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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Applying Vaastu for Kitchen Brings You Basic Life Energy

Everyone can understand the significance of a kitchen. After all, a house without a kitchen cannot be considered complete. An Indian housewife spends most of her time in the kitchen - her day starts in the kitchen and ends in the kitchen - and the entire family gets their basic life energy from food that is prepared in the kitchen. One can even say that the kitchen is the backbone of the house.

In earlier times, the kitchen was situated in an open space. This helped the kitchen access as much light as possible and made it easier to dispel smoke rising from the stove. Today, most of us have closed kitchens. Hence, it is essential to create a vaastu friendly kitchen that fulfils the requirement for a place that takes care of our physical, emotional and biological needs.

Vaastu for kitchen- Where should be the kitchen in the house?

The kitchen should, ideally, be located between the southern and eastern directions, i.e. in the southeast direction of the plot. Kitchens situated in the northeastern direction may result in heavy losses for the family. Similarly, kitchens in the southwest could give rise to clashes within the family, whereas a kitchen in the northwest may result in an increase in expenditure.

What lighting should be used?

Good lighting is an essential prerequisite for a kitchen. To ensure proper ventilation and a positive vaastu environment, the kitchen's windows should be positioned in the eastern direction. Artificial lighting should also be sufficient.

Kitchen door-

The best place for the kitchen door is in the north. Take care that while preparing food, the cook does not have his or her back towards a door.

Colors in Kitchen-

Kitchens should be decorated in warm colours such as oranges, browns and yellows. Avoid using blue as it is identified with water. Shades of green can be used as a remedy for improving the vaastu of wrongly placed kitchens.

Gas Stove Placement-

The gas stove should be in southeast corner of the kitchen area. This direction is called Agneya Disha, named after Agni, the Hindu god of fire who resides here. This disha (direction) has a natural source of fire as solar heat is at its maximum when the sun is in the southern direction. When the sun reaches the southeast, it releases vitamins D and F in the atmosphere. The value of these vitamins in the kitchen is immeasurable.

While preparing the food, the cook should face the east or the south direction because facing the north or the west while cooking is not favorable.

Water Source Placement-

Since the element of water is the opposite of fire, great care should be taken about its positioning. All the water arrangements should be placed in the north or the northeast, as this is considered very auspicious. Also ensure that all water elements are situated to the left of the gas stove. The placement should be such that when you use the gas stove for cooking, water utilities such as washbasins, sinks, and drinking water are on your left.

Avoid placing a refrigerator in the kitchen, as the elements of water and fire clash with each other.

Grains and Raw Foods-

Store the heavy grain and raw food in the south and west direction of the kitchen. Hence, all kitchen cupboards should be built and placed near walls in the southwest direction. The grains are very heavy and the north and east directions does not allow the weight on them. The other logic is keeping the things in south and western directions make them heavy and in turn it is good if southwestern wall are heavy. Keeping the goods in southwestern walls make the eatables a good millage to consume.

Other-

All heat-generating kitchen equipment, such as microwaves, hot cases, hotplates, geysers, mixer grinders etc. should be placed in the southeast direction of the kitchen. All these appliances are electrical energy which is fire. These appliances release heat energies which are only to be released in the southeast direction, since it is a fire element direction. This direction is owned by the lord Agnidev.

The kitchen's northern and eastern corners should be kept free of clutter and not blocked with heavy materials or equipments.

Try not to keep pictures of gods and goddesses in the kitchen.

Above are some of the basic principles of vaastu in kitchen. If you wish to have some more tips for your home click- vaastu for home. Our ancestors used to implement Vaastu at their homes. Vaastu is an amazing and beautiful science that can bring you lots of happiness and peace of mind through balance in basic elements (earth, space, fire, water and air), cosmic energies (electromagnetic energy and other life energy).

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An Influx of Positive Energy in your Houses with Vaastu Shastra

What’s Keeping You Down?

A lot is written at this time of the year reminding you to be grateful for what you have and thanking God or your Creator for your blessings. Yes, it is good and important to be grateful and set aside one day per year to express that gratefulness but what about the rest of the year? Most people miss the vast difference between being grateful and living a life in gratitude.

The definition of grateful is having or showing the desire or reason to thank somebody for something. For example, at Thanksgiving families express gratefulness for the past year and look forward to the year ahead. The definition of gratitude is a feeling within of being thankful, appreciating and acknowledging all there is in your life and in your surroundings no matter how poor or opulent.

When you feel like you are settling for second best or always pursuing “stuff” you are experiencing a non-gratitude attitude which can result in a feeling of overwhelm, unhappiness and great discouragement – or all three. The chains of “always wanting more,” “self-doubt” and “second guessing oneself” are paralyzing. A gratitude attitude breaks those chains, frees and empowers you.

Identify Toxic Thinking

A Feng Shui lifestyle is more than just the location of your home or office and the placement of your belongings. A Feng Shui lifestyle also includes balance in your thinking, emotional well-being and a gratitude attitude. Out of this balance emerges the future you wish to create.

If you are constantly wanting and seduced by unending materialism, too much television, the mystique of endless hours on social media, food cravings and eating, the latest electronic gadgets or non-stop sports, there is little or no room for a peace-filled non-wanting balanced life that comes from a gratitude attitude.

Tear Down the Walls of Seduction

Where do the walls of seduction lie in your life? What areas seduce you into thinking “if you only had more,” “if they only treated me better,” “if my family was in contact more,” if only my home was bigger or in a better neighborhood,” “if only I could lose weight” or “if only I had more money”? This type of negative thinking creates blockages in your life and prevents you from finding joy, being at peace within, and living happily in the moment.

Key areas of seduction that cause such blockages include:

• Home – too small, wrong neighborhood, outdated decor
• Personal appearance and image – too heavy, too thin, not tan enough, not enough clothes
• Family and children – never call, take advantage of, unequal relationships
• Hobbies – too few, too many, too time-consuming
• Money – too little, poor investments
• Career – too few promotions, too little prestige, too demanding, not challenging enough
• Friends – too few, too many, unequal relationships
• Social media and technology – always in contact but never connected

Isn’t it time for you to tear down the seduction walls that chain you down and prevent you from having a gratitude-filled joyful life?

Unchain Your Future

Create a new thought loop. The easiest way to unchain your future and experience a lifestyle filled with gratitude, joy, freedom and to create a better tomorrow is to stop limiting yourself to your internal negative thinking. Get rid of that constant negative loop that says “I can’t,” “nothing goes my way,” “it’s someone else’s fault,” “I don’t know if I made the right decision,” or “what if tomorrow is worse?”

Replace those negative thoughts with gratitude thinking such as “I will take responsibility for the way I feel, the choices I make, the job that I have, my relationships and my time; and am grateful for what I have.” You can also use the first few lines of the Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr.

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Choose to awaken each day with a grateful heart. A gratitude attitude permeates the heart and soul and is a way of life. Use your senses to find gratitude in every waking millisecond.

• see beauty and abundance in your surroundings and within
• hear the joy of birds in the country, a dog in your yard or bustling city sounds
• taste the food on your table, a snowflake falling or the salt spray of the ocean
• smell the fragrance of a newborn, fresh laundry, newly blossomed flowers or baked goods
• feel joy where ever it appears, a birthday cake, leftover meatloaf, the hug of a friend whether virtual or in person

A life lived in gratitude is empowering and will shout joyfully in appreciation for all that is good in the world which makes room for all the blessings yet to come.

What will the year of the Water Snake Bring to You in 2013?

The year of the Chinese Dragon was an intense year for all of us! It was either intensely good or intensely bad, there was no in between. However, the year of the Water Snake brings good fortune to all of the animal signs. This only happens once in 9 years, so that is an awesome start for all of us. This is the year to make your strategy big for your personal and professional areas of your life.

Lots of good news this year with 2013 having all of the five elements present, water, fire, earth, wood, metal and fire. You have the chance to make things happen quicker and easier. Now is the time to get your thinking cap on and figure out what is most important to you at this date and time.

We are very fortunate this year with the energies bringing forth more a sense of calmness, not like the Dragon energy of 2012. You can now refocus your goals and intentions easier and with more success. The young will be focusing on new ways of achieving their goals and creating a different world in how they work, communicate and interact with each other. The older generation will be looking at how to create and keep their wealth and they also will be more focused on strengthening their previous way of live to fit in successfully with the younger generation.

Feng Shui Grandmaster Lillian Too says, “The year’s outlook will be balanced, bringing harmony and fewer problems and obstacles.” We should all breathe a sigh of relief and create the year that we want by focusing and strategizing our business plans with creativity and harmony.

She also explains the elements and their meaning this year. The Wood element is representative of the Wealth Luck which means for all of us new wealth coming in this year.

Earth is the element that represents Resource Luck which means support for your projects and goals.

The element of Metal indicates good fortune to all of the animal signs and things will be manifested very easily. This is the BEST news for 2013. Add a little extra of this element and it will support your health and vitality for the year. The balancing of elements in your home and office spaces is what attracts good fortune.

Since the “Boomers” are the generation to be reckoned with at this time, the power element of Fire will be very good for them. This is the generation that will benefit the most as they are considered the older, wiser generation. They are the ones that will benefit greatly at the beginning of the year with this great, new, energy.

Now for all of the young people, the element of Water comes with an Intelligence Luck in 2013. The best ideas and creativity will come from this generation, as it should be, to move the generations forward. Their visionary abilities will be the best at the end of 2013.