Living water flow has always been of great importance in the East: in any picturesque garden or estate there was certainly a stream or fountain.
According to Feng Shui, a waterfall is of great importance in the overall flow of all living energies in a person’s home, because it clearly symbolizes the element of water. It is simply impossible to achieve a harmonious atmosphere in your home or apartment if the balance of all living elements has been disrupted.
What does a waterfall mean according to feng shui?
According to Feng Shui, a waterfall represents a living, rapid flow of the water element. This is an important component of the entire natural balance, one of the fundamental elements of the five elements of all things. It is noteworthy that it is the element of water that is highlighted by eastern practices most of all: it is believed that it is she who personifies the ancestor of all life on earth and is an integral part of the living energy of Qi.
The element of water, placed in residential decoration, can attract harmony, health and peace of mind, even well-being and happiness into the house. A fountain and a waterfall are of great importance according to Feng Shui: it is believed that these two forms of the element of water represent living energy that is in constant motion. Living, fast-moving and changing water invariably improves the emotional situation in an apartment or house; a flowing stream can instantly transform the vibrations of invisible energies in a home.
Feng Shui practitioners also claim that even a photograph or drawing of a waterfall carries this powerful charge of living energy. Therefore, you should not be upset if the dimensions of your living space do not allow you to install even a small waterfall in your house. Images of fountains, rushing rivers, waterfalls or streams will come to the rescue.
The main condition is that you should not place pictures with “dead”, stagnant water in your apartment. Lakes or ponds are traditionally avoided when decorating residential furniture in Feng Shui; such paintings should not be placed on the walls of residential premises, because the water depicted on them is stagnant, and therefore does not have any positive energy.
A waterfall is a symbol of perpetual motion, a catalyst for the process of renewal and regeneration, a powerful source of original vital energy and rebirth.
If you want to harmoniously arrange your home and adjust the flow of living vibrations in it, then you should definitely resort to the help of paintings and photographs depicting a waterfall.
Feng Shui paintings with water
The Feng Shui waterfall (pictures are presented in the article) is, as mentioned above, a source of vitality and constant changes for the better. If you notice that there is stagnation in your life, things stubbornly do not move forward, and you yourself seem to be endlessly marking time in one place, then the element of water will help you give a tangible impetus.
Place a painting or photograph of a waterfall in your home, and you will be surprised to find that positive changes will not be long in coming. In particular, Feng Shui advises those people who live in densely populated cities, remote from wildlife, to resort to this trick. And for residents of apartments in high-rise buildings, this technique will regularly relieve the stress that accumulates during the day and eliminate the feeling of immobility of life and stagnation (this is very important in apartment buildings, where the flow of Qi energy is initially disrupted).
In addition, water is also a symbol of abundance, wealth and good luck. It attracts material well-being, a favorable outcome of any financial transactions, prosperity and luxury into the home. A picture of a waterfall has no less power than a real decorative waterfall if it is placed in the right place, from the point of view of Feng Shui philosophy.
Waterfall painting: where to hang according to Feng Shui
Before you go to choose a suitable painting or photo, it will not hurt to know some of the features. Thus, the ideal pictures of waterfalls are those where the water is depicted as naturally as possible, where living and pristine nature reigns.
A good solution would be those paintings that also depict trees, sky, birds and animals. It is better that no traces of a person are displayed on them. Household objects, buildings, people or vehicles (for example, a boat at a waterfall) - all these nuances can damage the original flow of Qi energy. In a correct picture of a waterfall, nothing from the human world should be visible.
Pay attention to the paints, shades of gouache or watercolor with which the landscape is drawn. It’s good if they have natural shades, and the picture is rendered in the most natural tones. In other words, the grass should be green, the sky should be blue, and the clouds should be white. No innovative ideas or special vision of the artist are welcome here and will even be completely inappropriate. Ideally, a picture of a waterfall should highlight a picturesque natural area with flowering vegetation and a clear sky. It’s good if this picture captures the daylight hours.
And a little more about the water itself: make sure that the flow in the drawing or photograph does not have any obstacles. The waterfall should be solid and smooth, continuously falling down. It’s bad if in some places the water sheet is interrupted, if stones or ledges are visible from under it. The surface of the water should be smooth, as if silky.
Waterfall according to Feng Shui: in which zone to attach the painting
So, the correct image of water has already been selected, and only one question remains - where will your waterfall picture fit best, where should you hang this decor according to Feng Shui so that it works correctly and brings positive flows of Qi?
Let's start with the places where you should definitely not place paintings with waterfalls:
- In the bedroom. Water is a powerful energy; it has no place in a room where peace and a good night’s rest are needed. Therefore, hanging pictures and images of waterfalls in the sleeping area would not be the best solution.
- On the sides of the apartment located in the south. The element of the south is fire, and it is logical that water will come into conflict with the energy of flame. Therefore, waterfalls or their images should not be placed in these areas of the premises either.
- In the hall. The ideal place to hang a picture or photo of a waterfall is in the hallway. Namely, the wall located to the left in relation to the front door. This place will provide an influx of powerful new events and incidents that are positive in nature; Qi energy will circulate more actively in your home and spread throughout the rest of the living spaces.
You can also place an image of a waterfall near the door (or doorway) leading to the dining area. As an option, a waterfall is suitable for decorating any wall of your kitchen (except the south one).
Once again, it is worth noting that such techniques of Eastern practice only work if they do not come into conflict or confrontation with other energy flows in your living space. Therefore, take seriously and responsibly the choice of the place where your painting will be displayed in the future.
After all, water is the source of life for all things, and it would be foolish not to use it to attract harmony and abundance into your own home. And here a waterfall will always come to the rescue; according to Feng Shui, it has simply incredible positive power and strength.
November 2016Feng Shui is an East Asian practice of harmonizing space. This is both science and art. Its goal is to use positive flows of energy (Qi) for the benefit of a person and reduce the influence of negative energy. Energy management is carried out using the correct placement of objects surrounding a person - objects that make up his living space.
Painting with the ocean in the interior of the living room according to Feng Shui
The living space must first be divided into zones - the zone of love, health, family, wealth, wisdom, creativity, etc. After this, using the right pieces of furniture and interior details, it will be possible to influence these zones, if necessary, activating or, conversely, suppressing the flow of energies in a particular sector.
Painting as a tool for energy management
A painting in an apartment’s interior is not just decoration. With its help, you can increase or decrease the impact of Qi flows. The main thing is to determine in which room, in which zone and on which wall it is best to hang the picture. It is also very important to know what semantic meaning the image carries. When choosing paintings according to Feng Shui, you should even take into account the color and material of its frame.
Panel with voluminous flowers in the bedroom
An important rule when choosing a painting according to Feng Shui is that it should evoke exclusively positive emotions. There should not be negativity and a feeling of doom, but, on the contrary, a feeling of joy and happiness.
Beautiful abstraction in the office
It is worth abandoning paintings depicting aggression in any form, from gloomy and fading landscapes, from photographs of dead people. You should not use paintings depicting broken and broken objects, natural disasters, or cemeteries. Paintings with the meaning of “secret arrows” (pointed, directed objects, power lines) are also undesirable to hang in the house.
Painting with a cat in a children's room
With the help of a painting, you can correct the situation with the lack of separate zones in the house. To do this, you need to hang it in the place where the sector is supposed to be located. It is best if the picture depicts the horizon, sunset, endless field or the vast expanse of the sea.
Calming abstraction in the dining room
To activate the required zone in the apartment, you need to know which paintings have an image suitable for this sector. It is desirable that the color of the picture frame be one of the preferred colors for this sector.
Bright abstraction in the living room to tone up
Landscape in the bedroom according to Feng Shui
Black and white painting with the sea in the bedroom
Abstraction in soothing colors in the living room
Feng Shui painting with flamingos in the bedroom
Feng Shui painting with a calm sea in the bedroom
Sectors and zones of the premises
Focusing on the cardinal directions, we will determine the sectors in the apartment according to Feng Shui:
- In the north is the career sector. You need to pay attention to this sector in the house if there are problems with work. Activation colors: blue, cyan, white, black.
- In the south is the sector of fame and aspiration. Harmonization of this zone will help in achieving fame, recognition and success. Colors: red and green.
- In the west there is the sector of children and creativity. This area in the house requires attention when there are problems with children, with their conception and upbringing. This zone is also activated to realize creative ideas. Colors: grey, white, yellow.
- In the east is the family sector. Disagreements with spouses, parents and children are a reason to pay attention to this zone. Colors: blue, green, brown, black, a little red.
- In the northwest there is the sector of travel, intuition and patrons. You can activate this zone in difficult moments of life, when outside help is needed. Colors: grey, white, yellow, silver, gold.
- In the northeast there is the sector of knowledge and wisdom. It is necessary to control the movement of energy in this zone so that there are no problems in studying. This is also the best place in the house for yoga and meditation. Colors: yellow, beige, terracotta, orange.
- In the southwest there is the sector of love and relationships. It is worth harmonizing this sector in the house when problems arise in love, in marriage, in communication with loved ones. Colors: red, pink, brown and all shades of these colors.
- In the southeast is the wealth sector. Prosperity, material well-being, life satisfaction. Colors: green, violet, lilac, moderately red.
- In the center of the apartment is the health sector. Being in the center, this zone has an impact not only on the physical health of all family members, but also affects all sectors in the house. It is imperative to maintain a state of harmony in the health sector. Colors: yellow, orange, terracotta and beige.
Feng Shui sectors
Apartment sectors according to Feng Shui
Cute paintings in the nursery
Picture of a calm sea in the dining room
Bright landscape in the dining room
Unusual abstraction in the interior of the living room according to Feng Shui
The semantic meaning of the image
Where and what kind of painting can be hung in a particular area? When deciding on a choice, you must take into account the semantic meaning of each image.
For example, in the north, in the career sector, you can use images related to water - the sea, a sailboat, a landscape with fish. A special role in activating the career sector can be played by a painting depicting a waterfall - a symbol of purification, attracting good luck, love and prosperity. All images associated with clear water in motion serve as the personification of prosperity and happiness. The “waterfall” painting is good to hang in your office, bedroom or living room. This symbol has powerful energy. Therefore, you should never place a landscape with a waterfall behind you - above your desk, above the sofa in the living room, above the bed in the bedroom. There is a high probability of a negative result - it can simply be “flooded” with a powerful flow of energy. The “waterfall” painting should always be located opposite the table in the study and opposite the bed in the bedroom. You should not hang a picture with water in the southern sector. The meeting of two polar energies can lead to conflict.
Feng Shui painting with a waterfall in the living room
In the south, in the glory sector, it is good to use paintings depicting mountains, trees, fire, and pointed shapes. Rocky mountains with a river at the foot, a landscape with poppies, images of strong animals, such as horses, are the best options for designing the glory sector. In addition, the image of a horse is a powerful talisman for attracting good luck. The picture of “horses” symbolizes success, achievement and glory in all areas of life. And horses in a pair also mean a favorable marital relationship. A special symbol of rise and growth is the image of a horse rearing up. In addition, a picture of a horse can be hung opposite the entrance to the nursery, as it patronizes children.
A large painting with a horse in the interior of the living and dining room according to Feng Shui
In the northwestern sector you can hang a picture depicting mountains. Mountains are a symbol of stability, protection and support. It’s good to hang a picture of mountains in your office, above the table. The mountains adorning the northwestern sector (intuition sector) should have no sharp peaks.
Painting with mountains in the living room according to Feng Shui
Elephants are animals that have a beneficial effect on many sectors in the house. Elephants protect against unreasonable spending, stimulate creativity, attract good luck and protect children. The painting “elephants” can be placed in a nursery, a study, or a bedroom. It can be used to decorate both the corridor and the western wall in the living room.
Feng Shui painting with an elephant in the living room
A sailboat is one of the most powerful symbols of material well-being and happiness. A painting depicting a sailboat can be placed in any sector of the house. You can hang it on the wall in the bedroom, living room and kitchen. But it’s best to hang a painting of a “sailboat” in the hallway. The sailboat must have spread sails, and it is also very important where it goes. The bow of a sailboat should be pointed towards the apartment, and not towards the window or front door. It is important that the picture depicts a sunrise or its zenith. Sunset is associated with the end of a period of prosperity, and therefore it is not at all advisable to use the sunset depicted in the picture in home decoration in order to activate zones. Paintings depicting a sunset are best for blocking negative energy.
Painting with sailboats in the living room according to Feng Shui
Flower images
Particularly important in Feng Shui is the depiction of flowers.
Sakura represents the five aspects of life (based on the number of petals) - luck, prosperity, health, happiness and peace. The best place for a “sakura” painting is in the bedroom. It is good to place it in the love sector in the southeast and in the family sector in the east. But the image of sakura is also appropriate in the kitchen and living room.
Feng Shui painting with cherry blossoms in the kitchen
Orchid is a symbol of romance, love, family happiness, patronage. A painting depicting an orchid can be placed in different sectors. In the love sector, the orchid normalizes relationships between spouses and helps to regain lost passion. Placing the “orchid” painting in the east will help improve health and restore vigor. If you hang images of orchids in the northern sector, your business will be more profitable and your career will be more successful. Relationships with others will improve after the orchid activates the northwestern sector of patronage.
Feng Shui painting with an orchid in the living room
Peonies symbolize hot feelings, passion, new relationships. Peonies are the most powerful symbol of love. Single girls can use the “peonies” painting to activate the love sector by hanging it in the living room or bedroom above the bed. Immediately after the companion is found, you will need to remove the “peonies” painting from a prominent place in the bedroom and hang it, for example, in the corridor or hallway. To refresh relationships and for new sensations in love, married couples can also decorate the wall in the living room and the wall opposite the entrance to the bedroom with a painting of “peonies”. It is better for married couples not to keep peonies in the bedroom itself, in order to avoid a surge of feelings that can lead to betrayal.
Painting with peonies in the living room according to Feng Shui
Feng Shui waterfall
The philosophy of Feng Shui is based on the search for harmony with all the natural forces of the earth. Water is one of the five essential feng shui elements that has a strong impact on the environment. In traditional teaching, water is the source of vital energy Qi.
Water is an extremely powerful energy element, the presence of which in a house or apartment is important for harmonizing your living space and bringing happiness, well-being and health into your home.
A Feng Shui waterfall can serve as an excellent repository for living water in the home. The sounds of rushing water have a calming effect on the psyche, causing relaxation and tranquility, and the sight of flowing water helps relieve the burden of psychological problems that have accumulated during the day. This is extremely important for people living in apartments, since energy imbalance is most often observed in such rooms, and the presence of a waterfall in the room will help restore the correct Yin-Yang balance.
What does a waterfall mean in feng shui? ?
According to Feng Shui, a picture of a waterfall, a photograph, or a real decorative waterfall for a home represents an abundant flow of luck and wealth. It is the flow of moving water that is the most important element of Feng Shui.
What types of waterfalls are there for your home?
Decorative waterfall
Currently, there are a huge number of all kinds of waterfalls of various shapes, colors and sizes. If you have space and funds, you can think about building a natural waterfall. There are many design solutions that allow you to fit it into the interior of your home. Such a waterfall will not only fulfill all its inherent properties according to the teachings of Feng Shui, but will effectively decorate a house or apartment and become a favorite place in your home, where you can always relax and unwind. In addition, a waterfall in the house will create a favorable microclimate in the home.
If this is not possible, choose a decorative waterfall for your home. You can choose the size and shape of the waterfall in accordance with your preferences, as well as based on the area and height of the room where you plan to install it. A waterfall will look more impressive in cases where the water flow is more powerful. But small waterfalls for the home, quietly murmuring, have all the necessary properties and the same calming effect. As a last resort, if the area does not allow you to place a waterfall indoors, a photograph with its image will suit you; it is also worth considering the option of a wall-mounted waterfall.
If you have installed a real waterfall, you must constantly ensure that the water is always fresh and changed regularly. Remember that moldy or stagnant water in your waterfall can negatively affect the feng shui of your office or home. Also, water should not flow out of the waterfall. To create a prosperous Feng Shui in your home, choose a high-quality waterfall with a quiet motor so that the waterfall design allows you to keep it neat and clean.
Where should the waterfall be placed?
The ideal place for a waterfall can be determined by energy, compiled based on the interaction of the five main elements of Feng Shui. But if you place it to the left of the front door (facing it), you won’t go wrong.
When independently choosing a place for a waterfall, you must take into account that it is not recommended to place the waterfall in the southern direction, since in the teachings of Feng Shui this is the zone of Glory and the main element of this zone is fire. If you place the water element in this zone, there will be a conflict of energies as water suppresses fire.
It is not recommended to place waterfalls for your home in the bedroom either, regardless of the Feng Shui direction in which it is located, as the water elements can bring disturbing energy into this room and disturb your sleep.
Painting with a waterfall
The most favorable is a waterfall, the Qi energy of which enters the home through the dining room, thereby directly feeding your home. If you do not have a door in this room through which wealth-generating chi energy should enter, you can use your windows by opening them periodically.
It is also necessary to remember that the element Water has a strong influence on cash flow. If water symbols, particularly the waterfall, are placed in the right direction, it can help you connect with the flow of infinite universal abundance, gain profit and good fortune.
By installing a Feng Shui waterfall in your home, you will feel how much will change not only in the interior, but also in life. The energy of moving water will constantly take away negative energy from you and bring prosperity and good luck into your home.
The ancient Taoist teaching of Feng Shui advises: harmonize your life by harmonizing the surrounding space. Simply put, everything that is in our home should help us live, and not interfere. Of course, this applies to paintings, photographs and any images with which we decorate the walls of our home. Even if you regard Chinese philosophy with some irony, you should not neglect some quite reasonable advice and hinder the movement of life-giving qi energy in your personal universe.
Absolute taboos
The founders of the teachings of Feng Shui believe that human thoughts are material. If you think about bad things all the time, everything will be bad. And if you cultivate positive thoughts in yourself, then life will improve.
That is why it is not recommended to hang in your home any images that evoke associations with decay, destruction, decay and poverty.
For example:
Ruins. Even a castle, even a once luxurious one. Ruins are ruins, they are a symbol of death. An excellent example is Vasily Maksimov’s painting “Everything is in the Past.” In the foreground is an old lady who dreams of memories of past luxury, and in the background is a crumbling house with columns and a dried-out garden. Look, breathe, be glad that you still have everything ahead of you, and move on.
Photo: painting by Vasily Maksimov “Everything is in the Past”
Broken dishes. Are comments needed here at all? Broken cups, vases, plates are the most common symbol of quarrels, squabbles, ruined lives, and mistakes.
Broken or dried out trees, wilted flowers. If you constantly look at what life has gone from, you will not become an optimist. A constant reminder that everything is perishable makes you depressed.
Poverty in any form. Rags, humiliating poses - is this what you dream of? Firs Zhuravlev’s painting “Beggar Children” is a true work of art, but it belongs in a museum. 
Photo: painting by Firs Zhuravlev “Beggar Children”
Image of standing water. Feng Shui categorically does not accept ponds and swamps. The word “stagnation” has never had a positive connotation. In stagnant waters, the life-giving energy qi does not circulate.
Images of any vices. All these "absinthe drinkers" usually end up badly. For example, they cut off their ear, paint their self-portrait with a bandaged head... And then their paintings are posthumously sold at auctions for crazy money, and the late author did not have enough to buy bread during his lifetime... In a word, drunkenness, prostitution, drug addiction and other decadence should not flash before through the eyes of a person who strives for purity, physical and moral. 
Photo: Pablo Picasso’s painting “The Absinthe Drinker”
Incomprehensible signs, writing, meaningless images. Firstly, the inscription may have a bad meaning. Secondly, the constant feeling that you don’t understand something will bring discord into your soul.
Pictures that you just don't like. The subject of painting can be the work of a famous and recognized artist, it can be beautifully designed, executed with impeccable taste, but at the same time it can tell you absolutely nothing. You are either bored, anxious, or just not at all. This means that this image cannot harmonize your universe and inspire you. Why should you live someone else's life? Let it be a rug with swans on the wall, let it be any kitsch, but only you and your soul sang at the sight of it.
For the benefit of prosperity
Photo: painting by Eugene Petit “Bouquet of Peonies”
The Chinese philosophy of Feng Shui offers a lot of options for images that bring prosperity and development to a person’s life. For example, a plot with a road going into the distance. Or snow-capped mountain peaks illuminated by the sun. According to Feng Shui theory, a mountain is a symbol of constancy and solidity. Or an elephant is a beautiful, strong animal, a symbol of wealth and stability.
The Chinese philosophy of harmonizing the world attaches particular importance to plants, in particular flowers. The feng shui guru's favorite flower is the peony. The words “blooms and smells” literally evoke the appearance and aroma of this plant. Feng Shui theorists advise placing images of peonies anywhere and everywhere, especially in the bedroom: this will inevitably entail the fall of the shackles of celibacy, passionate love, the awakening of sexuality in experienced spouses and, in general, a continuous fireworks display of feelings.
Now let's go through the rooms.
What paintings to hang in the living room
Photo: painting by Isaac Levitan “Spring in Italy”
In this room you welcome guests, think, communicate with family members. The living room is begged for images symbolizing movement: dancing people, running horses, flying birds, ships sailing on the sea, and so on. This will refresh your life and attract an influx of new energy.
If you have a common goal, a dream, hang a picture in your living room that will encourage you to strive for your goal. Thoughts are material, remember?
Are you planning to build a country house - choose an image of your dream mansion and place it in the most visible place
An image of a home where you just want to warm up would also be suitable. Reproductions depicting fluttering butterflies promise profit - the fluttering of butterfly wings has a good effect on the movement of qi energy.
Forest landscapes (without lead clouds and broken trees) are also an option for the living room. Your favorite paintings should be hung in well-lit areas.
If the family is religious, spiritual themes would be appropriate in the living room.
How to decorate a bedroom
Relaxation is what a painting in the bedroom should bring you. No aggressive, battle scenes. And no volcanoes or waterfalls in frames. The waterfall does not lull you to sleep; it is a warlike state of water. Ponds and swamps kill sexual energy; we don’t need stagnant water here.
If you have already decorated the wall in the bedroom with loving peonies, you can add to them some romantic motifs on the canvases: couples in love, cooing lovebirds, a sultry beach with two walking figures.
What images to place in the kitchen
Juicy fruits and berries, all kinds of still lifes that whet the appetite, beautiful landscapes, the structure of wood in painting motifs - this is what will attract well-being to places where food is prepared and eaten. Particular attention should be paid to green and other “vegetal” shades. Red is also used in kitchen illustrations - it symbolizes the color of fire.
Children - joy
Photo: Vincent Van Gogh’s painting “Sunflowers”
Delicate shades, flowering plants, cute playing animals - let all this reign on the walls in the child’s room. The Chinese advise decorating the nursery with images of a sunflower, a sunny flower symbolizing health and upward striving. It will also motivate teenagers to develop. They also say that sunflowers drive away evil spirits.
What to hang in the hallway
Photo: painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi “Birch Grove”
This room is the first to receive hosts and guests, so images are needed here that regulate the “good” energy flow and nullify the “bad” energy flow.
Landscapes will be good in the hallway, but they depict nature and the city not at sunset. Beautiful, non-aggressive animals (preferably in pairs), playing children - that’s what you need. A waterfall is suitable for the influx of monetary energy, but with an average force of falling water.
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