Few relationships are as complex as those you have with members of your family. Whether a relationship is good or bad, the intricacies of each person’s temperament and psyche are fragile and no connection will ever be exactly like another.
If your relationship with a family member is good, feng shui can help to make it better. If your relationship is tenuous, feng shui can turn it around. The wrong feng shui can make a strong bond weak, just as the right feng shui can heal.
Where to Locate Your Family Gua
The area of your bagua that deals with family is the center of the left wall (or the left boundary of a room, as you enter). If you imagine a bagua overlay on a particular room or on your whole home, focus on the left wall, specifically the middle area. That is your family gua.
Wood - the Element of the Family Gua
The element for the family gua is wood. A wooden table in this area of your bagua could enhance your chi with family members. When looking at the bagua of your living space, if your dining area is located in the family gua, you have a built in opportunity to enhance your relationships with siblings, parents, and other family. A round wooden table invites conversation, trust, and openness with each other.
Other Ways to Improve Family Chi
If you want to mend broken family relationships you can work with the family gua in other rooms of your home, not only the dining area. In your bedroom, you can hang wooden windchimes in the family gua. Windchimes are a common feng shui cure. Depending on the situation you are working on, and the primary element of the particular gua, windchimes made from different sources enhance your chi.
If you want to use feng shi in your front room to improve family relationships, you might hang family photos of happy times in the specified gua. A comfy sofa, a pleasant light, and a piano are all symbols of reassurance and calmness, both conducive to positive chi.
Garden Feng Shui
Feng shui in your garden could be the best area for you to focus on chi surrounding your family relationships. A well-tended flowerbed can symbolize new or ongoing life, be it child being born, rejuvenation of a dormant relationship, or ongoing success in a relationship you have now.
When you have issues with members of your family, your heart needs to heal. Feng shui may be helpful in building or rebuilding a treasured part of your life.
