Sculptures, paintings and religious symbols don’t have just a decorative value. Khushdeep Bansal tells us how we can use them to enhance our happiness
Framed paintings on your walls, pretty sculptures in your room corners and even the setting of your dressing table can create wonders in your daily life. When placed in the right direction, these can prove beneficial. If you have learnt the principles of vastu programming, you can decide on ideal art objects and their location in your home. Placing all of them according to vastu can generate positive energy in your life. Here are few ways and art forms that should be placed according to vastu in your home:
Buddha Figures
If you have a collection of beautiful art figures, then placing them in an appropriate direction can lead to many benefits for yourself and for your family as well. like, if you have a figure of Buddha, then place it in the northeast vastu zone of your home. According to directions of alchemy in Vastu Shastra, northeast zone is responsible for your connectivity with your own self. When you place a symbol of a spiritually-elevated person like Buddha, it sends a message to the space of your house that you want to get connected with your higher self. Accordingly, the space energies start programming your subconscious mind and you feel connected. This connectivity, in turn, facilitates new ideas, creativity and clarity of mind in you.
Dancing lady statue
A statue of a dancing lady represents emotion of enjoying self and also practice. Accordingly, it can be placed in east-northeast, the vastu zone of happiness and rejuvenation. When placed there, dancing will make you feel rejuvenated. Moreover, you will feel established in your own self. Similarly, it can be placed in west-southwest as well. In this zone, it will encourage you to devote regular time for your dance practice. By all means you must avoid placing it in west-northwest, the vastu zone of depression due to obvious reasons.
Dressing table
Nobody has ever thought that placement of your dressing table in the right direction can help in improving your relationships. Dressing table should be placed adjacent to bedroom but avoid placing it on southern wall in south-west zone. Because then it will increase expectations from spouse which will create problems in your relationship. Ideally, placement of dressing table should be decided keeping in mind the effects of mirror in vastu.
Wall Paintings
In vastu, wall paintings are a powerful tool to manifest your desires. Each painting conveys an emotion and has certain elements representing it. Its placement is decided accordingly. For example, a village scene is a powerful vastu remedy to get your own house. Since it represents gains, so ideally it should be placed on western wall in the house. Similarly, painting of greenery is related with air element and represents growth. So, it can be placed in north, the vastu zone of new opportunities.
the Cupid
Has anyone thought of putting up cupid in a bedroom or a living roomIJ It’s quite strange to use them as a decor product in homes but they can affect your life in a positive way. Cupid is a symbol of love and according to directions of alchemy in Vastu Shastra, it should be placed in southwest, the zone of love. For a newlywed couple, it can also work as a stimulator of passion when placed in north-northwest, the zone of Rati (Goddess of sex).
Wind Chimes
They are one of the most common products that people use in their homes as a decorative item. Wind chimes can be placed in north, northwest and west vastu zones in your home. In north, you can place a wind chime made up of five rods; this will attract new opportunities in your career. In northwest, use a six-rod chime to motivate your supporters to work towards your gains. Similarly, a seven-rod wind chime in west brings overall gains for you.
White Horses
You can place a sculpture of a pair of white horses in the north-west zone of your home. It will facilitate financial support like bank loan for you. Similarly, placing it in north-northwest, the vastu zone of sex and attraction, works as a catalyst to remove frigidity and ignite passion in your marital life.
Dancing Dolphins
A sculpture of dancing dolphins can help improve your performance and ensure the satisfaction of your clients and customers. If the perfect performance or result eludes you in spite of repeated efforts, place the dancing dolphins in the east-southeast vastu zone of your building. This will enable you to overcome any obstacle. This tested vastu remedy will also reduce unexpected and unnecessary delays. The dancing dolphins also increase your work capacity while ensuring outstanding performances or results.
Tortoise
The tortoise has been extensively used in the ancient times as a powerful vastu remedy. Often you will experience a sense of peace when you enter an ancient temple. This is because a tortoise was placed in the centre of these places of worship. The tortoise enables you to overcome all types of adverse situations, saves your time and energy, and also gives you protection.
So, we can see that various art forms, sculptures and signs carry great meaning. The strength of positive energies found in such symbols or signs can send positive signals to human beings. More importantly, these symbols can keep the negative things away from our lives.
The writer is a Delhi-based vastu expert