Daphne-based feng shui design consultant Meryl Hyderally offers her organizing service so that clients can embrace cluttered areas in their homes and allow new thoughts and patterns to appear. She says, “Because clutter sometimes invokes a negative response in our culture, there is often a desire to tuck away the disorderly parts of our lives to eliminate any judgement that may resound if clutter is discovered. But what if we actually celebrated our clutter?”

In feng shui, closets, drawers and cabinets represent the subconscious mind, where beliefs, patterns, memories and skills are stored and ready to use. Items in these spaces contribute to and support existing thoughts and patterns. Hyderally advises that the simple task of taking inventory and organizing a cluttered area can spark the subconscious mind into seeing and understanding life a little differently.