Principle 2: Locate Your Power Spots

Power spots are the areas of your home that are most directly related to your key issues. When you know where your power spots are, you know where to focus your feng shui activity. Identifying your personal power spots depends on what your key objectives are at this time (see Principle 1).

For example, let’s say that you and your neighbor live in identical homes but that you want to address relationship issues and she wants to improve her career. Your power spots will be your bedroom and the relationship guas of your house; hers will be her home office and the career guas of her house.

Expect your power spots to change over time. As you address the issues that are most important to you now, you will move on to focus on other areas of your life. Six months or a year from now your power spots should be different from where they are today, because feng shui is all about creating change in your life.

The Feng Shui ba gua is a map of the energetic influences in your home. It is an essential tool for the contemporary Western methods of feng shui, and you will use it to identify your personal power spots.

In addition to the ba gua, certain rooms are associated with certain life issues based on their use and function. Part of the task of locating your power spots is to identify which places in your home are most closely associated with your key issue through function or symbolic association. Typically these are:

Career
- front door
- home office
- any space where you work at home
- any space that you study in if you are taking classes related to your career

Money
- home office, if you have one
- kitchen
- wherever you usually pay bills and manage finances

Relationships
- your bedroom
- living room
- anyplace where you and your partner frequently spend time together

Family
- living room
- den/family room
- dining room

Health
- bedroom
- kitchen
- dining room

Creativity
- home office or studio

Quick Tips 4-15 in Fast Feng Shui: 9 Simple Principles for Improving Your Life by Energizing Your Home show you how to correct “missing areas” in your floor plan, and suggest key areas for feng shui changes to address specific issues.

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