Do you walk into your room and immediately feel bogged down? Do you have a welling sensation at the base of your throat that makes you want to run the other way?

Consider that your Chi might be out of whack! (yes, Chi says Chu.). According to my Feng Shui practitioner Tien Wee of Lucky Monkey Home, Feng Shui is the Chinese Art of Placement. Chi is energy.

What is Feng Shui?

The ancient Chinese believe that by strategically placing items in your home, the flow of energy that surrounds you will be enhanced. This enhanced energy helps to support you in your relationships, health, wealth, business, among many other aspects of your life.

Perhaps that heavy feeling around you is really more about blocked energy than you realize.

Physically, you see it in the form of the clutter and piles that surround and suffocate you. It is almost tangible, how paralyzing it feels. Feng Shui is simply learning how to unblock this energy. Intentionally placing objects in certain locations of your home will support you in achieving wellness, love, prosperity, and transformation in your life.

The 5 step SPACE Process*

I talk about a 5-step process of creating S.P.A.C.E. Using Sort, Purge, and Assign to take inventory of your possessions. Then, concentrating your time and money on finding ways to Contain your precious goods and information for ease of access and retrieval. Finally, Evaluate your space in terms of creating function and form. It is about getting your space to work for you before you make it pretty.

Feng Shui is an option you can look at to enhance your space for function and form, by improving its energy flow for better productivity. Enhanced energy – better energy flow – will create love, growth, wealth, and good health in your life.

Before you can enhance the flow of energy in your space, it is necessary to clear your space for the energy (chi) to flow.

Earth’s natural elements are:

• Water – North
• Wood – East & South East
• Fire – South
• Earth – South West, Centre, & North East
• Metal – West & North West

Water gives birth to wood, wood to fire, fire to earth, earth to metal, metal to water, and the cycle of life continues.

1. Find true magnetic north in your home.
2. Enhance each corner with the element appropriate to that direction and the direction before it.
3. Face a positive direction when doing important things like sleeping, eating, cooking, and working.
4. Sharp edges, like the corners of bookshelves, exposed beams, corners in your room are ‘Sa Chi’ – killing breath.
5. Soften sharp edges with plants, chimes, crystals or even draping a cloth.

By clearing your piles and enhancing the four corners in your home the flow of energy will come alive, shifting your life in positive directions.

Please contact me for a more detailed handout about Feng Shui directions and elements or for help to clear your space before enhancing the energy around you.

*The S.P.A.C.E. process was originally developed by Julie Morgenstern in her book Organizing from the Inside Out.

 

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