Keep a cozy home in the winter

It’s cold; it’s bleak; it’s dark; it’s winter; but you don’t have to reflect that energy in your home.

We have four different seasons and different energies are present during those seasons. Winter is a YIN season. Yin and yang represent energetic opposites, and that is exactly what summer and winter energies are.  Yang energy is active, warm and bright, and Yin energy is passive, cold, and dark. You can see, that the Yin energy is reflected during the winter months. Winter energy brings in a time of hibernation and retreat. It’s a time to replenish your internal batteries.

Many people fall prey to the energy of the Yin season. Millions of Americans find that cold, dark winters affect not only their health, but their mental and emotional well- being. People get headaches, feel depressed, have increased appetite, and often feel lonely. It doesn’t have to affect you if your bring balance into your home.

It is good to respect the Yin energy of the season by slowing down your pace and looking inward, however you don’t want to retreat into a dark cave. In our society, we actually speed up in a way, because of the holiday seasons.

You can bring some warm, active Yang energy into your home to create balance in the following ways:

• Bring in Yang energy into your home by making your home light and bright. Increase the light in every room of your home. There is nothing worse than entering a dark and gloomy home.  Check all the corners because dark corners are places where dense energy is held. Add lights to your mantle, your stair cases, or at your entrance of your home.
• When you look outside you see snow and inactivity. When you come inside your home, you want to see pictures hanging on the walls that reflect warmth and coziness. Place decorations in your home that reflect activity and some Yang energy.
• Bring some bright colors into your home and avoid a lot of blue. Water is the element of the winter and the colors of water are blue and black. To create balance, avoid an over abundance of these inside because they are plentiful outside. Bright Yang colors can be brought into your home with beautiful throws, dishes, blankets, rugs, and decorations.
• Of course it’s a bit more difficult, depending on where you live, to have fresh fruit (even though oranges are almost always available) and fresh flowers on the table. If that is the case where you live, you can use beautiful, colorful silk flowers and vibrant fake fruit.
• Bring the warmth of the fire element into your home with a cozy, warm fire. Check each room in your home to make sure you have all five elements represented there: fire, water, earth, metal and wood. These can be represented in the actual element, itself, or in the colors that represent those elements.

All five elements are represented in this cozy winter home.

Keep a cozy home in the winter

• Keep the warmth of loved ones around you by arranging your furniture in your home so you can have cozy winter communication and fun. Share meals with family and friends.
• Inactivity is Yin energy so create a balance in yourself by exercising daily, even if it is to only exercise, in some way, inside your home. It will create an active energy. Of course, you should also bundle up and go skiing, skating, or at least shopping.

Keep a cozy home in the winter

This room is too Yin. It has a cold, inactive feeling and lacks a balance of warmth and coziness.

Learn to create a safe, cozy home using Feng Shui in the WOW System – part 3, Law of Attraction Around You.

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