3 Ways to Add Life to Your Surroundings

 
You can use life forces to adjust the chi around you. A life force is anything with vitality -- plants, trees, or animals. Homes with pets often have free-moving chi, as the pets help circulate it. Pets can also activate a particular corner of a room if they make that their favorite dwelling place.

Pets aren't for everyone. There are lower maintenance ways to balance chi using life force -- even a computer screen saver that shows moving images of forests, oceans or animals works well to balance chi or activate a specific corner.

Here are three other ways you can activate the chi using life force energy.

Bonsai plants - Bonsai contain years of cultivated power, making them strong forms of life force. Before you buy a bonsai -- or if you are growing it yourself from a sapling -- make sure it is created and formed through cultivation and care, not torture. Don't bind your bonsai plant's branches with wire to make it grow a particular way. Instead, carefully trim its branches, forming your ideal design with time. Bonsai often represent new hope and, because of the power of their energy, can help sick people recover even better than regular plants or flowers.

Flowers - Flowers don't live long, but can beautify a space and add positive, uplifting energy instantly. Discard old flowers as soon as they begin showing signs of death and decay. Keep flowers fresh, and maintain the positive chi in the space by bringing in a new bouquet when you get rid of an older one.

Fish Tanks - Chinese restaurants often showcase fish tanks with brightly colored fish, optimally placed in the wealth corner of the business. Doctor and dentist offices also use fish tanks to relax patients. You can use this method in your home, apartment or office, as well, to encourage relaxation and wealth flowing toward you. Place the fish tank at eye level so that you and others can see it easily.

I Hired A Feng Shui Consultant, Now Where Do I Hang The Feng Shui Crystal?

Recently, I've had a variety of clients bring me in for a Feng Shui consultation and wonder where they should hang a crystal, wind chime or place a fish tank. My question is always, why do you want to do that or what is the purpose and the typical answer is - because I thought that is what you are supposed to do in Feng Shui.

Many individuals have read a book or an article about how someone hung a round faceted crystal ball and automatically think they should do the same. However, each space, situation, and individual is unique and there is not one remedy that fits all of the problems. I compare this to cooking, sometimes the addition of certain ingredients are required and improve the flavor, however, you don't add all of the ingredients to every dish because it would not taste good and every dish would taste the same.

Example, I recently consulted for a business and the owner asked me if he should add a fish tank because he read somewhere in a book that it was good luck. I said that of course if you enjoy fish and they bring you peace, sure but from a Feng Shui perspective I would not. The reason was that the office already had so much of the water element represented in color and materials. If he would have added a fish tank, it would have made the place feel cold and dark when the opposite really was required.

Another example, I recently was called in to do a consultation for a large house under construction and I kept hearing the same question from the owner's friend, where do the crystals go. I sensed that the owner was not a fan of hanging crystals nor was their a true energetic need. The issues of that situation dealt with missing sections and could be fixed using other means using the addition of lights and plants.

So when thinking about Feng Shui, don't assume that you will be hanging a crystal, adding a fountain or purchasing fish. Take a moment to understand what the needs of the space are, where the difficulties are and what may be the options that work best with the space and for the individual.

So, my question to you: Have you recently implemented any Feng Shui Cures? For what purpose did you put the Feng Shui cures in place to remedy? Have you noticed a difference in the space, situation or circumstance?