Feng Shui Cures

Feng Shui Cures

Once you have begun to set your goals and remove the clutter from your space, you can think about implementing what are called Feng Shui cures. In order to do this, you must have at least a basic understanding of the eight main categories of Feng Shui cures: color, light, touch, smell, taste, living things, artwork, and movement. Each cure can be implemented in a multitude of ways. Keep in mind your own personality and decorating styles when you are incorporating a variety of Feng Shui cures in your home or office.

• • • Color: Color has different vibrations and each color has a purpose and a time to be used.
    • Light: Lighting is best brought into the home by natural sunlight. Placement of good quality lighting can either uplift or calm an area. On the one hand, bright lights keep the room full of movement and activity while lower lighting, has a subduing or calming effect.
    • Touch: Though we touch things everyday, it seems that some Feng Shui teachings overlooking the effects of this sense. To understand this better, take a day and purposely focus on the power of touch around your home. Feel the warmth of your couch or the coolness of your tables. Feel the sensations from your pillows, clothes, food. The warmth of a mug relaxes you while the coldness of a drink makes you want to move and get going with your day.
    • Smell: Aromas are very powerful and are easy to bring into the home. The smell of lemons makes the home feel light and airy while the smell of a rotten bag of potatoes makes your home feel heavy and thick. One small smell from one section of the home changes the energy composition through the entire house. You can change the smells of the physical space and the energy levels with essential oils, good quality scented candles and fresh air.
    • Living Things: Pets, plants, and flowers can have a positive, beneficial effect on the energy in the home.
    • Artwork: Homes are filled with artwork. The type of artwork you choose may say something about what is going on in your life, spiritually speaking or offer insights to your personality. Proper usage of artwork to influence the flow of energy around the house or office. To keep stagnation from taking hold, it is all crucial to make changes in your surroundings because these changes in artwork can have tangible effects on our mood and on how we are dealing with life’s circumstances.
    • Movement: Energy is always in motion. In the context of Feng Shui, motion can take the form of the quality of air movement in your home. If your space is heavy and still, it may create oppressive feelings and weariness. While a home that has plenty of air flow, especially fresh air, will produce positive effects like increased energy.

Sleeping Problems

Of the many things different people are trying to improve in their lives by using Feng Shui, there are some who look for remedies for various health conditions. This is true for people with sleeping problems as well. It is very important that we pay attention to our sleep, due to the fact that it affects all the activities we do during the day as well as it has a direct impact on our health.

• • • Avoid sleeping with the head towards the door – It is important to be able to see the door of your bedroom, yet without being directly in front of it at the same time. It allows for more optimum levels of positive chi and eliminates the flow of negative chi caused by such exposed sleeping positions.
    • Avoid sleeping under a window – Sleeping right beneath a window will have a negative impact on your chi and may cause the loss of positive energy by dispersing it. But if your bed is right under the window, any negative chi which could enter into the room through it would go directly to you, and therefore affect you. In the event that you cannot arrange you room to keep you from sleeping beneath a window, be sure that you’ve placed some barrier on the window. This could be in the form of a blanket or a curtain. The barrier provides a good defense against negative chi.
    • Avoid having pictures depicting water displayed in the bedroom – According to Feng Shui principles, having such types of pictures in the bedroom can cause insomnia as well as attract negative energy (or bad luck) to those who sleep into the room. Either remove the offending picture or keep it far from the bed.
    • Remove jagged or weapon-like images or objects from the bedroom – You need to check for any sharp-edged element or corner which may be pointing towards the place where you sleep. If this element is something you cannot remove easily then you can counteract its potential to deliver negative chi by simply covering it or obstructing it.

Can Feng Shui Be Used to Find Wealth?

Many who are practicing Feng Shui want to focus on the possible monetary or financial benefits that can result from its use in the home and the office. Any sort of genuine spiritual or physical health concerns are quickly crowded out. They seem less interested in achieving sense of balance and harmony with the natural world around them and more with filling their wallets.

Along with this rationale, there are questions that may amount to criticism of the system as a whole. It may be asked, if Feng Shui really works, then why is there no obvious evidence in history of Feng Shui practitioners having wealthy or prosperous descendents. Of course, these types of questions almost always concern material wealth.

They fail to realize the focus of many of these early masters and those that came after them. They were less concerned with fame and fortune than they were achieving the spiritual and philosophical results of cultivating positive chi using Feng Shui.

They lived a life of spiritual and religious devotion, cherishing good deeds and accumulating positive virtues above and beyond worldly gain. Many such students of Feng Shui were adherents of Taoist and Buddhist teachings and looked upon themselves as Jia Pi Nang, or “false body.”  They regarded these spiritual realities much more strongly than having money themselves or even passing it on to their descendants.

In such a context, the question is not whether genuine Feng Shui will result in financial gain, it is whether we should be so concerned with the way we approach the use of Feng Shui from such materialistic or selfish motives.