Good feng shui in your home can help you feel safe, peaceful and calm

We are living in times when most of our familiar structures are going through immense changes. The levels of anxiety, fear, worry and sadness can get overwhelmingly high, especially in dense urban areas. While not a complete solution, feng shui offers many practical tools to create peace, harmony and safety in your home, so I strongly encourage you to use it.

Creating good feng shui does not always require making new purchases. I have worked with thousands of clients and I assure you that you can create better feng shui in your space with what you already have.

Good change is often a matter of seeing your items with new eyes, repositioning them, giving them a new look, a new function, and sometimes even a new identity.

If you’ve been with me for a while, you’ve heard me many times talking about clutter clearing, so this will be our starting point.

Focus on clearing your clutter. If you have a lot of clutter in your home, it is very important to honestly define your relationship with it. What’s in it for you, why do you hold on to clutter? Depending on how you feel at the moment, it might actually be a good way to channel the energy of worry and anxiety into clearing your clutter. This will shift and elevate both your energy, as well as the energy of your home.

If clearing clutter is not possible for any reason, at least create clutter-free zones in the areas where you spend most of your time. The bedroom, the living room, and the kitchen are always a priority, followed by the main entry and the bathroom.

The way to do that quickly if you do not want to actually clear the clutter is to have a “designated” area where the clutter goes for now, which will allow you to liberate the above spaces, and then deal with clutter at the right time. What makes a good “designated area” for this purpose?

Two things: (1) this has to be a space out of sight and away from your daily traffic, so you do not see it all the time, and (2) it has to be contained, meaning you literally designate a corner of your garage, for example, to store your clutter there, and be sure it does not take over the whole space.

Once you start clearing your clutter, the energy will flows easier, there will be more freshness, clarity and breathing room in your home.

This means we can move to our next steps and start creating peace.

Express the energies of calm, beauty, comfort, and nourishment. Define how these energies feel to you and find a way to express them into your home. What comforts you, what keeps the energy of joy and happiness alive in your heart? What visuals bring you peace?

Are there books with specific titles that you can prominently display? Images you love? Comforting quotes? Pillows and blankets? Are there colors and patterns that you find really soothing?

Use comforting feng shui colors in the areas you spend most time in. Feng shui-wise, each color brings a specific quality of energy into your home. To alleviate stress and bring peaceful, calm energy, use these colors: soft pink, calming sky blue, soft cashmere gray, saturated and/or butter yellow, fresh white, vibrant green and warm earth tones. 

Do your best to avoid or minimize the following colors: intense red, strong orange, deep purple (Fire element), an overwhelming presence of dark gray (Metal element) and deep blue and black (strong Water element).

Be aware of textures and materials that surround you. Wood furniture is more comforting — on an energetic level — than metal, and round corners are always preferred to sharp ones, so check your living room and your bedroom for Sha Chi (attacking energy) and Si Chi (stuck, decaying energy).

Support healing energy with a skillful use of mirrors. In times of difficulty, it is very important to gently allow the emotions to flow and let the stagnant or suppressed energy be cleansed. The feng shui element that can help us the most is the Water element as it allows the energy of emotions to flow freely and be cleansed. This means that a living room with one or two big mirrors will be much more helpful in creating a clear quality of energy than a room with no mirrors at all.

There is the potential of more conflict, fights and arguments in a space that has no mirrors, especially if the windows are small, as compared to a space that is saturated with light, expansion, flow and reflection. The suggestion here is the following: if your living room has a fireplace or only a few small windows, bring a mirror or two to expand the space, move the energy and bring more light into it.  As a note, do not bring a mirror into your bedroom as this is not good feng shui.

Be aware of the feng shui needs of different areas in your home. To manage the energy of harmony in your home, be sure your East area (associated with the energy of health and family), as well as your Center area (associated with the heart), are clear and clutter-free.  Plants, mirrors, and family pictures in the East bagua area are excellent feng shui additions to strengthen health & harmony.

The Center area of your home thrives on heart-related items and images and usually on a variety of crystals and candles. Playing soft music in the background can help, using an aromatherapy diffuser with essential oils as lavender or peppermint will bring more peaceful energy.

Use additional feng shui helpers. Creating a home altar can help in cultivating more trust and peace, as well as bring a comforting sense of support. Adding a variety of natural textures pleasant to touch can help you relax and feel safe and connected to your body. Fully being in your body makes you feel safe, so the sense of touch is very important, and should be nourished in your home.

Bring more cushions and blankets into your living room and bedroom (be sure to use natural fabrics and avoid toxins), add a rug or two for stability and grounding. Wall decor made from soft and natural materials such as tapestries or macrame wall hangings will further soften the energy, while creating a level of cocooning and energetic protection.

Be aware of the feng shui power of light. Use warm and intimate lighting in the evening, including natural candles, to relax the energy in your home and fill it with soft calm. Try to limit the use of overhead lighting, and see if you can have more than one layer of lighting in the evening. I love Himalayan Salt lamps for their warm and nourishing glow and for the presence of two powerful elements they bring: the Fire and Earth feng shui elements. These elements, when used skillfully, are powerful healers and excellent helpers in times of stress and anxiety.

Last but not least, do not forget to regularly clear your energy, as well as the energy in your home. This will help you stay peaceful and healthy on all levels – from physical to emotional, mental and spiritual.

I trust this information helps you create and keep the energy of peace and nourishing calm in your home and in your life.

Read: How To Know the Good (or Bad) Feng Shui of Your Home

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