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Balancing the Feng Shui Elements to Create Harmony in your Home
Balancing the Feng Shui Elements to Create Harmony in your Home
Wood - it represents the creative power and expansion. It also represents traits like birth, growth, flexibility, strength and intuition. It is recommended to not apply to much to avoid rigidness, inflexibility, stubbornness and overwhelming. Consider having fresh plants and trees along with wooden furniture to represent the element.
Fire - this element increases enthusiasm and skills of leadership. It is meant to encourage inspiration, expressiveness and boldness. In representing the fire element you can not only use a fireplace but can also add sunlight, candles and incandescent lights.
Earth - This elements affects physical strength along with balance and stability. Anything in earthy tones such as sand, brown and green can be applied. Landscape wallpaper works well.
Metal - This affects the clarity of the mental and logical. The presence of metal represents personalization in organisation, righteousness and focus. The freshness, clarity and strong cooling energy of the metal element can be expressed in colours white and gray, a variety of metallic finishes, in round shapes, as well as numerous decor items made from metal.
Water - Spirituality and the emotions are simply encompassed by the water element. Inspiration, insightfulness and wisdom are featured by water. The healing, life giving and mysterious energy of the water element can be expressed in colours blue and black, in a variety of water features, in flowing shapes, images of water, mirrors, as well as numerous decor items.