Can rearranging your furniture really help you to find and keep
“The One?”
Can storing your underwear in the Tupperware drawer really heat up your love life?
Well, the jury’s still out on that one — but hey, it can’t hurt, right? According to Feng Shui (say FUNG SCHWAY) experts, little changes can make a big difference where romance is concerned.
An ancient Chinese practice, “Feng Shui is purposefully arranging your stuff around you to gain positive results,” says Karen Rauch Carter, author of Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life.
To get your love life on track fast, try adding a little Feng Shui to the relationship area of your home.
As you enter through your front door, your relationship section is located at the farthest right hand corner at the back side of your home. According to Feng Shui practitioners, specific items in your relationship corner can spice things up considerably – whether you’re already in a relationship, or single and looking for love. Try adding these items to perk up your love life:
Anything red and pink
Sure, it makes for a decorating challenge, but these colors represent love. You can’t go too crazy with red and pink here. Red pillows, red accessories, pink sheets, red drawer liners Feng Shui experts say that while the color and the intention has to be there, they don’t actually need to be visible to work.
Candles
They create heat, they’re romantic, what more could you want? For extra vaa-vaa-voom, try two pink or red candles sitting side by side. (One for each of you.)
Round mirrors
This has to do with a more complicated idea of reflecting energy, but all mirrors are good here, and round mirrors are best.
Whatever symbols signify love to you
Anything goes, and it goes here. Flowers, cupids, romantic photos of the two of you together, hearts, bride and groom cake toppers, candy hearts, a bowl full of chocolate or a Barbie Doll in full bridal paraphernalia. If it means romance to you, put it here.
Your relationship will be red hot. And you’ll both have excellent posture…
As you might expect, experts agree there are also a number of things that can put a Feng Shui damper on your love life as well. Try to avoid putting these items in your relationship corner:
Negative images
This is not the place to store that shoebox with old photos of your exes, or any other negative images from bad weather to bad times.
Anything that encourages distance
Put the cactus and your ceramic porcupine collection somewhere else. They’re not helping.
Anything with a chill factor
If it’s cold, it’s bad news.
Move the refrigerator and the poster of the polar bear unless you want your relationship to cool too.
Singles only
Avoid photos of yourself alone here, your one-slice toaster, and that picture of you as the lone, uncoupled bridesmaid at your cousin Bertha’s wedding.
Single-girl (or single guy) reminders have got to go.
Distractions
Something coming between you and your one-and-only? Maybe it’s the big screen TV or your decoupage supplies. Put ’em somewhere else.
Games
Sure, Yahtzee is the greatest, but if you want to avoid games in your relationship, you’ve got to avoid them here too.
“You sunk my Battleship…and my relationship.”
Does it work? Tina, a 31-year old dater from Minneapolis used Feng Shui on the spare bedroom of her apartment with the intention of bringing a new relationship into her life, “My friends all thought I was insane, but I was at the point where I felt like I’d already tried everything else.” Working with a Feng Shui consultant, Tina added matching nightstands to her guest room, put red sheets on the bed, added pairs of candles everywhere, and moved her romantic comedy collection into the room. Three weeks after she redecorated, she met Mark at a barbecue. “We just hit it off immediately,” she said. “It’s now been a year and we’re still going strong.”
Try these simple techniques to add a little (or a lot) of toe-curling romance to your life. And if it doesn’t work out, well, you can always redecorate.
Lisa Daily is the bestselling author of Stop Getting Dumped!
This article originally appeared on Click by Lavalife and MSN-Canada
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