Have you ever wondered what it would be like…to spend one night in haunted hotel room, just for fun? Well I have! Of course the hotel wouldn’t be able to guarantee that the ghost would make an appearance on any given night. After all… the hotel concierge doesn’t have an appointment calendar for the resident ghosts.

Then again, how would you like to share your home on a daily basis with spirits of the dearly departed? Or in some cases the not so dearly departed? It’s true… some spirits are friendlier than others. You’d be surprised how many clients over the years have asked if Feng Shui could help with a haunted house. And the answer is… yes, to some extent.

One of the cases that would make a spirit choose to stay in your house over another house is when the outside of your house is too Yang (bright, active, lively), while the inside is too Yin (dark, inactive, still). In this case you want to open your curtains and let more natural light into your home. If that’s impossible, use full spectrum light bulbs to imitate actual sunlight, which is another way to avoid depression in the winter months when the days are shorter.

When analyzing the unique Feng Shui energy pattern of your home or office, according to when it was built and its exact compass orientation… certain energy combinations make it easy for spirits to prefer to stay in your building. In Classical Feng Shui this is referred to as "Yin God Full Grounded," meaning the Yin energy is fully grounded in the house… therefore it’s very comfortable for spirits to stay there. In some cases this energy combination is only triggered by the visiting Annual Energy, which is yet another excellent reason to have your Feng Shui remedies updated each year.

All homes and offices have a combination of unseen Yin and Yang energies in the various sections of the building. When there’s too much Yin energy in any given room, that’s where the spirits will choose to reside… especially in the SE, South, SW or West, which are the Yin directions. In this case, bringing in more natural light will help to some extent. However, you’ll have better results by also adding the appropriate elemental remedy to that room to reduce the Yin energy.

For a fortunate few… a Wang or prosperous energy at your entrance will prevent your home or office from being haunted, as well as make it easier for you to make more money. That’s right office buildings can also be haunted. One of my clients had an office in a building that was originally a mortuary, so it had numerous spirits that like to come out to play after dark. It’s no wonder everyone that worked there preferred to leave by sunset.

An energy combination that all classically trained Feng Shui professionals would love to have in their home or office is called… "Five Ghost Carry Money." However, it doesn’t have anything to do with actual spirits. It’s referring to the best energy combination for easily bringing prosperity to you. On the other hand, if you want to have a baby… you’d love to have "Five Ghost Carry Baby" at your door or in your bedroom. There are simple ways to activate these energies if you’re lucky enough to have one of them in your home or office.

In some cases, when taking the compass reading of a building the needle of the compass vibrates or actually spins round and round, which is a good indication that spirits are in the area. The worst place to live, work or build is where anyone has been buried or died by violence, such as murder, suicide or acts of war, because it is very difficult to cleanse the land or building. The classical Feng Shui method to cleanse that type of land is to let it burn for at least 3 days straight. Today there’s not a place anywhere in the World where you would be allowed to use that method. That’s why I had special training in a NON-Feng Shui method to use in these cases… to transmute residual energy from past events or occupants to the energy of love, which is called the "Radiance Technique.”

The last thing you can try is building a shrine to the spirit that’s living in your home or office to show you respect them and want to co-exist peacefully with them. Or you can call or e-mail me for a Feng Shui consultation, which includes the "Radiance Technique" … when necessary.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

P.K. Odle is an internationally respected instructor for the renowned American Feng Shui Institute and founder of The Feng Shui Advantage. To learn more about Classical Feng Shui and sign up for more FREE tips like these, visit her site at http://www.FengShuiAdvantage.com