Flower Power!

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Flower Power!

 

The art of using flowers to promote good chi and good luck is as ancient as feng shui itself. 

Flowers evoke a feeling of beauty, grace, and sensuality and that’s why I make sure to have them in my home every week. Flowers have a common language of harmony and live flowers bring a strong healing energy to any space. 

Bring in colors that represent the feeling you want in a particular room: red and pink for romance passion; yellow for health; white for better communication; green for prosperity; and orange if you are trying to make a good impression. 

Flowers are a simple, beautiful yet powerful way to change and shift the energy in your home. 

Have any Feng Shui questions? Feel free to contact me at michelle@michellecromer.com and sign up for your Power Color or visit me on Facebook at Michelle Cromer Feng Shui.

6 Easy Ways to Feng shui Your Closets

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6 Easy Ways to Feng shui Your ClosetsNothing in Feng Shui is “out of sight, or out of mind” especially your closets. Everything is energy, everything has chi, so there are no boundaries. It is a rare house that I go to that has organized closets so you are not alone if you need to clean yours up.

In Feng Shui, closets are connected to your innermost, your deepest and often hidden feelings about yourself. The state of your closets are a direct reflection of your self-esteem.

Here are six easy tips for any closet:

  1. Make sure there is good lighting. This is tied to your well being.
  2. Any closet can use a fresh coat of paint. This will refresh your inner thoughts and lighten your mood.
  3. White is always a good choice for your closet because it opens the energy up and will encourage clarity.
  4. Clutter in closets is the biggest challenge. Take a look at each item, shoes, shirts, dresses, coats and make sure you still wear them and that you still love them.
  5. Organize according to color. Color plays an important role in Feng Shui and in our lives. Rather than opening your closet to a mix of colors, why not organize your clothes using the rainbow guide – red, orange-yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple and then black and white.
  6. Make your closets beautiful. If the closet represents our inner thoughts, why not make the closet a beautiful and calm space to escape to.

What are your closets revealing about your innermost thoughts?

Have any Feng Shui questions? Feel free to contact me at michelle@michellecromer.com and sign up for your Power Color. Visit me on Facebook at Michelle Cromer Feng Shui.

How to Implement Creative Feng Shui in the Bedroom: Good and Bad

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How to Implement Creative Feng Shui in the Bedroom: Good and Bad

I really love it when I see implemented creative concepts, and I really appreciate the effort put into this bedroom but there are a couple of things that stand out that are good Feng Shui and a few that are bad Feng Shui.

Good Feng Shui

  1. Two pillows on the bed.
    Your bedroom represents love and relationships no matter where it is located in your home, so having things grouped in pairs, like these two pillows is a wonderful way to bring in the number two or the energy of a couple.
  2. The lamp in the corner.
    There are two nightstands, one you can see in this photo and one you can’t, but they match. The lamp in the corner can be used to activate the chi in the room by turning it on, which successfully brings in the fire element or passion.
  3. The color blue.
    Blue is a nice tranquil color for a bedroom and it also represents deep emotion. It’s a calming color, which is something we all strive for when we are trying to relax and sleep.
  4. No clutter.
    This room looks very orderly, even the bedspread looks like it has “hospital corners.”
  5. All five elements are represented.
    The color blue represents the water element: all the lighting is fire, the material of wood for the bed is the wood element; earth is represented in the shape of the square painting, and the color of the carpet represents the earth element.

Bad Feng Shui

  1. The two paintings of water.
    Although there are a pair of paintings, they are paintings of the ocean. So the inhabitants of this room will always be sleeping “underwater”. Most likely getting a good nights sleep will be challenging. The feeling of “drowning” in the relationship is also a possibility.
  2. The headboard is not solid.
    Headboards represent our stability of our relationships. This headboard and the spaces symbolically represent holes in the relationships of those who sleep here.
  3. Lights under the bed.
    I love the idea of having all the lights, symbolically “firing up” the passion in this bed, but the lights would also need to be turned off while sleeping. No one can sleep well over fire.

What does your bedroom say about you and your relationships?

Have any Feng Shui questions? Feel free to contact me at michelle@michellecromer.com and sign up for your Power Color or visit me on Facebook at Michelle Cromer Feng Shui.

How to Honor the Dragon Using Feng Shui

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How to Honor the Dragon Using Feng Shui

Your front door represents your career and life journey and is the most crucial entry point for the energy or chi to enter your home. It is considered the “mouth of the dragon” as we say in Feng Shui and we honor the dragon by going through the front door daily.

There is a lot right about this foyer but there is room for improvement. The plants are perfect, they are healthy and growing, representing the career and life journey of the inhabitants of the house. The rug slows the chi down from rushing out of the house and slows it down as people walk in. All five elements are clearly present: Wooden floor- wood; White walls – metal; the colors in the rug both read and blue represent fire and water; and the plants – earth. So there is a great deal of balance.

However, the books underneath the bench, the metal artwork under the bench and the pair of shoes need to be placed somewhere else, and off the floor. These items clutter up the chi that is trying to activate the power of this area. A super simple fix to a beautiful space!

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Yin and Yang Eating

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Yin and Yang eatingHave you ever picked a ripe tomato? There are few things I love more than eating fresh vegetables out of our garden, it’s an incredibly healthy way to eat. With each bite, I feel as if I am invigorating my chi – the energy that flows through me, my life force.

According to the Feng Shui principals of Yin and Yang, there are four basic foundations to achieve and maintain good health. These are:

  1. Diet
  2. Exercise
  3. Adequate rest and relaxation
  4. Good mental attitude

FresA correct and harmonious diet not only influences our health but also in more subtle aspects such as our conscience based on the Yin-Yang principles of each food and in its contribution to the Chi fuel of life. We should eat seasonally, our bodies are rhythmic and in touch with natural cycles. Chi is found in abundance in fruit and vegetables especially those matured in the sun, in plants grown without artificial fertilizers, in animals and products of animal origin from livestock adapted to the specific species and in the water from natural springs. Chi is widely preserved when foods are prepared fresh, eaten raw, carefully cooked or lightly fried.

Chi is severely reduced or disappears when foods are canned, frozen, bake for a long time, heated in the microwave or fried a lot.

Most of us possess a balanced metabolism capable of admitting various kinds of food when properly combined. Although our digestive tract was originally designed by nature for a diet of fruits and vegetables, our digestive system has evolved and is capable of producing the gastric juices necessary to digest the meat that became part of the human diet. If large amounts of animal protein do not leave you exhausted, and if large doses of sugars and starches do not make you feel nervous, you are likely to have a balanced metabolism that only needs to worry about choosing healthy foods from both categories and to combine them correctly.

As for me, the fresher the food, the better!

Michelle Cromer