Traditional Feng Shui Rules

Traditional feng shui rules still apply to modern feng shui and assure sound feng shui design.

Traditional Feng Shui focuses more on what’s outside your home than what's inside. You can have a perfectly designed feng shui home but if the vicinity of your home is inauspicious, cures will only be temporary solutions and difficult to maintain. Consider all surrounding land forms and any manmade structures since these determine the kind of chi that surrounds and enters your home.

Most people understand the importance of landform in feng shui applications, but few realize the importance of land use.

• Criminal activities – Government facilities related to the punishment or legal enforcement of criminals like prisons and police stations. Areas of violent acts, especially a home where a violent death occurred.
• Cities – Towering buildings and manmade structures require feng shui cures.
• Slaughterhouses and meat processing plants – Negative energy anchors in these places.
• Landfill, trash collection center or junkyard – This used up energy of vehicles, rotting food and garbage attracts other deadly energies of rodents and insects that carry diseases.
• Power Station, dams, power transformers or cell phone towers – Any place that creates power or sends out microwaves disrupts the natural movement of energy and creates shar (negative) chi.
• Roads – Don’t locate your home at an intersection, especially if a road ends at the intersection directly across from your home. The rush of chi (poison arrow) will constantly overwhelm you and create loss and sickness.
• Bridges – Avoid a home at the end of a bridge or where a bridge creates poison arrows.
• Hospital, medical, hospice, cemetery or funeral home –Your life will be surrounded by the energy of death.
• Cliffs and mountainsides – Don’t place your home on a cliff or steep mountainside. Landslides happen quickly. A cliff above the ocean is where two yin energies crash together, creating a destructive force. Steep mountainsides near rushing rivers and streams are also a clashing of yin energies.
• Land formations – Get protection on all sides by using the four protectors: Green Dragon, White Tiger, Black Tortoise and Red Raven.
• Water – Never build too close to a stream or river that overflows its banks. Surprisingly, people build on dried up riverbeds and streams without taking into account there could be an abundant rainfall. What was a rocky ravine suddenly becomes a deadly powerful river during a flash flood. Oceanfront homes are ill also advised.
• Wind – Homes where the wind is constant attracts negative chi. Choose a site with gentle breezes that are nourishing to the land.

There are many auspicious elements natural and manmade that attract positive and beneficial chi.

• Natural setting – The best feng shui choice for a home. Choose a forest or other undisturbed land. This type of land retains and attracts the best kind of chi while supporting wildlife. As long as the plantlife is not invasive and the vegetation isn't overpowering or there aren’t any disruptive landforms, this is an ideal choice.
• Lake, pond or bay – A good place to have a home as long as you are above the water level.
• Farm or rural – A great location is where there’s a strong agricultural presence. A renewable energy community dedicated to organic farming without animal slaughter is the gem of feng shui living.
• Urban – A home near a garden center, park, botanical garden, music center, arts center or any other area that’s associated with growth, life or creativity.
• Education – A home near a music or art school will have growing, creative and enlightening energy anchored to it. Colleges and other schools can be good locations.
• Spiritual – Find a location near a religious center, spiritual or religious educational facility. (Be mindful that some churches also have cemeteries.)
• Healing – Acupuncture clinics or a holistic training schools make wonderful locations.
• Other Locations – Think about the activities that go on in the area where you live or plan to live. Consider what kind of energy is associated with those activities. If it’s an area where fun activities take place or people are helped and uplifted, then you will be too.

While what is going on outside your home determines the kind of chi entering your home, you can utilize the positive energy and minimize any negative chi by following some basic interior feng shui principles:

• No water fountains or pictures of water in the bedroom
• Close toilet lids when flushing and keep closed when not in use
• Keep bathroom doors closed
• Declutter, organize and practice good housekeeping
• Keep all appliances and household items in good working condition
• Groom and trim your yard regularly
• Keep exterior and interior entrances clean and well lit
• Properly applied feng shui remedies help deflect shar chi.

There are more traditional feng shui rules for inside your home and can be found in other Love To Know Feng Shui articles:

• Feng Shui Rules
• Feng Shui Cures: How To Activate
• Crystal Cures in Feng Shui
• Free Clutter Tips.

• Monuments with the Golden Ratio
• Yin Yang Pictures
• Yin Yang Art

• Yin Yang Dragons
• Tiger and Dragon Ying Yang
• Applications How to Place Feng Shui Elephant
• Chinese Dragon Clip Art
• Ying Yang Suns

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