Feng Shui For Children: Create A Positive Environment For Study

Feng shui is a term that means “wind-water”. There are many versions of Feng shui that you can learn from all kinds of classes whether online or in a traditional class.

The basis of Feng shui is that it allows you to achieve harmony with your surroundings and the environment. This is achieved through arranging your space, planning your agriculture, and more commonly, arranging the furniture and decorations of your home.

Feng shui has been practiced for over 4000 years in China but only in the last couple decades has it really taken off in the rest of the world. The belief is that everything has energy and everything in your home or office can either help you accomplish your goals or even hinder them.

Feng shui teaches you to understand the energy that is in everything from your body to pretty much anything that exists. By understanding this energy, you gain the insight to arrange your home or office to help you reach any goals that you set by increasing the good energy and eliminating the bad energy.

Feng shui uses two main tools. There is the Ba-Gua and the compass. The Ba-Gua is a map that contains the symbols of the I Ching upon which feng shui originated.

The Ba-Gua consists of 8 specialized areas, what they represent, and the color scheme that is best suited to them. This is to increase the flow of good energy throughout the entire area.

Feng shui is known to have many ways to improve a person’s life. This is what makes it so popular. The promise of well being, increasing your chance to meet your goals, and improving your overall health is something everyone wants.

The Feng Shui Elements

Feng shui has one main goal: Increase positive energy by creating a place of balance and harmony. How is this balance achieved? By using the five elements of feng shui.

The elements all work with each other and have their own characteristics. When balancing the energy in any space, these five elements are used to enhance positive energy as well as counteract negative energy.

Wood is connected to the color green. To increase the wood energy in an area, live plants are used and not dead wood that is in chairs and other furniture.

In addition to adding wood energy, the plants filter the air and increase oxygen making the atmosphere of your space more healthy. Wood’s home is the East of your space.

Fire is connected to reds, oranges, and purples. Fire is anything that uses electricity or produces heat. Televisions and lamps are good examples. A lamp that has a red lampshade can greatly increase the fire energy of an area. Fire’s home is the South.

Earth is connected to tans, browns, and beiges. Brickwork and anything that uses rocks is part of the earth element. Clay pots, tiles, and ceramics also increase the earth energy. Earth is the Northeast.

Metal is connected to whites and golds. So much is made of metal, you can pretty much pick and choose what to use to increase your metal energy. A statue or even a bed frame will work great. Metal is in the West.

Water is connected to blues and blacks. Representing the winter, water is commonly used in more passive ways due to it’s, well, wet nature.

Used improperly, water can disturb all the energy in your space. Using aquariums, fountains, or pools are the easiest ways to increase water energy. Water is in the North.

A well-placed a map or a globe in your child's room will draw in energy that expands thinking abilities

Feng Shui For Education

Education has always been very important in China and feng shui cures have always been used to help children learn. The Western part of your space is connected to the well being of your children.

If the energy is focused positively, it can improve every aspect of your children’s lives and one of the most important parts is education. The Western feng shui element is Metal which prefers the colors white and gray. Earth complements metal so using yellows or sandy colors are beneficial.

You should avoid anything fire related as fire melts metal. The use of your children’s artwork in the area is a great idea. When placed in white or metal frames, the increase in positive energy will soar.

There are many other things you can do to help increase your children’s ability to learn successfully. By placing a map or a globe between the North and West area’s of your child’s room, they will draw in energy that can expand thinking abilities and encourage long term goals.

Avoiding clutter is a large part of feng shui and it should be cleared out before rearranging the room. This has many practical applications if the Western area of your home is used as a place of study.

By having a positive environment surrounded by artwork that your children are proud of, it can be a great and peaceful place to do homework or study for tests. It is a much more distraction free area than a bedroom where there are toys, television, games, or siblings.

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Feng Shui Resources:

• Feng Shui Interior Form – The practical guide to the home. Confidently apply Feng Shui principles to the layout, position of furniture, as well as being able to spot ‘Sha Chi’ and how to overcome any negative features.
• Power Your Career with Feng Shui – Feng shui tips, illustrations, remedies and strategies for career success in any economy. Authored by a 20-year feng shui consultant who’s studied with Marie Diamond of “The Secret” video fame.
• Feng Shui Secrets That Will Change Your Life – The ultimate step-by-step guide devoted to showing you exactly how to invite wealth into your life, attract happiness, find love and so much more in this easy-to-follow ebook.

Improving the family sector in feng shui ba-gua
may mean a better education for a child

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