How is Your Environment Being Feed?

In last month’s newsletter, I wrote about the seasonal transition. I hope yours has been smooth. I left NYC earlier this month in what felt like a tropical rainforest – humid and damp – and came back from the Bay Area, to wintery temps!

During my trip (I am always in heaven when visiting northern California) I delivered 2 sessions of my webinar ‘Feng Shui for the 21st Century’. This past week, I discussed a variety of architectural details that feng shui is concerned with. So with the inspiration of the holiday season (hey, Halloween is the start of it, right?) and people decorating their front door, I thought it apropos to discuss the ‘Mouth of Chi”.

No matter how many other entrances there may be in a home or business, or how often they are used, it is only the architectural front door that qualifies as the “Mouth of Chi”. Like the mouth of the body, this is the place that feeds the entire environment.

Some important points to remember are:

A front door that is easy to access allows the Chi to enter on the right footing.
A sticky door or one that is hard to open purports struggle and limits opportunities.
The door must open a full 90 degrees (or more) to fully allow all of the available Chi to enter. If the door is stopped by coat hooks, storage, trash cans, a table with mail, shoes, you name it, the Chi entering will be limited (and so will everyone and everything else).
The entryway should be twice the length of the tallest person in the household in order to gather Chi.
It is important to have a path to the front door (even if you always enter through the garage). Ideally this path is not straight as this creates fast moving Chi – appropriate for a retail store or commercial property perhaps, but too high impact for a home.

Clients often ask me if they should paint their front door red. As far as I am concerned,

there is no generic answer that works for everyone and every place. The benefit of the color red in Chinese culture, is that is considered protective and high energy. However there are reasons this does not work for many environments. More importantly, the question is how does the front door support the occupants of the house or building? Does it distinguish the ‘Mouth of Chi’ to bring energy to the environment? Is the home or business balanced in its environment?

All of these points and how to address them can be determined with a feng shui assessment – using a variety of modalities. I am happy to discuss those with you Contact Judith »

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Here’s to welcoming the holiday season into your home or business.

May it be full of healthy, happy and prosperous Chi! Judith

Integrative Interior Design ~ Feng Shui Consulting ~ Space Clearing

Judith Wendell 212-410-1832 917-903-9390

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