Feng Shui in the home

The Feng Shui masters have provided you with the technical know-how for evaluating your home. Implementing the Feng Shui Design and cures in your home has a profound effect on your life. Based on the ancient knowledge and practices, Feng Shui is a spiritual way of life that helps you to imbibe the positive forces of the universe. All the spiritual principles of the Feng Shui also have a strong scientific foundation underlying it.

When you first start looking around spaces in your home you would not be in a position to decide what changes to make, or there can be many areas that you might wish to change; especially if you live in a larger house. But when you let Feng Shui in the home it only tells you where to start, it also tells you the significance of doing so. Bringing Feng Shui in the home design is just not about making physical changes, it is about giving significance to each and every object in your home so that it has positive effect (or positive Chi as it is called in Feng Shui) that particular space, your home and off course your life.

A Feng Shui house is a house where all the objects are in perfect harmony to each other whether we talk about the Feng Shui Elements contained in them or the particular colors that have been used to enhance the space. The Feng Shui is about balancing energies, of animate with inanimate and that of the soul with that of the universe, so that you get the positive energies of the universe flowing through the entire spaces in your house.

Believe it or not, every single household or decorative object in your home is just as imbued with life energy as the natural wonders beyond your front door and it has a scientific basis for it.

Bringing Feng Shui in the home does not ask you to throw out all your furniture, renovate your home, or move to new living quarters as you may have perceived the Feng Shui would lead you to. In quintessence to The Spiritual Feng Shui such upheaval could actually create turmoil rather than correcting imbalanced energies. Similarly trying to fix everything at once is a recipe for confusion and chaos, because in that case you will be throwing the relationships between objects out of whack.

Remember, Feng Shui is all about the connections and energy flow between objects and people, so proceed gradually, in stages, testing out how each small change influences the Chi of the space. Before practicing Feng Shui in your home try to understand its principles, its essence and most importantly its spiritual nature; then and only then you can envision and bring about the specific changes in the objects, environment and quality of life that you desire.

Each area of your life (health, reputation, family, travel, and so on) is strongly associated with various parts of your home. These associations may be determined using the bagua map.

The beauty of Feng Shui is that it suddenly makes visible to us all these things in our home or home design that we have been living with for years, and that have gone unnoticed. We tend to get tunnel vision, so that we are accustomed to our way of life and don't see how it could be any different. But when we view our homes through the lens of Feng Shui, we begin to see the ways in which our surroundings, different objects or the clutter in our house are placing a burden on our spirits. The Feng Shui helps us to be able to identify and pinpoint specific areas in our home that have been letting us down. The spiritual Feng Shui opens our spirit to the whole universe and we learn to recognize elements that have remained invisible to us for so long.

A Feng Shui house is a house where any change that you make, any cure you introduce into your home or home design is a conscious and deliberate (and well thought out) action that you have taken specifically with the intent of improving your life. It is important know that Feng Shui in home works only when the practitioner puts full mindfulness into each task along the way. A careful Feng Shui Study.

Before making any changes in the home design the Feng Shui beginners have to first know about the various Feng Shui Elements, Feng Shui Color and then start practicing Feng Shui in the home design.

When you get the insight into what is Feng Shui you are able to balance the negative energies of the elements that may be present in the objects of your home with using Feng Shui in home design. Similarly practicing Feng Shui in home using color and other enhancement allows the positive Chi to flow through your home and let you have a better and happier life.

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Donna Stellhorn: Keeping it Real with Feng Shui

As our fair globe becomes smaller and smaller due to technological advances, the ancient arts and sciences of faraway lands have become incorporated into our daily lives. The art of Feng Shui is a perfect example. Feng Shui writings go back more than 2000 years, and portray an interesting history--it's original use applied to finding the right burial place for a loved one, to becoming the basic philosophy for designing towns and cities. Hong Kong is an example of a metropolis that plans according to Feng Shui principles.

We had a chance to talk with Donna Stellhorn, who is a board member of the Massachusetts chapter of the International Feng Shui Guild and who makes regular radio and television appearances in the Boston Area. Donna is also a brilliant astrologer, and I had the honor of having my birth horoscope interpreted by her. I've studied astrology quite a bit, but Donna came up with some subtleties in my chart that even I had been unaware of, giving me enhanced understanding of my life situation. It was a good thing...

Donna is also well-versed in Chinese astrology and often times incorporates it into her work with Feng Shui clients. "If somebody's very interested and wants to go really in depth about their own person, then pull a standard astrology chart. But for a house, I'm more concerned about how their Chinese astrology is meshing with the astrology of the house. So when you move into a house, because of the year, you get an animal sign, and you have an animal. So let's say that you're a rooster and you move into a house in the year of the dog. Well, the dog chases the rooster all around, running you ragged. So we need something to calm that energy down. We'd put things in there that would calm the dog--maybe things that were shaped like a bone, or big pillows, or things like that."

Donna acknowledges Feng Shui is a vast study--almost as big as astrology. Because China is so big, different systems emerged in different areas. "They're all valid," says Donna. "Just like different martial arts systems. So there's Kung Fu and Tai Chi--they're both very valid, it's just very hard to mix them. But it does all work. From a very basic level it is when you combine a physical action for a spiritual reason you get huge results. I want whoever's up there to connect to me and help me out. I really believe that whoever's up there can't do anything without our permission. It's a freewill place. They give us all this help, and the Feng Shui is just one example of that, and that's why it works so well."

Donna is big on practical application of Feng Shui principles, and she considers keeping it realistic is part of making Feng Shui work. "So I think it's important that people look at each room and say, Well, this I can do, but this would cause a hardship and a change that I don't want to do. It says you have to move your kitchen to the southwest, well that's going to be a lot of trouble."

Because Feng Shui is so old, there have been many systems of the art and stacks upon stacks of rules, but Donna has the ability to slice through any dogma, to get to the issue at hand. "When I go into to do a consultation," says Donna, "I want to find out what the person wants. I don't want to dogmatically just say, Okay this has to be blue, and this has to be red over here and a flower here. I want to say, Look, you've got a giant cow skull over your bed. Do you want your relationship dead? Is that what you're looking for? And it might be. They might say, I really, really want this relationship to end, so I'm going to put objects that are symbols of death all around the place. Or they can say, Oh my god, my relationship is dying just because I have this piece of art here?? And we can say, Okay, let's take that down."

A person's psychology makeup can greatly affect their experience with Feng Shui, along with their beliefs and expectations. "I've had people experience Feng Shui is different ways," reports Donna. "I've had people buy one of the little cures, take it home, and not even put it up, and have something happen. 'I put the money cure by the phone, and my aunt called me and gave me a car.' Stuff like that. On the other hand, there was a woman who wanted to sell her grocery store, and she wanted $100,000 for it. So she placed the Feng Shui cures up, and her great aunt sells off some land and she receives a check for $100,000. I said, That's it! You've got it! And she said, 'No, I need to sell the store for $100,000,' so she didn't recognize that. That's an extreme example, but that's why I say you have to be open enough to recognize when the changes are happening."

Donna says the areas of career and romance have been the current hot topics, so she's got some useful suggestions about how to design the energy flow in the home to enhance access to opportunity. "The area of career is near the front door. I mean the actual front door--the one that is architecturally considered the front door, maybe not the one you're using. What you should do is change out the welcome mat to welcome the new job. When you're doing that, you're going to look for a welcome mat that's clean, that looks very pretty, also that doesn't have pictures on it of things you wouldn't normally want to step on--so, no kittens, puppies, American flags. Usually something in natural material because we want to make the new job welcome."

When it comes to romance, there are a couple of approaches depending on how you want the romance to go. "One thing that a person can do to call somebody brand new into their life is buy new sheets. We want to change the energy of the bedroom, and one of the most inexpensive ways is just to get those sheets. They should consider sheets that are not in the pinks. I know traditionally, pink we associate with love--but that's love that in an existing relationship. If you're trying to attract new love with such a soft color, as those pastel pinks, you'll get a love in your life that has no energy to it. So the person doesn't call you, they're not enthusiastic--you have to do all the work. So red sheets, peach would be fine, even blue. Of course, by changing the sheets, you are calling that relationship right into the bedroom. So if you don't want to do that, then you'll want to enhance the living room so that they start as a friendship. Decorating, adding some things to the living room as though a special guest is coming."

Once you've managed to get out on that new date, the condition of your car can be a factor in more ways than one. "Now, our car out in the world is an extension of ourselves," declares Donna. "The condition of our car is an extension of how we feel about ourselves. So if you keep a really messy car, it can mean that things inside, internally, are not as straightened up as they should be. If you want to head off to new places to have exciting things happen where you can reach those opportunities easily, well then, clean up the car inside and out."

And if you are visiting the local thrift store to find some funky hip duds to wear on that date, Donna cautions, "The Chinese are more concerned about taking used objects from others, because they say that the energies of past owners will reside in the object. If the person was ill or had bad luck, that problem may be transferred to you. So they're more hesitant about antique furniture or used clothing than we would be." So if you're very sensitive or psychically aware, and you do want to get used things, you might want to use some sort of clearing technique on them before you use them--like sage smudging, candle lighting, incense burning, crystal placement, or Reiki.

"Feng Shui is about locating Chi energy, attracting it to where you want it to be," writes Donna on her website. "Letting it pool and reaping the benefits of that collection of good energy. In Feng Shui we also are aware of bad Chi (Sha Chi) and how it can affect our health, relationships and wealth. By finding the Chi, determining the quality of the Chi, and adding to the quantity of the good Chi we can affect great change in our lives."

Visit Donna Stellhorn's website, www.fengshuisource.com.

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Boyd joined Subtle Energy Solutions in 1998 as a product distributor, and came on as a staff member in 2002. He designed the website and sees to its daily maintenance, including the Vibrant Living Newsletter, where he is a writer. Boyd is a well-known musician (drummer) in the Portland, Oregon, area, and is an avid, daily Bikram Yoga student.