Have a Five-Element Holiday Dinner

Franca Giuliani - This holiday season, why not be creative and apply feng shui to your dinner table to raise the energy and harmony surrounding entertaining? Based on the 5-element theory, everything - even colors, shapes, and foods - can be translated to one of the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. It's always best to have a balance of these elements in your surroundings, which can even include your holiday dinner table. Here’s how you can apply the elements to your holiday feast.

Aside from the traditional red and green color scheme, which are great representations for fire and wood, respectively, remember to include yellows, blues, and whites. Yellow represents earth, blue represents water, and white represents metal. Yellow flowers in your centerpiece or place settings can be a marvelous way to portray earth. For metal, crisp white napkins or

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