In feng shui, the ancient discipline of Chinese origin that seeks to harmonize the spaces we inhabit to generate well-being, everything we put at home around us influences how we feel and how we relate. So much so that, sometimes, we put things that at a certain moment we think look good and contribute to the harmony of the home, but we don’t get it right. Either we have made a bad decision from the beginning or over time that choice stops making sense and begins to generate imbalances at home.
This often happens with family photos that we put on walls, shelves, tables or other furniture. And, if you are initiated into the feng shui philosophy when it comes to decorating your home and placing furniture, you will know how important what you choose to decorate your house is as where you place it and how you arrange it. This is what we are going to talk to you about today: what photographs you put at home and where you place them… Are you placing them correctly?
Although many of us always see them as something positive and that always adds to our home, the truth is that, as we have them in one area or another of the housethey will transmit us better or worse energies, more or less harmony. This is what he assures, Montserrat Beltrán, expert advisor in feng shuiwho gives us some essential tips for placing personal photos at home so that we achieve greater balance.
Where to place photos of people, according to feng shui
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Do you have photos of your older children in the hallway at home? Are there pictures of your children in the master bedroom? Avoid alterations in the harmony of the home following these tips from the expert:
Photos of family at home, yes or no?
In this sense, the expert points out that It’s a personal decisionsince whether or not to have photos decorating the walls and furniture in your home is a matter of taste. So, if you want to leave the walls clean, go ahead. And if you prefer to have images of your loved ones around you, too. «It is not mandatory to post photos,» emphasizes the feng shui expert.
Is it a good idea to put photos in the hall?
«If you like the photographs and want to put them in the hall, We advise that they only be photos of those who now live in the house. Then, in the rest of the house, we can choose where to place them,» explains Beltrán. By this he means that we should avoid decorating this entrance to the house, which should welcome whoever passes through the door with good energy, both with images of the deceased and of people who no longer live in the house. They may be ex-partners, children who have become independent, or former roommates, whether they are family members or not.
«In families in which the children have become independentit is better not to have them in the hall. Put them in the living room, the hall, wherever you want… Except in the bedroom or the bathroom,» he emphasizes.
What photos can be put in the bedroom?
Thus, the feng shui advisor assures that «in the master bedroom There cannot be photographs that are not of the people who sleep there.«This implies, as he points out, avoiding photographs of children, parents, grandparents, friends and, especially, of the deceased. And the bedroom is considered in this ancient discipline as a intimate and emotionally undisturbed spacededicated to rest and recovery of energy. That is why decorating it with photographs of deceased beings can alter that necessary energy and emotional peace.
No photos in the bathroom, the biggest mistake!
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There is something that Montserrat Beltrán is very clear about: ««Not in the bathroom, please.» And the expert assures that it is a space in the home in which we should not place photographs. The reason is that, according to feng shui, if we place photos of family members in the bathroom it is as if his energy was being wasted somehow. Nor is it considered an appropriate space to represent family ties or emotional connections, since in this discipline It is associated with the elimination of negative energies.
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