The energy associated with the quality of the environments allows us to live a full life in balance with our surroundings. Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese art of a scientific nature that enables us to obtain harmony in our lives through healthy environments.
We’ve all walked into spaces where we felt better than others. When the spaces support their inhabitants energy wise, life flows more harmoniously and the people become happier, wholesome, healthy and financially stable.
Feng Shui allows us to harmonize, balance and boost the energies of spaces, helping their inhabitants achieve certain goals, such as prosperity, wealth, health, relationships, social status, studies, and many others, as a home is a reflection of those who live in it.
There are many ways of boosting good energy in a house, and the use of plants and animals is one of them, as they can activate the energy of the rooms.
House plants play an important role in Feng Shui, as they bring the force of life inside the home and keep the air fresh.
Plants need to be healthy or else they will generate stagnated energy. A flower vase will certainly look pretty in a living room, but once flowers are cut, they are technically dead, not to mention they are in still water. That’s why it’s preferable to place potted flowers than buying them and putting them in a vase. Plants with features that represent the five elements (Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal) are ideal. However, specific plants are used in Feng Shui with their own purposes.
Depending on their shape, plants can create different types of energy. Plants with irregular foliage should be placed North. Peace lilies have these features and their use leads to energy cleansing.
Tall, vertical plants, such as Ficus, are lucky East and Southeast to boost the family’s prosperity.
Vertical plants with pointy leaves are useful South and in corners to get energy moving. For these make sure the tips of the leaves are not harmful energy by pointing somewhere where someone is sitting. An example is the snake plant, used to bring justice into the home.
Southwest, although it’s also possible South, you can place plants with soothing scents to offer you a feeling of peace and tranquillity, such as lavender.
The jade plant or money tree, whose leaves look like coins, represent the energy of money and can be placed in the Northwest and West sectors, the areas of finances and income, respectively.
Animals also play a fundamental role in a home, as they are excellent energy activators. At the same time, they help us to identify the areas of the house with better and worse energy – dogs prefer lucky places and cats choose to go where the energy is negative.
The place where to put the cat litter should also be taken into account, as this is excellent to drain energy and, as such, should be in an area where energy is harmful (you can find this information out by calculating the house’s energy charts).
Other animals often picked in Feng Shui are turtles and fish. Turtles represent protection and should be placed in the back of the house. Fish are excellent protectors and indicators of jealousy, yet they also stimulate wealth. For fish tanks, the best cardinal sector is selected, as there is a whole calculation process to know if these should be placed and, if so, when and where.
Lastly, I’d like to add that this information is of a general nature and each case is unique, just as each home is unique and should be analysed by a professional.
FENG SHUI. This is Chinese wisdom that dates four thousand years. In those days, the wiser realized that there were spaces in nature where plants thrived. They later realized that they felt better in some houses than others, and that the families who resided there were happier and more prosperous than others.
This knowledge evolved over time, was perfected and although they didn’t yet have a compass, the results of being in better or worse directions were visible in both body and mind.
The Feng Shui masters then emerged, who for generations shared their knowledge with their apprentices, who would later become masters too, ensuring the continuity of this chain of thought. Following a sequence of study and dedication, the knowledge of Feng Shui thus arrived today.
Feng Shui enables us to harmonize, balance and boost the energy of homes and spaces, helping their inhabitants achieve certain goals, such as prosperity, wealth, health, relationships, social status, and studies, among others, seeing that a home is a reflection of the people who live in it.
Having plants at home is an excellent choice, as they stimulate harmony and balance, which allow us to transform less beneficial energies into healthier energies and environments.
Although the East and Southeast sectors are more usually used for placing plants, this does not mean it is where you should place them. There are various types of plants and they are associated with the different elements (Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal), which in turn are associated with cardinal sectors. As such, in the East and Southeast sectors of your home, place tall, vertical plants with green leaves and, such as bamboo. Plants with these features in these sectors will stimulate the emergence or continuation of a good development of new projects, prosperity and health.
Plants with pointy leaves, star-shaped, red or violet (strong colours), namely birds of paradise, sunflowers, dragon tree and Christmas flowers are used in the South sector to attract fame, success, recognition, popularity and passion. Creeping plants, with small yellow or orange flowers are used in the Southwest and Northeast sectors. Pansies are ideal to achieve good family relations, strengthen the mother’s energy and also improve love relationships and friendships. Lilies and arum lilies contribute to increasing the inhabitants’ motivation, as well as stimulating studies and spirituality.
Round, white plants are indicated to be placed in the West and Northwest sectors (Metal). Crassulas were already used by the Chinese thousands of years ago to improve the family’s finances. Tulips, daisies and carnations are used in the West to boost romance.
Lastly, irregularly shaped plants are ideal to be placed in the North sector (Water), such as climbing plants and orchids, which foster luck professionally.
However, I’d like to point out that we are talking about general rules, and as in any rule, there are exceptions. For instance, the South sector is the most well suited for birds of paradise, but if the Fire element is already in excess (we can tell this via each space’s energy charts) or because it can drain the element of those who lie there, or simply because that sector may have harmful energy, it would be a mistake to boost the sector with plants. Accordingly, each case is unique and, in a house, usually there’s an exception to the rule that requires a more personalized and professional analysis.
Like any other living being, plants need care, attention and being clean, fresh and healthy. A plant that is wilting is like a patient who needs care. That weak energy will contaminate the inhabitants. That is why, when a plant dies, we should replace it at once.
To conclude, how many of us have visited a place where the scent of plants, harmony and well-being filled the air and we were caught up in that soothing and rejuvenating energy?
As well as being the festive season, Christmas is the time of year when we take stock of the goals achieved during the year about the end and thank our blessings. The new year is when we set new goals for the year ahead and make plans and define these goals in the certainty we’ll meet them.
Seeing that Feng Shui seeks balance and harmony in our lives, it can be a major ally that offers us support so that our life flows in the best way possible and allows us to enjoy this moment to the max. The new year coming in has great energy potential, so make the most of it.
The saying goes New Year, New Life and for this, to follow and make the most of the energies of change end 2015 well and kick off 2016 in style!
For this start to be sustained, balanced and strong in order to make sure the goals are met, you need to balance the Home, Mind, and Body trilogy, which are interconnected, generating a cause-effect movement.
At Home, start by analyzing what you no longer need and the objects you like and don’t like. Get rid of anything you don’t need, don’t like or reminds you of moments and people that don’t bring back good memories by donating it to those in need or recycling or binning it if it’s broken. Once your house has been freed up, start by organizing it. Please note that organizing and tidying up are pretty different concepts. A house may be immaculately clean and yet be completely disorganized. Organization has to do with things being in the right place, depending on their function. As such, in a bedroom only keep what is related to the activities going on in the bedroom and the same applies to all the other rooms. Avoid storing paperwork, bills and especially not work-related stuff in your bedroom! Once everything is organized, it’s time to tidy up. The goal is not to have an immaculate place, to the point you don’t live it, rather a balanced home that is lived in. As you undergo this process, you’ll start to feel its benefits, as your mind and body will automatically feel the need to keep up with these changes.
Mind wise, clear it of negative thoughts, which consume you and break your vital energy. Positive thoughts are turned into attitudes and actions, which then make their way back to you.
Remember that the more we give, the more we get. Please note that this concept of giving is not necessarily about material goods and even less so about giving with the intention or receiving. We are talking about the pure state of giving. Giving with love and friendship.
As for your Body, start the ritual of caring for yourself. I usually say we should always look our best, as we never know who we’re going to bump into! Yet, the first person we’ll find is ourselves, we are the most important person and for this reason, we need to take care of ourselves for us. Here we’re not talking about a healthy diet, sleeping, and exercising, but also doing what truly gives us joy and pleasure and being with those we love and makes us feel good. Don’t spend your day doing something you don’t love, listening to music that doesn’t make you vibrate, being with people that upset you and suck your energy out of you.
Every day is a gift, so do this and enjoy the best that life has to offer!
On New Year’s Eve, place even more focus on these goals. Joy, asking for 12 wishes and being with the people you love, those are the minimum requirements for this start.
Happy 2016!
People’s health and well-being have long been food for thought. We all know that someone who is in balance with him or herself and the environment around them will enjoy better health and, in the event of disease, their recovery will be swifter.
Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese art that is over 4000 years old and combines Taoism with Chinese Astrology and Traditional Chinese Medicine. To give you an analogy, Feng Shui is “acupuncture” for homes and the Feng Shui consultant the “doctor” for spaces.
The basic principle of Feng Shui lies in the “5 Elements and the 5 Transformations”. From the perspective of the Feng Shui approach, in nature there are 5 elements – Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal – and these interact with one another, bringing health, well-being, and other benefits or, on the contrary, bringing disease and other sorts of issues.
Let’s take a look: we use Water on plants so they thrive and grow. Later, when trees grow, we use their Wood to generate Fire. After the wood burns, they turn into ashes that are used on soils, or Earth, as fertilizers. In Earth we have nutrients and Metal, and in turn, Water. And it goes on and on, successively. Here, we are referring to the Constructive or Creative Cycle of the Five Elements, as they relate with one another in a constructive and harmonious way. On the other hand, Water is used to put out Fire and Fire melts Metal. And Metal is used to make the knives and saws used to chop Wood from trees. The tree roots grow and harm the Earth. Earth defines the waterways, narrowing Water down. In this case, we are referring to the Destructive Cycle of the Five Elements.
So, when the five elements relate to on another in a constructive way, people are healthy and successful. When they relate in a destructive or disruptive way, people suffer from all sorts of issues, namely health wise.
These phenomena occur because these elements are associated with colours, shapes and numbers, which represent the objects that make up a given space. At the same time, these five elements are also associated with cardinal sectors, life areas and organs in our body. As such, when a given object that represents a certain element is in its proper cardinal sector, we have the Constructive Cycle, just as when a given object, which represents a certain element is not in its proper place, this will bring problems and issues with the organs and life areas to which that cardinal sector corresponds, and which is not in harmony. However, as we are talking about a cycle, this relationship isn’t always direct, that is, if a person’s south cardinal sector lacks harmony, this does not mean that they will suffer from heart or blood conditions or others representative of the Fire element, because in addition to the two cycles referred to above, there is a third one, the Draining, or Reducing, Cycle, which is the opposite to the Constructive Cycle. When the Constructive Cycle is interrupted due to a problem in a certain cardinal sector, this does not mean that the organ(s) affected are one of the ones representative of the sector. Let’s imagine that there is a problem in the south sector, where the Fire element is weakened; Wood will be producing in excess, as there is nothing to consume it and Earth won’t have nothing to produce it, so these two elements also start lacking harmony and, as such, the organs that they represent. One needs thorough technical knowledge to be able to determine the elements and, in turn, the sectors that lie at the root of the problem, whether it’s health related or otherwise.
The image below will help us understand it:
However, long before having our objects placed in the right spot, we need the energy of our home to flow, free from any blockages, or else it will stagnate and affect the inhabitants’ health.
It is very easy for a space’s energy to become blocked. Dirt, Messiness and Hoarding, and the energy of the former owners are examples of the main energy blocks. The blocks will influence the lives of those who live in the house and, as such, will manifest themselves in their bodies.
Blocks can manifest themselves in many ways, for instance, constantly postponing what we enjoy doing or living in the past. Tiredness, lack of energy, a swollen or congested body or even excess weight and mental confusion are also symptoms of these blocks. Depression, shame, loneliness and disease all indicate that something is wrong, the latter being the biggest warning sign.
In addition to placing objects in the right place, first of all, remove any blockages and clear your home. Do not hoard, keep your home neat and tidy and air it every day, letting the sunshine in – these are all fundamental steps for a healthy home.
Our home is the reflection of our inner, physical and mental being.
For our life to flow in harmony, we need a good flow of chi (energy) in our home.
A home with good energy brings health and quality of life!
Have you ever wondered why your clients take so long to pay you, or don’t pay you at all? Or have you ever felt that money takes long to arrive and when it does, it was such hard work?
And now I ask you: How do you treat your money? How do you behave with it? Are you someone who prefers to keep it on your side and pay the bills on the last day? Or do you let deadlines for payment pass often? And if someone hands you more money by mistake, what is your posture?
Just like everything else in life, what we give to the universe, we get in return. And Feng Shui, namely money, is no exception.
One of the basic rules of this ancient science is “all the energy we put into things returns to us” and for this reason, and not just, when we apply these techniques we can achieve outstanding results.
To have money with the help of Feng Shui it is not enough to work facing the direction of power and money, turning a fountain on in location x on day y, or having your home super tidy, organized and harmonized. You also need to apply these concepts in your thoughts, feelings and actions. In fact, this is where it all begins. “Have a great relationship with money”, treat it with respect and let it follow on its way. Don’t wait until the last minute to pay your bills, don’t shy away from commitments or take on anything beyond your means. If something arrives for you to pay, pay it. Always remember that someone else may need that money. That way, the more we give, the more we get back. And then, once that concept is ingrained and implemented in such a way you don’t even notice it any more, then you can sit facing the direction that is luckiest for money and prosperity, place the money plants in the right place and use a fountain in the right spot to watch your bank account grow.
Yet beware of fountains and fish tanks. Don’t place them without the indication given of the proper spot by a consultant, or else, this mere object can have the capacity to turn your life upside down. Why?
Because there is a whole process for calculating where to place a fountain and when.
For the most curious, this process begins with determining the cardinal sectors where we can place water. This will vary over time. After choosing the cardinal sector, we need to check whether there is a good energy combination on the house chart and, if for the year in question, the star flying in is lucky or not. Next, we fine tune a direction within that cardinal sector, what we call a hexagram (a set of two trigrams) which change at every 5.5º and inside this we still have the affinities, that is, every 0.9375º. Once the direction has been determined, it is necessary to check whether it benefits the inhabitant and is active during the period in question. If so, we pick the day, and this should nurture the energy of both home and inhabitant. So, what seems like a simple process and which could be for someone who isn’t’ aware of its benefits is in truth something complex and geared to the person, home and goals set.
Basically, have a great relationship with money to make sure you’re close!
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