Attract wealth with Feng Shui

A recent news article featured a man who had won over £175,000 on a William Hill jackpot game. Just ten months before he had won £95,000 on the same jackpot game. ‘Lucky guy' you might say but he put it down to implementing changes to his home after a Feng Shui consultation.

The purpose of this article is not to advocate gambling you understand. The purpose of this article is to consider how Feng Shui might improve your wealth and to offer some tips to get you started.

You've probably seen lots of things advertised that guarantee abundance: money trees, three legged toads and pyramids are just a few. But there's a huge difference between hanging up a charm hoping Lady Luck will notice you as she passes by and using Feng Shui intelligently to improve your life and let abundance in.

Feng Shui works by considering the energies of your home or workplace and how they interact with you as an individual. But it's not just about space. Timing is also important. Each one of us is living our own unique cycle. So, where you are in your life will have an effect on your interaction with your environment.

Confused? No need to be. Feng Shui is not complicated, just multi-faceted. Once you know the nature of the energies around and within you, the key is to live with those energies – enhancing the good ones and minimising the not so good ones. And a good Feng Shui consultant will be able to advise you on how to do this.

However, there are some general things that you can do to attract the good stuff:

* There are two wealth areas in your home or workplace that you need to be aware of. The first is the south east sector and the second is the top left area as viewed on a floor plan of your space with the main door at the bottom.
* Clear clutter from these areas. Clutter causes energy to stagnate which makes it thick, heavy and depressing. What self respecting wealth would want to turn up in such a place? Tidy things up and you make space for new energy and new opportunities.
* Keep the areas light. There are a number of ways you can do this: remove anything outside the window that is stopping the light coming in (such as overgrown trees or shrubs); clean the windows; change the curtains if necessary; if natural daylight is limited consider a permanent source of artificial light; use a light, bright colour scheme and furnishings.
* To stimulate the energy in this area use a wind chime, aquarium or plants.
* If using plants choose the traditional money tree/jade plant (crassula argentea) and keep it healthy.
* If using an aquarium keep goldfish. Their bright colours attract abundant energy. Have at least three fish and, if more, keep them in multiples of three. Keep the aquarium clean and the fish healthy.

Finally, you may be wondering what changes the guy who won the jackpots made which brings me to my final tip:

* Keep the toilet seat down and the bathroom door closed. This rule applies to bathrooms anywhere in the building but is especially important if the rooms are in the areas mentioned above. Energy is drained very quickly in the bathroom as water is flushed or washed away and you don't want to get rid of it before the magic has happened.