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Feng Shui Elements

The feng shui elements are one of the main foundations that feng shui is built upon. The five elements dictate how objects and furniture should be distributed and placed precisely around our home to attract the right type of energy we desire. Luck in wealth, love, family, careers, health, fame, children and education can all be achieved through correct use of the feng shui elements in your home, it’s a core concept and should be fully understood to benefit from it’s efforts. Each element has specific colors and location in your home associated with them and we’ll get to those a little later but first, let’s break down rights and wrongs of using the elements in your home.2008080114151_DOOL_080731_CD_L1_H4

The Productive and Destructive Cycle of Elements

Productive Cycle

The feng shui elements – water, wood, fire, earth and metal – can be arranged in a cycle where each element is used to create the next in the cycle. By using the correct locations, objects and directions, feng shui takes account of the elemental relationships and can use one element to assist or boost the another, bring greater energy for the life area they’re placed in.

The productive cycle is as follows:

Example:

Out of all the feng shui elements, water is the strongest representative of your wealth energy, which is located in the southeast area of your home or space. Water related items should feature in your wealth area to energize it and attract more of it. In the productive cycle, metal is the elements that makes water and so metal objects can also be placed in the area to boost the wealth area. Water is the main element and so be sure it isn’t overpowered too much by the metal.

Homemade Solar Panels

Are you ready to become completely energy independent? How would you like to decrease or even possibly eliminate your electricity bill every month? I am sure that everyone who has any sense has answered yes to these questions. Are you ready to become more environmentally friendly? I’m sure just about everyone agrees with everything that I am saying. The truth is that it is possible to become energy independent, save money and become environmentally conscious all at the same time. The use of solar energy will transform our world. Solar energy harnesses the power of the sun to produce electricity that can be used to power your appliances, lights, air conditioning or even computer. If you are worried about the large expense that you might have purchasing a solar power panel kit, worry no more. There are many DIY guidebooks available in today’s market that will take you by the hand an show you exactly what you need to step by step. A good guidebook is just like having an expert science teacher at your side showing you exactly what you need to do complete your project.

There are many things to look for when purchasing any kind of guidebook. First of all, you want to make sure that you are going to get your money’s worth. A guidebook without any good real to life visual guides is really not a good guidebook. Watching a video is a very good way to learn about how to do something. Just like your science professor, an instructional video can shed daylight on subject that you might feel that you know nothing about. You want text that is well organized and easy to understand. Chapters should be well organized explaining in detail what you need to do. DIY guidebooks can range in price from $100 to $50. I do not recommend spending more than $50 on a good DIY book.

The bottom line is that solar power is going to be the future. Solar energy can be used to power everything from a computer to a charging station for future electric vehicles. We rely to much on expensive non renewable fossil fuels that in realty to more harm than they actually do good. We need to minimize our use of fossil fuels. It is very unnecessary to be so dependent on oil (I would not argue that with oil executive though…..lol). The only ones that benefit from our dependence on oil are the rich oil companies and executives who line their pockets with your hard-earned money.