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Please take the time to read all the way through this article, and so discover how you too can enjoy peace and harmony in your home.

Harmonious interrelationships geared towards the comfort of people will always be a paramount consideration in any Feng shui design, everything else coming secondary. To get a grasp of this principle here are tips for the home.

The bagua map must guide the distribution of objects and furniture around the house. This is done to determine the areas where they belong. These should also be done in harmonic quantities because in Feng shui objects represents a symbol of an element. Over distribution of one item could upset a balance that we are trying to achieve.

Couches, beds, chairs should be placed in such a way that those who are sitting or lying on them should have an unobstructed view of the door. The beds head board and the chairs especially those which the head of the family usually use must always be placed against a solid wall.

Shapes evoke different feelings in us. The choice of accessories should elicit pleasant and cheery feelings.

Colors have to be chosen with care. Even in conventional interior decorating, colors represent a particular mood. This is also very true with Feng shui. The difference may lie mainly not on what is the current trend and looks pretty and modern. Rather, the choice of color has to be done to achieve a balance with the temperament of the occupants.

The unobstructed flow of chi is very important. There should be no obstructions on pathways, doors and entry points like gates. Avoid structures in front of entranceways, rocks, gardens and shrubbery that will distract your line of vision. In fact avoid living in a house with a tall building in front of it or trees where the branches points towards your direction.

There should also be no exposed beams and dark corners and areas in the house, as these will disturb the flow of the chi.

Mirrors are to be placed in areas where you would want particular views in the house to be reflected. Mirrors though should not be placed directly at the foot of the bed.

Avoid clutter. Clutter disturbs the flow of energy inside the house. Clean screens and everything else where the house gets its ventilation. Avoid also leaving sleepers and shoes on the doorsteps.

The house should be very well ventilated and the air coming into it must always be fresh and clean. For this reason, open the doors especially the bedroom doors for as long as possible. You would not want stale air from circulating inside it. The dust that you are avoiding will never be enough justification for the rewards of good ventilation.

Fu dogs are symbols of safeguarding the home. Place Fu dogs at both sides of your front door.

Watch out for poison arrows. These could be represented by sharp or pointed objects that are directed either towards the house (if the objects are coming from the outside) or of protrusions, sharp turns and corners in the house.

Whenever possible, do not allow a path in your house or in the garden that is straight. This in Feng shui is the path of the demon.

To achieve a harmonious kitchen, do not place the stove, refrigerator, and kitchen sink too close to each other.

Green also represents harmony. Placing a green carpet or rug will enhance harmonious relationships. In fact bring plants inside the house and give them good care. It will prevent unnecessary clashes and conflicts.

You may be surprised to learn that there is a lot more information out there on this subject in such places as your local bookstore and local library. There are also a number of very helpful Blogs on this subject as well.

Do you know how easy it is to create a society and an environment that is fear-based? And do you know how easily people buy into this fear?

In the UK, health and safety regulations are a favourite tool for raising fear. The intention behind these regulations is supposedly to create a safer and healthier environment for people to work and live in.

This kind of legislation works very well in areas where employers still exploit employees and it has been used to create smoke-free buildings. We are still not protected from the odour of heavy smokers that commute, but at least their habits have been regulated and we can have “clean” meals and workplaces.

But there have been instances where these regulations were used to create situations that are beyond belief. And the scary part is that those people on the receiving end expressed their dissatisfaction about the applications of the regulations, but they did nothing to take the perpetrators of the decisions to task.

The underlying belief is that when anyone in a position of perceived authority tells you to do or not do something, you are powerless and you have to do it, whether it is complete nonsense or not. That amounts to giving away your personal power to another person and buying into the illusion of fear that is created.

For example, there was the pensioner who travelled to town by bus to buy a tin of paint so that he could decorate a wall at his house. When he returned, the bus driver would not let him onto the bus. Why? Because this brand new, tightly sealed tin of paint just might, as if by magic, fly open the moment the pensioner sets foot on the bus, and the paint may be splattered all over the slow-moving bus, and that might pose a threat to other passengers in terms of health and safety regulations. This was reported in a newspaper, but was the bus driver told that he misjudged the situation completely and made a travesty of the regulations? Did the pensioner get an apology?

I once attended a birthday party where the boisterous six-year-old birthday boy jumped onto a table and down to the floor again, and his mother warned him not to do it, “because of health and safety” – she actually said that.

There is an English hospital where a box with wool and knitting needles was made available to both patients and visitors to while the time away. They would knit small squares and hand them to the nurses. The squares were sewn together by charity workers, and turned into blankets that were distributed by local charities.

Wonderful idea. Until the health and safety person came to hear about it and banned the knitting needles on the basis that the needles are too sharp to use safely. I have been using knitting needles since I can remember, and so have my ancestors. I have not been able to find a single instance of where a knitter was injured by a sharp knitting needle, or, heaven help us, death by knitting.

Has this official even seen a knitting needle before banning them? And what did the hospital staff, visitors and patients do? They expressed their dismay with the situation and accepted it – because of the belief that you do not challenge authority, even when the figure of authority has clearly lost their marbles. The same people that criticised and then accepted this decision are probably surprised that good people in Zimbabwe have been accepting a malicious dictatorship for a whole generation. Guess where such a dictatorship starts?

Then there were the dustmen who wanted to liven up a not so pleasant job by putting cuddly toys in their vehicles. We have all seen these toys hanging from the rear-view mirrors of vehicles or seated on the dashboard. The managers of one waste management company did not like the cuddly toys. They wanted a more “professional” image for their company and banned the cuddly toys on the grounds of health and safety.

Why? You will love this.

Because young children may be out and about, and notice these small toys high up in a big vehicle, and be tempted to run out into the street and confront the vehicle until the vehicle hands over the toys to them. This is of course assuming that your children are unable to understand that it would not be safe to run into the road in front of a big vehicle. That is how cuddly toys became a serious health and safety risk.

Can you imagine how this kind of publicity improved the public image of the company involved?

By the way, if you think I am making these examples up as I go along, search the web and you will find them yourself.

There was the case where the Metropolitan police was charged with breaching safety laws. The reason for this was that in two separate incidents officers fell through roofs while chasing criminals. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!

And then there was the council that banned backstroke during busy times in the local swimming pool to avoid collisions.

Visitors to Britain in the summer are always impressed by the beautiful hanging baskets that brighten up lampposts in city centres with lovely flowers. This is no longer the case in Suffolk, where these baskets were banned on the grounds that they may fall on pedestrians. There has not been one such accident in the more than two thousand years of history of Britain, and the first one will not be in Suffolk, that’s for sure.

And a final example:

A County Council wanted to install thirty electronic speed indicators. These are electronic signboards that show the speed of oncoming drivers. The intention is for drivers to realise that they are exceeding the speed limit, so that they can slow down. The tricky bit is that the electronic speed indicators can only be installed by somebody going up a ladder. Now, before you can go up a ladder, you must comply with the Health and Safety Executive’s Working at Height Regulations 2005 (amended 2007) which are based on the EU’s Working at height Directive (2001).

Huh?

Council workers are not allowed to put up the electronic speed indicators because none of the council staff have received ladder training. Allowing a person without ladder training to use a ladder will result in a £5000 fine (and 14 people had died after falling off ladders over a period of a year). This is far more important than the £60 fine for speeding (which resulted in 350 road deaths over the same period).

So, what is plan B? Get the local police to put the signs up – they have had ladder training. The police put op three of the cameras, and then went on to find the roofs that crooks normally run on to escape, so that the roofs can be fixed.

On to plan C – the fire brigade. However, the fire fighters are either playing hard to get, or they are too busy saving cats from trees. As a result the remaining 27 electronic speed indicators have not been installed yet. I wonder where one gets ladder training. I don’t think that a lamppost is too high for me?

Do you see how we allow people to shape our view of the world? And we simply buy into it rather than question their judgement and motives. And who should we blame – the people that create our realities? No. We need to take responsibility for our own actions and views, and we should have the courage to question other people’s actions rather than just shake our heads and accept whatever they say because we think that is the only option available to us.