Feng Shui for Energy and Health

Traditional Chinese medical practitioners hold that being surrounded by positive chi, or energy is necessary for feeling happy. Feng shui, which is pronounced “fung shway,” is the art of arranging your surroundings to improve your chi. It can be applied to any space, including your desktop and every room, structure, workplace, and neighborhood. Feng shui, which literally translates to “wind and water,” has its roots in the earliest Taoist traditions of ancient China, despite the fact that the concepts that follow may sound esoteric to those who are unfamiliar with the concepts of chi, yin, and yang.

Living, Changing and Connected

The fundamental principles of feng shui are that everything is alive, interrelated, and changing. And it starts with your home’s fundamental design. The placement of doors and windows can determine whether the chi is vibrant and fresh or stale and harmful. Cleaning, bright lights, and uplifting music can literally clear the air in a room if it has been vacant and dusty for a long period. A space can have too much yin, or negative energy, in it. Positive noises are a powerful remedy for negative energy.

Everything, place, and living creature has chi, according to feng shui.

Patricia J. Santhuff, who frequently writes about the connection between chi and health, states that “the better the quality of chi coursing through a thing, the healthier, more vibrant, or more beautiful that object is.” We become tired or, if it persists for a long time, are more likely to become ill when our bodies are experiencing low or blocked chi. The intention is to ward off harmful energies and welcome those that promote health and longevity.

Start with your home’s bedroom

The bedroom is one of the most crucial spaces for practicing excellent feng shui since it is simple to let the energy get “too yin” there due to the lack of sunlight and fresh air, a situation that can result in stagnant chi and disease. Here are some ways that your bedroom’s layout can benefit your chi:

  • Sleeping in a room at the end of a long hallway can make the energy flow there excessively powerful, which can be bad for your health.
  • A bed should never be situated against a wall that is shared by a toilet, and a bedroom door should wherever feasible, not open directly onto a bathroom.
  • Additionally, bedroom doors shouldn’t face the edge of another room’s corner, which can block chi and worsen circulation issues, or open onto a staircase, which could let poor chi into the space.
  • To generate a surge of uplifting, yang energy, any bedroom that has been occupied by a sick person should be given a thorough cleaning, bright lighting, and a fresh coat of paint.

 

The position of the bed is equally crucial. In her book, Feng Shui Fundamentals, Lillian Too offers the following taboos:

 

  • Never go to bed with a mirror facing you “One of the worst feng shui elements in the bedroom is a mirror since it might lead to heart-related health issues. Mirrors over the headboard are also dangerous.” If you must have a TV or mirror in the bedroom, make sure to cover them when not in use because they both reflect light.

 

  • Never go to bed with a water feature there. The same impact as a mirror is produced on the heart by a painting of a lake, waterfall, or, much worse, an aquarium.

 

  • Never go to sleep with a corner’s sharp edge facing you. The lethal poison arrow that releases the “death breath” is the sharp edge of a corner. Use furnishings to cover the edge’s sharpness.
  • Never rest your head against a visible overhead beam. You could have headaches and migraines if the beam is over your head. It can cause issues with the heart, lungs, and other respiratory issues if it crosses at the level of the chest. In any room, beams are not a desirable feng shui feature.

In the kitchen

Feng shui for health can be practiced in kitchens as well as other vital areas. For instance, the yin and yang energies of your home’s kitchen and bedroom may clash, causing family members to experience chronic disease. Neither the front nor the rear door should be direct across from the kitchen door. According to Lillian Too, this causes positive energy to flow right through the house, causing an “annoying disease” at first before developing into more serious misfortune. Put a mirror on one of the exterior doors to make this arrangement work by preventing positive energy from leaving so rapidly.

Additional Guidelines for Good Chi

Tables are found in several feng shui books, including Too’s, that enable readers to determine the “optimal health direction” for their residences. The stove should always face that way (as should the head of the bed). The stove, which in feng shui represents the fire element, should never be placed near the sink because that would result in a conflict between the fire and water elements, and it should never be placed in the northwest corner of the room because that would be equivalent to “setting fire to heaven’s gate.” Because the trigram Chien, which represents heaven, the source of all good fortune, dominates the northwest, to caution, this is the case. “Setting a stove there will ignite the good luck energy source.”

 

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You can unwind by clearing the clutter, and you can feel less irritated by lubricating doors to stop them from squeaking. When you “need an extra boost of energy for a particular assignment, or are having problems decluttering,” Patricia Santhuff offers the following advice:

 

  • Install a wind chime in the space or over the workspace, and chime it occasionally. Wind chimes, according to some feng shui experts, encourage creativity and clarity.

 

  • Dust and vacuuming. This really revitalizes the chi in addition to clearing away debris.

 

  • Put on some upbeat music.

 

  • Bring in a desk fountain for the space.

 

  • Raise energy levels by clapping or using rattles, especially in closets and corners.