(245) Feng shui your house

Making living spaces that are healthier and happier

By Janet Shin

It gets more worthwhile to mind our environment, especially during the wet season like now or either in hot or cold weather. It doesn’t matter whether you live in places with four distinctive seasons or in tropical or arctic countries.

Feng shui takes its fundamental roots in adapting well to the environment and searching a better habitat for settlement. If you regarded it as a way to make you rich and successful, that is a latter-day’s expectation. It actually has an indispensable reason to conform.

People have fostered how to activate, regulate and improve the peculiarity of a certain climate through continuing civilizations. In primitive ages, while exploring places to ward off danger and form a family, people learned by experience where to take a more peaceful rest and become more prosperous. The trial and error, accumulated by ancient civilizations for thousands of times, is the foundation of feng shui theory. Some people might have decided to dwell in a cave where they could protect themselves from bitter wind. They couldn’t survive well while others who stayed in a safer place became more affluent. They learned lessons on how crucial the living environment is, which even cost their lives.

Feng shui, derived from ancient Asian philosophy, reflects the law of Heaven and Earth, or yin and yang with the five element theory to help you improve your life. It teaches you how to attune the energy to the individual disposition. Appropriate feng shui cures can help you receive positive energy while dispelling adverse ones from the surroundings. Wind, represented by Feng and Water by Shui are associated with good health and wealth respectively. So it ultimately guides you to a healthier and happier life. In this respect, balance and harmony are the key words to build your environment more favorably.

The first step to vitalize your house is to circulate life energy, which comes through the front doors. The energy in natural state can be either positive or negative. So we need to embrace the positive as much as possible and not to generate negative by clearing clutter and avoiding sharp edged and pointed goods. For this reason, it is recommended not to put umbrella stands at the front doors nor any other sharp cornered furniture.

The very basic feng shui tips are to exalt the attributes of each material and the function of each part in your house. Let’s think about the five elements, Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. The plants, for example, representing the wood energy, must grow well with lush foliage and vibrant blooms. Metallic materials, such as the kitchen utensils or other home appliances need to shine with metallic luster. And we need to keep the water clean. Instead of just trying to clean your house, you need to be aware of the reasons why and how.

Are they any other aspects that can cause anxiety and insecurity in your house? We need to keep our eyes on where two incompatible energies are conflicting. The two critical elements causing extreme discord are Fire and Water. The kitchen is a place where the water and fire elements coexist. The fridge, with water energy and the others, such as a toaster and microwave with fire energy, shouldn’t be located next to each other. If it is unavoidable, you may have to take advantage of the wood element to intervene between two. It is because the wood can make the water circulate and generate the fire. Owing to the usefulness of the wood element, many feng shui experts recommend to utilize plants or flowers in order to ameliorate the home atmosphere.

I encourage you to learn how to feng shui each part of your house so that you can make it a more amicable place for your health and wealth.

Information : Are you interested in learning more about the ancient Chinese teaching about the “Four Pillars of Destiny”? For further information, visit Janet’s website at www.fourpillarskorea.com, contact her at 010-5414-7461 or email janetshin@hotmail.com.

The writer is the author of “Life’s Secrets”.