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There's another possible reason why Feng Shui can change your life. Perhaps the claims of feng Shui, such as the idea that decorating a room in a certain way allows positive energy to flow freely throughout the environment, are actually true. Whether you believe Feng Shui works because of your expectations that keep you motivated, or if you believe it's related to the spiritual realm, there's can be sure you have nothing to lose by testing out feng Shui to see if it will work for you. In this chapter, we’re going to start out with a discussion of doors inside the household. Just as main doorways are essential for the entry of good chi, doors inside the house are vital for the proper flow of good chi and the prevention of bad energy buildup. The first thing you should know about doors is that having three or more doors in a row brings a lot of bad luck to the household. This setup shoos away good chi. It is not conducive for the healthy flow of positive energy within the household. Good luck may enter your home, but it is sure to leave as quickly as it arrived. Try to avoid this kind of scenario by placing the third door of every series away from the direct line of the previous two. This will prevent the quick exit of good chi. Next we have to consider doors that are located on dividers which are perpendicular to each other. Such doors should not open outwards. Instead, they should open into the room. Doors on dividers that are at 90 degree angles which open outwards will result in conflicts. Conflicts may range from division among the members of the household, to warring opportunities leading to the loss of one, to disputes and disagreements between relatives, to general discontent among the members of the family. Such doors should always open into the room. This is representative of people giving way for the betterment of each other. Why both doors? When one gives way, the other will benefit. But when both give way, everyone will have a better time. The thing with chi is that it does not only flow along the walls of your house. It passes through each and every member of your household as well. Representative order in your home will condition the chi to affect your family members in a positive way. If the house is in order, then the wellbeing and disposition of the people who dwell in it will also be in good order. If the house is in disarray, then chaos will govern the household. The key lies in finding harmony. Peace is always preferable to discord. Doors serve as important focal points in the search for this harmony. They are the entry and exit points, and the beginning and ending of personal journeys, no matter how brief they may be and how short a distance they may cover. And Feng Shui, as we have reiterated throughout these pages, is all about balance. There must be a unity in all things, and beginning with doors is a good start. As such, two doors which are facing each other (not three or more doors because that would be unlucky and must be avoided) must have the same length and width. Differences in size promote disunity. Mirrors For better or for worse, mirrors are powerful tools in Feng Shui. They are perfectly capable of directing and redirecting the flow of good chi inside the household. As such, mirrors can be used as good energy enhancers, as solutions to bad chi… or as disruptors of the harmony inside the house. Hence, knowing how mirrors should be used is a must. If the person who designs the interior of the house has no knowledge of the disastrous effects of incorrect mirror placement, a lot of problems can potentially affect the inhabitants. Everyone knows how mirrors work. Their surfaces reflect light, and consequently, are used as tools for studying self-images. The same power of mirrors can be utilized in Feng Shui for a variety of positive purposes. Mirrors can deflect poison arrows, for instance (the reason why the center of the Pakua symbol often hosts a mirror), or they can extend bad corners and prevent the disruptive effects of less than ideal Feng Shui areas. But the positioning of mirrors is crucial. Mirrors can also deflect good chi, for example, as is the case in the illustration below. A mirror should never face the main door. It’s tantamount to shooing away good chi. As soon as the positive energy arrives, it’s just going to be reflected back to where it came from. Additionally, your guests should be treated with hospitality once they enter your abode. Being greeted by a mirror would surprise them, and would create the impression that they’re in your house to entertain themselves. This is detrimental to the positive chi you want to elicit from your guests. Instead, the doubt and hesitance they’d feel could be transformed into negative circumstances causing indecision and low self-esteem among the members of the household. A mirror should never face your bed, as well. While in rest, the body emits very strong chi, and such amounts are not consistent with the balance that should be strived for. When the resting body produces such strong chi, the mirror will reflect it back to the person in bed, with potentially grave repercussions. This is one of the worst placements in Feng Shui, and you have to avoid it at all cost. Position the mirror away from the bed, instead, or otherwise at an angle where the bed is not reflected. If repositioning the bed is difficult because of the semi-permanent attachment of the mirror to the wall, you should make sure that the level of the mirror is above that of the bed, so that strong chi won’t be reflected back to you during your slumber. Another thing you should avoid is placing a mirror in front of a staircase. The reflection of a staircase can bring periods of difficulty to your family. Climbing the stairs is an onerous act, and such a burden would be reflected by the mirror and permeate all over the house. For the same reason, you should also avoid positioning mirrors to reflect the cooking area. Fire is often utilized to prepare food, and you don’t want to have such a strong element resonating in all corners of your home. Mirrors shouldn’t face comfort rooms, as well. It symbolizes a return of wastes. In this area of your home, you want to free yourself from pressure by discharging unwanted burdens, while mirrors positioned here will only ensure that your burdens stay with you. As much as possible, avoid placing mirrors where they reflect any doors, particularly the main door, which we discussed earlier. Such a setup will not help you get rid of the things you need to unload. But there are, of course, many positive applications for mirrors. They can enhance good Feng Shui, for instance, when they are placed in the dining area. It is widely believed that by reflecting the food on the table, which is in itself a sign of bountifulness, the prosperity that is sought will be doubled. But you must make sure that the mirror will not be positioned low enough to cut off the head of the tallest family member who is sitting down in the dining area. Columns found in home interiors generally cause bad Feng Shui. They are made up of four sharp corners, and each corner shoots poison arrows throughout the house. But placing mirrors on all four sides of every column can perfectly counter this undesirable effect. Also, mirrors can be used to attract good chi into the house. But there are some prerequisites before you can achieve this effect: 1. You must have a window that offers a beautiful, scenic view of a body of water; 2. The view should not be of an element that is destructive to the element of that area of your house. You can place a mirror in front of such a window, and this will bring the tranquility, the sense of harmony, and the prosperity of the reflected scenery into your household. But this can work against you if the scenery that is reflected comes from a direction that is attributed to an element which is destructive to the element of the area where your mirror is positioned. Check out the Pakua symbol and the element cycles mentioned in the previous pages. You will be able to determine which is the correct setup, and which is the setup that will produce inauspicious results. Use the illustration below as a guide. There are other things about mirrors which should be mentioned: * Never use mirror tiles! This results in chopping off the Feng Shui aspects of the members of the household, and will surely result in a lot of misfortune. Invest in large mirrors instead, and if you can’t, you might as well disregard the usage of mirrors altogether, except for small mirrors permissible in certain areas of your home. * Mirrors in the bedroom promote vanity. If you can employ a different section of the house for grooming concerns, do so. Though this has become impractical in this day and age, as bedrooms often also serve as places where grooming habits are observed, the best and most pragmatic solution is to limit the number and size of mirrors, in the bedroom, at least. Mirrors in the bedroom are believed to cause discord between spouses. Vanity, after all, is an aspect of self-centeredness, which is not conducive to harmonious relationships which should be founded upon mutual love, fidelity and support. * Make sure that the mirror will never reflect anything sharp, either an angle made permanent by a corner or a bend, or an object that has been accidentally or neglectfully left in front of it. Mirror reflections magnify the negative chi that these poison arrows shoot, and it darts them back throughout the rest of the house. Toilets Feng Shui experts recommend that toilets should be placed in unlucky corners of the house. The problem with this method is that there are often several members of the household, and they each have their own unlucky areas. Unlucky areas are often calculated through the Loshu system in relation to the Pakua. It involves attaining your Kua number through certain computations based on the year of your birth. Your Kua number is then studied vis a vis certain charts pertaining to the same. This can be a problematic approach to home redecorations and rearrangements. First, because toilets are generally in a fixed position and moving them entails a lot of effort and monetary investment. And second, because within dwellings housing several people, one person's unlucky spot can be another’s lucky area. So instead of discussing the placement of toilets, let’s work instead with what is given. In the event that the toilet produces bad chi for certain members of the household, Feng Shui enhancing techniques can be resorted to, and this we will discuss in a later chapter. Let’s take a look at what to avoid when it comes to toilets, those things at least, that we can still remedy. First, toilets should not face main doors. The good chi that enters your house should be given the chance to circulate. Toilets flush away wastes. Hence, if the toilet is facing the main door, the fortune that good chi will bring will just be flushed away instantly. This can lead to a variety of problems. Loss of monetary opportunities, for instance, may be experienced. Poor financial management might also pervade the household. Another thing that should be remembered about toilets is that they should never face the dining area. The dining area promotes prosperity. All the good chi that can be stirred up in this section of the house will just go to waste if it passes through and gets flushed away by the functioning of the toilet. Bedroom For many people, the bedroom is the most important part of the house. If homes are for resting, then the bedroom is the heart of the house. Hence, much care and diligence must be observed in dealing with this area of the house, so that good chi can be ensured for the most essential room in the house. The most vital thing to consider is the placement of the bedroom door. The bedroom door should not be facing the main door. The bedroom serves as the repository of personal energy. If its door faces the main door, this energy will be depleted from the occupant. The repercussions of this are grave. Sickness, failures in career, lack of focus, and a dearth of opportunities for personal and financial growth will haunt the bedroom’s master if this setup is maintained. Likewise, the positioning of the bed is also crucial to establishing good Feng Shui and avoiding bad chi in the bedroom. Consider the bed as the throne of your dwelling place. However, the throne is also the place where the king is most susceptible to dangers. As a rule, you should never position the topside of your bed to face the door. Such a setup courts disaster, and will deprive you of the beneficial chi that you need for personal success, in terms of health, prosperity, relationships and development. In the same light, you should likewise avoid placing the bed directly under a suspended column… Columns, as we have previously discussed, are filled with sharp corners that shoot poison arrows. When placed above the bed where the family member is supposed to rest, these poison arrows hit him during his unguarded moments. The result is even more catastrophic that of columns located elsewhere. The human will is erased from the picture. How can the family member will against the bad chi if his defenses are down while resting in the bed? Illnesses, money problems, weak decisions, and general bad luck will haunt the family member who is assigned to such a room. These are consequences which are grave, and, worse, unnecessary, as they are completely preventable. Go To Proven Implements For Enhancing Feng Shui

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