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Feng Shui Made Simple: Top Tips For Getting Started
By Jami Lin
Feng Shui Expert and Licensed Interior Designer

The entry of your home or office should be open and inviting, trim away foliage that may be blocking the path of Chi (energy). Remove debris from dead or shabby plants too!

Always position your bed, desk, and stove in one of your best directions (get yours at http://www.jamilin.com/jamilin/direction.php) and try to have a clear view of all doors into the space.

Mom & Dad's bedroom (or principal and upper executives’ offices) should be located in the command areas of the structure and in good personal direction locations while giving the children (employees and clients) free accessibility. Everyone will benefit because the entire household (office) will feel as if it is one body, the sum of all the functions harmoniously working toward the heart objective.

Bathroom doors should be kept shut, with toilet seats down, to prevent Chi/Energy, opportunity, wealth, and happiness from being flushed. More Advanced: It is good Feng Shui to have bad Flying Star number combinations in a bathroom; you want them to be flushed!

Never sleep with a beam over your bed or put a shelf over it or your desk. Your world could fall down on you at any moment. There are awful beams in my Tai Chi class and dance bars across the mirrors, while I can't avoid them completely, when I am not moving, I always get out from their negative influence.

Throw out dead flowers or plants; they have lost their vitality. Dried flowers and potpourri is a no-no too! Besides being dust magnets, they never smell. Use aromatherapy instead for yummy house fragrance (and all essential oil's other magnificently good-scents attributes)!

Avoid "Poison Arrows" which are sharp pointed, edges of buildings, wall corners, furniture or accessories pointed directly at your house, bed or desk. It is reminiscent of a cutting knife-edge or a disapproving finger that depletes good energy and makes poor Feng Shui worse!

Make sure that all of the five traditional elements (fire, wood, metal, earth & water) are included in your design for energetic/emotional and decorative balance. Advanced: Remember to add some of specific element if you want to energy for something specific you want to accomplish making sure that it doesn't work in conflict with your Flying Star element enhancers or reducers.

Where natural light is not readily available, make sure all spaces are well illuminated especially in corridors and entry vestibules. Use dimmers for design flexibility and creating moods.

Always use your mind before making changes. THINK how your change may affect the rest of your Feng Shui and decor. Feng Shui is HOLISTIC! Do not just use traditional rules such as painting your front door red, it be terrible if your door faced any other direction than South! And from a design perspective, if would also be disharmonious if your home's exterior was peach or rose.

Your Feng Shui changes every day, month, and year and we have a major 20-year energetics shift February 2004 (period eight charts will be available soon). Design your home and office to reduce or enhance the energies of the 20 years, then it is easy to move a few accessories to support the yearly, monthly, and if you'd like, daily influence.