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14. Managing Fire and water elements
Inside your kitchen make sure that the water tap is not near the stove and doesn’t directly face it. The stove symbolizes the fire element which will react negatively to the water element.
15. Revitalizing Salt rituals in Kitchens
Once a year give the floor, door and walls of the kitchen a salt wipe to ensure that kitchen surfaces are clear of negative shi and that food cooked in your kitchen never gets afflicted by harmful or stagnant energy.
16. Restful Energy in The bedroom
Your bedroom signifies a place of security and sanctuary. It is best to choose soothing colours rather than stimulating ones. Avoid too much yang energy in the bedroom. Try not to activate the bedroom with too many decorative objects especially wedding photos.
17. Cleansing Ceremonies in bedrooms
Wipe all the surfaces in the bedroom with a cleaning cloth dipped in natural salt water. Then, use space clearing tools to cleanse stagnate chi that may have accumulated. Open all your windows and doors to allow good flow of chi.
18. Observe the renovation taboos every year
There are taboo areas to leave well alone. Renovations or other disturbances in these areas will cause misfortune to befall those living in the house. Suppress the afflicted area with cure and enhance the good area.
Decorative objects and photographs you display around your house or office can create startling effects on the way you feel and the luck you attract. So at the application level, practising feng shui should take account of hidden messages that get created in the home or office. These come from photographs selected for display, art hung on feature walls, souvenirs placed on sideboards and sculptures placed on coffee or boardroom tables. So what is the unnoticed symbolic messages that are present in homes and offices and advises how to use them to suppress bad luck and enhance good fortune? How about the office POS system ? Do you need to put some lucky money on it, to bring in the good luck..?? i was asked once.
Continued from - Feng Shui Your Living Space - Part 2
9. Create meandering flows of chi in your home
When you arrange the furniture of your home create a mental image of traffic flow – How people will walk around objects. Direct the traffic flow by placing pieces of heavy furniture in strategic places. Make sure the flow is meandering and people will not prone to walking into obstacle or corners.
10. Golden rules for kitchen location
The kitchen must be deep inside and should not be visible from the front door. Avoid in the Northwest and Southwest.
11. Rearrange your Décor at frequent intervals
Rearrange furniture is beneficial because it re-channels the patterns of chi energy, reflecting its dynamic nature and attracting new cosmic energy into your home.
12. Bring in Daily doses of Sun energy
It is very effective way to make sure that the family stays together and that all members are blessed by the powerful rejuvenating energy of the sun. Hang crystal on windows that catch the rays of sun directly.
13. Dining Room Mirror Double abundance
Choose a wall mirror that is large enough to suggest wealth and perosperity. A mirror that refelects all family members as well as the food on the table. This mirror will attract good fortune.
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4. Protect your main door with Fu Dogs
The presence of Metal energy in the form of celestial guardian such as Chi Lin or Fu Dog flanking the door offers strong protection against afflictive energies. Activate your guardians by tying a red ribbon.
5. Clearing blockages in the Hallway
Do not let packages, shoes and so on to accumulate in the foyer area of your home. It is fine to have some furniture in you hall to slow down chi but don’t let too many pile up.
6. Creating Feng Shui Strength in the Living Room
Activate the eight corners with symbolic decorative images. Check the following charts. Auspicious objects create good chi and bring positive benefits.
7. Bright Light Always generates Yang energy
Be sensitive to the moods created in your home by light. Never overly dark with lots of shadows for the living room. Home is always luckier when the ambience is bright.
8. Let Natural Sound permeate your living areas
Keep a pair of dogs or cats to create emit natural sounds. Alternatively, you can use radio or television. Silent home suggests the yin aura of tombs and undergrounds places.
Auspicious placement of furniture and decorations will clear any blocked energy pathways and charge the positive nature of chi. The following will give you the secrets of energizing the chi of a living room while making your bedroom as restful haven will give you the opportunity to make your home a refuge against the problems of the outside world.
1. Empowering the Main Door
The main door of your home is where the powerful cosmic energy of the outer environment connects with and enters your home. Display image of auspicious creatures near the vicinity of the door to empower it.
2. Feeding the Growth energy at Doorways with Water
The presence of water when located either inside or outside the home promotes the growth energy. It is vital ingredient that brings never-ending good fortune.
3. Creating Good energy on Both side of the Door
Keep the inside and outside the door free of clutter and clean at all times. Create a pool of five elements energy to symbolize universe of good energy. Water brings a flow of wealth, fire brings success and recognition, metal brings protection and strength, earth brings grounding luck and wood brings growth and expansion. Use your creativity to work at creating this five element near your door.
Avoid from installing water features such as aquariums and desktop fountains in bedrooms. The gurgle of water may sound soothing, but its fast-moving energy is too strong for a Yin location such as bedrooms and will only deplete one’s energy what’s more it can even disrupt the harmony of your Love life. Water features are better located in areas aside from where one sleeps.
This Tip also applies to pictures and frames of rivers, oceans, lakes or any type of large moving waters hung behind you in the bedroom. They denote to your luck and prospects being ’smothered’. These pictures are best for living rooms and lounges instead. Safety equipment are also not advisable in the bedroom.
If your home or office sits or faces the Northeast and is in quite close vicinity to a pylon or a broken mountain formation, burglaries are a serious potential this year. To lessen the impact, you should invest in new locks and install a brand new alarm system if you can afford it.
One can also keep the bad luck at bay with water features such as an aquarium, desktop fountain or fish tank. Place these in the Northeast area of your property interior. Or your other alternative is to look into taking a vacation .. i recommend looking at Orlando vacations especially if you are living in Canada.
This month sees the South fantastic grounds for Love and Relationships! Enjoy renewed passion and love by spending loads of your time in this area particularly for March. Aside from this, those who are in the midst of last minute exam preparations should make use of the South this March for the best gains. Enhance this good luck area all the more with crystal amulets and tassels to purify the energy all the more instead of weight loss pills.
It is important to take steps to ensure one’s business if you have your own business. Even if you own a home business.. and you do all your business on the phone, make sure you tap these lucky feng shui coins under your phone or your calculators or even credit card machines to ensure that the money will keep coming in. Sure .. the 3 - legged frog is good to have.. but if you want to be a little more modest and less obvious.. the lucky coin is the way to go.
