What if you could make your life and a home happier while promoting happiness, harmony, and prosperity? Sound sweet, huh?
Inviting the ideals of Vastu Shastra to your home and garden will help ensure a lifetime of beautiful, optimistic, joyous energy.
What is Vastu Shastra?
The way your house is balanced, according to Vastu Shastra, will promote positivity and harmony, or the opposite.
The basics of this science are to combine five natural elements or energy sources: earth, air, sky, fire, and water, to help you attain meaningful life goals and to promote harmony, prosperity, and wellbeing for your family.
How is it done? Guidance revolves around the architecture, configuration,
distance, and geometrical coordinates of your house. If all are compatible, you will build the atmosphere you want: stability and harmony.
According to this traditional Hindu practice, if you plan your home design and orientation following Vastu rules, you could prevent negative energies from entering your house.
Although many of Vastu's ideals might not be feasible, we can bring and re-arrange certain items to bring good energies to our living spaces and give your home a "Vastu brush."
Vastu is translated as "dwelling," and shastra is believed to translate to "teaching."
Benefits
When you carry the Vastu touch to your house, you will bring positive energy and happiness. Every room in your home has a special value, orientation, and usage for energy conservation. Using Vastu guides, you will match decorations and furniture such that there is alignment with the fundamental, natural forces that generate light.
One of Vastu's guiding principles is that there is an equivalent, matching negative energy for each positive energy sum in this world. Vastu aims to prevent harmful energy from accessing your house.
Vastu for Your Home and Life
While you might not be able to pick up your house and move it to realign it according to Vastu guidelines, there are simple ways to bring Vastu into your home.
For example, you could bring positive energy to your front door by making sure there are no obstructions on your front door and ensure it's a strong wooden door with no rusty hardware or peeling paint. You might also want to have a pot with a citrus fruit at the entrance to invite good health and energy.
Attract Financial Prosperity to Your Home with Vastu
Placing a money box (or a jewelry box) following the Vastu rules helps money coming in. Your cash-box must be situated next to the southwest or south wall of a room.
According to Vastu, making sure you patch leaking faucets or other plumbing issues may prevent financial losses.
Keeping a good airflow in your house also leads to a better flow of wealth. And hanging wind chimes at your entrance will contribute to more cash flow.
Vastu Tips for Improving Family Relationships
Hindu tradition says you can bring peace and harmony to your home by placing happy pictures of your family in your house's Northeast section. Don't display any aggressive pictures in your house, as they draw harmful energies.
If there's a family dispute, you should consider placing a white sandalwood statue on plain sight, to be seen several times a day. According to the Hindu belief, this would alleviate conflicts and make ties more harmonious.
Vastu often recommends installing a wind chime with crystals in the bedroom to mitigate any issues or battles.
Vastu Tips for Your Bedroom
Your bedroom is a place of relaxation. Locate your bedroom in the South, Southwest, or West directions, if possible. If you're the family's elder, try not to sleep in the Northwest corner, since tradition suggests it may impact health or money problems.
Using vivid colors and earthy tones on the bedroom walls (pink, orange, purple, brown, or dark blue tones but not white, yellow or black) brings positive energies to the body and mind. Keep bedrooms clean and free of clutter to maximize it.
Additional Vastu ideas for your bedroom involve leaving the door often open to bring good energies into the room and placing the bed in the room's southwest corner. Vastu custom calls for couples to use a single mattress, with the wife sleeping on the left side.
Living Room
Your living room is an essential part of the home because it's open to different energies. Ideally, if a home's main entrance faces East or North, the living room should be on your home's Northeast side. If it faces West, the living room should be on the Northwest side of the house. For a home whose entrance faces South, the living room should be located in the Southeast direction.
Electronics should face the South, which is the direction of fire, to encourage positive energy flow. Arrange heavy furniture like sofas along the Southwest corner of your living room for optimum positive energy flow.
Hanging wind chimes on your living room windows can avoid negative energy to enter your home. You can invite luck and positive energy by placing paintings showing water, rivers or fish, or an aquarium with healthy fish.
Kitchen
If possible, Vastu recommends you locate your kitchen in the southwest or northwest corner of your home in honor of Agni, the flames lord. And far away from the bedroom as possible because of the mingling of different energies. Burners and stoves should face South.
The best location for the kitchen is to the East since this area brings flourishing. Other Vastu kitchen tips include locating the drinking water on the northeast side.
Garden
General Vastu's garden recommendations involve creating a beautiful, pleasant garden with healthy and well-maintained plants. It's considered profitable to plant jasmine on both sides of your path. Keep your garden looking tidy and have a pot of water for thirsty birds to bring positive luck.
The courtyard is essential and should be the core of your house. It should be held clean and clear from obstructions. Try to create a concrete, pebble, or marble floor in your courtyard and decorate it with basil planters and other herbs.
Make sure you grow plants such as coconut, basil, jasmine, sandalwood, saffron, pineapple, Bakul, pomegranate, frangipani (plumeria), lemon, mango, and almond.
Avoid cactus and all other thorny plans; they are considered to weaken and create tension in relationships. Finally, clear all dead plants and leaves from the garden.
Bring Peace and Harmony to Your Home
Making these improvements to your home will contribute to a more optimistic atmosphere in your household, according to the beloved practices of Vastu Shastra. Balancing the five elements of earth, water, air, space, and fire will contribute to more happy, productive, and peaceful energy in your home and life.