Feng Shui for a Better Spring Clean?

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We’ve all heard of spring cleaning, but what if you could take your house cleaning to the next level and clean up your “chi”?  Most people have an idea about what Feng Shui is, but not really any depth of knowledge beyond the idea that you should arrange furniture in different ways to help the flow of energy in your home.

Let’s take, for example, the kitchen: you’ve deep cleaned all the places that needed it; the kitchen is sparkly and everything is put away in its rightful place, now it’s time to apply some Feng Shui principles.  Western Feng Shui, which follows a slightly different “bagua” than traditional, uses a nine square system that can be overlaid on any single room and the whole house.

Along with general tips like making sure your stove is clean and working to ensure wealth and opportunity, Feng Shui-ers will also change colours to boost the energy and change the space, as well as place remedial objects that have connections with the “element” of each one of the nine squares as it corresponds to the room.  For example, mirrors represent the water element, and so it’s recommended to hang one in your home near the entryway because this is usually the career area, which is a ‘water’ element in the bagua.

While Feng Shui can be a helpful system for balancing the energy in your home, it’s also important to remember that your intuition is usually right, so if you have a conflict with how a Feng Shui system wants you to lay out your home or room, it’s usually best to stick with your gut feeling and see how the energy in your life changes.

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