Excerpts from Fast Feng shui: 9 Simple Principles
for Transforming Your Life by Energizing Your Home

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The Five Elements

The five elements describe five essential qualities or "personalities" of chi.... ...You can use them to enhance, control, or balance the chi of a specific space, depending on your needs. ...

•    Wood—the quality of upward growth, easy progress

•    Fire—the quality of excitement, expansion, quickness

•    Earth—the quality of settling down, becoming receptive

•    Metal—the quality of contraction, sharpness, focus

•    Water—the quality of flowing, making connections

Each element can help shift your energy and/or the energy of your space. For example, use wood energy when you need to get a new project started. Fire creates heat, passion and activity, and gets you noticed. Earth is good when you need to slow down and relax. Metal helps you concentrate and get things done. Water is helpful when things have been stuck for a while (think of ice melting), and for improving communication....

Element Cycles: How the energies interact

The five elements interact with each other in very specific ways. This enables you to be more sophisticated and flexible in your use of the elements as you feng shui your home. For example, to increase the fire energy in a space, you can feed it by adding wood. Too much fire going on? Add water to cool it down. Once you understand these different interactions, you'll always know what element to use where and why....

THE CREATIVE CYCLE

THE REDUCING CYCLE

THE CONTROLLING CYCLE

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SEE ALSO:
Free ebook: A Quick Guide to the Five Elements