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March 30, 2021

The home as a sanctuary.

For modern living, our home should be our own sanctuary and not just some walls standing, it’s really where we escape from the world outside, where we recharge and gain strength for daily challenges, where we can rest and sleep well, where we can eat our favorite and delicious food, and especially where we can feel happy.

The Feng Shui practice could really help us a lot in achieving this well being, but if we pay close attention, what’s around us inside home could be already helping or difficulting this achievement.

So perhaps, by looking around your home and observe how certain objects make you feel, could be the best to do before anything, dare to change a bit what’s inside your home and remember that plants, positive words, beautiful art and happy pictures are great allies to elevate positive and beneficial energy around you.

March 19, 2021

How to add sustainable choices to Feng Shui practice in modern living?

The Chinese milenar art of Feng Shui, has really a lot to teach, but recognizing life’s transformations and the 5 elements, are definitely for me, the best knowledge that any of us should acquire.

But using this “dance” of elements inside your home, doesn’t mean you can’t choose to make more sustainable choices, here are just a few:

Using plants at home, when inside not only makes the air cleaner, but also gives a feeling of strength and growth, usually associated with tree element energy;
Recycled furniture, as long as it is in good shape and you love it, can be used at home representing other elements like metal or earth;
Try do reduce the use of plastic as much as possible, not only is bad for the global environment, but for health too, it’s associated to fire element;
Create the habit of composting your household waste, from fruit peels to coffee grounds, this way your ecological footprint will decrease considerably and you can use it to fertilize your plants, this process includes all the 5 elements of energy;
Try to save water as much as you can, buckets under the drips can reduce your consumption and plants prefer water with no chemicals, this way you will also value this essential element of life, water element.

March 19, 2021

How is your kitchen flow?

One of the most important aspects of a home is definitely the kitchen, and also for Feng Shui practice.

All the appliances like the stove, the fridge, the kitchen sink, these are all energy sources that represent different elements like water and fire.

But there is another energy that we might not see, nevertheless is really fundamental too: the space and the flow.

So if your kitchen path is blocked or in some way with obstacles, try to improve that circulation so that energy flows smoothly, bringing good Feng Shui to this important part of the house.

Sometimes even a small change, can make a huge difference.

March 19, 2021

Bamboos and Feng Shui.

In traditional Chinese culture, bamboo trees represent resistance, modesty and loyalty.

As a symbol of virtue, the bamboo is closely related to people of positive spirits, some authors assign bamboo’s characteristics to: its deep root denotes determination and resistance, straight stem represents honor and its interior modesty.

A bamboo tree could be quite positive in encouraging people to hold on when facing tough situations, remembering that we as human beings have also all these characteristics in us.

So in general, for Feng Shui practice, you can use this great tree element in order to help you achieve strength, endurance, flexibility, longevity, luck, money, quick achievement and endurance.

March 4, 2021

How to choose between a gas or an electric stove?

For Feng Shui practitioners this is a quite controversial theme, however, this is due basically to the quality and quantity of the Fire element , the most Yang energy there is.

Back in the ancient times, we could only cook with fire and for a long time it was our only resource, so many of the Feng Shui studies about this theme where referring to fire itself.

Nowadays, a gas stove also provides a flame, that for most cookers and chefs are the best for cooking, but electric stoves only provide heat and so fire energy as we know it is definitely weaker.

In terms of health, ingesting foods that have been cooked via microwave, electric ovens or induction stovetops disturb the electrical fields in our body, and numerous studies have linked the electro-pollution emitted by them to inflammation, neurological damage, cataracts and even cancer.

Macrobiotics for example, is based on ancient Chinese medicine that appreciates the dynamic symmetry of opposing yet complementary forces necessary to life and health, the balance between Yin and Yang.