Feng Shui paintings have a powerful impact on a person’s life. Some bring happiness to your personal life, others allow you to climb the career ladder, and others help resolve disputes. But there are also paintings that not only evoke negative emotions, but can bring big troubles into life.
Any canvas is a figment of the imagination of a master who, consciously or unconsciously, puts into its creation a momentary mood and part of his soul. Therefore, when coming into contact with the energy of any painting, each person living in the house may experience different sensations. In order for a painting to bring only positive emotions and have a beneficial effect on fate, it is necessary to carefully select images and place them correctly in the house.
Types of paintings according to Feng Shui
The importance of Feng Shui paintings for a home can hardly be overestimated. Taking into account the technical capabilities of the 21st century, images that are intended to decorate a home can be in the form of:
- canvases painted in oil or watercolor;
- paintings on photo wallpapers or created using computer programs;
- reproductions printed using copying equipment;
- photographs.
In addition, paintings can be embroidered or made from various decorative materials, for example, ornamental stones or dried plants.
Children's
The child takes part in arranging the room
The decor of this room must be approached in tandem with its little owners - be sure to coordinate all the paintings or drawings that you want to hang. Consider the child’s character: brighter colors and dynamic scenes are suitable for calm children, calmer ones are suitable for hyperactive children. In a children's room, images of cute animals, bright butterflies, the sun, water, and trees would be appropriate.
A talisman for good study will be a drawing depicting an elephant or the sea with a sailboat. If a child wants a picture with a cartoon character or a funny dinosaur, do not refuse him. Just make sure that the drawing does not cause aggression or overexcitation. To attract good luck, hang a picture of a Maneki-Neko bird or cats on the wall.
Helpful tips for choosing the right fabric
In order for paintings to bring only good emotions and positive changes, you should follow some rules when choosing them:
- If the subject of painting causes even a slight feeling of anxiety, then you should not purchase it, otherwise the negative energy will depress the owner’s aura.
- You should not leave a painting in your house that you like, but was given by a person who evokes negative feelings in you.
- You should not purchase paintings with hostile or depressing images (corpses, dying, battles, predators killing prey, anything lifeless).
- It is better to refuse to place abstract paintings in your apartment.
- Images of skulls, skeletons, animal grins, and fantastic monsters, which young people are so keen on, cause aggression and negativism. Therefore, they cannot be placed in the house.
- Paintings or photographs of deceased relatives or celebrities will bring negative energy into a living space. Such images should be removed from the room where the family spends a lot of time, but can be placed in the office.
- Panels made from dried plants carry negative energy, while those made from straw, on the contrary, attract positive energy.
- It’s good if you have the opportunity to purchase paintings made from amber. This stone has powerful positive energy. According to Feng Shui, a picture of amber placed near a patient speeds up his healing. And if you place it near the dining table, the whole family will regularly receive positive energy charges.
- Still lifes with broken objects, broken dishes or mirrors, and images of desolation or decay should be avoided.
- You can fill your home with bright and positive energy using images of golden hieroglyphs on a red background. It's better if you know the meaning of the symbols. Such symbolism can activate any of the 9 zones, if necessary, and if there is no such need, the picture can be placed above the front door.
- Particular care should be taken when choosing images for rooms intended for relaxation. According to Feng Shui, paintings in the bedroom should not be too bright and unpaired. Paintings with dried insects should also not be placed here.
- Under no circumstances should paintings depicting poverty, misery, ruins, stagnant water, or human vices be placed in the house.
- It is preferable to purchase images with beautiful landscapes, mountain peaks, flowering plants, and positive scenes.
Bedroom
The main priorities for this room are peace, relaxation and tranquility. According to Feng Shui, it should not be overloaded with paintings - one or two are enough. You should give preference to calm tones: white, light, pastel, and if you want to refresh your married life, hang a moderately bright canvas.
Nature
Calming landscapes will be an excellent option for a bedroom. You should not hang a canvas here that depicts autumn or winter; it is better to give preference to summer and spring landscapes. Drawings of graceful plants and birds, made in moderate colors, are well suited for bedroom decor.
Water
Feng Shui is ambivalent about images of water in a sleeping area. Canvases depicting a stormy sea, waterfalls, fast-moving rivers, stagnant swamps and dark pools are not recommended. However, a clean lake, a calm river or a spring stream may well be located here, the main thing is that the plot and color design evoke relaxation.
For love
People or animals on the canvas should be in pairs: a lonely figure serves to attract loneliness or destroy a marriage. To add new colors and passion to your relationship, hang a picture with peonies or poppies. If you dream of offspring, hang a picture depicting a ripe pomegranate or cut watermelon (with an abundance of seeds).
Location according to the rules of Feng Shui is the key to positive energy at home
It is not enough to choose the right paintings. In order for them to start working and attract positive energy or activate 1 of the 9 zones, the images must be located in the right place.
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It is important to take into account here that each sector is under the protection of 1 of the elements:
- the west is ruled by Metal, supported by Air;
- south - Fire;
- north - Water;
- East - Tree in combination with Earth.
The first law of placing Feng Shui paintings in a house is the correct combination of the prevailing elements in a given sector and the images that you want to place in it. For example, if you decide to hang a landscape with a waterfall in the southern zone of fire, this will cause a contradiction in the flow of energy flows, and at best will create a zone of discomfort in the house, and at worst will damage your reputation (the water will carry it away), because the southern zone is responsible for reputation and fame.
Certificates, diplomas and other attributes of personal achievements should be placed in the southern sector. This will help you achieve even greater success and recognition in life. And if it is necessary to improve the situation in the field of education, then it is better to place diplomas in the northeastern sector, which is responsible for studies.
The southwestern sector patronizes love and romantic relationships. It should only contain paired images. It would be better if the paintings depict swans, lovers or mountains.
West – children and creativity sector. It should contain photographs of children and attributes of their achievements. In this sector and the neighboring northwestern one (both are under the auspices of the element of metal), which is responsible for assistants, you can hang images of the Moon, Earth, mountains, large buildings, and banks. It would be appropriate to place coinage in these sectors.
Newlyweds are often presented with a painting depicting 100 cheerful and laughing children for their wedding. This picture not only evokes a lot of positive emotions, but is also a symbol of having many children. For her, the best place is the western sector of the bedroom.
In the eastern sector, which is responsible for development and health, it is best to hang photographs of relatives.
It is good to place a world map in the southeastern and northwestern sectors.
The northern sector, responsible for careers, does not tolerate bright colors and images of sunrises or sunsets. Mountain landscapes or an image of a ship racing with full sails are best suited for it.
If any of the sectors is missing in the house, then this deficiency can be compensated with the help of paintings depicting perspective: field, meadow, horizon, road.
When designing sectors, you should pay attention not only to the images themselves, but also to the frames in which they are enclosed. For the southern, eastern and southeastern sectors, it is better to choose wooden frames (green if possible), for the western, northeastern and central - plaster, for the northern and northwestern - metal.
When placing paintings, not only the sectors, but also the purpose of the room are important. Images suitable for the kitchen are not appropriate, and sometimes even harmful, to place in the bedroom or office.
Feng Shui paintings with horses enhance endurance and perseverance to achieve your goals. A running horse represents rapid movement towards a goal, a rearing horse promises victory over competitors and material wealth. It is best to place such paintings in the office opposite the workplace, but in no case behind, which can create discomfort.
A pair of horses enhances mutual understanding between family members and spouses. Their image is best hung in the living room, but it is important that the horses move indoors and not out. Also, they should not be placed on walls with windows, entrance or balcony doors.
The painting “100 Children” mentioned above is appropriate in the bedroom if people want more children. But if the husband and wife no longer plan to have offspring, then it should be removed from the bedroom, otherwise it will cause cooling in the relationship between the spouses and stagnation in the relationship with the children. Now it’s better to hang it in the living room, where the whole family gathers.
Examples of incorrect positions
Improper placement of paintings can bring a lot of troubles to the quiet and prosperous life of the owners of the house.
According to Feng Shui, images with water are a symbol of attracting good luck and wealth to the home, but if they are placed in the bedroom above the head of the bed, then instead of attracting positive energy and wealth, they will lead to a leakage of money. According to Feng Shui, paintings with a waterfall are not recommended to be hung behind your back, especially in offices (this will waste money and hinder career growth). Here it is better to hang images of mountain peaks that personify high achievements.
You should also be careful with the image of fire. For example, on the south side (in the zone of the fire element), the placement of a fireplace (actual or stylized, but with the image of fire) is correct and favorable, because this will strengthen the sector's influence. However, if you place a photo or reproduction with fire in the northern sector, which is under the protection of water, then no matter how harmonious the interior looks from the outside, manifestations of negative energy in this place cannot be avoided: the atmosphere in the house will always be tense, and scandals will be regular.
Under no circumstances should images with banknotes be placed in the northern or southern zone, because this will lead to financial losses: money will go away either along with the water element of the north, or under the influence of the fire element of the south.
Suitable options for the kitchen
The best color scheme for the kitchen is a combination of green and bright red: it awakens the appetite and is a symbol of home. Landscapes with lush green meadow vegetation will look good. But the kitchen is a room for which there are many other successful image options. This may include:
- landscapes and still lifes;
- photographs of flowering trees;
- reproductions with sunflowers, ripe and juicy berries and fruits, spices, sweets;
- paintings with flowers;
- sketches of cafes and restaurants.
Read more: Feng Shui kitchen
All this will attract well-being to the place where food is prepared and will create a warm atmosphere of family relationships during every meal together.
What's a hallway without a picture?
The hallway is the first room where a guest enters, who can carry with him both positive and negative energy. To protect the inhabitants of the house from negativity, large objects should be placed in the corridor, including paintings, which will immediately attract attention and take away the first thoughts. Landscapes, images of a horse or other large animal, and still lifes are best suited for the hallway.
Read more: Feng Shui hallway
The bedroom is a sacred resting place for a person
Feng Shui paintings in the bedroom should evoke a feeling of relaxation. Therefore, anything that causes aggression and anxiety, any riot of natural elements, is contraindicated here. Running water excites and does not allow you to rest, standing water takes away sexual energy. Therefore, images of water have no place here either.
The most suitable images for the bedroom are images with lovers, a sun-drenched beach and a couple of walking figures, but best of all with peonies, promising passionate love, the awakening of sexuality, and a unique sensual fireworks display. According to Feng Shui, depicting peonies for marriage in the bedroom is practically a guarantee of marriage.
Other popular symbols
Other popular feng shui symbols for well-being in the home:
- Water: fountains, waterfalls, aquariums without a lid. Water must be in contact with air. But be careful: too much water has the opposite effect on finances, keep it in moderation.
- Mill - its images symbolize cash flow.
- The bridge means the unification of heavenly and earthly, man and deity.
- Images of mountains concentrate energy and direct it in the right direction.
- Shells are a decorative element and a memory of the sea. Shells are women's amulets that attract mentors. It is also a symbol of travel that will fit into the northwestern sector of the apartment.
- A fan is a protective amulet that scares away ill-wishers and envious people. The fan sweeps scandals out of the house.
A sign of good luck - tested on yourself
For example: a sailboat attracts good luck and success to the house. But look carefully at the picture: is it strong, will it stand the test? What if the sea is not calm? Not a calm sea - to anxiety in life, troubles. Again, you need to choose a place to place the painting: the sailboat floats into the house in this way. Otherwise, luck will float away. A sailboat is a sign of good luck. I tried to embroider a sailboat, but it turned out to be not to my liking. Well, luck lingered. Besides, it’s a sin for me to be offended for life. This beautiful sailboat lies unfinished. But still, I think the day will come when I will return to this work. And luck will definitely return and will live with me. I believe in it.
Origin of Chinese symbols.
In traditional China, there has long been a “Doctrine of Symbols and Numbers”, based on the ancient predictive practice of the I-Ching. In this teaching, the entire variety of elements of the external world is described using numbers and symbols. Of particular importance in Chinese culture are images of hieroglyphs, which cover the entire diversity of human life.
These above principles were used by Thomas Lin Yun when creating his own school of the Eight Life Aspirations (or the Blackcap school), which actively uses the symbolism of objects and images to activate certain sectors. Talismans and symbols in Feng Shui are designed to harmonize space, really express our aspirations, help create additional information about various aspects of our lives: protection, wealth, family happiness, career advancement, etc.
But please note that the methodology of the Blackcap school and its recommendations for arranging and using symbols in a room have nothing to do with the tools of classical feng shui!
Further in this article you will find basic descriptions of symbolic images and objects used in Chinese culture, as well as in “pop feng shui”.
