Health, Above All Else in Feng Shui
Have you ever studied or even looked at a Feng Shui Bagua? The basis of the Feng Shui that I practice is the Bagua. This is a tool used to analyze the energy of a space. Think of it like a map of your space. It helps show you which areas of your home are connected to specific areas of your life. It helps to think of this map as a tic-tac-toe board with nine segments.
Right at the center of this Bagua map is the Health Area. The Health Area touches every other aspect of the map: Career, Knowledge, Family, Prosperity & Wealth, Reputation & Fame, Love & Marriage, Creativity & Children, and Helpful People & Travel.
Using the colorful Bagua, we can now look at the individual areas so that we can determine how we affect and are affected by the Chi that flows through these segmented surroundings.
Your Health Area is in the middle of your home and should be the center of your life. With your good health, all other areas of your Feng Shui Bagua can be supported. Intrigued? Read on to find out how you can enhance your health with Feng Shui.
More Details on the Health Area of your Home
When looking at the different Bagua areas of your home, it’s important to always have good health in the forefront of your mind. With good health, you can better enjoy all the other aspects of your life like relationships, creativity, travel, abundant wealth, etc.
- Primary element: Earth
- Best color: Earth tones/yellow
- Best shapes: Horizontal, flat, squared
- Complementary items: Red, fire, pointed, triangular
- Destructive items: Green, wood, tall columnar elements
First Things First, Clear the Clutter!
Good Feng Shui is all about positive energy flow throughout your home. Having clutter is a sure fire way of creating low, stagnant energy that is confusing and draining. This is why it’s important to clear the clutter and organize the space before moving forward to the next step. Sometimes that can mean just completely removing the items from the area and starting fresh. Once you have a clear space to work with, you can start fresh and create a health-friendly area.
Now Let’s Clear the Air
As mentioned above, earth is the primary element in the health area. So placing a potted plant in a ceramic pot or even a picture of a luscious mountainscape can help improve or maintain good health. Good air quality helps with good health, so air purifying plants are a great way to go!
Some great air purifying plants include a Cat Palm, Parlor Palm, Rubber Tree, English Ivy, Boston Fern, and Peace Lily, to name a few. If you are unable to have live plants, then silk plants or pictures of plants will have to do, but attempt other ways to boost the air quality in your home to enhance your health!
Complement the fresh air with a diffuser and natural essential oils to further clean the air and promote your health. Start with a purification essential oil to freshen the air and neutralize odors. Use frankincense and thieves essential oils to support your immune system.
Other Items to Include to Aid in Good Health
Everything in our surroundings carries an energy and that energy is playing a part in moving our lives forward in that direction. So it makes sense then that our décor, photos, paintings, sculptures, etc., or the things we look at each day are working on a subconscious level to bring those things that we see into reality, kind of like the law of attraction. This is why it’s important to choose objects that bring joy and fulfillment into our lives with our décor.
Look for photos of happy, healthy times with joyous memories and display them in the health area of your home. Place personal artwork such as vision boards or objects that represent what you desire to bring into your life in terms of a healthy family into this area. To create a warm feeling for your space, try something like a Himalayan pink salt lamp, as long as it fits your general interior design.
Affirm Your Health
The health area is also a good space for written affirmations about ideal health. These handwritten affirmations can be placed in a health and family box. Affirmations should be written with gratitude and written in present tense as if they are true right now.
If you are struggling to make ends meet, it could help by writing an affirmation about your ability to support yourself and your family. Affirmations should end with, “this or something better for the good of all concerned.” Remember to keep it positive and write it as a thank-you note, like it has already happened to you.
In Feng Shui, it’s believed that by working with the energy centers, you can both identify what’s going on in different areas of your life and improve it by certain practices and by putting objects in the respective Bagua area to encourage the energy to become activated.
Next Steps
Think of your home as an energy magnet and focus on bringing in things that will bring positive, fresh energy into your life. May you and your family have a home filled with health, happiness and abundance.
If you need guidance on how to improve your space and your life, I’m always available to help. Learn more on my website today and book a virtual consultation. Better Feng Shui can help you in profound ways on life’s journey.
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