Feng Shui Tips

If you want to improve the Feng Shui of your home or office, here are some free Feng Shui tips which can safely be applied in any building:

Beauty

Good Feng Shui has to do with beauty. While this is to some extend relative to your taste, there is nevertheless a general agreement as to what is beautiful. This is your aesthetic sense perception.

Keep only things around you that you find uplifting and try to eliminate features that you find ugly, or that you merely keep out of duty.

To have good Feng Shui you'll need to keep home or office clean and all objects in a good state of repair. A freshly painted space feels much better than a place where paint is peeling, the carpets are worn or the taps are dripping.

Clutter

Excess clutter inhibits any potentially good Feng Shui. It stops energy, - and people, from freely moving around a space.

While it is visually unappealing, it actually consists of your unfinished action cycles. These not only make your space look bad, they also keep you hung up in the past. Completing everything you start, - by completing projects, filing or throwing out papers, etc. - gives you the space to live your life in the present.

Check under your beds, in your wardrobe or neglected corners: Do you have clothes, papers or projects piling up. I have a rule I follow and that works very well: if I have not used something in a year, and it has no special value for any other reason, I will give it away or throw it out.

Shapes

You can influence the feel of a place by the shapes of its objects. Round objects are more dynamic than rectangular or square shapes. That is why it is good to sleep on a rectangular bed as most of us do.

Boardrooms often use round or oval tables; - you can see we are instinctively using the shapes that facilitate the function of the space. If you want to bring more life into a space, choose a round table or a lounge setting with more rounded forms or an oval rug.

Colour

Colour also influences the activity level of a space. Pastel and light colours have a calming influence, while bright colours bring in activity. For a bedroom, I do not recommend strong colours, whereas a bright feature wall can bring a welcome flow of energy into a living or family room. Dashes of strong colour can bring life into a place.

Careful with Reds!
Red tones can be wonderful. They enhance the most radiant and healthy energy where this is present in an area, and make it much more comfortable and alive.

But careful, if red tones are used where there is an inherent heavy negative energy, they will make this area worse and you will feel more drained and irritated there.

If you don't feel right with red tones in an area, trust that feeling and remove them. If you are not sure where to place reds or if you want to design your home or office with the best Feng Shui colour scheme you will need to have a professional Feng Shui analysis of your unique building.

Position

The position of furniture in relation to doors and windows is important. If you look around a restaurant, people will sit with their back against a wall, preferably with view of the door, if they have a choice. We feel 'safer' and more in control this way.

Similarly, you will feel better when sitting with a solid wall behind you when working, at the dinner table or in the lounge. Desks are best positioned in the far corner away from the door, with a solid wall behind you and good view of the door and window. The best places around a dinner table are those with a wall behind you.

This is also important when sleeping. Your sleep can be disturbed by sleeping on the same wall as a door, or worse in front of a doorway. Sleeping under a window is similarly undesirable. The best position for a bed is again in the far end of the room, away from the door, with a solid wall behind you.

Space Clearing

The energy of people who have lived in a house before you tends to hang around long after they have left. This is why a new home feels so much crisper. In order to clear a space of old energies you can conduct space clearing.

A thorough physical cleaning is important: scrub down walls, clean the carpets and wash out the storage areas, lamp shades, etc. This gets rid of a lot of old energy. Repainting is an even better option.

You should also consider an energetic clearing for good Feng Shui of your home or office. You can come up with a creative solution to this: You can throw a party, chant, make a lot of noise, and bang things around, sprinkle wine... It is up to your imagination. Have the intention of making a new start and clearing out the old.

If you have a building where old spirits and energies still seem to be hanging around, you should command them to leave. You can talk to them. It works.

End Note

Please note that above recommendations are generalisations. For example, if you slept on a solid wall as described above, but the inherent energy there was negative, your sleep and health would be still be compromised. The same would be true for a desk position, etc.

If above guidelines don't result in a space that you feel comfortable in, you should consider a professional Feng Shui analysis of your home or office, which would help you tap into the positive potential of your place.

If you are designing a house or moving offices, a Feng Shui analysis can save you time and money involved with activating the wrong energies.

Brigitte Seum, Feng Shui consultant, Melbourne

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