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Feng Shui

Feng Shui is a term from the Chinese tradition meaning wind and water, used to describe the life force called Ch’i that flows through our lives, the world and our home.

Though Feng Shui is a very complex art there are remarkably simple ways of applying its energies to everyday life.

The following are practical suggestions for regulating this life force in your home or workplace so that you and anyone else present feels harmonious, calm and at the same time filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.

The home is a reflection of ourselves and our lives and so it is important to create a happy atmosphere and encourage a good energy flow.

Clearing the energies

Clearing the energies or Ch’i in your home is remarkably easy, using very simple tools. If you do this regularly you will experienced far less quarrels, stress and will relax and sleep better as well as work in a more focused way if you run your business or study at home.

The Ch’i energy field of your home becomes polluted with stale or disharmonious energies that can be brought in from the outside world by you or family members after a busy or stressful day or build up during normal family life with its challenges and sometimes confrontations.

Visitors also leave impressions in the atmosphere, especially if they are intrusive like an interfering neighbour or relation or a social gathering however pleasant. If you work from home, space clearing can be especially good to stop daily work pressures and worries intruding on your private life, vital if like me you work from the dining room table. Even telephone calls, faxes, emails and texts can adversely affect the atmosphere unless they are entirely positive.

Space clearing is also helpful if you or the family has suffered a bout of minor illnesses such as colds or coughs that seem to continually circulate.

Then there are personal events major or minor when you want to mark a fresh start psychologically as well as psychically.

• Walk round your home using a clear crystal or amethyst pendulum and your pendulum will feel very heavy at places where energies are blocked. It may spiral anti clockwise very fast or seem to spin out of control if an area of tension or negativity has built up

• Clear the stale or overactive Ch’i and restore gentle energies whenever you feel the need, but at least once a month

• Sunday mornings are good and have a general tidy and clear up first to clear up the physical clutter that can also clog the energies

To cleanse your home you will need:

Light: The main tool of light and fire is a candle.

• Light in the centre of the room a small white candle in an amethyst or rose quartz holder or a single tall white candle in a gold coloured candlestick

• After lighting it, raise the candle to shoulder height as you stand in the middle of the room facing the main door of the room and then carry it into the four corners of the room in turn, beginning with the one nearest the door and moving anticlockwise

• Stale or negative energies can accumulate in corners. Say, if you wish, in the centre and in each corner,

  'May only goodness, light and peace remain here.’  However you can work in silence if you prefer.

Sound: Bells

• After the candle work, use either a single bell made of brass, gold or silver colour, Chinese medicine harmony balls in each hand or Tibetan bells.

• Ring it or them softly three times in the centre of the room so you are facing the main door and then in the four corners, again moving anti clockwise, ringing it once in each corner

• Return to the centre, ring the bell/s thee times again facing the door and then move clockwise ringing the bell in each of the four corners of each room

• Wind chimes are very protective and empowering if hung over doorways just inside the home, especially external ones. They help to break up the over fierce Sha or Tiger life force energy/ Ch’i if you have stairs facing the front door, a long corridor or front and back doors in direct line with each other.

• They are also effective in small or confined entrances to ensure the gentle flow of the life force and over doorways in any rooms where energies become stale or heavy with tension from frequent visitors

Fragrance: Fragrances not only cleanse but energize any area of the home as well as purifying it. You can use this after light and sound or as the main cleansing method

Burning incense

• Use lighted incense sticks or cones, granular incense you burn on charcoal discs or a lighted sage or cedar smudge stick carried in a traditional abalone she

• Raise the incense stick/incense dish or smudge upwards as you face the door and say, ’By the powers of the Sky/ the angels be blessed.’

• Then pass it downwards towards the ground and say 'Mother Earth be blessed’

• Then as before walk round the four corners anticlockwise, if you have a smudge stick or incense stick making anti clockwise spirals as you walk with the stick in the hand you write with. In each corner, raise the stick, smudge or dish and repeat the words you used at the beginning for the angels, then lower it towards the earth, repeating the earlier word as you greet Mother Earth.

• Repeat for the other three corners, return to the centre and repeat the raising and lowering actions and words with the incense or smudge.

• Walking clockwise this time repeat the words and movements in all four corners till you are back in the centre.

• Finally face the four corners of the room in turn while still standing in the centre, holding the stick or dish steady at waist height and finally raise it upwards and downwards in silence

Feng Shui and your home

Feng Shui tips for your home

• Where possible use natural materials and fabrics rather than synthetic wood for furniture. Wooden floors anywhere in the home, to help body and mind energies to flow harmoniously

• Carpets slow down Ch’i and wooden floors with rugs rather than fitted carpets in every room, is not only more hygienic, but better Feng Shui

• Fresh rather than dried or silk flowers are also better energizers; where possible potted living plants, flowers and herbs are natural heath bringers. Put these especially in the east of your home, your Health area or anywhere that feels stagnant

• For prosperity and in money areas use plants with round leaves to signify growing money and avoid spiky leaves or plants in living areas or bedrooms as these can cause quarrels or sarcasm. Save them for work rooms to provide focus or in your hallway if you want to welcome career opportunities or recognition.

• Plastic is especially bad for healthy Ch’i and children where possible should have some wooden toys and plenty of opportunities to play with sticks, stones, sand, water and clay. Eye catching synthetics are naturally popular and you have to be realistic in compromising between what a child wants and what may be better Feng Shui practice

• Put an elephant near the front door or near the foot of the stairs and another at the top of the stairs in a safe place where people will not trip over it. Your elephants will bring prosperity and good luck and ensure you rise in the world

• Fragrant candles increase energies in a gentle way as do fragrance oil burners and incense.

  • Lavender brings kindness and family joy and is good for children.

  • Rose draws love, the gradual inflow of money and healing and is good for mending quarrels and encouraging fidelity

  • Orange brings abundance and self confidence as well as attracting good influences and people to your home.

  • Chamomile is wonderful for children and older people as well as pets.

  • Lemon brings focus and will purify negativity (see also the next chapter for flower and herbs meanings).

  • Lilac spreads domestic happiness

  • Patchouli, the ultimate Earth scent will attract abundance and bring a sense of well being to all present

• Red candles activate energy and for even more vitality and determination, add a pinch of salt to the flame so it sparkles

• Jade in any form is good for luck, love, health and long life and you should have at least one jade bowl, symbol or jade crystal in each room to ensure that good things flow in and round your home and within everyone who lives there. It will also refresh any pet areas and keep your pets healthy if you energize pet water with a small round green jade crystal

• Wind chimes just outside the front door call in career opportunities or a promotion if this is a current concern or will attract whatever you need to increase in your life, such as good health or love

• When you put the wind chimes up for the first time, ring them and declare specifically what you are seeking to attract (name as many things as you need but be specific). They will also stimulate good health and minimize the spread of minor infections like colds and flu from outside the home and between family members

• Put three Chinese coins on a red cord underneath the front door mat to welcome money and good luck into your home in the form of the Chinese Metal element (coins) and Fire element (red cord). Red cords are considered an instant activator of energy. Hang one also behind the door or any work room, office or place where you handle money

• Dragons anywhere in the home especially red ones will increase energies if people are lethargic or always exhausted or you are drowning in debt. The East side of your home is associated with dragons and health so give them lots of greenery and natural wood here

• Add a lucky money toad with a coin in his mouth, a dish of gold, silver and copper coins and a laughing Buddha to bring good luck into your home. Go round with a crystal pendulum and feel the right places to put them and put at least one money symbol where you do your accounts or work from home to make money

• Staircases should not where possible face the front door and this can be a problem on higher storeys where the stairs rise from the level below. In apartments ideally the front door should not face the elevator for the same reason.

  • These can all be counteracted if the area is bright, well-lit and with mirrors. wind chimes, bead curtains to block off energy absorbing areas, life-giving green plants and a picture or model of a horse or entwined dragons or cranes symbols of long life, power and health, especially if the stairs are straight ahead of the door

• If you have a downstairs toilet or cloakroom even if not facing the front door or an upstairs one facing the stairs or front door, keep the door shut and a mirror on the outside to avoid souring the entering Ch’i and draining away opportunities and luck before they have time to settle

 

You may enjoy my

"Fragrance Magic" (Quantum/Foulsham)

"Natural Magic" (Quantum/Foulsham)

 "Encyclopedia of Magic and Ancient Wisdom" (Piatkus)

and

"Psychic Protection lifts the Spirit" (Quantum/ Foulsham

that all contain related material.

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