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How to Use Feng Shui in Your Office

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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Feng Shui for the Home

By Larry Lim

The art of Geomancy or more commonly known as Feng Shui in the Chinese community is often debated for its facts. After years of studies, Feng Shui has been proven to have its foundation built on natural sciences and not merely based on Chinese superstitions. Feng Shui, just like the name suggests, means wind and water when translated into English. The art has been practiced since 4,500 years ago with the aim to create a harmonial balance between a home’s occupants and its surroundings.

Today, even the Western world have begun to take notice of this ancient practice, incorporating interior design with the art of Feng Shui. In the simplest form, it is divided into 5 key elements – fire, earth, metal, water and wood. All these basic elements are used to help enhance the general well-being and luck of the occupants. This is the reason why a Feng Shui master is invited to survey the house before the family moves in. The Feng Shui master attempts to bring together the natural order of Heaven, Earth and Man, blending these 3 orders with the owner’s Bazi (the birthday) to help create a perfect interior orientation for the house.

When someone buys a new property in Singapore, there are some very basic Feng Shui rules to observe, specifically rules that affect the flow of Chi into the house. For example, Singaporeans would refrain from buying a property located on cul-de-sacs or the ‘dead end’ of a street, or those facing a ‘T’ junction. The properties located at these areas are believed to be bad for Chi flows, either too much or not enough flowing into the house.

The landscape is another basic criteria in determining a Feng Shui of a house. Try imagining a house with a tree planted at its entrance. From common sense, it is bad landscaping because it blocks the walkway. From the Feng Shui point of view, it is an unfavourable because it blocks the Chi from entering the house. Having a winding walkway rather than a straight walkway heading to the entrance of the house is also favourable because it is believed that the Chi is “gentler” when it enters the house.

Another good practice when buying a house is to talk to the owner or the realtor to learn the purpose of the sale because it may affect your fortune in the future. You would prefer to buy a house from someone selling to move to a bigger home, than from an owner who is forced to sell because of bankruptcy or foreclosure.

Most of the time, a renovation is required when the family moves into a new house. Colors and shapes play an important role in determining the Feng Shui of the house. Different colors and shapes will evoke different feelings or emotions in different people. By replacing protruding shapes with sharp ends to something circular, existing relationship problems may go away.

Another useful tip to promote a good and prosperous living for the entire family, is the “pa-gua” positions. Use the “pa-gua” to tackle shortages or imperfect area in your home by literally dividing the layuout into 9 sections.

Finding a house with the perfect Feng Shui is certainly no easy task. However with such a long history and hordes of staunch believers, it is probably wise to spend a little more effort to incorporate Feng Shui into the home for the well-being for its occupants.

About the Author: Larry Lim is a Singapore-based real estate writer. He writes for iProperty Singapore and ST701 Property.

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