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A powerful practice to incorporate with the written intention is the Eastern practice of Feng Shui. The Feng Shui principles will enhance, energize and change your life. If you are ready and willing, Feng Shui will enhance your intentions and provide you with your dreams and desires. Much like the Law of Attraction when you Feng Shui your entire home, individual rooms and/or work place, you are telling the Universe (or God, Buddha, Allah or whatever greater power you feel connected to) exactly what you want in your life. Remember “be impeccable with your word.” If you are ready to let go of your old negative beliefs, the Law of Attraction combined with Feng Shui will create a path for new things and positive change. It will also provide a way to overcome any blockage that is keeping more positive situations from manifesting. Daniel Roth,
of Indigo Energy, is not a Feng Shui Master. However he does feel it is
important to understand the basics of how energy moves through the home,
or rooms in the home. This is why he has included a page within Indigo
Energy to the topic of Bagua Feng Shui. If you are serious about using
Feng Shui in your life, find a Feng Shui Master to guide you and help you
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When you decide you want to incorporate Feng Shui into your life, one of the first things you must do is purge everything! Get rid of all useless junk. You must clean your home thoroughly. No dried up flowers, no fake plants, clutter everywhere represents clutter and stagnation in your life. Look around your home. If it is gross and messy, chances are, so are you. The environment you live in is a mirror of your life. Before you begin to Feng Shui your environment, you need to apply what is called the Bagua (pronounced bog-wa) Map. The Bagua hails from the I Ching, or Book of Changes, a thousands-year-old book of wisdom and divination. The Bagua represents the eight building blocks of life – health, love, wealth, career, wisdom, reputation, children and helpful people plus the center area of chi (pronounced “chee”). You need to apply the Bagua Map to your home and/or each room of your home and your office or work space. You need to look at the basic structure of your home. There are four basic house shapes: square, rectangle, L-shaped and U-shaped. In Western Feng Shui, the goal is to turn the dwelling into a square or rectangle. On a large sheet of paper, draw a sketch of the home you wish to Feng Shui. Include any areas that are just out, such as a garage, a breakfast nook or a greenhouse. Make note of any areas that cut into what would make a perfect square or rectangle, such as an alcove or nook. Take note of where each room is when you make your drawing. All areas under a common roof are considered part of the house. And take note where the front door is located. If you live in a U-shaped or L-shaped home, you will need to make some adjustments. Chances are you are not fully experiencing some area of your life. The goal of Feng Shui is to restore balance and harmony, and one of the ways you can do this is by completing the square. U-shaped homes are missing an area in the front of the house, or in the back, which corresponds to the Fame and Reputation Area or Career Area. To overcome the missing areas, you can build an arbour in the space, landscape with large potted trees or add a sculpture or wind chimes. This will help to symbolically “fill-in” the missing area. The main entrance to your room, or to your house, will always be in one of the "bottom three areas." (See the Bagua grid below.) Remember if you live in a house which is “L” or “U” Shaped you will have to put something outside in the missing area (to complete the square) to make up for lack of indoor living space. Bagua Feng Shui isn’t just for homes; you can apply this grid to your desk in your office. If you have a rectangle shaped desk, the area you are sitting in would be the bottom. (This is in the career section of the grid.) In order to complete your square, you will need to fill in any area missing from your L-shaped or U-shaped drawing with dotted lines. If you already have a rectangle or square home, you don’t need to do anything to complete your map. Once your home’s layout is in the form of a square or rectangle, divide it into nine parts. Split the length into thirds, and then split the width into thirds.
Note, the entrance to the room, or your home, will always be in one of the bottom three areas. In order to complete your square, you will need to fill in any area missing from your L-shaped or U-shaped drawing with dotted lines. If you already have a rectangle or square home, you don’t need to do anything to complete your map. Once your home’s layout is in the form of a square or rectangle, divide it into nine parts. Split the length into thirds, and then split the width into thirds.
You determine the Bagua of the home by the location of the front door. (This will always be on the bottom line of the square). Step 1: Make a plan of your house (or a specific room). Finish off any missing areas to form a square. Record the names of your rooms on your plan. Step 2: Divide your floor plan into nine equal squares. Your front door, or entrance, must be on the baseline on the Bagua map. Step 3: Either stand or imagine yourself at your open front door. Fill in all areas of your home with the areas represented by the Bagua. Step 4: Now you know which rooms in your home relate to the various Feng Shui areas. If, for example, your bathroom is in the Wealth Area, you could be flushing your money down the toilet, (keeping the lids down eliminates this problem). You need to take steps to improve this area. If you have two or more floors, the areas and rooms on each story correspond to each other. If, for example, your kitchen is in the upper left corner on the main level and there is a bedroom above it, both rooms are in your Wealth Area. As you follow the Bagua set-up of your rooms you should acknowledge each room with some type of symbolic representation. As you place your representational object in your room (or office or garden), place it with conscious intention. Either have an intention written to place in the section, or say a mantra regularly to boost the energy you are looking to attract. If you are looking to strengthen your marriage, for example, you can place a statue of two doves in your Love and Relationships area, which is the upper right section of your home, or room. Along with the statue have a small intention written to enhance your love to your partner. You must clearly state what it is you want out of each section/corner. If you are looking for a new career, place a wonderful letter of reference from your boss, for example, in your Career Area. As you place it say, “I have endless choices and I am uniquely qualified for the job.” In your Wealth Area, you might want to hang a round clear crystal on a red cord (to bounce positive energy all around the room). The red cord strongly represents wealth. On a table place anything which represents abundance. (If you can afford it a $20 bill works great.) In the Love and Relationships corner of your bedroom, place your wedding picture, some flowering plants, and a book of love poems; anything that represents romance. It is important not to overwhelm yourself in the process of creating a positive Feng Shui environment. If you bring about change gradually you will have a much better chance of success; and an easier time of ensuring that success. Once you have achieved the intentions you requested in one or two areas of your life, you can begin enhancing other areas of your life that need a boost.
One thing to keep in mind is that colour associations vary by culture and society. Red, for example, is associated with danger in the Western Society. In China, however, it is the colour of celebration. In the Western society we consider black the colour of mourning; in the Eastern society, it is used to represent the flow of prosperity. The following is a list of each Bagua Area and its corresponding colour:
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