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Feng Shui for Beginners: How to Balance Energy in Your Home

Your home is more than just a place to live—it reflects your energy, mood, and life direction. Feng Shui is an ancient system designed to help you create harmony between your environment and your inner state.

What Is Feng Shui?

Feng Shui literally means “wind and water” and focuses on arranging your space to support the flow of Chi (energy). This life force exists in everything, and when it flows smoothly, it can support well-being, clarity, and balance.

At its core, Feng Shui is about aligning your surroundings with natural forces to create a supportive and peaceful environment.

The Core Principles of Feng Shui

To understand Feng Shui basics, you only need to know three key ideas:

Chi (Energy Flow): Keep energy moving freely—avoid clutter and blocked spaces.

Yin and Yang Balance: Combine calm (yin) and active (yang) elements for harmony.

Five Elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water must be balanced to support different aspects of life.

These principles work together to influence how your space feels and functions.

What Is the Bagua Map?

The Bagua map is a simple grid used in Feng Shui home design. It divides your space into nine areas, each representing a part of life such as:

Wealth

Love & relationships

Career

Health

By aligning your home with the Bagua, you can intentionally improve different areas of your life.

Simple Feng Shui Tips for Beginners

You don’t need to redesign your entire home to start practicing Feng Shui. Small changes can make a big difference:

Declutter your space to improve energy flow

Keep your front door clean and bright (the “entry of Chi”)

Use plants or natural elements to activate positive energy

Arrange furniture to allow smooth movement through the room

These adjustments help create a space that feels calm, supportive, and balanced.

Why Feng Shui Matters

When your environment supports you, everything becomes easier. Practicing Feng Shui can help:

Reduce stress and mental clutter

Improve focus and emotional balance

Support goals like wealth, relationships, and career

Ultimately, Feng Shui is not about perfection—it’s about awareness and intention.

Final Thought

Your home is more than just a place to live—it reflects your inner state. In Feng Shui, the Bagua map is a powerful tool used to understand and guide the flow of Chi energy throughout your space.

By applying it correctly, you can create a home that supports balance, clarity, and personal growth.

What Is the Bagua Map?

The Bagua map is a 3×3 energy grid that divides your home into nine life areas, including:

wealth and abundance

love and relationships

career and life path

health and well-being

Each section connects your physical environment to a specific part of your life.

How to Apply It

To use the Feng Shui Bagua map, start by aligning the grid with your front door (the “entry point” of energy).

Then:

identify which area of your life needs support

match it to the correct section of your home

enhance it with simple elements like light, plants, or meaningful objects

This process helps improve the flow of home energy naturally.

Why It Works

The Bagua is based on the balance of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water).

When these energies are balanced, your space feels:

calmer

more supportive

less chaotic

Even small changes can shift how you feel daily.

Simple Tips to Start

Keep your entryway clean to allow positive energy in

Declutter key areas to avoid blocked Chi flow

Add intention-based objects (like crystals or symbols)

Focus on one life area at a time

Final Thought

Using the Bagua map isn’t about perfection—it’s about awareness.

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Episode 227: Feng Shui Qi Forecast: June 2023

In this episode, we’re sharing a feng shui qi forecast for the month of June 2023! First, we go over what’s going on in nature and what you can expect energetically this month, and then Anjie shares an I Ching reading for the Holistic Spaces Podcast listener community. We also share how you can make the most of this month’s energy in your home through feng shui.

We cover:

Key dates to look out for this month in the moon cycle and the Chinese solar term

What to expect energetically this June as we move into the hotter months

Creating productivity and movement by adjusting and seeing the positive in both Kan and Li

Why just getting out into the sun can be the best medicine for when you're feeling overwhelmed by some of the more challenging aspects of this month’s energy

Plus more…

Mentioned in this episode: 

Navigating the Energy of Kan Over Kan

Celebrating the Summer Solstice with Feng Shui

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Episode 226: Gardening and Feng Shui

As we welcome the warm summer months, this week on the podcast we’re headed back to the garden to discuss how the same feng shui principles that can be used inside your home can also be applied to designing and growing a garden outside your home that nurtures and supports you.

We cover:

Inviting the flow of qi into your garden with a water element such as fountains or river washed stones

How you can look to the five elements to create an outdoor space that achieves balance and harmony

Using the bagua in your garden design

Plus more…

Mentioned in this episode: 

Feng Shui Gardening with Will Brown

A Feng Shui Garden with Rose Garbien

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Episode 219: Feng Shui True Stories

In this episode, we’re delighted to welcome three of our Mindful Design graduates! Sarah, Deeds, and Line joined us to share their feng shui true stories: the feng shui experiences that have surprised and delighted them!

We cover:

How Sarah, Deeds, and Line got started with feng shui

Sarah’s feng shui adjustment that led to an aligned career opportunity

How feng shui helped Deeds draw in more helpful people

Line’s three wishes that have all been fulfilled since embracing feng shui

Other shifts that Sarah, Deeds, and Line have noticed in themselves and their clients after working with feng shui

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Get in touch with Sarah

Get in touch with Deeds

Get in touch with Line

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Episode 216: A Feng Shui Consult for Katie Dalebout of Let it Out Podcast

Have you ever wondered what a feng shui consultation is really like? This week's episode is a collaboration with our dear friend Katie Dalebout, host of the podcast Let It Out. Tune in to hear how Anjie helps Katie feng shui her space based on her three wishes!⁠ ⁠ We cover:⁠ - How Anjie got into architecture and feng shui⁠ (+ Anjie's past life as a goth girl with no aspirations of entrepreneurship) ⁠ - Anjie’s feng shui suggestions to help Katie invite more financial abundance⁠ - Anjie’s feng shui suggestions to help Katie find a romantic partner⁠ - The connection between wealth and self-worth and the importance of recognizing your value⁠ - Friendship, support, and asking for help⁠

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Katie Dalebout is a writer, podcast producer, and podcast host. Her weekly interview show  has over 400 episodes with nearly 9 million downloads, and her book Let It Out was published in 2016. She teaches writing workshops, consults with individuals and brands on creative strategy, and writes a weekly newsletter.

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Episode 213: Feng Shui Basics

In this episode, we’re defining five fundamental feng shui terms. Whether you are totally new to feng shui or you’re a long-time listener, it’s important to understand these essential concepts that form the foundation of a feng shui practice. If you want to dive deeper, be sure to sign up for our mailing list so that you can take our upcoming free Feng Shui Basics course!

We cover:

What is feng shui?

What is qi?

What are yin and yang?

What are the five elements?

What is the bagua?

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