Feng Shui Your Home Office To Increase Fortune And Success

Feng Shui Your Office To Increase Fortune And Success!
by BB Lee(C)2001-2002

Feng Shui is a very popular way to increase your fortune, luck, and bring much success to your home business. In fact, the way you set-up your home office will have a direct effect on your total
ability to achieve success.

Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of luck management. The belief is that by manipulating your environment you can enhance your luck in personal and business matters. This is established by increasing the energy flow in your environment. The belief is that all objects possess energy. This energy force is called Chi. An object's Chi has a direct effect on the environment. Chi influence can be positive or negative.

What follows is a list of easy practical solutions you can use immediately to increase the positive "Chi" in your home office.

1. Clutter be-gone!
Clear up your desk. Clean out your drawers. Get rid of furniture that you do not use. Clutter creates stagnant Chi and will stop positive energy flow.

2. Poison Arrows...Out of here.
Sharp angles are known as poison arrows in Feng Shui. Soften sharp pointy corners with a plant or covering.

3. Sit with your back against a solid wall.
This will ensure that you have support in your life. Never sit with a window at your back. This signifies lack of support, back-stabbing.

4. Arrange furniture In harmony.
This will allow the Chi to flow smoothly through the room without bumping into large objects.

5. Place your home office computer and desk in the wealth corner.
This will increase your business. (Southwest corner)

6. Place a Dragon on the right side of your desk facing the door.
This will magnify your personal profile and make you a leader in your industry.

7. Place cash register in the wealth corner.
This will increase the money flow if you own a store.

8. Do not place cactus or sharp looking plants in your home office.
The Chi that rides through the air will have to pass through them and will cause Chi to be fierce and sharp.

9. Do not place your home office in a room with two doors.
Positive Chi will enter and surely leave through the other door.

10. In your home office never have your desk right at the main door.
The Chi coming in will slap you in the face and will cause you to have more obstacles than good luck.

11. Hang crystal in your office entrance.
This will enhance the positive Chi. Your business will be quick, very vibrant, and sparkle.

12. Do not place equipment that dispenses heat near main door.
This will cause Chi that enters the room to be hot and disperse very quickly. Thus, your business will be hot, but cool off very fast.

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Feng Shui Colors And What They Represent

Feng shui colors knowledge can allow you to choose the right colors to create harmony in any living or working space as well as it can be used with anything that involves choosing colors. According to feng shui colors specifications, colors should not be used randomly but according to what they represent.

Each one of the five elements, water, wood, fire, earth and metal are represented by different colors and that allow us to create feng shui colors based harmony. We will detail the colors each one of the elements represent through the next lines in order to help you choosing the right colors for your home or office decoration as well as the look for harmony within anything involving the use of colors.

The element water, according to feng shui colors representation chart, is represented by the colors blue and black and all their shades. This means that if, for example, you need to add more of the water element in a room, you could do so by adding these colors to it.

Next, and according to feng shui colors spectrum, wood is represented by all shades of green. Therefore, by painting a room green or adding green objects you would be including more wood in it. The next element, fire, is represented by red, pink and maroon and adding any of these colors within a space would be as adding that element.

The last two elements symbolized by feng shui colors are earth and metal. The feng shui element earth is represented by the color orange, yellow, and brown. And the element metal is represented by color white, silver, gray and gold. Using any of the colors within these last two groups would add more of the element which they represent.

A house position also determines the color which we should ideally use in its exterior. A house facing south should be white, gray or blue, facing SW should be in red or earth shades, facing west should be in blue or green or if it is facing north it should have green shades or red. A house facing NE should be painted in earth shades or red, and if it is either facing east or SE it should be in metal or earth shades.

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Using Feng Shui to Clear the Clutter

Clearing the clutter and debris in your home and in your personal life is the first step of Feng Shui and it costs nothing. Clutter is trapped energy that has a far-reaching effect physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Clutter makes you feel unorganized, confused, keeps you in the past, congests your body, and leaves you feeling lethargic and tired. Clutter is energy constipation and who needs that?

Ridding yourself of clutter (even things which were once of value to your life) makes room in your life for what you really want and need now, at this point in your life.

Ten Tips for Eliminating Clutter

1. Use the Ultimate Clutter Test ~ Does it lift your energy? Do you use it? Do you love it? If you answer no to these questions, it's time to let it go.
2. Give yourself a miniature energy shift ~ Set a kitchen timer for 30 minutes and clear a small area such as a kitchen drawer. You will probably find you are feeling more energized and might have trouble stopping!
3. Put things away within 30 seconds of using them. ~ How many times have you tossed a magazine on the table, intending to get back to it? Is it still on the coffee table? Just for today, put everything back in its place.
4. Throw things away often ~ 80% of what is stored or saved is never used again - that applies to papers, clothes, magazines etc. Maybe it's time to clean out those old files stored on your computer or your desk?
5. Make a list of all the unfinished things in your life ~ This could include letters or phone calls you need to make, someone you need to apologize to, an appliance that doesn't work. Then set out to complete these things. They have all been draining your energy.
6. Do a little clutter busting every day ~ Sort mail daily and file your paperwork. Have a place to put things so you don't waste time looking for your keys etc.
7. Get rid of old clothes ~ Ask yourself these questions: Do my clothes represent who I am now? Do they make me feel good about myself? If your closet is filled with clothes you no longer need, donate them to charity. Open up space in your closet for new things to come in.
8. Clean out your cupboards and refrigerator ~ Do you have any non-perishable items that you know you won't eat? Donate them to a food bank or offer them to your neighbor. Get rid of outdated food items in the refrigerator and give it a good cleaning.
9. Donate books that no longer serve your needs ~ Aim to have a collection of books that represent you as you are today, not who you were in the past.
10. Think before you buy ~ The next time you go shopping, ask yourself before you buy something, "Do I really love this and need it?"

As you identify and release your clutter, you free up the energy held there for more constructive purposes. Your life may take off in ways you never thought possible.

Clearing your clutter is essential in Feng Shui. What you want is available to you, but there may be no room in your home and life for it! Letting go of what no longer serves must occur before more treasures can come into your life. Releasing clutter can help you clear life patterns which do not serve you any longer. The simple act of clearing clutter can transform your life by releasing negative emotions, generating energy, and allowing you to create space in your life for the things you want to achieve.

Begin today by choosing one area to begin with, such as a counter top that has accumulated an entire month of junk mail. You'll get more, I promise! Keep the clutter-busting simple. If you look at the whole picture, you might become overwhelmed and not do anything. As you eliminate the clutter from your environment, visualize what it is that you are making room for. This will begin the process of manifestation.

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Feng Shui: Energizing The Home

One often overlooked aspect of Feng Shui is how intangible, invisible, energy can effect a home?s environment and the occupant?s emotional state and health.

While the whole concept of this may appear to be ?hog wash? or ?superstitious mumbo-jumbo?, then you need to read this article and learn how to use an ancient art to improve the look and feel of your home, without breaking your budget.

Energy can take invisible forms. It works with the invisible energy in a home and can vary depending on the season. In the outdoors, energy flows freely, taking the road of least resistance. A building captures energy and traps it.

This energy resides in different parts of the home, effecting the feel and mood of the rooms. The principles of the spatial and temporal dimensions of a building have created a method called the Flying Stars System. This lets Feng Shui masters identify and evaluate the invisible energy in the home.

The flying star system breaks a home into a tic tac toe grid. This grid determines the rooms that have the strongest positive energy and those that have the negative energy.

Home decorators who take time to learn this type of decorating will find some startling facts. Despite the fact that the system uses ancient techniques, many of today?s homes are built on a similar scale.

Most new homes have the master bedroom at the front corner of the home ? as apposed to a room in the middle of the home, where negative energy is strongest. The center square is the living room. In many of today?s home designs, the house is built around a center entrance way that leads into a living room.

Our kitchens are also placed in a back corner of the home. This may imply that while Americans are unconscious of the fact, they are instinctively following the energy patterns of their home.

How can this benefit the average person? Many people are suffering from diseases that have no origin. Even if moving from one bedroom to another will not heal a person, it may reduce stress and a negative impact.

Whether the flying star system tracks loose ions in the home, or energy that escapes from our many electrical appliances, is not understood. What is understood is that many people are finding relief from stress and pain by moving from one room to another in the home.

If a homeowner can get over the ancient Chinese classifications like ?flow of prosperity?, ?promoting wealth?, and references to the year that a building was constructed, it is possible to glean some practical benefits from the study of the flow of energy in a home.

In many cases, feng shui will help home owners create a home that balances with the surrounding landscape.

One thing we do understand, art has a dramatic impact on people?s emotions and well-being. To view feng-shui as the science of turning a home and the surrounding environment into a ?work of art? than you?ll be able to reap the full benefits of managing the home?s energy and its affect on the homes occupants.

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