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The Benefits of Adding Plants to Your Home or Office with Feng Shui
Plants are important in Feng Shui, as they attract energy to your space. Here are some great reasons to consider adding plants to your home or office with Feng Shui:
- Improve air quality: Plants are natural air purifiers, as they convert carbon dioxide to oxygen. When you add plants to your space, the cleaner air will improve your health.
- Reduce stress: Studies show that being around plants can improve your mood. Add plants to your space to create a calm environment.
- Increase productivity: Plants improve concentration and productivity. Add plants to your workspace to create a more positive environment that encourages you to concentrate to get more done.
- Enhance the energy of your space: In Feng Shui, plants are associated with the wood element. This represents growth, expansion, and new beginnings. Add plants to your space to bring about positive change in your life.
Adding plants to your space is a simple way to improve your well-being in feng shui. Choose plants that are appropriate for your space and care for them regularly to enjoy the many benefits they bring.
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.
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Choosing the Perfect Business Location with Feng Shui
Thinking of starting a new business? Talk about exciting and scary at the same time! Well, choosing the right location for your new venture is serious business. And feng shui can help!
Location, location, location is not only important for real estate, but also where to place your business. Here are five feng shui tips that I often give to my business clients to help them choose the perfect location for their business:
- Consider the main entrance. In feng shui, the main entrance of a building is where feng shui energy and your prosperity flows in. To attract positive energy, it’s best to locate the main entrance in a way that is good for your business. As a fairly obvious example, you’d want a retail store’s main entrance to be in an area with lots of foot traffic rather than hidden in a back alley. The main entrance of a therapist’s office, on the other hand, should be a little more discreet, though not hard to find.
- Look for a location with good energy. Find a location with good energy by looking for a place that is well-ventilated and has plenty of natural light. Look at locations near sources of positive energy, like parks and bodies of water. Avoid locations that are located near negative elements, such as busy highways, cemeteries, hospitals, or areas that seem disorganized.
- Choose the right building shape. The shape of a building in feng shui is important because it can affect the flow of energy. For example, square or rectangular buildings are considered stable and grounding, while round or oval-shaped buildings are thought to promote creativity and flexibility. Choose a building shape that aligns with the goals and values of your business.
- Pick your numbers carefully. In feng shui, address and unit numbers have a symbolic meaning that can affect the energy of a location. For example, the number 8 is considered lucky and is often associated with abundance and prosperity. On the other hand, the number 4 is considered so unlucky in feng shui that most buildings in Asia skip the 4th floor. The numbers in your address should align with your business goals.
- Look for the right elements. The surroundings of and the materials used in the construction of your building are quite important to the success of your business. Understand the Five Elements and their meanings. Then, look at the elements around your prospective building’s location (bodies of water, trees, etc.) and the construction/elements already in your building (steel, wood, fireplaces, etc.). You’ll want to complement and balance what already exists there with appropriate elements in your tenant improvements and interior design while slightly favoring the element(s) that most aligns with your business goals.
Choosing the right location for your new venture is serious business! We haven’t even talked about your logo, yet, have we? While we’re at it, don’t forget to put some feng shui focus on your personal career path.
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!
Using Convex Bagua Mirrors in Feng Shui
Convex bagua mirrors are a tool often used in feng shui to deflect negative energy. By deflecting negative energy, they may help prevent accidents, protect against theft, and calm overwhelming feelings.
Convex bagua mirrors are specifically shaped like an octagon. Each side and the center of the octagon represents one of the nine areas of the bagua, which in turn represent different aspects of life, including wealth, career, relationships, and health.
When I work with home builders, I advise them on creating housing developments that are most auspicious for future residents. We’ll work together to avoid or minimize homes located at T-intersections, the end of a cul-de-sac, corner lots, and in other situations where a home has poison arrows pointed at it.
If you already live in a home with any of these situations, however, there are often remedies. When I consult with homeowners, we’ll identify areas of concern and I will advise specific cures, which may include a convex bagua mirror.
There are several ways to use convex bagua mirrors in feng shui. One common placement is to hang the mirror just above the front door, facing outward. This is believed to deflect negative energy and protect the home from negative influences. If you have poison arrows facing toward your window, you may hang the mirror above the window, again, facing outward to deflect negative energy from the outside. Whether with a door or window, the mirror could be inside or outside of the wall as long as the reflective part of the mirror is facing outwards towards the negative energy.
Please ONLY use convex bagua mirrors for protection and NEVER use them to intentionally harm or bring negativity to others. Use them with caution, as they can be very powerful and can even reflect or amplify negative energy back at you if used incorrectly.
If you’re interested in using convex bagua mirrors for feng shui in your home or business, it’s important to consult with a feng shui expert to determine the best placement for maximum protection. When you use and place them appropriately, convex bagua mirrors can provide you with powerful protection by bringing positive energy to your space.
Click here for a referral link to a convex bagua mirror that I suggest to my clients.
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
Feng Shui Your Home Office for Increased Productivity and Success
With more people working from home, we need to know how best to maximize our efforts for success by using feng shui.
Feng shui is an ancient Chinese practice that involves the arrangement of objects and space to create a harmonious and balanced environment. By following some simple feng shui principles, you can create a home office that supports your work and helps you achieve your goals.
- Choose the right location for your home office. The ideal location for a home office is a room or corner that is quiet, private, and separate from the rest of the house. This will help you focus and minimize distractions. If you don’t have a separate room for your home office, consider creating a designated work area in a quiet corner of a shared space.
- Make sure the home office is well-ventilated and well-lit. Good ventilation and lighting are essential for a comfortable and productive work environment. Make sure there is plenty of natural light coming into the home office, and consider installing a fan to circulate the air.
- Keep the home office clean and clutter-free. Clutter can be a major distraction and can block the flow of positive energy in the home office, so it’s important to keep the space clean and organized. Regularly wipe down surfaces, sweep and mop the floor, and get rid of any unnecessary items.
- Incorporate the five feng shui elements. The five feng shui elements – wood, fire, earth, metal, and water – are believed to balance and harmonize the energy in a space. To bring these elements into your home office, try incorporating natural materials such as wood or stone, using the color red to represent fire, adding plants or artwork to represent earth, incorporating metal accents such as desk lamps or hardware, and using water features like a fountain or aquarium.
- Choose the right colors for your home office. The colors you choose for your home office can have a big impact on the overall energy of the space. Soft, calming colors such as green, blue, and purple promote a peaceful and focused atmosphere, while bold, vibrant colors like red and yellow can bring energy and excitement to the space.
By following these feng shui principles, you can create a home office that supports your work and helps you achieve your goals. Using these tips can help you create a positive and harmonious energy in your home office, but be sure to read my previous post about how to feng shui your desk.
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Feng Shui in Quarantine
Use Feng Shui to lose the overwhelming, uneasy or overworked feelings that can come with working from home
Probably like you, I went from driving to school, to the office, to visit clients, back to school, and to the kids’ practices, to now setting up work meetings, my kids’ distance learning and virtual practices, all from the “comfort” of my home via videoconference, while giving in to provide snacks seemingly every fifteen minutes to the kids. That run-on sentence captures how this new normal can make us feel. For the first two weeks at home, I felt overwhelmed, frustrated, angry, sad, and just wanted to be left alone, which are not typical personality traits of mine at all. And then I was reminded of the solution while on a videoconference with a home builder client.
The modern practicality of the 3,000-year-old practice of Feng Shui consistently amazes me. Most people only think of Feng Shui for its placement of objects and the use of colors, but it’s also about the placement of ourselves within our environment, whether-or-not we have an expansive home office. Working from home is a challenge because the environment is designed primarily for relaxation, not laser focus on work when others are also home. The good news is that Feng Shui helps us integrate better with our environment, even in times like these.
In a famous incident a few years ago, BBC World had a live video interview of a political analyst from his home office which was crashed by his two small children before his wife could drag them out, knocking books off the bed on the way. Since the quarantine started, such incidents now seem normal. Our efforts to find a quiet place to work or conduct videoconferences have resulted in multiple examples of poor office Feng Shui, which also happen to have real-world implications, even for a videoconference.
The client videoconference I alluded to had many examples of bad Feng Shui. One person had her back to a window, darkening her face in the video and overwhelming her with energy. Another had their back to the office door, just like the political analyst, where we saw kids running down the hallway and probably giving that person an anxiousness of people watching over their shoulder. Yet another had a poster behind him of large waves crashing onto a lighthouse, symbolism that probably manifested into a feeling of unease that would explain the bags under his eyes. I even saw someone working from her closet, probably the only way to provide segmentation between home- and work-life.
It was this video call that reminded me of my bad Feng Shui positioning that needed to be remedied. In an effort to give my husband space for his video calls in our home office and to be close to the kids to help with their distance learning, I unwittingly placed myself in a position on the dining table near a fireplace where my back was to the patio door. Once I realized my error, I moved to a location at the table where my back was to a solid wall and I could see all of the doorways to the room. My mood immediately improved. Though I still juggle my work, a flood of emails, the kids’ distance learning, and snacks every fifteen minutes, I no longer feel stressed out, trapped, or overwhelmed. I now have natural light hitting my face and perspective over the entire room. It also prevents my kids from videobombing my calls, allowing me to preserve my professionalism. I feel in control of my domain again.
Next Steps
If you feel overwhelmed, uneasy about your work environment, or simply can’t stop working at all hours, try to implement these tips for your workspace, however small that workspace may be:
- Keep your back to a solid wall where you can see all windows and doors in the room.
- Ensure proper lighting is in front of you, rather than only behind or directly above you.
- Make sure only calming pictures and elements surround you.
- Eliminate clutter from your home.
- When work is done for the day, hide it from view however possible, even if that means covering your computer with a blanket or storing your documents in a closet at night.
- Ensure you always have good posture at your computer workstation.
- These same principles also apply to your workspace at your office, so make sure to apply them when restrictions are lifted.
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Fragrant Feng Shui
Smells evoke powerful memories. Remember going to Grandma’s house when you were younger? It had a very distinct smell that we don’t easily forget. This is because our sense of smell activates our brains faster than sounds, sights, or even feelings.
It makes perfect sense then that Feng Shui principles can be used with essential oils to change the energy flow in any space. Feng Shui is all about bringing, creating, and having fresh, rejuvenating, and positive energy flow in your space. A couple of the most potent types of indoor energy to benefit from are plants and 100% pure essential oils, derived right from nature. No other natural elements have as much power as plants and the distilled essence of plant chi. Read on to learn more about using essential oils to help give your space a Feng Shui makeover.
Thousands of years ago, before modern medicine came in and invented synthetic representations of nature’s chemical compositions, almost every tradition used fragrance, herbs, and plant extracts in medicinal ways. Essential oils are received by the pituitary gland which governs cell generation and growth. These potent oils provide support for every system in our body. Their medicinal properties aid in good health and healing and help support every system in the human body! Wow, Mother Nature is powerful!
Basically, essential oils can be thought of as the pure essence or life energy of a plant. The oils are extracted from plants, shrubs, flowers, trees, roots, bushes, fruit, rinds, resins, and herbs. Using pure essential oils in aromatherapy is a great way to help create a fresh positive space and energy flow.
While there are three main ways to get the oils into your system: topically, through ingestion, diffusion or inhalation, the easiest way to get them into your space, and reap the Feng Shui benefits, is to diffuse them. Wondering which oils reap the most benefits in Feng Shui? Here’s a list of nine of the most popular Feng Shui essential oils and their uses:
- Clary Sage: For thousands of years clary sage has been used by cultures from all over the world to help clear a space of negative energies. Due to this, It is often used during meditation to help the mind to focus.
- Eucalyptus: Can be used to relieve fever. Eucalyptus is an expectorant that, when diffused, helps clear the airways allowing for deep breathing which oxygenates the system and keeps the head clear.
- Frankincense: This amazing oil is the most powerful essential oil for the spirit. Use this aromatic oil to ground and balance you. It can help relieve stress, clear your nasal passages, and reduce pain and inflammation.
- Jasmine: Traditionally used by the Chinese, this oil induces a feeling of confidence and optimism. Spray your space for a feeling of euphoria and well-being.
- Lavender: This is one of the most popular and commonly used oils. Treat the air with lavender to stabilize and calm you so you can release those negative thoughts. Lavender is an antidepressant, can help ward off anxiety and is a relaxant. With so many uses, this essential oil is a must-have.
- Neroli: This essential oil is a powerful tool to promote self-love, acceptance, and inspire creativity. Physically, this oil can reduce inflammation and pain, decrease blood pressure as well as cortisol levels, and is an anticonvulsant. If you seek mindfulness, clarity, and inner peace, Neroli’s your answer.
- Rosemary: This oil helps to combat mental fatigue while also stimulating the circulatory system.
- Sandalwood: Sandalwood is extremely cleansing and helps to lift the spirits while breaking up negative thoughts. It’s woody scent relaxes the muscles and helps to relax the inner noise and busy mind, giving you the ability to relax and focus. This oil also acts as an aphrodisiac.
- Tea Tree: Tea tree is known for it’s antibiotic and antiseptic properties. Adding this oil to oil blends can freshen, sanitize, and deodorize the air. Tea tree will help purify the space after illness and creates an uplifting atmosphere.
Aromatherapy is a holistic art and science of using a plant’s essence found within essential oils to help restore harmony and balance. There are about 300 essential oils on Earth and these oils have literally thousands of uses. By using only 100% pure essential oils, you are ensuring that you have the highest vibrational chi needed for energy clearing. These oils are so potent and powerful that an environment will begin to change within minutes of their use.
Mother Nature is so amazingly powerful and so are the people who have tried, learned, and taught us how to benefit from all-natural essential oils. These oils have over a million uses, from providing support and healing for our bodies, to emotional and spiritual support, to an alternative to cleaning with toxic chemicals in the home. If you have a need, there’s probably an oil for it. It’s no surprise that the powerful, purifying, positive energy these oils hold can help the Feng Shui in any space. They are a must-have in our Feng Shui tool box.
In order to create good, healing energy through the use of essential oils, it is necessary to get the highest quality, 100% therapeutic, Grade A oils.
Next Steps
If you need guidance on how to improve your space and your life, I’m always available to help. Learn more on my website today and book a virtual or in-person consultation. Better Feng Shui can help you in profound ways on life’s journey.
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