Last week, I had a post to see if your house followed the rules of Feng Shui. If yours fell short, don't worry, like anything, there are ways to fix your space. This second article follows up on the first and lets you know how to fix those problem areas in your home if you want it to be more Feng Shui.
Feng Shui
Cures
In the home
I am renting, there was a deck at the back of the house that was closed in to
make a year round Arizona
room. The original layout of the floor
plan for the house was a rectangle. By
adding the Arizona
room, the house essentially changed into a different shape, eliminating most of
the wealth corner, and increasing the relationship corner.
It’s
important to know that when Feng Shui works with missing corners, rule of thumb
is that if an addition is less than half the width or length of a room or
house, it is an extra section. (This type of addition might be something
like an addition of a bay window, or a small bump out. In that case, an extra section could create
GOOD Feng Shui, because there is more room in that area for the chi to
circulate.) Anything larger than half
the width or length of a room or house creates a missing section. In the case
of my home, this created a missing section.
There are
many features of western homes that would be considered inauspicious by Feng
Shui practitioners. However over
thousands of years, cures for each of these have been established! There are eight major types of cures used
to compensate for lacking features, to encourage positive energy flow: Color, reflective objects (lights, mirrors,
and crystals), plants and pets, mobiles and flags, statues and rocks, fans and
flutes. Placing a particular object in
the area of concern will primarily force fast moving chi to slow down, and encourage
slow moving or stagnant chi to move in a positive way.
In addition
there are representations of four elements that can be placed in specific areas
that will balance the energy: Metal,
Water, Fire, and Earth.
A metal
element could be sculpture or a table with metal legs, for example. Water would
be represented with an aquarium or water fountain. Earth could be represented with a quartz
cluster. Fire symbols could be a
painting with the color red. There are
many variations on how these elements can and cannot be combined.
How did I
fix the missing wealth corner of my home?
Before I tell you how I did it, you need to know that I rented this home
before even seeing it in person. I was
moving to the area and found the house for rent on Craigslist. The photos looked good, so I asked a good
friend of my to drive to Prescott
and take a look at the house; I wasn’t renting it sight unseen. She gave me the
ok, so I signed the lease and moved in. I did not know that the wealth corner was missing in the home. However, remember, there’s a cure for
everything!
When I moved
in there were some decorative elements I installed, mainly because I liked
them. But they also happened to
“coincidentally” create Feng Shui cures for the missing area. I created a large water fountain on the floor
at the far left of the Arizona
room (which did have some part of the wealth corner), and surrounded it with
green plants. The fountain pump came
with a light, so I have chi (both light
and water) circulating there 24/7. I
never turn it off except to clean it out.
And of course it sounds wonderful, and provides humidity to the house as
well.
I also hung
a large spiral wind chime inside the Arizona
room, which featured faceted
crystals,
and reflects the light further into the missing area. Fortunately, there is an additional deck
downstairs that visually “completes” the corner, and that really works to help
anchor the energy too. I have reaped the
positive benefits! And, even better,
when I find the perfect home to purchase, I’ll already know what to do if it
needs a little energy boost.
So if you
feel you need assistance in enriching certain areas of your life, remember that
not only is your home is a reflection of you, it’s a reflection of your energy,
and it can always be improved! I promise
if you take the time to do some research, investigate
the
principles of Feng Shui, and apply even one or two of them in your home, you
will be pleasantly surprised!
Kathleen is
available for private consultations in the Prescott area, for your home or business, at kathleenagraham@gmail.com,
or her cell (702)-672-2356.
