Can feng shui help with money?

Dear Nikki,
How can I use feng shui in my house to help me with money?
Maria Odobo
Bahrain

Dear Maria,
Do you know where your financial “power spots” are? The contemporary methods of feng shui associate prosperity issues with the back left corner of any space. Stand at your front door facing into the house; your wealth area is at the back of the house on the left-hand side. There’s also a wealth area within each room: facing in from the doorway, it’s the corner area in the back of the room on the left-hand side. Where are the wealth areas within your office, living room, kitchen, and bedroom? Now that you’ve identified your money power spots, here are some quick and easy ways to apply feng shui to these spaces:
· Clear out any clutter from these important areas. Getting rid of clutter is one of the most powerful ways to shift the energy of your power spots into high gear.
· Fix things that are broken. Anything that doesn’t work as it should is a sign of something wrong in the area of your life that corresponds to that part of your space. Remove items like these from your power spots or fix them so they work properly.
· Enhance your power spots with symbols of prosperity, such as a bowl of coins (add your loose change to it every day), a “lucky bamboo” plant, or anything that symbolises success and prosperity to you.
· Accent your money areas with the colours green and purple. Green symbolises vitality and growth, and purple is the colour of wealth. Place a bowl of green and purple grapes (real or artificial) in the wealth area of your kitchen, to symbolise abundance filling your home.
· Pay attention to how you handle money every day. Clean the clutter out of your purse and wallet, and start handling your money as though you value it.
· If you neglect your money, it will neglect you, so be sure to balance your chequebook regularly and pay your bills on time.
· Live generously. Money is a form of energy, and it needs to flow through your life, not just into it.
· Take a few moments to think about all the good things that happened to you and to express your gratitude for what you have received.
A true experience of prosperity is determined not by how much money you have, but by how well you notice and enjoy what is already present in your life.