Inspired Feng Shui Life

Just as your front door is your home’s main entrance for you, your family and guests, so too in Feng Shui is it the way energy enters your home.  And just as you want to have a clear and attractive pathway for the people that visit your home, you also want a clear path to allow healthy and uplifting Feng Shui energy into your environment.

There are many people that believe that painting their front door red is the automatic answer to attracting energy to their front door, but this is not necessarily true.  Some of the best ways to attract positive energy into your home are the simplest and most common sense.

Imagine driving down the street and looking for a home you’ve not been to before.  As you go down the street, you see a home with the address clearly marked.   You see the front door with the address marked on the home itself, the porch light is on and you can sense the occupants are expecting you.

You park and enter the yard through a path to the home that is clearly defined.  The steps are easily manageable and they approach the door in a slightly meandering way.  The yard is neatly maintained, not overgrown.  The trees and shrubs are trimmed back so that no one needs to duck or dive under them as they approach the door.  You notice that there are a few flowering plants and they give you a little smile, you even get a breath of fragrance as you pass by some of them.

The doorway is well-lit, the hardware shining; the door itself is also clean and free of dirt and dust.  The porch is swept and pleasant and you take a moment for yourself before you ring the bell or give a friendly knock to announce your arrival, happy to visit your hosts.

Now picture driving down the street looking for a house and you can’t find the address because the home does not have the address on it.  You finally decide which home is the one you are visiting by the process of elimination since the homes on each side of it are marked and are not it, so therefore the one in the middle must be the right one.

You park your car and stumble over the broken sidewalk and struggle to push the broken gate open.  There is no path to the door and the yard is overgrown.  Branches from gangly shrubs are tearing at your clothes as you walk and you hit your head on a tree branch as you are peering around looking for the front door.

Once you get closer, you think you see a door, but there are trash cans lined up next to it, so you’re not sure if this is the service porch or the front door, so you walk to the other side to see if there is another entrance.  Not finding one, you turnaround and head back to the first door, tripping over an old can of red paint on the way.

Once you’ve moved the trash can out of the way, you find a dirty, dusty and what must have been at one time, a bright red door.  You ring the bell, but it’s broken, so you knock to announce your arrival, brushing the twigs out of your hair and rubbing the fresh bruise on your knee.

What kind of energy do you feel in arriving at these two homes?  Can you feel the difference?

It is the same thing in Feng Shui.  Positive Feng Shui energy is attracted to positive environments.  Feng Shui energy circulates where there is freedom of movement, where there is light and where there is comfortable access.  By keeping the entry to your home or office clean, obstacle free, well -lit, inviting, and easy to access, you will create an environment that invites not only positive, healthful and energetic Feng Shui, but one that invites both your guests and new opportunities into your life.  Now that’s what I call an Inspired Feng Shui Life!