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Lillian Too. Lillian Too’s Smart Feng Shui For The Home: 188 brilliant ways to work with what you’ve got
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Lillian Too’s. Smart Feng Shui. for the Home. 188 brilliant ways to work. with what you’ve got. Lillian Too
dedication
introduction
Working with what you’ve got
An attitude for success
1 smart feng shui basics. 1 – a feng shui view of the living space
2 – the first aspect: exterior feng shui
Old traditions
3 – the second aspect: interior feng shui
Rooms in the house
4 – the third aspect: the importance of orientations
Using a compass
5 – the fourth aspect: time dimension feng shui
6 – introducing the luo pan, or chinese compass
The three Luo Pans
7 – the western compass in feng shui
Types of directions
Compass checklist
8 – how to take compass directions
Compass points
9 – how to align a compass correctly
What to do about varying readings
10 – determining the general direction of your home
Three ways to take directions
11 – finding the orientation of interior space
12 – understanding the lo shu square
13 – placing the lo shu square over a floor plan
Lo Shu lore
14 – understanding the two pa kuas
The Yin Pa Kua
15 – understanding the yang pa kua
Placement of the trigrams
16 – how to use the yang pa kua in feng shui practice
17 – assess the pa kua sectors separately
18 – the eight directions and the five elements
Yang Elements
19 – the eight directions and their meanings
20 – the eight directions and the family
The father is in the northwest
The mother is in the southwest
The Eight Primary Trigrams
The eldest son is in the east
The eldest daughter is in the southeast
Locations of younger children
21 – the eight directions and the body
Feng shui body language
22 – the eight substances indicated by the trigrams
23 – the yin and yang of the four cardinal directions
Yin and yang for male and female
24 – the yin and yang of the secondary four directions
2 feng shui makeovers for interiors. 25 – regularize the shape of your floor plan
Auspicious shapes
Inauspicious or difficult shapes
Irregular shapes
26 – auspicious shapes for home interiors
Colour and shape
Linking to Elements
The shape of the Wood Element
The shape of the Earth Element
The shape of the Metal Element
The shape of the Water Element
27 – identifying and coping with inauspicious shapes
Dealing with missing areas
28 – missing corners and what they mean
The south sector
The southwest sector
The west sector
The northwest sector
The north sector
The northeast sector
The east sector
The southeast sector
Curing missing corners
29 – using mirrors to cure missing corners
Placing wall mirrors
30 – guidelines for using wall mirrors
Mirror placement
31 – protruding corners can strengthen luck
Dining room extensions
Building in the west
32 – linking element shapes to your home
Squares or rectangles
Circular shapes
Fire shapes
Water shapes
33 – shapes and their symbolic associations
Stepped or narrowing shapes
34 – auspicious shapes for tables
Round dining tables
Square and rectangular dining tables
Pa Kua dining tables
35 – lucky shapes for decorative objects
Element imbalances
Vases of flowers
Empty bowls standing ready
36 – avoid split levels in the home
Houses with split levels
37 – useful remedies for split-level homes
38 – chi should meander
Healthy chi
Chi flow
39 – position your doors skillfully
Finding the main door
Positioning doors well
40 – have a solid door facing a “bright hall”
Opening onto a “bright hall”
Harmful feng shui
Always remember:
41 – neutralize blocks to success
42 – overcoming the ferocious tiger and injured dragon
Facing the tiger’s mouth
Facing the stagnating dragon
43 – what to do when faced with a sleeping dragon
Sleeping dragons
44 – remedies for doors in a straight line
Doors facing each other
45 – using a horse for protection
What’s opposing you?
Inauspicious features
A horse for protection
46 – watch out for thunder striking from heaven
A building facing the south or northwest
47 – identify your corners of good fortune
Finding your lucky corners
Activating your corners
48 – curved staircases are the best
Curved staircases
49 – be careful what you put under the staircase
Taboos for under the stairs
Loss of wealth
50 – what’s at the top of your staircase?
An inspiring piece of art
51 – corridors are important purveyors of chi
Bad lighting in corridors
52 – let the ceilings of your home bring harmony
Mirrors above you
The effects of ceiling fixtures
53 – bedrooms influence your health and wealth
Bad chi in the bedroom
A successful bedroom
Creating symmetry and harmony
Boosting bedroom wealth
54 – keep an eye on what’s around the bed
The energy in everything
Studying your bedroom
55 – examine the effects of toilets on your bed
A toilet door facing the bed
A toilet on the floor above
56 – watch the grain of wooden floorboards
Double mattresses are best
57 – beds at an angle pose a tough problem
Place your bed in a good direction
58 – take note of sleeping taboos in the bedroom
Beds on the floor
Sleeping on top bunks
Bed placement with windows
59 – keeping things over and under the bed
Fans above the bed
Precious items under the bed
60 – curing an afflicted multi-level bedroom
Sleep on the higher level
61 – dealing with a bedroom afflicted by a staircase
A bed facing a staircase
Staircases in apartments
62 – solutions to L-shaped bedrooms
A re-planned L-shaped bedroom
Compromising on feng shui principles
63 – dealing with slanted and uneven ceilings
Using attic bedrooms
Flat ceilings are auspicious
64 – have balanced lighting in the bedroom
65 – princess beds and full-canopied beds
66 – the effect of different headboards
Headboard shapes for good and bad feng shui
Other shapes
67 – good and bad room layouts
The best bedroom layout
A bad bedroom layout
68 – good layouts for the dining room
Dine in the center of the home
Bad positioning
69 – how to position the dining table
The correct position
Placed under a beam
Remedies for bad table positions
70 – feng shui rules on kitchens
A good kitchen brings prosperity
The ideal placement
71 – positioning your kitchen stove
Inauspicious positions
Bad effects from above
72 – toilets and the problems they cause
Re-planning toilet doors
Bad positioning for the toilet
Dispersing bad toilet energy
73 – installing aquariums for prosperity
Placing aquariums or small ponds
Inauspicious locations
74 – feng shui fish bring prosperity
75 – using six-rod chimes for five yellow affliction
76 – using windchimes as feng shui remedies
Windchimes for protection
Windchimes are also excellent for correcting:
77 – Neutralizing overhead beams
Beams in old properties
Dealing with exposed beams
3 applying the five elements to enhance the chi of the home. 78 – five energies influence the chi of the home
Understanding the Five Elements
Energizing different areas
79 – working out the element of your home
How to work out the directions
Working out your home’s Element
80 – differentiating between small chi and big chi
The eastern sector
A southwest affliction
81 – the two cycles of element interaction
The Productive and Destructive cycles
The Productive and Destructive Cycles
82 – the significance of the exhaustive cycle
How the cycle works
83 – metal to overcome the deadly “five yellow”
Weakening five yellow star energy
Using a metal windchime
84 – using the fire energy of candles, lights, and lamps
Candle energy
The afflicted south
85 – jump-start relationships with fire chi
Locating southwest sectors
86 – fine-tuning your relationship feng shui
Utilizing flying star feng shui
Taking compass directions
87 – fire to boost luck in examinations
Enhancing the northeast
Finding your northeast corner
88 – fire energy should not be too strong
Fire needs to be created
Too many lights
89 – the challenge of the water element
Water can bring success
Activating the north
90 – best corners for water inside the home
Good water corners
Money luck
91 – using the lucky corner methods to activate water
92 – the period number for auspicious water
93 – using flying star for water luck
94 – waterfalls make millionaires
Using water fountains
Water in the garden
95 – water taboos – where never to place water
Water in the bedroom
Water outside the front door
Water features under the stairs
96 – yin water absorbs bad chi from neighbors
Bubbling water features
Lily or lotus ponds
97 – water in wood sectors to attract growth
The southeast corner
Water symbolism
98 – boosting wood corners with plants and flowers
Auspicious plants in the east
99 – flowers for luck throughout the year
Symbols in the east and southeast
Good feng shui
100 – wood fuels fire for recognition luck
101 – metal chi is harmful in wood sectors
102 – powerful metal energy
Activating metal energy
Special windchimes
Sitting under windchimes
103 – earth energy cuts both ways
Earth houses
Boosting Earth chi
Bad afflictions
104 – harness earth chi to benefit the matriarch
Boosting mother energy
Good matriarchal energy
105 – the deadly “five yellow” – an afflicted earth star
The negativity of the five yellow
Movements of the flying yellow
In later years
106 – becoming familiar with the five elements
Elements and numbers
Element colors and shapes
summary of auspicious wealth and relationship sectors
4 personalizing feng shui practice with eight mansions. 107 – kua numbers and eight mansions feng shui
How to find your Kua number
For men:
For women:
108 – your kua number is a powerful feng shui tool
East or West group?
Using your best directions
109 – kua numbers reveal lucky/unlucky directions
The good and bad directions
110 – there are four types of good luck
Your different good luck directions according to your Kua number
111 – there are four types of bad luck
Your different bad luck directions according to your Kua number
112 – use the good directions and avoid the bad
Checking directions
113 – understanding facing and sitting directions
The facing direction
The sitting direction
114 – the orientation of the the main door
East and West group directions
115 – if your main door faces an auspicious direction
West-group people
East-group people
116 – windows can take the place of doors
Other lucky windows
117 – solid doors are better than sliding or glass doors
Secondary doors
118 – boosting luck with windows
119 – sleeping for success
120 – activating your “nien yen” for love
Good bedroom feng shui
Where to sleep for love
121 – space constraints in sleeping directions
Finding an auspicious direction
122 – when husband and wife are in different groups
Different entrances
Direction of the main door
123 – negotiate for success with kua directions
Meetings away from the office
Where to sit during negotiations
124 – sitting right to attract success
Important interviews or examinations
Buying the right compass
Living in the southern hemisphere
125 – traveling from your auspicious directions
Using your best direction
Look at travel directions
126 – feng shui cures for travel obstacles
127 – energize your chinese animal sign
Your animal sign direction and Element
128 – how to activate the four important trigrams
The family directions
Using the living room to energize
The four family trigrams
129 – energize the ch’ien trigram for protection
Using Earth energy
130 – activate the k’un trigram for family happiness
131 – trigrams that benefit your children
5 special feng shui tips for apartments. 132 – using your building’s main entrance
Using flying star feng shui
133 – flying star identifies lucky sectors
How to use the flying star summaries
Your best corner
134 – cardinal directions and lucky sectors
Buildings facing south
Buildings facing north
Buildings facing west
Buildings facing east
135 – secondary directions and lucky sectors
Buildings facing southwest
Buildings facing southeast
Buildings facing northeast
Buildings facing northwest
136 – activating the lucky sectors
Boosting lucky corners
What enhancers to use
137 – some powerful symbols of good fortune
138 – toilets above the main door cause affliction
A feeling of oppression
139 – arrange your beds and tables for success
Placing beds in good directions
Good seating at the dining table
140 – remedies for overhead beams
Overhead beams
Sitting under beams
141 – improving the feng shui of studios
Be careful with activators
Positioning the bed
142 – boosting chi in two- or three-bed apartments
The auspicious bedrooms
Slowing down chi
143 – taboos in multi-level apartments
144 – finding the place of prosperity water
145 – windchimes for doors facing elevators
Workable solutions
Dealing with airwells
146 – outside foyers need constant light
147 – use thick curtains to protect your balcony
148 – mirrors bring in auspicious views
149 – hang crystals to catch sunlight chi
6 how to use color in interior feng shui. 150 – the use of colors in feng shui enhancement
All the colors
Yang colors
151 – reds in the south bring vibrant yang energy
Red vases and porcelain
152 – red and gold are auspicious attributes
Wealth and prosperity
The luck of red and gold
153 – the prosperity power of purple
154 – purple and silver are wealth-bringers
155 – green and blue bring in growth chi
156 – green and red create harmony and success
157 – white and yellow attract the yang of light
Powerful colors
Softer shades
158 – red and yellow make an awesome combination
Putting red and yellow in Earth corners
159 – use black and white for harmony
160 – black and green create growth and abundance
161 – ceilings should be white
162 – corridors should always have yang colors
Colors for corridors
163 – bedrooms are better yin than yang
Bedroom colors
Colors for wealth
Colors for love
164 – floors need grounding energy
165 – using blue on lower levels of your home
7 special feng shui notes for living areas. 166 – allocate space in the home carefully
The master bedroom and home office
How to allocate rooms
167 – work with what you’ve got
A relaxed approach
Feng shui is fun
168 – using symbolism and rituals to best effect
The power of symbols
169 – dealing with unlucky door orientations
Using your best direction
170 – the essential feng shui of the main door
An effective main door
A solid main door
171 – good fortune symbols in the living room
Placing good fortune symbols
172 – energize every corner of the living room
Using a compass
Work out the Elements
173 – get great luck from your lucky corner
Crystal in Earth corners
174 – livelihood luck in the dining room
Mirrors in the dining room
Mirror tiles
175 – feature walls bring special good fortune
176 – stimulating patronage luck brings heaven men
177 – activating feng shui for romance luck
Boost the Earth Element
Family luck
178 – activating strongly for for career luck
Protective symbols
Special symbols
179 – for wealth luck, protect against poison arrows
Tall buildings
180 – boosting for good health and a long life
How to ensure good health
Guard against bad stars
181 – the benign elephant for children luck
The early years of marriage
The descendants’ luck direction
8 taking note of annual afflictions to your feng shui. 182 – overcoming the afflictions of time
The effects of the flying stars
The three types of afflictions
183 – the grand duke jupiter and how to appease him
The Grand Duke Jupiter’s location
184 – how to confront the three killings
House renovations
The Three Killings’ direction
Remedies for the Three Killings
185 – Exhausting the deadly five yellow
186 – flying star in 2001 – the year of the snake
187 – flying star in 2002 – the year of the horse
188 – essential symbols to keep inside the home
Different feng shui cures and energizers
lunar calendars and index
index
acknowledgements
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