| Attention All Feng Shui Beginners! | | Print | |
| Written by Kyle Richey | ||||||
| Thursday, 24 July 2008 | ||||||
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If you are at odds on where to begin to add feng shui in your home, there are options to help you decide how to begin. Are you skeptical about the advertisements you have seen for readings to help you set up your personal atmosphere? Do you wonder if they are truly able to do this?
If you are at odds on where to begin to add feng shui in your home, there are options to help you decide how to begin. Are you skeptical about the advertisements you have seen for readings to help you set up your personal atmosphere? Do you wonder if they are truly able to do this? Here are a few tips for those who have no idea of how to start. Do not give up on the idea of adding feng shui to your life so easily. Check out these tips on how to apply this ancient art to your life. Feng Shui is About Order and Calm This is one of the most important principles in feng shui and one which the beginner needs to be aware of first. Feng shui is not about painting your front door red to attract wealth, nor is it about having to place your sofa exactly here or your bed exactly there. It is about attracting calm, order, peace, balance and harmony into your life. One of the first things that beginners to feng shui are advised to do is to de-clutter their home as much as they can. The basis for this is simple. It is a scientific fact that clutter causes stress. When your home is full of junk and there is barely room to walk, your stress levels are going to be high. You feel as if you are totally responsible and you should be doing a better job of keeping it cleaned. It is irritating when you cannot find something because of the mess. Although many people who are new to feng shui do not think that the cluttered state of their home is important, this is absolutely not true. Think about this. If your home is such a mess that you would like to move, how conducive is this going to be to peace and tranquility? Feng Shui Helps to Create Specific Moods The use of color is a major part of feng shui but not because some colors are better than others or because certain colors are "lucky". This is a common misunderstanding amongst feng shui beginners. Instead of this, one color is used to energize a room or to create a certain mood. Strong colors such as purple are red are used sparingly and seen as bold and fiery. Vibrant, bright colors can be a great pick-me-up and soothing, warm colors are calming and relaxing. There is of course scientific data to back this up. Biologists understand that humans react to colors around them, and apply this to many situations. Taxi cabs are yellow so that theyll be easily noticed, car brake lights are red for the same reason. If you are a feng shui beginner, don't dismiss the concept but don't let it overwhelm you either. You don't need to believe in the hocus pocus superstitions that some people have mistakenly thought applied to feng shui. You can however appreciate the aspects of this art as being effective and sensible. If you are still having a hard time believing that any of this is true, test it out. Clean your bedroom, closets included and paint it a different color. See if this seems to affect you in a positive way.
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