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.
Read MoreEssential Feng Shui Tips: Living Rooms
Living Rooms
Feng Shui Definitions
Living rooms are usually the first room you see when you walk through the front door of a house. It’s meant for “living,” and symbolizes your public, social self. Display the art, colors, collections, and interests that you enjoy. Whether it’s Tiffany lamps, photographs, or handcrafted furniture, show your world who you are and what turns you on.
Read MoreEssential Feng Shui Tips: Mirrors
Because mirrors “wake up” a room, they belong in active rooms such as the living room, family room, home office, bathroom, and kitchen. This same quality usually makes mirrors too active for dining rooms and bedrooms.
Read MoreEssential Feng Shui Tips: Storing the Technology
Locate televisions and stereos in furniture with doors so they can disappear from sight whenever you wish. This enhances the conversation, relaxation, and serenity in your home, and assures that you, not the equipment, are the master of the house.
Read MoreEssential Feng Shui Tips: Having a View of the Door
Position your primary seating – a sofa for instance – so that you can see the door while seated there. Then, arrange other seating such as love seats and chairs so that you have at least a peripheral view of the door. When this is not possible, strategically place a mirror to reflect a view of the door.
Read MoreEssential Feng Shui Tips: Stashing the TV
One couple had decided that when their TV was not in plain view, they watched it less. For them, the best part was that the temptation to eat “in front of the tube” had greatly diminished. Now, instead of TV newscasters joining them every night for dinner, they joined each other to catch up on the day, and in doing so, they relaxed more and experienced indigestion less.
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