How Feng Shui’s Five Elements Help You Achieve Your Goals

One of Feng Shui’s most important roles is helping you achieve your most cherished goals.

Here’s how the Feng Shui’s Five Elements can help:

1. If you’re looking for growth and new beginnings, bring the Wood element into your environment with healthy plants or symbolic items like the color green or vertical stripes. Silk plants or botanical prints will do the trick too!

2. Would you like to realize your passion or improve your reputation? If so use the Fire element in your space with red items, candles, lighting and pointed or triangular items.

3. Perhaps you’ve resolved to become more grounded and stable or create a more nurturing environment for yourself. The Earth element anchors this intention with square items — especially earthenware tiles — and earthy colors like sand, brown or yellow.

4. When you’re ready to focus and bring important projects to completion, use the Metal element: rounded objects, the color white or light pastels, and anything actually made of metal.

To anchor my own intentions I’ve recently brought out a beautiful metal heart-shaped box and placed my resolutions inside.

5. When you’re ready to feel more connected, either with new people in your life or with your own sense of spirituality and inner truth. Turn to the Water element, which you can bring into your space with the color black, or with sinuous objects.

A balance of the Five Elements can help you achieve your goals at home and at work. Do you have a good balance, wherever you are?