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The energy associated with the quality of the environments allows us to live a full life in balance with our surroundings. Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese art of a scientific nature that enables us to obtain harmony in our lives through healthy environments.
We’ve all walked into spaces where we felt better than others. When the spaces support their inhabitants energy wise, life flows more harmoniously and the people become happier, wholesome, healthy and financially stable.
Feng Shui allows us to harmonize, balance and boost the energies of spaces, helping their inhabitants achieve certain goals, such as prosperity, wealth, health, relationships, social status, studies, and many others, as a home is a reflection of those who live in it.
There are many ways of boosting good energy in a house, and the use of plants and animals is one of them, as they can activate the energy of the rooms.
House plants play an important role in Feng Shui, as they bring the force of life inside the home and keep the air fresh.
Plants need to be healthy or else they will generate stagnated energy. A flower vase will certainly look pretty in a living room, but once flowers are cut, they are technically dead, not to mention they are in still water. That’s why it’s preferable to place potted flowers than buying them and putting them in a vase. Plants with features that represent the five elements (Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal) are ideal. However, specific plants are used in Feng Shui with their own purposes.
Depending on their shape, plants can create different types of energy. Plants with irregular foliage should be placed North. Peace lilies have these features and their use leads to energy cleansing.
Tall, vertical plants, such as Ficus, are lucky East and Southeast to boost the family’s prosperity.
Vertical plants with pointy leaves are useful South and in corners to get energy moving. For these make sure the tips of the leaves are not harmful energy by pointing somewhere where someone is sitting. An example is the snake plant, used to bring justice into the home.
Southwest, although it’s also possible South, you can place plants with soothing scents to offer you a feeling of peace and tranquillity, such as lavender.
The jade plant or money tree, whose leaves look like coins, represent the energy of money and can be placed in the Northwest and West sectors, the areas of finances and income, respectively.
Animals also play a fundamental role in a home, as they are excellent energy activators. At the same time, they help us to identify the areas of the house with better and worse energy – dogs prefer lucky places and cats choose to go where the energy is negative.
The place where to put the cat litter should also be taken into account, as this is excellent to drain energy and, as such, should be in an area where energy is harmful (you can find this information out by calculating the house’s energy charts).
Other animals often picked in Feng Shui are turtles and fish. Turtles represent protection and should be placed in the back of the house. Fish are excellent protectors and indicators of jealousy, yet they also stimulate wealth. For fish tanks, the best cardinal sector is selected, as there is a whole calculation process to know if these should be placed and, if so, when and where.
Lastly, I’d like to add that this information is of a general nature and each case is unique, just as each home is unique and should be analysed by a professional.
