5 Feng Shui Tips For the Bathroom

The bathroom may seem to be an insignificant part of the house, but there are many taboos in feng shui when it comes to the location of toilets. In ancient China, toilets are considered to be bad feng shui. If you look at ancient Chinese buildings, you will realize that the toilets are often located in a separate building away from the house.

In modern times however, an attached bathroom is considered a luxury, and most houses have at least two bathrooms or more. Here are five bathroom feng shui taboos to observe.

1. Never locate the bathroom in the Northwest and Southwest sectors of your home. The Northwest direction of your house represents the patriarch while the Southwest direction represents the matriarch. In the household, it is important to make sure that the farther and mother enjoy good feng shui as they provide for and support for the whole family. If you already have bathrooms in these areas, and relocating them isn't an option, at the very least try to relocate to toilet bowl so that it is not directly located in those sectors.

2. For many of us the toilet is a place to relax. It is also a sanctuary after a long day's work. Having lavish decorations in the bathrooms if the common interior design trend today. One must be careful not to be overly ostentatious in decorating the bathroom. For example, it is inauspicious to decorate the bathroom with luxurious elements such as gold, crystals, diamonds, or anything that represents wealth and prosperity. The bathroom is where waste and water gets flushed away. An overly ostentatious bathroom represents wealth being flushed away.

3. Another important tip is to never place a bathroom directly above the main door. The main door is the most important part of the home and should be kept auspicious. Having a toilet directly above the main door (on the higher floor) ruins the feng shui of your home's entrance. This is a major taboo when it comes to bathrooms. If your bathroom is located in such a manner, you must either relocate your bathroom or the main entrance. This configuration does not only bring bad luck, but also tragedies and misfortunes.

4. Today it is common for bedrooms to have an attached bathroom. In such a configuration, one must make sure that the bed and the toilet bowl to not share the same wall.

5. The most inauspicious part of the WC is the toilet (or more specifically the toilet bowl). The bathroom, where you have your shower or bath, can be big and spacious. The toilet should be as small and as discrete as you can manage. Preferably, the toilet should be located in a different room, separated by a door. This way, you can have the bath area as big as you want and have it decorated as ostentatiously as you want it to be.

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Feng Shui Tips to Attracting Wealth to Your Home

The 'wind and the water' or Feng Shui has been a large part of many traditional and modern Chinese folks for thousands of years and have followed them into the 21st century of modernity and the information age. I can totally understand this attitude, I mean everyone needs all the luck they can get and the great thing about Feng Shui is that it is very affordable and the effects can be life changing.

Every one of us has a foible or some sort of quirky tradition we do to increase our luck. It can be a favourite locker at the gym or a favourite shoe we wear on a specific day. Sounds strange? Sure, but people swear by them.

Millions of people swear by Feng Shui and if you are at all interested in bringing a tidal wave of luck and prosperity to your life, here are some fengshui tips to attracting wealth to your home.

Colours Of Your House
One of the best ways is to have a look at the colours of your house. White is a bad colour for most Chinese especially in Feng Shui because is represents death. Colour is important in bringing prosperity to your home because it creates a vibrant relationship with nature.

Try to add some red into important areas of the house, like your work area, or even the bedroom. Shades of red and even pink will do as they are colours of luck in oriental tradition. Luck translates directly into wealth and prosperity.

Gold is also considered to be one of the best colours to use. Try to accessorise your place with some gold, a Chinese speciality shop is one of the best places to look, or if one isn't available, Western substitutes will sometimes do just as well.

Arrangement Of Your House
Feng shui and Chi - or good energy needs more space and less clutter for energy to be attracted to your home and flow evenly within. This is where some rearrangement needs to take place and if a place looks messy and gives you an uncomfortable feeling, it is more than just likely that it has some really bad feng shui and is chasing your wealth 'Chi' away faster than a bad smell in a small room. Breathing spaces are important especially in places in your house where you store money or do work.

Also, exits should never be in clear views within the house - especially when you first walk in to your house. Money and prosperity riding on waves of good energy will walk in to your place and leave just as quickly through exits. Don't make them the highlight of your décor, and some Chinese households even use a screen to cover them up.

Have a look into feng shui crystals, because they are believed to be powerful tools that resonate with frequencies that bring wealth, health and prosperity to the household. Do a bit of research because each crystal has a specific purpose.

These are just some fengshui tips to transform your place from a vacuum of profit to a living breathing magnet for wealth and opportunity. The process is most of the time simple and if you can invest a bit more, have a Feng Shui Master to come and have a peek and your place - maybe make some recommendations. You won't regret it.

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Top 10 Feng Shui Tips for home by Elizabeth Chamberlain

Feng Shui Tips For Choosing a New Home

Here are some preliminary feng shui tips if you have set your eyes on a new house, and are just a step away from making it your dream home. The price is right, the sellers seem nice enough, and your agent swears there are others waiting in line for this piece of prized property.

Road forms

Do this as you drive toward the house. Observe the roads around the house.

1. There should be no roads pointing directly into the house.
2. The house should be at the concave bend of the road; i.e. the road should bend around the house rather than away from the house.
3. The house should not be at the dead end point of the road.
4. Roads that completely encircle the house, is inauspicious.
5. The house should not have roads on more than 2 sides.
6. Roads may not be found at both front and back of the house.
7. Houses near fast roads, like highways, train tracks, airport runways are very inauspicious.
8. Avoid houses near steep, heavy-traffic roads.
9. Avoid houses under or near flyover bridges.
   

Best are houses near quiet roads, streams or flowing ponds. Houses around a large cul de sac are good, provided the road entering it is not pointing towards the house.

Land Forms

Buildings, along with natural land forms like hills and mountains affect the feng shui of a house. A good way to observe this is to stand outside the house and look around. In apartments, it is also good to take a look outside every window and check the view.

1. Avoid houses that are dwarfed by other buildings. The same concept for houses facing cliffs and large rocks.
2. Look out for sharp edged structures like corners of buildings, pointed roofs, jagged mountain rocks, or huge sharp edged sculpture pointing toward the house. These bring inauspicious energy to the house.
3. Power stations near the house, and power lines running over the house brings inauspicious energy too.
4. Buildings, places that represent sickness and death, in the vicinity affects the house with oppressive energy. Avoid houses near hospitals, grave yards, hospices, slaughter houses.

The Neighborhood

No man is an island. No matter how nice a house is, its Qi is ultimately affected by the surrounding neighborhood.

1. Be wary of unusually "quiet" neighborhoods. Stay away from neighborhoods that have too many vacant houses, no sign of children, pets, or other fun human activity like gardening. These places have dead qi.
2. Too many unfinished, run-down houses indicate overall bad feng shui.

Activity from children, animals and people doing things like sports is a sign of a healthy neighborhood.

House Entrance

How do you feel as you approach the entrance of the house? Use your gut feeling. It is necessary to be aware of the need for intuition of this sort before viewing the house.

1. Avoid houses if the main door gives you the feeling of being threatening. Some times you may not understand why it makes you feel uneasy, but it is wise to take it as a sign that is is bad feng shui.
2. Avoid houses where you cannot find the main entrance door. These kinds of houses do exist, maybe because of strange structure, overgrown garden, or irregular shaped plot of land. It you cannot find the entrance easily, good luck will find difficulty entering the home too!
3. Entrances that look like they are being capped by an out-of-shaped awning, strange over-sized roofs should be avoided too.
   

The entrance of the house should be inviting to you, the prospective buyer of the house. If you feel threatened as you reach the main door, chances are, this is not the right house for you.


Interior and Structure

Needless to say the structure of the house is everything in Feng Shui. Enter a prospective house with a conscious effort to feel it's ambiance. Use you five senses to intuitively audit the house.

1. Avoid irregularly shaped buildings, buildings with protrusions, triangular shape, spear shaped buildings are notorious for bringing down relationships in the family. This is because the more irregular shape will mean more sharp wall corners in the house. Rectangular shaped buildings are the best bet.
2. Roof should be the right size. If a roof dominates the house structure, occupants in it will probably feel dominated too.
3. Windows bring in light and qi. Houses with windows too small or too few windows trap stagnant qi.
4. Long corridors are common in many houses. This a poor feng shui feature, because it allows little movement and "sha qi" brought about by a bottle neck effect.
5. Sniff out humidity and dampness. This is common in cellars and attic. Avoid homes that have signs of dampness and humidity because it is a precursor for bigger problems later on. You can smell dampness in enclosed rooms. Other signs are water stains on walls and fungus.
   

The home is a big investment for most of us. In terms of Feng Shui, this investment is not only money, but also an investment in the wealth and health of your family and relationships. It is a worthwhile effort to check the feng shui of a house before deciding to buy it, because feng shui cures can be expensive and sometimes impossible to do.

Once you have checked the house based on the preliminary observations above, and most of the criteria is met, do a more thorough feng shui of the house using the feng shui calculator and the detailed instructions in http://tao-astrology.com/

Hope you benefited from these Feng shui tips, and happy house hunting.

Nik Helbig is a Feng Shui and I Ching Practitioner. Her father and grandfather were established practitioners from whom she studied and gained valuable experience. More writings and free I Ching, Chinese Astrology, and Feng Shui resources at http://tao-astrology.com/

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Feng Shui Dangers Around Your Home

Whether you are buying a new home, or have been living in your house for decades, it would be useful to be aware of feng shui dangers that can lurk in familiar places in and around your house. Small details in the structure of your home, or its surroundings can make a lot of difference to the feng shui of your home.

For starters, as a general rule, pillars located in the middle of the room are bad feng shui. It represents an arrow or a knife stabbing through the home or the room. Don't fret if relocating that pillar is not an option for you, as there some feng shui remedies which you can use to counter its negative effects. The general rule is to make the pillar as discreet as possible. Place some potted plants around the pillar to make its appearance less visible. Alternatively, you can install mirrors on the pillar. From far, pillars completely covered with mirrors would seem 'invisible'.

Another thing to take note of are exposed beams on the ceiling. Do not sleep, work, eat, or do anything important under these beams as they can cause headaches, restlessness and in the long run, even cause health problems. If your house has such exposed beams on the ceiling, hang some wind chimes or a flute from the beam to soften its negative effects.

Another important thing to do is to take notice of your home's surroundings. Sharp and pointed building structures such as telecommunication towers or electrical grids are very bad feng shui. The sharp structures represent poison arrows and if they are located near your home, can cause illnesses and misfortune. If relocating is not an option, at the very least, make sure such structures are not visible from your main door.

Water towers and reservoirs are also extremely bad feng shui, especially if you are living directly below it or in its vicinity. Having such a large body of water above your home is inauspicious as the home may be 'drowned' by the excessive yin energy from the water above.

As much as possible, try to avoid staying near industrial or commercial areas and also busy roads and highways as such places emit excessive Yang energy that is not good for the home.

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Attracting Money Into Your Feng Shui Home

I will discuss how to utilize two Feng Shui cures that will help attract more money into your home and, simultaneously, slow down the amount of money that is flowing out of your home.

In order to achieve this goal, we will take a look at two well known Feng Shui symbols: The Feng Shui frog and the Feng Shui turtle. These symbols have to do with Feng Shui wealth and are associated with the Feng Shui money aspect of your living environment.

Frogs symbolize the leaping effect of money coming into your life and, in this case, your home. Ideally, Feng Shui frogs should be placed outside of your home. A Feng Shui home will usually have frogs located somewhere in front of the house or apartment. I like to place 3 frogs on the front lawn, several feet apart.

The most important aspect to placing these powerful Feng Shui cures and Feng Shui symbols is to make sure the frogs are leaping towards the house. The backs of Feng Shui frogs should face the street and the heads of the frogs should face the front of the house. In addition, one of the three frogs should wind up facing the front door. Simply make sure the third frog has its back to the curb and its head is facing your homes' front door. The arrangement of the frogs symbolizes Feng Shui wealth leaping in through the front door and into your home. If we decide to add a water feature to our arrangement of frogs, we will multiply the Feng Shui effect and create a very positive and powerful flow of Chi towards the house.

The Feng Shui symbol of the turtle represents the slow moving energy of wealth leaving the household. Since turtles move slowly and frogs leap fast, the connection is easy to make. I know some of you are probably thinking, "Hmm... Maybe I can use frogs and turtles to get my needs met in other areas of my life, such as a Feng Shui relationship or faster or slower Feng Shui sex?" Well...at least I have you thinking about Feng Shui symbols and how they relate to your everyday life. Unfortunately, these particular symbols work best for attracting and maintaining wealth.

O.K. now that I have you back in focus and on the task at hand, let's discuss how and where to utilize Feng Shui wealth symbol number two: The Turtle.

All turtles should be placed in the rear of the house or apartment. Patios, decks or yards are totally acceptable places for your team of turtles. Try placing three turtles with their backs facing the house. The heads of the turtles should be facing away from the house the eyes should not be looking at the house, deck, patio or yard. Also, if you want to boost the effectiveness of the turtles, paint four small red dots on the back of each turtle. Red is a powerful Feng Shui wealth color.

If you go to a garden shop you will find frogs and turtles that can withstand various weather conditions in your area.

Namaste,

San Dan Yi and The Car Shui Team

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Home Improvement - The Elements Of Feng Shui

Those who have a deeper understanding of the five elements of the world and also have greater knowledge of the two basic energies, which are the Chi (the soft power) and the Sha which is known as the harsher power, are known to have the power and expertise that they can make an accurate estimation of the meta physical energies in the space around us. That being their number one ability gives them the power to also know when and where to move the furniture or other objects of physical and metaphysical nature so that proper flow of energies can be established. The art relating to feng sui is considered to be of architectural nature. It is believed that wizards and historical people such as the magi will at times place themselves inside different buildings or large landscapes; they are known to also make use of their Meta physical senses to detect and properly establish the flow of the energies within the structures. They are also those masters that decide exactly why and where the bathrooms, bedrooms and other parts of the house should be placed and built.

They will give you precise direction as to where the door should be placed and what direction should the exit of the house should be. The detailed master relating to feng sui would even pay close attention to the fine details such as where the mirrors should hang inside the house and where what type and what piece of furniture should be placed s well. The master would also give an accurate estimation of where the bed should face its head portion and to where the foot area be faced. The above given areas where the feng shui master pays close attention to are based on what they feel is the accurate angle of the Chi softer power and the counter flow of Sha which is the harsher power goes in and comes out. They also base these on where they feel magnetic and electro magnetic fields are present. They also provide help and feng shui based solutions towards the other areas and energies that many individual clients may worry about affecting their personal self and their personal relationships. Couples usually complain about issues related to their life inside the bedroom this is a major intervention area for the master relating to feng shui.

The solution of this would mean that couples may require that certain objects be moved around within the bedroom in order to get the chi in the bedroom to flow in a proper manner. The art relating to feng sui in the modern age has now become very much connected with the area of interior decorating and there fore like interior decorators the master relating to feng sui will these days also hire himself out on a very large sum of fees. The master relating to feng sui in the proper knowledge of this art is the only person who if in fact is blessed with special meta physical senses can help resolve the misfortune in your life by fixing the feng shui flows of Chi and Sha respectively.

Julia Vakulenko is a licensed broker associate with Tampa4U.com Realty. She has one of the hardest working Tampa Real Estate team in Florida specializing in Tampa Condos and also in2Va Team for Northern Virginia Real Estate.

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The Best Feng Shui Colors For Home

To decide the best Feng Shui colors for home, we have to examine several factors, as different colors will have different impacts. For this article, we will discuss the concept of the yin and yang energies and how it will affect your choice of Feng Shui colors.

Ying energy is said to be the passive energy. It brings about a dreamy effect on a person. Conversely, yang energy is considered to be the active energy, which is said to be able to bring about passion in your mind.

Ying colors are the colors that will induce relaxation and healing effects. It will give you a laid back feeling if your house is filled with Ying colors. However, if you are planning to do some office work and you do not want your children to be too laid back in their studies, the color scheme of your house should comprise of some yang colors to neutralize the effect of the “dreaminess�.

The following Ying colors have different attributes that you can consider to include in the decoration of your house.

Blue
The color blue has a smoothing and calming effect on your mind. It also has a healing effect on your mind and body, which is why this color is so significant in Feng Shui. The color blue also symbolizes peace and trust.

As blue is also the color of the sky and the sea, your imagination can easily take flight in a room filled with blue color. Thereby, it is best to have blue as the color of your bedroom, as it relaxes and calms your mind, allowing you to sleep peacefully.

Black
In Feng Shui, the color black represents money and income. Therefore, it is thought to bring about good fortune. Combining the use of black color with metal will be exceptionally good for your career. A simple advice is to use simple black metallic tools such as pens and mobile phone covers.

Purple
In Feng Shui, purple symbolize spiritual awareness. This color is often used for mental and physical healing as it has an awesome effect of healing. Hence, in order to maintain good health, you may want to include some purple objects in the decoration of your house.

White
This color is a sign of poise, confidence and purity. Many people paint their house white because it is very easy to match with other colors. Matching white color with silver and gold color will create a very laid back and calming atmosphere.

The Yang colors consist of the more intense color such as yellow, orange and red. These colors represent positive energy and provide you with the enthusiasm and the motivation to do something. The 2 colors listed below might be of some help to you.

Yellow
In Feng Shui, yellow is said to be an auspicious color. It represents warmth, cheerfulness and friendliness. If you feel that the atmosphere of your house is too laid back, you can use some yellow objects to nullify the effect of the laziness.

Orange
Orange is a color that provides intense Yang energy, so much so that it has the ability to boast your concentration. If you are always procrastinating in your work and are not able to keep your focus on your work, orange is the color that will spur you on.

Now that you know the different elements of the Ying and Yang colors, you can now decorate your house with the appropriate colors that will help you obtain your desired atmosphere. The main point you must take note of is that in order to find the best Feng Shui colors for home, you must first decide on what you want the atmosphere of the house to be, as well as the effects you want to obtain from these colors.

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