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Youve heard how feng shui improves your life by enhancing your home. Maybe youve used feng shui to empower yourself at the office. But did you know that feng shui can bring a new sense of positive energy and flow to your finances as well?

Now that tax time has passed, its a good time to take a fresh look at the way you manage your financial life. When your finances are flowing smoothly, your whole life becomes easier.

Why not give some of feng shuis best ideas a try?

1. Create open space: The first step to good feng shui is always to clear the clutter and open up space for new opportunities. Start by discarding out-of date financial materials. For example, since you only need to keep the past seven years of tax returns, go ahead and shred any tax files prior to 2005.

2. Bring balance to your finances: Feng shui is about having as sense of balance and harmony in every aspect of your life. Online bill-paying is a great way to bring these qualities to your finances. When you pay your bills online you create a sense of lightness about your money by reducing so many things at once: effort, expense, paper usage and more.

Online bill-paying also gets you into the flow of your finances by putting you in control of timing and account management.

3. Attend to your wealth corner: In feng shui, we use a map called the bagua as a guide to the symbolic meaning of every part of your space. The back left-hand corner of every room is the wealth sector, symbolizing your gratitude for the abundance in your life.

Activate positive chi energy for your finances by making sure this area of your space is absolutely clutter-free. Place an object here that symbolizes the wealth in your life right now. This can be anything from a joyous photo of your family or recent travels to an object that makes you feel rich every time you look at it.

4. Find the helpful people you need: Diagonally opposite to the wealth area is the helpful people sector of the bagua, in the right-hand front corner of your space. This is the area to activate when youre looking for help organizing your financial life, whether you need to reduce debt or make wiser investment decisions. In either of these cases youll be better off with experienced help.