Vaastu Shastra:
Vaastu Shastra is a tool or set of guidelines that can be used very efficiently for flow of energies in your house. These are simple and helpful tips for arrangement of rooms and the placement of furniture to create a smooth pathway for energies to flow through your house. One can follow these tips to have a proper Vaastu Compliant Home.
The Entrance:
First impression is the last impression and when we talk about the first impression that one gets is through the entrance. I works like magic if you just play with it a bit, it can work like a mood setter and leaves a positive impact. Make sure that the design of your entrance should be simple and welcoming.
Plants:
Using Plants in and around your house is not just healthy but also decorates your house to give a pleasing feel. According to few studies it is said that they bring life force or Prana into the home and helps keep air clean. Plants act as natural filters thus purify and clean the air that we breathe. Plants should be strong and healthy, advisable to avoid using dry or sick plants.
Sunlight:
Early morning sunrays are great to source of energy for human body, spirit and mind. They uplifts and cheer one to start a great day ahead, design your interiors and home in a way that you can get ample amount of sunrays flowing in your house, as they are also great source of energies.
Art Effects and Paintings:
If you have a great and ambient entrance with decorative use plants added with great interior in which you can experiment with Art Effects or Paintings to add a balance between art and nature.
From an energetic standpoint, their influence will resonate throughout the home. For optimal results it is advisable to place a mural or paintings that support both you and your home by following vaastu rules.
Colour:
Every colour has a unique vibration all of its own, and this can significantly affect how you feel in a room or house. You can use the colours according to its characteristics.
Green Colour is very restful but combines with an energizing quality. Green brings balance and harmony, healing, and rejuvenation to a room, and can be used as a calming place for people who are troubled or in need of refreshment.
Red Colour is a powerful and stimulating colour. It will energize, inspire activity and movement. It can also be exhausting and overpowering, and stressful for those who are anxious.
Pink Colour is less demanding. Choosing a red bedroom would not be restful, although some red can be used to enhance sensuality.
Orange Colour will encourage happy, joyful, social gatherings. While an orange dining room or family room can stimulate the appetite, it is a great choice for such gathering places. Orange enhances parties.
Yellow rooms inspire intellectual clarity, organization, clear headed articulate thinking, and happy energy. Yellow is considered a colour for the logical left side of the brain. Yellow is also very bright and somewhat energizing, so one needs to choose its placement with care.
Blue can be often chosen for bedrooms and meditation rooms because it’s cool energy is very calming, restful, peaceful, and spiritual. Blue helps inspire a quiet meditative quality, and colour therapy with blue has been found to reduce blood pressure. Blue is also useful to soothe one to sleep.
Purple is very comforting, protective, spiritual, and calming. It is a rich colour, which inspires faith, intuition and trust. Entire rooms painted purple could be overpowering, but a light violet could provide a very healing and calming atmosphere.
White rooms work anywhere combined with accent colours. White is very purifying, uplifting and cleansing, although too much white can reflect a sterile, isolating quality. White ceilings are recommended because they reflect light and brighten any room.
