Ring in the New Year with good Feng Shui

Revitalize and refresh the Chi – energy - in your home with simple yet powerful Feng Shui guidelines.

Stuck, stagnant energy in your home creates obstacles and setbacks whilst light, gently moving energy allows your life to flourish and flow with greater ease.

Here are eight important Feng Shui success tips that will contribute enormously towards improving the quality and flow of energy in your home and life.

Your body is a clever instrument that easily senses the energy in any room. All you need to do is close your eyes and become aware of how a room actually makes you feel. If you feel there is somethin not right, simply start by rearranging the furniture, taking away or adding décor items until you begin to feel better. Rooms, corners or spaces that you generally avoid or never use are the best places to start.

Clutter has a way of sneaking into your home uninvited. By following two simple habits you will easily be able to keep clutter to a minimum. Once a month focus on one room or even one cupboard. By having a monthly clutter clearing session you are guaranteeing yourself that 12 times a year you remove the old, stale and stagnant energy from your personal living space.

Secondly, make a promise to yourself that anytime you buy something new for your home you will remove at least two old items. Anything that looks well past its use is out. Remember there is an emotional cost to the clutter in your life.

Each room in your home deserves a great energy flow. Corners are the most common spots where energy gets stuck. Because there’s generally no people movement there, they tend to be darker, neglected and often well away from any door or window. As a general rule notice which spaces, walls and areas of your home never attract your eyes and focus on improving the Chi in those spaces.

You can do this by improving the lighting, adding colour, plants, water features, fresh flowers, candles or moving heavy pieces of furniture away from them. Mirrors push energy into the direction they are facing, whilst vases filled with tall pieces of luck bamboo pull energy up away from the floor and towards the ceiling. Stuff stored on the floors drags energy down and hinders the flow of energy.

Sharp pointed corners of walls, cupboards and pieces of furniture cut energy flow. While we can’t remove corners altogether from our homes, we can avoid having our body exposed to them at close range. The key is not to work, sleep, eat or spend any long periods of time at close range to these ‘poison arrows’ – the term I use in Feng Shui. They pierce your aura which in turn depletes your energy levels. For instance, look closely at your bedside tables for any sharp pointed corners aimed at your body. To remedy, cover or hang something over the sharp pointed corner to block its ‘arrow’.

Your front entrance is a Feng Shui power spot. There is a direct link between the quality of Chi accumulated around your front entrance and the prosperity that you actually attract into your life. It’s important to notice how the energy feels around your front door and keep rearranging and adjusting it until it feels great.

A couple of healthy potted plants are an easy and inexpensive way to begin attracting energy around your front entrance. Life attracts life. Water attracts and holds energy. A water feature near your front entrance will encourage wealth energy to linger and flow. Good lighting is important too.

Your bedroom is not a multipurpose room to be filled with TVs, computers, work papers and exercise equipment. Its sole purpose is to rest, repair and rejuvenate your body. Ensure the bedroom feels calm, peaceful and restful by removing as many yang (stimulating) items as possible.

Remove clutter from under your bed so you are not sleeping on past issues. Know the history of your mattress. A mattress stores human emotions. If your mattress has been exposed to many unpleasant emotional upsets I would strongly urge you to buy a new mattress to prevent you connecting with those energies. Alternatively sprinkle with rock salt for 4 or 5 hours to cleanse or leave outside in the bright sunshine.

Over the years I have seen so many people love only a few key rooms in their home. Remember that the energy of each location is directly associated with certain aspects of your life. For example your wealth energy is located in the Southeast, your relationship energy in the Southwest, your creativity in the West and so on. Neglecting areas of your home is linked to neglecting certain aspects of your life.

Stop complaining about your home from this day forward. Your thoughts contribute enormously to the atmosphere that lingers in your home. Focus on what you love about your home. Give thanks for the shelter, warmth and protection is offers you on a daily basis. If your home feels flat and tired then change things around. If stuff is broken, neglected or needs repair then fix.

Each time you walk through your front door repeat a mantra such as “My home is calm and peaceful” “My home attracts abundance” My home nurtures and uplifts my energy”.

To further raise the vibration of your home burn essential oils, incense, play uplifting music, add some crystals…

Good luck in 2016!