Feng Shui for Beginners
Feng shui beginners can incorporate some basic principles of feng shui with just a little knowledge.
Feng Shui for Beginners
If you are concerned about the spiritual, new aged aspects of the practice, then look at it like a practical guide to make a space more pleasing. Feng shui for beginners should be started slowly. The first step in starting feng shui is to de-clutter. It is suggested that people start in their bathrooms. Your bathroom and your kitchen are the power centers in your home. By rapidly de-cluttering your bathroom, you can make major changes in your life, if you believe in the mystical parts of feng shui. On the practical side, you are symbolically removing everything in your life that doesn't fully support who you want to be. You are casting off the past. After de-cluttering your bathroom, people typically move on to their kitchens or home offices. Beginners may want to address the clutter in just one corner of one room, and apply feng shui principles slowly throughout the rest of the house.
The next step for beginners in feng shui is to assign different functions to different areas of your room, your home, or your office. For example, everything related to financial matters should go in one area while all home entertainment goes in another. Professionals generally use the bagua for this purpose. The bagua is laid out in nine sections. Some schools of thought believe it to be related to the points on a compass while others believe the folklore about it being modeled after the grid on the back of a turtle shell. In Eastern feng shui, the bagua is oriented to a room or a building based on the compass points. In Western feng shui, it is oriented to a room or building from the most common entryway.
Most Westernized feng shui, often called Black Hat, works from a common sense principle. For example, the first view straight ahead that a visitor sees is the fame and reputation section. It just makes common sense that this first impression will impact how people view your success. This area on the bagua advises use of red, orange, or both. Again, this makes sense, because those colors are rich and catch the eye.
Each quadrant on the bagua comes with an accompanying color. Black relates to career/life path. Silver/gray relates to helpful people and travel. White relates to creativity and children. Pink relates to love and marriage. Red relates to fame and reputation. Purple relates to prosperity and wealth. Green relates to family and foundation and blue relates to wisdom and knowledge. If you are using the bagua to feng shui an individual room, it is not recommended that you paint whole walls or sections of walls these colors. Rather, you should incorporate some element that includes the color.
Feng shui can become a guiding principle in life or it can simply be a tool in organization. Regardless of how you look at it, it will definitely help you de-clutter and regain some order.