FENG SHUI TIPS

Feng Shui and the Spirit of Change
by Stanley Bartlett

7) Embrace your environment: Embrace your environment as if it were a part of you which it is! For those who are more sensitive to energies there is more that can be done. Begin by clearing any old denser energies from the environment by using sage, incense, candles, chimes, or just by singing and dancing throughout the environment with clear intention. Fill your environment with love and light. This can be done as often as you feel is useful but in particular should be done when first occupying space or after some trauma has occurred. Environments sometimes do hold onto old energies from previous occupants so it is helpful to clear them.

Feng Shui & Colours
Feng Shui also has a way of using colors to create balance. There are several philosophies about color but they are all based on the principle that every color has a unique vibrational frequency. Feng Shui seeks to have all colors in harmonic balance with a representation of each of the primary colors in your space. This might be thought of in a similar way to the 7 colors of the chakras, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple. It is fine to have white walls and then balance out the colors with the rugs, pictures chairs etc. Avoid too much of any one color such as brown floor, brown walls, brown ceiling.
Feng Shui stresses the importance of integrating the practical/tangible issues with the transcendental/intangible aspects. The practical/tangible aspects include such issues as color, placement of furniture, lighting, doorways, floor plans, electrical pollution, air quality etc. The transcendental/intangible aspects are beyond intellectual understanding and involve mantras, mudras, and visualizations to affect change in our environment. It is important to combine practical aspects with transcendental aspects for maximum results. Considering only the practical aspects of Feng Shui might be 40% effective in creating harmonious space, however when the practical is combined with the transcendental then it may have a 140% effectiveness. Knowledge of these transcendental aspects allows a Feng Shui Practitioner to see through our environment what we are unable to see in our selves
Everyone can learn to connect with their environment in more whole ways and it is time for us to do so. We can no longer continue to abuse the environments. Feng Shui is becoming popular not as a fad but rather as a universal truth. Many are finding ways of explaining what was done intuitively in the past or why other things have not worked so well. The time is now! This is our wake up call.
Love and Embrace your environments as part of you and it will joyously give back to you Love and Universal Peace. This is Feng Shui in its purity.

The Chinese principles of feng shui stress the importance of setting up your office so that the flow of energy does not cause disturbances. This is critical for having a clear mind and good fortune in your business.

Steps:

1. Position the desk so that you have clear sight of the door, with the wall at your back. This position allows you to see who is entering, while the wall represents the tortoise, which provides you with security and protection.
2. Keep the area in front of the desk clear, allowing the phoenix ample space to fly ahead.
3. Avoid placing your desk beside or directly opposite the door. These positions put you in the direct path of the energy flow.
4. Avoid situating the desk so that you are facing a wall. The wall acts as a barrier and is confining.
5. Avoid placing files and copy machines in the center of a room. The placement will cause disturbances in the flow of energy.