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Your home should be a place that brings you positive energy, and recharges you for the stresses of the outside world. There are many ways to achieve this; filling your home with items you love, pictures of loved ones and warmth and love. Another way that people all over the world have been using for thousands of years is Feng shui. Feng shui is an ancient philosophical system with traces it’s roots back over 3,500 years to China where it was primarily used to designate the location and placement of religious buildings. In the most simplest terms, Feng shui is the belief that the human experience is linked and connected to your immediate surroundings. So, the items, colors and style you fill your home with affect the energy of your house, that is then translated to other areas of your life.
It can be a little intimidating and overwhelming when you start studying Feng shui. Luckily, the infographic below, brought to us by Soothing Walls, offers a detailed and easy to follow template that you can easily apply to your own home. The style of Feng shui that is featured is a Western style that doesn’t involve the use of compass directions. Instead, it offers a 9-square blueprint that you can use by aligning the bottom of the grid with the front of your house. Check it out below and see if Feng shui is for you.
Uma Campbell is a freelance writer from Southern California. She loves finding new, and natural ways to achieve peace and happiness. When she’s not writing, she loves to practice yoga.