Essential Feng Shui Tips: Feng Shui Kitchens
Feng Shui Kitchens
Feng Shui Definitions
Food symbolizes health and wealth in Feng Shui. When money is flowing, we can afford to buy the best food to sustain good health. Because food bridges these two treasures, special attention is given to the place where food is prepared—the kitchen.
Read MoreEFS Tips: Feng Shui Philosophy- Everything is Alive with Ch’i
Alive with Ch’i
Feng Shui Definitions
The first principle in the Feng Shui philosophy is that every person, place, and thing is alive with Ch’i, or vital energy (see Ch’i). Along with being molecularly alive, our material possessions are subjectively alive with our thoughts, feelings, and associations. This concept is all-inclusive and tends to throw a monkey wrench into how we’ve viewed the world to date. It changes our physical existence from a world “that” is largely inanimate to a world “who” is completely alive.
Read MoreEFS Tips: Closets, Drawers, and Cabinets
Feng Shui Definitions: Closets, drawers, and cabinets
Closets, drawers, and cabinets are often the clutter hideaways and stagnant backwaters of a home. They can negatively affecting the flow of Ch’i throughout. The house may look orderly until you open a closet or drawer- then all clutter breaks loose! There’s no place to hide in Feng Shui! The organization and pleasing arrangement of closets, drawers, and cabinets is as important as the organization and arrangement of your living room.
Please don’t be overwhelmed. Take it one spot at a time. Keep the items only if your answers are positive! If not, let them go, knowing the Ch’i in your entire home—and your life—will benefit (see decluttering guidelines).
Read MoreEssential Feng Shui Tips: Gardens
Feng Shui Definitions: Gardens
Our gardens and landscaped areas are our personal passports into nature. They keep us connected to the natural rhythms of life, while replenishing and sustaining the Ch’i that meanders through our homes. Walk by a house without landscaping and you understand what a difference it makes. Whether your home has a green lawn with trees or an extensive flower and vegetable garden, keep it healthy and beautiful. Vibrant nature in your yard attracts vibrant Ch’i into your home.
Read MoreEssential Feng Shui Tips: Front Entrances
Feng Shui Definitions
The area leading up to your front door, the threshold itself, and the area immediately inside the house, are all part of your front entrance. Front entrances are the place of first impressions, and the primary place where vital Ch’i enters your home. Ideally, your front entrance is “entrancing,” symbolizing your desire to welcome others into your home. Roll out the welcome mat and make your front entrance fabulous. In so doing, you’ll attract an abundance of nourishing Ch’i into your home.
Read MoreEssential Feng Shui Tips: Cleansing
Feng Shui Definitions
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. Many people feel this when they move into homes that were previously occupied and are sensitive enough to feel the unsettling energy of a former owner’s tragedy or unhappiness. In these cases, it’s important to “deep-clean” the space in question.
- When moving into a home that has previously been occupied, be sure to have the carpets cleaned and the walls painted. In most cases, this neutralizes the energy of the people who lived there before you and puts your personal signature in your “new” home.
- Spray a cleansing mist along the baseboards and into all the corners to revitalize a space. Cleansing mists contain citrus oil and can be purchased where health food and aromatherapy products are sold. Or make your own by adding a couple of drops of orange or lemon essential oils to an atomizer filled with water.
- Most Feng Shui practitioners are trained to energetically cleanse homes. In extreme cases, when ghosts or poltergeists are suspected, you will need the expertise of someone who specializes in exorcism. In most cases, however, you can deep-clean a space quite well on your own.
- Be sure to bless your home after a cleansing.
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