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Feng Shui: Energizing The Home

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By Patricia Taylor

One often overlooked aspect of Feng Shui is how intangible, invisible, energy can effect a home’s environment and the occupant’s emotional state and health.

While the whole concept of this may appear to be ‘hog wash’ or ‘superstitious mumbo-jumbo’, then you need to read this article and learn how to use an ancient art to improve the look and feel of your home, without breaking your budget.

Energy can take invisible forms. It works with the invisible energy in a home and can vary depending on the season. In the outdoors, energy flows freely, taking the road of least resistance. A building captures energy and traps it.

This energy resides in different parts of the home, effecting the feel and mood of the rooms. The principles of the spatial and temporal dimensions of a building have created a method called the Flying Stars System. This lets Feng Shui masters identify and evaluate the invisible energy in the home.

The flying star system breaks a home into a tic tac toe grid. This grid determines the rooms that have the strongest positive energy and those that have the negative energy.

Home decorators who take time to learn this type of decorating will find some startling facts. Despite the fact that the system uses ancient techniques, many of today’s homes are built on a similar scale.

Most new homes have the master bedroom at the front corner of the home – as apposed to a room in the middle of the home, where negative energy is strongest. The center square is the living room. In many of today’s home designs, the house is built around a center entrance way that leads into a living room.

Our kitchens are also placed in a back corner of the home. This may imply that while Americans are unconscious of the fact, they are instinctively following the energy patterns of their home.

How can this benefit the average person? Many people are suffering from diseases that have no origin. Even if moving from one bedroom to another will not heal a person, it may reduce stress and a negative impact.

Whether the flying star system tracks loose ions in the home, or energy that escapes from our many electrical appliances, is not understood. What is understood is that many people are finding relief from stress and pain by moving from one room to another in the home.

If a homeowner can get over the ancient Chinese classifications like ‘flow of prosperity’, ‘promoting wealth’, and references to the year that a building was constructed, it is possible to glean some practical benefits from the study of the flow of energy in a home.

In many cases, feng shui will help home owners create a home that balances with the surrounding landscape.

One thing we do understand, art has a dramatic impact on people’s emotions and well-being. To view feng-shui as the science of turning a home and the surrounding environment into a ‘work of art’ than you’ll be able to reap the full benefits of managing the home’s energy and its affect on the homes occupants.

About the Author:
Patricia Taylor advises on home furnishings and decor from her web site at http://www.fireplacescreenshere.com She invites you to get her FREE home decorating guide here http://www.exteriorshuttershere.com

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How to Use Feng Shui in Your Office

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By Brenda Walker

Location, plants and color schemes all have an impression on Feng Shui. Use the following hints to better understand Feng Shui rationales and how these principles can be used to enhance your office decor.

There is a good reason that Feng Shui is often called the Chinese art of placement. Feng Shui rationales maintain that our success in life (or our ultimate loss) is not determined by the work that we do but instead by unexplained forces. How workplaces and homes are laid out impact the outcome of human endeavor, more than the enterprise itself can. Feng Shui principles hold that particular spots are luckier than other and that being in the right place at the right time can make us successful. Although numerous aspects of Feng Shui look to be nonsensical, what if they are not? Virtually all folks can use all the good fortune they can get. Let’s look at some tips for adding Feng Shui into your office to make you the most successful you can be:

Locate in promising places. One idyllic position according to Feng Shui is an office situated in a tall building that commands shorter, adjacent buildings. Also being in a building which is at the intersection of several roads, but which is not directly in front of two intersecting roads resembling the tip of an arrowhead – a deadly place to be situated. Another promising location for an office is one that has a direct view of water. To the Chinese this is so strategic that the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong went to grand lengths to ensure that it had a clear view of Victoria Harbor, lobbying powerfully with the Chinese government to construct a park and low-level garage simply so it could have this perfect view.

Avoid unfavorable places. Meat cleaver-shaped constructions such as the Sears Tower are not ideal places to have an office. This is also accurate of offices that might be bordered by enormous skyscrapers, or that are near a funeral parlor or graveyard. Because strong winds are thought in Feng Shui to diffuse a person’s chi or life force, it is not advisable to have an office on the top floor of a statuesque building.

Buildings with large entryways are ideal. Other matters to remember about a building’s entryway is that it should not have columns that obstruct the view and that it is not facing a tree line The Chinese believe that ch’i enters through doors. For this reason, constructions that are built with the rules of Feng Shui in mind frequently have slanted entryways; this increases their entryway size and therefore, the amount of life force that can come in. Observe how Macao’s casino doors are angled.

Water is perpetually a good thing when it comes to Feng Shui precepts. That’s why fish tanks are often found in Chinese eateries. If you do not have access to water in your office, then installing a fountain is the next advisable alternative. And because water must be kept clean under Feng Shui rules, it is critical that you take special care to change the water frequently in wall vases and plants in your office.

About the Author: Brenda Walker writes for WallDecorandHomeAccents.com where she provides detailed instructions for cheap wall decor and wall candle holders .

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