1 Get a globe
Placing a globe in the
northwest corner of your home can encourage your capacity to travel
globally. (You don’t have to settle for a classroom-style globe—places
such as World Market and CB2
sell sophisticated miniature globes that can fit seamlessly into your
décor.) If you’ve wanted to travel widely but haven’t yet, directing
some energy toward that goal may help make it happen. At the very least,
it will remind you to keep saving up for that ’round-the-world trip.2
2 Frame a romantic picture
Whether you’re single or
in a relationship, there’s only one type of picture recommended in
your bedroom, and that is a picture of, if you are in a relationship,
yourself and your partner. If you are single, have a
picture that represents the kind of relationship that you want.
The goal is to capture the kind of relationship you want, whether you’re very single or in a committed relationship already. If you are in a relationship, frame a picture that captures both of you at your best: It can serve as a reminder of better days during rough patches. I have pictures of my daughter & my cats -- yes, I said it!
The goal is to capture the kind of relationship you want, whether you’re very single or in a committed relationship already. If you are in a relationship, frame a picture that captures both of you at your best: It can serve as a reminder of better days during rough patches. I have pictures of my daughter & my cats -- yes, I said it!
3 Pick up fresh flowers
Fresh flowers arranged nicely in the center of your home can enhance your health and well being.
4 Get strategic with mirrors
A major rule of bedroom
feng shui is to not sleep with your back to the door. When you’re
sitting in bed, you want to be able to see the door clearly. Not being
able to can introduce tense energy to the space, whether you realize it
or not. If moving the bed isn’t an option, for whatever reason, place a
mirror—small or large—across from the bed that allows you to see the
door. The same trick works in other rooms where you might face away from
the door while relaxing: You always want to be able to see the door to a
room.
5 Fill a bowl with coins
For feng shui in the
living room, a decorative bowl overflowing with coins—chocolate,
collectible, whatever—represents your finances overflowing. Place it in
the southeast area of your home to give your finances a little love.
6 Shift your bed
If you are single and
your bed is pressed into a corner of the bedroom, with two sides against
walls, do what you can to shift it away from that corner. Ideally, at
least a sliver of space should be between the side of the bed and the
wall. This creates space in your life for love to enter.
7 Keep your toilet lid down
The bathroom is a
place to release and cleanse energies. That energy can be easily lost,
though. Make sure you keep your toilet lid down. Energy is
money, it’s love, it’s friendship, it’s travel—that’s what energy is
when we talk about feng shui. You don’t want to flush it down the
toilet.
