5 Tips to Clear Space with Feng Shui
Get ready to celebrate Chinese New Year - also known as Lunar New Year - on February 1.
This 15-day celebration marks the beginning of spring on the lunar calendar and is one of the most important celebrations in Asian culture, especially Chinese culture.
To prepare for this holiday, it is tradition to sweep, clean and decorate the home. This creates "good feng shui," and is said to bring good luck, health, and prosperity all year long. Feng shui is an ancient Chinese practice. It involves arranging the pieces in your home in such a way as to create harmony between your energy and the energy within your surroundings.
Celebrate the Chinese New Year and optimize the feng shui in your Om Sweet Om with the following five tips:
1.) Open all your windows and doors
Invite the fresh energy of spring into your home by opening all the windows and doors. Because Chinese New Year is the first day of spring on the lunar calendar, think about what the changing of the seasons means. Winter is a time of planning, slower pace, reflection, and internal work. Spring is a time for new beginnings. Let new things begin!
2.) Clean your front door area
The front door represents or 'the mouth of chi,' which is life force energy. That's where all the energy comes into your life and your space.
Your front door is kind of like your face to the world, so you want to spend some time freshening it up.
sweep the area.
shaking out your welcome mat
cleaning the door jambs
fixing any squeaks
cleaning the door number
It is important to look at your entrance as a whole - some of these things may have not been cleaned for a year.
3.) Clean out the refrigerator
Got a half-empty jar of strawberry jelly or a jar of pickle juice (new meaning of hold the pickles)? Get rid of it. You don’t want to go into the New Year with old food or a moldy science project lurking in the fridge.
4.) Refresh your mattress and bedding
On average, we spend 6-10 hours a day in bed or in a passive state, this can be a real energy dragon if your bedding and mattress are toxic.
Anjie Cho, Certified Feng Shui Consultant recommends switching out old bedding for bedding, pillows, and mattress to nontoxic, ethically-sourced materials. A good local source for mattresses, pillows, and bedding is Sage Sleep & Saatva (Who has organic cotton weighted blankets too). Another good source for organic cotton bedding is Boll and Branch & Buffy. co has amazing eucalyptus fiber comforters.
You want to sleep on the highest-quality mattress and bedding because they affect your body and your energy.
5.) Declutter
Stuff everywhere? Clear counters. Clear your desk. Dust. You can do it. Don’t forget the refrigerator! Make it a blank slate.
Clear as much space as possible. You cannot bring in new things if there is no room for it and we want a fantastic year, right? Then make your space “open” for the abundance of the New Year!
Clutter in the bedroom will affect your sleep overall - it will “weigh” on you consciously or unconsciously, according to Christa O’Leary, author of “Home in Harmony.”
Clutter also works on an invisible level. "Energetically, when you have a lot of excess material, it stops the flow of energy, and it creates heaviness in your home," says Cho.
To improve your sleep and allow the proper flow of energy, keep your sleeping area as free of the excess as possible - a few items on display that bring you joy and relaxation and put everything else away.
Source:
https://fengshuinexus.com/feng-shui-home/clutter-affects-you-and-home-feng-shui/
https://redlotusletter.com/prepare-your-feng-shui-for-the-new-year/
https://www.anjiecho.com/holistic-spaces-blog
https://www.parachutehome.com/blog/1202-does-clutter-affect-sleep