Feng shui is most of all about having a safe and happy home. Many factors contribute to that, including relationships and financial security (hence feng shui for business). But make no mistake, feng shui is about keeping your home and family secure. That is the real purpose of all those beautiful, mystical [...]]]>

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Feng shui is most of all about having a safe and happy home. Many factors contribute to that, including relationships and financial security (hence feng shui for business). But make no mistake, feng shui is about keeping your home and family secure. That is the real purpose of all those beautiful, mystical remedies.

Many people write as though feng shui is mostly a mystical or metaphysical discipline. But when you look closely at feng shui practices, many of them are quite practical, either physically or psychologically—sometimes both. For example, arranging the kitchen to ensure that the cook is not startled while cooking, arranging furniture so that the host always sits facing the entrance, and clearing out clutter to keep a serene atmosphere.

Securing your home against thieves or other intruders is one of the most important concerns. For good feng shui you must feel safe and be safe. Both practically and psychologically, burglar alarms from home security team are good feng shui. That makes the worth learning about and well worth investing in.

Installation is generally free or inexpensive. In some cases you can even do the installation yourself. Because good feng shui is all about peace of mind and security, you may want to look into the home security alarm options available to you. Here is a link to some home security selection tips. It is well worth taking some time to check them out.

A happy home is safe, secure, and peaceful and you can make it so. That is, after all, the purpose of feng shui.

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There always seems to be so much to do and never enough time in the day to do what needs done. It is Friday the work week is almost over and I am still washing clothes and doing dishes and cleaning the house. All of my “chores” need to be done [...]]]>

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There always seems to be so much to do and never enough time in the day to do what needs done. It is Friday the work week is almost over and I am still washing clothes and doing dishes and cleaning the house. All of my “chores” need to be done before I leave to meet my sister for dinner at this new Chinese restaurant called Tyes Dynasty that just opened up a week ago.

Finally after 3 hrs of pouring laundry detergent the last load of laundry is done and the dishwasher is started. As I enter in the code to my adt security home alarm system on the way out the door I just know that I forgot something, oh well. I arrive at the restaurant a little less frazzled and ready for a good Chinese meal. My sister Tina is already here and waiting for me at the table. After a little small talk we order the Tyes spicy chicken and the chow mien and resume our conversation while waiting for our food. I don’t even think I got out a “so,” to Tina and the food was already at our table. It was OK, the spicy chicken was very spicy, too spicy for my liking. The rice was pretty good, but it is rice after all. After a mediocre meal and deciding to cross this place off of our list of return restaurants we head back to my place to talk the night away the way only sisters can.

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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 [...]]]>

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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.

Feng Shui windchimes, as many people would initially see them, are attractive and hold aesthetic value as decorations in the home. Not only that, but wind chimes produce tones that are soothing and relaxing.

Even after a long and tiring day at work, one will definitely feel more refreshed and calmed when the tinkling sounds of windchimes are heard. However, as Feng Shui products, wind chimes are beyond just beautiful home décor or soothing music makers.

Feng Shui windchimes help distribute the flow of chi into your home in an even or balanced fashion, because too little or too much chi in one area is generally not ideal. For instance, if a street begins or ends facing the front door of the house, there is too much strong chi coming in.

Placing Feng Shui wind chimes will help soften the chi and allow it to enter the house gradually. Here is another example, if a portion of your home is lower than other parts, such as the patio or a deck, chi does not easily flow there. As Feng Shui cures, you can bring more chi into this part of your house by hanging windchimes outdoors.

Feng Shui wind chimes are made from various materials, and you can select them based on how attractive they are, their size, and the quality of sound they produce. Some Feng Shui items can be made of metal, wood, ceramics, clay, and others. You may also do additional reading or consult a practitioner to find the most appropriate Feng Shui enhancers for your home.

You can find various Feng Shui items, charms, enhancers, and cures when you visit a Feng Shui store near you. Aside from checking out these stores, lots of Feng Shui products have been made available online, to give the added convenience of easy payments and fast deliveries.

About the Author Www.buy-fengshui.com is an online Feng Shui Store with over 2000 Feng Shui cures. We carry a wide variety of Feng Shui Windchimes.

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Building your own dream home can be very exciting, especially if you decide to use feng shui architecture techniques to help you do it. You’ll be able to plan, layout and build your entire home in the most optimal way that encourages positive energy flow around in every room. The [...]]]>

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Building your own dream home can be very exciting, especially if you decide to use feng shui architecture techniques to help you do it. You’ll be able to plan, layout and build your entire home in the most optimal way that encourages positive energy flow around in every room. The foundations of your life-long happiness and fortune starts right here!

The Shape of Your House

If possible, you should choose to build a home that’s a regular square or rectangular shape. These allow symmetry and balance in the house shape. Stay away from irregular shapes like U or L shapes where corners are ‘missing’ that would otherwise complete it and make it a regular shape. Irregular shapes have more potential to cause money or marriage problems.

Although very difficult and expensive to fix, these shaped houses can be corrected or remedied using feng shui architecture cures like mirrors or lights. They should be placed in the ‘missing’ corners to give the illusion of a complete shape, an extension of the home.

The Layout of Your Rooms

Layouts that are more regular in shape we mentioned earlier are much more favored in feng shui architecture. The size of each room should also be proportionate to each other and not too  different in size. High ceilings should be high enough not to feel cramped but not too high that you feel overpowered. They should also be proportionate to the rest of the whole house.

Living Room layout

A large sized room that’s open and welcoming would be the ideal living room to enhance the good chi and keep it flowing around the space. Living rooms should never be higher than any other room, like the kitchen and dining rooms because Sheng Chi (positive energy) of the occupants will attach itself to your guests instead.

Kitchen Layout

Feng shui architecture suggests that your kitchen be located on the right side of the house, next to the family dining room. Disagreements and arguments between your family will ensue if it’s too far away from the dining room, especially between children and parents.

A large mirror in the dining room that reflects the bounty or food on the table is great for wealth luck and good fortune. Make sure it isn’t hanging too low that it visually cuts off the heads of the reflections of people in it.

Layouts of your Bathroom and Toilets

Make sure that there are no doors facing either of these areas. More importantly, you should position the toilet away from the view when looking in from outside the bathroom.

The wealth and prosperity energy of you and your family can be flushed away so be sure to close the bathroom doors at all times. Avoid having them in the north areas of your home, where career energy is focused so opportunities can’t be missed and flushed away.

In your houses layout of all the rooms, feng shui architecture practices strongly advise to avoid direct lines from one entrance to the next. This will encourage the flow of positive chi around your entire home, freely and smoothly.

The Ins and Outs of Your Doors

Great significance is put on the main entrance to your home in feng shui architecture. The door should be of a solid build, of proportionate shape and size in relation to the rest of your house and open inwards.

The hallway it opens into should be bright, wide and welcoming and the door must be oriented correctly with entire house. Remember these feng shui architecture tips when planning the space for your main door as any shifts from these guidelines can bring lots of bad energy for the people living there.

Nothing should serve as a block in front of the main door so clear the space and let the chi flow freely inwards. Back doors that line up exactly with front doors simply mean that your positive energy and luck will come straight in and flow straight out, which after all of your hard construction work, would be the last thing you want.

So take precautions in your feng shui architecture planning to see that this doesn’t happen to you, keep the energy flowing around so that it can work positively for you in your home, life and let you enjoy the benefits it brings.

Your Windows

Regularly shaped windows that open outwards are best to use in your home. Inward opening windows symbolize bad luck for your career or wealth.

Windows that slide up or down or even have a offensive view like a brick wall or any protruding objects should also be avoided, so if possible change their location before construction starts.

Be careful not to add too may windows as this too can be harmful. Disagreements with other family members, most between parents and children will follow so don’t plan for too many windows.

If you’re reading this and have too many windows, don’t start bricking them up just yet, you can use hanging wind chimes or crystals to cure the issue, another great feng shui architecture tip.

The Stairs

Homes with levels of 2 or more should consider having interlinking staircases that are broad and curve gracefully, from the first floor the the main floor for example, and ideally into a large hall.

Spiral staircase should be avoided all together. Make sure that they don’t start from the main door to your house as this will allow the chi in your home to flow right out. Stair steps should not have gaps between them as it symbolizes money flowing out.

Rounded, smooth edged banisters on the stairs are preferred along with good lighting throughout the staircase to bring good energy to the upstairs sleeping areas.

These great feng shui architecture tips will help you to incorporate simple but very effective principles into the plan of your dream home. It’s time to start building the right way, for a lifetime of health, wealth and good fortune!

Lin Mai is a feng shui enthusiast and author. Visit Way to Feng Shui for more tips on feng shui architecture so you can correctly design the building blocks of your future success!

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These feng shui bedroom tips will provide you with some extremely effective ideas to help harmonize and encourage positive energy flow around room of rest.

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These feng shui bedroom tips will provide you with some extremely effective ideas to help harmonize and encourage positive energy flow around room of rest.

A huge amount of time is spent in our bedrooms and probably a high percentage of that is spent sleeping. Overall, it accounts for at least one third of our whole life!

Our bedrooms are a place to rest and relax whether we share the space or live alone. It should be a comfortable place, peaceful, a hiding place from the outside stresses of the world and everyday worries, even a place of romance.

Take some time to follow along with these great feng shui bedroom tips to help make your bedroom your favorite place in the whole house!

Feng Shui Bedroom Tips: #1
Cluttered Space, Cluttered Mind

A well known and must-do rule when using feng shui in any area is to get rid of that clutter. It gathers and piles up over time when we put things off, rush around, keep sentimental items around us or if we’re just plain lazy.

It happens to us all, but realizing that scattered piled up clutter and mess creates a energy trap that stagnates the flow of positive energy causing shar chi or bad energy should be enough for you to take control  of it and clear that clutter away.

It basically serves as a blocking force when energy is trying to flow, stopping it and turning it bad. If it can’t flow, the positive energy diminishes. It can weigh mentally and physically on us in our bedroom, causing restless worrying and a unsettled subconscious.

So open that window, get some fresh air and natural light into the room and clear that clutter, letting the good energy flow its way through. Don’t forget about all the mess under the bed too.

Find a good storage spot for it or get rid of it. In feng shui, bedroom tips like these will not only help make your room a nicer, more inviting place to be, but it will do the same for your mind. Clear the clutter and clear your mind.

Feng Shui Bedroom Tips: #2
Where Should I Sleep?

If you have a full view of the windows and entrance to your room when lying on your bed, you’re off to a great start to the correct feng shui position. Behind you should be a solid wall that symbolizes support and security for you.

Never ever position your bed facing your door so your head, feet and doorway are in one straight line. This is known as the coffin position and will interfere with your sleep with it’s negative energy patterns.

Other things that can interfere with restful sleep are construction beams crossing above you, even mirrors, hanging mobiles or anything else that can hang over the bed. They can drain you of energy and take away those precious hours of rest we need to be healthy.

If these kind of things exist in your home and can’t be avoided you should look at employing some feng shui cures to counterbalance this bad energy. You can find more information on this on my website.

Feng Shui Bedroom Tips: #3
Mirror Mirror on the Wall

Mirrors have reflective qualities that when used in feng shui can help to bounce energy, either good or bad around your space either out of the door or back into the room. In your bedroom however, reflective energy from mirrors will disturb your sleep. Although not recommended, if you do have a mirror in your room, make sure that it doesn’t reflect you when you’re lying on your bed, resting.

If you share your bed with your partner, it’s important that the mirror doesn’t reflect th bed, you or your partner. This symbolizes more than two people in your relationship and can promote infidelity. It’s best to remove the mirrors that break these rules to encourage a healthy, positive bedroom environment.

Feng Shui Bedroom Tips: #4
No Electrics in the Bedroom

In a harmonized feng shui bedroom, there should ideally be no electrical appliances to be seen. They radiate electromagnetic frequencies even when they’re switched off and can lead to restless sleep. Some appliances seem like essentials to a room but if you do have them, try to minimize the amount you have.

Put batteries in your clock radio and get rid of that TV and computer, the bedroom is no place for these even though it seems very convenient. Remove any plugs from their sockets when you’re not using them and keep your head away from any outlets, at least two meters.

Feng Shui Bedroom Tips: #5
Colors, Decoration and Furniture

Strong, bright and bold colors in the bedroom are too much for the bedroom and will unbalance the energy leading to sleep problems. Calming colors and tones are much preferred to reflect the essence of the bedroom, a resting place.

If you have a small room, use even lighter tones to give the illusion of a larger space. Larger rooms should make use of color tones that are a little darker, maybe only on particular walls to help make the space more cozy and comfortable.

Most bedrooms are not overly large, and adding furniture in there can lead to lots of blocked and stagnant energy which is the last thing we want. Limit the pieces of furniture in there, keep things in positions that complement the bed and that don’t display poison arrows or sharp corners.

Round edged tables and chairs for example would be much better. In the same light, bookshelves should also be avoided in the bedroom because of their protruding qualities. Although fresh flowers may seem like a great idea in the bedroom, they will stimulate energy in the room which will not help you sleep soundly.

The same goes for aquariums with moving water features or even pictures of water that will all contribute to vitalizing the energy disrupting your rest.

The feng shui bedroom tips we’ve shows here will not only create a peaceful space, physically and mentally, but it’ll also give you long lasting hassle-free sleep in your intimate personal place of rest.

Use these great feng shui bedroom tips wisely and they’ll help you to create your very own private sanctuary, your new favorite room in the entire house.

Sleep well!

Lin Mai is a feng shui enthusiast and author. Visit Way to Feng Shui to find more great feng shui bedroom tips you can use right now!

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Modern feng shui is actually considered as environmental design, in the sense that it gets energy from the environment to benefit us by enhancing our lives.

However, to achieve maximum results, you have to learn what the basic areas are, what each of them represent and symbolize, and how to decorate each area accordingly in your home, office or garden, which is where a feng shui manual proves to be very helpful.

The design aspect of feng shui has been studied thoroughly and cataloged by masters from thousands of years ago. These design experts made sure to pay utmost attention to what kinds of layouts promote harmony in people’s lives.

They researched and observed thousands of homes and found each element in every home that they felt worked well in benefiting the occupants of the house and have documented many findings that can be found in feng shui manuals of today.

The job of a design expert or master is to make sure that your home or office is conducive to relaxation and work accordingly. They go by rules to ensure that balance and harmony are attained.Most people who make use of this ancient art end up surprised at how incorporating these principles bring about such positive impact in their lives. Feng shui teaches you how to arrange and design your space and environment to attract and provide you with the right balance and harmony. Simple things like positioning your desk at a certain angle can be an indication of how much chi and harmony you can feel in that space.

In more depth, the details of such actions show an integration of the five elements—earth, wind, water, fire, wood—and yin-yang forces to harness the energy of the environment. Both space and user are analyzed, and knowledge of the user’s personal cosmic energy field is analyzed. Your cosmic flow, the effect that your physical environment has on you and how this melds together is also taken into account.

Having a feng shui manual in hand will help you follow the right way to balance these elements. The correct guidance you need to rearrange your home or office (or any other environment, for that fact) so that they achieve and attain balance, rather than excess. This comes in handy with respect to the use of cures—remember that too much of something will tend to yield bad results rather than good ones.

Bagua wheels are also used heavily when considering the design of a feng shui friendly home. This might seem a little unusual for Western design, which sees home ornamentation and decor as just a way of supplementing the visual aspect of a space.

In many cases, it is an extremely valuable tool and your feng shui manual to tell you how to use the bagua map (or the compass method) to determine where things should be placed in your home and also what should be placed in your home for maximum benefits of the area it is targeting, while minimizing or eliminating its negative energy.

Many think that to employ these techniques in your home, you have to go through great lengths like completely rearranging furniture and renovating your home. This might be a little hard to deal with, especially if the instruction and direction is coming from some “mystical” feng shui expert.

Many forget that it’s meant to be practical, and that there is in fact, a very practical side to it, which can be learned and kept at your side as a reference in the form of your feng shui manual. In it’s simplest form, it’s setting aside places in your home, each assigned to a specific purpose or goal and enhancing that area using the correct feng shui principles.

Lin Mai is a Feng Shui enthusiast. She owns and maintains Way To Feng Shui where you can find her entire feng shui manual for uncovering amazing secrets you can use right now to enhance your life.

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Using natural stones are a popular cure to help change your life, most of which are feng shui crystals and geodes and quartz. Here are a few examples of stones that feng shui considers very powerful in achieving chi and harmony in your life:

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Using natural stones are a popular cure to help change your life, most of which are feng shui crystals and geodes and quartz. Here are a few examples of stones that feng shui considers very powerful in achieving chi and harmony in your life:

Citrine is a powerful healing quartz. Brown citrine makes good grounding stones, while orange ones make good balance stones. Yellow citrines are supposed to be good if concentrated on the solar plexus energies. Citrine is said to be especially lucky for business.

Yitriam is a fluorite that increases mental clarity and concentration. It is a lustrous stone in either violet, gray, red-brown, green, yellow or brown. It is good for the nourishment of relationships, so that couples have a more objective viewpoint in dealing with issues. It is also good for increasing your wealth and promoting self-confidence.Aventurine is a green healing stone made to soothe your emotions or a troubled heart. It is also said to be good for attracting money or good luck.

Obsidian brings out one’s hidden talents. It brings you energy that causes you to work towards achieving worldly success and clears negative energies.

Another effective cure is to wear a feng shui crystal bracelet of small stones corresponding to each chakra point in your body. This will help especially if you have an ailment relating to one or many of the seven chakras. Use the following guide to determine what color stones are best for your chakra points:

• The Crown – White, violet or clear
• The Third Eye – Dark blue or indigo
• The Throat – Light blue
• The Heart – Green or pink
• The Solar Plexus – Yellow
• The Sacral – Orange
• The Base – Red, gray or black

You can also substitute semiprecious stones if you have a hard time finding crystal. These will emit the same positive energy as natural feng shui crystals.

Certain stone cures or items made of stone have special meaning in the practice of feng shui. Crystals like rose quartz are considered the stone of lovers. Use this stone to attract a partner or strengthen your relationship with a loved one. To improve marital and love relationships, decorate the southwest area of your home with small stones or pebbles.

Improve your children’s health and well being by placing stones in the west corner of your living room. Earth elements like stones are most useful for this purpose.

Place small stone spheres or crystals in the northeast area of your home to improve your education, meditation and spirituality.

If you have issues relating to the past or with authority—parents, bosses, etc.—use various small stones with the following purposes: Smoky quartz releases negativity associated with the past, Azurite helps you to understand the past, Rose quartz can be used to make peace with and forgive the past.

The use of feng shui crystals and stones need not be confined with home or office decoration and ornamentation. You can also use these charms or cures as simple accessories and personal embellishments which will have the exactly same effect.

Lin Mai is a Feng Shui enthusiast and author. Visit Way To Feng Shui for more expert advice advice on using feng shui crystals and many other techniques inside or outside your home to change your life!

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