Feng Shui For Love

Has your romantic life been on the blink lately? Perhaps you?ve recently had a relationship that?s gone sour. You may think it is you, or perhaps you blame it on your ex. But maybe it isn?t you, it?s those dried flowers you have prominently displayed in your hallway, or the full length mirror in your bedroom. Feng Shui has applications for the home, office, and yes, even your love life.

Feng Shui (pronounced fung schway) is, in simple terms, the ancient Chinese Art and Science of placing things in our immediate environment in such a way as to improve our health, balance, security, and prosperity. It has been a carefully guarded secret for most of the last 3000 years. Now, anyone can enjoy the benefits of Feng Shui in their own lives.

There are several systems which are used to determine how to arrange your home to enhance your love life. The one that applies the most for our purposes is the Pa Kua system. In Pa Kua, the southwest corner is the love and romance sector of the home.

The first thing you?ll need to do is break out your compass and determine which corner of your home is the southwest corner. If there is a bedroom there, that is great. If there is a bathroom there, not so good. That will keep your romantic interests flushing away as fast as they arrive.

Now look more closely at that southwest corner. Is it badly lit and full of clutter? That means your love-live will suffer the same fate. Think of the southwest corner of your home as a reflection of what you want your romantic life to be. By ridding it of clutter and adding the proper d?cor, you can rejuvenate your chances of attracting just the right special someone for you.

You?ll also want to look in the southwest corner of your bedroom. Try putting a vase with beautiful fresh flowers in it. Many Feng Shui masters suggest a painting of a beautiful flower, and not something prickly, in the southwest corner. The Chinese do not like dried or dead flowers. Always keep some sort of fresh flower there instead.

Also good for your romantic endeavors is a pair of wooden ducks or a painting of two ducks. Ducks mate for life so these are very good symbols for your own romance. If you don?t like how the ducks look, you can simply put two rubber ducks there.

Mirrors on the ceiling and walls, especially full length mirrors, are definitely not good. These big mirrors symbolize portals that the energy from an uninvited third party can enter.

For those of you who dislike Chinese d?cor, the best westernized version is the classic lava lamp. Pink or Yellow goo flowing up and down in your romance sector is sure to create good energy flow. You can also use pictures or statues of loving couples.

For a final touch consider painting the walls adjacent to the southwest corner bright red to symbolize passion. Be careful not to go overboard, but put some of these Feng Shui tips into practice for your own love life and get ready to see what happens.

Charles Chang is a Feng Shui enthusiast and author. He enjoys helping others with feng shui tips through his articles and website.

Feng Shui Problems - Feng Shui Solutions - Feng Shui for Homes and Offices

We often encounter problems and obstacles in life. Using Feng Shui approaches to help overcome them comes with what we call adopting a "Feng Shui Lifestyle." For every obstacle we come across, we are most likely meant to LEARN something. All of life is a learning process but if you get too "stuck" on what the lesson was you won't be able to navigate around the problem. Obstacles can present themselves in a number of way. Health issues, money difficulties, problems with our children or other family members that make us worry, issues with our relationships or careers. In adopting a Feng Shui Lifestyle, take a good, objective look at the problem confronting you. Ask yourself what advice you would give your best friend is they were going through the same thing. Taking a step back from yourself to evaluate the issue is one of the most difficult things to do because it is happening to US.

Is there a way around it? What can you do to relieve the stress associated with it while you are dealing with it? Look at your options; there are always options, the world is not black and white, it is filled with all shades of gray and colors that we sometimes miss. Look for a way to circumvent the issue, even if it is only a temporary solution, until you feel you are more in control and better able to make a good, permanent decision.

Sometimes, for a quick resolution, it is best to confront an obstacle head on. Go right IN to the issue, see what you can do to change the situation immediately. And act on it. This is often difficult for many people and totally normal to not want to confront issues and difficulties head on, but it can offer much relief because they are often more quickly resolved.

A Feng Shui lifestyle asks us to keep a balance in life. Try to remember this as you are going through the "hard" times. Keeping a balance of work and play, in our diet and sleep can help us come to an answer of how best to deal with the obstacle. While it can be extremely difficult to sleep well during these times, do whatever you can to clear your head before bedtime. Besides restoring our bodies for the next day, answers can suddenly come to us when our bodies are most open to thoughts, ideas and solutions.

I believe for every issue there is a way around it whether you have to confront it head on or take a path of least resistance (which is often times while you will see in Feng Shui the words "Go with the Flow." I agree with those words, we are often able to do that but for other obstacles and situations, confronting and dealing with it head on will not keep you "stuck" on it but will allow you to move forward in life. And that's exactly where you want to go, Forward!

Feng Shui Expert Carole Provenzale has been Certified in the art of Feng Shui Studies since 1007 and is the Founder of Feng Shui Long Island, New York. Carole consults with her clients for homes, offices, businesses, corporations, renovations and New Construction as well as working closely with Real Estate Agents to have them apply Feng Shui Principles to get their homes sold quickly. She is also a keynote speaker for large Corporations including Nordstroms, The Long Island Board of Realtors, and Fox 5 and is a published author. Please visit her website at http://www.FengShuiLI.com or email her directly at FengShuiLI@aol.com

Signs of Abundance and Money in Feng Shui

Ever wonder why there are so many quotes about Pennies? Oftentimes we are so busy in our day to day lives of trying to get everything accomplished on our ?to do? lists, we overlook the simple things. Many times we don?t see the significance in the little things that come our way because we don?t believe they are important.

How often have you looked down and seen a penny? And walked right by it? Because, after all, it?s only a penny and doesn?t really amount to anything. Yet some of you WILL bend down to pick up a quarter. Are you seeing these important signs for what they are?

It doesn?t matter the amount, be it a penny or a quarter, what you are coming across is sheer abundance. It?s likely if you walk right past that penny, a quarter will never materialize in your life; or more significant amounts, for that matter. We are ignoring what has been given to us.

A perspective relating to Feng Shui and Money (Wealth) is to recognize that every time we come across any amount, it is significant. It was put there for us to find, pick up and thank the universe for sending it to us. With the intention that more often then not, more will follow. We forget to be grateful sometimes and we forget that it is, truly, the ?little? things in life that add up and make us who and what we are.

A recent example of finding pure abundance came when I was outside blessing a building a client was looking to purchase a building. They wanted to put in a very different type of business from what had been there and even I couldn?t figure out how to deal with the two distinct energies they were trying to create. Their heart and souls were into the purchase of this place and as I was walking the grounds and doing an exterior blessing, I came across eight quarters which had been outside of the property, neatly stacked on top of one another.

A sign of abundance that they would do well there? You bet. I was excited to go back inside and tell them of my ?find.? And my client related that he had been finding a lot of change the last few weeks. He?d just found his new location and had a significant ?sign? that he would do well and prosper there.

He called me tonight, the extensive renovations were finally completed and I am excited to go back and see his new environment. And know that he found the place he was meant to have and created it to what it has become, although it was a challenge.

The next time you?re walking down the block and find a penny, stop and think. And instead of just passing it by, take a moment to stop, pick it up and send out blessings for the sign of abundance you might have passed over before.

Carole Provenzale, CFSP

Feng Shui Long Island

http://www.fengshuili.com/

FengShuiLI@aol.com

Feng Shui Expert Carole Provenzale is the Founder of Feng Shui Long Island and has been providing caring, affordable consultations since 1997 for all of Long Island, New York City, Queens and Online for those at a distance. Consultations provided for Homes, Businesses, Offices, Corporations, Renovations and New Construction. Carole is also a keynote speaker and published author and is available for workshops, seminars and training. Please visit her website at http://www.FengShuiLI.com or email her directly at FengShuiLI@aol.com

Feng Shui-What It Can Do For You An Intro

The ancient art of Feng Shui can bring you success in a number of forms including better relationships, health, creativity and generally more success in work and your personal life.

It's easy to do so lets look at Feng Shui in more detail.

Pronounced different ways depending on the dialect feng shui (fong shway, foong swee, etc) is the very ancient Chinese proto-science of space management.

It comprises the arranging of buildings, interiors of buildings, and spaces between and in between in order to harmonize the environment with the perfect order of the universe. Feng Shui roughly means ?the way of the water and wind?

How Old is Feng Shui?

Actually, there is no evidence of an origin, or even of a certain place.

Ancient Chinese villages from over 6,000 years ago show graves being laid out in classical feng shui style. However, in ancient Europe, there are many of the same evidence, and it appears that our ancestors were pre-occupied with this harmonization with the universe. The monolithic stones at Stonehenge are a good example.

The pyramids also are arranged in perfect feng shui. The science may not have been Chinese originally, but has since been taken as a native Chinese art and science.

What Is Good and Bad Feng Shui?

Good feng shui is meant to bring one success, good health, successful relationships, manners, creative talent, and aid meditation.

Bad feng shui block all of these and seem to produce their opposites.

How Feng Shui Is Supposed to Work

The ancient seers and sages were observers of the world and the universe.

They knew that as everything that exists contains chi or qi (life force), and this life force is made up of two opposites, ying and yang.

Yin is the feminine or reception form of the qi, and yang is the masculine or creative and active form.

They understood that yin and yang cannot exist without one another. Furthermore, the sages divided the qi into eight qualities, namely the Lake, the Mountain, Fire, Water, Heaven, Wind and Earth.

The sages devised a system of understanding the energy patters from these elements, and with the proper arrangement, a person who resided or moved within a harmonized environment, gained the good feng shui as well.

This arrangement is called ba gua (Sequence of the Later Heaven), and it is superimposed on each house or interior the feng shui master wishes to evaluate and correct.

Certain qualities are found in each of the eight elements, such as health, creativity, even luck. The feng shui master makes the space arrangement not only in harmony with the universe and qi, but also, your personal situation and circumstance.

Some Practical Examples of Employing Feng Shui

1. Mirrors in one?s home should not face your bed or even chairs

2. The front door or any home or apartment must not be too big or too large. Either of these will keep the qi from flowing properly.

3. Your home should not be near the end of a bridge, a church, or even a highway. All of these will have too fast qi or not enough.

4. Understanding that qi enters one home from the doors, you must have doors facing each other, as that lets the qi move too quickly out of the room (apartment, home). Rather have doors on adjoining walls.

5. When decorating your home, never put a sofa or chair with their backs to a door or window.

6. Windows must have a good and pleasant view, if not, window ?dress? it with flowers or some other ornaments.

7. When buying land to build a house on, but sure the lot is rectangular, preferably on a hill and having open spaces between the house and the end of the lot.

This is only a brief introduction to to the art of Feng Shui discover more and change your life today.

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Feng Shui Money-How One Client Made A Bundle

This has got to be the best! Recently I had the good fortune to participate in a total Renovation in a home. The entire inside of the large house was gutted and I was asked for advice on colors, new furniture, whether to heighten the ceiling, how many bathrooms to put in and where they should be placed; it was quite an undertaking and I was enjoying the hours we spent discussing different aspects of things.

Lucy, my client, was a lovely lady. With very particular tastes and fortunately, had the finances to change the "shell" she had purchased into anything she wanted. I always ask my clients how they heard about Feng Shui, what drew them to it. And I've heard many stories over the years, but this was MY particular favorite:

Lucy had started a new business in Brooklyn five years ago; it was a day care center. One problem: she was open almost three months and had not been able to sign one child up. She was worried she would have to close it already, after the expense of work she had done there as well as rent and other expenses, she was pretty much tapped out.

One thing I love about Lucy is that she doesn't pull any punches. She tells people things straight out and never thinks to censor her words. One day while literally praying for a customer, an elderly Chinese man came in. She looked straight at him and said "Mister, if you came to ask me for money, you're flat out of luck. I don't have a dime and if I don't get a miracle soon, I'll be out of business."

Very quietly, the man turned to leave. But he turned back around, reached in his pocket and handed Lucy a ten dollar bill. "You have an empty fish tank" he said. "Take this money and go buy some fish, the money will come." Lucy said she was a bit stunned but closed the business and walked down the block to buy some fish as he directed. The next day, she reported, she signed up four children to her day care center. Today, five years later, there is a waiting list to get in for that one and the other one she opened.

She had never heard of Feng Shui and the kind gentleman did not mention it but a few weeks later she caught part of a show talking about it. And they focused on a fish tank. She said something clicked with her and she had been reading about it and employing Feng Shui techniques since then.

You have to wonder, did Lucy just get lucky and strike it rich? Or could some fish have attracted all this wealth into her life? She'll swear it's the fish and after all the years of doing this work, I would too. She was finally able to purchase her dream house (well, her dream shell and turn it into her dream house). She calls me on occasion to give me updates on the house, how it is coming and most importantly, how it feels. She loves it and says it is her sanctuary.

That is how we all should feel from the moment we walk in the door, out of the stresses of the outside world and home in our own dream house, whether it is large or small. While most of my client's certainly don't have the results Lucy has had with Feng Shui, it never ceases to amaze me the transformations that have occurred for them; New and better careers, finding the love of their life, achieving a pregnancy they thought would never happen, the stores are endless. And always wonderful to hear.

The next time you are feeling down, stuck, or wanting to change something in your life, try Lucy's approach. Get a fish tank and buy some fish. In Feng Shui, we ask that you get Nine red goldfish and one Black one. We buy the black one to absorb the energy if one of the others passes over, sort of like insurance. If it doesn't attract lots of wealth into your life, at least you'll have something very pretty to look at! And honestly, you'll never know until you try.

Feng Shui Money

How one Client made a Bundle

By: CaroleProvenzale

FengShui

Certified Practitioner since 1997

http://www.fengshuili.com/

Feng Shui Expert Carole Provenzale has been a Certified Feng Shui Practitioner and Founder of Feng Shui Long Island since 1997. Carole provides personalized and affordable Feng Shui Consultations for all of Long Island, Queens, New York City and online for those at a distance. She is also a keynote speaker for large and small corporations including Fox 5, Norstrom's and The Long Island Board of Realtors. She is also a member and past Chapter Director for Long Island for the International Feng Shui Guild. She is available for lectures and workshops. For more information, please visit her website at http://www.FengShuiLI.com or email her at FengShuiLI@aol.com