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.

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.

Feng Shui Definitions: Cleansing

Posted by Liv Kellgren on Jul 19, 2012 in Eliminating Clutter, Feng Shui Definition, Five Elements, Space Clearing | 2 comments

Cleaning our homes removes not only dirt and clutter, but also stagnant, unhealthy energy. We all know what a difference living in a clean house makes. Still, there are times when a room looks clean but doesn’t feel clean. There’s a stale, sticky, or spooky feeling that seems to cling to the room.

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 Feng Shui: Everything is Changing

Posted by Liv Kellgren on Jul 13, 2012 in Ch'i, Feng Shui Definition, Inner Feng Shui | Comments Off on Inner Feng Shui: Everything is Changing

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.

Inner Feng Shui: Everything is Connected

Posted by Liv Kellgren on Jul 13, 2012 in Ch'i, Feng Shui Definition, Inner Feng Shui | Comments Off on Inner Feng Shui: Everything is Connected

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.