it’s time to assess the elements in your own home. This will give you the opportunity to get an idea of how well they are represented in it, and eliminate the imbalance, and at the same time practice, because in the future you will have to work a lot with the elements. So, arm yourself with paper and a pen, divide the sheet into five columns, each of them with the name of the element, and “audit” all the premises of the house, including the bathroom and toilet. Start, for example, from the bedroom. Carefully inspect the room and list all the attributes of the elements presented in it in the corresponding columns. Do not hurry! The more detailed your observations are, the more beneficial the result will be! Let’s start with the element of Fire. Reread the above characteristic of this item, and then find in the bedroom all the objects associated with Fire. Are there red, pink, burgundy and orange items in the room? Perhaps some of these colors are present in the pattern of wallpaper, curtains or upholstery. Perhaps there is a houseplant with red flowers on the windowsill? Do you have candles, icons, soft toys and figurines depicting animals in your room? Do not forget about the lamps, perhaps there are several in the room. Write them all down – after all, these are all manifestations of the elements of Fire. Look carefully and enter in the column “Fire” every object you discover that represents this element. No need to shake the contents of all cabinets and nightstands and to list such things as, for example, red underwear or a pink sweater. As well as not to show excessive scrupulousness, listing all sorts of little things like ballpoint pens, hairpins and beads. Write down only more or less large, significant home furnishings that are in sight, otherwise your “inventory” will last until the end of time. Complete the list of attributes of Fire until you are sure that you have exhausted all possible options. Then explore the elements of the Earth. Do you have ceramic vases in your bedroom? Do you keep indoor plants in clay pots? Are there yellow, brown, or beige objects in the room? Perhaps one of these colors dominates the pattern of bedspreads or curtains. What shape is the furniture? If it has square or rectangular outlines, then it also needs to be entered in the “Earth” column. Having written down all the attributes of the Earth found in the bedroom, go to other elements – Water, Wood and Metal. Remember that that most items symbolize more than one element. For example, a wooden chair covered with varnish of a reddish hue embodies both the element of Fire (red color) and the element of Wood (the material from which the chair is made). A DVD-player in a black metal casing contains the energy of three elements: Fire (electrical appliance), Metal (casing material) and Water (black). Write such objects in the columns of all the elements that they represent. Thus, in your room the elements may be more balanced than you might have thought at first glance. And another important point that was already noted in the chapter on the yin / yang balance: large elements of the interior are more significant than small ones. Pink wallpaper or curtains are much “stronger” than a few trinkets related to the elements of Water, and the cabinet can not be compared with a vase. I recommend that you deal with the elements in the same way as with yang and yin – to assign objects to different categories depending on their size with the help of stars or other symbols. This will help you not to get confused. When you finish this work (take your time, divide it into several days), count the number of attributes of different elements, more precisely, stars, and compare.
Purification by the forces of the four elements
This ritual of purification has tremendous magical power. After all, all natural elements are involved in it – Water, Fire, Air and Earth. Each of the elements in itself is capable of exerting a powerful influence, and together they enhance the action of each other, and it is practically impossible to resist them. Negative energy will not stand, even if your home is her favorite place. Carry out this ceremony if you feel severe discomfort, feel bad, you suddenly have a streak of failure, frequent quarrels in the family, or if you just intuitively feel that something is wrong at home. For the ceremony you will need the following items: a plate with salt (salt symbolizes the element of the Earth), a white candle (white – the color of purification, a candle symbolizes Fire), a bowl of clean water (symbolizes the element of Water), censer and incense (incense smoke represents the element of Air) .
Open all the doors and windows (if it is cold outside, then the windows).
Put cooked items on the table.
Light a candle.
Take a deep breath and try to abandon all thoughts and feelings, feel the “mood” of the house, feel its energy. Take your time, give yourself time to tune in.
Raise your outstretched arms over the cooked items and ask them to cleanse your home from evil, disease and misfortune. Do not be shy, try to express your feelings in the most sincere, heartfelt words. I give a possible text below, but you don’t have to adhere to it exactly, improvise, say with all your heart: “I urge you, objects representing the elements, to cleanse my house of disease and evil! It is my will, so be it! ”
Take a plate of salt and, moving sequentially throughout the house, drop a pinch into each corner. Also drop a pinch into cupboards, cabinets and pantries, through open windows and doors. Do not forget a single nook and cranny where negative energy could have accumulated. At the same time, say something like the following: “By the forces of the Earth, I cleanse my house!” (words may be different, you yourself will feel what you need to say). Imagine how the salt you scatter absorbs negative energy.
Put salt, take a censer with smoking incense and carry it the same way. Smoke windows and doors, corners and furniture for a few seconds. In this case, you must imagine how smoke dissipates negative energy, and pronounce the ritual words: “With the forces of Air, I cleanse my house!”
When you go around the whole house, put the censer in its original place, take a lighted candle with both hands and carry it in the same way. Holding a candle in front of windows, doors, in corners, look at the flame and imagine how it burns everything bad. At the same time, you should say: “By the forces of Fire, I cleanse my house!”
Put a candle on the table and take a cup of water. Following the same path, spray water throughout the house. Drop a few drops through the window. Imagine how water washes away disease and evil. Say the following words: “With the forces of Water, I cleanse my house!”
Place the bowl on the table and just wait a few minutes. Take a few deep breaths.
Close the doors and windows. Ritual objects should remain on the table until the candle burns out completely.
How to evaluate the ratio of the elements
In each room, including the bathroom and toilet, all five elements should be present, and approximately in equal proportions. I’ll give my bathroom as an example: the elements of the Earth are represented by ceramic tiles and sanitary ware, the elements of the Tree are represented by the green color of the tiles and the floral ornaments on the curtain, the Metal by the stretched aluminum ceiling, the white by the color of furniture and sanitary ware, Water by the mirror and water as such, Fire – bright spotlights on the ceiling and above the mirror. This is a harmonious alignment, since none of the elements dominates, does not suppress the rest. As a result of the study, you may see a different picture: one, two or three elements prevail, while the rest are practically not represented. The dominant element is the one that leads in the number of stars with a significant margin from the rest, and the missing one is the one that scored a few stars. After reading the characteristics of the elements, you will know exactly which elements work for you and which have an adverse effect. Suppose you find in some room a lack of Metal and an excess of Water. We will analyze this situation. Metal represents power and money. Are you satisfied with your income? Most likely, your answer will be no. Although three elements are responsible for wealth – Water, Wood and Metal, Metal must be present in sufficient quantities. Too much Water produces lethargy, apathy, and melancholy. A person will be more worried and complain about the lack of money than take real steps towards improving his financial situation. A negative attitude, as you know, does not add money, but, on the contrary, “repels” them. Moreover, if you have a surplus of water attributes in your home, it is very difficult for you to save. Even if the money comes in sufficient quantities, you throw it all sorts of rubbish and ultimately “get aground.” “Money flows through your fingers” is a classic situation created by excess Water. This is just an example. The main thing – you know the ratio of the elements in each room of your house. Using the cycles of creation and destruction, you can easily balance the elements. How this is done, you probably already guessed. It is necessary to strengthen the insufficient elements and / or weaken the dominant ones. In the meantime, I want to congratulate those who discovered in their home an approximately equal number of attributes of all five elements! you throw them at all nonsense and ultimately “get aground.” “Money flows through your fingers” is a classic situation created by excess Water. This is just an example. The main thing – you know the ratio of the elements in each room of your house. Using the cycles of creation and destruction, you can easily balance the elements. How this is done, you probably already guessed. It is necessary to strengthen the insufficient elements and / or weaken the dominant ones. In the meantime, I want to congratulate those who discovered in their home an approximately equal number of attributes of all five elements! you throw them at all nonsense and ultimately “get aground.” “Money flows through your fingers” is a classic situation created by excess Water. This is just an example. The main thing is that you know the ratio of the elements in each room of your house. Using the cycles of creation and destruction, you can easily balance the elements. How this is done, you probably already guessed. It is necessary to strengthen the insufficient elements and / or weaken the dominant ones. In the meantime, I want to congratulate those who discovered in their home an approximately equal number of attributes of all five elements! It is necessary to strengthen the insufficient elements and / or weaken the dominant ones. In the meantime, I want to congratulate those who discovered in their home an approximately equal number of attributes of all five elements! It is necessary to strengthen the insufficient elements and / or weaken the dominant ones. In the meantime, I want to congratulate those who discovered in their home about an equal number of attributes of all five elements!
Getting around the house
Take a piece of paper, divide it into two parts – yin and yang and proceed to walk around the house. First, carefully inspect one of the rooms in your house – any – and write down its Yin and Yang attributes on your leaflet. Pay attention to all significant home furnishings and their properties: what shape of the window, what color of the wall, floor, ceiling, curtains, carpet, upholstery of chairs and sofas, what kind of furniture in the room, home appliances, audio and video equipment, plants, paintings, lamps … Do not forget about sounds and smells: perhaps the room is too noisy due to vehicles passing by the house or from the stairs unpleasant smells penetrate into it. Of course, pure yin and yang are rare. As a rule, home decoration combines the properties of both principles. For example, A gray-colored upholstered armchair contains approximately the same amount of yin and yang. Mobility (wheels) is yang, and the softness and gray color of the upholstery is yin. From an energetic point of view, such a chair is harmonious, both beginnings are balanced in it, so in your list you should write it in both columns – ivan yang, and do not write in yin at all, because the “plus” to “minus” give zero. When the list is ready, count the number of Yang and Yin attributes and evaluate the room in terms of its purpose. But there is one subtlety. Suppose you have blue wallpaper (yin) in your room, but there are a couple of figurines depicting animals (yang) on a shelf. In terms of the number of attributes, yang is obtained more, but in terms of quality and significance it is still much less. What to do in this case? Be guided by the principle: the larger the subject, the more energetically significant it is. Now, if you had several shelves filled with animal figurines, they could “compete” with the wallpaper. And two or three figures can not be taken into account at all. It makes sense to include small items in the list only if there are a lot of them, otherwise you will get confused. I recommend that before each item written out, make a note that will reflect its energy significance. Wallpaper, sounds and smells can be identified by four stars, as they cover the entire room; large elements of the interior, such as a sofa, table, wardrobe, curtains, floor, ceiling, – three; smaller items – chairs, armchairs, a coffee table, audio and video equipment, plants, lamps – two, and all that is smaller (for example, vases) – one. To determine the yin / yang ratio, you just need to count the stars and compare their number in both graphs. I repeat that, in general, the furniture and decoration of your home should embody the properties of both energies without any overweight of any of them. A slight shift to one side is allowed, but the presence of the other should be palpable, sufficient (approximately 60% yang and 40% yin). The predominance of one type of energy over another is permissible only if you want to create a space of a certain character in accordance with the purpose of the room, for example, move the scales in favor of yin in the bedroom, which is designed for sleeping and relaxing (the ideal ratio in this case is 70% yin and 30% yang), or organize a yang space that encourages communication and activity (70% yang and 30% yin). that in general, the furniture and decoration of your home should embody the properties of both energies without over-exaggerating any of them. A slight shift to one side is allowed, but the presence of the other should be palpable, sufficient (approximately 60% yang and 40% yin). The predominance of one type of energy over another is permissible only if you want to create a space of a certain character in accordance with the purpose of the room, for example, move the scales in favor of yin in the bedroom, which is designed for sleeping and relaxing (the ideal ratio in this case is 70% yin and 30% yang), or organize a yang space that encourages communication and activity (70% yang and 30% yin). that in general, the furniture and decoration of your home should embody the properties of both energies without over-exaggerating any of them. A slight shift to one side is allowed, but the presence of the other should be palpable, sufficient (approximately 60% yang and 40% yin). The predominance of one type of energy over another is permissible only if you want to create a space of a certain character in accordance with the purpose of the room, for example, move the scales in favor of yin in the bedroom, which is designed for sleeping and relaxing (the ideal ratio in this case is 70% yin and 30% yang), or organize a yang space that encourages communication and activity (70% yang and 30% yin). however, the presence of another should be palpable, sufficient (approximately 60% yang and 40% yin). The predominance of one type of energy over another is permissible only if you want to create a space of a certain character in accordance with the purpose of the room, for example, move the scales in favor of yin in the bedroom, which is designed for sleeping and relaxing (the ideal ratio in this case is 70% yin and 30% yang), or organize a yang space that encourages communication and activity (70% yang and 30% yin). however, the presence of another should be palpable, sufficient (approximately 60% yang and 40% yin). The predominance of one type of energy over another is permissible only if you want to create a space of a certain character in accordance with the purpose of the room, for example, move the scales in favor of yin in the bedroom, which is designed for sleeping and relaxing (the ideal ratio in this case is 70% yin and 30% yang), or organize a yang space that encourages communication and activity (70% yang and 30% yin).
How to weaken the elements present in excess
If you find an excess of some elements in the room , weaken it by supplementing the interior with the warring element according to the cycle of destruction. Another way to weaken the dominant element is to strengthen the energies of two elements that follow the dominant
element in the cycle of creation: if the element of the Tree prevails, add the attributes of Metal (in the west or north-west) and emphasize the role of Fire (in the south) and Water (in the north) ;
if the element of Fire prevails, introduce the element of Water (in the north) and strengthen the Earth (in the southwest, northeast or in the center of the room) and Metal (in the west or northwest);
if the elements of the Earth prevail, introduce the energy of the Tree (in the east or southeast) and emphasize the role of Water (in the north) and Metal (in the west or northwest);
if Metal dominates, bring in the element of Fire (in the south) and emphasize the roles of Tree (in the east or southeast) and Water (in the north);
if Water prevails, strengthen the element of the Earth (in the southwest, northeast or in the center of the room) and emphasize the role of the Tree (in the east or southeast) and Fire (in the south).
The energies in the apartment are balanced, and your life will become more prosperous, more even, the so-called “black bars” will be smoothed out. But it was only preparation. Real magic, real feng shui, and with it amazing success and fulfillment of desires, are waiting for you ahead.
Please keep the notes you made during the assessment of yang / yin and the elements – they will still be useful to you.