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Feng Shui In The Bathroom
Using Feng Shui to Prevent Positive Energy Drains in Your Bathroom
Feng shui follows the directional, elemental, and color tenets of the Ba Gua to create balance with natural laws to draw positive energy, chi, into one's home or office. Positive chi helps create good luck, health, prosperity, and peace. The bathroom creates a special challenge in placement and design, but like every challenge, it can be met with a little creativity and ingenuity.
The bathroom gets a bad rap in feng shui (pronounced fung shway), the ancient Chinese philosophy of organizing one's personal space, for two reasons. First, thousands of years ago, when the Ba Gua (pronounced ba gwa) was developed, indoor plumbing did not exist so the bathroom did not receive placement in the nine area layout meaning there's really no ideal place for one. Second, the bathroom can serve as an escape route for one's positive chi (pronounced chee) due to the many drains located in it.
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If you're building a home
If you plan to build a new home, you are at an advantage, because you can pick the placement of your bathroom(s), as well as, the fixtures used. As previously discussed, no perfect location exists for a bathroom in the Ba Gua, but there are better locations for it. The following "Don'ts" should help you pinpoint the areas to absolutely avoid placing a bathroom:
Don't locate a bathroom in the fame and reputation (south), wealth and prosperity (southeast), or love and marriage (southwest) areas of the home.
Don't locate the bathroom in the center of the house because this will cause your chi to drain from your home rather than coalesce in the center, as it should.
Don't locate the bathroom in the front hall or near the front door as this drains away chi before it can circulate through the home.
Don't locate a second floor bathroom above the front door since this floods the main entry with negative energy.
Don't locate a second floor bathroom above the kitchen because it extinguishes the hearth fire of the home and floods the kitchen with negative energy.
Don't locate a bathroom adjacent to the kitchen as this drains the chi from the food prepared within it.
Regarding fixtures, remember to purchase sinks and tubs with closing drains. There are three places to avoid installing your toilet - the southeast, southwest, and north corners. These adversely affect your finances, romantic relationship/marriage, and career, respectively. Finally, insure that the toilet does not face the front door of the house.
If you are remodeling or redecorating your home
Perhaps you are not so lucky as to be building a new home and your abode violates one or more of the don'ts listed above. Here's a new don't - don't worry. The steps to take in order to stop the chi drain from happening are simple enough and you can combat chi drain by implementing them.
* Always keep your toilet seat lid shut when not using it, as well as sink drains. This prevents loss of opportunity and money from escape of chi.
* Always keep your bathroom door shut for the same reason.
* Fix any leaky faucets immediately. A dripping or leaking faucet signifies wasting money.
* Keep the bathroom well lit, well ventilated, and clean.
* Use a black or red wrap around toilet rug to protect against wealth loss.
* Add the earth element to the bathroom by keeping a bowl of pebbles or vase of fresh flowers on the toilet tank to keep prosperity from escaping down the drain.
* If your bathroom is in the center of your home, you can combat the loss of positive chi by installing a full-length mirror on the outside of the bathroom door and always keeping the door shut. The mirror deflects any chi trying to escape, back into the home.
* If your existing bathroom is in an inauspicious section of your home, for example, the fame, prosperity, or wealth area of the Ba Gua, an easy feng shui treatment would be to paint the walls red which represents the fire element.
* If your existing bathroom is already in a better area of the Ba Gua, the best colors for your bathroom walls are light gray, cream, or pale blue.
In a nut shell, feng shui provides many treatments whether you're building a new home or your existing home has ill placed bathrooms. If you are planning a new home, you can work a more ideal placement into your design and start at an advantage. If you're already settled into your digs, by implementing a few simples changes in color scheme, organization, and mirror hanging, you can combat the effects of an poorly located bathroom. Although the bathroom gets a bad rap in feng shui, a few simple treatments can reverse its chi draining effects and help circulate more positive energy throughout your home.
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