8 little changes you can make to your home for better fengshui for the rest of 2020

Natural lighting doesn’t just impart a warm, pleasant ambience – it’s a way to promote positive energy within a home too. Pay attention to the overall design of your home as well as the buildings surrounding it.

Are the homes interior walls or shadows cast from nearby structures preventing sunlight from entering certain parts of your home?

This is a crucial aspect to consider, especially when you are house-hunting. Places that are indefinitely dark are a nest of excessive Yin Qi, which can threaten the emotional and psychological wellbeing of a home’s occupants.

By contrasts, well-lit areas of your home will activate positive energy, which in turn provides a host of benefits, such as improved productivity, alertness and high-spirits.

A great porch is a clean one, without any overly large obstructions between your main entrance and the environment beyond. Think of your main entrance as a mouth that ‘swallows’ the Qi from the natural world.

If the main entrance cannot absorb this external Qi smoothly, the energy inside your home will be undoubtedly compromised as well.

Ideally, your porch or space directly outside your home’s main entrance should be spacious and well-kept, as this allows the Qi to gather properly before flowing smoothly into your home.

You’d be surprised just how big a difference something as simple as this can make to your home’s overall ‘vibe’.

If you’re wondering what the bedroom has got to do with your career, it’s actually the most important room in the entire home since you spend a lot of time here resting and sleeping. As such, the type of Qi that affects your bedroom is important for your overall well-being. If your energy levels are low due to disrupted sleep, it may affect your work performance in the long run.

In Feng Shui, your bed’s headboard should be placed against a wall. A wall is considered a Yin feature, and sleeping is also considered a Yin activity. Sleeping against a Yang feature like a window will result in an imbalance in sleep and decline in performance.

In the study of Feng Shui, every home is divided into sectors; some of these areas are ‘negative’ or so-called hotspots of negative energy. As a general note, these sectors should either be minimally used or utilised as a storage area, for example, since frequenting these areas would activate its negative energy. The one exception to this rule is the kitchen.

It’s the one important location of a home that should ideally be in a ‘bad’ sector of a home, as kitchens serve as a suppresser of bad Qi in Feng Shui. Conversely, you don’t want the kitchen in a positive sector as a general rule, as the kitchen would then suppress the good energy instead.

The trick here is to ensure that while your kitchen is in a negative sector, your stove – known as the Firemouth in Feng Shui – should be tapping into a favourable direction.

There are some concepts here that require slightly more in-depth Feng Shui knowledge, but you can easily rely on professional Feng Shui consultation to get this aspect of your home right.

Most homes have a designated study area where occupants go to get work done. If you’re a business owner or have a home business, this personal workspace is vital to your professional success.

As such, ensure that the study room door opens to a spacious area. With this set-up, the door would actually be opening to a Bright Hall to ensure that Qi can collect and circulate before flowing into the study room. In addition, the best position for your desk is away from the wall to ensure that you’re seated with your back to the wall. This places a stable Yin Form behind you that also represents the support you will need to advance in your career or studies.

As implied earlier, spaciousness is a core concept within Feng Shui, so just because your porch area is spacious doesn’t mean it’s okay to clutter up the immediate interior after your main entrance.

The ideal situation is to have your main entrance directly lead into a spacious – or at the very least, decluttered – living room area.

Qi needs to collect before being gently dispersed across the rest of your house, and spacious living areas serve that function excellently.

The place that allows Qi to gather in this manner is called an Interior Bright Hall, and is an important consideration to instill good energy across your living space.

The Peach Blossom is one of the most famous terms used in the study of Feng Shui. This is a good star to activate in your house, as it increases your magnetism and improve your relationship with people. It also makes you more attractive to others.

Frequent use of this sector within the home is sufficient to activate this star, but you can also consider placing some form of water element to further enhance this area. Remember to keep this space neat and tidy to ensure that there is smooth Qi flow.

Everything within your home has a polarity – it’s either Yin or Yang. The activities we engage in are also associated with this polarity. Understanding this is important, because as a general rule, the polarity of a particular area in your house should match the polarity of the activity you primarily use that space for.

As an example, your bedroom should not be infused with too many Yang items – aquariums are an important type of Yang feature, but typically unsuitable for places of rest.That’s because sleep and rest are considered Yin activities – doing so in a place with too much Yang energy will make it hard to relax and calm down.

Of course, Feng Shui is far more than simply keeping your home tidy and putting things in the right place. However, harnessing this simple methods correctly can do wonders at possibly changing your life and luck around.

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