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In Feng Shui, the kitchen has a long history of symbolizing health, wealth and excess. The food you store and prepare there supplies nourishment and nutrition, enabling you to thrive in the world. Making meals and cleaning up later are vital ways to show how much you care for yourself and your friends.

In Feng Shui, the kitchen has a long record of symbolizing health, wealth and excess. The food you store and prepare there supplies nourishment and nutrition, enabling you to thrive in the world. Making meals and cleaning up afterwards are vital paths to show how much you care for yourself and your family and friends.

Here are Top-Ten Feng Shui Tips for making your kitchen into the "healthy heart" of your home.

1. Clean everything within ... out. This includes drawers and upboards, appliances, walls and counters. Line shelves with new liner paper, and give the floor a good scrub.

2. Evaluate what you actually use. Feng Shui asks that you keep only what you use, need, or love. As you remove things from upboards and drawers, ask when you last used this item, and what the likelihood is of using it. If you want to keep an item you seldom use, consider deep storage, or make room for it on higher kitchen shelves.

3. Clear the counters. Remove everything from the countertops to clean them off and ask yourself, "How often do I use this?" before you put it back. Many appliances live on the countertop unquestioningly.

4. Put like with like. As you take things out, put like things together. As an example, separate sweet baking spices from savoury ones, and store coffee filters near your coffee mugs. You'll make your life feel just that much more straightforward going forward.

5. Adjust shelves to maximise space for storing. Most cabinet shelves are adjustable. As you consider putting your newly-organized things back in the cabinets, separate tall items from shorter ones and adjust your shelf-height in an appropriate way.

6. Use "shelf helpers" for convenience and potency. Items like tray racks, lazy susans, and stacking shelves don't cost much, and they can change your life. Get good "chi energy" flowing by making sure everything works. Fix things that are damaged. Check that doors swing openly. Replace chipped spoons and sharpen your knives. In Feng Shui this is a vital step - things that are well-cared-for indicate your goal to take the very best care of yourself, too!

7. Make a secure place for paperwork. Paper processing in the kitchen creates bafflement, and can be deadly. If your kitchen has turned into a mini home-office, it's time to get the papers out of there.

8. Recognize the significance of your stove. The stove, a robust Feng Shui symbol of Wealth in your life, is the center-piece of this "Heart of Your Home" and must be treated with particular respect. A technique to do this is by noting your disposition to use just 1 or 2 burners. Spread the wealth and use them all to bring more healthy energy into your home.

9. Use mirrors to make more wealth. In Feng Shui, the burners on your stove symbolize wealth coming into your house. You can multiply this by simply placing a mirror behind the stove so that it reflects the burners. This mirror also reflects activity behind you as you cook, so it brings in a desirable part of safety and comfort as well .

10. Balance the elements. Ultimately, your kitchen already contains 4 of the five components of Feng Shui : Fire, Water, Metal and Earth elements. The part that is often missing, Wood, can be brought in simply with things like fruit or a tiny plant - or even a picture of one of these. When the elements are balanced, a space feels great.

Is your kitchen everything it could be? Take a look and use Feng Shui to make the changes -- you'll spot the uplift immediately!