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How to Feng Shui Your Front Door
Inspired by Gemstone Feng Shui, by Sandra Kynes (Llewellyn Worldwide, 2002).
Your front door is where you set intention about yourself and about what you want; your entrance is a message to the world about who you are. If the approach to the world of your home is gentle and friendly, the energy you need will come to you. Since your front door provides the main access for energy to enter your house, if anything causes blockage here, energy will not enter and circulate freely to create a balanced environment.
Here are four ways you can ensure blessings and abundance enter your home!
Make sure that the energy coming into your home through your front door is unimpeded. This means a clear route through which the energy flows, but also enough of a transition space so that the person entering makes the transition from the outside world to the world inside of your home. Further, make sure that the energy of your front door is calling in positive energy, not negative, as this will affect your life.
How-To
1. The front door and porch should be in proportion to the house itself. Make sure that the energy moves inside the front door freely, and doesn’t get stuck on the doorstep because the entrance place is too small to allow in enough energy to circulate throughout the house. An entry that is too big in proportion to the home will invite in more energy than is needed. This can overwhelm the space within.
2. If your home is situated opposite a T-junction roadway, fast moving energy is pouring into your home. If you live in an apartment and your front door is at the end of a long corridor, energy is rushing down the hall and overwhelming your home. A crystal hung near the outside of your front door will provide protection against the rushing stream of energy as well as smooth the flow before it enters your home.
3. Does your front door open to a small foyer? If so, it most likely has a wall opposite the front door, and this blocks energy flow. Many think that hanging a mirror there will make the energy move, but it actually bounces the energy back out the door! Instead, hang a crystal above the door on the inside.
4. Center hallways off the front door can be problematic. If there is no back door the energy is trapped, if there is a backdoor, the energy can flow through the house and leave from the back too quickly. A crystal near each door (and any other doorways along the corridor) will make sure that the energy flows and circulates.
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add your comment »what if you live in an aprtment that doesn't allow for painting or changing the door? There is a long hall way and everyones door is brown. can I hang something or add something to the area? right now I have a wooden chime (no wind blows) and a big plant that keeps growing. What else can I do?
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Hi I am having my house painted externally and have foung that my front door should be painted Blue. My questions are 1.- does it have to be a dark blue or can it be a deep to mid blue? and 2.- does the back door have to be the same colour? or can it remain White?
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hi i m going to shift in a new room.its entrance is in east. kitchen (fire place is in south)water is in north (bathroom).pls suggest me how to place other things in room. ex. t.v.,almira,chairs table,shoe rack .etc etc..
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devendra
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Thanks for your input, Rebecca. I never considered the correlation between the top level of my home and my upper chakras. But, I do tend to have alot of dreams...hmmmm? Interesting observation -- Thanks!
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the bedroom is at the very top...that is interesting, if you consider that along with the upper chakras. do you have an active dream life?
as far as your enterance way, I cannot give you an answer. Sorry.
Rebecca
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I live in a 2 family house, and my front door is on the far right side of the house when you are facing the house.
Upon entering my front door, I step into a very small foyer with stairs that lead up to the apartment. Is this ok for energy flow?
Then, once you reach the top of the stairs,there is a landing, and you can walk to the left which opens up to a living room,dining room, etc... Or, you can go straight up another set of stairs (about 4 or 5) with another landing, then turn left, go up 2 steps, and turn left again, go up 4 or 5 steps, and there is an open doorway that leads into a large Master Bedroom which is like loft space. So, I'm wondering how the arrangement of the stairs effects the energy flow. I hope this isn't too confusing. But, if you could let me know how to handle this arrangement to keep the energy flowing well, I would greatly appreciate it!
I have been considering hanging a beaded curtain over the doorway to the bedroom because there is no door. I also have thought about putting a tree plant on the 2nd landing, so when you enter the front door, you can see the plant at the very top of the steps in the corner of that landing. Then, when you go up the next 2 steps, place a console table with a mirror on the wall, and then as you climb the remaining 4/5 stairs, you enter the bedroom through the beaded curtain. How's that?
Thank you.
Donna
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