FENG SHUI-ING YOUR GARDEN
February 9th 2011 -
Feng Shui gardens are easy and fun to create or re-create, it takes a little time and love. Below are few helpful hints that can make all the difference to a home or office.
Our gardens are a very important part of our home, whether they are a few pots on a terrace or several acres doesn’t much matter. These gardens, set up the energy of our home. When the gardens are alive, vibrant and balanced we can expect that to flow into our home and life, when they are stagnant, ignored and uncared for, we can expect more of that in our life.
Okay, so why is this so, why does the outside impact the inside so intensely? Well energy flows from the outside
into the home or office, these flows are affected but rarely stopped by walls. Now lets look at what we can do to
Feng Shui our gardens.
We can:
1/ Make sure that there is an easy flow around the garden. Clear up clutter or places where ‘stuff is piled or stored.’
2/ Get rid of anything you absolutely don’t need, clutter slows and clogs the Feng Shui pathways.
3/ A garden is like a classic painting we need balance and harmony, so draw it out on paper and see where things are and how you might balance them more fully. Take a sheet of paper and just do a jotting down of the most prominent things in your garden. Now look at it and ask, is there a clear flow?’ If not work to establish a clear flow.
4/ You can and should have areas that are full of vibrant life. Areas where things are not disturbed often. This give a high energy to the garden. Even if it is a wild pot of roses.
5/ Look at your life and ask which areas of my life are not working so well and add the colors and elements of these to the garden. e.g for money add purple or blue in the right corner, for love add pink, red or something that you really love to the right back corner.
6/ In areas that have a stagnant feel add a bird feeder or bath, (make sure that they don’t become cat feeders, keep them high and out of the way).
7/ Use plants as paint on a palette. Buy plants you love and walk around the garden with them in your hand until you find a spot that feel just right for this new friend.
8/ Place crystals you love around the garden or in pot to lift and balance the garden.
Gardens are gifts for us and everyone who sees them. Take time to sit in them and appreciate them, appreciation above all else gives them the highest energy. The energy of the universe runs through our gardens, when it is running easily and freely we feel comforted and relaxed when it is mixed up or stuck we feel uneasy and anxious. Feng Shui-ing your garden can make or break a good home Feng Shui and it only takes a little time here and there to make your garden sing.