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Use Feng Shui
to Kick
Start Your Love Life!
By Lisa Daily
Can rearranging your furniture really help
you to find and keep "The One?"
Can storing your underwear in the Tupperware
drawer really heat up your love life?
Well, the jury's still out on that one - But
hey, it can't hurt, right? According to Feng
Shui (say FUNG SCHWAY) experts, little
changes can make a big difference where
romance is concerned.
An ancient Chinese practice, "Feng Shui is
purposefully arranging your stuff around you
to gain positive results," says Karen Rauch
Carter, author of "Move Your Stuff, Change
Your Life."
So, what can you do to get your love life on
track fast?
Add a little Feng Shui to the "relationship
area" of your home.
As you enter through your front door, the
relationship section is located at the
farthest right hand corner at the back side
of your home.
According to Feng Shui practitioners,
specific items in your relationship corner
can spice things up considerably - whether
you're already in a relationship, or a
single looking for love.
Add these items to perk up your love life:
1) Anything red and pink -- Sure, it makes
for a decorating challenge, but these colors
represent love. You can't go too crazy with
red and pink here.
2) Candles -- They create heat, they're
romantic, what more could you want? For
extra vaa-vaa-voom, try two pink or red
candles sitting side by side. (One for each
of you.)
3) Round mirrors -- This has to do with a
more complicated idea of reflecting energy,
but all mirrors are good here, and round
mirrors are best.
4) Whatever symbols signify love to you --
Anything goes, and it goes here. Flowers,
cupids, romantic photos of the two of you
together, hearts, bride and groom cake
toppers, candy hearts, chocolate or a Barbie
Doll in full bridal paraphernalia. If it
means romance to you, put it here.
As you might expect, there are also a number
of things that can put a Feng Shui damper on
your love life as well.
Try to avoid putting these items in your
relationship corner:
1) Negative images -- This is not the place
to store that shoebox with old photos of
your exes, or any other negative images from
bad weather to bad times.
2) Anything that encourages distance -- Put
the cactus and your ceramic porcupine
collection somewhere else. They're not
helping.
3) Anything with a chill factor -- If it's
cold, it's bad news. Move the refrigerator
and the poster of the polar bear unless you
want your relationship to cool too.
4) Singles only -- Avoid photos of yourself
alone here, your one-slice toaster and that
picture of you as the lone, uncoupled
bridesmaid at your cousin Bertha's wedding.
Single-girl (or single boy) reminders have
got to go.
5) Games -- If you want to avoid games in
your relationship, you've got to avoid them
here.
6) Distractions - Something coming between
you and your one-and-only? Maybe it's the
big screen TV or your decoupage supplies.
Put them somewhere else.
Try these simple techniques to add a little
(or a lot) of toe-curling romance to your
life. You'll never know how good it can be
unless you're willing to give it a shot.
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