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By Silvia Blach
Feng Shui cures have been around for centuries, and as traditional Chinese beliefs put it, these remedies have also been tried and tested for their effectiveness in improving many aspects of life. Even more importantly, Feng Shui has served as an essential guide for many modern homes and businesses, through the use of many Feng Shui enhancers. One such item that every home or office should have is what they call the Feng Shui wind chimes.
The disciplines that fall under Feng Shui are generally concerned about the flow of chi, which is the life energy, in every person or place. To be able to get good luck or good health, there must lie a perfect balance of the life forces that surround you and your home or work place.
According to Feng Shui sources, if there is an imbalance of chi in the body, one can feel unwell or acquire diseases. In addition to that, if an imbalance of chi is present in the business, it may not be very profitable. Feng Shui windchimes, like many other Feng Shui remedies, serve to enhance the flow of chi and harness it to your benefit. Continue reading How to Use Wind Chimes in Feng Shui to Enhance Your Luck
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Keeping your car clean and tidy is obviously good feng shui, for the same reasons that you want to keep your house clean and uncluttered. You would not want burger wrappers and empty water bottles or soft drink cans all over the floor of your house. So why allow them in your car?
If you spend a lot of time in your car, make it a practice to gather up the trash every time you arrive at home or at work, and throw it in a trash bin immediately. That way it never has a chance to build up in your car.
If you tend to accumulate trash in your car, get a trash container, such as a plastic crate or a natural basket that you can secure on the seat beside you or put on the floor in the back seat. Line it with a trash bag and store extra trash bags in the bottom of the crate or basket.
Having a permanent, easy-to-empty trash receptacle is especially important if you or others often eat or drink in your car. Train yourself to put the trash in the crate and to remove the trash bag at the end of each day or week, or sooner if it fills up fast.
Confine the Clutter
If you carry everything you need in your briefcase, purse and/or a tote bag, good for you. However, make sure that your carryalls are not loose on the seat where they can become flying missiles during an emergency quick stop. Continue reading How to Feng Shui Your Car, Pt 2. Keep it Clean
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Feng shui is not usually applied to automobiles. But some of us practically live in our cars. Why not apply feng shui principles and remedies to your car, too?
In automobile feng shui, two things are most important: keeping your car running reliably and safely, and keeping it clean. We will talk about decluttering your car in part 2 of this article. Today the topic is keeping your car in good repair.
Another time, we may talk about selecting a car for good feng shui, and where to store or park your car according to feng shui principles. For now we will talk about applying feng shui principles to the car you already have.
Keeping Your Car in Good Repair
Keeping your car in good repair is basic to good feng shui for your car. No matter how beautiful it is, your car needs to run properly and be reliable.
Putting off repairs can be dangerous. But also, from a feng shui perspective, putting off car repairs creates worry at the back of your mind. Continue reading How to Feng Shui Your Car, Pt 1. Keep it in Good Repair.
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A popular Western conception of feng shui is that’s it’s simply a way to organize and streamline the possessions within your home. However, this ancient technique is more than a way to de-clutter, it’s a symbolic Chinese system of aesthetics that when practiced can bring harmony to your home.
The literal translation of feng shui is “wind and water,” and the practice of feng shui accounts for astronomy, environment, and the natural elements when planning the layout of a building.
Feng shui advises the strategic placement of objects within any given building so they remain in harmony with the surrounding environment and inspire positive energy and balance.
Factors that determine each positive location include the year the individual was born, the surrounding natural environment, and movements of the solar system.
With origins dating back to the third century B.C. during the Han Dynasty in China, feng shui was historically practiced with a compass-style instrument that read the stars and determined the North-South orientations of Chinese cities. Feng shui was viewed as a tool to ensure the health, wealth and prosperity of the imperial dynasties, and is still used today as an element of traditional architecture in China.
The purpose of feng shui in modern culture is to create human environments that harness good qi: the literal translation of qi is “life force energy,” a state that can swing between positive and negative energies according to the structure of your home and its interaction with your surrounding environment. Continue reading Transform Your Personal Space with Feng Shui
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Winter always seems to say…quiet down, rest, and go inward, deep, deeper. Examine the strength and mystery within yourself. It’s time now to refrain from the frantic, rush, rush, rush and assess what is really important! Prioritize and get on tract.
In Feng Shui energy talk, the Water element signified by the color black or dark blue is at its zenith. The Water element is also known as the winter element since it is so prevalent during this time. Its direction is north.
This is a yin element and the number associated with it is the number one (1). Objects that represent water include aquariums and fountains. Animals belonging to this element are the rat and the boar.
The winter months push us humans together. We occupy the same space as before, just a little more closely than before. Our interior space becomes even more ‘energy’ important as we are challenged to share that space and energy. Continue reading Using Feng Shui to Balance the Effect of Winter
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When choosing a property, have a mountain at the back and water features in front
“Mountains govern matters related to human relationships and longevity while water affects one’s financial health and growth,” said the fengshui master. Advised homebuyers to look for properties with these features to enjoy their benefits.
Importance should be placed on the environment, building and personal aspects when buying a property.
Good feng shui is understated, zen-like and clean, urged housebuyers to avoid certain locations which were “unfriendly high tension wires were not just bad for feng shui, but bad for health, too.
One should also avoid places at top of hills, that faces mountains and at lower parts of valleys. Continue reading Learning Feng Shui for Your House
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The feng shui elements are one of the main foundations that feng shui is built upon. The five elements dictate how objects and furniture should be distributed and placed precisely around our home to attract the right type of energy we desire.
Luck in wealth, love, family, careers, health, fame, children and education can all be achieved through correct use of the feng shui elements in your home, it’s a core concept and should be fully understood to benefit from it’s efforts.
Each element has specific colors and location in your home associated with them and we’ll get to those a little later but first, let’s break down rights and wrongs of using the elements in your home.
The Productive and Destructive Cycle of Elements
Productive Cycle
The feng shui elements – water, wood, fire, earth and metal – can be arranged in a cycle where each element is used to create the next in the cycle. By using the correct locations, objects and directions, feng shui takes account of the elemental relationships and can use one element to assist or boost the another, bring greater energy for the life area they’re placed in.
The productive cycle is as follows: Continue reading Feng Shui Elements – The Battle for Balance
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Did you know that popular and extremely effective feng shui techniques are also used in offices and workplaces around the world to attract great wealth and good fortune through sound business feng shui principles?
In fact, in Hong Kong, feng shui practices are heavily enforced through the very building and construction of a business and its premises, to the day to day runnings of business in the workplace, office and meeting rooms. From billionaire Asian business tycoons to the Bank of China to small family owned stores, business feng shui practices are implemented to help acquire greater wealth, fortune, health and happiness.
So maybe it’s time that you put some sound business feng shui into action in your workplace to help you get that raise, bring in more customers, increase your profits or just work better.
Take a look at these business feng shui tips to help point you in the right direction towards greater luck energy in your work life. Continue reading Business Feng Shui Tips to help you Increase Profits, Wealth, Luck and Prosperity
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Whether you’re single, married or just wanting to spice up your current relationship, using tried and true effective feng shui designs in your bedroom will help make your dreams become a reality. Soon you’ll have the energy of the whole universe singing your song, working to make it happen for you.
The southwest corner of your space or bedroom is your love and relationships corner according to the bagua map. Earth is the associated element here and can be activated more by using fire for optimum effect. This will come into lay a little later.
Clear the Space
Effective feng shui designs in your room, or any space for that matter start with clearing the clutter. Remove old, broke, unnecessary objects and furniture that’s been accumulating so that the chi can flow freely through your space. Any blockages will result in restrictive movements of energy which then become stagnant and negative.
A thorough vacuum or mopping will finish the job, clearing your space and subsequently your mind of any problems or worries. It will allow you to prepare for the feng shui mind-set of positive thinking and visualizing your goals that will ultimately help attract that spice into your life.
Make sure you open some windows to let the fresh air come in while you change your bed sheets and pillows, airing them out and ridding them of old stagnant energy and preparing them for new vitalizing chi. Even put on some loud romantic music and help the energy circulate. Remember to remove any and all photos of past relationships, items of sentimental value and letters. Any memories that attach you to the past will keep you there, it’s time to move on up. Continue reading Feng Shui Designs for Attracting Love, Passion and Romance
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Some say that Feng shui history can be traced back to 3,000 years ago, while others say there are records that show it was in practice even up to 5,000 years ago in China. Whether 3,000 or 5,000, it is astonishing to see how the strength of this powerful body of knowledge has spread around the world and how widely used it is to this very day.
Feng Shui (pronounced fung-shway) means wind water but in ancient China, this art was once known as Hum Yue which translates to heavenly path and earthly path respectively. Both these terms describe the power of harnessing energy or chi in the environment.
The Early Years
Feng Shui history books such as The Book of Songs or Shih Ching, first introduced this ancient wisdom and spoke of how it should be practiced. They were documented over many years beginning in the ninth century BC.
During the Han dynasty in China, around 206 BC to 224 AD, the Record of Rites or Li Chi, compiled by Kuo Po, talked about how it could be applied to graves.
It was not until the Sung dynasty, around 960 AD to 1279 that Wang Chi documented on how it could be applied to house building.
Feng Shui Today
Feng shui history credits one particular man for it’s development over the years to what we know it to be today, Kuen Chok. Kuen Chok mastered the art during the Tang dynasty and published many books on its practice, sharing the knowledge that we use to this day. Continue reading Feng Shui History – The Art and Science of 5,000 Years
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