When cleaning your home, it's likely that your first ports of call are tackling bad smells and stains, rather than cleansing bad energy.
But, did you know cleansing your home according to Feng Shui principlesregularly will help remove not just dirt and grime, but stagnant negative energy (Sha Chi) and invite fresh, positive Chi (or Sheng Chi)? Cleaning your home with harmony, abundance, and the overall well-being of you and your family in mind can be transformative.
As a Feng Shui practitioner for more than 25 years, here are my cleaning tips to banish bad energy whilst also sanitizing your space.
5 things to clean according to Feng Shui principles
1. Main door for welcoming new opportunities
Your main door is for welcoming new opportunities, which is why entryway Feng Shui is so important. The entrance is called the Mouth of Chi, where energy flows into your home.
Cleaning the front door removes energetic blockages, allowing prosperity and good luck to enter, something I stress at Feng Shui for Life and lifestylebypreetibala.
I suggest using salt water to wipe down the doors and then washing with water after that. Shake out or replace the door mat as these collect old energy and fresh mats invite fresh prosperity.
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2. Windows for clarity
Windows are the eyes of the home, literally, and clean windows invite clarity, harmony and a positive perspective into your life, while a dirty window can create confusion and negativity in a home.
To avoid any window cleaning mistakes, you can use a magnetic window cleaning tool, dish soap solution for streak-free windows, or the best homemade window cleaner, which uses only two ingredients – Castile soap, such as the Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap Castile Liquid Soap available at Walmart, and distilled water.
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3. Corners for removing stagnation
Negative energy accumulates in corners, under furniture, behind doors, and many other hidden areas if not cleaned regularly. This creates trapped Chi, leading to feelings of heaviness, anxiety, fatigue and general stagnation in life.
Regularly cleaning these areas, like the hidden areas of the kitchen we forget to clean or cleaning shower tracks, revitalizes the home’s energy, allowing fresh opportunities to flow and improving your energy levels and productivity.
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4. Kitchen and stove for health and wealth
The kitchen represents prosperity and wellbeing in a home, and a clean kitchen can amplify financial prosperity. Be sure to keep your stove and burners clean at all times.
Also be sure to remove old and expired food, regularly decluttering your fridge and decluttering your pantry as needed. This helps clear energetic blockages in abundance, and ensures the well-being of the family.
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Once you declutter your fridge, using organizers can help to keep groceries accessible and stop them going bad at the back of your fridge or lost in a drawer.
In your pantry, practical and stackable baskets keep everything neat and tidy once the space has been cleaned.
5. Floors for all around abundance
Floors absorb energy from daily activities, and cleaning and mopping floors the right way regularly refreshes the environment. I suggest mixing some salt, such as the Great Value Plain Salt available at Walmart, in your mop water and mopping the floors with this at least once a week.
I also recommend keeping small bowls of Himalayan pink salt in various corners or your home and rooms to rid them of any negativity. Throw these after a couple of months and replace these with fresh bowls of salt.
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FAQs
How do you clean using Feng Shui?
When it comes to achieving good Feng Shui, cleaning and decluttering is considered good practice, as when one's home is clean, chi, or energy, flows better. In this case, a clean house really can make you happier.
After cleansing any or all of the above, you can enhance your home’s energy by playing healing music or mantras, placing fresh flowers or Feng Shui plants, lighting one of your best candles or incense, doing a sage or Palo santo ritual, or setting an intention for your space.
You can also add a Maneki Neko, or beckoning cat, to your entryway for good Feng Shui.
