Opening the Feng Shui Toolbox:
Creating Your Cures
Here are the five key methods at
your disposal that you can use to create cures. The method you implement
depends on such things as your particular needs and wishes, your budget, and
your sense of aesthetics.
Creating Positive Placement
Creating positive placement means
putting things in their right places or most favorable locations. Good or bad
placement affects you in important ways. The arrangement of your things
determines how the chi or energy circulates through your environment. And this
chi flow directly affects your body and mind. Your bed location, for example,
impacts many life areas, including your marriage, your level of pep and
vitality, and how much income you enjoy.
In the same way, the placement of
your office desk is important because it dictates where and how you sit and
appear, as well as how you interact with the people and energy entering your
office. Important placement areas include your bed, desk, stove, and others.
Adding what’s needed, minor and
otherwise
This category of cures involves
adding objects to your environment. These cures range from planting a new tree
or constructing a flowerbed to adding furniture or a mobile or installing a
mirror. Think of the cures in this category as the acupuncture needles of Feng
Shui. The proper addition at the right point in your space can create dramatic
changes in the energy and in your life.
Cleaning the path for energy to
flow
Another important strategy
involves removing whatever isn’t needed, whatever’s in the way, and anything
that simply needs to go. Almost everyone is to some degree a packrat. You
belong to a clutter of compulsive collectors, and lighting the load can free up
your energy and your life considerably.
The problem with clutter is that
it blocks the energy circulation in your home and in you, especially if the
offending items sit in hallways or other common areas and also if the clutter
is hidden in a closet or garage. Superfluous junk burdens your psyche, holds
you back, and trips you up. Shoes sitting behind the front door need to be
moved. Useless objects cluttering the closets and garage are better thrown out
or donated to a charitable organization.
Adjusting cures: Repairing,
cleaning and changing
This involves altering and
adjusting existing items in your house to improve their energy value. Examples
of this type of cure include repairing broken things, replacing burnt-out light
bulbs, and, of course, the all-important cleaning. What’s important about these
changes? Simply: this: whatever’s out of order in your environment provides a
subtle or profound influence for you to be out of order. A broken or not
maintained feature of your home provides a continuous subconscious influence of
malfunction and decay.
Changing the spirit of the place:
Using ceremony to create a new feeling
Ceremony was the first human
science and is still an essential part of human experience. A woman putting on
her make-up and a dash perfume before a date; a man puts on his power suit for
an important meeting; a pitcher tugging his baseball cap with every new batter;
even fans and players singing the national anthem before each game. What are
these habits if not ceremonies, particular actions performed to trigger
specific effects? But awareness of ceremony has been pushed out of modern
awareness due to society’s current fixation on technology and science. Feng
Shui definitely has not forgotten, and still makes good use of the power and
influence of ceremonies.
Ceremonies unite the material
world in which we live with the unseen realms of energy to which we are also
connected. Feng Shui ceremonies are energy procedures that change the spirit
and feeling of your home’s chi. They purify unseen negativity, remove bad luck,
provide protection, create new beginnings, and add cheerful energy to your
environment.
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