feng shui your love life

feng shui your love life

If your love life is pretty non-existent, or your relationship seems to be going nowhere fast, then check out our guide to spring cleaning your love life with Feng Shui.

Based on the harnessing of natural forces of nature to promote prosperity, harmony and vitality, Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of home layout, which works within the home to create – or destroy happiness. So grab yourself a compass and get moving!

Firstly you need to find out which way your house faces. Because you can’t move your house (unless you live in a caravan!) you need to find the directions of the corners of your rooms.

Each direction relates to a different area of your life, so if you want to change your love life you should be concentrating on the south west areas of your house.

Paint your bedroom in shades of yellow, as the colour is associated with partnerships. To ensure good communication and happiness in your relationship, place two matching pink candles in glass holders at either side of your bed.

If you want passion to flow, then place a beaded curtain at your bedroom door as this encourages new energy and deflects infidelity, while a set of fairy lights hung above your bed stimulate your happy energy and feelings of affection.

Make sure your bed does not face the door in your bedroom, otherwise you and your partner may never have good health – and that’s the last thing you want in your relationship.

Mirrors are also a big no no. Not only is there nothing worse than seeing your reflection first thing in the morning, but leaving a mirror in your bedroom could lead to your relationship failing due to infidelity or another person getting involved.

The perfect smell for romance is vanilla. The scent, an earth element that controls our love area, increases devotion in your life and when burned in a south west corner can attract a physical relationship.

So with your candles lit and the air smelling sweet, what more of an excuse do you need to enjoy love and romance tonight and every night?

Love is in the year

Love is in the year

February 14th is a day that you either love or loath because lovers all over the world exchange cards, flowers and gifts. But have you ever thought where the tradition comes from - here is a brief history of St Valentine’s Day so you can find out!

Eight hundred years before the first Valentine’s Day, the Romans practised a festival celebrating sexual pleasure and fertility. Observing a young man’s rite of passage, a girl’s name would be randomly drawn and the pair would be partners for the year.

In 496 AD Pope Gelasius decided he didn’t like this practise and allowed both men and women to draw the name of a Saint from a box, which they had to follow for the rest of the year.

The decision was unpopular, forcing Pope Gelasius to come up with a patron saint of love – which is where Valentine comes in.

Emperor Claudius II (known as Claudius the Cruel) believed that married men made bad soldiers because they didn’t want to leave their wives, so Claudius prohibited all marriages in the Empire.

Valentine, a Christian Priest, secretly married young couples, leading to his inevitable imprisonment and eventual death in 270 AD.

While incarcerated it is believed that Valentine fell in love with the jailer’s blind daughter, and her sight was miraculously restored through his love for her and his strong faith.

Before he was stoned to death and beheaded, he wrote her a note, signed ‘from your Valentine’, a phrase used today by millions of people across the world to send an anonymous card to their lover.

The Roman men accepted this, and the tradition became to send a handwritten message of affection, containing Valentine’s name, to your loved one on February 14th, the day Valentine was killed.

Not quite as passionate as the pagan festival, but very romantic. If you’re after someone’s amorous attention you’d better get scribbling now – you don’t want to miss out!

Positions - The X Position

Positions - The X Position Very deep penetration with this one – so much so that some experts recommend it for conception.

On ejaculation the penis is positioned right at the opening of the cervix thereby shortening the distance the sperm has to travel.

To do this the woman has to lift her knees up to her chest and hook them over the man’s shoulders – this allows the man to easily press his pubic bone against the clitoris. X marks the spot.

Positions - 69 (Soixante-neuf)

Positions - 69 (Soixante-neuf) Is this a position or isn’t it? Well, although it doesn’t involve actual ’sex’ per-se, it’s a hot favourite.

Both partners give and receive oral sex – cunnilingus and fellatio at the same time. By necessity, a figure of 69 is described with one partner kneeling above the other facing the other way. Potential problems with this position include a lack of concentration. Many people find it difficult to continue giving oral sex whilst being stimulated orally. The more determined of the two will probably come off better in this case.