What To Expect From A Feng Shui Consultation

 

What To Expect From A Feng Shui Consultation

 by: Jakob Jelling

If you are wishing to harmonize or balance your house or any other environment according to feng shui, the ideal way to do so is through a feng shui consultation. A feng shui consultation would provide you the right and proper guidance for you to successfully achieve your goal.

Before you go to a feng shui consultation, it is important that you pay attention to choosing a good consultant. You should try to find out one who has experience and demonstrated knowledge. As with everything else, there are real feng shui consultants, who care for what they do, as well as there are others who do not. But you can easily check on this by asking him some references on where he learned and about past work.

A feng shui consultation may vary according to each different person and the way they like to work, but most of them would follow some general aspects in common. And, ideally, they should allow you to understand what they are talking about and what they are based on to give you a specific orientation.

Most of the times, a proper feng shui consultation would take the consultant to go to the place which must be harmonized. Sometimes a video of the place can be very helpful as well, but a proper feng shui consultation takes the consultant to be able to see the place before he can give certain advice.

A feng shui consultation could go through different stages. First, you may approach the consultant at his work office and let him know your general ideas. Then, he might ask you to give him a video of the space for which you are consulting him. Once he has the video, he can provide you with specific guidelines on what to do. And then, or instead of the last step, there would be a feng shui consultation stage done in the space itself.

The best advice you can receive from a feng shui consultation is based on accurate information. And, by allowing the consultant to actually see the place you would be able to receive the most accurate information and guidance possible.

Jakob Jelling is the founder of http://www.fengshuicrazy.com. Please visit his website and learn all the feng shui tips you'll ever need!

Feng Shui FAQ - Conceiving a Child Advice please....

 

Question: Hello John,

My name is Jacqui. I am inquiring as I once read an article and it told how to help in conceiving a child by placing something in the middle of one of the walls in your bedroom and it had to be a certain wall and specific things. It also gave hints as to what to place if you preferred a boy or girl.

I now cannot find the article and I am now interested. Can you provide me with this advice please.

Thank you from Jacqui.

Answer: Howdy Jacqui,

This is a little more complicated than the method you mentioned, which worked purely on your power of belief. You will need to do 3 things.

1. Take a compass reading from outside of your home, making sure to keep well away from anything that may influence your reading, such as power lines, cars, and chunky metal jewellery. What we need is to know what direction you home sits and faces (these are 180 degrees from each other). This is found by aligning with the side of your home looking from the front towards the back, and noting what angle you are getting. Make a note of this angle.

2. Go to my free online course at http://www.purefengshui.com and work out your Flying Star chart. You need your buildings facing direction and when the home was built to complete this, step-by-step examples on how to draw it up are given there! If you don't know when the home was built, try your local council, they will probably charge a small fee for this information. We need to know which of the following time periods (or earlier) that it was built between. Period 4 - 1924 to ' 43; Period 5 - ' 44 to ' 63; Period 6 - ' 64 to ' 83; Period 7 - ' 84 to 2003. From these 2 bits of information you will get a Flying Star Chart, which has 9 squares, with 3 numbers in each box. What we need is to know is where the 8 appears on the top left of a square, is it in the North, SW, NE, where is it?

3. Now that you know where the 8 Mountain is, we can advise you where to try and procreate within your home. Place a protractor on the floor in the centre of your home, with the same angles you got for your sitting and facing pointing towards the front and back of the home. If the 8 mountain (the number 8 in the top left position of a square) is in the North, use the room that is as close as possible to 0 or 360 degrees; for the NE - use the room that is closest to 45 degrees; and so on.... East - 90; SE - 135; South - 180; SW - 225; West - 270; NW - 315.

Jacqui's sister told me via e-mail that Jacqui gave birth to a beautiful, healthy baby girl - John (4 May 2004)
My name is Jacqui. I am inquiring as I once read an article and it told how to help in conceiving a child by placing something in the middle of one of the walls in your bedroom and it had to be a certain wall and specific things. It also gave hints as to what to place if you preferred a boy or girl.

I now cannot find the article and I am now interested. Can you provide me with this advice please.

Thank you from Jacqui.

Answer: Howdy Jacqui,

This is a little more complicated than the method you mentioned, which worked purely on your power of belief. You will need to do 3 things.

1. Take a compass reading from outside of your home, making sure to keep well away from anything that may influence your reading, such as power lines, cars, and chunky metal jewellery. What we need is to know what direction you home sits and faces (these are 180 degrees from each other). This is found by aligning with the side of your home looking from the front towards the back, and noting what angle you are getting. Make a note of this angle.

2. Go to my free online course at http://www.purefengshui.com and work out your Flying Star chart. You need your buildings facing direction and when the home was built to complete this, step-by-step examples on how to draw it up are given there! If you don't know when the home was built, try your local council, they will probably charge a small fee for this information. We need to know which of the following time periods (or earlier) that it was built between. Period 4 - 1924 to ' 43; Period 5 - ' 44 to ' 63; Period 6 - ' 64 to ' 83; Period 7 - ' 84 to 2003. From these 2 bits of information you will get a Flying Star Chart, which has 9 squares, with 3 numbers in each box. What we need is to know is where the 8 appears on the top left of a square, is it in the North, SW, NE, where is it?

3. Now that you know where the 8 Mountain is, we can advise you where to try and procreate within your home. Place a protractor on the floor in the centre of your home, with the same angles you got for your sitting and facing pointing towards the front and back of the home. If the 8 mountain (the number 8 in the top left position of a square) is in the North, use the room that is as close as possible to 0 or 360 degrees; for the NE - use the room that is closest to 45 degrees; and so on.... East - 90; SE - 135; South - 180; SW - 225; West - 270; NW - 315.

Jacqui's sister told me via e-mail that Jacqui gave birth to a beautiful, healthy baby girl - John (4 May 2004)

John studied with numerous Masters of Feng Shui since 1997, and now chooses to give away his knowledge for free through his multitude of articles and free online courses at his site. http://www.purefengshui.com

Feng Shui Tips for the Bathroom

 

The bathroom has a bad reputation in feng shui, and in some ways this is deserved, as you will discover. But it's not all negative. Comfort, cleanliness, and convenience are key ingredients to good feng shui, and our modern bathrooms provide them all.

One of the challenges posed by the modern bathroom is that there's no good place for it in the ba gua* [the feng shui map of a space], which long predates indoor plumbing. We can look at the ba gua and see at a glance that the Family area would be a good place for the living room, that a home office is well-placed in the Knowledge, Wealth, or Career sectors, and that the Marriage corner of the house is a great place for the master bedroom. But where does the bathroom go?

The bathroom is a little out of place anywhere, although some locations are more troublesome than others. The thing to keep in mind is that bathroom plumbing has a draining effect wherever it is located.

Some very difficult bathroom locations are next to or above the front door and on the second floor directly above the kitchen. These locations are particularly difficult because:

- A bathroom in the front hall, close to the door, can drain chi away before it has a chance to circulate through the rest of the house.

- A second-floor bathroom above the front door floods the main entry to your home with negative energy.

- The water energy in a bathroom above the kitchen will extinguish the hearth's fire energy, and flood the entire kitchen with negative energy. This is potentially damaging to both health and prosperity.

The worst location for a bathroom is in the center of your home, where it will destabilize the energy of the entire home. If you suspect that the bathrooms in your house are affecting important spaces, there's no need to panic. Use these simple feng shui remedies to help keep your health, wealth, and happiness from flowing down the drain:

- Problem: bathroom in an important feng shui area (wealth, fame, marriage, etc.)
Solutions: a full-length mirror on the outside of the bathroom door helps deflects chi so it won't be drained away; keep sink and shower drains closed when not in use; keep the toilet seat/lid down when not in use.

- Problem: bathroom in the center of the home
Solutions: paint the walls red, and place a stone, large crystal, or other earth-type object (such as a heavy ceramic bowl, vase, or statuette) in each corner to help stabilize the energy; a mirror on the outside of the door is highly recommended for this bathroom location.

- Problem: bathroom over the front door or over the kitchen
Solutions: hang a faceted crystal in the center of the room; place a three-inch round mirror on the ceiling directly above the toilet to visually reverse the downward flow of water (use double-sided tape to hold the mirror in place); place earth-type objects in the corners of the room to stabilize the energy; add an image such as a bird or tree to the downstairs area below the bathroom to help lift the energy there.

Bathrooms are places for purification and cleansing, so a clean, sanitary bathroom strengthens and supports this important energy. A dirty bathroom, on the other hand, emphasizes the negative qualities of this room. If your bathroom occupies any of the more challenging locations described above, it is essential to keep it sparkling clean, tidy, and well-lit.

After implementing the necessary precautions described above, you can further improve the chi of the bathroom by making it as pleasant a space as possible. This is where you begin and end the active part of each day, so the more attractive and inviting you can make it the better.

Most of us live hectic, stressful lives, and are in serious need of soothing places where we can relax and unwind. A clean, tidy, nicely appointed bathroom invites you to soak your worries away in a hot bath with lavender-scented bath salts. Make this pampering experience even nicer with candlelight, soft music, and a pile of fresh fluffy towels with which to dry off. All-white bathroom decor can seem cold and clinical; add warmth with pastel-colored towels and accessories, colorful scented candles, and attractive artwork.

Excerpted from The Pocket Idiots Guide to Feng Shui by Stephanie Roberts (Alpha Books, 2004)

2004 Stephanie Roberts

*To learn more about the feng shui ba gua and how to use it effectively in your space, click here.

Stephanie Roberts is the author of the popular Fast Feng Shui book series, available at Amazon. com and Fastfengshui.com. Subscibe to the Fast Feng Shui Newsletter and receive FR(EE) Feng Shui tips in every issue. Visit Fast Feng Shui.com for details.

Using Feng Shui to Embody Your Inspiration

 

Who inspires you, who makes you envious? The answers will
help you design your life!

If there's someone who inspires you, or someone you envy -
that is your heart giving you a clue as to what you want
more of in your life. These questions will help you embody
your inspiration.

1. Who inspires you?

2. What is it about their life that resonates most
strongly? Is it what they are doing, or is it how they are
being?

3. What could you do to incorporate more of this into your
life?

4. The Helpful People & Travel area of your home or office
is a good place to put symbols of people who inspire you.
It could be a photograph, you could place their name on a
piece of paper in a silver box, use an example of their
work, or place something symbolic there.

5. The Children & Creativity area relates to projects and
creativity. Place a symbol of what this person represents
to you there.

6. The Knowledge & Self-Cultivation area represents
awareness and knowledge. Place a symbol of the inspiration
you would like to embody in this area of your home.

You can place these enhancements in that particular area of
your home, or of a room, such as your office or bedroom.
Those two rooms are where people usually spend the most
time, so will have a greatest impact on you.

For a visual representation of the various areas of the
Bagua, what they represent and how to find them in your
home, see:
http://www.LifeDesignStrategies.com/BaguaMap.html

Maximizing the Power of Your Enhancements

1. Get clear about what you want to create.

2. Make sure the area is clutter free.

3. Place your enhancements with intention - it makes them
much more powerful.

4. Make space for insights, awareness and creative ideas to
come to you. You can do this by taking time to just 'be' -
no errands, emails or to-dos!
http://www.LifeDesignStrategies.com/

Vicky White is a Certified Feng Shui Consultant and Life
Coach who works with clients both locally and
internationally. Get your FREE 7-part e-course Your Secret
Weapon: Powerful Feng Shui Tips To Give Your Business The
Competitive Edge at http://www.LifeDesignStrategies.com/