What feng shui begins with.

    The real feng shui begins long before you take a compass in your hands to locate cardinal directions in your flat. What is the use of various talismans even though they are positioned in correct places in case your external feng shui brings disharmony into all your careful plans to change something? Negative energies surrounding your house may ruin your health, prosperity and good luck.
 
    Feng shui uses two main concepts – Qi (energy of life) and Sha Qi (killing breath i.e. negative energy). All that is connected with Qi brings you wellbeing, good fortune and sound health. And everything generated by Sha Qi takes money, success and happiness away.
     In other words, the state of the space around your house is much more important than the interior. Therefore, the breaking of new ground in practical use of feng shui lies in close study of the territory. Do not worry if you live in the «incorrect» house now since there are certain protection techniques, which will help you to avoid the negative energy’s fatal influence.

     Inspect closely the territory around your house. There shall be no barren plots of land and empty plains behind the building. If there is a hill behind, you are dashed lucky. Trees may act as a hill though. The same will protect you family and ensure your wellbeing.
     Mountains are as negative as wastelands. See to it that sharp angles of surrounding buildings, mountains and rocks are not pointed at your house since your prosperity and health will be under direct threat.

    Flight lanes arrangement above you house is not advisable. Your district shall not look downcast, neglected, smelly and time-worn. The energy is very spoiled in such places and it takes away the good luck of everybody living there.
    Positive Qi is clean pavements and roads, opulent vegetation and flowerbeds in plenty, attractive scents, beautiful and well-attended buildings. Inhabitants of such districts prosper throughout a few generations and business set up in such areas expands and grows up. However, even if all conditions are observed but the house is located in a windy place, Qi will be blown over.
 
    It is really favorable if the house’s entrance door is exposed to the South. The same with bring ample opportunities into your life. However, in case the entrance door is practically set against the massive building’s wall (which often happens in old urban districts), good fortune is out of question. As a matter of fact, other buildings positioned closely to your house ruin positive feng shui. And see to it that there shall be no buildings hanging over your house as the same is also unfavorable.
 
    Killing breath of Sha Qi is rivers and straight roads, which seem to be directed right at the entrance door, subway and underground walkway exits to the ground surface, flyovers, sharp angles of buildings around pointed also at your house, a single tree standing right in front of your door, a telephone post or voltage transmission tower. Run from such house as fast as your legs can carry you since things of this nature bring ill luck, illnesses and even death. It is very favorable to live near the roads with slow traffic as in this case Qi is more balanced and brings good fortune to everybody living in neighboring houses.

    If you live near the river (it is exactly the flowing river that we mean) it is advisable that the same will be visible from the house’s central entrance. In case the river flows behind the house, unfortunately it means that valuable opportunities will pass you over. Also, you’ll be able to miss out on profitable deals, which could bring the affluence and wellbeing into your life. Seeing that water symbolize money in feng shui, such water basins as lakes, ponds, wells and fountains located close to the house are highly advantageous for your well-doing.
 
    It is advisable to arrange at least a small free space in front of the house to let positive Qi energy get accumulated.
    If you live in your own private residence, try to avoid styling your residence’s exterior in blue, which is a symbol of water and may lead to considerable financial losses incurred by you ever and again. .
 
    It is very bad to live on the very top floors of skyscrapers as it is an area of intersection of winds that erode protection and support you have.

    Well, what can be changed if you live in the place unfavorable from the standpoint of feng shui? If it is within your power, plant trees, bushes and flowers around. Try to dispose of trash bins located near your house. In case roads and buildings’ sharp angles are directed at the house or there are single trees or posts in front of the entrance and the river flowing behind the house, trees (even a couple of them) may do you good being a protective wall. It is possible to lessen negative influence of Sha Qi by hanging a mirror on the house’s wall (even a small one and hardly noticeable and positioned say near your window or in the balcony) – right across the road or the building’s sharp angle pointed at your house as well as a single post or voltage transmission tower. In this case Sha Qi will get reflected and won’t bring destructive changes in your life.

    Only having made yourself secure from outside, you may start working on the flat’s interior space. And in this case all your efforts will be much more effective. Don’t ignore these pieces of advice as they are a basis to create a real highly auspicious habitation place leading you to good fortune and affluence.