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

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Feng Shui and Your Love Life

FENG SHUI (say "fung shway") is an ancient Chinese practice that aims to maximize the beneficial movement of chi—the life force present in all things—through your home. Feng shui means "wind and water." Just as fresh air, clean water, and organic foods nourish our physical bodies, so does fresh, clean chi nourish our lives.

Chi wants to meander through your home like a gentle breeze or a winding stream. Where the flow of chi in your home is blocked or weak, it becomes like a pond choked with algae and fallen leaves. You may feel tired, depressed, unable to focus, hampered in your efforts to move forward in your life and connect with a potential partner.

Where chi flows too strongly, it is like a hurricane or flood. You may feel out of control, overly emotional, or anxious much of the time. Communication becomes more difficult, and relationships can feel unstable as you struggle to "keep your head above water" through what may seem like an endless string of bad luck.

Feng shui uses shape, color, texture, sound, light, symbolic imagery and the arrangement of your furniture to adjust the energy of your home. Positive influences are encouraged and enhanced, while negative factors are corrected. The goal is to create an attractive, safe, and nurturing space where you can live in comfort and more effectively and successfully pursue your goals for a fulfilling love life.

A key principle of contemporary Western feng shui* is that certain areas of your home have a strong impact on specific aspects of your life. When the areas of your home affecting your love life are cluttered, stagnant, or missing from your floor plan, it can be difficult to attract and maintain a good relationship. Other feng shui problems that may affect relationships include sha (negative) chi such as an exposed beam directly over your bed. Poor feng shui in your home can also lead to increased arguments and miscommunication, affect your reputation, impair your ability to meet new people, and hinder your personal growth-all of which can contribute to difficulties in your love life.

A key principle of feng shui is that everything is connected energetically. Your thoughts and feelings, even your behavior, can be influenced by your surroundings, while the state of your home is a reflection of your mood and attitude.

A dark, dingy, and untidy bedroom, for example, contributes to an atmosphere of fatigue and depression, which in turn makes it harder for you to find the energy to clean the place up and air it out. In feng shui terms, it is also undermining your ability to attract and maintain a joyful and supportive romantic attachment.

Feng shui gives you insight and incentive to become a mindful caretaker of your home. As a result, you live in greater harmony with your surroundings, which can better support you in achieving what you desire-in your love relationships and in all other aspects of your life.

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