The ancient art of Feng Shui helps us to activate the different energies that exist in a home and among the most important of them is love. When we talk about love in Feng Shui, we don’t mean only romantic love. It also includes the love we feel for friends, family, and even ourselves. In its abundance, the energy of love can pour into every aspect of our lives. In addition to helping guide you to the areas of your home where the energy of love is present, Feng Shui can harmonise this energy throughout your home with the choice of the right colours. Remember that the final goal with Feng Shui is always a healthy balance. After you have adopted a change to your house, monitor how you feel as you live with it. You’ll soon know if you have gone too far or if something essential is still missing.
The energy of love provides a feeling of calm, tranquillity, and serenity. These are qualities that should exist throughout your entire home, of course, but when you focus on love you will want to start with the bedrooms and the living room. If want to allow love to flow through these rooms, and through your entire house, these colours will help you achieve that goal.
Pink
Pink tones are associated with femininity, sensitivity, and romanticism, allowing them to harmonise with the energy of romantic love. Feng Shui practitioners recommend that at least one wall in your house—either in your bedroom or living room—should be painted in a light shade of pink or a gradient of several shades of the colour.
You can also introduce pink into a house with decorative elements like cushions, rose quartz, fresh pink roses, or works of art. Give some stability and strength to this energy by including sandy tones alongside it. When the two colours are combined, they provide a home with both strength and romance, energies that will then flow abundantly through your house.
Orange
Practitioners of Feng Shui suggest including orange in your home as the colour symbolises imagination, vitality, warmth, joy, and fertility. If you add the colour to a room, it will boost those energies. However, you should remember to maintain a healthy balance with these tones. Too much orange, or too bright a shade of orange, can lead to an imbalance that may leave you feeling out of control.
If you have gone too far with the orange and it has become too strong or dominant a presence, add some white or ochre tones to provide stability and reduce the energy from the orange elements. It is one thing to be full of vitality, but too much euphoria can be stressful. You may also want to increase the amount of orange in your bedroom at certain points in your life. If you are currently looking to start a family, a couple of orange pillows or some orange bedding can revitalise your fertility and sexual energy.
Red
In Feng Shui, red represents fire and passion. Symbolic of one of the strongest elements in nature, it should be used with great care. Its energy can be devastating and overshadow other energies. One way to find the appropriate balance of red with other colours is to use small objects when adding red to a room. A candle, a geranium, a bowl of red apples, or a painting with red elements are ways to incorporate red in a controlled way.
If you are already in a relationship, adding more of the colour red to your home can help to rekindle some of its energy and ignite a fresh spark of passion. In addition to its amorous role, red also symbolises warmth and good luck. You may want to bring these energies into your home by choosing objects that have other symbolic meanings like a pair of decorative red butterflies, a stained-glass panel, or a lamp with a red bulb.
Once you have attracted these positive energies, it is important that they have paths they can follow as they flow through your home—it should be tidy and ready to be balanced. As you learn to adapt your home so it is focused on your interests and goals, and as you also come to better understand the energies that exist inside of you, the possibility of finding romance, warmth, and passion increases. The colours that Feng Shui associates with love can help bring these energies to you.
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