Color Me Enhanced: Feng Shui, the Bagua Map, and Color Selection
In Feng Shui, colors are often used to enhance the properties of the nine areas of the bagua map. Imagine your home as a large square, divided into three rows (front, middle and rear) with three squares (left, middle and center) each. The bagua map is interpreted from the orientation of your front door, even if you use a garage door or side entrance primarily. By using the appropriate colors in the appropriate areas of your home, you can help to bring change to your life.
Front Row:
Left side: Knowledge & Self-Cultivation area.
Use black, blues and greens to enhance learning and personal growth in your life.
Center: Career area.
Use black and other darkly-toned colors in this vital area to help improve your career situation- whether you are interested in getting that promotion, finding a new job or being more content with your work situation.
Right side: Helpful People & Travel area.
Use white, grays and black to help increase the number or quality of helpful people in your life, and to encourage safe, enjoyable travel opportunities.
Middle Row:
Left side: Health & Family area.
Use blues and greens to help encourage continued or improved health and family relationships in your life.
Center: Center area.
Use yellows and earth tones to improve the overall peace and tranquility of your home and life.
Right side: Creativity & Children area.
Use white and pastels to increase your creativity, overcome writer’s/artist’s block, and also when you would like to become pregnant or otherwise add to your family.
Rear Row:
Left side: Wealth & Prosperity area
Use blues, purples and reds to support personal wealth and prosperity growth.
Center: Fame & Reputation area
Use reds in this area to improve your personal fame in your chosen career field and your overall reputation within your community or your career.
Right side: Love & Marriage area
Use reds, pinks and white in this area to improve your love life and romantic relationships.
Now that you know which colors can help enhance the nine bagua areas, apply that knowledge to your living space. Try painting the walls, and adding accents like decorative pillows, blankets, indoor fountains, colored glass or collectibles. Throw rugs, wall hangings, silk or live flower arrangements, candles, curtains, placemats and tablecloths, and even shower curtains are other easy-to-implement feng shui color cures which will help activate energy and enhance your life.
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Feng Shui Bedroom – Your Guide To Create Vibrant Love-Life With Feng Shui Enhanced Bedroom – Part V
Here are four critical aspects of transforming your bedroom into an oasis of love, vitality, and fulfillment by applying the traditional feng shui principles.
1. ) Aroma is another aspect of your bedroom that is vitally important. Colorful fragrances bring harmony and romance to your bedroom. Avoid using potpourri because they are dried flowers. They are dead and create negative energy fields. Scented pillows, aromatherapy candles, reed diffusers, and essential oils are highly recommended. To ignite passion and love in your bedroom, try jasmine, rose, ylang-ylang, or, sandalwood oils.
2. ) Inspiring artwork has a subconscious impact on your psyche. They influence your life tremendously in the long run. Moreover, positive energy is instilled in your spirit when you see an image or object that is aesthetic, inspiring, and soothing. A painting portraying beautiful natural landscape, ideally of your favorite vacation spot, or a beautiful tapestry, should be hanged directly from your bed. Avoid geometric patterns as it might clutter the energy flow and disrupt the quality of your sleep. A manifestation board is ideal for your bedroom as it displays your wishes for love, creativity, and success. When you watch your manifestation board every day before going to bed, you train your subconscious mind to follow your dreams and turn them into reality. Remove everything that has negative or sad memories from your bedroom.
3. ) If you have fireplace in your bedroom, add a water feature to compensate for the fire. Change the water of your water feature often because stagnant water causes stagnation of energy in your bedroom. Water fountains are usually not recommended for the bedrooms because they produce a lot of chi, i. e. energy, however, if your bedroom has a fire place, it makes an ideal calming focal point. Turn it off at night for the calming effect.
4. ) A sensual bedroom stirs your heart and energizes your relationship. A round faceted crystal when hanged from the ceiling galvanizes your love life. Consider having everything in pairs, i. e. two candles, two lamps, etc. Add one element to entice each of your five senses, e. g. play soft music, touch silky bedding, sip your favorite wine, and see and smell a bouquet of roses. Stimulate your love with your partner by placing a statue or artwork that embodies passion, playfulness, and tenderness.
This is the fifth and the last article on the series of articles related to “Feng Shui Enhanced Bedrooms. ” Totally transform your bedroom by applying these powerful feng shui principles.
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