Feng Shui
Feng Shui for your Car
Here are a few hints, tips, and cures, to help create good feng shui for your car:
Car seats should be taller at the back and have a supportive influence on either side. Cars which slope away to the back, and those which open at the back can leave us feeling insecure. Cars with reclining seats, such as expensive sports models, suggest vulnerability behind.
The rear lights act as our “Tortoise” warning those behind to brake. It is therefore essential to ensure they are clean and in working order, and that spent bulbs are replaced immediately.
Stickers on the rear window can strengthen the “Tortoise” or rear position, particularly those which say “Please Keep Your Distance” or “Baby on Board” and other polite, warning signs. Jokes and stickers which are difficult to read have the opposite effect in that they encourage the car behind to come closer. Stickers should not obstruct the window.
Any ornaments that act as a distraction behind should be avoided. Moving objects, like hanging ornaments can create instability and affect concentration. Do not allow loose items to collect in the back of the car.
Talismans for the car can include a St Christopher symbol or icon as he is the patron saint of travellers. Other cultures have their own protection symbols. License plates containing the number 88 are considered especially auspicious and means “double happiness”.
Fresh air is necessary in cars, in order to link the occupants with the world outside and to cleanse the air within the confined space. If the air is not fresh, the driver can become tired and lose concentration. To freshen the air we can introduce natural oils, which also affect our moods. Rosemary, neroli, and lemon oils are helpful for calming anger and promoting clear thinking.
Vision is important in the car and a clean screen and headlights enable us to see and be seen clearly on a foggy day and at night.
If we regard the car engine in the same way that we do our bodies, then we can appreciate that for the car to be healthy and function well, it’s tubes have to be unblocked and its components well maintained. Regular servicing is therefore important.
from The Practical Encyclopedia of Feng Shui
by Gill Hale
The Feng Shui Cover Your Butt Cure
You can bring balance to your home in any gua by using each of the elements: wood, fire, earth, metal and water.
For example, a wrought iron (metal) table with a glass (water) top, holding a plant (earth), a wooden (wood) picture frame, and a candle (fire).
You can use this cure in any section of your house, especially if you have a feng shui situation that you can’t figure out. Each of the five elements is equally represented as a cure in this way.
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If you are unsure of where the different areas are, see these posts:
A quick summary of each area
Prosperity:
Colors: Purple, green, gold and red
Associated with the Hip
Associated with number 8
Fame/Reputation:
Color: Red
Triangular, pointy objects
Associated with the Eye
Associated with number 1
The element is Fire
Relationships/Love:
Colors: Pink, red and white
Associated with all major organs of the body
Associated with number 2
Creativity/Children:
Color: White
Round objects
Associated with the Mouth
Associated with number 3
The element is Metal
Helpful People/Travel:
Colors: Gray, black and white
Associated with the Head
Associated with number 5
Career/Life Path:
Color: Black
Undulating, free-form shapes
Associated with the Ear
Associated with number 6
The element is Water
Skills/Knowledge/Wisdom:
Colors: Blue, black and green
Associated with the Hand
Associated with number 7
Family:
Color: Green
Rectangular, columnar, vertical objects
Associated with the Foot
Associated with number 4
The element is Wood
Health/General:
Colors: Yellow and earth tones
Square, horizontal and flat objects
Associated with all other body parts not mentioned above
Associated with number 9
The element is Earth
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Remove Hazardous Elements from Health Area
General Health area:
Wood will uproot the earth in this area, so get rid of anything symbolizing wood here. This means green items too! Small plants are the exception and can stay.
Tall rectangular objects and columnar objects don’t belong here.
Spiral staircases are a doozy – the chi keeps falling through, and with the spiraling pattern the chi gets dizzy and disoriented. You can counteract this effect by painting the underside of the stairs with the color of the area you are in, or place mirrors under the stairs to reflect the chi back up.
From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter
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Remove Hazards to Family Area
Family area:
- Metal is hazardous in this area. White is the metal color and also does not belong here.
- If you have a gun in the house, do not place it in this area or it will become deadly metal.
- Get rid of round objects in this area.
From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter
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Remove hazards to Skills and Knowledge
Skills and Knowledge area:
- Get rid of clutter here.
- Thinking clearly requires a clear space.
- Alcohol, drugs, poisons, and cigarettes all cloud the thought process and are detrimental to this area.
- Newspapers (full of stupid people doing stupid things) don’t belong here.
So this is not a good wallpaper choice?
From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter
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Remove Hazards to your Career
Removing hazardous elements from your Career area:
Get rid of any dirt in this area. When you mix dirt and water, you get mud! Pictures of mountains and clay pots can even muddy up the water. No squares either, since squares represent earth (which is made of dirt…) The same goes for earth-tone-colored items.
Remove pictures from this area of anything you would never want to do in your life.
From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter
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Remove Hazards from Helpful People and Travel Area
Feng Shui activity for today:
Remove hazardous elements from the Helpful People and Travel area:
You don’t want your helpful friends to have to navigate a road like this one!
Take a moment to stop and see where all your help is coming from. Trace the road money travels to get to you.
Helpful people do not want to hang around a bunch of junk. A mess in this area of the house gives helpful people obstacles to negotiate, so get rid of the junk!
Drains may undermine the support you need to prosper. Tie a red ribbon or red tape around the outgoing pipe to stop your chi from flowing away, and place mirrors in the area to keep the chi up.
Dust and dirt, broken items, trash cans, toilets, reminders of bad times don’t belong here.
From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter
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5 extra minutes
Still working in the General Health area of our homes:
This area is the epitome of balance of the yin and yang energies. If your physical body is in balance, you can “give it your all” and achieve everything you set out to do. This area reaches out and touches all the other eight guas of the home.
Declutter activity for today:
Take a minute to look around the areas of your house. Which area still needs a little extra work? Set your timer for five minutes and get to work decluttering and balancing that area. You know what needs to be done!
After five minutes, stop! That’s it for today!
Note from twofeathers:
I wanted an image to illustrate this post, so I put the words “5 extra minutes” into a yahoo search for images and came up with this! The web page title is: Villa with pool at 5 star Altea holiday resort.
And I thought.. wow. This is the kind of thing we are working towards as we work the Prosperity Project. This is the carrot at the end of the stick. So I decided to post it with the suggestion that as we clean, we remember WHY we are cleaning.
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Symbols and Anchors for your Center
Feng Shui activity for today:
Add a symbol to the Health area.
Earth is the element for the center. Add a healthy plant to this area. Include things made of earth here – china, ceramics, clay tiles or pots, bricks, natural stone flooring.
A bowl of fresh fruit symbolizes good luck, prosperity, hospitality and health.
Laughter is the best medicine. Place anything you find funny here – blooper videos, pictures of yourself and friends in fun moments, gag gifts. If it brings a smile to your face, it belongs here, so you can place a child’s hand-drawn picture or an old love letter here.
The shape for this area is square, and horizontal or flat items also belong here. Triangular or pyramid-shaped objects work here.
Symbols of earth, such as a globe, pictures of mountains, crystals belong here. They ground you and put you in touch with Mother Earth.
Fire works here, so if your fireplace is in this area, that’s great. Candles will also work. Stars and sun symbols should be here – sunflowers, sundials, pictures of sunrise or sunset, starfish, the Star of David, the Stars and Stripes.
Any religious object you connect with works here.
From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter
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