Feng Shui for Health

FENG SHUI FOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS

The health aspect of your home lies smack dab in the middle of your house. As well it should. After all, nothing else matters if you don’t have your health. The center of your home is the physical area of your home that holds and sustains your physical and emotional energies.

Notice one more characteristic of its placement. It is the only life aspect that touches all the other eight areas of life on the Bagua Template – on either one. If you use the octagon it’s obviously the spoke from which all the other areas emanate.

How To Create More Positive Energy for Health and Well Being?

First, before you place any symbol, use any color or you take any other step, consider creating a “sacred space” in the center of the house. It could be a formal, spiritual altar of sorts, or it could be just a small spot where you – or any other member of the family – can spend some quiet meditative time. This helps to ground you and your entire family both emotionally and physically.

This is the perfect place, as well, to place any religious or spiritual objects you may own. While, you may not want them all on your altar or in the area that you’ve carved out as your sacred space, place them within the health sector of your house. And if any of the symbols you have are made of stone, so much the better!

Try it! See if you don’t see an enhancement in your family life.

How else can feng shui enhance the health of your family?

Rocks.

Rocks?

Absolutely, after all the health sector is definitely aligned with the essential element of the earth. And there’s not much more “earthier” than rocks (I really don’t think you want to haul in a truck load of mud, now do you?).

But, along those earthy lines, you can also add some potted plants. And you must admit it is a great alternative to that truck load of dirt!

Place a bowl of fruit in this area as well. And if you can arrange them in a stone or a ceramic bowl, that’s even better. This is a custom in feng shui’s homeland of China. Now, if you want to go one step further, be sure to add at least one peach to it. By the way, it doesn’t even have to be a real peach. If the peach is made of ceramic, it’s fine. Chinese tradition holds that the peach is associated with longevity and good health! (Must be all those antioxidants in it!)

Don’t be shy about displaying a bit of humor here. While I’m not sure that singing bass is quite appropriate (oh, you have a singing fish in every room?), definitely place something here that lifts the humorous energies of those who pass through.

You may even possess a cute, amusing knick-knack that someone brought back from a trip or a special piece that one of your children bought you for your birthday. This would be a wonderful added touch.

If you don’t have any photos or pictures of mounts or of the world, keep your eye out for them at decorating stores. A small globe placed in the center of your home or photographs of mountainous terrain go well in an area whose essential element is the earth.

Think Flat and Square!

This is one time it definitely pays off to be “square.” Square, oddly enough, is the shape that feng shui places with the earth. Find furniture that is flat and preferably squat. In fact, if you could find a flat, low, coffee table made of stone, it would be the perfect addition to your home health sector – at least from the feng shui viewpoint, that is.

Don’t forget that if you can do nothing else initially, you can decorate with the colors associated with the earth element – browns, mustard yellows and other shades of yellow. In fact, in some instances all you need is a shift in your color placement to notice a monumental shift in the qi.

This is certainly easy enough through the placement of tablecloths or curtains. Even throw rugs in the proper colors can make a stunning change in the energy level in this area.

Keep it simple! Think about, especially as a start, just placing a potted plant of bright yellow mums or chrysanthemums.

What Blocks that Healthy Chi!

Now that you’ve added some appropriate objects that encourage the flow of healthy chi in the middle sector of your home, take a second look at this area. Now, we’re going to search for objects that need to be taken out of this area because they block the flow of chi.

Your quest starts with large wooden objects. Get them all out of the health life aspect of your home – and I mean now. Don’t ever place another large wooden table, a piano or any other big wooden object in this area.

According to the laws of feng shui, the earth element is consumed by anything created out of wood. This includes, unfortunately, religious wooden statues, mantel pieces, wooden shelves and even hanging overhead beams.

Don’t place anything with the shape of a column in your health sector either. A column resembles the shape of a tree trunk. This shape creates a stagnant energy in this segment. So, this isn’t a great area to place pillars or even wooden curio cabinets.

Keep the color green away from this mid-section of your home. The only green that should be located here is the green of the plants. Anything else that has green on it needs to be taken out of this area – and the sooner the better. Green, like the columns, only hinders the flow of the healthy chi that we’re trying to create, enhance and maintain.

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