Feng Shui can help with general health or specific health issues. Here are 10 quick Feng Shui tips to help support the health of you and the people in your home during Covid. Do one, a few or all of them.
Remove Clutter from Kitchen Cupboards and Drawers
Every room in Feng Shui is symbolic of a different part of your life. The Kitchen is symbolic of your health and is one of the three most important areas in your house. (The other being your Bedroom for sleep and passion and your Front Door for your career and the overall energy of the home.) If you don’t want your health to be congested (esp. important to care for your respiratory system during Covid), your Kitchen should not be congested either.
Start with a cupboard, drawer, area of your counter or whatever feels the least overwhelming. Look at everything and ask yourself, “Do I love this dearly or use this yearly?”. If the answer is no to both – throw it away, donate it or give it away. Either way – get it off of your property.
Clean Your Kitchen Stove
While the Kitchen is one of the most important areas of your home in Feng Shui, the Kitchen stove is the most important thing in the Kitchen. The stove is ground zero for your health, and for this reason it should be very, very clean. Good news is many stoves come with a self-clean oven option. Just push the button to have it clean itself and 3 hours later you will have a much cleaner oven. Then, of course, just make sure you keep the top of it clean.
Add Objects Made from Earth (Brick, Pottery, Ceramic, Stone) in the Center of a Room
While the Kitchen is the room symbolic of health, the center (or center-ish we don’t have to be precisely scientific about this) of every room is also symbolic of your health.
In Feng Shui, there are different elements (fire, earth, metal, water, wood) associated with different areas of each room. The element associated with this center health area is earth. For this reason, it is great to support your health by adding objects, symbols, photos or art of earth such as brick, stones, mountains, pottery, ceramic etc.
Add Yellow to the Kitchen and the Center of Rooms
Yellow is the color most often associated with health. For this reason, adding yellow in the kitchen and the center of a room(s) in your home can help enhance and support health. (I put this adorbs tea pot in my Kitchen to add some yellow.)
Add Fire Symbols to the Center of Rooms
While earth is the primary element associated with the center health-area of every room. Fire is the supportive element to earth. (Because fire creates earth.) Fire in Feng Shui is represented by actual fire (fireplaces, candles), symbols, photos or art of fires, things that are triangular-shaped and fire colors (red, orange, yellow). Add some of these things in the center (or center-ish) of a room or rooms. Start with the room you use the most and move on from there.
Take a Look at the “Lungs” Area of Your House
While there is an area of every room in your house that is related to your health (as well as money, reputation, love and marriage, family, children, creativity, skills & knowledge, career, helpful people and travel). There are also different areas of each room related to different parts of your body. The part of your room that is related to your lungs (very important to look at during Covid) is in the lower right of any room. It is in the Helpful People and Travel area of the bagua.
To locate this area, go stand in the doorway of any room. Face into the room. Point your right arm to the closest right corner of the room. This part of your room is related to your lungs. Make sure it is 100% free of clutter, dirt, dust and messes.
Make Sure Your Drains are Not Clogged
Similar to having your Kitchen drawers, cupboards and counter tops free of clutter to make sure energy can move freely, it is important that your drains allow for waste water to be easily removed from your property. Many times in Feng Shui, when you see clogged drains you also see people who are congested or feel stuck in life, with their finances, in love, etc. I particularly like this environmentally friendly way to clean drains. (I do find you have to do it a number of times and add more baking soda and vinegar than necessarily recommended.)
Open Windows, Curtains and Doors Frequently (If Not Daily)
You can’t let new, fresh and revitalizing energy in until you let the old, stale and stifled energy out. Open those doors, windows and curtains as much as possible. At a bare minimum open the curtains or blinds in the rooms you use the most for a few hours a day.
Put the Flower of Life Under Your Bed
Print out the flower of life and put it under your bed. If you are working on a particular area such as your belly has been buggin’ or you hurt your foot – put it under where that specific body part would be as you lay under the bed.
Remove “Unhealthy” Imagery, Add Imagery of Nature
Take a look around at the imagery in your home. Is it of healthy, alive and vibrant scenes? (If so, great!) Or is it of less healthy imagery such as decaying buildings, alcohol advertisements, cynical or negative ideas, skulls, violence and/or stagnation? (If so, let’s take that down for a bit and see how your health and overall energy in the home feels.) Even adding pretty nature images from magazines, calendars or books can be a tremendous improvement.
