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Mirrors in Feng Shui

Mirrors have a very interesting relationship with Feng Shui.  Of course, they’re great at making rooms seem more spacious and seem to amplify light.  In Feng Shui, they are a symbol of the water element and we can utilize their incredible ability to reflect virtually everything, including Feng Shui energy called Chi (or “Qi”).

Often used as a cure for a variety of Feng Shui challenges, mirrors are used to reflect and direct both positive and negative Chi energy however we see fit.

But, where do we want that energy to go?  Well, that all depends on the area of the home we’re trying to enhance.

Using Mirrors Outside

As I have highlighted in previous posts, certain types of mirrors can be used to deflect negative energy coming from a neighbor’s front door aligned with yours, used to deflect overwhelming energy at a T-intersection, and can deflect churning energy on a cul-de-sac or corner lot.

Place your convex Bagua mirror above your door on the interior wall facing toward the street. Yes, you won’t actually see the mirror.

Place your convex Bagua mirror above your door on the interior wall facing toward the street. Yes, you won’t actually see the mirror.

As a quick cure for any of the above, the best choice is to simply place a convex Bagua mirror above your front door facing the street (such that the reflection virtually goes through your wall).

Now, let’s discuss how we use mirrors at various locations inside the home.

Mirrors in the Bedroom

Never place a mirror where it will face a bed.  Think of a mirror as a magnifying glass that will amplify energy flow toward your body as you sleep.  One problem with this is that it causes restlessness.

Mirrors in Bedrooms are Bad Feng Shui

Worse, many of my clients that previously had mirrors facing their bed complained of pain such as headaches, leg aches or stomach cramps — which had been exactly where their mirrors were facing.  Remove the mirror and voila!  No more pain.

Again, never have a mirror that faces those sleeping in the bed, even on the ceiling (sorry guys).  In fact, it is best to leave mirrors out of bedrooms altogether.

Mirrors in the Bathroom

Water is the dominant element in a bathroom.  Mirrors enhance your space and allow you to get a perspective on yourself.  We often look in the mirror to improve ourselves, right?  Well, we might as well improve every part we can.

Feng Shui Full Length Mirrors

Thus, I suggest a full-length mirror in the bathroom, such that its reflection does not cut off any parts of your body.

Mirrors in Bagua Areas

Some Bagua areas will benefit from mirrors more than others.  In particular, mirrors are good to use in the Career & Life Path Area (but not toward your front door), Family Area, and Wealth & Prosperity Corner.

Try to use corresponding colors, materials, and shapes for the mirror and its frame when possible.  For example, use a vertical rectangular mirror with a green and/or wooden frame in the Family Area.

Avoid using mirrors of any kind in your Fame & Reputation Area, as this will extinguish your fire element that is necessary here.

Best Practices

Placing a mirror at your front foyer toward your front door is bad because it pushes back all of the Chi entering your home, preventing it from energizing your house.

Avoid having mirrors that face each other.  This can create a barrier that will stop energy from flowing through your home.

Don’t overdo it with mirrors, especially all in one place.  Sometimes, less is more.

Replace chipped or cracked mirrors.  Relationships are negatively affected by broken mirrors.

Give children full-length mirrors to improve their self-esteem.

Unless your fireplace is in the Fame & Reputation Area of your home, you may want to douse it with figurative water.  Hang a mirror directly over your fireplace to neutralize its effects.

Adding some plants near a mirror will rejuvenate and enhance the flow of Chi energy through your surroundings.

Mirrors should always be framed around their edges.

Next Steps

Learn more about Feng Shui and all of the areas of the Bagua.

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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Feng Shui Front Door Colors

The appropriate color to paint your front door can be confusing.

Aren’t you always supposed to have a red front door?  Not exactly.

Feng Shui Red Front Door

Some people say that having a red front door attracts negative energy.  Others say red is the best color to use, despite the fact that it is in your Career Area, which should be predominantly blue or black.

Which Color is Correct?

As with many things in Feng Shui, the color you choose for your front door depends more on what you want to attract.

For instance, are you looking to bring in some wealth?  Go for red.

Do you need to add some stability to your life?  Brown is the best choice for you.

Here are various colors for your front door and what they are known to attract in Feng Shui:

  • Red = Wealth
  • Green = Growth
  • Blue = Relaxation
  • Brown = Stability

Feng Shui Colors

Next Steps

Read more on colors in Feng Shui as well as the various aspects of your Career Area.

Remember that painting your front door is only one part of a balanced and harmonious home or office.  Be sure you learn more about Feng Shui and make positive changes to all areas of the Bagua.

If you need additional help, contact me to inquire about a consultation.  I will help you achieve the life that you deserve without making your home look like a Chinese restaurant exploded.

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Corner Lot Feng Shui and Cures

Just as nobody puts Baby in a corner, nobody puts Feng Shui in a corner (lot home, that is).

Feng Shui of Corner Lot Homes

Though it is best not to get yourself in a corner lot house situation, I do offer cures to make the most of your situation if you already live in a corner lot home.

Basic Feng Shui Advice

Simply: Great for businesses, bad for homes.

As I noted about cul-de-sac homes and T-intersection properties previously, my first advice to someone considering a corner lot home is to stay away.

As with cul-de-sac homes, home builders were once able to charge a premium for corner lots. In areas with more buyers knowledgable of Feng Shui, however, they now often find that corner lot homes are the last to go.

Moreover, you might notice that a common theme for foreclosure listings are homes on a corner lot, cul-de-sac or at a T-intersection.

With much in Feng Shui, including corner lots, the issues are really just common sense rather than just energy flow.

Pros & Cons

Not that corner lots are completely bad. Let’s look at the pros and cons of a corner lot.

Bad Feng Shui of Corner Lots Crash

Advantages:

  • More yard space
  • Half as many neighbors
  • Corner lot businesses are easier to find
  • Highly visible decorations or signage
  • Emergency services may respond faster

Disadvantages:

  • More sidewalk or fencing to maintain
  • Noisier traffic & pedestrians
  • More headlights point at windows
  • Pedestrians taking shortcuts through yard
  • Cars turn around in your driveway
  • Yard more likely to be used by dogs
  • Exposure to car crashes

In addition to the above, Feng Shui suggests that corner lots offer the following disadvantages:

Bad Feng Shui Corner Lots

  • Energy gets stuck coming around corners
  • Energy erodes at the property, causing long-term health and financial issues
  • Poison arrow created by diagonally opposite property
  • Poison arrows from the car headlights pointing at the home

Feng Shui Cures

What if you already live in a corner lot home?

Resolving the Feng Shui issues is very similar with the resolutions offered for a cul-de-sac home. You will want to ensure that the Feng Shui energy called Chi (or “Qi”) doesn’t get stuck and that you slowly navigate it to your home’s front door.

Start by slowing the crossing energy coming at your home. Utilize landscaping like tall shrubs, walls, fences or even sturdy posts near your front curb (this also helps prevent unsuspecting car drivers from ending up in your living room).

Feng Shui Landscaping for Corner Lots -Trees

Now, add some water and wind features between your curbside landscaping and the doorway. Try utilizing a pond, pool, water fountain or birdbath. Any calm flowing water feature will do. You could also add windmills or other moving garden elements. Adding elements such as these helps slow down and refresh your incoming Chi.

Next, create a pathway that winds from the curb to your front door such that it navigates its way through the landscaping effects at the curb and through your garden features to your front door.

Feng Shui Landscaping for Corner Lots -Fountain

Make sure that the lighting at your front door is uplifting and bright.

As I suggest as a quick cure with T-intersection homes, use a convex Bagua mirror at your doorway to bounce away the effects of those poison arrows pointing at your home. It doesn’t need to be visible from outside.

Next Steps

You deserve to live a life of abundant wealth and health. Make sure that your home is providing for you.

Remember that the Feng Shui of corner lot homes can be very problematic.

Don’t ignore them!

If these cures don’t work for you, there may be other Feng Shui factors involved with the interior of your particular house.  Take necessary steps because you deserve to live a life of harmony and balance.  Start by reviewing the Feng Shui Bagua of your home.

If you run into any problems along the way or are looking for some professional guidance, contact me. I pride myself in adding harmony and balance while not making it look like a Chinese restaurant exploded in your home. You can get a consultation in-person or virtually via video chat.

I am a 3rd generation Feng Shui expert and have helped thousands of people add harmony and balance to their homes and offices the Feng Shui way. As your consultant, you will be able to get one-on-one advice for how to attract positive energy and improve your life with Feng Shui. I offer in-home and virtual services. Contact me today!

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Feng Shui T-Junction & Front Door Cure

The Feng Shui for a home on a T-junction can be quite overwhelming with negative energy, or Chi.

Bad Feng Shui may be ahead with a T-Junction. Fortunately, there are cures.

Bad Feng Shui may be ahead with a T-Junction. Fortunately, there are cures.

Fortunately, there are cures.

Convex Bagua Mirror Cure

The easiest short-term Feng Shui cure for homes like this is a convex bagua mirror.

Simply place the bagua mirror above your front door such that it faces the street.  This creates the intention of reflecting all the bad Chi away before it even has a chance to come into your home.

You probably don’t want the outside of your home to have this unsightly remedy.  No worries.  You can still hang it from inside of the house above the doorway.

Regardless, make sure that the mirror itself faces the direction of the street or the neighbor’s front door.

Place your convex Bagua mirror above your door on the interior wall facing toward the street. Yes, you won’t actually see the mirror.

Place your convex Bagua mirror above your door on the interior wall facing toward the street. Yes, you won’t actually see the mirror.

You are understanding me correctly.  Because the mirror is inside of your home, you won’t actually see the reflection when you look at the bagua.  Rather, the reflective part of the mirror will be facing a wall.

Either way, you are still reflecting the Chi, so it will work just fine.

Next Steps

Remember that T-junctions can be very problematic to Feng Shui.

Don’t ignore them!

While the above is a quick cure, it may not provide long-term benefits to those living on a T-junction.  Read about more lasting Feng Shui cures on my cul-de-sac post, which also applies to T-junctions.

If this simple cure doesn’t work for you, even short-term, there may be other Feng Shui factors involved with your particular house.  Take the necessary steps because you deserve to live a life of harmony and balance.

I am a 3rd generation Feng Shui expert and have helped thousands of people add harmony and balance to their homes and offices the Feng Shui way. As your consultant, you will be able to get one-on-one advice for how to attract positive energy and improve your life with Feng Shui. I offer in-home and virtual services. Contact me today!

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Feng Shui Cul-de-Sac Cures

It is well-known that the Feng Shui for a cul-de-sac home is bad. Though I typically advise against living in such a home, I have figured out how to make lemonade out of lemons (or good Feng Shui out of bad, in this case).

Feng Shui Cul-de-Sac Sign

In years past, home builders could charge a premium for homes at the end of cul-de-sacs. With more buyers aware of Feng Shui, that is simply no longer the case.

Unaware buyers may covet a home on a cul-de-sac because it provides a larger lot and reduced drive-through traffic so that children can play. Unfortunately, many of those who have lived in a cul-de-sac home have paid the price in more ways than one.

Basic Feng Shui Advice

When possible, avoid cul-de-sac homes.  It’s really that simple.

When I work with home builders, I advise against site plans that include cul-de-sacs, especially in Feng Shui aware areas, because they typically have to reduce their price to sell the homes. Moreover, city planners avoid them because they promote a reliance on cars, as public transportation is more difficult to service these areas.

If you are looking at purchasing a home on a cul-de-sac, I would advise against it because the overwhelming energy you will experience is chaotic and stale.

But what if you already own and live in a cul-de-sac home?

Most of my clients living in cul-de-sac homes came to me experiencing problems making and keeping money and have had poor health. Fortunately, I solved their problems, just as I will for you.

Own a Cul-de-Sac Home?  Your Options

If you already live in a home on a cul-de-sac, you have essentially two Feng Shui options:

1. Sell the home, likely to someone who is not aware of Feng Shui.

2. Harness and transform the Feng Shui energy flowing to your home such that it can nourish you rather than deplete you.  This isn’t the easy option, but it is sometimes the only option given individual situations.

I am going to focus on the second option so that we can work on some cures to your cul-de-sac Feng Shui.

Negative Chi of Cul-de-Sacs

First, let’s talk about why cul-de-sac homes have such bad Feng Shui.

While any home on a cul-de-sac is bad Feng Shui, the homes in the red area get the fastest moving negative Chi.

While any home on a cul-de-sac is bad Feng Shui, the homes in the red area get the fastest moving negative Chi.

Think of a street like a river, where water flows down from a source. Chi (or Qi) is water’s equivalent, flowing down a street from its source toward your cul-de-sac. Chi is Feng Shui energy. Just like water, it can be clean and refreshing or dirty and unhealthy.

Water nourishes while it also erodes. It provides life-giving energy to plants while also slowly eating away at the banks of the river. Chi works in much the same way, as it provides life-giving energy to you in your home, it also erodes your Bagua over time.

As water flows to a dam, it churns chaotically and over time gets stale. Sediment collects, creating mud that grows like a cancer. So, too, does Chi as it flows to a cul-de-sac. While the energy is worst at the home at the end of the cul-de-sac, all of the surrounding homes must share dirty, chaotic and stale energy that erodes at their Baguas over time.

Energy that makes its way into your cul-de-sac home is not calm, refreshing energy that you need to kickstart the creative cycle of your Bagua. Instead, it is fast, chaotic, used up energy that needs to be slowed, regulated and refreshed.

Energy Transformation

If you intend to live in a home at a cul-de-sac (or a home on a T-intersection or dead end), improve its incoming Feng Shui energy much as you would regulate and filter dam water for drinking.

Start by slowing the energy coming at your home. Do this by utilizing landscaping effects such as tall shrubs, walls, fences or even sturdy posts near your front curb (this also helps prevent unsuspecting car drivers from ending up in your living room).

Next, add some water and wind features between the tall curbside landscaping and the doorway. Try utilizing a pond, pool, birdbath, or water fountain. Any calm water feature will do. You could also add a windmill or other moving garden elements. Adding these elements filters and refreshes your incoming Chi.

You can use Feng Shui to protect your home from negative energy by adding strong posts and refresh the energy with a water feature.

You can use Feng Shui to protect your home from negative energy by adding strong posts and refresh the energy with a water feature.

Now, create a winding pathway from the cul-de-sac to your front door that navigates its way through the landscaping effects at the curb and through your water or wind features to your doorway. This re-creates the calm flowing river effect, with your new filtration system working to slow and refresh the Chi.

Ensure that your doorway and the front of your home is well-lit. Depending on your home, you may want to paint your door a particular color. These steps attract positive Feng Shui energy.

As I suggest with T-intersection homes, try using a convex Bagua mirror at your doorway to bounce away any negative energy that sneaks through. It doesn’t need to be visible from outside.

Feng Shui Convex Bagua Mirror

Place your convex Bagua mirror above your door on the interior wall facing toward the street. Yes, you won’t actually see the mirror.

Lastly, make sure you have followed all of the steps to Feng Shui the inside of your home according to the Bagua. Doing so will ensure that your career, relationships, wealth, love, health and all other areas of importance are well-nourished by your newly-refreshed Chi.

Next Steps

You deserve to live a life of abundant wealth and health.  Make sure that your home is providing for you.

If you run into any problems along the way or are looking for some professional guidance, contact me. I pride myself in adding harmony and balance while not making it look like a Chinese restaurant exploded in your home. You can get a consultation in-person or virtually via video chat.

I am a 3rd generation Feng Shui expert and have helped thousands of people add harmony and balance to their homes and offices the Feng Shui way. As your consultant, you will be able to get one-on-one advice for how to attract positive energy and improve your life with Feng Shui. I offer in-home and virtual services. Contact me today!

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Feng Shui in Home Design

Ensure that you are using the appropriate element,  color, pattern or material for every aspect of your home design.

The five elements of water, wood, fire, earth and metal in their creative cycle.

The five elements of water, wood, fire, earth and metal in their creative cycle.

Feng Shui Elements

In terms of Feng Shui, the element is the central theme to many of the areas of the Bagua.

Thus, make sure that you utilize wood or something representing wood in the Family Area and earth in the Health Area.

Feng Shui Colors

The choice of colors is quite important because they often represent the elements and therefore the various areas of the Bagua.  For instance, red represents fire and is ideal in the Fame & Reputation Area.  Purple is the color of royalty and is best found in the Wealth & Prosperity Corner.

Feng Shui Patterns

Patterns can also represent elemental objects.  As an example, a pattern of wavy or undulating lines would best represent water and should be placed in the Career Area.  Patterns with circular shapes represent metal and thus the Creativity & Children Area.

Material Color Pattern

Feel free to take things quite literal when it comes to patterns.  For instance, you could use a throw pillow with dollar signs in your Wealth & Prosperity Corner, a pattern with sailboats in your Travel Corner, hearts would go with your Love & Relationships Corner, etc.

Feng Shui Materials

Of course, many materials are exactly the same as the elements.  A wooden hutch, for instance, would be best placed in the Family Area while metal furniture is best placed in the Children & Creativity Area.

Some materials can be a bit more tricky, but think of where they come from.  Fabric from cotton or linen is made from the earth and would be ideal in the Health Area, for instance.

Next Steps

Research and use some creative thinking when doing interior design.  The use of colors, patterns and materials can represent various elements that correlate directly with various areas of the Bagua.

Remember to always think twice before you place an object in your home or office.  Make sure it won’t conflict with your harmony and balance.

Are you looking for a Feng Shui consultant you can trust?  I am a 3rd generation Feng Shui expert and have helped thousands of people add harmony and balance to their homes and offices the Feng Shui way.  Contact me today!

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