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Fengshui Prinicples in Spring Cleaning

New Year period is Spring Cleaning period, everyone knows that; but not everyone can appreciate the intricacies of what it means. The climate in Singapore makes many of us forget what really happens in the Spring. It is the season of blooming and shedding, of revitalising and change. It is the season that sets the energy for the rest of the year

The study of the manipulation and orientation of this energy, or ‘chi’ called ‘Feng Shui’ (insert chinese character). Applying Feng Shui principles to your Spring Cleaning activities will help you maximise the benefits it will bring to your health and spirit. Here are some Helpling tips that will allow you to easily introduce some principles of Feng Shui into your home.

1. Personally decluttering your space

Before cleaning commences, first set aside what you can part from earthly possession with. A cluttered home reflects distraction and indecisiveness in the mind, blocking the flow of chi in your spirit. Decluttering facilitates a process of deep personal reflection of the past, present, and future.

Take this chance to show gratitude to the things that had, but no longer uplift your spirit, setting them aside from the things that allow you to maintain your mental present now, and make space for the new and exciting uncertainty that is to come. This can be anything from going through your food stuff in the kitchen and fridge, to going through your long since update wardrobe. As a deeply personal process, it should only be undertaken by you and the people who understand you the most.

2. Steam cleaning of fabric surfaces

Fabric surfaces are very important in fengshui. There is a reason why ancient Chinese textile technology with its invention of various silks and linen stood heads and shoulders above any historical contemporaries. According to Feng Shui, unlike hard surfaces like wood and marble, fabric captures and reflects the human touch, warmth and experience.

This of course, goes both ways. Fabric surfaces store and reflect bad energy from the past. They usually very visibly indicate inconsideration, slobbiness and laziness, as well as a reluctance to chance. This means that even if the bad energy has been purged internally, it likely is still clinging onto the fabric surfaces of your home, tempting you to go back against all the progress you have made. Steam cleaning is thus a vital aspect of Feng Shui spring cleaning. Cleaning using chemical products reflects a rejection of your past, but steam cleaning instead reflects in perfect balance, both an appreciation of it, and the intention of moving on.

3. A rigorous cleaning session

Now comes the spring cleaning itself. Go beyond the usual places you go to for your general cleaning: under the sink and counters, under the bed, above the ceiling fan, etc. Not knowing where to look? Leave it in the hands of our professional cleaning specialists with years of experience to enable your home to shed its cloaks and bring out a brand new you!

Hidden Tip

You may have decluttered to the extent of a minimalist, steam cleaned your furniture into a sauna and cleaned out every nook and cranny of your home, but likely, you have missed something out. Have you cleaned out your….air conditioning units?

Your air conditioning unit controls the energy flow in your apartment, literally. Have it checked out and serviced by our professional technicians before you forget and swander away all that effort you had put into clearing out the bad energy during your spring cleaning session when you switch on that unwashed air con. We do air conditioning servicing at discounted prices when bundled with our spring cleaning service as well!