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Feng Shui Tips for the Bedroom for Health and Relationship Improvements

by on September 28, 2011 in 5 elements, De-Cluttering, Furniture Position in Room, Health, Relationships and Love, The Five Elements

On average, one third of your life is spent in your bedroom. I think it is practically impossible to “waste money” on creating the perfect bedroom as it is your most impacting room of your house! Here are my tips for bedrooms if your love life seems stale or is non-existent, or your health could use some improvement, or you are looking for a new or different outlook on life:

#1 Remove anything that does not support love/passion and health/rest. If your bedroom looks more like an office or multi-purpose room, your environment is working against you. If you want to go the extra mile with feng shui, try to get a good balance of the five elements in there as well.

#2 If you are looking for a major change, then stretch yourself and make major decor changes within the bedroom. In other words, “Don’t buy the same old comfort zone stuff that will get you the same old love and health-life situations!”

#3 Buy a wooden bed if you have the choice. Metal beds can conduct electrical fields which can be a health concern. Avoid having anything plugged-in near your bed, and especially no electrical blankets (even if they are plugged in but not turned on they can be harmful!), heating pads, or massage pads.

#4 Check the lighting level to see if it is not too harsh (yang) or too dim (yin). Listen for distracting sounds and try to alleviate or remove.

#5 Avoid large living plants or water fountains in the bedroom.

#6 Avoid large mirrors in the room. You should not be able to see yourself reflected in any mirror when in your bed.

#7 Avoid sharp metal within the bedroom (knives, axes, swords, guns, scissors, etc.) Sharp metal near you in bed usually results in “being cut” in life – as in surgeries.

#8 Create a headboard for the bed and place it against the most solid wall in the room  – cure poison arrows or “bed in line with doorway” lines by hanging a crystal between the bed and the negative item.

Don’t settle for a “6″ Bedroom when you can have a 10!!!!! :)

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Using the 5 Element “Reductive Cycle” to Feng Shui Balance your Home

by on August 25, 2011 in 5 elements, Blog, The Five Elements

I know, I know. In my book I mentioned the creative and destructive cycles when I discussed the five elements. But those in-the-know know that there are three cycles and not two.The one that got edited out was the reductive cycle.

The reductive cycle is a cycle where you can “reduce” an element without totally destroying it. Let’s say, for example that you have a totally white room (which equals metal) with a lot of metal furnishings in the creativity/children gua of your home (where metal is a GOOD thing.) Things should be good, right? But perhaps too much of a good thing can be harmful and out of balance as well. Perhaps, as much as you love your totally creative life, you can’t sleep for all the great ideas coming your way. You find yourself dragging around life from a type of “creative exhaustion.”

In this case, you certainly don’t want to destroy your creativity, but you would like to bring in the reins a bit. With the reductive cycle, you would add water element to that metal space.

Basically the reductive cycle uses the element ahead of it in the creative cycle (see page 37 of my book.) If you want to reduce metal, use water. If you want to reduce water, use wood. If you want to reduce wood, use fire. If you want to reduce fire, use earth. If you want to reduce earth, use metal.

It’s like the metal in that creativity gua above is saying “I’m growing, I’m growing, I’m growing, oops, now I have to use some of myself to create water.” It can’t become so powerful because it has a job to do. It has to “feed” the water element. (I’m trying with the visual here, I hope it is working!) Again, if you area trying to reduce wood element somewhere for example, you would add fire. Then, the wood is “saying,” “I’m growing, I’m growing, I’m growing, but  gotta feed the fire.” So it has to take the time to feed the fire and therefore not become “out of control wood.” Wow, I hope this is getting across to you out there!

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Feng Shui Info That is Not Covered in My Book “Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life”

by on May 5, 2011 in Blog, The Five Elements

Question #1: I know where the five elements fall on the bagua. It leaves the four corners “element-less.” Is there an element designation for these corners?

Answer #1: I know it is not in my book, but the main element for each of the four corner guas are, Earth in “Skills and Knowledge,” Wood in “Prosperity,” Earth in “Relationships,” and Metal in “Helpful People and Travel.”

Here’s a mini graphic of the pattern of how the elements are places in the bagua – the map of feng shui:

This side is the back of the room or home

WOOD (prosperity) FIRE (Fame and Reputation) EARTH (Love and Marriage)

WOOD (Family) EARTH (Health) METAL (Creativity and Children)

EARTH (Skills and Knowledge)   WATER (Career and Life Path)   METAL (Helpful People and Travel)

The door into the room or home is along this side

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