Invite Happiness Into The Home
With Feng Shui Home Decorating
Feng Shui home decorating (pronounced fung shway) is the ancient Chinese theory of placement and has been practiced for thousands of years.
Feng Shui home decorating revolves around the belief that there is a constant flow of life-giving energy or chi in a person's surroundings.
We can invite health, harmony and happiness into our life by manipulating that energy by purposefully arranging our furnishings and possessions.
The colors, shape and placement of each and every object in your home environment can play a major role in how smoothly things go in our everyday lives.
Items that block or interfere with that energy such as clutter, sharp angles or poorly placed furnishings are believed to cause physical and spiritual problems and should be avoided.
The flow of the chi is unique to every home and space.
Maximize the flow of positive energy into your environment by getting rid of clutter.
(I don't mean to just pile the stuff in drawers and the closets!)
Clutter is a distraction and interrupts the energy flow throughout the home and compromises your well being.
If you have broken items, have them fixed and throw out all unused and unsuitable items.
Draw up an energy map of feng shui, known as a bagua to work out what you need to keep and possibly rearrange.
The bagua is the template of life activity and a tool used to evaluate the spaces you occupy.
This template is divided into nine different areas, each representing a different life situation.
These areas are spatially represented by areas in your living quarters.
The possessions that fill these spaces affect the energy there and can be moved to bring about change.
To understand the map, imagine you are looking at a clock.
- 12:00 represents fame & reputation, how you are perceived by others, integrity and honesty
- 1:00 represents relationships & love, balance this part of the home for harmony in relationships of all kinds
- 3:00 represents creativity & children, associated with children yours or not, and thinking creatively
- 4:00 represents helpful people & travel, calling upon someone for help and support and travel to go smoothly
- 6:00 represents career, linked to your path in life
- 7:00 represents skills & knowledge, affects how you learn and use knowledge
- 9:00 represents family, associated with family issues
- 10:00 represents prosperity & wealth, having money for the good things and personal blessings
The center of the feng shui map, which translates to the middle of the home, is called unity. It is important for maintaining health and impacts all of the other life situations.
Place the template over the blueprint of your home or the plan of one room, orienting it so the front door or main entrance into the room is at the bottom, (6:00 section or career) This shows how the life areas correlate to the floor plan of your home.
Sometimes a whole section of the bagua is missing from the building (especially if it is L-shaped) and is considered bad feng shui.
For example if the wealth area is missing, it could explain why you may have been having financial problems.
There are solutions to fix the problem however.
Place a mirror so that it appears to extend the room in that particular direction of the missing area.
Adding pleasant sounds such as moving water, bells and wind chimes or placing light will activate a missing chi, even if placed outside in the missing area.
These remedies or cures, re balance the energy flow and allow you to experience good luck previously denied to you.
Feng shui home decorating can also have a adverse effect caused by negative energy know as cutting chi.
It is best to avoid sharp-cornered objects, excessive overhead lights and strong drafts.
Once you have defended yourself against harmful influences you can start to activate areas of the bagua to improve specific areas of your life by adding enhancements to invite good fortune.
Moving objects like mobiles, wind chimes, or an indoor fountain or aquarium, light, plants, fresh flowers, bells or a bamboo flutes are all favorable.
Light can come from candles, electric lamps and even reflected light that comes from a mirror or crystals.
You only need to make the most subtle alterations to generate more beneficial energy flow to achieve positive results and to grow in all areas of your life.
Your motivation should be a desire to bring about change for the better.
With feng shui home decorating there is no final destination just the journey.
Feng Shui Home Decorating
Relationship with your Environment
- Arrange furniture so you can face the doors while sitting. This will help to increase comfort in your environment when you don't face a wall.
- Try putting a mirror up at the end of a hallway. This helps give the illusion that it is not a dead end.
- Oil doors or cabinets that squeak in order to reduce noise.
- Close your toilet seat lid so your “money” doesn't get flushed away.
- Dining tables should have an even number of chairs around them, even numbers are a sign of good luck.
Never leave only one chair, it is a symbol of loneliness.
- Add wind chimes to regulate energy in the space around you and provide simple music with every breeze.
- Consider a small fountain. The sound of constant movement of water adds tranquility to the home.
- The warm glow of candles spread energy and life around a room.
- Place your bed on a solid wall to promote great rest. Never have your feet facing directly in line with the door. This is called the "coffin" position because the dead are removed feet first.
- Place a mirror behind the stove to symbolically double the burners. It is considered a sign of prosperity because of the illusion of an abundance of food. The dining room too, hang a mirror.
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