1: Know What You Want

2: Locate Your Power Spots

3: Create a Path for Chi

4: Repaint, Repair, Renew

5: Clean Up Your Clutter

6: Neutralize Negative Influences

7: Activate Your Power Spots

8: Work on Yourself as Well as Your Home

9: Evaluate Your Results

PRINCIPLE 3: Create a Path for Chi

One of the objectives of feng shui is to create a smooth, gentle, nurturing flow of chi (vital energy) through your home.

Think of chi as an important guest you wish to welcome to your home, and make your formal entry -- and the access to it from the street -- as inviting as possible. Overgrown hedges, hidden front doors and dim lighting are all barriers to chi. If your mouth of chi has poor feng shui, the chi of your entire home will suffer.

Inside your home, chi likes to flow in gentle curves, and will exit through side doors and windows. Long straight corridors will funnel chi very quickly toward whatever is at the far end. Active spaces of your home should have a more active flow of chi. Chi should slow down and linger in the places you like to sit down and relax at the end of the day, or where you need to focus and concentrate on the work at hand.

Do a Walk-Through of Your Home

Starting at your mouth of chi, walk slowly and mindfully all through your space. Imagine that you are a gentle stream flowing through your home.
- What gets in your way?
- Where do you flow smoothly?
- Are any areas blocked off from you?
- Are there places where you become turbulent? Why?
- Where are you diverted into side pools and eddies?
- Are there any areas where you flow too swiftly, and what do you crash into at the other end?

Pay special attention to the flow of chi to your power spots. Make sure that chi can get there easily, and that it is neither too turbulent nor too strong when it arrives.

TIP: If your most important power spot is a long way from the front door, hang a bell or wind chime in the doorway and ring it every time you enter the room, so the sound will attract chi to that space

Quick Tips* 16-31 show you how to invite fresh, vital chi into your home and direct it to your power spots. • Sample tip 22

*All Quick Tips are described in detail in Fast Feng Shui: 9 Simple Principles for Transforming Your Life by Energizing Your Home.
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Using windchimes is
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