Feng Shui can also benefit those of us who live in apartments, the first step is to focus on the entrance of your Feng Shui apartment. Mapping the bagua on your floor plan will play a vital role for us here. Since there are a variety of apartments available, the practice of Feng Shui may differ slightly from place to place depending on the type of apartment you have.
However, it is important to note that even if there is a wide variety of apartment styles, the basics of Feng Shui will apply to any space or location.
If you live in an apartment building, there are two very important things to keep in mind. The first is the entrance of the building and the second is the entrance of the Feng Shui apartment. Map your bagua tool with the north side aligned with the wall with the apartment’s main entrance. This will prepare you to apply whatever Feng Shui cures and enhancements you want to use to energize and activate areas of your life. Your entrance should be clutter-free and generally welcoming, both inside and outside your door. Less clutter will allow more energy to flow into your apartment. In Feng Shui, the position of the entrance to any room or space is very important, it can block energy or allow it to flow inward.
When looking for the best location for an apartment, you should avoid those in an elevated structure. How would you know if a certain apartment building is sitting on a raised structure? This is easy to determine because these buildings often have a parking lot on the ground floor, which makes the apartment building appear to be elevated from the ground. Due to the fact that these structures are not grounded, it can be a possible place for bad, stagnant power.
Most apartment buildings have swimming pools located in the attic or on the upper level of the building. This is not a good Feng Shui sign because it means that everything else is under water. Feng Shui strives to maintain the balance between the five elements, as well as Yin and Yang, so making one element dominant over the other is a huge no-no.
If you have the option of living in an apartment located on the lower floors instead of the upper floors, keep in mind that the lower the apartment or closer to the ground, the better. The chi will travel a long way before you can reach an apartment on the upper floors, but to help, you can keep the lights on or hang a plant outside your home to help the chi flow inward.
Another popular type of apartment style is a studio apartment, which is not conducive to Feng Shui. Although, using the bagua map aligned with your Feng Shui apartment entrance, mapping out the nine living areas will be pretty straightforward. That is, it will be much more obvious where you should place the cures. Ideally, the different areas should be divided and the boundaries should be set correctly. A studio apartment means that all areas are molded into one main living room. If this is the case, then you can use dividers or curtains to delimit the different areas of your apartment. The most important thing is to divide the bedroom from everything else.
If you are looking for an apartment, you should keep in mind that the ideal apartment is a place where there are no garbage disposals or garbage containers nearby. Apartments that are too close to the stairs or elevator, as well as apartments that are at the end of a long hallway, are also not recommended.
Remember, you can use the Bagua as an aid as an entrance map to your Feng Shui apartment. Just line it up like a floor plan in your apartment, starting at your entrance (align this wall to the north on the map) to find out which directions different living areas in your environment will relate to, and start feng shu! ing!