The Front Entrance and Foyer

Traveling from room to room in the following four chapters, you will create beauty and harmony, and you’ll also program your home to support you. As with every feng shui consultation, the best place to begin is the front entrance. Working your way through your home, you will find the most favorable recommendations for each room.

I encourage you to implement a few changes immediately. This will allow you to experience how shifting the energy transforms a room so that it looks and feels better. Taking action is the key.
Using your intuition, decide which areas require the most attention and begin with them. Take baby steps. Set out to improve one corner, table, or arrangement and work your way through the area. Revitalizing your space should be fun. For added pleasure, you can invite friends and family to partake in the feng shui activities. The point is to enjoy the process, whether it takes one month or one year.

The Front Entrance

The entrance to your home is considered the mouth of your dwellings, thus making it one of the most important factors for actively drawing in positive energy. In the same way you nourish your body with healthy food, you must fuel your surroundings with beneficial energy. The amount of healthy living energy you can bring in the front door makes a huge difference in the overall feng shui of your space. The question to ask is, “How can I encourage health, prosperity, abundance, and tranquility to appear in my life right now?”
The first step is to create a clear, open and beautiful entrance for energy to move through and to circulate in your home. When your entrance radiates positive energy, it opens the door to your destiny. Feng shui promotes the belief that your golden opportunities come in through the front door. Think of the door as your official welcoming committee. It is the threshold for all good things to come your way.

You should embellish the formal entrance since it is ordinarily seen from the street and maintains your public image. However, it is possible that you don’t use this entrance on a daily basis. The door you do use most frequently is significant in allowing the majority of the outside energy to flow inside the home. So, if you enter through an alternate door such as a laundry room, garage, or side door, you must evaluate and beautify it with the same verve as you would the formal entrance.

First Impressions

Your front entrance creates a first impression for you, for others, and for unlimited opportunities to come your way. It sets the intention for the rest of your home. Every time you drive up, you house either emanates an aura of success, abundance, and pride, or a feeling of disarray, laziness, and misfortune. When you are on a vacation and drive up to a hotel entrance, what immediately goes through your mind? You look at the maintenance of the building, landscaping, cars in the parking lot, and other indicators. You make dozens of evaluations instantaneously. You are either elated with your travel agent or massively disappointed. When the hotel driveway welcomes you with beautiful trees, colorful flowers, a grand water fountain, and a smiling doorman, you are content before you have even stepped into the lobby.
In the same way, your home must welcome you, your guests, and all of your opportunities with loving, open arms. Before these “opportunities” ring the doorbell, your goal is to flood them with beauty, happiness and comfort. While they wait for you to answer the door, give them multiple reasons to generate positive thoughts about you. Create a home that shimmers and stands out from the rest.

Entrance

Step outside your door. What do you see? Does the outside of your home emanate beauty? Notice the upkeep of the paint, roof, and landscaping. A home that is clean and well cares for leaves a lasting impression. The trees, shrubs, and flowers should be thriving and well trimmed. The path leading up to the home must be easily accessible. Clear away bicycles, trash, garbage bines, dead plants, newspapers, water bottles, and broken sprinklers.
Turn around to survey your street, neighbors, and community. Healthy energy must surround you. If freeway traffic is bombarding your ears or large oppressive buildings are looming above you, you must deflect their disturbing energy away from your home. Don’t allow unfinished projects in the yard to deplete you. Complete them so you can arrive home to comfort and ease. For just a moment, step outside yourself and judge your home. What kind of person would you say lives here?

Home Protection

In feng shui, you must regulate the type and speed of energy entering your home. You only want to invite nourishing energy inside. If your house has power, then everything within it has power.

Fifty percent of good feng shui relies on the amount of positive energy flowing into your home through doors and windows, while the other fifty percent is generated by the proper arrangement and specific energizers you supply within the environment.
Outside the front door are various types pf energy you need to assess. Certain kinds you want to encourage, and others you want to diffuse. Healthy energy should move easily, gently, and continuously into the home; harmful energy should be repelled, reflected and minimized. Feng shui offers potent solutions to protect your home in order to avoid misfortune, health problems, and missed opportunities.


Jayme Barrett