Keys to understanding Feng Shui decorating
Feng Shui is a technique that tries to balance a person's energy through the decoration of the spaces. Learn how to apply it at home.
The application of Feng Shui in the decoration of our homes and offices has gained importance in recent years and has become a trend that attracts many followers. Knowing the characteristics, strengths and colors of Feng Shui with some advice and tips for the home can help us improve life not only in our home, but also in the office and even in our relationships.
Below we explain the keys to understanding this technique and thus getting the most out of decorating our favorite spaces.
Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese technique that deals with how to attract good luck by creating harmony and balance in our environment. It teaches us to live in harmony with the energies of the earth and treat it like a living being.
Five Elements Theory
As with all divination practices practiced by the Chinese, the theory of the five elements forms the basis of Feng Shui. In it, they study how to relate the elements of nature to each other to create and channel positive energy. These elements are:
Fire is one of the most powerful elements, but it cannot exist on its own, it must be linked to another element. It must always be controlled to avoid gaining an excess of energy that could be fatal.
Water, like fire, is a very powerful element that can escape our control. An element identified with the North and well directed will bring us harmony and prosperity.
To achieve happiness as a world family we will have to be in touch with it and, in the house, place a symbol that identifies it in one of the relevant sectors (Southwest, Northeast and center).
Wood, which has East and Southeast routes. Depending on the successful contribution of the material, its energy is conducive to being transferred from parents to children, like the branches of a tree that grow and expand.
The metal element of the West and Northwest. Increasing its energy will help us gain power.
Yin ve Yang
In addition to the theory of the elements, the completeness of the Feng Shui doctrine is fundamental to the synchronization of the Yin and Yang forces, since finding balance is essential. The secret of this is that each of these forces opposes the other, but one cannot exist without the other.
Yin is the feminine force equivalent to cold, darkness, night and the moon, and also Yang is light, the sun, dominant, masculine. Night follows day, then another day. Summer gives way to winter, winter to another summer. Thus, yin and yang continually interact, causing necessary change.
Evde Feng Shui
There are many factors to consider when decorating a space based on Feng Shui: certain structural features found in all homes or apartments (such as beams, columns, or protruding corners), color combinations, choice of decorative motifs, and the orientation of beds or other types of furniture. Therefore, it is best to examine each specific situation and adapt it to each person's needs.
Feng Shui in the bedroom
According to Feng Shui philosophy, marital happiness and success largely stems from its effect when applied in the master bedroom.
These rules forbid placing flowers and plants of the water element, carriers of very intense yang energy, in the bedroom, and the great taboo of Feng Shui in the bedroom would be to place a mirror in which the bed is reflected, because these would promote infidelity . . by both members of the couple. It would also be inappropriate to sleep in beds consisting of two single beds in order to keep love alive in the bedroom.
Feng Shui in business
The purpose of using Feng Shui in the office is to activate good luck in our business. According to this belief, only by taking into account and applying some basic principles of Feng Shui can we increase our income and help ourselves to a prosperous business.
Once we have considered all these tips, we can get down to business. In any case, it is completely unnecessary for us to become obsessed with following them all to the letter. It is better to take it as an aid to have good luck.
Home Decoration with Feng Shui
