Using wind chimes to
enhance the feng shui of
your home is one of the most powerful items you can use. Depending on what your
requirements are for your feng shui enhancement,
they may be used to attract personal wealth, friends, improve your vitality,
and to genuinely enhance the atmosphere of your home.
Feng shui is an ancient Chinese
practice of harmoniously placing your furniture and objects within that space
to flow with the Earths own energy spheres.
Choose
your wind chime according to the space you are trying to enhance, for example
you would not place a meter long wind chime in a home hallway. You need to
choose the type of chimes you buy, whether they be metal or made from bamboo
according to how pleasing the sound is to your ears. Make sure its rods are
hollow, promoting the flow of energy through them.
Read below for tips on what types of chimes to place in which area
What Not To Do:
- Place your wind chime is such an area that it is going to interfere where you walk.
- Don't place a wind chime over the area where you eat, work or you sleep.
- Particular areas of your home determine the wealth, health, relationship, fame, family, children. knowledge, career, and helpful friend directions of your home. This is called the Feng Shui Bagua.
Depending which hemisphere you live in it is determined as follows:
- Northern Hemisphere: Centre/Health, NW/Wealth, N/Fame, NE/Relationships, E/Children, SE/Helpful friends, S/Career, SW/Knowledge, W/Family.
- Southern Hemisphere: Centre/Health, NW/Helpful Friends, N/Career, NE/Knowledge, E/Family, SE/Wealth, S/Fame, SW/Relationship, W/Children.
According to which areas of
your life you would like to enhance, place your wind chime in the area of your
home that corresponds with the Bagua.
Area of Home and Type of Wind chime:
- Wealth Area - use bamboo or wooden chimes, or choose wind chimes that have coins or water themes.
- Career - Use metal wind chimes
- Family - Use bamboo or wooden chimes
- Children - Metal wind chimes
- Fame - Use bamboo or wooden wind chimes
- Health - Use bamboo or wooden wind chimes
Must Do's:
- Always hang a wind chime where two doors face one another in your home. This will slow down the energy running between both doors.
- Try to use crystal enhancements in bathrooms and toilet areas, if you must hand a win chime in a bathroom or toilet area, make it a wooden one.
- Make sure your wind chime has hollow rods to promote the flow of energy.