subject: What Do You Know About Feng Shui Plants? [print this page] You have probably heard about the power of positive thinking and how it can change your life. However, did you also know that power comes from a life force energy that encircles all living things? The ancient Chinese knew about this life force and found that it could be guided though plants. Thus, the beginning of the beliefs about Feng Shui plants.
The home environment is very important to your state of mind and how you perceive the things that happen to you. One of the objects in a house that can help to change the things that happen to you and how you look at them is plants. Placing plants in certain areas can be bring you both good and bad luck both in your house and in your place of employment.
The number of couple that visit fertility clinics world wide is staggering. If you want children and have yet succeeded in doing so, you might be interested in an ancient belief of the Chinese. The Chinese people in those days and some still today never placed flowers or flowering plants in the bedroom. Instead, a basket of fresh fruits was always present in the bedrooms of those parents trying to conceive children. Fruit is a long time symbol of fertility and bearing.
The whole point of placing plants in certain places in a home is to promote positive energy. One way to help this along is to make sure you keep plants trimmed. Overgrown and disheveled plants bring bad energy. This is also true of the shrubs and trees in an area surrounding your home. Always make sure to stay on top of trimming for this important reason. Never have thorny pants inside your home because of bad luck. Thorny plants, however, do provide a form of of protection when placed outside the home. Make sure to place them a decent distance from the door way for this protection to come about.
If you have some sort of thorny plant in your home, you should be sure to take it outside. Feng Shui beliefs include keeping these types of plants out of the home because they will bring about bad luck. Also, thorny plants are meant to be a form of protection and should be a little distance from the entry way into your home for this reason.
Lots of people arrange fresh flowers in bouquets in their home. These arrangements can be really beautiful. However, according to Feng Shui, the only place these flower arrangements should be placed is in the living room. You should also keep up with the arrangement as well. When the flowers begin to die, they should taken out of your home immediately. Dying flowers mean bad luck and the drawing of negative energy.
In addition to dying flowers comes the belief about dried flowers. Dried flowers are the same as dead flowers. They will bring about terrible luck for those that keep them inside their home. If you like to have eternal arrangements, choose to use only artificial flowers instead.
Many programs and beliefs in the world today focus on the power of positive thinking. What many people do not realize is this is the reinforcement of the positive life force that surrounds all living things. Take the time to learn all you can about how to change the direction of your life force through Feng Shui plants.
