Use the FORCE!

Have you ever walked in a home and it felt just right? You may say it is good design or could it be a feng shui? Maybe a little bit of both? Conversely, have experienced fear or discomfort entering certain places? For the past few years as I was building and continuing studying art and design, I could not help but to look into this fascinating philosophy.

So what comes to mind when you think of feng shui? Something you never heard of, something mysterious? Feng shui is translated as “wind and water.” To make it simple, feng shui focuses on the arrangement of objects in and around a house to achieve the optimal flow of energy or “Ch’i.”

If you take into consideration with this philosophy that all objects have “good and bad” energy and the feng shui design takes the necessary steps to place these objects to optimize the good energy in a home. Think of it as Mother Nature coming in and using her super powers to help you make your house feel good ultimately making your life flourish.

I forgot to mention this “good energy” helps create an environment to help various aspects of your life, including your relationships, finance, career, and family among other things. By the way to those of you who know me personally, the title reflects my family’s obsession over Star Wars! One day when my kids are older and can read and appreciate my articles, they will hopefully chuckle over all my Star Wars references as my friends and family do now. But back to the topic at hand: according to feng shui, one can create a harmonious, happy home by applying feng shui. 

Feng shui 101: It’s the simple of art of harmony and arrangement; it is a way of basically feeling good in your own space. In feng shui, a practitioner uses a tool called a “bagua,” which translates to “eight areas.” This tool is basically used to analyze the energy of any given space. Each direction or areas has an element, colors, and life areas associated with it (finance, relationships, career, etc). It’s a symbiotic relationship of colors, areas, and nature’s elements. 

With this philosophy, everyone and everything is connected in some way or another. The energy of your home influences your emotions mainly because this is where you spend a great amount of time. Each room in your house has its own intent.

Color is one of the easiest ways to shift the energy in your space with feng shui. Here is an idea of how feng shui and colors work. Colors like orange and yellow increase the quality of relationships, good communication, and self-expression. Subtle hints of colors can be used to invoke these feelings and emotions in smaller scale via art works for example. Shades of green attract personal growth and abundance as well as health where as shades of blue represent calmness, tranquility, and peace.

If you have ever made any effort to sort through your things and get rid of items that don't serve any purpose in your life anymore, you may or may not have realized it, but you have opened up space around you to be filled with "new" and "better" things to make their way into your life. I have found it to be true that the more we hold onto "useless items" the less satisfied we become. Clutter is very bad feng shui and depresses and lowers ones energy levels. Clutter prevents the flow of Ch’i (energy) in feng shui terms and needs to be cleared.

Clutter represents postponed decisions and the inability to move forward in your life. Clutter brings with it a sense of disorder and confusion. The easy solution to removing the “stress” is to start cleaning up unwanted items and “junk” in the home by having a garage sale or donating unwanted items and discarding broken items. 

This article is a very basic idea of feng shui and I hope you enjoyed it. If would like to learn more about feng shui, send me an email at trusha@pondicherrydesigns. I’ll be happy to answer and expand. Here is a great website to read as well. -xoxo Trusha