Feng Shui - Balancing the Flow of Chi

Posted on April 3, 2007

I heard or read once in my Feng Shui Study a saying that goes, “The moment you hire a Feng Shui Consult, is the moment you start looking for a new home.” You will find when reading most of the Feng Shui literature they talk about inauspicious placement of rooms, doors, hallways and staircases, roads, ponds and hills. I used to read and think, “So, what am I going to do about it, I can’t move the door, change the direction of my home is facing and I don’t plan on moving any time soon. So what can I do now?”

Feng Shui is one of my favorite self-help tools: it clears your mind and creates sanity in your home and it is good for your health. So, all the Feng Shui tips I provide on this blog will definitely be remedies you can create with your bare hands, a visit to the neighborhood hardware store, grocery store, department store or Walgreen and in some cases the town herbalist (you might need smudging sticks).

What is Chi?
In Chinese medicine and philosophy, the energy or life force of the universe, believed to flow round the body, your environment and it is present in all living things.

Why is the flow of Chi important?
As mentioned before, just as there is chi flowing around your environment, there is chi flowing around your body, hence the “Life-Force”. It is important to balance the energy flow of your home because the flow of chi in your environment also affects the flow of chi in your body. If the flow of chi is balanced in your home, the flow of chi in your body will be balanced and vice versa. This is very important to your health and well being.

What affects the flow of Chi
As chi flows through your home it picks up certain energy patterns influenced by the furniture, the colors, walls, the final stop of the chi are the occupants of the home who then start the whole process over again by sending out chi through the body to the rooms, out the door and to the universe. It is important that the chi that is flowing through your home be balanced and positive.

You feel the chi in the place the moment you walk into it. Do you feel good, happy, anxious, sad, or angry? What do you see? What do you smell? You can feel chi by the way you feel or with any of your five senses, some people have one or two senses that are stronger than others.

Walk through different areas of your home, how do you feel? What do you see? If the feeling or sense is negative then you have an issue with chi. You will find that the places with chi issues are usually cluttered, dark, cold or areas of your home no really uses.

Negative Chi and The Bagua
When you learn how to detect the flow of chi through your home, you will know where the energy is blocked, oppressive, stagnant or flowing too strongly depending on how you feel. The next step I would suggest is placing a bagua over the layout of the room with chi issues, so you can find the corresponding “life area” (knowledge/spirituality, family/past, wealth, fame, relationships/marriage/mother, children/creativity/future, helpful people/travel/father, career and health) on the bagua. Find the areas that are cluttered in the room that might be an indicator of which area of your life you are having problems in. Also clearing up the chi in that area might help ease your issues.

How to bring proper balance to your home

Clear clutter
Light dark areas of your home
Put furniture in better energy positions. If a piece of furniture is blocking the flow of chi, change the angles or move it out of the way. Chi needs to flow around furniture, not shooting down a long narrow hallway or entering the home through the door and right out the window facing the door.
Make sure the room is balanced. You can tell if the room is not balance by the way you feel and what you see.

Good luck,

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