Feng Shui : Chi - Movement & Stimulation

Energizers & Blockers

The movement of Chi and stimulation of it is absolute necessity for better Feng Shui in any home or areas.  Continuous and meandering flow of chi without its stagnation is the principle behind the use of energizers and blockers.

Tidy Home

Keeping your home tidy and clutter free allows chi to flow uninterrupted and without stagnating in nooks and corners.

Sha Chi

Anything that allows rushing the chi headlong should be blocked by way of setting up blocks or deviators. Closed doors, placement of wind chimes or bamboo flutes and or bead curtains are some of such remedies.

Si Chi

Awkward corners, alcoves as well as nook and corners created by placement of furniture cause stagnant pool of chi.  Treat them by positioning lights, crystals and plants.  Repositioning of furniture can also help.

Other Energizers & Blockers

1.    Lights are a powerful way to activate chi both inside and outside a home. It relates to fire and energizes both fire and earth. However, lights can be used can be used to stimulate chi anywhere with or without colour depending upon its brightness keeping in view the yang and yin of a place.

2.    Candles due its flame are totally fire and highly energetic, must be used where fire energy higher than lights are required.

3.    Mirrors can help in various ways and greatly helpful and in fact the best of all energies.  Details have been provided in a separate paper.

4.    Crystals though represent earth element, they are good in encouraging more light and in fact in lifting fast moving energy and reflecting in a larger area.  It helps in creating yang power.

5.    Wind Chimes must be checked for its melodious sound and its capacity to respond to movement of air. They chimes should be hollow. It vibrates the air and stimulate and clear the Chi. Wooden chimes can be used in wood areas.  Metal chimes can be used in metal and water areas. Five rods chimes to remove negativity, six and eight rod chimes are to stimulate positive chi, or luck producing. Open air hung chimes may have a wooden central medallion. Avoid chimes in the bed rooms.

6.    Plants are great absorbers of negative chi or camouflaging the protruding colums and beams or sharp corners.  Cactus, bonsai, spiky or thorny plants should be avoided. Soft, rounded leave and fragrant plants are best.  Large palm plants are best in sucking negativity.

7.    Water symbolizes money, an aquarium containing goldfish in odd numbers including one black fish can help bringing money.  Free flowing water painting with green surrounding are also equally good.

8.    Sound is also one of the best means of stimulating chi, in particular, in an yin environment of a living room.

9.    Clocks and other moving objects such as mobiles, windmills, silk banners and flags are also a great help. They can help activating any area desired to be lifted for its representative aspiring character.

10.  Screens, doors and curtains are a great help in blocking running away chi. Curtains can also help dividing an L-shaped room or creating a yin atmosphere where it is too yang.

Mirrors – The Aspirin OF Feng Shui

Mirrors are most commonly used cures in Feng Shui, they have many uses and can correct many problems. If they are badly placed, mirrors can cause problems, especially in the bedroom and bathroom.

Appearance

Avoid cheap mirrors, mirrors that are flawed or distorting, spotted or patchy mirrors, broken, Chipped, cracked, scratched or damaged mirrors, worn or faded mirrors, tinted, foggy or smoked glass mirrors, painted, etched or decorated mirrors, where the decoration covers more of the mirror surface than simply the edge.

Size

Mirrors should be large enough to reflect at least six inches of clear space all around the head - for facial mirrors - or the whole body - for full-length mirrors. Don't allow your mirrors to cut the top of your head. It should be good for your tallest family members and give a thought to your guests too.

Shape

Convex mirrors are particularly used to expand and disperse energy across a wide area or to deflect it back from where it comes. Round and oval mirrors create a smoother image than those with right angles - square or rectangular. The curves of rounded mirrors reflect the natural curved lines of our physical form - and our aura. Octagonal mirrors displaying the bagua and the trigrams of the I Ching are often used in traditional Feng Shui, on doors and in windows, to disperse negative energy and ward off evil.

Edge

Mirrors should be edged properly to provide a more comfortable feeling. A solid frame, border or bevelled edge works well.

Mirrors Safeguards

Using Multiple Mirrors

It is important that your reflected image is not cut into pieces by appearing in multiple mirrors at the same time. The mirrors should be well demarcated by having a good frame surrounding them, or they should be positioned such that there is a decent gap between them, in order to avoid using them as if they are one mirror. Mirrored bathroom cabinet swing doors should be avoided for this reason and mirror tiles are the worst culprit of all, completely unacceptable.

Mirrors that join in a corner where two walls meet should also be avoided. Do not hang mirrors opposite each other as the Chi energy moves back and forth and cannot move on. Sliding mirrors, such as the doors on wardrobes or medicine cabinets, should also be avoided.

 

Chi & Mirrors

Chi, space and light : magnify, expand and enhance

Use mirrors to make a room appear larger, to open up small, narrow or cramped spaces and to amplify existing light. Mirrors hung at the end of a long hallway will only double its length, so, stagger mirrors on either side of the hallway to make it appear wider.

Chi - move, activate, stimulate, circulate & speed up

Place mirrors in stagnant areas, such as alcoves, corners, dark areas or where little air circulates. In a dark, winding hallway, position a convex mirror on the bend so that you can see around it. Mirrors that reflect you whilst you are in bed - including mirrored wardrobe doors - are not restful and may lead to insomnia.

Chi - Deflect, disperse and redirect

Use mirrors to deflect the negative Chi from outside the home from causes such as walls, fences, streetlights, T-junctions and so on. Place a mirror or other reflective item - especially a convex one - facing toward the offending item, in a window or on a door.

                                                            Special Effects & Mirrors

Create the illusion of depth or symmetry

Use mirrors to restore balance to lop - sided features and bring negative space back into an L-shaped room. Mirrors can be used to create the appearance of an object or a space where there is none.

Draw in pleasant views

Mirrors should reflect something that you want to see more of - a beautiful view, the trees in your garden, the sky, more light, a pond or lake - but not an open bathroom, the garbage bin, piles of dirty laundry, bills waiting to be paid, and so on. You can draw pleasant views into a room, so that they become visible from your favourite chair, by finding the right spot on the wall to hang a mirror.

Maintain security, protection & comfort

Mirrors allow you to see a large area from one central position. If you have to position furniture so that you are required to sit or stand with your back to a door, place a mirror to reflect the door so that you can still see people entering. If you have a door that opens into a wall - rather than into the room - place a large flat mirror on the wall, so that you can see around the door as you open it.

Deflect attention and make unwanted features disappear...

            Mirroring a column makes it invisible. Placing a mirror on a beam or an obstructive tree,  giving an effect of "a hole in it", giving the illusion of letting light and Chi through.