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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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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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.

In addition to the placement of objects and furniture within your home, there are products and simple techniques that will help you create balance in your home.

Wind chimes are an instrumental component of feng shui, however they must be strategically placed. The sound of a wind chime is believed to activate or enliven the Chi or “energy” in an area, and the melodic sound of a wind chime will subtly alter your own mood, which in turn will enhance the energy and peace of your environment.

Choose wind chimes that correspond to the size of your space—choose a smaller chime for offices and bedrooms and large wind chimes for open outdoor spaces. Use wind chimes made from a material that corresponds to each area’s element. For example, a southeastern room corresponds to the element wood, so you would want to use a wooden wind chime in that room.

Gongs are an alternative to wind chimes that also evoke scintillating sound and counteract negative Chi.

Arbors and trellises can be used to inspire balance in the gardens and recreational areas outside your home. Climbing vines can be trained around the lattices of a trellis, which blends nature with the structures in your backyard so the two elements live in harmony together.

Arbors are also an excellent way to create a reflective retreat outside your home—a place where you can sit peacefully with a good book or contemplate the events of the day. Alternately, garden fountains are a wonderful way to bring the soothing sound of nature indoors.

Consider a small indoor fountain for placement on a dining table or dresser to maximize the flow of life energy and activate positive Chi indoors.

Tips for practicing feng shui in your home:

1. Fill your rooms with natural light. Use light-colored or sheer curtains and open the windows often for fresh air that will energize each room.
2. Study the five elements of feng shui: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water, and learn how to use each material and its colors appropriately in various rooms of your home to balance the energy in your environment.
3. Be mindful of your bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen. The placement of objects in these three key areas is inherently connected to your health and well-being.
4. Keep doorways and doorsteps free of shoes and clutter so good Chi may travel freely throughout your home.
5. Decorate with the color red sparingly, as it represents the element of fire and could bring undue stress to your home, and accent each room with live plants to feel the yang chi of joy in every indoor space.

Laura Wasserman is a freelance writer located in Oakland, CA. In addition to freelancing for Outdora, Laura writes editorials about the neighborhoods of Oakland as an Oakland Community Examiner at Examiner.com.

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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.

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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.

This is an opportune time to critically survey the space that the family will share. Make certain that all the Feng Shui 101 basics have been accomplished.  Clean and polish that space! (A complete and thorough housecleaning and straightening with ruthless editing of items is absolutely necessary if energy is to flow in an auspicious manner)

This month the five elements are in the following configuration:

Fire is weakest energy (Extreme Yang energy)
Water is the strongest energy (Extreme Yin energy)
Metal is a waning/weak energy (Yin energy)
Wood energy is born (Yang energy)
Earth energy is strong (Yin energy)

The emotional elements of the water element, which is very strong right now, is that of willpower, magnetism, sensitivity, wisdom, persuasiveness and the ability to focus the mind.  It assists in consolidation, revelation and knowledge and its archetype is the philosopher.  The associated planet is Mercury.

If water is your nourishing element and you do not have a good balance in your Feng Shui assessment, bring water elements into your environment. Since the water element is VERY strong right now, don’t overdo a good thing!  Add a fishbowl, aquarium, irregular shaped glass coffee table, artwork whose predominate color is dark blue or black.

If you have TOO much water, then balance your environment with the energies that will stabilize and balance the water energy.  Fire elements: candles, red triangular shaped object, reds, pinks, oranges in fabrics/ tablecloths, light up that fireplace!

The fire energy and element are at their weakest now, so using Fire energy suggestions are an excellent thing to include in your environment.  You are bringing in and balancing what nature is taking away, thus creating a more harmonious and flowing energy pattern.

Another energy that will soak up some of that water energy is the Wood element. To add wood to your environment bring in a live plant or two. (Some of my plants come inside this time of year.)

Polish up a forgotten wood piece in the attic or basement, use striped fabric or fabric with a floral design.  Wood sculptures, wooden frames on pictures/photos or use wood colors.

The archetype for wood is the pioneer (makes sense, doesn’t it!) The associated planet is Jupiter.

Another element that will help to balance all that water is the earth element. Get out your pottery, concrete/brick type of ornaments, if you have brass objects use them to balance the water element.

Ceramic tile, ceramic drawer pulls, carved stone sculptures and fabric in earth tones will work wonders in balancing the water energy.  The archetype for the earth element is the peacemaker.  The associate planet is Saturn.

I personally have a close association with the water element. I have worked diligently to bring my environment into balance.

Powerful water has been an issue here at my old historic home. There is no basement ….In the 1800’s,( my house dates back to 1804) land was settled where water and animal life were plentiful. I have spent 26 years here.  The gardens and surrounding shrubs and trees have been added to balance all the water that exists here.

In my seasonal table articles I reference that the dining room in is the North, a water element direction, so a large wood table and wood chairs were selected for that space. The brick floor was selected, a large stone fireplace was selected. Wood built-in bookcases were selected.

Wood corner cabinets and side tables were selected in order to balance the extreme and powerful force of the water element. The color, green, associated with wood was selected as a wall color.

On the exterior, an additional garden was added with wood arbor, gate and fencing. Stone walkways meander through the space.

Are you getting a true picture of how much water I have had to balance? If you could have seen the geyser shooting out of the fire pit, perhaps you’d begin to understand the power of water.

From time to time the water finds a tiny crack or crevice that wasn’t recently caulked and finds a way to let me know that the willful, persuasive force of the North is still present. I stand in awe and appreciation of the Water element and its energy!!

Elyssa Baxter is a Feng Shui Expert and Master Gardener. Combining her knowledge and talents, Elyssa provides Feng Shui Assessments and consultations to individuals for themselves, their homes and their gardens, as well as to businesses. Feng Shui is the movement of energy which she designs for the client using color, placement, simplicity of style, balance and harmony to positively affect the recipients. She also consults for events, such as weddings using the couple’s Feng Shui Assessments. What a great way to start a life together!

Visit Elyssa at http://www.theempressfengshui.com to learn practical everyday Feng Shui tips for every season, the Holidays, Home and Hearth, Garden and Self.

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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.

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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:

Water > produces > wood > makes > fire > produces > earth > creates > metal > makes > water and so on.

Example: Out of all the feng shui elements, water is the strongest representative of your wealth energy, which is located in the southeast area of your home or space.

Water related items should feature in your wealth area to energize it and attract more of it. In the productive cycle, metal is the elements that makes water and so metal objects can also be placed in the area to boost the wealth area. Water is the main element and so be sure it isn’t   overpowered too much by the metal.

Destructive Cycle

In the same way, if a destructive relationship of feng shui elements exists in the same location, this can bring about negative results which will harm your good intentions for the area. Most of the time, people unknowingly already have conflicting elements in the wrong locations which is why their wealth, career or any other area of life is suffering.

The destructive cycle is as follows:

Wood > devours > earth > destroys > water > extinguishes > fire > consumes > metal > demolishes > wood and so on.

Example: As mentioned above your wealth corners main element is water. Earth destroys water in the destructive cycle shown above and so having any objects related to earth would devastate the positive effects of your water element, therefore your wealth.

Things like ceramic pots, pictures of land or globes etc and will need to be removed before good wealth energy can flow freely into your life, unrestricted by the earth element.

Elemental Properties

For your reference, note the following relationships each element has with colors, locations (according to the bagua map) and objects in your home:

Wood – Green shades – East – Paper, Plants, Furniture, Pictures of Wood etc
Water – Blue or Black shades – North – Fountains, Aquariums, Pictures of Water etc
Fire – Red shades – South – Bright lights, Fireplaces, Candles, Pictures of Fire
Metal – Metallic colors, Gold, Silver, White – West – Coins, Jewelry, Wind chimes, Pictures of Metal etc
Earth – Brown shades – Center – Pots, Flowers, Ceramics, Globes, Pictures of Earth etc

Knowledge of the feng shui elements and their cycles help you to utilize the energy you need, and can balance out the destructive energy you don’t. Balance is the always the key when using the elements, they can even be used to correct any existing elemental and location problem you have in your home.

Sometimes, structural things like fireplaces can’t simply be moved. They’d naturally represent fire and if they’re in the wrong location for that particular element, you can use water based objects to destroy the fires negative effects and again, balance out the energy.

A firm understanding of the feng shui elements and how they work will be key to help you benefit from all the great things that feng shui can bring you and your family. Wealth, health and happiness can soon be all yours when you combine all of your feng shui knowledge to build a life-time of well being and good fortune!

Lin Mai is a feng shui enthusiast and author. Visit Way to Feng Shui to start using feng shui elements to bring you all you desire!

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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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Feng shui cures and remedy items may not be too hard to find if you have a lot of  time to shop, and you live in an big city with a large, thriving Chinatown. Still, it takes time and work to round up exactly what you need.

Last post, I wrote about feng shui door guardians and where to find them, but there are a lot of other important feng shui remedies that are even harder to find. Until now.

I just ran across a search engine for shopping, called ShopWiki. It searches the whole web for you, not just the sites of advertisers, and displays lists and photos of whatever you need, in a wide range of prices.

This is great news for feng shui fans. For example, if you need a red sofa, where do you look? I had never seen a red sofa in a store, but in one search I found dozens, ranging in price from about $60 for a kid-size fold-out foam sofa to magnificent red leather sofas for about $1500.

What if you need a round, white mirror, symbolizing the element of metal? Easy. You can find dozens of round white mirrors, and many other accessories, in many different styles and sizes, at many different prices.

Need a feng shui (octagonal) mirror? Of course there are the small red and green-framed bagua mirrors, but I also found, for example, elegant octagonal wood-framed mirrors for a subtle and beautiful feng shui cure that would blend into any decor without calling attention itself.

Red accent pieces, octagon-shaped tables, peach-colored sheets, peony images, and many other feng shui cures are now easy to find, without even leaving home. Whew! I even found inexpensive sets of bamboo flutes (a classic remedy for exposed ceiling beams and badly angled ceilings).

So now we can easily find all kinds of feng shui items and cures—from Chinese coins (real or reproduction) and tiny red envelopes to large furniture—no matter where we live. Prices range from about $5 up.

And, what a simple way to find feng shui holiday gifts!

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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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