INTERIOR Design using Feng Shui

Whether you are moving into a new home or redecorating your existing home, using the Five Elements of Feng Shui allows you to create an interior design in harmony with both your lifestyle and the Chi Energy that is all things.

Having a good working knowledge of the Five Elements and its three cycles is a fundamental part of Feng Shui and all its differing practices.  It helps you create harmonious living and working spaces which benefits everyone.

You can incorporate the Five Elements into your entire home which is known as the Big Tai Chi or into individual rooms which is known as the Small Tai Chi.

By dividing your space, or spaces, into nine (four primary, four secondary and the centre points of the compass) you can introduce colour, light, shapes, sound and movement using each of the Five Elements in their specific areas and their enhancing areas, pictures and images can complete the design creating balance and harmony.

Direction	Element
North	WATER
South	FIRE
East	WOOD
West	METAL
Northeast	EARTH
Southeast	WOOD
Southwest	EARTH
Northwest	METAL

The centre is not specified as a ‘direction’ but it does signify the ‘Heart of the Home’ so is both an Earth element which represents stability and solid ground and an important area to positively enhance in any space for the benefit of the entire family.

Each of the Five Elements has a Yin (stillness and quiet) and a Yang (movement and noise) aspect and this is something else to consider when enhancing your living space.

Element	Yang	Yin
WATER	Flowing Water	Still or Stagnant Water
WOOD	Growing Wood	Dead Wood or Furniture
FIRE	Roaring Fire	Dying Embers
EARTH	Crystals, Stones and Pebbles, Sand	Underground Earth
METAL	Moving Metal/Metallic Sounds	Unyielding Hard Metal

In your living areas, the living and dining rooms, the elements benefit from being more Yang than Yin; in your sleeping area, the bedroom, the elements benefit from being more Yin than Yang.

Yang is created with brightness, light, sound and movement; with activity and is in harmony with lively and harmonious living – Yin is darker and quieter and allows your mind, body and spirit to be refreshed and recharged for a new day.

In the practice of Feng Shui, Water relates to a steady stream of income, of your career.  

Water should never be used to enhance in the bedroom, this is a major taboo.

Wood signifies health if it is in the East and wealth if it is in the Southeast, Water ‘feeds’ Wood and will enhance these areas, as long as it is Yang Water (moving water.)

Fire brings fame and recognition in your chosen field and this is fed by Wood.

Earth is represented in the Northeast and this is the universal study and education area.  It is also the element of the Southwest and this represents family, love and relationships.  Both of these areas are ‘created’ by Fire, by light.

The West is the area of the family and family harmony and the Northwest represents heaven and mentor luck.  These areas are the Metal areas and they are enhanced by the element of Earth.

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