Feng Shui from the Inside, Out – Day 6

If you are wondering, “Well, if the Life Path area is my bed, what about my door?” The simple answer is that the door to your space is always going to be a Life Path area. So, yes, there may be more than one Life Path area in your room…and all the others areas of the bagua as well. In fact, that will be the case in many rooms where regular seating – or sleeping – takes place. And just to complicate matters, in situations such as dining rooms or living rooms or dens, where many people have regular sitting areas, each person will have his or her own bagua in addition to the overall bagua of the entire room.

So, no, it’s not simple, but it’s not really all that complicated either; there are just a lot of things to consider in certain rooms when it comes to the very particular part of Feng Shui that relates to the way in which images affect the psychology of the people viewing them. For the most part, though, when people are seated in their Life Path area, at a desk, for instance, or watching TV, their backs are to the Life Path area itself, thus the effect of imagery is of little importance because that imagery will be behind them and mostly unseen so you can pay more attention to those areas in front of them and to the parts of the bagua they represent.

As a general rule, images that might imply danger, sadness, death or fear have no place in a home. That said, these sorts of images are often irresistible to teen-agers and their rooms are the exception to almost every rule of Feng Shui. In fact, it’s best just to stay out of them, something that is often particularly difficult for parents to do. Aside from the occasional check for possible health hazards, (which should be announced ahead of time), it is usually best, from a psychological standpoint, to avoid trespassing in teen-age claimed territory because that’s exactly what it is: territory.