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Best Way to Change the Atmosphere of a Room with Feng Shui

One way of changing the atmosphere of a room is to use your own chi. If you walk into a room feeling happy or excited, some of that inner energy will radiate into the room. This can help to disperse any bad atmosphere that is still present after, say, someone… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Balance the Five Elements of Your Home in Feng Shui

Chi energy is most likely to become disrupted in your home when water or fire is placed in an area where there is a potentially disruptive relationship with the balancing energy.

For example, a bathroom in the southern part of your home will mix water and fire together, which in… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Add Sparkle to Your Life Using Feng Shui

Mirrors or other reflective surfaces will change the direction of chi energy in the same way that they reflect light in new directions. This is helpful where you want to reflect more chi energy into a stagnant area. Mirrors will speed up the flow of chi energy, creating a dynamic,… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Add Rhythm to Your Life with Feng Shui

To be well organized we need a certain structure and rhythm to our lives. This can enable us to achieve more with less effort. Rather like dancing where the rhythm of the music can keep us active for long periods of time without tiring, having a rhythm to your life… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Add Excitement to Your Home with Feng Shui

Lights bring more energy into a space and, therefore, generate a livelier, yang atmosphere. Lights also add one of the components of the sun’s energy and so are associated with fire chi energy.

Representing the summer and midday energy, fire chi energy is used to help you become noticed, to… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand Your Body Changes in Pregnancy Second Trimester

The second trimester of pregnancy runs from Weeks 14 to 27. Many people consider this the fourth, fifth, and sixth months of pregnancy. This is usually considered the “peaceful time” of your pregnancy. Your morning sickness has probably gone away and you feel you have more energy than during the… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand Your Bed Rest Limitations during Pregnancy

Just as each pregnancy is unique, each bed-rest prescription, based on that doctor’s beliefs and practices, is different. Limitations can range from some activity restriction and periods of lying down (modified or limited bed rest), to complete bed rest at home (lying down with no bathroom privileges), to bed rest… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand Your Baby’s First Trimester

In the first week, a fertilized egg changes into an embryo. This embryo develops a sac that will become the placenta. Once the pla­centa starts forming, the cells of the embryo begin to differentiate into cells specific to different parts of the human body. Your baby’s major organs—the heart, lungs,… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand the Third Trimester of Pregnancy

The third or last trimester is from Week 27 to Week 40, or the sev­enth, eighth, and ninth months. This is the final phase of the pregnancy before the birth of your baby. In this stage, you’ll experience many physical demands on your body. Every activity may seem to require… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Understand the Second and Third Stage of Labor

When you’re in labor, especially the transition phase, you have no con­cept of time. You just know you’re getting tired and don’t want to labor anymore. Finally, you hear the magic word, “Complete.” Immediately afterward, you’ll sense a change in the mood of the room. The doctor or midwife is… Continue Reading…