Importance of Colur in Feng Shui

The practice of fengshui requires creativity and ingenuity. By understanding the rationale that lies behind feng shui recommendations, you will be able to generate various alternative color solutions that best suit your specific requirement.

Fengshui is a scientific art and system of creating positive environmental spirits in our surrounding environment where we live and work to through the use of  right colors connected with four directions in positive or negative vibration to enhance our health, wealth, business prosperity and family-employees harmony.

Consider the space inside your building your private sanctuary, by doing so you would be able to not only align the space to suit your personal chi energy but ensure that the energy flow is harmonious and balanced. One of the important techniques in balancing and enhancing the energy level of your space would be the use of right colours in our surrounding environment where we live and work.

Colours play a vital and important role in advanced fengshui techniques. Fengshui is all about to enhance or balance the energy level of four cosmic directions which are conducted with five cosmic elements energy and every elements is having positive and negative colors vibrations. We can bring colour energy vibration in our surrounding environment where we live and work. Colours could be incorporated in the form of wall paint, curtains, carpets, paintings, bedsheets, pillows, furnishings or even simple scattered cushions. There are certain colours, which are general guidelines in fengshui, which suit specific sectors of the home, based on the compass directions.

Direction room position & suitable colors

Shades of red go well with south, southwest and northeast. Greens and browns go well with east, southeast and south. Blue,black and green are acceptable in north, east and southeast. Shades of lilac or white are good for west, northwest and north. And colours like yellow, orange, pitch and ochre are good for southwest, northeast, west and northwest.

In fengshui, you can not paint or color your home or work office of any color of your choice as color is considered to be one of the element of the energy of the directions and wrong color painting can affect to your health, wealth, career, relationships and disturb the harmony of the employees and staff. Color being vital energy element we can change the negative energy flow of the surrounding environment of our living space and can create positive energy in our surrounding environment . Color enhance the environmental spirits. Change the color, change the destiny.

Color being cosmic force, it affects to our physical, psychological and mental level of health. Wrong colors in our surrounding environment negative to the right color of that direction  affect our health, emotion, feelings and well-being that is why color has been given vital importance in chiness fengshui philosophy for better and happy living.

The colours mentioned are indicative and one could mix and match to suit the decor and taste; but never overdo use of colours and always ensure that the ceiling is white in colour. The other technique would be to paint the walls white which is considered very ‘yang’ and use colours in the form of furnishing or cushions at the right direction to derive the same benefit. One could also use colour lights by using ‘uplift’ lights at the specific sectors. Let’s not forget that colour plays a vital role in our lives and brings joy and happiness to the space. A simple yet effective comparison would be viewing a black and white television in place of a colour television. Lights and colours are always enjoyed, even in the festivals of india, be it holi or deepavali.