Feng Shui Cures are strategies to make energy flow more favorable in a room or house so the living space is more conducive for healthy living, financial success and relationships. Centuries-old Feng Shui methods allow you to energetically classify a home and diagnose eight different sectors within it for favorable or unfavorable energetic characteristics. These methods also can be used to determine which directions are favorable for you and other members of your family.

When energetic configurations of a home or room are not optimal, there are Feng Shui cures available to help improve the situation. This page introduces these methods, based on the Five Elements Theory of Taoism. The five elements characterize different energies as having the characteristics of wood, fire, metal, water or earth. Objects having different element characteristics can be placed with areas of the home to improve (cure) an unfavorable energetic configuration.

This how to page addresses two areas that are particularly important, the bedroom and the space where you work. These spaces are where you usually spend about 2/3 of your daily life. Additionally, cures are mentioned that can be used to address unfavorable personal and house directional orientations. If you do not know favorable directions for yourself or your home, this data can be found on the Mahalo page Feng Shui. The methods found on this page are those of the Eight House Feng Shui Method. There is also a featured video that discusses some simple things that you can do around the house which can improve its energy and your life.

Here is a list of steps of what needs to be done to determine the basis of changes that are recommended for you home by Eight House Feng Shui methods:

1. Use the Feng Shui page first to determine your gua number.
2. If there are other members of your household, determine their gua numbers and make a table that has a row for each of the optimal directions for each member.
3. With a compass, determine the degrees orientation of your house and find the appropriate house layout given on the Feng Shui page.
4. If your house is not a square, you may need to adapt the diagram. Make a proportional diagram of the room layout of the house (with correct measurements), and then find the geometric center of the building. Instead of creating a square diagram, it would be best to use a star-shaped diagram, in the ba gua fashion, to exactly locate the rooms and their corresponding "wandering star" designations.
5. Evaluate the "wandering star" designations for each member of the family, locating the bedrooms in the most favorable sites for each. For spouses, find a spot that works for both and a direction for bed placement that fosters the building and nurturing of your relationship.

Here are some basic considerations that improve the energetic configurations:

Feng Shui for the Bedroom:

1. Move the bed so that your head faces your most favorable direction.
2. Locate the bedroom for each member of the family in the spaces that are most favorable for each.
3. Place the bed where someone cannot see your feet when they look through the door.
4. To enhance favorable energies in the room, you can use a convex ba gua mirror oriented in a positive direction.

Feng Shui for the Office:

1. Face your desk in the best direction that you can place it, but do not put in facing the door.
2. Don't have your back facing a window or anything that is symbolic of water, such as a painting of the sea or a waterfall, as it is too active.
3. Put bookshelves on each side of the desk.

House Choices - East group people should only live in east group houses and west group people should live in west group homes. Living in a home that opposes your proper match will result in your gaining only 70-75% of the favorable chi in the environment.

Homes with entrances that are not favorable: House entrances are known as the "mouth of chi" because this is where most of the energy enters. Therefore, if you have an unfavorable entrance, do not leave the door open and make the area bright with lighting and use light colors. http://www.geomancy.net/resources/bbs/bbs-8house5ghost.htm Other suggestions:

1. If your home faces a corner of a building, an angled edge of a roof, or a T-intersection, a ba gua mirror helps above the entrance will help deflect the sharp energy.
2. If there is a neighbor who emanates negative energy, a mirror facing that property is also recommended. http://www.feng-shui-vibes.com/feng-shui-mirror.html
   
   

Enhancing positive energy - Sometimes enhancing the positive energies in a space can be a cure, such as placing a convex ba gua mirror towards a positive source or direction.