The bagua map as applied to a classroom brings similar results. Here's how. Pay close attention to the way the furniture, desks, board, tables, and chairs are arranged. The arrangements should coincide with what the bagua map indicates. Know that there are five basic elements in Feng shui, the fire, water, earth, metal and wood. Clutter will in a very big way reduce its potency. To achieve this, the house must be a very pleasant, cleaned space: Windows, sills, screens, and curtains are often not placed in the highest priority of the cleaning list when compared to the sweeping of dirt and vacuuming rugs and carpets and picking up the nits and grits that clutters the eye more readily. To make this bedroom fit for the one who exerts the greatest influence in the household, careful considerations are placed. Examples are: The direction of the bedroom in relation to the general house design, its sector from the point of the compass, and its shape. The position of the bed, the colors that are and should be employed including the decorations that are most appropriate. It is a practice. A belief system developed since the ancient times in China. Feng shui has persisted and spread, to almost all the known parts of the world. Unbeknownst to many cultures, many Feng shui principles are already being practiced by them although with different connotations and justifications. To find your place on this earth, and how you relate to the forces and motivations that guides and inspire you, you will have to know the following: From your standpoint, determine the four main points of the compass and its four corresponding sub points. These will comprise your eight directions. The North Northern points motivate personal growth, new ideas, innovations, creativity, art, music, career and development. The ribbons that are sued must be red and are cut in increments of 9. The reason for the color red is that it is the color that brings about luck the most and the 9 is the highest number in the numeric sequence (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), hence ribbons are often cut in 9", 18" 27" etc.