Saturday, September 26, 2009

8 Reasons to Buy a Wind Chime this Fall

1) Soothes Your Soul.
Listening to quality garden wind chimes can help calm your mind and release stress. Nothing can beat the soothing hum of wind chimes to help relax frayed nerves after a stressful day.

Imagine sitting or lying down on your favorite couch and listening to the soothing and relaxing sounds of chimes tinkling in the wind. Feel the tension leave your body and be energized by the refreshing tones.

Quality chimes shaped like a tube produce the most soothing and pleasing sounds. Others that are made up of solid pieces hanging from nylon threads or small chains generally create a less appealing sound.

2) Adds Music and Style to your Garden or Backyard.

Wind chimes provide you with the ability to transform your garden and outdoor living area into something extraordinary

Quality wind chimes add beautiful sounds to your garden. You can find unique wind chimes that perfectly blend with your personality and your surroundings.

Wind chimes use Mother Nature’s wind to create a mood in your garden or yard.

Large wind chimes are great for expansive outdoor living areas while smaller sets of chimes can compliment a porch or even an indoor area. There are endless types and sizes to choose from along with various appealing sounds to choose from

Choose wind chimes that emphasize your decorative style or focus more on the type of sound you want. It is up to you

Wind Chimes are frequently hung on patios and balconies, if you want to enhance your garden area, why not hang your chimes on a set of decorative poles and enjoy the tinkling sound of music among your flowers and plants?

Personalized wind chimes allow you to place your own individual stamp in your garden.

For a more distinct musical serenade choose wind chimes that are produced with tubes of various lengths and diameters. By selecting a variety of different chimes and placing them throughout your garden you will be able to achieve more depth to the sounds created by your chimes.

3) Is One of the Most Effective Feng Shui Remedies

For centuries people have believed that wind chimes bring harmony, health, wealth and serenity to their surroundings.

As a Feng Shui cure, your wind chimes could help you gain luck and prosper. Metal wind chimes are recommended for the North, West and Northwest, Wood for the East, South and Southeast. For good luck, it is recommended to use chimes with 4, 6, 7, 8 or 18 rods. If it’s bad energy to want to keep away, then go for a chime with 5 rods. For outside the house, bamboo chimes are best.

More information on Feng Shui in a future posting.

4) Is A Great Welcoming Sound for Visiting Guests.

A garden wind chime placed at the front door or on your front porch is a greeting for your visitors.

When entertaining outdoors hanging your wind chimes near the table for your guests to enjoy their soothing tones as they enjoy the aroma of meals being cooked on the grill.

5) Lets You Know about Weather Changes.

If the atmosphere is gentle and light then the sounds of your chimes will articulate nature’s motion. If the atmosphere is angry and blustery then your chimes will sound nature’s alarm.

Historically, wind chimes were used to assist both farmers and fishermen in making short-term weather forecasts.

With wind direction and speed serving as critical indicators for forecasts, a set of carefully placed wind chimes could provide information about the direction of the wind. Several sets of wind chimes could help determine different wind directions.

6) Makes Incredible Indoor Home Accents.

Artisan glass wind chimes, much like a sun-catcher, lights up with the morning sun and adds just the pop of color needed in the window.

If you collect or just love art glass, you will find these to be a creative new way to decorate with glass art.

Adds a "touch of glass" to any room in your home that you want to illuminate with color and provides pleasing musical notes as you brush by or open and close a door nearby

Artisan glass wind chimes bring the outside in.

7) Is a Great Gift Idea

A personalized set of chimes makes the gift that more unique. Inscribe a special message on the plates of the chimes to create a uniquely inspired gift that will stand the test of time.

See my posting as to why garden wind chimes are a great gift idea.

8) Great for Use when Meditating

Pure and finely tuned sound is a powerful tool when combined with different meditative stress-relieving techniques to ease physical and emotional pressures on the mind and body.

The use of hand tuned quality wind chimes helps to focus awareness and makes practicing these strategies much easier, as the melodies intertwine and are pleasing to the ear.

As you engage in meditation with wind chimes use their gentle ringing as a reminder of your intentions, allowing deeper and further release into your practice.

See this article for more specific information on these techniques. “Breathe Into Wholeness: Meditation Using Wind Chimes

One of the greatest benefits about searching for chimes in today's market is the ability to be able to sample your chime before you purchase it. This is one of the few items that you can actually sample online and be assured that the product you receive is the same as what you experienced

On my website you can see and hear the sounds of quality garden wind chimes.

Buy something new for your backyard today!! Check out my website for lots of cool stuff. Wooden Outdoor furniture, Decorative Birdhouses, Squirrel proof birdfeeders, birdbaths, tuned windchimes, Poly Recyled Furniture, Outdoor Candle Lanterns, Garden Fountains, and much more.

Some other postings that may be of interest:
6 Reasons Personalized Wind Chimes make a Great Gift Idea
8 Tips for Choosing Outdoor Furniture that you Will Love
Add Style to your Otherwise Dreary Outdoors This Winter

1 comments:

LBTurner*1959 said...

I love reading your blog and was pleasantly surprised to find the post on wind chimes. I'm a feng shui enthusiast and I'm looking for an 8-rod wooden wind chime for the prosperity section of my home (SE direction). I'll check out your website to see if you have one there. Thanks for all the wonderful posts. I can see all the hard work you put into them. Kudos!

Lynn (PamperingU)