on a piece of paper a “prayer of thanks” for some specific help you currently need and place it in the box and then place the box with the request in the Helpful People and Travel gua of the home. So using a small round metal tin purchased from Michael’s Arts and Crafts I wrote out on a small piece of paper the following prayer of thanks and placed it in my helpful people box. “The perfect support team to assist me in safely trapping Glow and her kittens so that they can be spayed and neutered. Thank You!” Then I simply surrendered my “prayer of thanks” to the universe trusting that help would soon arrive.

The following day I sat down and started “googling” spay and neuter clinics in northeastern Tennessee. After about an hour of searching, I finally happened upon a link for a spay and neuter clinic based out of a neighboring town. My heart nearly skipped a beat as my eyes landed on a small advertisement for Appalachian Feral Cat Allies. With trembling hands I called the contact number and within moments was talking to the “helpful person” who would not only provide the traps to safely capture Glow and her kittens but would also transport them to a subsidized spay and neuter clinic AND return them back to me! All of this for just $35.00 per cat and this fee also included rabies vaccinations! My “prayer of thanks” had been answered in less than 24 hours!

Two days later a lovely woman arrived at my home to loan me four humane wild animal traps free of charge. She thoroughly demonstrated how set each trap and then shared some helpful tips on how to best coax the cats into the traps. Trust me when I say that this is not as easy as it sounds! The following week I successfully captured the cats and my “helpful person” happily returned that day to pick them up so that she could transport them to the clinic the following morning. Following an overnight stay at the clinic my “helpful person” again picked the cats up and transported them back to me. Another astonishing element to this story is that my wonderful “helpful person” lived close to two hours away from me and had only just started providing feral cat support to my area!

Since this time I’ve had many more amazing successes using my helpful people box! I also gifted my “helpful person” with her own helpful people box after sharing my story with her and she too has had many wonderful successes in terms of donations of equipment and money to help support her organization. Perhaps the next time you find yourself in need of some special “helpful” assistance, consider creating your own helpful people box! You too may be wonderfully amazed with the results!

If you would like more information regarding how to energize the Helpful People and Travel Gua of your home and/or learn more about Feng Shui in general please check out my website “Todayisyourluckydayfengshui” your source for FREE comprehensive and easy to follow DIY (Do it Yourself) Feng Shui step by step quick reference guides.

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