Take Out the Trash

By Jessica Hoelzel

Make sure to empty the trash cans in your home on a regular basis – ideally each day. If they get too smelly, icky, full/overflowing they will inhibit the free-flow of energy of your space. Especially important if you have receptacles in the Wealth or Health areas.

Sorry to gross you out.

Boost Your Chi by Eating Greens

By Jessica Hoelzel

In my last post I talked about Winter being a time of Yin energy. Things are slower paced. But if you’re feeling a little too sluggish, you want to boost your chi with some Yang energy. Did you know that besides making changes to your environment you can lift your chi by eating certain foods?

Have some greens today with each meal. Spinach, mixed greens, swiss chard, kale…they soak up the Yang energy of the sun. And when you eat them, your body gets a lift.

For a yummy meal idea, visit my friend, Diet & Lifestyle Consultant Mary Langfield's site.

Plants for Enhancing Life Force Energy: Chi

By Jessica Hoelzel

Adding a living thing such as a plant can enhance the feng shui of any space. Read why here

Fitting places to put a plant (from a feng shui perspective):


Plants ==> Wood Element


4. Partnership
two potted plants represent separate but equally strong individuals, growing together

Plants for Enhancing Life Force Energy: Chi

By Jessica Hoelzel

Adding a living thing such as a plant can enhance the feng shui of any space. Read why here

Fitting places to put a plant (from a feng shui perspective):

Plants ==> Wood Element


3. Health Area
life force energy representing vitality, “blossoming”

Plants for Enhancing Life Force Energy: Chi

By Jessica Hoelzel

Adding a living thing such as a plant can enhance the feng shui of any space. Read why here

Fitting places to put a plant (from a feng shui perspective):


Plants ==> Wood Element


2. Fame & Reputation Area
the wood element feeds the fire that is the spark in you, so people know you in a positive light

Plants for Enhancing Life Force Energy: Chi

Adding a living thing such as a plant can enhance the feng shui of any space, by adding chi (life force energy) to lift the energy. But there are a few often-suggested places to put ‘em…

4 Fitting places to put a plant (from a feng shui perspective):

Plants ==> Wood Element

1. Wealth Area
in harmony with this gua’s wood element, strength (roots), upward growth, green=money

Plants for Enhancing Life Force Energy: Chi

By Jessica Hoelzel

Did you know certain houseplants can actually clean toxins from the air in your home?

Here’s a list of some of them:

• Bamboo palm
• Chinese evergreen
• English ivy
• Gerbera daisy
• Janet Craig
• Dracaena marginata
• Corn plant
• Snake plant
• Pot mum
• Peace lily
• Warneckii
• Golden pothos
• Heart leaf philodendron

 Courtesy of my avid gardener and green thumb grandmother, Martha Simms. Thanks, grandma, for all the plants you’ve given me – which lift my chi and make my home healthier!

Plants for Enhancing Life Force Energy: Chi

By Jessica Hoelzel

If you live in a cold climate like I do here in MN, it’s been a while since you’ve seen anything “alive” outside (besides evergreens of course). It’s important to have living things, including plants, around us to lift our chi in these frozen months. Do you have houseplants? If not, maybe you could consider just one. Place it in an area of the bagua according to what you intend to “bring new life to” right now. If your intention is strong you surely won’t let it dry out and die, now will you?