How To Practice Feng Shui For Harmonious Personal Surroundings
If you are curious about feng shui and want to try it, there are some ways to ease into this age-old tradition of arranging one’s environment to bring harmony into one’s life. To begin with, you can follow a few principles that teach you how to practice feng shui in the most natural of ways.
Ensuring Safety and Comfort
The most important principle of feng shui when it comes to designing personal environments is the safety, protection and comfort of people in their abode. Because of this principle, it actually makes sense to position the furniture you use a lot to give you a view of the door. If you do this, you can be more relaxed knowing that you won’t get startled by someone startling you from behind. In addition, this means furniture, especially those you use a lot, should be comfortable. Furniture with rounded edges is preferred because it is deemed safer (and it actually is).
Good air and light are important for good feng shui so windows should get the best ventilation and illumination possible. In places where winters are especially harsh, doorways and windows are positioned to catch the most solar heat
Providing Good Energy
Another important principle to remember for people who want to learn how to practice feng shui is to make sure there is good energy. When putting a home together, it is necessary to cleanse it of all bad energy and circulate good energy into each corner of the place. The first step to accomplish this is to burn sandalwood or sage incense then open doors and curtains to let in fresh air and sunlight. If you think about it, this is not at all a new concept. Every now and then, everyone feels compelled to air one’s home and avoid a musty odor from setting in and this is exactly what feng shui advises people to do.
Once you have the energy of the house all cleaned up and fresh, make sure good energy can circulate. This can be done by visually checking how the furniture is arranged and seeing to it that you would always be free to move around the room. This means there should be no clutter blocking your path from one section to the other of your house. It also means you should bring in plants, fresh flowers, crystals and lamps because these things help circulate energy.
Getting Rid of Clutter
One of the things that all fang shui practitioners believe in is this: A good life means getting rid of clutter and being organized. Clutter means there is no space for new good things in your house and your life. It ties you down to the past and constrains your creativity. If you keep clutter in your house, it would be tantamount to going for a swim in your heaviest winter clothes.
People who live with clutter live with the repeated, nightmarish scenario of not knowing where important articles or documents are. Just locating things through the clutter already consumes much of a person’s energy – energy that could be and should be expended in activities that bring joy and harmony.
Only Things that Bring Love and Joy
Feng shui also recommends surrounding yourself with what you love. Many affluent people decorate their home as investments with objects of great monetary value. In a sense, their houses become like a bank vault or an investment portfolio.
No matter how materially valuable anything is, if it makes you anxious, depressed or irritated, sell it or get rid of it. Don’t keep it in your house where it can constantly eat away at you. Examples of things that are not good feng shui are: clothes that no longer fit; plates and glasses that are chipped; objects that remind us of unhappy times. Keep only the things that make you happy and only the things that work well.
Feng shui is not a mysterious, mystical art that only astrologers can understand. Everyone can do feng shui! And if you want to learn how to practice feng shui to create harmonious personal surroundings just think beyond appearances and go for comfort, safety and a positive environment.
