Hostile neighbours?
The dynamic art of *feng shui* ensures the proper flow of energy, or* Chi.* But most often we focus on aligning and correcting a space and ignore the effect of negative Chi from our neighbourhood or neighbours. Negative Chi can be due to a number of factors. Homes that suffer from years of neglect and are dirty and cluttered contain negative Chi. Homes that have illness, loss, unhappiness or anger suffer from the lingering energy left behind by these negative life situations. Negative Chi must be cleared, cleansed and purified.
Regular space cleansing creates a powerful healing energy where there may have been illness, builds stunning harmony where there may have been discord and reintroduces fabulous new-found strength where there has been weakness. Bad luck ceases and good luck flows unimpeded back into the home.
When we have friendly neighbours, the energy is reinforcing. When the vibes are hostile, the energy is depleted and becomes negative. When you have bad vibes, you constantly receive negative Chi which would be intimidating.
One can dissolve the bad Chi generated out of gossip and envy by ignoring it or countering it with a stronger Chi. If you have a neighbourhood with screaming children, you can counter it by simply placing a large urn with a wide mouth, a narrow bottom and filled with water, in that specific side of the house. You can further enhance the energy by placing some underwater lights inside the water and maybe add some small fish.
If the energy being received has strong negative vibes, gossip and hatred, you can counter it by placing a round mirror in the direction where you feel you have an unfriendly neighbour. But make sure it does not reflect a hostile neighbours house as it will draw in the hostile Chi.
At times we could even have negative Chi left over from the previous occupants of a home whose lives could have been spent in anger, bitterness and violence. These strong emotions get stuck and no renovation or painting after they move out will restore a positive feeling. The most effective remedy to cleanse such a space will be by using metal objects such as bells, cymbals or Tibetan singing bowls which absorb the negative Chi as the harmonics of metal on metal is extremely powerful.