Most people
who are just starting to practice Feng Shui know that their bedroom and
their
living room are very important and they focus on balancing those two
rooms. Most Real Estate Agents can tell
you why—people spend more time in the bedroom and the living room than all the
other rooms in the house. So it’s natural that the practice of Feng Shui makes
it clear that those rooms play a vital part in determining how well peace,
prosperity and harmony flows into our lives.
But although
those rooms are important, there is another part of the house that is just as
important, but almost always overlooked:
the entry way. Ch’i enters the house through doors and windows and the
major part of Ch’i enters through the front door (or the main entrance). The entryway, how it’s constructed and how
it’s arranged and/or decorated determine the quality of Feng Shui that is
experienced by the entire household.
The entrance
to your house plays a huge role in creating an environment of peace, prosperity
and harmony. It’s the first thing you experience when you enter the house and
the last thing you touch when you leave the house. Many of the oldest religions
recognize this. Judaism uses a Mezuzah on the doorframe to demonstrate that
their home is a sanctuary in miniature of holiness. Catholics use Holy Water at
the entrance of their churches so people can anoint themselves before they
enter the sanctuary. While the exact
reasons may vary, it’s clear that the entryway is thought of as a portal of
peace and harmony by many different cultures and religions. Most probably, Feng
Shui, was taking advantage of this idea thousands of years before Judaism and
Christianity.
The idea of
Feng Shui is to create the flow of positive energy (Ch’i). Unless you pay
attention to where that flow begins, it will be impossible to control that flow.
Even worse, since the entry way is the largest portal for Ch’i, it literally
determines how much positive energy comes into your home.
Given the importance
of this topic, the next few articles I write will explain how to create an
entry way that is conducive to bringing peace, harmony and prosperity into your
home.
The first
consideration you’ll want to make is where
the entrance is. Most homes have two main doors: one that was built by the
architect (the front door) and the side entrance, which is usually an entrance
from the side of the house or the garage.
Most often, the occupants prefer one of the other for reasons of
convenience. So the first rule is to pick one.
Decide on which entryway to use and make sure all occupants use that one
exclusively. Of course, using the other
door occasionally is fine if you’re emptying the trash or if the door leads to
the garden. Once you’ve determined where the portal is, then it’s time to
consider how to use it in order to maximize its potential to attract and
channel the positive energy that is
vital to helping you create a life and an environment that’s charged with peace
and prosperity.
In the next
article we’ll talk about the primary element of the entrance: the door and how
to make sure it’s harmonious with everything good that you want in your life.
