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Feng Shui Mirrors : What is the Bagua?

By Lynn Lee

Feng Shui practitioners often use Feng Shui mirrors to improve the Feng Shui of your house or your business. Feng Shui mirrors emit the Feng Shui energy of water. A function of Feng Shui mirrors is to draw the beneficial flow of energy (Qi) into the place it is positioned at.

Generally, the mirrors can be used to expand the space of an area, to reflect and deflect the Qi of an area. In this article, we will talk about these 3 areas of Feng Shui mirrors, as well as the commonly used Bagua Mirror.

As mention earlier, there are 3 main uses of Feng Shui mirrors, there are used to expand, reflect, and deflect the flow of Qi in an area. When used in the appropriate manner, the Feng Shui mirrors will improve the flow of Qi in that area. However, improper placement of Feng Shui mirrors will cause things to worsen.

Listed below is a brief explanation on the 3 types of uses of the Feng Shui mirrors.

Expansion

In this case, the use of a mirror is to create virtual space to adjust your focal view of an area. In the study of Feng Shui, the mirror provides us with a new in-depth view of ourselves as it opens up a virtual view on an otherwise plain surface. The mirror can also create a virtual view of an area, and can “expand” the space of the area.

In Feng Shui, a small space represents limitation. Small spaces will limit the flow of Qi in the area, eventually limiting our movement and advancement in life. Thereby, a mirror is often used to virtually expand a small space.

Reflection

When a Feng Shui mirror reflects an object, it does not only reflect the image of the object, but also the energy the object is emitting. Thereby, it doubles the effect of the energy the object is emitting. For example, if the mirror shows the reflection of a pile of unpaid bills, it will mean that in time to come, there will be more unpaid bills piling up, increasing your debts. On the other hand, if the reflection shows a reflection of a kitchen stove, it symbolizes that your wealth will be doubled as fire stoves symbolize wealth.

Deflection

Feng Shui mirrors can be used to deflect the negative energy (Sha Qi) away from your house or business. The mechanism behind this is that it will deflect the Sha Qi back to its source, preventing it from entering the house. Bagua mirrors are used to deflect Sha Qi.

If your intention is to deflect Sha Qi, the Bagua mirror should be placed outside your house. It is common to see people hanging a Bagua mirror outside their homes. Other than deflecting Sha Qi, the Bagua mirror also brings harmony and good fortune to the owner. For this purpose, you can place the Bagua mirror in your home, preferably in your living room.

With proper usage, Feng Shui mirrors can improve the flow of Qi, allowing you to enjoy a better quality of life. Now that we know the uses of the Feng Shui and Bagua mirror, you can make use of these mirrors to ward off bad luck and improve the quality of your life.

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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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Feng Shui In Its Essence

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By Maggie Z. Mathews

Feng Shui in its essence centers on finding the ideal site, the ideal spot and shapes of your land, home, rooms and furnishings.

The ideal Feng Shui site is said to be where the descending heaven qi meets the ascending earth qi. There is no hard and fast rule about the perfect site but there are general conditions that you can look for. Generally halfway up a hill facing the sun is considered good feng shui because you will have a distant view. Further you will get cool summer breezes and warm winter ones.

The ideal Feng Shui spot for a house is called the xue (shu). It has an open space in front, the “bright hall” or ming sang, with four mythical animals or spirits surrounding it. The red bird is the distant front view, the black tortoise is the protective hill at the back; the azure dragon is to the left and the white tiger to the right. Ideally you should have a stream flowing across in front of the site because water is regarded as a source of food and a means of transportation. It is also believed that the heaven qi descends down the hill and is contained by the water.

You will find that the value of this protective armchair shape can be applied not only to the site of your home but to the feng shui of a particular room, where the chairs are placed so that the backs are protected and there is an open space in front of you, or to your garden, where you can plant protective trees at the back if there is not a hill. After all feeling safe and secure is a very large part of being happy.

Next in the basics of Feng Shui is the actual geographical shape of your block of land, your house, your rooms and even your furniture. These shapes play a most important part of the intrinsic Feng Shui of your home and indeed of your community and communities. Symmetrical shapes are considered ideal – an L-shape, for instance and example, poses problems as it is fundamentally considered incomplete and unbalanced. Simply said when you have irregular shapes, you need to look at how you can balance them.

The shape of your land will come into play. A rectangular block of land, wider on the northern and southern ends, is considered to have the very best Feng Shui values. There are a number of ways to balance your block of land. Firstly put a lamp or plant a tree in the opposite corner, if a corner juts unto your block of earth. Next plant a creeper or hedge around the offending corner to counter any negative energy ( sha qi) that this land might be generating. Lastly if the plot of land is triangular make sure to fill out the corners so that the qi does not get trapped inside.

It can be said that square or rectangular homes are thought to be the most beneficial because homes that are of an irregular shape leave rooms in a condition of “dangling” outside the flow of the vital qi.

If you do have an L-shaped house then you can fill out the missing corner by either – planting a tree or shrub, using a lamp or spotlight or building a conservatory or patio. If your abode is an apartment and you are not permitted by the property owners to install or upgrade the property try instead installing a light or handing winds chimes or a mirror to square the L shapes.

Lastly furnishings finish and enhance the completeness of Feng Shui. Symmetry is important when it comes to your home’s d