Why Fresh Air is so Crucial...

Fresh air is essential to neutralizing negative influences in your environment.  If there is no air movement, it will be impossible to keep a lid on the tensions and pressures brewing around you.  In feng shui, this energy is referred to as Chi.  Chi is the flow of energy around you.  This energy can carry a charge, either positive or negative.  It is not possible to maintain a good quality of life without a positive flow of chi.

Have you ever been involved in an argument that stretched out slowly over months? The kind punctuated only by the occassional skirmish where new lines are drawn before the Cold War resumes? Guess what kind of charge that energy carries.  Often the pressure will build until one of you explodes, usually at a ridiculous hour of the night or morning.  Then, nobody gets any sleep.

Feng shui is filled with many ideas about how to stop this negative cycle.  But one of the best is allowing fresh air into the environment.  This simple act will improve the flow of chi around you.  Of course, there is a balance to be struck between fresh air and bills.  It is important to find this balance.  In the dead of winter, get outside and fill your lungs with crisp, cold air.  Shovel snow or tromp around the block in your warm boots.  Enjoy the winter wonderland.  You will feel better about whatever is bothering you.

In the summer, open the windows at night and early in the morning.  If you are running the air conditioning 24/7, understand that this is expensive and unhealthy.  Sometimes, we have to adapt, rather than paying to adjust the environment to our needs.  Find the balance.  Search for a place to live where you are comfortable.  Air conditioning unnaturally compresses and freezes air flow.  It does for air what nuggets do for chicken.  Besides, ghosts love air conditioning.

The study of Chi indicates that the flow of energy is like the ebb and flow of the ocean.  If you can channel this energy, then your life will be blessed with good health, wealth, and love.  

When you restrict the flow of chi, you are restricting the good around you.  Homes that are cluttered feel stuffy and oppressive.  Taken to an extreme, it may result in a living hell of hoarded objects, dead air, and emotional turbulence.  A perfect storm for a haunting to manifest.    

The easiest element to deal with is dead air.  Give in to your id and crack open those windows.  Let the wind blow.  Let the storm thunder.  Breathe deep and walk around barefoot when its warm.  Pull on a sweater and drink hot chocolate when it turns cold.  Take a moment to be grateful for the beauty of summer.  And the deep peace of winter.  It is your home.  It deserves to be a true haven for you.