Essential Feng Shui Tips: Sound Makers
Feng Shui Definitions
Wind chimes, bells, bead curtains, gongs, and musical instruments summon and protect harmonious Ch’i. Their lovely sounds can also signal someone’s approach, enhancing your sense of safety. They can subtly mark the boundary between one area and another, such as between living and dining rooms or front entrances and foyers. When chosen for their melodious tones, sound makers also lift people’s moods, transforming stress or lethargy into a more harmonious, energized state.
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Essential Feng Shui Tips: Creative Expression
Feng Shui Definitions
Expressing yourself creatively is one of the most powerful ways to enhance the vitality of the Ch’i flowing through your home. Your creativity activates joy, enthusiasm, and participation in life. Creative expression includes cooking, arranging flowers, playing music, singing, dancing, writing, building, planting, and artistic pursuits. Unleash your creativity, and enjoy being an inspiration to yourself and others.
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Essential Feng Shui Tips: Stairways
Feng Shui Definitions
Consider stairways with a critical eye. Likened to waterfalls of rushing Ch’i, their location plays an important role in how Ch’i flows through your home. The least favored placement is directly in front of the main entrance to a home. The longer and steeper the stairs, the greater their tendency to whisk Ch’i too quickly down and out the door.
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Essential Feng Shui Tips: Philosophy of Feng Shui- The Ch’i in Everything is Changing
Inner Feng Shui
If you could change anything about your inner environment, what would it be? Say you have a tendency to be stingy and judgmental with yourself. Well, now is the time to become more generous and forgiving. To remind yourself of your new inner change, you could place an abundant arrangement of fresh flowers in your living room, symbolizing generosity and self-love. Affirm your positive inner change by saying, “I AM ALWAYS CHANGING FOR THE BETTER.. CHANGE BRINGS MAGNIFICENT INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCES INTO MY LIFE. I EMBRACE CHANGE, AND CHANGE LOVINGLY EMBRACES ME.”
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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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