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Mon 21 Apr 2008
Feng Shui for romance and
the bedroom
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12 Ways to Improve
Relationships
You probably know by now my views on books and websites written
on Feng Shui, some are very good but many are bad or inaccurate.
There is so much misinformation out there and this can cause problems
for many people who are trying to get results whether for relationships,
wealth, career, business or health. I have detailed below the
facts of how to get real results with Feng Shui in the bedroom,
they will probably go against everything you have read or been
taught but here goes. All the below applies to houses or apartments.
1: Fresh cut and dried flowers, actually this applies to
any part of the home or office. This has always been a big no
with nearly every book I have seen or been told about. Fresh cut
flowers are beautiful and I love having them in my home (make
sure water is kept clean and fresh), they are a fairly neutral
energy and do no harm, the benefits are amazing though, they can
brighten any room and fill it with a scent that can transform
any room for the better. I have been to many homes that have flowers
but are housed in a filthy vase and green murky water; you must
keep it squeaky clean. In 2008 the northeast is very good for
fresh flowers but avoid them in the west of your home.
They are also a good test on how good the energy is in your room,
around three weeks ago it was Mothers day in the UK and the boys
delivered a glorious bouquet of flowers to Josephine, they actually
look almost as good today as they did three weeks ago, this is
because the energy in this room (dining room) is very good, don’t
get me wrong I am not pretending that our whole house is perfect,
far from it, every house will have good and bad areas, the secret
is to find out where these good and bad areas are and use the
better ones and avoid the bad ones and one of the main reasons
why we developed our Feng Shui software so people could instantly
find all their good and bad areas and how to enhance and cure.
Back to flowers, well actually dried flowers, this one always
makes me laugh, with the exception of a few books every one will
tell you DO NOT have dried flowers in your home or office, no
exceptions, no dried flowers, pot pourri or anything that was
once a living entity in a garden or forest etc. Not in my opinion,
think about what about what I have just said.
‘Nothing that was living’, so what about all your wooden furniture,
doors, floorboards, kitchen cupboards, window frames, doorframes,
wooden ornaments etc. etc. etc. I think you know what I am going
to say next, how can dried flowers or fresh cut flowers be so
bad when any item that is made of wood is exactly the same element,
a wooden table is dead wood the same as dried flowers, the wooden
floorboards are identical to a dried flower arrangement in a redundant
fireplace, long and short is dried flowers and fresh cut flowers
are perfectly okay to have in a room as long as you are not allergic
to them.
If you do use them make sure they are kept clean and dust free,
I always take dried flowers or similar outside and give them a
good shake every now and again and leave them out in sunlight
when possible, this clears any negative energy and empowers it
with fresh clean energy. If they are left for years without cleaning
they will contain a lot of sha chi which is very bad.
Please remember that this is only my view, there is nothing in
the ancient Feng Shui books to say dried flowers are bad or good
so a debate either way for or against them would never be settled.
Not forgetting silk or cloth flowers, these are excellent to have
in any part of the home and no different to having a set of curtains.
2: Bed placements, if you check this link http://fengshuiweb.co.uk/advice/8mansions.htm
you will find information on which directions to sleep in depending
on which aspect of your life you want to enhance, i.e. Sheng Chi
for prosperity, Tien Yi for health, Nien Yien for relationship
and Fu Wei for overall harmony. The most important thing to remember
when sleeping is the crown (top) of your head must face the direction;
many people get confused and point their feet in this direction,
which would have their head facing their worst direction.
Many of you will know your good and bad directions or have our
Feng Shui software we sell that instantly calculates amongst many
other things your good and bad directions. Another important consideration
with bedroom arrangement is make sure you have your head supported
by a solid wall directly behind you, if your best direction is
south, do not have your bed at an angle in the room with your
head behind a corner of wall or cupboard, this may seem like basic
stuff but believe me we have visited many homes with the bed at
all angles, it is great if you sleep in your best direction, however
this is not always possible and do not worry about it if you cannot,
an example is good friends of ours are opposite Trigram groups,
one sleeps in his best direction and she sleeps in her worst,
unless they top and tail or sleep in different beds they will
never achieve a good balance according to many books and websites
although they have been married for 17 years and have a fantastic
relationship, great health and pretty wealthy so on its own it
will not cause too many problems. Actually the most important
thing is make sure you follow the annual flying stars this is
far more important than directions you sleep.
I have thousands of clients from all over the world and many fret
about such small things because they have read some book or the
hundreds of new websites appearing making themselves look like
a Microsoft empire and carrying great authority with their writing
and the majority are trying to sell you a cure. Sleeping with
your head in a bad direction on its own will not harm you, but
if your bedroom was dirty, your diet was bad, you drank five bottles
of wine a night, put them altogether and it is a recipe for disaster.
Try and think about what I am saying, smoking one cigarette a
day will probably not kill you but anymore than five a day will
affect your life expectancy (in my opinion) try and get balance
in your life. I do not lead the perfect life, I do meditate, but
not enough, I do have a good diet but because of my travels I
do eat some junk food, I do love a nice glass of wine, I do exercise
(chi gong) but now I have just hit fifty years old I know I need
to exercise more, overall though I am in very good shape without
being too fanatical about Feng Shui, health, wealth and every
other aspect of my life.
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you 100% accuracy which in my experience of Feng Shui is not guaranteed
with any book or website you will come across and one of the reasons
why we released the software to the public three years ago.
3: En-suite bathrooms, a real taboo in most books, we have
been to homes that have the most magnificent en-suite bathrooms
and the occupants do not even use it because of what they have
read or been told, remember two thousand years ago homes did not
have bathrooms or toilets inside the home, so why now is it bad
Feng Shui? The only thing you have to remember is all bathrooms
should have the door and toilet seat lid closed at all times and
it is kept squeaky clean, other than that do not worry if your
head is facing the bathroom or en-suite wall, your luck will not
be affected at all. There is no way in a million years you could
ever get me to stop using my en-suite although it is probably
the cleanest en-suite in the world though.
4: Try not to sleep with a beam or overhead cupboards over
your head, if you have these you can place a piece of cloth under
the beam so it takes away the negative effect or hang a crystal
faceted sphere or a pair of bamboo flutes, I prefer the cloth
as it is more effective and you can make it look nice with a piece
of muslin cloth or similar. Generally though do not worry about
beams in a bedroom unless they are directly over the bed area
you sleep on.
5: Mirrors, now this is another misunderstood topic as
again many homes we visit have all the mirrors covered or removed
in the bedroom. It is only a problem if the mirror faces your
bed and you can see your face and upper body in the reflection.
If the mirror looks sideways onto your bed it is not so much of
a problem but better not to have a mirror at all looking onto
your bed, why are mirrors in bedrooms considered bad? Two schools
of thought, the first belief is when you sleep at night your soul
is supposed to leave your body and when it leaves the first thing
it sees is a reflection of itself and gets startled and this is
what causes nightmares and a restless sleep. The second is when
you sleep your body recharges itself with fresh qi and the negative
qi leaves your body, if there is a mirror facing you the negative
qi cannot leave you. This does not just apply to mirrors, anything
reflective like a photo, painting, computer screen, TV or metal
surface. If you cannot move the mirror place a cloth over it when
you sleep.
6: Do not sleep with your feet facing towards a door, this
is known as the ‘coffin position’ and speaks for itself. If you
cannot change the bed position try and place an object like a
screen or a small cupboard between the soles of your feet and
the door.
7: Do not sleep with doors (entrance doors not wardrobe
doors) on either side of a bed; this is pretty rare, as we do
not see many homes with more than one entrance door in a bedroom.
8: Should you have moving water in a bedroom? A hard question
to answer because if a bedroom using the flying star method and
it is conducive to water then you can use it but generally I would
say no unless you had a professional consultation and advised
otherwise. In all my years though I have never recommended anyone
to have moving (yang) water in a bedroom. Do not worry about taking
a glass of water to bed with you though, this is Yin water and
has no effect over the short time it is there, this also goes
for a salt water cure; these are fine to have in a bedroom.
9: Which colours should you use in a bedroom? Again I am
going to go against all the books and give you the facts, a bedroom
is generally used for sleeping and because of this it is considered
Yin (quiet) energy, most books will tell you to paint bright red
(yang) or bright pinks to activate your relationships, again if
you have had a consultation red may be a good colour to use as
the Feng Shui consultant will know all your elements in that particular
area but generally you use yin colours such as pastel shades and
nothing too bright or loud, the same applies to bed covers and
furniture, keep the colours simple and neutral.
10: Clearing your clutter is very important in the bedroom,
wardrobes, under beds and behind doors get very stale (sha chi)
and need to be cleared often to ensure good energy. Many books
will tell you not to have a bed with draws under, this is not
always practical with property space so valuable, and as long
as you keep soft items like bedclothes, clothes or towels they
are okay. Do not keep anything negative in the bedroom at all;
if you have papers regarding a divorce or other legal problem
either think about throwing them out (take legal advice) or storing
in the loft, garage or less important room, this also applies
to ornaments, paintings, photos or any gift that has been given
to you by someone who you have negative feelings for.
11: Cures and enhancers to use in your bedroom. I have
seen websites that will sell you a pebble to place under your
pillow, red heart shaped pillows to a list of mantras to recite
each night, all of which will enhance your romance. Here is a
list of effective cures and enhancers and not gimmicky Micky Mouse
ones… If you are looking to conceive, sleep with your head pointing
towards your Nien Yien direction. If you do not know your Nien
Yien direction look on our website or you can buy the software
that calculates it for you
http://fengshuiweb.co.uk/pages/software.htm you should also
face your oven door towards Nien Yien. For the Xuan Kong experts
there is more information in our professional series below.
Always use pairs in a bedroom, if you want to attract a new partner
have two pillows side by side, a pair of Mandarin ducks, if you
have a painting on the wall make sure it has two people in the
picture, candle sticks should always be in pairs, the only time
you should use a single item in the bedroom is if you use a Dragon
headed Tortoise but make sure you have a piece of red ribbon in
its mouth.
Where should you place your cures? Depending on which school you
follow. As you know we only ever use traditional Feng Shui and
follow Xuan Kong flying star, which gives powerful results. The
standard and most talked about way is to place items like mandarin
ducks or a Dragon headed Tortoise in the south-west of the bedroom
or home, so if you wanted to attract new love activate the SW
with romantic items like this. It is not something that I would
do as the below formula is much more powerful and gets results.
If you want to use a more powerful cure or enhancer use the flying
star method, this year you would place a small water plant or
a picture of still water along with something coloured blue in
the northeast of the home, this can also be the northeast of your
bedroom or the northeast of your entire home or both. This would
activate the #4 wood star.
You would also place another pair of ducks and Dragon headed Tortoise
in the northeast of your bedroom.
To recap and clear any misunderstandings, you would stand in the
middle of your home facing the front of the house with a compass
in hand and find the northeast, you would then go into your bedroom
stand in the centre again facing the same direction (front) and
find northeast of the bedroom and then place the cures.
You can also apply this rule to any flying star in the home or
room, so if you wanted to activate the #8 wealth star for 2008
which is located in the east, you would place a three legged Toad,
crystal sphere or a fire object or colour or anything to do with
finances in the east of your home and east of your office or area
that you work from. For full details of where the stars are this
year visit this link http://www.fengshuiweb.co.uk/advice/flyingstars2008.htm.
12: A powerful cure and enhancer in 2008 and a good cure
for arguments and also enhance the energy of a bedroom is to place
a ceramic (not metal) essential oil burner in the west of your
bedroom and add some essential oils to give a powerful aroma.
Be careful what essential oils you use as they create a mood as
well as energy. Ylang Ylang to create a romantic mood, Clary sage
to promote good sleep etc, do your own research and the affect
it can have on your environment.
© Michael Hanna, Feng Shui Store 2008
Tue 8 Apr 2008
Why can't…
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'Why can't life's problems hit us when we're
eighteen and know everything'
Mon 10 Mar 2008
Batten down the wind chimes…
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With gale-force winds battering the UK over
the next few days you should take down any exterior wind chimes
and any other objects that could cause you harm. Too much movement
(energy) from wind chimes causes excessive negative qi (sha qi)
and can cause you many problems especially if they are located
in the south or northwest of your home or office so it is worth
taking them down until the high winds pass.
You don’t have to remove the chimes every time (this is the first
time for me in two years) we get a windy day, in fact a normal
windy day is very good at clearing negative energy, it is just
in these exceptional nasty weather conditions and with 80mph winds,
thankfully this is not normal for us in the UK.
This method of analysing Feng Shui energy is called “distribution
of qi” and forms around the yin & yang tai chi, too much of a
good thing can be bad and visa versa. Not very exciting to learn
and not often talked about in the books but is critical in the
learning of Feng Shui and if you follow this method you can avoid
many problems particularly in relation to wealth and luck.
If your Chinese animal is a Goat, Rabbit or Pig please be careful
on the road today especially if you are travelling towards the
east, as long as you are cautious and take no risks you will not
have any problems.
Kind regards and take care.
Michael
Fri 29 Feb 2008
March 2008 updates
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This is a quick note say the monthly updates
(copied below) have been uploaded to www.fengshuiweb.co.uk
I hope you enjoy reading them, the 2008 Q & A’s answers many questions.
Kind regards
Michael
Monthly
Zodiac & flying star (Xuan Kong) predictions for March 2008.
Added March 2008
See what March has in store for you with this accurate guide for
the twelve earthly branches (12 animals) of the Chinese almanac
and also the flying star xuan kong for March 2008. In this, I
have attempted to point out the factors that may benefit you this
month and also those which you should be aware of according to
your animal sign. This also combines the March 2008 flying star
update this month. More...
2008
Q&A’s - superb reading. Added March 2008
We receive so many emails each day and we reply to as many as
humanly possible, however, sometimes we receive emails that read
like war and peace and to be honest they can take hours to reply
to and we do not have the resource for this so I have copied a
small selection of Q&A below. More...
Mon 11 Feb 2008
Update…
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This time of year is extremely busy with
Chinese New Year and this year is no exception. We receive so
many emails each day and we reply to as many as humanly possible,
however, sometimes we receive emails that read like war and peace
and to be honest they can take hours to reply to and we do not
have the resource for this.
If you need to email please keep it short and please appreciate
we cannot answer in-depth questions, you can also post on this
blog as this I can sometimes answer wherever I am in the world
if I am not too busy.
Orders are also taking a little longer but are still sent normally
within 4 working days.
And finally our Tong Shu Almanac software is ready for shipping,
phew, 14 months of coding and extremely hard work; it is amazing
and a pleasure to use. Follow
this link for more details.
Mon 7 Jan 2008
January updates
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Just a quick note to let you know the January
2008 Alamanac Tong Shu has been uploaded along with with new school
dates. Follow this link for more details http://www.fengshuiweb.co.uk/advice/teachyourselffengshui.htm
Thu 29 Nov 2007
2008 annual updates
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As I have been receiving so many emails
each day asking for the 2008 annual updates along with moans that
the Blog is not being updated enough (sorry), I thought I would
keep you up to date. All the annual updates should be uploaded
over the weekend with approximately 12 new pages on 2008 flying
stars, Chinese animals, Chinese New Year and world times and many
more. 2008 Annual updates can be found
here
Mon 5 Nov 2007
November monthly updates
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Just a quick note to let you know that the
November monthly updates, almanac, twelve animal and Xuan Kong
flying stars have been uploaded on the main site, click
here to view them or follow the links below.
Xuan
Kong Flying Stars update November 2007. Added November 2007
Every month the Feng Shui Store updates you with the Xuan Kong
flying stars and how to avoid disasters, this is the only information
you should ever follow. From 8th November to 6th December 2007
is the tenth month of the year of the fire Pig with the ruling
energy of #2 in the central grid. More...
Monthly
Zodiac Animal predictions for November 2007. Added November
2007
See what November has in store for you with this accurate guide
for the twelve earthly branches (12 animals) of the Chinese almanac
for November 2007. In this, I have attempted to point out the
factors that may benefit you this month and also those which you
should be aware of according to your animal sign. More...
Almanac
November 2007. Added November 2007
Use the Almanac daily to help you in selecting the most auspicious
days and times for activities and events such as weddings, renovations,
travelling, opening a business and even a good day for digging
holes. More...
Fri 5 Oct 2007
October 2007 Monthly Updates
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Just a quick note to let you know that the
monthly updates, almanac, twelve animal and Xuan Kong flying stars
have been uploaded on the main site, click
here to view them or follow the links below.
Salt
water cure secrets. Added October 2007
Everything you need to know about this once closely guarded secret
until we revealed the formula around eight years ago and now copied
by everyone although many still use them incorrectly and for this
reason I have updated this page from November 2006 to clarify
yet again as whilst extremely powerful, if used incorrectly they
have a very negative effect. More...
Xuan
Kong Flying Stars update October 2007. Added October 2007
Every month the Feng Shui Store updates you with the Xuan Kong
flying stars and how to avoid disasters, this is the only information
you should ever follow. From 9th October to 7th November 2007
is the ninth month of the year of the fire Pig with the ruling
energy of #3 in the central grid.
More...
Monthly
Zodiac Animal predications for October 2007. Added October
2007
See what October has in store for you with this accurate guide
for the twelve earthly branches (12 animals) of the Chinese almanac
for October 2007. In this, I have attempted to point out the factors
that may benefit you this month and also those which you should
be aware of according to your animal sign. More...
Almanac
October 2007. Added October 2007
Use the Almanac daily to help you in selecting the most auspicious
days and times for activities and events such as weddings, renovations,
travelling, opening a business and even a good day for digging
holes. More...
Mon 10 Sep 2007
Even Feng Shui experts have
problems…
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Last week was a nightmare for us with computers;
we suffered a hard disk crash and lost 4 weeks of emails and some
data.
January 2004 was the last time we had a computer hard drive crash
and that was very painful as we never had an effective back-up
in place and lost many months of work. Friday 31st August our
hard drive again decided to die and we lost almost four weeks
of emails and work which wasn’t as bad but still not good.
It is now Monday (10 days later) and we are just about back to
normal, it was more of a problem for poor Jo than me, but of course
that indirectly affects me so it was not a good week for technology
in our business. Considering we operate our computers 365 days
of the year without switching off I think we do very well and
if this is the worst that can happen our Feng Shui must be good.
I am talking as if I am always calm, collective and optimistic;
the question is was I this positive last Saturday when I discovered
the crash? No way.
If you have emailed us within the last four weeks and still not
received a reply from us please resend your email. Please be patient
with us, all will be well very soon. Thank you.
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