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Feng Shui for Family Happiness
By Annie B. Bond
When you stand at your front door looking into your home, what is the sense you have of the left center portion of your home? This is the family center of the map of your home in feng shui. Is it clean? Cluttered? What is its story?
Most of us want to ensure that the feng shui family section of our homes promotes harmony and happiness, and here are the age-old recommendations for doing just this.
I was horrified to realize that the family section of my home is a porch where I stored the garbage in the winter. It was piled with boxes, bottles and containers that needed to be stored for recycling! I’ve since worked on it, using many of the traditional feng shui fix-it recommendations. In my case, the family section of my home is outdoors on a porch and sub-freezing for many months of the year so it took some creative problem-solving.
The goal for the family center is to orchestrate your relationship with current family, your ancestry, lineage, and even a more global sense of family such as religious or political icons, if they are important to you.
Elements
Wood and Water.
Suggestions: Photos of family members in wooden frames; fresh flowers in water; a water fountain; wooden furniture; a bowl of stones in water; a potted tree. Mirrors are considered water in feng shui, so a carefully placed mirror could benefit.
For me, because the space is outside, I put artwork that family members have done on the porch, such as a sculpture done by my mother, and a stone painted by my daughter. I hung a a heart-shaped wreath in the space. The best fix was when I realized that because the porch looked out onto a beautiful black birch forest (lots of wood), that if I put a mirror on the wall facing the forest, I would bring the wood from the forest right into the space, and the mirror would represent water. In the summer I will put a water fountain there, too.
Color
Green. Second choices are black and blue.
Suggestions: Plants! Other suggestions are green pillows, upholstery, etc.
Please contribute your family section feng shui fixes! Particpate in the discussion in Care2Connect!
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add your comment »I don't believe in Feng Shui and, as Chinese friend once explained to me, it was originally designed for locating graves, so that the dead would have access to all the four elements. Thus, adapting it to modern homes is nothing but a way of making money.
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FENG SHUIcan enhance and strengthen the happiness of the family unit by bringing harmony and peace within the home. And in accordance with the chinese view, the key to family happiness lies in the strength of matriarchal spirit.
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thanks...
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Konteyner
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fascinating i love working with Feng Shui ... as well as reading about your suggestions
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I think if one want's to they can identify any spiritual/philisophical tradition as superstition/invalid. My opinion is that human nature keep's us in our own little biased mind's. Comming from many traditions, and having family from around the world, I see no reason to exlcude a tradition w/o 1st looking into it. Thank you so much for the in info everyone.
Cheer's to the search for harmony.
Bryon
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does this actually work? Proof?
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It says looking into your home. So you are facing in. I think?
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I'm confused. When you stand at your front door, are you facing in or out? Is the left center the area immediately to your left, as in next to you?
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Hiya Annie,
I know there are many schools of learning in Feng Shui, but I completely disagree with your version of where the Family & Health Sector is located in a home. Surely the only accurate way is take a compass measurement at the front door, then apply the 8-House-Bagua-Template over the house plan, and you will find the Family & Health sector in the Eastern 1/8th. And as it is a Wood Element sector, only the element Wood is appropriate to balance it. Yes, I know Water Feeds Wood, but we are talking about the actual elemental forces.
Cheers - Benson
Feng Shui & Tien Ti Master
Australia.
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ok I have a strange home layout. My front door actually is on the North side of the house & is on an angle, so how do I interpret the where the left center is? My home is a rectangle shape sort of.
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