Feng Shui Is Not Just About Removing The Clutter Or Moving Furniture Around

Feng Shui (pronounced fung schway) is the ancient Eastern art and science of living in harmony with your environment to produce tangible results naturally.

Many believe that there is an energetic current to the flow of life, and when we live in harmony with this Way, we experience success and happiness. But when go against this innate flow, we start to have disturbances in our lives.

Living in harmony with your space does not mean removing the clutter or placing things in their proper or "right" place, it means aligning your inner worlds and desires with your outer environment.

Feng Shui involves the intuitive, aesthetic adjustment of visible and invisible objects or factors, realigning all dimensions of the environment into a balanced, harmonious state.

This allows you to begin to see and understand the direct relationship between what is happening in the energy of your space and what is going on currently in your life.

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How To Improve The Feng Shui of Retail Catalogs

Have you ever been aware of or been sensitive to what you feel when you flip through a home furnishings catalog? Have you ever said, "wow, they are really doing a good job" or "they have really improved their collection recently."

When evaluating a space, website or a catalog, pay attention to what emotions you feel and experience. Does it bring you peace, calmness or a sense of joy?

I recently experienced this as I flipped through the August 2008 Pottery Barn Catalog. I felt that they were improving not only their collections but the way they displayed them in the catalog. As I evaluated it further, I started to notice a shift in the way they are presenting the photos and collections.

A simple way to dramatically improve a catalog or home furnishing's photo shoot is to add items that contain life energy. This can either be living plants, fresh flowers, colorful fruit and water.

A good example of a catalog that does this very well is Williams Sonoma Home. In almost every picture in their catalog, they contain one or more of these life energy items. Or take a look at an Architectural Digest magazine and begin to count the number of life energy items found in each picture.

Although adding these items may increase the cost of the photo shoot, from my experience, it helps with the image of the brand, the experience of the reader and the overall improvement of conversions into sales.

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Feng Shui Secret #1 - Understanding What Your Space Means

The Ba Gua, an arrangement of eight trigrams and a center, serves as a map to match various components of your life with the corresponding areas in your physical world. This can be placed over the shape of a lot, the floor plan of a house or an individual room.

The main entry point is always located at the bottom of the ba gau. So you would overlay the ba gau over a room or floor plan and see that the door would either be in the knowledge and wisdom section, career section, or travel and helpful people section.

And the back left hand side of a room is always the wealth and prosperity area when standing in the doorway looking into a room. This also means that the back right area of a room is the area associated with love and relationships.

Use the diagram below to evaluate the rooms in your home. What do you have in your wealth areas? What objects do you have placed in your love and relationship areas of your bedroom?



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