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9 Tips for Living in a T-Intersection Home

When I work with home builders, we often find ways to prevent T-intersection homes from being built. If you are already living in one, though, I know it can be challenging to many aspects of your life, including your health, wealth, and career. If you can’t move, here are a few simple feng shui tips to improve your life while living in a T-intersection home:

  1. Use a convex bagua mirror over your front doorway to deflect overwhelming energy from the T-intersection.
  2. Add fencing at the outside edge of your yard in front of your house, at least.
  3. Place heavy objects like boulders or deep metal posts in your front yard to block vehicles that might miss their turn.
  4. Inside, place furniture and décor in a way that promotes a sense of calm and tranquility.
  5. Incorporate plants, crystals, or soothing colors to bring a sense of peace to the space.
  6. Use blackout curtains or blinds at night to block out excess light from car headlights.
  7. Use soundproofing materials to reduce noise from the intersection and/or a white noise sound machine to drown out the noise while sleeping.
  8. Keep the home clean and organized to promote a sense of calm and clarity.
  9. Regularly practice stress-reducing activities, such as meditation or yoga, to maintain a sense of peace.

While these tips will help make things a little better, my first piece of advice is to find another home as soon as possible. If that doesn’t work, we may be able to use more advanced techniques for your particular situation.

If you need more specific and custom guidance to improve your space and your life, I’m available to help. Learn more on my website today and book a virtual consultation. Better feng shui can help you in profound ways on life’s journey.

I am a 3rd generation feng shui expert and have helped thousands of people add harmony and balance to their homes and offices without making it look like a Chinese restaurant exploded.

I can help you attract the life that you deserve with feng shui. Contact me today!

Consumer Reports: Feng Shui Tips for Every Room in Your Home

I was just sourced for an article in Consumer Reports about feng shui. Here it is:

Feng Shui Tips for Every Room in Your Home

How to channel positive energy throughout your home and reinvigorate your life

By Perry Santanachote

It’s springtime, finally! For many people, that also means it’s time for spring cleaning. But if you haven’t already, consider also applying feng shui principles to your home. You don’t need to buy anything—all it requires is an intentional approach to your surroundings.

Feng shui (pronounced fung shway) is an ancient Chinese discipline that literally translates to “wind water” and focuses on how to optimize the flow of positive energy—known as qi (pronounced chee)—in your home. “It’s basically considering how energy flows through your house as water or air naturally would,” says Jessie Kim, a feng shui consultant in California. “You want your home to be a space where you can relax and retreat, and feng shui is all about creating that space to make you feel recharged and rejuvenated so you can tackle the world the next day.”

The theory of feng shui is that the layout of a home and the placement of objects can maximize energy flow and improve your health, prosperity, and luck. But it’s also about balance. Master Pun-Yin, a feng shui consultant in New York, says that in order to increase the flow of qi, the five elements—water, earth, fire, wood, and metal—need to be in balance with each other. Think of it like a yin-yang quality, but five ways. 

  • Water is tied to intuition, sensitivity, fluctuation, and the flow of emotions.
  • Earth represents practicality, stability, conservatism, and responsibility.
  • Fire is associated with action, passion, ambition, and courage. 
  • Wood symbolizes organization, growth, persistence, and creativity.
  • Metal assists with confidence, creativity, materialism, and making friends. 

“You might realize something is off if you’re lacking clarity, motivation, serenity, or success in life,” says Pun-Yin. A feng shui consultation can offer more personalized insights, she says, incorporating Chinese astrology and an individual’s inherent five-element profile, but a good starting point is to follow some general rules. 

Make Feng Shui Work for You

Talismans, such as dragons, tortoises, and laughing Buddhas, are associated with the commercialization of feng shui and are not necessary. “Unless you get to the root of the energy imbalance within your mind and your space, no crystals or tacky trinkets can alter your destiny,” says Pun-Yin.

“Just because you read somewhere that a golden toad is a great thing to have for prosperity, don’t have one in your home if you don’t like frogs,” says Kim. “Feng shui has to work for your personality and your décor. Creating a good feng shui space doesn’t mean it has to look like a Chinese restaurant exploded in your house.”

The things in your home should mean something to you (they should spark joy) and represent where you want to be in your life—kind of like dressing for the job you want. Some things from your past are fine to display, but don’t let them take over your space. “Be intentional about what you put inside your home and relentless with getting rid of junk,” says Kim. “Looking forward to the future will keep you growing as a person.”

Create Energy Pathways

Think of energy going through your home like a wind current or water stream. Look for potential blockages and leakages. One major leakage would be a front door that lines up with the back door. “You don’t want energy coming in the front door and immediately draining into the backyard,” says Kim. “You want that energy to meander through the house and refuel people living in it before making its exit.” Room dividers, bookcases, and tall plants are all great ways to divide up a room and create clear energy pathways.

Also, open the windows at least once a day to let in fresh air. “Make sure you get good circulation going,” says Kim. “Air conditioners, fans, and air purifiers are fine, but fresh air is better. And don’t let these appliances overrun your space or get in the way. Make sure they’re not blowing directly at you when you’re sitting or sleeping, too. It weakens your energy.”

Feng Shui Tips for the Entryway

Make an Entrance
Level up your front door, especially if you live in a condo or apartment building where yours is one of many. Kim says to make your door stand out so it attracts good energy by hanging a wreath or setting out a fun door mat. If your homeowners association doesn’t allow any fun, at least wash your door, making it cleaner and shinier than your neighbors, and make sure the numbers are clearly marked. “If people and qi can’t find you, it’s like good opportunities passing you by,” says Kim.

Declutter
The front door is the energy portal to your home, says Kim. Proper entranceway feng shui will make it feel welcoming. Make sure the area is clean and clutter-free, as in no pile of shoes or packages. 

Set the Tone
The first thing you see when you open the door sets the tone for the entire home, so have pleasing objects on the major meridian positions to welcome you home with warmth and comfort, says Pun-Yin. These positions include the wall facing the entry, the corner diagonal to the entry, and the end of the hallway. 

Feng Shui Tips for the Kitchen

Safeguard the Stove
Kitchens are seen as the prosperity and health hub of the house. “You fuel yourself and your family in the kitchen, so you want to make sure your flame—in this case, the stove—is protected,” says Kim. “An open window or doorway next to a gas stove weakens the flame, and that’s less energy going into your food.” For the same reasons, you also want to keep your stove clean and in good condition.

Feature Fruit
Place a bowl of fruit in the middle of your kitchen island or dining table to attract prosperity and health energy to that space, says Kim.

Coordinate Your Cookware
Having cookware and small kitchen appliances in coordinated colors or textures tie together and ground the kitchen’s energy field, says Pun-Yin.

Feng Shui Tips for the Living Room

Rethink Your Seating Arrangement
Each room has a commanding position, which is essentially an anchor point that allows you to control the energy in the room. It’s always farthest from the door but not in line with it, so you should be able to see who’s coming without being able to see directly out the door. Your sofa and main chairs should be in this commanding position, says Kim. You want to avoid configuring seating that forces people to have their backs to the door. 

Soften the Edges
Remove anything with sharp edges or shiny surfaces that instantly get fingerprints and smudges on them. “The idea is to make this room soft, comfortable, and welcoming to your family and guests,” says Kim. “Make it conducive for people to gather, not like a sterile museum.”

Clear off the Coffee Table
A clutter-free coffee table is ideal, but if that’s unavoidable, Pun-Yin says to at least include something that soothes your mood. Fresh flowers or a plant, for instance, might induce good relationships in your life.  (Take note: Dried flowers and dead flowers will do quite the opposite. Fake flowers are better, but they’re still not emitting the same kind of energy that fresh blooms would.)

Feng Shui Tips for the Bedroom

Reposition the Bed
Avoid having your headboard under a window or on the same wall as the door. “You want to be in the commanding position, so make sure you can see the door without being directly in line with it,” says Kim.

Only Calm Energy Allowed
Bedrooms should only be for sleeping, resting, and reconnecting with your partner. Electronics, books, bills or paperwork, and plants—anything that produces active energy—should not be in the bedroom. (Plants become active at night to produce oxygen, so they’re considered active energy.)

Even for kids, make sure to create a space for them to recharge and rest so they can grow healthy. Kim says active items, like toys, stuffed animals, and video games should be in the living room or another playroom. If it has to be in their bedroom, put it in a cubby or a cabinet that they can close up and put away at night.

Be mindful of where you place mirrors in your bedrooms, too. Kim says to make sure your body’s not being reflected in the mirror while you’re sleeping because mirrors are constantly reflecting and moving, just like water. “When your body is reflected in the mirror, you’re basically next to a wave that it is constantly crashing into you,” she says.

Propagate Parity
“If you share a bedroom with a partner, create an even ground,” says Kim. “Make sure both bedside tables are the same size, and use the same light fixture. You want to create a balanced relationship of both of you helping each other out.”

Feng Shui Tips for the Bathroom

One-Way Traffic Only
“When you dump things in a bathroom, you don’t want anything to come back out—literally or figuratively,” says Kim. Keep bathrooms clean and keep your toilet lid closed. If it’s a bathroom that is not in use regularly, keep the sink drains closed. Some people put river rocks in the sink and shower to cover up the drain, but it’s still usable.

Clear the Air
Pun-Yin says to avoid stagnant and humid energy in the bathroom by using a dehumidifier. Alternatively, keep the door partially open.

Have Fun With It
“People tend to view the bathroom as the last thing to decorate, or they shut the door and try to hide it,” says Kim. “But it is there, so why not make it fun and exciting? Meaning, energetically colorful, bright, and sparkly. Make it a space that you and your guests enjoy as well. Make it part of your home.” Plants, paint, towels, and decorations are all fair game.

Feng Shui Tips for the Office

Be a Boss
Again, prioritize the room’s commanding position and place your desk there. “Try to avoid having your back to a window,” says Pun-Yin. “If you can’t, counteract the energy imbalance by placing a plant behind your chair or hanging a piece of jade from the back of your chair.” Jade is a stone that is believed to improve the balance of energy.

Keep an Eye on the Prize
Place objects that represent your past achievements behind you, preferably on a bookcase, and place something that motivates you in front of you, so you’re always looking toward the future. 

https://www.consumerreports.org/home-garden/home-organization/feng-shui-tips-for-every-room-in-your-home-a4370549222/

If you need more specific and custom guidance to improve your space and your life, I’m available to help. Learn more on my website today and book a virtual consultation. Better feng shui can help you in profound ways on life’s journey.

I am a 3rd generation feng shui expert and have helped thousands of people add harmony and balance to their homes and offices without making it look like a Chinese restaurant exploded.

I can help you attract the life that you deserve with feng shui. Contact me today!

6 Tips to Use Feng Shui to Improve Your Career and Finances

Feng shui can be a powerful tool to help improve your career, which in-turn can improve your financial success. By sprinkling a little feng shui into your home and workspace (even a home office), you can create a supportive environment to help you achieve your goals. Here are six tips that I often give on consultations for how to use feng shui to improve your career and finances:

  1. Activate your Career Area: In feng shui, the area of your home or office that represents your career as part of the bagua is located in the front-center of the space, just as you enter through the front door. To activate the Career Area, try hanging a picture or a painting of calm water that seems to flow into your home.
  2. Enhance your Fame & Reputation Area: The Fame & Reputation Area of your home or office is located in the far back center of the space when you enter through the front door. To enhance this area, add strong symbols like pictures of tall mountains, trees, etc. You can also use the colors of fire like red and orange. This can also be a great spot for other symbols of fire, like a fireplace or candles.
  3. Use the “command position”: In any room, the command position is the spot that allows you to see the door and have your back to a solid wall. You’ll feel more in-control and supported, which can be beneficial for your career, and thus your financial success. Try to sit in this position whenever possible, especially during work or study time.
  4. Keep your desk organized: A cluttered desk can block the flow of positive energy, which hinders your career and financial success. Make an effort to keep your desk organized to allow for a smooth flow of energy.
  5. Add symbols of success: Surround yourself with symbols of success, such as awards, certificates, or mementos of past achievements. You can even put up symbols of future success: pre-print that diploma or put up a fake Oscar award for now! They can help remind you of your accomplishments to provide motivation to continue striving for success.
  6. Invite in positive energy: Keep your home and office well-lit, which invites in positive energy. Open windows to let in fresh air and consider adding a water feature or plants to bring in a sense of abundance.

If you’re already familiar with feng shui, you might be wondering why I didn’t mention the Wealth & Prosperity Corner. We need to walk before we run. Be sure to get your career and basic finances figured out first.

Remember to keep an open mind. Have fun with the process so you can create some positive energy to improve your career and finances. The most important thing is to create a space that feels good to you and supports your aspirations.

If you need more specific and custom guidance to improve your space and your life, I’m available to help. Learn more on my website today and book a virtual consultation. Better feng shui can help you in profound ways on life’s journey.

I am a 3rd generation feng shui expert and have helped thousands of people add harmony and balance to their homes and offices without making it look like a Chinese restaurant exploded.

I can help you attract the life that you deserve with feng shui. Contact me today!

Expanding Your Luck: How to Increase Your Surface Area for Good Fortune with Feng Shui

Feng shui, the ancient Chinese practice of creating harmony and balance in your surroundings, can also be used to attract good luck and prosperity. When I work with my clients, I like to say that a goal of feng shui is to increase their “surface area” for luck. That is, they can purposefully create more possibilities for positive opportunities to flow into their lives.

I really like that phrase: “increase your surface area for luck.” It reminds me that not everything is dependent upon hard work – but we also can’t leave everything up to chance. Instead, we need to apply effort towards the areas in our lives that will most increase our chances for luck.

The best way to increase your surface area for luck is by keeping your environment clean and clutter-free. Clutter blocks the flow of lucky energy in your home. By contrast, when you keep your home organized, you feel organized and accomplished. You’re also creating more space for positive energy to flow in. Have you ever been invited into someone’s car or home that was incredibly cluttered? At first glance, would you trust them with an important area of your life, like being your bookkeeper or managing your business? If you have clutter all around you, take a moment to think about how it impacts the perception that others might have of you. Is your clutter potentially preventing you from getting opportunities for good fortune?

Another way to increase your surface area for luck is by adding symbols of good fortune to your home. For example, you can place a money tree in your home, which some interpret as a symbol of abundance. Such symbols act as a reminder of your goals so you can attract positive energy to your home. Frankly, regardless the symbol, it needs to be something that YOU subconsciously believe is a sign of good fortune that will encourage you to take additional small steps every day to achieve your goals. I personally love and highly recommend vision boards for this reason.

In feng shui, the front door is considered to be the “mouth of chi.” It’s truly the main entrance for positive energy to enter your home. By keeping your front door clean and well-maintained (good fit, no squeaks, etc.), you’re creating a positive first impression, which invites in good luck. Placing a wind chime here might enhance the flow of positive energy, but it will certainly also remind you of your goals each time you hear it chime in the wind.

Choosing the right colors for the appropriate areas of your home can also increase your surface area for luck. Different colors are associated with different meanings and energies in feng shui and psychology. For example, red is associated with good luck and good reputation, while blue is associated with tranquility and peace. When you add these colors to your home decor, you can attract positive energy to enhance the flow of luck. Be sure to follow the feng shui bagua to learn about proper placement of these colors.

Increasing your surface area for luck is an important aspect of feng shui. By keeping your environment clutter-free, adding symbols of good fortune, keeping a positive first impression with your front door, and using the right colors, you can attract good luck in your life. Remember, the key to success in feng shui is to create balance and harmony in your surroundings.

If you need more specific and custom guidance to improve your space and your life, I’m available to help. Learn more on my website today and book a virtual consultation. Better feng shui can help you in profound ways on life’s journey.

I am a 3rd generation feng shui expert and have helped thousands of people add harmony and balance to their homes and offices without making it look like a Chinese restaurant exploded.

I can help you attract the life that you deserve with feng shui.  Contact me today!

Creating a Vision Board: Using Feng Shui to Manifest Your Goals and Desires

A vision board, also known as a dream board or a goal board, is a visual representation of your goals, desires, and aspirations. In the practice of feng shui, creating a vision board can be a powerful tool for manifesting your intentions and bringing abundance and prosperity into your life. Here’s how to create a vision board using feng shui principles:

  1. Identify your goals and desires. Before you begin creating your vision board, take some time to reflect on your goals and desires. What do you want to achieve in your personal or professional life? What are your dreams and aspirations? Write down your goals and keep them in mind as you create your dream board.
  2. Gather ideas & materials for your vision board. You can use a variety of materials to create your vision board, such as magazine clippings, photographs, quotes, drawings, or other items that represent your goals and desires. You can also use a pre-made board or create your own by using a corkboard or foam board, especially if you see yourself updating your goals often. If you’re better at computers than arts & crafts, organize using your favorite software and get it printed, though this method requires a new print with each update to your goals.
  3. Arrange your vision board. When arranging the elements on your vision board, consider the feng shui principles of balance, symmetry, and flow. Try to create a visually pleasing and harmonious arrangement that represents your goals and desires. Be sure no area is too overpowering.
  4. Choose a location for your vision board. In feng shui, it’s important to choose a location for your vision board that is visible and accessible, but not necessarily in a high-traffic area. For most people, a good spot might be a bedroom wall or a home office. One school of thought is that a vision board is highly personal and that anyone questioning their goals may prevent them from becoming a reality (you may want to de-clutter these people out of your life). Another thought is that supportive friends and relatives who see your goals may help you achieve them (keep these people close).
  5. Visualize and affirm your goals. As you create your vision board, take a few moments to close your eyes and visualize your goals and desires as if they have already been achieved. Repeat affirmations such as “I am thankful, worthy and deserving of my goals” or “I am thankful, successful and prosperous in all areas of my life.” Be sure to phrase them in a way like they have already happened and use gratitude frequently. I repeat my affirmations while looking at my vision board once or twice daily.

By creating a vision board and using visualization and affirmations, you can harness the power of feng shui to manifest your goals and bring abundance and prosperity into your life. Don’t stop with yourself – give each member of your household an opportunity to create their own vision board and work together to help each of you achieve those goals!

Want to go next level? Think of your entire home as a vision board using the Bagua layout to focus on different areas of your life.

I got the idea for this post from one of my email subscribers. Thank you, Tinee! If you have any ideas for future posts, please leave a comment below.

If you need guidance to improve your space and your life, I’m always available to help. Learn more on my website today and book a virtual consultation. Better feng shui can help you in profound ways on life’s journey.

I am a 3rd generation feng shui expert and have helped thousands of people add harmony and balance to their homes and offices without making it look like a Chinese restaurant exploded.

I can help you attract the life that you deserve with feng shui.  Contact me today!

Feng Shui for the 2023 Lunar New Year

I love Lunar New Year! It always brings a sense of new beginnings for me. This year, Lunar New Year starts on January 22nd and I can’t wait!

The Lunar New Year is a time of renewal and celebration, and incorporating feng shui principles into your home and office can help you welcome in the new year with positive energy and good fortune. Feng shui is an ancient Chinese practice that involves the arrangement of objects and space to create a harmonious and balanced environment.

One way to celebrate the Lunar New Year with feng shui is by using the colors and symbols associated with the Year of the Water Rabbit, which is the animal sign for 2023. The Water Rabbit is associated with the element of water, which is believed to bring flow and flexibility to a space. Water is also associated with the Career / Business / Life Path, so if you want to bring the energy of the Water Rabbit into your home or office, consider adding elements of water or using the colors black or blue in the front area of your space.

Other feng shui tips to apply before the Lunar New Year include:

  • Clean and declutter your home or office to welcome in the new year with a fresh start
  • Display objects that symbolize luck and prosperity for you
  • Add some fresh flowers and fresh fruit to rejuvenate the aroma in your space
  • Enhance the lighting by replacing any dead lightbulbs and cleaning your light fixtures
  • Light incense or burn white sage to purify and cleanse the energy in your space

By incorporating these feng shui practices into your home or office, you can welcome in the Lunar New Year with positive energy and good fortune. Happy Lunar New Year!

If you need guidance to improve your space and your life, I’m always available to help. Learn more on my website today and book a virtual consultation. Better feng shui can help you in profound ways on life’s journey.

I am a 3rd generation feng shui expert and have helped thousands of people add harmony and balance to their homes and offices without making it look like a Chinese restaurant exploded.

I can help you attract the life that you deserve with feng shui.  Contact me today!

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