How to Feng Shui Your Beauty Cabinet

Guest User November 18, 2020

originally written for mindbodygreen

In feng shui, areas and objects in your spaces represent something deeper. Your beauty cabinet, for example, is where you keep skin care products, hair styling tools, makeup and other toiletries, all tools that assist you in showing your best face and your inner radiance to the world. Giving your beauty cabinet the attention it deserves will maximize its potential and can reflect positively in how you view yourself and how you show up in your life.

Whether you have a beauty cabinet chock full of the latest products, or you just have a few precious bottles that you use daily, here are 3 tricks to give you and your beauty cabinet some radiant energy!

Toss the expired items

I think it goes without saying, but just in case... be sure to go through and toss any expired items. It may be hard to let go of some of your favorite or most expensive products, but it's important to know that using them past their expiration date can actually negate their effects! Using expired skincare products can essentially mean putting bacteria on your face, which can lead to irritation, inflammation, redness, bumps, rashes, swelling, and even infections.

Keeping them around isn't great feng shui either. The symbolism of a cabinet crammed with expired items is that your body is also cluttered with this similar energy, which is the opposite of radiant. We want to attract freshness and spaciousness instead of outdated, forgotten and spoiled qi.

Add Citrine to the Center of your cabinet

When I think of radiance, I immediately think of citrine, a quartz crystal with orange tones. Love is In The Earth, my crystal bible, states that citrine “promotes a radiance from within the self, culminating in a constant happy disposition. It brightens even the darkest corner of one’s perceived reality, and helps one to ‘laugh without restraint’.” I think we could all use some of that!

The reason why it goes in the center is that when we lay the feng shui bagua map on your cabinet, the center area relates to health and overall well-being. It also touches all the other 8 areas of life in the feng shui map, including but not limited to career, abundance, and relationships. The center touches all the aspects of your life! Among the many benefits of this stone include the ability to cleanse negative energy as well as clear itself. It will keep your beauty cabinet filled with bright and positive qi.

Change out your vanity light

The lighting around your beauty cabinet helps to bring clarity and light to whatever you're doing, whether it’s putting on makeup, washing your face, or brushing your teeth. The light also represents fire energy in feng shui. Fire energy is all about radiance, like the sun at high noon. It's a good idea to clean and dust off the bulb and fixtures periodically.

Something to consider as you’re choosing a lightbulb for this area is the temperature. If you happen to have a CFL or LED bulb (as opposed to an incandescent), opt for a bulb with temperatures of 2700K or 3000K (kelvin) or higher. The higher the number, the cooler the color of the light. You don't want to go much cooler than 3500K, or it will feel blueish.

by Anjie Cho

If you’d like to learn more about feng shui, check out Mindful Design Feng Shui School at: www.mindfuldesignschool.com

Rearrange Your Daily Patterns with Feng Shui

Guest User November 11, 2020

I had a session with one of my healers recently, and she challenged me to start rearranging my day-in, day-out patterns. This inspired me to share some ways you can start to do this in your home. If you reinvent your patterns and how you live in your space, that translates into reinventing the patterns in your life. You can start to loosen your grip on those patterns, as well as open up opportunities to invite in new energies.

One really simple way to reinvent your daily patterns in your home is to rotate the use of your stove burners. Take a moment and think about which of your stove burners is your favorite. Which is the one you always go to? Almost everyone can answer this pretty easily (mine is my front right one!)

From a feng shui perspective, your stove represents your nourishment as well as your career, fame, wealth, and resources. Because of this, it’s important to use your stove every day, even if it’s just to boil water. On top of that, you want to approach how you use your stove with mindfulness. Keep it clean and in working order. Take time to wipe it down daily and check to make sure all the burners are working properly.

What does this all have to do with your favorite burner? If you mindlessly go to the same one all the time, you’re continuing your day-in, day-out patterns. Instead, being a bit more mindful and using a different burner means you’re living from a more intentional place rather than an automatic response. When it comes to your stove, trying different burners can help open up new opportunities for success in your career, fame, and wealth.

I challenge you to go to the stove at least once each day, and try a different burner than you normally would. This way, you’re intentionally making an effort towards something new every day.

by Anjie Cho

If you’d like to learn more about feng shui, check out Mindful Design Feng Shui School at: www.mindfuldesignschool.com

Getting Grounded with Feng Shui

Guest User November 4, 2020

Today I want to talk about getting grounded, and what that means in terms of feng shui. In feng shui, we use the five elements, which is a system inspired by nature. The five elements can be found in your home, as well as everything around you. Earth, one of the five elements, is about grounding, connecting, stability, and self care.

It’s always helpful to get grounded, especially if we’re in our heads a lot. Being in our heads can lead to a lot of anxiety, difficulty, and challenges. Here are a few ways to get grounded with feng shui:

One simple way to become more grounded is to connect with nature through your senses. We often try to think our way out of things, but it’s important to connect through your senses rather than your thoughts sometimes. From the Taoist perspective, clarity arises once you stop thinking. In the Tao Te Ching, one of the verses challenges you to have the patience to allow the muddy water to settle. When the muddy water settles, you can have some clarity. Grounding with your senses can look like connecting with a pet, massaging your feet, or walking around your home barefoot and connecting to the textures on the floor of your home. The floor represents the earth element in feng shui, so that’s a really great way to ground.

Another way to get grounded is to find a place in your home where you feel safe, and to lie down there and allow the earth to hold you for some time. This is a way to let that muddy water settle, and it also helps you get grounded and connect to the earth.

The third thing I would suggest is to notice what elements in your home connect to nature that is alive. Do you have plants in your home? Animals? Do you live with other people? Next, take a moment to give some attention to those living beings. Notice if there has been a living being in your home that’s been neglected, and do what you can to bring more love and attention to that living being. This could even be yourself! I would challenge you to connect to this being without using words, so you can really tune in to your senses.

One more thing to keep in mind is that simple is always more powerful. People often try to make things more complex, but if something is simple you can really get straight to the heart of the matter. In order to keep things simple, start with my first tip: touch into your senses.

I hope this helps you get grounded. Let me know on Instagram if you noticed any shifts!

by Anjie Cho

If you’d like to learn more about feng shui, check out Mindful Design Feng Shui School at: www.mindfuldesignschool.com