Using Feng Shui Outdoors to Change your Garden and your Life

What is the first thing people see when they come to your home? It is the outside of it, your garden, your outdoors. This area can be designed using the principles of Feng Shui, it can help to improve all aspects of your life.

Your garden in Feng Shui represents your future, it pays to take special care of it. Review your chi path to make sure that you are promoting good chi, understand the path and how chi flows through it. This is what we will look at.

Assess your garden for the flows of good and bad chi. These flows could come from things such as electrical lines, large buildings, cemetries, hospitals and even dead ends (the name says it all). You can counteract some of these by using wind chimes, upward facing lights, gazing balls or even statues.

Clear clutter for free chi movement, remove dead plants and replace with thriving plants. Encourage the chi to gracefully move around your garden, do this by using curved pathways and including square or rectangular garden beds.

Sketch your garden out. Sketch the current garden and then on another piece of paper sketch one that you want, compare the two to see how to change the current one. Use the Bagua (Chinese grid) to segment your garden, each segment symbolizes a different area of your life. Enhance the segments that you need help in.

Natural elements play an important role, make sure that these are all incorporated in your garden. These elements include: earth, metal, fire, water and wood. Experiment with different ways of adding these elemetns to your garden, maybe patio stones (earth) for a pathway, a fountain for water or if you are having trouble with fire try something red or even use lights or candles.

Once Feng Shui is used through out your garden and the elements are in place, you will find that your garden will have an abudance of chi flowing through it and it will be a great area to relax in.