Giving A Postive Energy Flow To Your Home Kitchen By Dallas Feng Shui

In Feng Shui, the kitchen has a long list of symbolizing health, wealth and abundance.  The food you store and prepare there supplies nourishment and nutrition, enabling you to prosper in the world.  Making meals and cleaning up later are significant paths to show how much you care for yourself and your friends.  

Here are Top-Ten Dallas Feng Shui Tips for making your kitchen into the “healthy heart” of your home.  

1.  Clean everything inside & out.  This includes drawers and cabinets, appliances, walls and counters.  Line shelves with new liner paper, and give the floor a good scrub.  

2.  Assess what you use.  Feng Shui asks that you keep only what you use, need, or love.  As you remove things from cabinets and drawers, ask yourself when you last used this item, and what the possibility is of using it.  If you’d like to keep an item you seldom use, consider deep storage, or make room for it on higher kitchen shelves.  

3.  Clear the counters.  Remove everything from the countertops to scrub them off and ask, “How often do I use this?” before you put it back.  Many appliances live on the countertop unquestioningly.  

4.  Put like with like.  As you take things out, put like things together.  For instance, separate sweet baking spices from savoury ones, and store coffee filters near your coffee mugs.  You’ll make your life feel just that much easier going forward.  

5.  Adjust shelves to maximize cupboard space.  Most cupboard shelves are adjustable.  As you concentrate on putting your newly-organized things back in the cupboards, separate tall items from shorter ones and adjust your shelf-height appropriately.  

6.  Use “shelf helpers” for simplicity and efficiency.  Items like tray racks, lazy susans, and stacking shelves don’t cost much, and they can change your life.  Get good “chi energy” flowing by making sure everything works.  Fix things that are broken.  Check that doors swing openly.  Replace chipped spoons and sharpen your knives.  In Feng Shui this is a vital step – things that are well-cared-for suggest your intention to take the absolute best care of yourself, too!  

7.  Make a secure place for paperwork.  Paper processing in the kitchen creates confusion, and can be perilous.  If your kitchen has turned into a mini home-office, it is time to get the papers out of there.  

8.  Recognize the importance of your stove.  The stove, a powerful Feng Shui symbol of Wealth in your life, is the center-piece of this “Heart of Your Home” and must be treated with particular respect.  One way to do this is by noting your disposition to use just one or two burners.  Spread the wealth and use them all to bring more healthy energy into your home.  

9.  Use mirrors to form more wealth.  In Feng Shui, the burners on your stove symbolize wealth coming into your house.  You can multiply this by simply placing a mirror behind the stove so that it reflects the burners.  This mirror also reflects activity behind you as you cook, so it brings in a desirable element of safety and comfort also.  

10.  Balance the elements.  Eventually, your kitchen already contains 4 of the five components of Feng Shui : Fire, Water, Metal and Earth elements.  The part that is’s often missing, Wood, can be brought in simply with stuff like fruit or a tiny plant – or an image of one of these.  When the elements are balanced, a space feels great.  

Is your kitchen everything it might be?  Have a look and use Feng Shui to make the changes — you’ll spot the uplift immediately!