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You might think Feng Shui applies only to humans, and that it won't do anything much for your animal companion. Not so! Dogs and cats are just as sensitive to energies and environments, if not moreso, than we are. This means the Feng Shui principles you apply in your own space can have a profoundly beneficial effect on them. Background basics Feng Shui is a science that's at least 5,000 years old. It began in China and was used to pick out gravesites. The better the site, it was believed, the more auspicious your descendant's fortunes would be. Literally translated, Feng Shui means "wind and water". It's the balancing of these two elements that helps create good "chi" or energy in your space. There are three schools of Feng Shui. 1.The Form School is the oldest. It uses geographical formations in the placement of a building. 2.The Compass School uses a lo-pan (compass) to help calculate auspicious directions. 3.The Black Hat Sect or Bagua School is the "Western" version used primarily in North America. This school uses a Bagua board (translated into an eight-sided figure) that is divided into nine Life Areas. After you align the board with a home or room's entryway (more on that below), you can determine which Life Area you want/need to "activate", using colors, elements, shapes or personal objects. This is the school I will be referring to in this article. The Bagua board Here is the basic "set-up" of the Bagua Board. Draw a Tic-Tac-Toe 9 square diagram. On the TOP TIER place the following Life Areas and their corresponding colors, element, shape & accessory example: Wealth/Abundance Purple Water Free-flowing lines/shapes $$ metal charm/leash or collar with crystals Success/Fame Red Fire Triangle
Red Treat Jar Relationships Red/Pink/Orange Earth Square Pet bed/photo of you & pet The following 3 are to be placed in the MIDDLE TIER: Family Green Wood Rectangle Photos of your animal Health/Well-Being Yellow/Earth-tones Earth Square NOTHING Creativity/Kids White Metal Circle Animal toys/bed for puppies The following 3 Life Areas are to be placed on the BOTTOM TIER: Knowledge Blue Earth Square Show ribbons/trophies Career/Life Journey Black Water Free-flowing lines Metal water dish Helpful People Travel Gray Metal Circle Litter box/animal figurines The bottom three areas (Knowledge, Career, Helpful People) are aligned with the entryway wall of a home or room. In other words, you can only enter a room via one of these three areas. The
Wealth area will always be in the far left corner of the space, and Relationships in the far right. Feng Shui is about moving energy effectively throughout a space. Make a drawing of your home's floor plan, including the furniture. Then take a pencil and, without taking it off the paper, start at the front door and go in and out of each room, moving around furniture to determine traffic flow. This is how energy moves through your space. If you find a room has too much furniture, or the furniture is blocking a door, move it! Applications for animals: How can Feng Shui help your animal companion? As mentioned earlier, dogs and cats are very sensitive to their environments and to energy. They can subconsciously detect imbalances in your space. Too much clutter, too many chemicals, or blocked doorways can all cause energy to become stuck and/or toxic. Watch where your dog or cat hangs out, and which areas he avoids. This could give you a big clue as to what areas in your home are "blocked", and can also validate Life Areas of concern for you. Stuck or toxic energy can also manifest as anxiety, depression or other ailments in both people and animals. In dogs and cats, signs can include excessive barking for no reason, unaccountable fear, unwillingness to go for a walk (when he usually can't wait), inside marking or an unwillingness to use the litter box. (Of course, when these behaviors appear, it's important to first rule out medical problems with a trip to the vet.) Try these animal Feng Shui cures: ·Clean and/or de-clutter your animal's space and/or any area he shies away from. ·To help with bonding, add pink to his collar/leash. You can also add pink to his bed to bedding with blankets or monogramming to promote a positive relationship. ·For food or water dishes, use metal or anything made from the earth element (e.g. ceramic, stone). It's elemental For a balanced space, you ideally want a mixture of all five elements of Fire, Wood, Water, Metal and Earth. For Feng Shui purposes, you feature or use more of the element relating to the Life Area you are working on. For example, if you have a dog in training school, add the Earth element to the Knowledge area to help enhance his learning ability. The Earth element could be represented by an attractive stone or crystal, a house plant in a terra cotta pot, a clay sculpture, etc. There are three cycles of elements in Feng Shui: Productive (increase/pump up), Mitigating (the "go between" for conflicting elements), and Destructive (what you use to stop/decrease an overabundance of an element). You can use the actual element, or a representative shape or color - see the Bagua board for guidance. Productive Cycle: Use: Earth to increase Metal Metal to increase Water Water to increase Wood
Wood to increase Fire Fire to increase Earth Mitigating Cycle: Use: Earth between Fire and Metal Metal between Earth and Water Water between Metal and Wood Wood between Water and Fire Fire between Wood and Earth Destructive Cycle: Use: Earth to decrease Water Metal to decrease Wood Water to decrease Fire Wood to decrease Earth Fire to decrease Metal Only use this principle if you are confident in your knowledge of Feng Shui; otherwise, get a consultation from a Feng Shui practitioner. Feng Shui is an effective tool for creating a healthy, balanced space for you and your dog or cat. Using the five elements, colors, space planning and personal items, you can implement "cures" to help activate Life Areas and improve the health and happiness of everyone in your home, human and animal. Where's his bed? One of the big causes of animal stress is where his bed (or yours, if he sleeps on it) is placed. Keep all beds, human and animal, out of the "death" position (the space in direct line with the entryway). It's called the death position because a body is brought out of a room "feet first"; therefore, when you sleep with your body in direct line with the door, you are "imitating" a corpse. (Yes, I know -- some of you may be moving your beds tonight!). Whenever any piece of furniture is in line with a door, the person or animal sitting or sleeping there is in direct line with the "rush" of energy that enters the room. This can bother sensitive people and especially animals. If you have a dog in training school, add the Earth element to the Knowledge area to help enhance his learning ability.
DeAnna Radaj, owner of Bante Design LLC, has been dubbed "the House Whisperer" as she can enter a space and help to tweak (or remodel, re-design) the space to work better to suit its function AND the lifestyle of the occupants of the space. Bante Design is an Integrative Lifestyle Design company, specializing in healthy home design. Using ILD, life quality can be increased AND be supportive to any transitions occurring, lifestyle changes or health challenges. She is a nationally recognized speaker on healthy home design, color therapy/theory, psychology of clutter for adults and children, and a variety of business topics for the individual, small business owner and entrepreneur. Visit the Bante Design Web site for a list of all workshops and appearances at http://www.bantedesign.com.
Designing spaces that are not only beautiful and comfortable, but also bring out the client's personality, is her design philosophy.
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