Essential Feng Shui Tips: Colors
Inner Feng Shui
Ask, “What color is my essence?” There’s a color that is “you,” which deeply nurtures and energizes you every time you see it. Although you may not want it everywhere, you can introduce your essence color into your environment in just the perfect way—perhaps in the brilliant glaze of a ceramic bowl or the soft folds of a throw across your bed. Because the Ch’i of your soul color resonates so personally with you, it is especially revitalizing for you to have it in your home. When you need some extra energy, gaze at your color and fill yourself up with it, or visualize it anywhere, anytime, to achieve the same healing results.
Ask those you live with what color their soul or essence is. The answer can strengthen relationships with spouses, friends, and children. In one case, a couple determined that he was “golden yellow” while she was “turquoise green,” so they added a pillow in each color to their couch to symbolize their togetherness.
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Essential Feng Shui Tips: Philosophy of Feng Shui- The Ch’i in Everything is Changing
Feng Shui Definitions
The third Feng Shui principle states that the Ch’i in every person, place, and thing is constantly changing. In fact, the one constant in our physical universe is change. And it becomes a gift when we embrace it as a force that can improve our lives.
Embracing change is often resisted in our Western culture. We want to look 25 forever, buy furniture only once, and have one career that lasts a lifetime. As we all know, life doesn’t work that way. Change happens. As we grow older and hopefully wiser, we may marry, have children, divorce, change careers, move, make new friends, remarry, and through it all, experience tremendous inner and outer changes. When we fully join the dance of change and “let it happen,” we grow in wisdom and experience, and our homes reflect these changes.
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Essential Feng Shui Tips: Philosophy of Feng Shui- Everything is Connected by Ch’i
Inner Feng Shui
Take a few moments to consider whether you have some unfriendly points of view about yourself or others. Your outer environment may include neighbors you dislike, alienated family members, or co-workers who are troublesome. Knowing how connected you are to other people, it’s time to reinstate harmony and balance in all relationships, including your relationship with yourself. Contemplate the meaning of healthy relationships, and practice generosity, compassion, honesty, and forgiveness, knowing that the quality of your life depends on it.
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Colors in Feng Shui
Feng Shui Definitions
Colors in Feng Shui are kind of a big deal. Because color is a very personal and powerful tool for enhancing the Ch’i in your home, make sure to surround yourself with the colors that feed and nurture you. New colors can be easily introduced via flowers, candles, fabrics, and other decor. However, to remove or replace paint, carpet, and upholstery colors in your home is usually a big job. You can’t just throw them off at the end of the day like a bright red shirt or yellow dress. You will live, eat, and sleep with your color choices for a while.
This isn’t to suggest that you should be timid with color, just smart. Experiment with color before ordering enough to fill a room. For instance, before buying a bright blue couch, lay out bright blue paper or fabric where the couch will be and live with it for a week or so. Are you still as in love with the color on the eighth day as you were on the first? If certain wall colors look good in a magazine, try painting a section of your wall that color, put your furniture or artwork against it, and live with it for a few days. You may find that you’d like it deeper, richer, paler, or not at all. If you live with other people, make sure they like the colors you’re choosing. Take your time. When chosen well, colors add a powerful healing quality to your home.
When working with the Bagua Map, use the color associations that you find appealing. Don’t feel pressured to use black to enhance your Career area, or red to bolster your Fame and Reputation area unless you like these colors. Any color enhances the Ch’i if it inspires you each time you see it (see other Ch’i enhancers).
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Everything is Connected by Ch’i
Feng Shui Definitions
The second basic principle of Feng Shui is that everything is connected by Ch’i: Every person, place, and thing. Although our connections are usually strongest with the people, places, and things that are close by, we are essentially in relationship with everyone and everything on Earth.
Conflicting relationships can diminish or damage the quality of Ch’i in our lives. When we recognize that we cannot isolate ourselves, we see the importance of resolving our conflicts and cultivating good relationships. Because everything is connected, resolving relationship problems greatly improves the overall quality of our lives.
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