Feng Shui Definitions: Beams

Posted by Liv Kellgren on Aug 5, 2012 in Ch'i, Feng Shui Bedroom, Feng Shui Definition, Feng Shui Dining Room, Feng Shui Living Room, Your Home | 1 comment

Overhead beams are a popular structural feature in Western architecture and are considered to add character. They can also add a sense of heaviness and danger over your head, especially when you sit or sleep directly under them. The bigger, darker, and lower they are, the more you want to lighten them up in some way.

Mercury-Packed CFL Bulbs Now Found to Fry Your Skin

Posted by Liv Kellgren on Aug 1, 2012 in Ch'i, Nature & Eco-Tips | Comments Off on Mercury-Packed CFL Bulbs Now Found to Fry Your Skin

July 21, 2012 Source: Mike Barrett, Natural Society

Individuals are drawn into compact fluorescent bulbs due to their environmentally-friendly label, but anyone who has really looked into these incandescent alternatives knows of the numerous health and environmental dangers of CFL bulbs. A recent study sheds light on just one such concern associated with the ‘green’ CFL bulbs, showing how they are capable of actually frying your skin with UVA radiation.

Feng Shui Definitions: Angles and Corners

Posted by Liv Kellgren on Jul 25, 2012 in Ch'i, Feng Shui Definition | Comments Off on Feng Shui Definitions: Angles and Corners

In Feng Shui, where feelings of safety and comfort are paramount, protruding sharp angles and corners are considered dangerous. They produce “cutting Ch’i”, or arrow-like energy that can make people feel irritable, uncomfortable, and unsafe. Our angular Western architecture also creates corners in every room where Ch’i tends to collect and deteriorate. In Feng Shui, these extreme features need to be balanced.

• Even if the general shape is square or rectangular, choose architectural designs and furniture with rounded corners and more organic lines to assure safety and comfort.
• When existing furniture has sharp corners, drape fabric or a vining plant over the corners to soften them, or turn furniture at a diagonal to minimize the corner’s effect.
  
• Balance protruding angles with the softening influence of plants, screens, textiles, and lighting. Or explore the magical possibilities of faux painting and trompe l’oeil (a French term meaning “to fool the eye”).
• Fill in room corners with items that soften and round them out, such as diagonally placed furniture, lamps, curtains, plants, baskets, screens, and art.

Inner Feng Shui: Cleansing

Posted by Liv Kellgren on Jul 18, 2012 in Ch'i, Feng Shui Definition, Inner Feng Shui, Space Clearing | Comments Off on Inner Feng Shui: Cleansing

We all need a good emotional and spiritual cleansing from time to time. Don’t allow your inner environment to become dark and spooky. Make sure you cleanse and cultivate your inner Ch’i on a daily basis. And, at least once a year, refresh yourself by changing the scenery. Vacations, health retreats, and vision quests cleanse and lighten up your body, mind, and spirit.

Inner Work: Bathrooms

Posted by Liv Kellgren on Jul 15, 2012 in Ch'i, Feng Shui Bathroom, Inner Feng Shui | Comments Off on Inner Work: Bathrooms

This inner work is about the draining and cleansing forces in your life. Sit quietly for a few minutes and ask if you are being environmentally, emotionally, mentally or spiritually drained in some way. If you are, it’s time to lift this downward pull on your vitality.

Feng Shui Definitions: Bathrooms

Posted by Liv Kellgren on Jul 14, 2012 in Ch'i, Feng Shui Bathroom | 1 comment

The primary function of our bathrooms is to clean our bodies – inside and out – via the sink, shower, bathtub, and toilet. In Feng Shui, plumbing is considered a potential threat to the vital Ch’i circulating through the house. Just like water, Ch’i can be pulled down the drain. Although we’re grateful to have bathrooms so conveniently located in our homes,