The key to finding the right feng shui colors for your home is to first learn two very important principles of feng shui. There are five elements in feng shui that influences us and our surroundings. These five elements are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. We need to create balance between these elements in order to achieve harmony in those surroundings. The Bagua is a tool that helps locate different areas of a room or the entire home that corresponds to different areas of your life. Simply use this tool to determine the areas of your room or home that needs changing and make the necessary changes to improve your life. Finding the right colors is easy as long as you are able to use these two principles together.
According to Chinese astrology, each person is born under a year which is associated with one of the five elements. Each element is then represented by one or more colors. The five elements interact with each other in both a productive cycle and a destructive cycle. The productive cycle shows how each element creates or produces another while the destructive cycle shows how each element destroys or is destroyed by another. Once you know the colors representing each element, you will be able to figure out the colors you should surround yourself with and the colors you should stay away from. Incorporate more colors representing your own element as well as the colors of the element that produces your element. Stay away from the colors representing the element that destroys your own element.
Wood: Green, Brown
Fire: Red, Bright Strong Yellows, Orange, Pink, Purple
Earth: Light Yellow, Light Brown, Light Sandy Tan
Metal: White, Gray, Silver
Water: Blue, Black
Feng shui colors are also used to represent the eight sections of the Bagua. This tool can be used by holding it with the black section facing you and the red section pointing to the direction straight in front of you while standing at the entrance of either an individual room or the doorway of your home. You will be able to precisely map out the eight sections of that space and its corresponding areas of your life. Look for the areas of your life that needs improving. Incorporate more of the color used to represent that area in that particular section of the room or home. The diagram below shows us that the five elements are also used in the Bagua. This is important, because it will determine what kind of objects are appropriate for each given section of the room. Different areas of your life can be improved considerably by placing the right objects in the right places.
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