Once the location of the life areas has been determined, you can look at your house and think about those life areas to decide if there are changes you can make. It is important to know what is associated with each area in order to affect change.

Colors
Each life area corresponds with specific colors and using the right color in the right area will improve that area's ch'i. You can also determine if the wrong colors are being used and change them. A change of color can be minor, such as adding a candle or a rug, or it can be major, such as replacing the carpet or painting the room. It all depends on how much of a change you feel you need to make.
The colors for each life area are as follows:

Career: black
Knowledge: black, blue, green
Helpful People: white, gray, black
Family: green
Wealth: blue, purple, red
Children: white
Marriage: red, pink, white
Health: yellow, orange, brown
Fame: red

Elements
Five of the life areas are also associated with the five elements. The elements are also important to consider in making changes because they should be placed in the proper life areas. Also, there is a creative cycle and a destructive cycle associated with the elements that allows the elements to be placed in different life areas if they either create or destroy the element that should be in the area. (Trust me, it starts to make perfect sense after awhile!)
The elements for five life areas are as follows:

Career: water
Family: wood
Children: metal
Health: earth
Fame: fire

As you can probably see, the elements make sense when you look at the colors of each area. Water is black for its depth, wood is green for growth, metal is white for its coolness, earth is brown, and fire is red. All nine areas also correspond with areas of the body, but there's no need to get even more confusing at the moment!
The creative and destructive cycles are pretty much common sense. The creative cycle has Fire producing Earth (through ashes), Earth producing Metal (with minerals), Metal producing Water (through condensation), Water producing Wood (cultivating growth), and Wood feeding Fire.
The destructive cycle is similar and in the context of feng shui, destruction is not a bad thing but merely a change. In the destructive cycle, Wood upheaves Earth, Earth obstructs Water, Water extinguishes Fire, Fire melts Metal, and Metal chops Wood. (See, I told you things would start to make sense.)


Now, I know what you're thinking. This is all fine and good, but what am I supposed to be getting out of this? How do I use this feng shui stuff? Well, as with sports, you have to get the fundamentals down first before you can even play the game!
Now that you know where each life area is located in your house, what the corresponding colors for those areas are, and which elements are associated with them, you're ready to examine which areas of your house can be changed, or "cured", in order to achieve harmony in your life.


Feng Shui Cures

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