Lucid dreaming, with its ability to foster awareness and control within the dream state, can offer intriguing benefits when integrated into feng shui practice, a discipline concerned with harmonising individuals with their surrounding environment. Although there’s no direct scholarly research connecting lucid dreaming with feng shui, we can extrapolate several potential benefits based on the principles and aims of both practices.

1. Enhanced Environmental Sensitivity: Feng shui emphasises the importance of being attuned to the energies and arrangements within one’s living and working spaces. Lucid dreaming can heighten one’s sensitivity to environments, even in the dream state, allowing practitioners to explore and adjust their spatial relationships and energy flows in a subconscious setting. This heightened sensitivity could translate into more intuitive feng shui adjustments in waking life.
2. Creative Problem-Solving: Lucid dreaming can serve as a powerful tool for creativity and problem-solving. Feng shui practitioners could use lucid dreams to envision and experiment with different spatial arrangements and design solutions, overcoming practical limitations present in the waking world. This could lead to innovative feng shui insights and applications.
3. Personal Development and Harmony: Both lucid dreaming and feng shui aim to improve personal well-being and harmony. Through lucid dreaming, individuals can work on personal growth, face and resolve inner conflicts, and enhance self-awareness. These benefits align with feng shui’s goal of creating harmonious environments that support and reflect one’s internal state. Practitioners might find that lucid dreaming helps them achieve a deeper internal balance, which is crucial for effective feng shui practice.
4. Spiritual Insights and Integration: Feng shui is deeply rooted in Taoist philosophy, which values the interconnectedness of all things and the flow of chi (qi), or life force. Lucid dreaming offers a unique state of consciousness that can provide profound spiritual insights and experiences. Practitioners could potentially use lucid dreaming to explore and understand the deeper spiritual aspects of feng shui, enhancing their practice with a richer spiritual foundation.
5. Visualisation and Manifestation: One of the key techniques in feng shui is visualisation—envisioning the flow of energy and the outcome of specific arrangements. Lucid dreaming is a state where visualization can be incredibly vivid and immersive. Practitioners might use lucid dreams to vividly visualise their goals related to feng shui, potentially influencing the manifestation of these goals in waking reality through the principles of intention and energy alignment.

While these potential benefits are speculative, they suggest a promising intersection between lucid dreaming and feng shui practice. Integrating lucid dreaming techniques could offer feng shui practitioners new ways to connect with and influence the spaces around them, potentially deepening and enriching their practice.

Lucid dreaming and feng shui

How to use lucid dreaming for your Bagua vision board

Using lucid dreaming to explore and enhance the Bagua model in feng shui offers a unique method for deepening your understanding of your space and finding creative solutions for its arrangement. The Bagua map, or vision board, a fundamental concept in feng shui, represents different areas of your life in your living or working spaces, such as wealth, health, relationships, and personal growth. Lucid dreaming can serve as a powerful tool to mentally and spiritually interact with these areas. Here’s how you can use lucid dreaming for inspiration and solutions within the framework of the Bagua model:

1. Set a Clear Intention Before Sleep
Before going to bed, set a clear intention to explore a specific area of the Bagua map in your lucid dream. For instance, if you want to enhance the wealth area of your life, focus your intention on this aspect. By setting a clear intention, you are more likely to dream about this area and gain insights that can be applied in waking life.

2. Enter the Dream with the Bagua in Mind
Once you achieve lucidity in your dream, visualize the Bagua map overlaying your home or space. Intend to visit the area you wish to explore or enhance. This conscious decision in the dream state will guide your experience towards the selected aspect of the Bagua.

3. Engage with the Space
In the dream, interact with the space related to your focus area on the Bagua map. Look for symbols, objects, or elements that stand out. These could represent blocks or opportunities in relation to that aspect of your life. Engaging with these symbols can provide deep insights and inspiration for adjustments in your physical space.

4. Seek Solutions and Inspiration and Test
While in the lucid dream, ask for specific solutions or inspirations to enhance the chosen area of the Bagua. You might find yourself rearranging furniture, introducing new elements, or even conversing with dream characters who offer advice. The dream state can unlock creative solutions that you might not consider while awake. It’s worthwhile to test the feng shui adjustments for the desired results.

5. Remember and Record Your Insights
Upon waking, immediately jot down your experiences, insights, and the solutions your lucid dream provided. Dreams can be fleeting, and writing them down ensures you remember the details clearly. This record will be invaluable when applying the insights to your physical space.

6. Apply the Insights to Your Physical Space
Review your dream insights and begin making changes to your home or workspace according to the solutions and inspirations you received. This might involve moving objects, introducing new elements, or even removing items that may be blocking the flow of energy in that area of the Bagua.

7. Reflect on Changes and Feelings
After making changes in your physical space, reflect on how these adjustments have influenced your feelings and the aspect of your life related to the Bagua area you focused on. The effectiveness of these changes can sometimes be subtle, so give it some time and observe any shifts in energy or opportunities that arise.

By leveraging lucid dreaming in conjunction with the Bagua model, you can tap into deep wells of subconscious creativity and insight, potentially transforming your living spaces in ways that harmonize and enhance your life’s different aspects according to feng shui principles. This holistic approach marries the spiritual and practical, offering a unique pathway to personal and environmental harmony.

Spirituality and lucid dreaming

What are the potentials of lucid dreaming as a spiritual practice?

In “The Luminous Night of the Soul: The Relationship between Lucid Dreaming and Spirituality,” Tadas Stumbrys provides an empirical exploration into how lucid dreaming, a state where dreamers are aware they are dreaming, correlates with and enhances spiritual experiences. This investigation, based on a robust online sample of 471 individuals, posits that lucid dreaming can significantly contribute to spiritual growth and serve as an effective spiritual practice, particularly within secular frameworks (Stumbrys, 2021).

Stumbrys’ study is pivotal in understanding the intricate relationship between the practice of lucid dreaming and spirituality. It builds on the foundational premise that dreams have historically been seen as sources of inspiration, mysticism, and transcendental knowledge, proposing that lucid dreaming amplifies these aspects by allowing conscious interaction and exploration within the dream state (McNamara & Bulkeley, 2015; Stumbrys, 2021).

The findings underscore a positive correlation between the frequency of lucid dreaming and measures of spiritual transcendence, suggesting that individuals who experience lucid dreams more frequently report higher levels of spirituality and are more likely to encounter mystical experiences within their dreams (Stumbrys, 2021).

Furthermore, the study delves into the concept of mystical experiences within lucid dreams, highlighting their transformative potential. These experiences, characterised by feelings of unity, timelessness, and profound peace, align with universal descriptions of mysticism and are reported to significantly impact one’s spiritual outlook and personal development (Hood, 1975; Stumbrys, 2021). Such findings align with Tibetan Dream Yoga practices, which view lucid dreaming as a path to spiritual awakening and enlightenment, emphasising the practice’s potential for achieving insight into the nature of reality and self (Norbu, 1992; Wangyal, 1998).

However, the research also acknowledges its limitations, noting the correlative nature of the study, which precludes definitive conclusions about causality between lucid dreaming and spiritual growth. The call for further longitudinal research highlights the nascent stage of this fascinating intersection between dream research and spiritual studies, suggesting avenues for future exploration (Stumbrys, 2021).

Lucid dreaming and spiritual practice

The transition of Siddhartha Gautama into the Buddha, or “the Enlightened One,” represents not merely an attainment of profound spiritual insight but also suggests a liberation from the ordinary modalities of human consciousness, including dreaming. According to Buddhist traditions, upon reaching enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, the Buddha transcended the typical cycle of samsara—the endless cycle of rebirth driven by karma and desire—thereby also transcending the ordinary states of consciousness that govern human experiences, including dreaming (Britannica, n.d.). This transcendence implies that the Buddha, having awakened to the ultimate reality and liberated from the illusions and desires that bind one to the cycle of birth and death, no longer required the instructional or processing functions attributed to dreams. Dreams, in Buddhist philosophy, often signify the workings of the unconscious mind, grappling with the attachments, fears, and desires that enlightenment liberates one from. Thus, the state of enlightenment achieved by the Buddha suggests an existence in a state of constant, clear awareness and presence beyond the dualistic nature of sleeping and waking, dreaming and non-dreaming, indicating a complete liberation from the ordinary consciousness that necessitates dreaming.

Another spiritual teacher, Nisargadatta Maharaj highlights the spiritual potential of lucid dreaming (Nisargadatta, Frydman, 1973). The connection between Maharaj’s teachings and the concept of lucid dreaming as a spiritual practice is grounded in his profound insights into the nature of consciousness and reality. One particularly relevant quote from Maharaj that illuminates this connection is:

“I am beyond all dreams. I am the light in which all dreams appear and disappear. I am both inside and outside the dream. Just as a man having a headache knows the ache and also knows that he is not the ache, so do I know the dream, myself dreaming, and myself not dreaming — all at the same time. I am what I am before, during, and after the dream. But what I see in dream I am not”.

Maharaj’s view of the self is that of the unchanging witness of all experiences, including dreams. By recognising the dreamlike nature of both the dream world and the waking world, a practitioner of lucid dreaming can explore consciousness and the constructs of the mind. This leads to a deeper understanding of the self and the illusory nature of personal identity and the phenomenal world, aligning with Maharaj’s teachings on the true nature of reality and self-realisation.

In sum, it becomes apparent that lucid dreaming holds profound potential beyond mere novelty or curiosity. It emerges as a bridge between the conscious and unconscious realms, offering a unique vantage point from which to explore the depths of human spirituality and consciousness. Through the lens of lucid dreaming, individuals may find a powerful tool for personal and spiritual growth, tapping into experiences that transcend ordinary waking consciousness and open up new pathways for understanding the self and the universe at large (Stumbrys, 2021; Nisargadatta, Frydman, 1973).

References

Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (n.d.). Buddhism – Enlightenment, Dharma, Four Noble Truths. Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Buddhism

Hood, R. W. (1975). The construction and preliminary validation of a measure of reported mystical experience. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 14(1), 29-41.

McNamara, P., & Bulkeley, K. (2015). Dreams as a source of supernatural agent concepts. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 283.

Nisargadatta, M. and Frydman, M. (1973). I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Mumbai: Chetana Publications.

Norbu, N. (1992). Dream yoga and the practice of natural light. Snow Lion.

Stumbrys, T. (2021). The luminous night of the soul: The relationship between lucid dreaming and spirituality. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 40(2).

Wangyal, T. (1998). The Tibetan yogas of dream and sleep. Snow Lion.

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What is spiritual feng shui?

Feng shui works on many levels, from physical to emotional to mental and to spiritual. Spiritual feng shui deals with the spiritual aspects of individuals or organisations. In classical and modern feng shui, humans are placed between heaven (spiritual) and earth (material) dimensions. One of the original applications of feng shui was sitting for burial places, so the ancestors’ spirits could rest in peace. Modern feng shui aligns itself with modern spirituality in a holistic understanding of the interaction between environments and individuals.

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Benefits of spiritual feng shui

Research suggests that when people have organised their homes or workspaces with spiritual understanding and connection they feel better, are happier and perform better.

What is spirituality?

Spirituality is defined as a connection to a spiritual realm that is beyond physical, emotional and mental spheres or aspects of individuals or organisations as well as peace of mind and care and compassion.

Connection
Regularly connect with and experience the wonder and energy of existence. The foundation of spiritual health is your personal connection with the wonder and energy of life. From a flower, through a child’s smile, to the awesome night sky, there is a magic and beauty to existence. It is crucial that day-by-day you have times of connecting with this wonder and energy. This is your spiritual fuel. In the Spiritual Health Programme, you will discover your own best ways of making this connection.
Spirituality: Your natural connection with the wonder and energy of life

Peace of mind
By regular mediation or silence, you’ll learn how to manage your spiritual growth to find peace of mind and reduce stress. On your spiritual journey, you become a wiser and better person. Every situation, easy or painful, is an opportunity to become more loving, compassionate and conscious. This is the true foundation of happiness and inner peace. In this programme, you will be guided through how to manage your spiritual growth to find peace of mind.
Spiritual growth: The development of love and consciousness

Care and compassion
Caring for others trigger a feedback loop of wellbeing that nourishes your own body and soul. The third foundation of spiritual health is to give care and love to others. You are part of the web of life, and your spiritual generosity supports everyone’s health. Caring for others triggers a feedback loop of wellbeing that nourishes your own body and soul. In this programme, you will be reminded and shown precisely how to do this.
Compassion: Caring for others while aware of their pain

What is a spiritual or mystical experience?
Spiritual or mystical experiences are characterised by a sense of expanded consciousness, a sense of unity, oneness and wholeness as well as a sense of deeper contact and connection with life and reality. Also, spiritual experiences can offer profound and intuitive wisdom and knowledge. There are different types of spiritual and mystical experiences ranging from a presence and union with personal God (thesis), identity with impersonal Absolute (monistic), pure consciousness event (PCE) and mystical experience of the natural world (natural) and so on. Other characteristics of mystical and spiritual experiences are ego transcendence, all inclusive love, luminosity, bliss, joy, peace of mind, altered states of time and space, sense of presence, heightened attention, enhanced perception, beauty, body feelings and a sense of ‘coming home’.

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Who advocates and recognises spirituality?

Spirituality is recognised now by health professionals, governments and educational bodies. For example, The Nursing and Midwifery Council expects newly qualified graduate nurses to be able to: “In partnership with the person, their carers and their families make a holistic, person-centred and systematic assessment of physical, emotional, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual needs, including risk, and together, develops a comprehensive personalised plan of nursing care (from Spirituality in nursing care: a pocket guide, Royal College of Nursing, 2011). In a poll of British nurses taken in 2010, 80% felt that spirituality needed to be included in their education.

In mainstream education, the need for a holistic approach that includes spirituality is stated in the first paragraphs of the England and Wales Education Act of 2002 legislate for ‘a balanced and broadly based curriculum which promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of children and of society’. The opening sentence in Education Reform Act of 1988, states: “The curriculum for a maintained school (must be) a balanced and broadly based curriculum which – promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development fo pupils at the school and of society.” Education (Schools) Act 1992, states, “The Chief Inspector for England shall have the general duty of keeping the Secretary of State informed about the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils at those schools.” Ofsted School Inspection Handbook (January 2015) mentions the word ‘spirituality’ 20 times, for example, “Before making the final judgement on the overall effectiveness, inspectors must also evaluate: the effectiveness and impact of the provision for pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.” It’s interesting that historically, learning was conducted within the safe confines of temples, abbeys, convents, monasteries, or other sacred space such as groves.

In May 1984, the Thirty-Seven World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA37.13, which made the “spiritual dimension” part and parcel of WHO Member States’ strategies for health.

The British Association of Social Workers, in their Code of Ethics for Social Workers (2012), states “Social workers should respect, uphold and defend each person’s physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual integrity and well-being.”

Royal College of Psychiatrists, issued a statement  ‘Spirituality and Mental Health 2014’, where they stressed that “Spirituality emphasises the healing of the person, not just the diseases. It views life as a journey, where good and bad experiences can help you to learn, develop and mature.”

Scottish Executive Health Department issued a directive ‘Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy’ in 2009, stating, “Chief Executives are asked to ensure that this guidance is brought to the attention of all appropriate staff and, in particular, to ensure that: They have appointed a senior lead manager for spiritual care.” and “Spiritual care is usually given in a one-to-one relationship, is completely person-centred and makes no assumptions about personal conviction or life orientation. Spiritual care is not necessarily religious. Religious care, at its best, should always be spiritual.”

The General Medical Council, states “A doctor must adequately assess the patient’s conditions, taking account of their history (including the symptoms and psychological, spiritual, social and cultural factors), their views and values.” (Personal Beliefs and Mecical Practice, 2013, p.1). And there is obviously, the Hippocratic Oath, historically taken by physicians, that requires a new physician to swear, by a number of healing gods, to uphold specific ethical standards.

The United Nations conference on environment and development, The Earth Summit Conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 (Agenda 21, 6.2), suggested that “Health ultimately depends on the ability to manage successfully the interaction between the physical, spiritual, biological and economic/social environments.” This sounds like a definition of feng shui where the art, philosophy and science of feng shui merge with spirituality and metaphysics in joined care and compassion for individuals.

Modern spirituality encompasses green values of protecting and caring for the environment which is also included in feng shui as part of its ethos of living in harmony with the local and global environments.

If you want to have a good and practical understanding of modern spirituality, I highly recommend a book by William Bloom, ‘The Power Of Modern Spirituality: How to Live a Life of Compassion and Personal Fulfilment’.

Health benefits of spirituality

There are many benefits of spirituality with a clearly defined relationship between spirituality and medicine and healthcare. People who have a spiritual connection are healthier, happier and live longer. And there is a wealth of rigorous research and evidence demonstrating the benefits of spirituality for physical and mental health as well as wellbeing for individuals and for the wider community. (Obviously, there are risks and bad practice but these are fully acknowledged in the research). There is also an emerging science and physiology that explains the connection. The major study on the benefits of spirituality was done by the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University, under the supervision of Harold G Koenig. In the key paper, Religion, Spirituality, and Health: The Research and Clinical Implications (International Scholarly Research Network Psychiatry Volume 2012, Article ID 278730), Harold G Koenig reviewed over 3,300 studies on health and religion/spirituality with a major conclusion that ‘A large volume of research shows that people who are more religious or spiritual have better mental health and adapt more quickly to health problems compared to those who are less religious/spiritual.” Atheism should come with a health warning.

In another study, where researchers looked at eight decades of research, Michael E McCullough and Brian L B Willoughby, (‘Religion, Self-Regulation, and Self-Control: Association, Explanations and Implications’, Psychological Bulletin, January 2009) demonstrated that, “Believers perform better, had better health and greater happiness, and lived longer than non-believers.’ and that ‘People who were highly religious were, on average, 29% more likely to be alive at any given follow-up point than were less religious people, suggesting 25% reduction in mortality.”

Physical health benefits of spirituality affect coronary heart disease, hypertension, cerebrovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, immune function, cancer, physical functioning, self-rated health, pain and somatic symptoms, and mortality.

List your spiritual gateways that help you connect to the wonder and energies of life and how they make you feel and find ways to represent these in your home or workplace.

Mental health benefits of spirituality include coping with adversity, positive emotions, well-being and happiness, hope, meaning and purpose of life, self-esteem, sense of control, positive character traits, coping with depression and suicidal thoughts, as well as anxiety and psychotic disorders (schizophrenia), bipolar disorder and substance abuse.

On the social level, spirituality benefits society through less delinquency and crime, as well as reducing marital instability, greater care for family support and children, boosting social support and adding improvement to social capital.

And health behaviour benefits of spiritual people include less smoking, better exercise and diet which will affect weight, less alcohol and drug use and more contentment and discernment in terms of sex life.

How spirituality actually achieves health benefits?

There is a science and physiology that suggests how health benefits occur. It’s established that there are five triggers: community, meaning, lifestyle, spiritual practice, and giving care and compassion.

It’s recognised that people who meditate or spend some quiet time on their own reap health and spiritual benefits. For example, 20-min/day of mindfulness will extend your telomeres so you can live longer. Abraham Maslow, who created the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health which prioritise the fulfilment of human needs which culminate in self-actualization, self-transcendence or enlightenment, noticed in his study that there was only one common characteristic among self-actualised individuals ie that they spent at least one hour every day on their own, meditating, reflecting, journaling or just walking in a park.

Science and spiritual practices
If you need to know more about the benefits of spiritual practice, I highly recommend the pioneering book by Rupert Sheldrake: Science and Spiritual Practices: Transformative experiences and their effects on our bodies, brains and health, where he shows how science helps validate seven spiritual practices which are:
• mediation,
• gratitude,
• connecting with nature,
• relating to plants,
• rituals,
• singing and chanting and
• pilgrimage and holy places.
Rupert summaries the latest scientific research on the effects when we take part in these practices and how the core practices of spirituality are accessible to all, even if they don’t subscribe to a religious belief system.

Rupert Sheldrake Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work: Seven Spiritual Practices in a Scientific Age, suggests another seven spiritual practices that are evidence-based which are: 1. The Spiritual Side of Sports 2. Learning from Animals 3. Fasting 4. Cannabis, Psychedelics and Spiritual Openings 5. Powers of Prayer 6. Holy Days and Festivals 7. Cultivating Good Habits, Avoiding Bad Habits, and Being Kind. He also explains why do spiritual practices work. Interesting enough prayer is very similar to the intention which plays an essential role in feng shui. Feng shui = intention (prayer) + energy (grace) + ritual. Also, learning from animals is part of feng shui. In classical feng shui and Chinese astrology, the animal zodiac signs are ways of connecting to archetypical energies of the animal kingdom. There is extensive research on healing and therapeutic effect of animals on humans, for example, cat’s purring healing sound and ‘cat therapy’. Read 2019 – the year of the earth pig

All these seven spiritual practices are part of modern feng shui too. For example, meditation, singing and chanting and gratitude are part of space clearing process; connecting with nature and plants are part of living in harmony with nature and biophilia effect; rituals are key to feng shui and holy and sacred places are good examples of good feng shui.

Indian money plant and air cleansing plant – plants represent growth and flexibility as well as attract positivity

What is spiritual feng shui for?

By definition, the function of spiritual feng shui is not for personal aspects because spiritual is transpersonal. Spiritual feng shui is designed for higher values and aspirations. Spiritual feng shui is to help you connect with spiritual dimensions and realms and anchor them in your home or workplace. Having said that, spiritual feng shui can affect your personal life. By having a spiritual perspective on life, your personal and professional life can become easier, less self-centred and more productive and fulfilling because there will be less self-inflicted suffering and more balance and harmony. It is said, that one of the greatest sufferings is when your soul is in a collision with your personality. The function of spiritual feng shui is to balance your personal needs and wants with your spiritual needs. Ultimately, spiritual feng shui is for creating a holistic space to nourish your soul at home or workplace – from the inside and the outside – so it covers your spirit, your body, your home, the planet and the universe as a whole.

Feng shui as a spiritual discipline

Himalayan salt lamp

How to create sacred space in your home and workplace or business
Although sacred spaces are usually associated with holy grounds, churches, mosques, temples or power places, creating a sacred space in your one’s home is found in many cultures and traditions. For example, in Hindu tradition, every home and business should have an altar with different Indian deities and spiritual teachers, ideally facing east. In the Buddhist tradition, people have little altars with statues of Buddha and some spiritual artefacts or symbols. In Christian tradition, people hang crosses above the door to mark a sacred space of one’s home as well as have pictures of saints or Virgin Mary around the house. A lot of hotel rooms in the world have a copy of the Bible which supposed to create a sacred or religious vibe. But any book that helps you connect to larger life has an essence of spirituality. If you’re not religious or spiritual, you can have plants, flower or some nature (crystals, minerals) to connect you to a larger life or anything that works for you. For example, Himalayan salt lamps are a simple and practical artefact that can mark your connection to nature. Light is traditionally associated with wisdom and knowledge so using good lighting or natural light is good feng shui and good design.

What can trigger spiritual or mystical experiences

Spiritual and mystical experiences are very common and most people have experienced expanded states of consciousness. From feng shui and environmental psychology perspectives, nature and Biophilia effect are good examples of environmental triggers or settings where spiritual and mystical experience can take place.

Top tips for spiritual feng shui

Modern, person-centred spirituality acknowledges and recognises that people have different ways or gateways to connect to the wonder and beauty of life. For example, some people get the spiritual connection just by walking their dog in a park, some reading a book, some watching their favourite programme with family or friends, some cooking or having a bath. A spiritual connection can happen anywhere, and it is not dependent on any specific setting or practice such as meditation, contemplation or prayer which are regarded as typical spiritual practices.

Top feng shui tips and ideas to deepen your spiritual connection and to connect with your inner self as well as the wonders and energies of life:
1) Create a sacred space that has spiritual connotations and brings a spiritual connection to your life. This could be a physical reminder in the form of a place on your bookshelf with things that have spiritual meaning or a little altar or pooja mandir temple, etc.
2) Having a quiet place where you can sit still, contemplate and meditate or do your own spiritual practice would embed positive energies and create a morphic field where over time it will be easier and easier to have some sacred space for yourself.
3) Have some sacred objects and these can be just simple reminders of connection to nature such as stones or crystals or religious type objects, crosses, or pictures of saints or holy men/women. Remember, any object that reminds you of your specific gateway to your spiritual connection is a good, if not better, than anything that others might consider sacred objects. List your spiritual gateways and how they make you feel and find ways to represent these in your home or workplace as reminders and anchors (nudges). Feng shui = intention + energy + ritual.
4) Bring reverence to nature in your home. Images, posters, pictures depicting nature will help as a reminder. Biophilia effect is your connection to the wonder of the world and life’s energies.
5) Recognise wabi-sabi in your home or workplace. Seeing the beauty in the imperfection of your home or workplace will connect you to the physical world more.
6) Bring more curvilinearity as opposed to angularity. According to research round and oval shapes are more associated with spiritual and energetic aspects of life as opposed to square or rectangular shapes which are more associated with the material world.
7) Light and fire are associated with the spiritual realm (probably because plasma makes up 99.9% of the universe). Make sure that you have good illumination at home and plenty of good and healthy lighting (no fluorescent and energy-saving light bulbs). Candles, incense and fireplaces are good spiritual connectors and activators but don’t overdo them since they do pollute the air. My personal favourites are plasma balls and Himalayan salt crystal lamps.
8) Perform regular space clearing rituals and ceremonies to purify your home and workplace.
9) Add fractal designs and patterns. Fractals are infinite patterns to can remind us of the wonder of this world and its infinite possibilities.
10) Visit some local power places or sacred sites to feel the presence of the connection to the wonder and energies of life or do forest bathing.
11) Create a healthy home by avoiding and minimising environmental stressors such as geopathic stress, electromagnetic pollution, dirty electricity, etc to echo old Latin wisdom of ‘Mens sana in corpore sano’ – “a healthy mind in a healthy body”.
12) Your gateways to your spiritual connection ………….
Spend a few minutes thinking about your spiritual gateways, how they make you feel, write them down. It could be anything, anyone, anytime or place or activity that makes you feel at ease, embodied and connected to life, eg looking at art, listening to music, swimming, sunbathing, running, holding a baby, dreaming, etc that make you feel… eg at ease, peaceful, blissful, mindful, happy, joyful, active, enlightened, present, alive, in the flow, relaxed, energised, safe, etc. In the next few weeks or months find ways to represent these spiritual connections in your home or workplace as reminders and anchors for these events and affects to help you become more spiritual (as demonstrated by Noble prize-winning ‘nudge theory’). Feng shui = intention + energy + ritual.
13) Sound is one of feng shui intervention and usually it is used in the form of windchimes and other remedies that produce southing sounds. Music is also used in feng shui as a background sound for space clearing and calming effect. Research at McGill University in Canada suggests that music can boost your immunity because it increases the levels of antibodies that protect from infections. An analysis of over 400 studies in 2013 suggests that immunoglobulin A (IgA) an anti-body found in mucus membranes was found in higher quantities after listening to music. People who listen to music also had higher number of natural killer cells that are responsible for killing bacteria and other pathogens. Daniel Letiven, the lead psychologist researcher thinks that the effect is related to a reduction in cortisol, the stress hormone (which is known to suppress the immune system), when listening to music.

PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue – the colour of 2020

To sum up

Spirituality is not dependent on spiritual feng shui because it includes it. To develop one’s spirituality, one just needs to do spiritual practice which practically can be done anywhere. Of course, it’s helpful to have a nice, supportive and harmonious environment for your spiritual practice. That’s where spiritual feng shui plays a role – your home or workplace environment that reflects your spiritual values, your spiritual intelligence and reminds you with physical anchors and triggers to be present, mindful, peaceful, caring and connected to the wonder and energies of life.

Jan Cisek has an Ofqual accredited diploma in Practical Spirituality and Wellness which is an evidence-based discipline and also works as a Spiritual Health Mentor. More info about Spiritual Health Mentor

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Research on spirituality and benefits

Berman, M. G. & Jonides, J., & Kaplan, S. (2008). The cognitive benefits of interacting with nature. Psychological Science, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02225.x
Bouckaert, L. & Zsolnai, L. (2011). Spirituality and Business. In: Bouckaert L., Zsolnai L. (Eds.), Handbook of Spirituality and Business. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230321458_1
Bryndin, E. & Bryndina, I. (2019). Hygiene and Endoecology, Light Bioenergy and Natural Ecology, Balanced Mentality and Spiritual Life as Criterion of Health. Journal of Medical Research and Health Sciences, doi:10.15520/jmrhs.v2i2.26
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