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Feng Shui Tips – How To Use Music

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

Music and other sounds can also be used to attract more ch’i / positive energy into your home.

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Wind chimes are extremely effective as they not only attract ch’i but also become an affirmation every time you hear them.

The pleasing sounds they make will remind you that the ch’i is flowing.

Wind chimes can be metal, wood, or ceramic.

Metal wind chimes are extremely useful in activating the children, career and mentors areas of your home.

Bamboo wind chimes are especially useful in the fame, family, and wealth sectors.

Metal wind chimes should NOT be hung in the family or wealth sectors as these areas represent the wood element and metal, of course, chops wood.

Wind chimes can be used both indoors and outdoors.

Placed outside the front door, wind chimes will double the amount of ch’i that comes in.  This is particularly useful if your front door opens on the shaded side of the house.

You can even hang wind chimes in areas where the wind will never cause them to make sounds.

You can activate them yourself whenever you go past. Each time you do this the pleasant sound will attract ch’I and prosperity into your home.

A gong in the dining room is good to attract ch’i.

Bells are also used to attract ch’i.

Radio and televisions are good to attract ch’i with their light and sound.

The human voice can also do the same. Sing!

Live objects attract ch’i.

Pets have been proven beneficial in reducing stress and in keeping old people alive and healthy.

Pets also help to circulate ch’i energy.

Aquariums containing fish serve as silent affirmations of wealth and prosperity, and also attract ch’i.

I hope all of my Feng Shui tips will help you encourage more wealth and positive energy into your home and life!

- Madonna

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Feng Shui Tips – The Money Plant

Thursday, August 12th, 2010
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The Feng Shui Money Plant :

The Money Plant ( Crassula ovata ) is the plant we called it the Jade plant when I was gowing up in Indiana.

The money plant has been adopted as the Feng Shui plant.

The name helps, but the round succulent leaves are representative of Metal energy.

Its leaves resemble coins and Metal energy.

Use money plants in the west and north-west.

If used in the south-east (the wealth area) their metal energy will be in conflict with the wood energy of that direction.

I hope all of my Feng Shui tips will help you encourage more wealth and positive energy  into your home and life!

- Madonna

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Feng Shui Tips – Living Rooms – Part 2

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

In Part 2 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips for Living Rooms, Madonna shares seven (7) more Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use Feng Shui to improve the positive energy (ch’i) flow of your living rooms:

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1) The living room should be welcoming and reflect your personality and interests.

You should feel totally relaxed and comfortable in this room, and so should your guest.

2) Many of you only use the living room for special occasions. This is not a good thing in feng shui.

The living room is an important part of the house and if not being used properly, the result will be that other areas of your life will be constricted.

Make this room comfortable and pleasant and use it regularly. If you are not doing the already, you will notice a big difference in the quality of your life as soon as you do.

3) The ch’i should flow freely through the living room. This encourages the family to spend quality time together. The ch’i also makes your guests feel relaxed and comfortable.

4)  The placement of furniture should also be done to allow the ch’i to flow freely, creating feelings of warmth and companionship in the room.

People should be able to move around the furniture freely.

L-shaped arrangements of furniture are not good, unless they are in a corner of the room. This is because they create a shar when located in the middle of the room.

5) The furniture should be arranged with care in the room. If the furniture is placed largely on one side of the room, the room will appear unbalanced and lop-sided. This can lead to feelings of constriction. Anyone sitting in this room will feel vaguely uncomfortable, but not know why.

6) People also feel uncomfortable when they are setting with their backs to the door. Consequently, chairs and sofas should be arranged so that the people using them do not have their backs to the doors. If your rooms does not allow this, it is considered good manners to offer your guests chairs that face the door, and sit in one that has its back to the door yourself.

7) Ideally, the head of the house should sit in a chair that faces the main entrance to the room. The people doing the entertaining should not sit with their backs towards a window, as this indicates a lack of support. A solid wall behind them increases confidence and makes them naturally more outgoing and hospitable.

I hope all of my Feng Shui tips will help you encourage more positive energy into your home and life!

- Madonna

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Feng Shui Tips – Part 7 – Bathrooms

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

In Part 7 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips Madonna shares some Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use Feng Shui to improve the balance of your bathrooms:

The toilet and bathroom are extremely important rooms in the house as they are places where water (money) drains away.

The ch’s should be allowed to flow smoothly into and out of these rooms without impediment.

Consequently, overly ornate bathrooms are not good from a feng shui point of view as they tend to hold the ch’i inside the room.

In fact, the Chinese prefer relatively simple, functional bathrooms with little in the way of ornaments or other decorations.

All the same, you should make this room a pleasant one with delicate colors and one or two objects that you find attractive.

A potted plant can also help encourage ch’i into this room

Green and blue colored towels help you relax, while at the same time, encourage the water to flow freely down the pipes. Blue is also a good feng shui color for the bathroom and toilet as it relates to the water element.

If the bathroom is located in the middle of the house in the good luck area, it will send negative ch’I through out the house. It will also send all your good luck down the down the toilet. If the toilet is located here, it is known as a “dead” toilet. The remedy for this is to place mirrors on all four walls inside the bathroom, which symbolically make the room disappear. It is also a good idea to place a mirror on the outside of the door to a dead toilet.

The other unfavorable locations for the toilet and bathroom are in the southwest, northeast, south, and beside or facing the front door. It is believed that if the toilet and bathroom are placed in the southwest and northeast the occupants will squabble and not get along with each other. If if is placed beside or in front of the front door. It is believed that the occupants will get a bad reputation

The bathroom also should not be located at the end of a long hallway, as this creates a shar heading directly toward it. This means that the beneficial ch;i that has come in through the front door ends up in the toilet! The remedy for this is to keep the lid down on the toilet and to keep the toilet door closed. It would also be beneficial to place a mirror on the outside of this door to make the room symbolically disappear.

These are traditional interpretations, and there is a remedy for each of these locations. A mirror on the outside of the door reflects the ch’i away from the toilet and bathroom.

Mirrors are necessary inside the bathroom, of course. Avoid mirror tiles though, as they create a netting effect that constricts the flow of money.

Light colors are better than dark ones in the toilet and bathroom. Different shades of blue to represent the water, element make a good choice. However, any color works well here. Except for red ( as water and fire oppose each other)

The one exception to a simple, purely functional bathroom is when it is located in the marriage sector of your home. If it is located here, make the bathroom as beautiful and as attractive as possible. Display favorite ornaments and hang a crystal from the ceiling to encourage the ch’i.

Ideally, the bathroom should have a window to allow light and ch;i to enter. This is because the bathroom is considered a negative location in feng shui. We do not want all the love and romance to be symbolically flushed down the toilet.

Enhance and beautify this room by encouraging ch’i in and effectively remedying what is normally a negative situation.

I hope my Feng Shui tips will help you!

- Madonna

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Feng Shui Tips – Part 2 – Basic Feng Shui Rules

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

In Part 2 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips Madonna shares some basic Feng Shui rules:

1) The bedroom should be kept clutter free, so the ch’i can flow freely.

2) If a doorway and the head of the bed share the same wall, it can make you restless and disturb your sleep and if there is a door to the bathroom on the same wall it should be kept closed.

Front Door:

Your front door represents you and your approach to life. We just come in and out of our doors without noticing anything. It can be an interesting exercise to enter your home and try to see all the things that a stranger would notice when he or she visits. Ideally you want your front path and front door to be cheerful and welcoming. But does it? Is your paint on the front door in good shape? Is all the front clean? Does your door bell work? If not this is all bad feng shui!!! If your front is welcoming, plenty of light, flowering plants and an uncluttered entrance all this creates good feng shui!

3) Your front door is of supreme importance in feng shui as it is the main location where ch’i enters the house.  In feng sui we want the front door to be slightly larger than the back door.  We do not want the beneficial ch’i to come in the front and go immediately out the back door.

4) The front door should be in proportion to the size of the house. If it is too large it will allow valuable ch’i to escape.  This will cause financial problems.

5) We do not want the door too small either.  If it is too small the amount of ch’i able to come in is restricted. This will cause finacial problems also. And also make your guests nervous and apathetic.

6) In feng shui your front door is the door most frequently used. So if you always come in and out of your home through a door other than the actual front door that becomes your front door in feng shui.

7) Your front door should be on the left side of the house. That means if you are standing inside your home the front door should be on the left side of the front of the home.  I know you have no control over this if you are already living in your home., but for the ones buying a new home it is something to kept in mine.

The story behind this is that the dragon looks over the left-hand side of the house, and his energy and bountiful ch’i enters the more easily when the front door is located on this side.

A door in center is better than having the door on the right.

8) Front doors are also good to have facing east or south.  That means that you will be warmed by the morning sun when you leave for work.  This will put you in a better mood.

9) You do not want any shars to affect the front door. This is the single most important aspect of feng shui. The front entrance must be protected. The most serious shar of all occurs when the house is sited on a T-junction, with a street heading directly towards the front door. This is made worse if the street heads downhill towards you front door.

10) The path leading towards the front door can also create a shar if it consists of a straight line leading from the road to your front door.
There are remedies for all of this. Your can plant a hedge or put up a fence, so that the street is not longer visible. The path can be changed to a gentle curve or put something to make the path to a angle just before the front door. If you can’t do any of these things. You can put a pa-kua mirror above the door which will serve to eliminate the potential harm coming from these shars. A pa-kua mirror symbolically captures the shar and reflects it back where it came from.

For those of you out there that are starting to get your home in balance, I hope my Feng Shui tips will help!

- Madonna

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