Your Lucky Feng Shui Directions Info and Tips

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Rodika Tchi
Rodika Tchi is an experienced feng shui consultant who guides clients through all aspects of applying feng shui in their homes, offices, and gardens.
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Rodika Tchi
Updated 06/30/20
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The concept of lucky feng shui directions seems to confuse many feng shui enthusiasts. The reason is simple - some feng shui books affirm that it is vital to face your lucky feng shui directions because calamities can happen if you face your unlucky directions. This is non-sense.

Basically, the meaning of lucky and unlucky feng shui directions is that you receive better energies from some directions ​and inauspicious energies from other directions. It is neither a miracle solution nor a guaranteed formula for success. 

Let's start with: Your Lucky Feng Shui Directions

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    Find Your Lucky Feng Shui Directions

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    Your lucky feng shui directions help you attract the quality of energy that is most nourishing, or suitable, for you. Once you know your lucky feng shui directions, you will try to face them at work, at home, and when you sleep (the direction the crown of your head is facing when you are in bed). How do your find your lucky feng shui directions? It is easy. 

    Next: Can Feng Shui Really Make You Lucky? 

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    Can Feng Shui Really Make You Lucky?

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    Yes, feng shui can help you attract more luck and success. Absolutely! It is helpful to know that ancient feng shui masters defined three levels of luck -- Heaven, Earth, and Mankind. While you cannot change your date and place of birth (Heaven Luck); you can definitely strongly improve your other two levels of luck. Your Earth Luck is strengthened when you live in a place with strong and vibrant Chi. 

    Next: Tips for A Bed Facing an Unlucky Feng Shui Direction

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    Tips for A Bed Facing an Unlucky Feng Shui Direction

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    Feng shui info should be taken as a tool to improve your life and well-being, not to create complications for yourself. If you cannot change the position of your bed, then you cannot change the position of your bed. Accept it as a given and start from there. 

    Next: Do I Apply Good Feng Shui to My Worst Feng Shui Directions?

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    Do I Apply Good Feng Shui to My Worst Feng Shui Directions?

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    Is it OK to apply good feng shui in one's bad feng shui directions? But, of course, it is. You want to apply feng shui to your whole house, and especially to areas with seemingly questionable energies.  However, a distinction should be made between a specific bagua area of your home and a specific feng shui direction, as this is where most of the confusion happens. Read more

    Next: Feng Shui Lucky Directions and The Power Spot for Your Desk or Your Bed 

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    Feng Shui Lucky Directions and The Power Spot for Your Desk or Your Bed

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    If you know your Kua number, you can then calculate your best or lucky feng shui directions. The use of feng shui lucky directions is certainly not mandatory, but you will usually get better energy when facing your best directions. With the lucky feng shui directions in mind, you can rearrange your bedroom and your office.

    Next: How Do You Define A Specific Feng Shui Direction?

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    How Do You Define A Specific Feng Shui Direction?

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    I know establishing the directions in feng shui can be confusing, especially when you read about different ways of defining the bagua, or the feng shui energy map of your home. Yes, East is East, the cardinal direction, but the point of reference, or the starting point, will be the Center of your Home. Read more

    Next: Office Feng Shui Dilemma: Do I Face the Wall or a Bad Direction?

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    Office Feng Shui: Do I Face the Wall or a Bad Direction?

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    If this is your office feng shui situation, then you might think you are encountering a big challenge. However, numerous offices have the same situation but manage to create good office feng shui. So, let's see what you can do to improve the feng shui of your office.

    Next: Improve the Bad Feng Shui Direction of A Front Door

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    Improve the Bad Feng Shui Direction of A Front Door

    Are you worried about your front door facing your unlucky direction?

    Continue Reading: 10 Feng Shui Myths To Stop Believing Now