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Understanding The Benefits Of Feng Shui

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By Patricia Taylor

Many homeowners are toying with the idea of decorating their home in the Feng Shui style. They have basic misconceptions of the true Feng Shui style based on companies that were selling books, or a particular service.

The reality of Feng Shui is that is was used in all homes, poor and rich. Home decorators do not need to hire someone to create a true Feng Shui room. The first step to bringing the benefits of Feng Shui to your home is to understand exactly what it is.

Feng means “wind,” and shui means “water” (pronounced fung-shway). In the Chinese culture, a gentle wind and smooth water is associated with having plenty and being healthy. As apposed to a harsh wind and stagnant water that are linked to famine and disease.

This is important to understand, because a few mistakes can actually cause you to create a negative atmosphere in a room. Good feng-shui means good livelihood and fortune. Bad feng-shui means hardship and misfortune.

However, from a pragmatic point of view, the colors and textures in the good style are relaxing and reduce stress. This is the most important benefit in our stressful culture. At least 80% of all our diseases are stress related, so the primary benefit of feng-shui is to reduce stress and promote health.

Feng-shui is not a superstitious set of decorating rules. It is the science of understanding the emotional impact the different forces of nature have on us, and using these to design houses and workplaces which create harmony instead of stress.

Feng-shui is loosely based in Chinese medicine.

There is a standardized body of knowledge that takes years of formal training to master. However, the home decorator can use this decorating style in their own home with success, because they are responding to their personal needs and emotions.

The master is trained to deal with different environments and people, the home decorator only needs to worry about their own environment.

Feng-shui is divided into two branches: the Landform (ti-li) branch and the Building Characteristics (chai-yun) branch.

The Landform Classification branch focuses on the flow of energy over, around, and through objects and the connection between that energy and nearby objects.

The Building Characteristics branch focuses on the flow of energy inside a building and how it affects people.

Before starting to decorate your home, it is wise to take the time to study both branches. But, it is also important to determine what you need from the room. Do you sleep too much? Do you need to be energized? Then you will use different elements than someone who needs to relax and detoxify their system of stress, anger, and aggression.

The best thing about Feng-shui is that it can be incorporated into the most sophisticated and elegant home decorating style as easily as it is utilized in an open concept, modern home. The only thing limiting the home is the decorator’s imagination and willingness to learn how to turn their home into a healthy environment.

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

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How to Use Feng Shui For Prosperity

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By James Brickman

From time immemorial, people have searched for happiness, harmony, love and wealth.

Using feng shui for prosperity allows us to use subtle energies to achieve prosperity in everything. This knowledge can help find love, strengthen relationships, find a vocation, climb the corporate ladder, gain wealth, improve health, and more.

The teaching involves the use of symbols (charms, amulets) for success. One of the most popular symbols of feng shui for prosperity is the vessels. A vessel represents unity and harmony, and stores your desires and aspirations. This bowl can be filled with any items. The main thing is that these objects symbolize what you want. You can have multiple vessels as well.

Try to choose a bowl made of metal (silver, gold, copper), or ceramic vases. The vessel should be squat and rounded. Also turn your attention to its neck: it needs to be broad, but not wider than the middle of the vase. It’s easy to get into such a vessel, but it’s hard to get out of it.

When you find a suitable container, consider what to fill it with. The stuffing is the main thing in this talisman. Fill the bowl to the brim, so as not to have gaps in what you want.

Three principal objects to consider include soil, Chinese coins, and regular money. Ask a successful and wealthy person for a handful of soil (e.g., soil from a plant vase), and pack the soil in a red bag. Obtain some Chinese coins with square holes in the middle, string nine coins on a thread and pack them into another red bag. Now, use real money in the amount of 988. For example, take 9 dollars and 88 cents. If finances allow, take 988 dollars. String these on a string and pack them into yet another red bag.

Start filling the bowl. Put the three red sacks on the bottom. Add a lot of semi-precious stones: coral, malachite, topaz, agate, and amethyst. You can use the jewelry made of these stones, or use rough stones. Remember: The mascot cannot do without the main symbol of feng shui for prosperity – the gold. Put at least one gold item in the bowl. Fill the remaining space with objects colored in gold. For harmony, you can add dried flowers, cones, leaves, and seeds to your vase.

You can go even further. You can put paired figures of animals inside: elephants, horses, fish. You can also add a lotus flower to this idyll. You can put a ring on the bottom of a small bowl, and place it inside the main one. The ring means endless movement. For the embodiment of the sky, draw the sky and put the picture into the vessel.

For the bowl of wealth to help, it needs to be placed properly. Place it in plain sight in your bedroom. Consider placing it in the southeastern part of the room – this will symbolize the desire for harmony and light. Do not put the bowl where there may be strangers, such as in the living room.

Create a good mascot by the rules of feng shui for prosperity, and the material costs involved in it may come back to you a hundredfold.

About the Author: James Brickman runs http://www.fengshuicrazy.com which teaches the ancient art of feng shui. Please visit his website to learn more about feng shui for prosperity.

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Feng Shui Your Home

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By Jeena Anderson

Feng shui in Chinese means wind and water. In other words, it is an art of positioning objects, especially furniture, based on a belief in yin and yang, that in Chinese philosophy mean the beginning of femininity and virility, and the flow of chi. Feng shui offers to place objects so that they could bring harmony to the environment.

Feng shui

In order to get harmony, energize and improve your life, it’s strongly recommended to follow basic feng shui principles. Firstly, tell the Universe how you want to change in your life and what you want from your life. Then you need to apply Bagua, which symbolizes nine building blocks of life – health, love, wealth, career, wisdom, reputation, children, helpful people and center of chi. It is like a Bagua map, that you have to apply to your home, room or work place.

Systematically apply Bagua map to your living or working place:

1. Make a plan of your room; divide your floor plan into nine equal squares. Decide which room relates to each Feng shui area.

2. Now you know which rooms relates to every Feng shui area. It comes time to place specific objects, symbols that will enhance power of Feng shui. For example, in the love and marriage corner at your room place you wedding picture, a book of love poems and etc.

Feng shui tips

Here are some feng shui tips that will help to improve you life:

1. Add mirrors to increase a size of a small room

2. Place the bed where you have the biggest view of you room and do not place mirror above it.

3. Throw away dried flowers and replace them with fresh ones.

Feng shui products

Feng shui specialists recommend to place symbols, statues and other feng shui products in nine Feng shui areas. Here are some popular products:

1. Energy balls – an ancient Chinese way to good health;

2. Feng shui money bag of Abundance – symbolize money flowing in your life

3. Windchime – the most popular tool for many Feng shui situations.

The information above is only the small part of great Feng shui secrets.

About the Author: More information is available on http://feng-shui.doubleget.com website.

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