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******************************************************************************************************************************************************* The Kitchen The kitchen is the part of the home that nourishes and sustains life. It is the most important part of your house. It is also a symbol of wealth and abundance, thus: It is best not to have your kitchen close to the front or back door, where the energy can easily escape. The food you eat gives you energy. For this energy to be of high and healing quality, the food needs to be prepared in a harmonious, well-organized kitchen with a balanced flow of chi, or energy. As we constantly exchange energy with our surroundings, a harmonious kitchen leads to a harmonious chef, which, in turn, means harmonious meals for a happier family! Good nutrition is good feng shui, so add healthy, organic foods to your diet, especially fresh fruits and vegetables. Fengshui Tips for the Heart of Your Home The kitchen is sometimes called "the heart of the home," and with good reason; in ancient cultures the hearth was a sacred place representing the life-giving sustenance of Earth's bounty. Fengshui recognizes the kitchen as one of the most important rooms in the house because it is where we connect with the energies that nourish us physically (food), financially (money), and emotionally (family). It reminds us to see the kitchen not just as where we put the groceries away and dish up dinner, but also as a place where we receive blessings and express gratitude f or the gifts of life, health, and prosperity.The kitchen should be bright and sunny in feeling, evoking the warmth of the sun and hearth. Reds and earth tones are good here, while green accents add wood energy to feed the stove's fire, and touches of purple help to support prosperity. Dark, cramped kitchens can be transformed with warm white or pale yellow paint, brighter light fixtures, and cheerful accessories that bring reds and yellows into the room. A kitchen with lots of black and chrome appliances and fixtures will benefit from touches of green, purple, and red to support health and prosperity.When you come home from the store and put your groceries away, think about the health and vitality these foods will bring to you and your family. As you reach for a snack or prepare a meal, take a moment to focus on how fortunate you are to have this nourishment at your fingertips. Visualize your kitchen always filled with nature's bounty, and say a quiet "thank you" for the food that sustains you and your family. This moment of awareness and gratitude will help to keep the chi of your kitchen supportive and strong.One easy way to improve the chi of the kitchen is to make sure that everything involved in food preparation and serving is attractive and pleasant to work with. If you are cooking with pots that you don't like, eating from dishes that you do not love, or using paper towels for napkins because the good ones are put away in the back of a closet, each seemingly minor incident is detracting from your ability to enjoy and benefit from your meals.Get rid of the stuff you never use, start using the things you love, and fill your kitchen with accessories that you really enjoy. This is fengshui in action, and it's a wonderful way to transform the energy of your kitchen so you can receive the support and comfort that the heart of your home should provide. Fengshui reminds us that in order to prosper, we need to be healthy. The fengshui of your kitchen - especially the stove - can have a big influence on your financial situation, even if you rarely or never cook. In fengshui, the stove is your "wealth generator." It is the most important symbolic factor in your ability to prosper financially, so make sure it works the way it should. Any problems with the stove can indicate problems with money or limitations to your ability to bring home a good income. A burner that doesn't heat could be a sign of fruitless effort, and an oven that runs too hot could be burning up your money. Dirt and grime are also signs of negative energy, so be sure to keep your stovetop and oven clean.One easy way to activate money chi is to use your stovetop at least once a day, rather than always relying on the microwave to boil water for tea or heat up a cup of soup. Vary which burner you use, so that all are used regularly. If you don’t use your stove, or use the same one burner all the time, symbolically you are limiting your ability to benefit from financial resources.When the stovetop is not in use, put all pots and pans away. Unused pots stored on top of the stove can squash prosperity chi, especially when they cover the rear left burner; if you visualize the ba gua over the stovetop, with career in the center front, the rear left burner is in the Wealth position.To support prosperity, place something that symbolizes wealth or abundance in the Wealth area of your kitchen [the back left corner of the room if you are standing in the doorway], such as a basket or bowl of fresh fruit. Purple and green grapes are especially good abundance symbols for the wealth area.Another good fengshui tactic is to keep kitchen canisters and other containers more than half-full as much as possible. Every time you see these containers, your subconscious mind will register plenty rather than the implied lack created by an almost empty jar. Get in the habit of restocking your food supplies before you run low, and you will fill your kitchen with the energy of abundance. How the Location of Your Kitchen Affects Your Health The kitchen is a source of nourishment for you and your family. Because of the close connection between health and finances - financial stress may contribute to or aggravate health problems, and poor health can seriously harm your financial wellbeing - the kitchen is associated in fengshui with both money and health issues. There are three specific ways in which the location of your kitchen within the overall layout of your home may affect your physical wellbeing, and what steps you can take to protect the health of yourself and your family.
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in the Center of the Home not hold together. The tai chi location in fengshui is strongly associated with health; whatever is going on in the center of the home is said to affect all of the other areas as well. The kitchen is a very yang space, with lots of fire energy from the stove and electrical appliances. It's often the center of family activity as well. When all of this energy is concentrated in the center of the home, the affect can be over-stimulating. In terms of physical health, this is most likely to affect the stomach and digestive system and/or the heart (especially high blood pressure). To calm the energy of a central kitchen, emphasize the earth element. Yellow is an especially good color to use here, as are beige and other earthy shades. Stone and ceramic materials and accessories will be helpful as well. If possible, place a large mirror on a kitchen wall where it will reflect the stove away from the center.
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at the Front Door thing that you see. You may find that you gain weight too easily and that losing any excess pounds is harder for you than it should be. If the only thing harmed by this is your vanity, it may not be a serious, but if you or any family members are struggling with weight-related health issues it's a good idea to use a different entry if you can. Although the front door always has prominence in feng shui, you may be affected in a similar way if you frequently go in and out of your house through a back or garage door that opens directly into the kitchen. If that's the case, take the extra steps to walk around to the front door, and go into and out of the house that way. You may find it a little easier to resist those extra snacks that put on the pounds, and who knows… all those extra steps may not burn many calories a day, but by the end of a year the incremental increase in effort could help you slim down as well.
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next to the Kitchen and a bathroom share a wall. Although this is not an ideal arrangement in fengshui terms, it's also not always a major problem. The kitchen sink and the bathroom sink back-to-back on either side of the wall, for example, is okay. However, if the bathroom toilet, tub, sink, or shower is directly on the other side of a shared wall from your stove, this is considered a threat to the health of the family. Not only is this thought to lead to disagreements and conflict among family members, but digestive and urinary health may be affected as well. If this layout exists in your home, it's a good idea to paint both sides of the shared wall green, and to place a mirror on at least one side of the wall; a mirror on each side is even better. The best solution, of course, would be a complete kitchen remodel to move the stove to another part of the room, but most of us will need to make do with a less extensive overhaul.No matter where the kitchen is in your home, do be sure to keep it clean and organized. The beneficial chi of even the most auspiciously placed kitchen will be undermined by untidy clutter, a smelly garbage can, or a sink full of dirty dishes.
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