You don’t have to believe in Feng Shui, yet it will help you make lots and lots of money and have better health and happiness in all aspects of your life.” Marla Stone
The Feng Shui principles work to help space challenges or disturbances. The home’s architecture and/or landscaping contribute to the flow of the “chi” (good energy, thoughts, and ideas).
A Bagua tool (above) identifies specific areas of your space. When used as a template for organizing, the Bagua tool helps sort out your stuff beneficially and functionally. Check out the e-book “ORGANIZE YOUR HOME WITH A FENG SHUI TEMPLATE.”
After downloading the book, print out the free Bagua template. Hold the template in your hands, standing at the front entrance of your home, to identify the 9 areas of your home. Visualize the Bagua template placed over your floor plan from the front of your home, where you enter. You will then determine if your front door is in the KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, CAREER, OR HELPING PEOPLE AND TRAVEL AREA. If you are standing at your front entrance and the door is to the far left, you enter through KNOWLEDGE and WISDOM. If your front door is in the middle of the home, you are entering through CAREER, and if your front door is to the right of the home’s front, then you enter through HELPING PEOPLE AND TRAVEL. So, when you identify the bottom part of the bagua, the rest of the floor plan will be easily identified when you have a rectangular or square home. But here’s the thing: most of us do not have a perfectly rectangular or square house, and even if we do, a second floor may have some part missing unless it duplicates the first floor exactly. So what do you do if some part of your home is missing a Bagua area or extends outside of the Bagua area? What do you do if the front entrance of your home is on the side of the home or even in the back? There are tricks of the trade in the book, one of which is that wherever your front door is that you go in and out of your home, the Bagua template starts.
Placement of furniture, trees, vases, equipment, family photos, books, chairs, tables, lighting, artwork, electrical equipment, telephones, and wires want to be considered to protect the “chi” from affecting the inhabitants. Open-door rooms create negative energy when they face stairwells. Placing a red carpet at the foot of the stairs to protect the “chi” energy is considered a Feng Shui “Fix.” Windows or mirrors facing each other in rooms or rooms without windows keep energy keyed up. A landscaping faux pas, for instance, is a tree in front of your front door. The tree, in essence, blocks any good power from coming into the home. Furniture placed in a blocking way instead of open to the entrance of a room fiercely impacts you.
A friend had his couch blocking part of the entrance to his front door (career area), and his business dropped in sales significantly. When I saw the placement of his couch, I asked him if he was having business challenges, and he asked, “How did you know?” Well, that is what a Feng Shui Specialist knows from looking at your floorplan and the design of the home or offices! For instance, when you walk into a room, and the back of a couch faces you, it is not only a block in that part of your Bagua; it symbolizes things that keep coming up from behind, challenges that come “out of the blue,” and it is poor styling in most cases. If there is no other way to place the couch, then you want to have a mirror positioned so that, when sitting on the sofa, you can look into the mirror to see the entrance or door to the room. Also, the colors of your walls interior and exterior, types of objects, odd-shaped spaces, beams or sharp corners, where the bathrooms or kitchens are located, and what is painted in a painting, depending on where the image is placed, can all affect the energy and prosperity, health, relationships, recognition, personally and
professionally, for all who work or live in the space.
Going deeper into Feng Shui, you want to know the year your home was built and determine the best position for your bed by calculating your birthplace information. Feng Shui positioning of your furniture helps assess fortune or misfortune, even when it looks aesthetically pleasing. Feng Shu fixes are utilized to correct most architectural, landscaping, and decor challenges while enhancing all areas of your self and space.
Getting help from a Feng Shui specialist will help you with what you choose to bring into your home or what to get rid of. What kind of art you choose is your choice, but some art pieces may not reflect your intentions for life growth. Artwork and decor have different colors, are made of various elements, and can be matched to the best area of your home. Plants and or trees in and outside of your home can be placed for better energy flow or symbolize
positively or negatively based on where they are placed. What kind of furniture you choose means good or bad health to those who utilize the furniture.
CEO, I-Deal-Lifestyle Inc
& Author of
The Clutter Remedy: A Guide To Getting Organized For Those Who Love Their Stuff
www.i-deallifestyle.com info@i-deal-lifestyle.com
Let’s get you some great chi, and/or let’s just have some tea!
