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The best way to have a feng shui harmonized house is by having it in mind from the moment of buying it. Many of the feng shui problems that houses have could be avoided if their owners had considered feng shui principles at the time of buying it. Actually, the unbalance problems which are most difficult to overcome for a feng shui practitioner are those which have their roots on the house structure and on factors that could have been avoided by choosing another house.

First of all you should consider any possible poisoning arrows within the house. If the house you wish to buy contains many sharp edges, triangular shapes, and any other arrows which might be either inside or outside the house. Poisoning arrows can be very bad for the inhabitants of a building and hurt many of their life areas.

Then, it is important that you evaluate the house surroundings. If there is a road ending in front of your house or pointing towards it you should discard the house from your buying choices. Anything that symbolizes cutting or hitting the house is a menace and would cause damage in the house feng shui as well as in its inhabitants.

You should also pay attention to the house level. It should always be at the same level with the ground and never lower than it. You should avoid buying a house that is lower than the road or ground level since it could cause the effect of sinking its inhabitants down with it. Therefore, you should always try to buy a house that is either at the same level than the ground or higher.

Your house should be friendly with its environment and with other buildings surrounding it. If the house contains poisoning arrows or any menacing shape or object towards a neighbor house, this would bring you problems with your neighbors. You should also pay attention to the house front land. Ideally, it should be an open space or garden. You should avoid houses with trees right in front of the house entrance.

Feng Shui teaches us that everything is energy, and we are in a constant energy exchange with everything around us. Thus, it is it very important to create a feng shui home that has a happy and healthy energy. Feng Shui has a variety of tips for a happy feng shui home, all based on the fact that if you live in a healthy and happy feng shui home, your own energy will inevitably become healthy and happy!

Have you noticed how happy people change the energy of the room when they come in? And how you become happier and more optimistic when you hang out with your happy friends? This is happening because you are in a constant energy exchange with everything that surrounds you - people, animals, buildings, trees, etc, etc.

1. CONNECT to your home just like you would connect to a person. Ask, listen and pay attention.

Look and see which feng shui areas of your home “hurt.” By “hurt” I mean they are not working well, not looking good, you don’t like to spend time there, etc, etc. Just like the pain in one part of your body stops the energy flow in the whole body, the same happens with the feng shui of your home. As every part of your home is connected to a specific part of your life (for example, the East feng shui area is connected to your Health & Family) ; low energy in a specific feng shui part of your home will start reflecting in lower energy or blockages in specific areas of your life.

2. ACCEPT whatever state your home is in without a strong emotional response, just try to get to the bare essence of it.

Let’s say you hate to see that bathroom upstairs, but you are also resistant to deal with it. No matter what the reason is, be it time, money, low self-esteem or all of the above, just accept it! Sit down and write several feng shui steps you need to go through to fix the bathroom and make it look beautiful. Again, try to define it with no emotional attachment, just as if it is a job you have to do, a little (or big!) project you have to manage.

Strong emotions will most probably come to the surface, and you will have to be ready to let them flow, but do not let them stop you from what you are doing to use feng shui to heal your home, thus specific parts of your life.

After you have experienced these two feng shui essentials, get started with these basic and practical feng shui steps and know that your life will change!

Feng Shui for Home is one of the most efficient therapies ever - you work on the house, but what you are actually doing is healing your own life - your past hurt, pain, sorrow, blockages, whatever it is that you have accumulated over the years; and are now creating a fresh new feng shui space to happily manifest your dreams.

Happy Feng Shui-ing!

A house with good Feng Shui has a room arrangement and circulation pattern that is not immediately apparent when you open the front door. Instead it gradually unfolds as you move through the house. Such a low key design approach is also more likely to produce a house with a relaxed and comforting atmosphere, which buyers everywhere say they want. A Feng Shui practitioner would describe such a house as one in which the positive “chi” energy, which is slow and meandering, is balanced, and the negative, pointed arrow “sha” energy is minimized.

According to Feng Shui, each corner of a house symbolizes a major part of the occupant’s life - relationships, wealth, helpful people (benefactors), and self-knowledge. In order to keep these “nourished,” the occupants need to use all the corner rooms with some frequency. This can create some positive life changes, however. Using a formal living room which might be in the front left “self knowledge” corner for reading would incorporate some quiet time into an all too hectic existence for many people.

The front door, which should be obvious and approachable, is one of the most critical points in a house because it symbolizes the occupants’ connection to the world and it’s the opening through which guests are received. It’s also necessary to use your front door with some frequency; otherwise you won’t get the Feng Shui benefits. Since most people enter their houses through the attached garage because of the convenience, using the front door with any regularity will require some effort.

A driveway and large garage doors emphasize coming and going. Since the house should be a place of refuge, the driveway and garage doors should, if possible, be hidden from view. A side-load garage, which will always be more expensive because it requires a larger lot, or a rear garage approached from an alley would be preferable, both Richards and Swingle said. But, they both added, a front loading garage is acceptable.

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