Feng Shui History ? The Art and Science of 5,000 Years
Some say that Feng shui history can be traced back to 3,000 years ago, while others say there are records that show it was in practice even up to 5,000 years ago in China. Whether 3,000 or 5,000, it is astonishing to see how the strength of this powerful body of knowledge has spread around the world and how widely used it is to this very day.
Feng Shui (pronounced fung-shway) means wind water but in ancient China, this art was once known as Hum Yue which translates to heavenly path and earthly path respectively. Both these terms describe the power of harnessing energy or chi in the environment.
The Early Years
Feng Shui history books such as The Book of Songs or Shih Ching, first introduced this ancient wisdom and spoke of how it should be practiced. They were documented over many years beginning in the ninth century BC. During the Han dynasty in China, around 206 BC to 224 AD, the Record of Rites or Li Chi, compiled by Kuo Po, talked about how it could be applied to graves. It was not until the Sung dynasty, around 960 AD to 1279 that Wang Chi documented on how it could be applied to house building.
Feng Shui Today
Feng shui history credits one particular man for it’s development over the years to what we know it to be today, Kuen Chok. Kuen Chok mastered the art during the Tang dynasty and published many books on its practice, sharing the knowledge that we use to this day.
If we were to visit Hong Kong, we can see how popular and practiced this study is today as it was many years ago. From millionaire tycoons to family homes, everyone has jumped on the bandwagon and reaped the benefits of this ancient science. In fact, it is fascinating to see how the landscape and geography of the island of Hong Kong itself has been molded with these principles in such a way as to contribute to the wealth and prosperity of the city with the mountains behind and the harbor in front along its financial strip.
In Hong Kong today, experts in the field are often consulted in the preliminary stages of buildings and houses to ensure that they are built on and with the most auspicious placements and spaces. Some indications of this can be seen in eight sided rooms in offices and even a building with a large hole through the middle in which to permit any negative energies to flow through its frame so as not to affect its inhabitants. Using what they’ve learnt from feng shui history and applying it in the early stages of planning, they eliminate the need to later correct any negative energy captured in the framework of the building or house which can be quite costly when you consider the construction of a large building.
Feng shui history has taught us a lot about using the energies of the environments we live in to live more happier, profitable and satisfying lives in this modern world. It is through the natural energy of the universe that we ultimately attain this balance of power and harmony to give ourselves the best opportunities for love, prosperity, success, health and happiness.
Lin Mai is a feng shui enthusiast and author. Visit Way to Feng Shui for more insight into feng shui history and how you can successfully apply it to your modern day life.
Lillian Too ? A Leading Feng Shui Practitioner
She has studied with some of the greatest masters and soaked up the in-depth knowledge that they revealed to her. Her studies span over 30 years.
Lillian had a lucrative banking career, which she retired from to learn and practice Feng Shui; she is the living proof that this ancient Chinese notion works. She learned to apply this notion in her everyday life, and it has helped her achieve tremendous luck and successes in business, personal life, and all other aspects of her life.
Having graduated with an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from Harvard Business School, she grew to be the first female head of a public company in Malaysia. In 1982, she became the first female CEO of a Bank in Asia. These true triumphs of hers were followed by a number of other extraordinary accomplishments in the competitive world of banking.
Having built a substantial career and a nice bank account, she retired and devoted herself to motherhood and writing. Lillian Too has achieved extraordinary results in writing – she is the bestselling Feng Shui writer in the world. She wrote over 80 bestsellers that are translated into 30 foreign languages. Articles about this extraordinary person were published in a number of newspapers, magazines, and journals.
Later, Lillian Too founded WOFS – a feng shui retail company, as well as the institute of certified consultants, which runs certified courses in feng shui. Her programs are very in-depth – they incorporate classroom lectures and on-site investigations (homes, apartments, and offices), which are followed by discussions and daily revisions. These intensive programs give a firm ground in the fundamentals, and teach the students the various formulas to perform an effective review of a property.
She also conducts master classes on Chinese destiny chart examination, in order to reveal a person’s wealth potential, as well as the potential and timing for their success, luck, love life, and more. These evaluations can help to actualize anyone’s potential.
Lillian Too lives in Kuala Lumpur, and her home is a true example of the calm and serenity that can be achieved by implementing feng shui; her home is a true tribute to this ancient notion. Lillian decided to share 356 photographs of her home with the readers in her book named “Living with Good Feng Shui.” The book and photographs explain how exactly Lillian enhances her living and working space with feng shui.
Lillian plans and hopes to keep increasing the global reach of feng shui through her books and teachings, which should help anyone achieve more from their lives.
The earth still has puzzles for people to solve, but some people have learned to identify many of the unseen patterns better than others. An ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu said: “Let food be delicious, clothing – beautiful, home – friendly, and life – joyful.” The last statement reflects the essence of Feng Shui, as well as it reflects exactly what Lillian Too helps people achieve using this art and science.
Jakob Jelling runs http://www.fengshuicrazy.com which teaches the ancient art of feng shui. Please visit his website to learn more about Lillian Too.
Jon Sandier ? From
Jon has published eight books and educated people in fourteen countries. He is the ex-chairman of the UK’s Feng Shui Society. In acknowledgment of his service, the society named Jon a Life Fellow. Jon has over a quarter-century of experience in Feng Shui, I Ching, macrobiotics, acupressure, Chinese astrology, face reading, 9 Star Ki, and more. Today, he is offering his knowledge through his consultation services.
Jon Sandifer was born and raised in Kenya; he was born in 1953. At age 9, he started to live and study at school in the United Kingdom. In 1970 (at 17) he joined an expedition to the Arctic. On his return, he was impatient to see more of the world. That same year (1970), he abandoned his studies and went traveling. He had £9, a passport, rucksack, tent, sleeping bag, and some dry expedition rations. Within the next six years he traveled through 52 countries.
He was inspired by the Chinese classic texts I Ching and Tao Te Ching. In 1976, he came back to the United Kingdom, and discovered macrobiotics and meditation. In 1977, he started studying at an internationally recognized education organization – the East West Centre. He studied Feng Shui, Oriental Diagnosis, Macrobiotics, Shiatsu, Acupressure, and a number of other topics. From 1981 to 1994, he taught at the same education center, and later become its Director of Education. Since 1994, Jon has totally devoted himself to learning Feng Shui and writing books.
The first book by Jon Sandifer was written in 1997; topic – acupressure; translated into Turkish and French. The second book was written in 1997; topic – Feng Shui astrology; translated into Brazilian, Croatian, Estonian, Thai, Hungarian, and Dutch. The third book was on re-balancing; it was written in 1998 for USA distribution. The other books followed, with topics ranging from Zen and I Ching, to macrobiotics, fitness, and cooking.
Jon first appeared on the radio in 1999. Between 1999 and 2008, he spoke at different radio stations numerous times. The radio stations he appeared on include: BBC Radio 2, Talk Radio, LBC, Radio 4, Plymouth sound, BBC Leeds, BBC Scotland, BBC Essex, and others. The topics of his talks ranged from face reading to astrology.
Jon first appeared on television in 1997. He was a guest of programs on a number of TV channels, including: GMTV, TALK TV, Channel 5, BBC 1, BBC 2, and BBC 4. The topics he covered included: face reading, the I Ching, Feng Shui, and acupressure. He became a regular guest on many TV shows.
From 1998 to 2000, Jon Sandifer had a monthly column; the topics included: Feng Shui, macrobiotics, Nine Star Ki, and face reading.
From 1994 to 2007, Jon wrote numerous articles on an array of topics, including: health, acupressure, yin and yang, 9 Star Ki, personality, potential, Feng Shui astrology, Oriental face diagnosis and reading, face yoga, and others.
From 1997 to 2005, Jon spoke at a number of conferences, including in the UK and USA. Most of them were dedicated to Feng Shui, and other topics on the connection between mind, body and spirit.
Jakob Jelling runs http://www.fengshuicrazy.com which teaches the ancient art of feng shui. Please visit his website to learn more about Jon Sandifer.
The Mind, Body And Soul Connection To Feng Shui
I. Introduction
In my previous article, “Making Decisions and Taking Actions with Feng Shui During Uncertain Times”, I explained how the lesser known temporal aspect of feng shui is a powerful element in helping people make decisions to obtain their desires. Coupled with the more familiar practice of physical feng shui – the movements of energies from and around objects and structures and the directional energies – temporal feng shui can be a truly powerful secret tool to maximize the positive results you want from your decisions and actions. As I mentioned in that article, to maximize these positive results from the temporal and physical practices of feng shui, a person must act with good intentions and do good deeds. The cosmic energies are most helpful to those who live a productive, useful and helpful life – both to ourselves and to others.
Living a useful, productive and helpful life can mean different things to different people. If it is based on a moral compass that espouses charity, generosity, no harm to others, and no harm to oneself, then it is most likely the correct way of living. However, there is more to correct living than these moral compass points, although they are by no means unimportant.
Just as feng shui is based on natural forces of cosmic energies that have their own logic, flow and progressions, so do peoples’ existence on this world. For us, the natural energies, whether positive or negative, flow in a circle from the mind, to the body, to the soul, and back to the mind. That is, the mind controls and feeds the body, the body feeds the soul, and the soul then feeds the mind. If the mind, body and soul are in harmony and balance, then there are sustained positive energy and happiness.
In these uncertain economic and political times, many peoples’ minds, bodies and souls are out of balance. The natural flow and order are disrupted because we have allowed our minds to lose focus, our bodies to take control and our souls to wither. The world’s current economic upheaval is in part due to this imbalance. Now is a good time to get back to the basics, to simplify our lives so that we can find our ways back to balance, harmony and the natural flow.
II. The Body
The body is feeling, pleasure and senses. Our desires are too often meant to satisfy our senses. Too many of us allow our senses of sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing to make decisions for us. This control has lead to excess consumption and spending. Too many of us spend on things that we don’t need, consume beyond our resources, and live beyond our means. How many of us have clothes in our closets that are fairly new or unused, yet we buy more clothes? How many of us don’t think that there is global warming and our natural resources are depleting at an unsustainable rate? How many of us are over-weight? How many of us have credit card balances due to spending on items that are not necessary for our existence? How many of us are going through foreclosure because we purchased a house that we know we could not afford? How many of us spend unnecessarily on gadgets and toys when all they do is allow us to pass time, which we know can be used on more productive endeavors? How many of us are still unhappy even if we have good jobs, a nice house, and a healthy bank account; yet we desire more? How many of us feel that there has to be something more?
There is nothing wrong with fulfilling our bodily desires so long as there is balance and harmony. This balance and harmony comes with the recognition that we must moderate the actions that are meant to satisfy our five senses. To get back into harmony and balance, start by consulting with our minds, asking whether a particular action is necessary and in balance with where we are in our lives. If we are honest and fair to ourselves in asking these questions, we are slowly allowing our minds to take control over our bodies (and our senses). With this approach, perhaps we can simplify our desires. Perhaps we can conclude that a new shirt is not really necessary, that another serving of food is not really necessary, that another hour on the video game is not really productive, that having a good job, a nice house, and a healthy bank account all satisfy our senses, but not our minds and our souls.
III. The Mind
If we can simplify our lives by reducing the desires of our senses, perhaps we can take a step back and allow our minds to be in control the way it is meant to be. Remember that the mind controls and feeds the body, the body feeds the soul, and the soul feeds the mind again. With the mind in control, it can moderate the actions meant to satisfy the body’s senses; so that the mind can direct the excess resources that we have (whether it’s time, energy or means) to efforts that feed the soul. Additionally, with less emphasis on the body’s desires, we consume less food, spend less money and deplete less natural resources, all things that in fact benefit our physical existence and enhance our security.
For the mind to regain control the way it should and find its purpose again, it must do things and take actions that truly nourish the body so that the body can nourish the soul. In allowing the body’s senses to dictate our actions, our minds have allowed us to become self-centered, greedy and negative. Self-centeredness and greediness have contributed to the world’s current economic crisis. In turn, negativity contributes to the prolonged detrimental impact of this crisis on our lives. This negativity manifests in different forms, such as hopelessness, loss of faith, confidence, and poise, and depression.
Our minds must overcome this negativity, work to reduce the self-centeredness and strive towards generosity. We must cultivate our minds in such a way that its energies are directed towards things and actions that we can do that will produce positive results. Feng shui enhances these results, but feng shui cannot create them. Positive results ignite in our minds, and feng shui fuels them.
The first step to cultivating our minds is to recognize what is within our control and what is not. We should be mindful of what is outside of our control, but we should not let those things weigh us down. For example, the world’s economy is near collapse. Many of us feel helpless and apprehensive of what lies ahead. Many of us have lost our jobs, our savings and our shelter. As a result, many of us grow depressed and have lost our faith, confidence, hope, and poise. But why should we feel this way when these events are now out of our control? Of course we may have done things (or more accurately, our bodily senses have caused us to do things) that have contributed to our current situations. But those are things in the past. What should we do now given our current situations that both reflect the lessons we have learned from our prior actions and at the same time achieve balance of mind, body and soul?
Of course, we should learn from our prior actions and not commit the same mistakes we made before. But we should also recognize that positive thoughts and attitudes go a long way to lighten the burdens in our minds, to help us recognize that we may be in a vulnerable position, and to help us do those things that are within our control to help ourselves. Of course, we know that positive thoughts will not put food on the table or pay the mortgage, but they should help us have a clear mind so that we can help ourselves. They should give us hope and faith that so long as our minds, bodies and souls are in balance, then we will make it through any ordeal.
As we strive to remove negativities in our minds, we are in a way nourishing our bodies by removing unnecessary bodily stress and depression. Many of these negativities can cause sleeplessness, depression, worry, anger, and other harmful thoughts and emotions that strain our bodies. Before we can address our greed and self-centeredness, we must ensure that our bodies are healthy and have what it needs (not necessarily what it desires).
IV. The Soul
The mind’s ability to provide for our body and to direct its actions towards balance and natural harmony must necessarily focus on the health and nourishment of our souls. My reference to the soul in this article is to the positive emotions and feelings people get from performing a good deed. The good deed, along with hope, faith, and good intentions, are what fuel the powers of feng shui.
Once it regains control of our bodies, our minds should direct our bodies not to focus so much on ourselves, but on what we can do for others. Helping others, whether with our time, our money or our energies, is helping ourselves rid of greediness and self-centeredness. When we help others, we are helping to feed our souls because of the innate sense of pleasure and happiness we feel in our hearts when do perform a good, selfless deed. Thus, we should have positive thoughts and hopeful attitudes about helping others and giving of ourselves. We do not necessarily have to give a lot of money, time or energy. The important thing is to feed the soul by giving. The more we give, the more feng shui will work for us. The more pure the giving, that is to give for the sake of giving without the expectation of receiving in return, the more powerful the effects of feng shui.
V. Final Thoughts
Don’t approach these harsh economic times as something that is forcing us to reduce consumption and spending, but as an opportunity to permanently change our perspective and behavior. Don’t spend and consume less because the economy is bad and you may lose your income so you must conserve. Do these things because of a recognition that spending less and consuming less are ways to get back into balance with the natural order of mind, body and soul for sustained happiness and prosperity. Work to put the mind back in control so that the soul can be nourished. The soul’s nourishment is the key to enhance the powers of feng shui.
* Master Lam Quan is the founder of the Flow Concept School of Feng Shui. He may be contacted at http://www.lamquan.com. Hear Master Lam’s podcasts at http://fengshui.podbean.com.
Attract The Good Chi Of Prosperity & Career Luck To Your Home Or Office With Feng Shui
Step out and look…
The entrance of your home or office is the way your community and neighbors sees you. The “chi” energy moves so fast that your home or office lacks of prosperity, career luck and harmony.
It is very important to maintain the structure of your house or office like your body and soul. The prosperity and well-being of your family, employees and clients depends on how the energy flows through your house or office. You don’t need to spend a lot of money, just keep your surroundings clean, retouch the paint and remove all trash or unused items around the house or office. Keep your garden in top shape and be grateful of what you have.
So step out and begin to bring the good “chi” into your home or office and give Thanks for it. Make the energy go to your home or office by locating plants around the entrance in a waving manner. Do it yourself and enjoy. Look for your dream garden in magazines, internet and take with you the picture to your favorite gardening store. They have an expert that gives you plants alternatives for your locations and zone. Enjoy with your family this great adventure and feel the energy moving to your house or office. Remove all dead plants and keep your garden clean.
Place a beautiful welcome rug in your front door; identify your home address clearly by placing the numbers of your house or office visible. The harmony and well-being is affected when people look for your address and have a difficult time to reach you. When they finally find you, they will be energized with bad chi and will be transmitted to your home or office when there. Install a bell, ring tone or knock door accessory for your visitors to announce their arrival.
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Feng Shui for health: Improve your Health and fight with diseases
A healthy body is the home for all happiness. If you are healthy you will have energy for working, you will have desire of working and you will be happy inside. “Health is wealth” as the saying goes is very true. Your surroundings affect your health and like very much. The Chinese art of Feng shui has several measures to improve one’s health with a few changes in surroundings. This art diverts the positive energy from surroundings to you and fill you with vigor and enthusiasm.
According to Feng shui, the centre of your house directly affects your health .It means this centre portion termed ad ‘bagua’ in Feng shui language should be clutter free. It should not have any heavy items. In fact it should be decorated with positive images, harmonious items like wind chimes or some flowers and plants. Such positive things help to have a flow of positive energy throughout your home.
Bedroom is the place where you spend some of the best moments of your life and spends most of your time. So it has very important role in your health. All appliances with electromagnetic effects should be either removed or should be kept at least 8 feet away from your bed. Never sleep facing your foot towards door if you want to avoid any negative thoughts. This is considered as coffin position. Also never face a mirror while sleeping as this can affect your love relation with third individual intervention in your life.
Putting earth candles or green candles in your home have a flow of healing power that keeps you physically fit and takes you to the state of emotional relaxation.
Proper lightning in your rooms is very essential. It should be well lit but not overdone. Soft lampshades with colorful lightning keep you happy and positive health. Harsh lights and spotlights have irritating and negative effect on your health. Avoid keeping fountain or potted plants in your bedroom as they are too much yang and deters the good health.
To show that you have chosen good health and longevity as perfect condition, you should keep wu Lu gourd on your table or bed side. This signifies longevity, healthy and harmonious life. Feng shui for health suggests to discard all unnecessary things from your home. Either donate them to charity or give it to your friends who are in need of them.
Some of the Feng shui products are also helpful in maintaining good health for you. Keeping laughing Buddha anywhere in your house makes you smile every time. With its smile, a positive energy is emitted which have direct effect on your health. Amethyst is a stone that has spiritual energy which strengthen your intellectual state and increases right side brain activity thus purifying blood, improving immune system and increasing the power of intuition. Lead crystal sphere along with giving a wonderful look to your office and rooms activates positive chi to make you strong.
Besides all these, you should keep your bathrooms and toilets clean, decorate the eastern side of your house with lush green plants, avoid keeping broken items in home, etc. This helps in maintaining a smooth flow of positive chi and giving its results.
So you can very well understand the merits of applying feng shui for health. With such simple guidelines for your health, you can make your life happy, live it to its fullest and have physical, spiritual and emotional changes in your attitude. You can also hire consultants to give you proper suggestions according to your life style.
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Feng Shui Chinese Astrology: brighten up your future
What will you do if you get to know about your future? You will definitely be happy for good moments and tensed for the adverse conditions. But then if you know about them you can at least adopt some measure for its cure. Chinese Feng shui give you such measure to make your life go smooth and easy. Chinese zodiac also helps in giving some guidelines to brighten up your future.
Chinese zodiac and Chinese Feng shui have close association with each other. Both this Chinese concept works on the basis of interaction between five basic elements of energy named as fire, water, earth, wood and metal. It is believed that these five elements have the entire universe’s energy and a balance among these is the best condition for a person. These five elements are guiding Chinese culture since ages.
Feng shui believes that a perfect balance in inner and outer body environment is the best condition for living a happy and harmonious life. It believes in yin and yang theory and positions of substances surrounding you. According to this science, every object has some particular energy which is emitted if it is placed with proper orientation and perfect angle with surroundings. This energy called chi has effect on every act of yours. On the other hand Chinese zodiac believes in orientation of planets and other heavenly bodies, interaction between five elements, yin and yang, 12 animal signs and wu xing teachings.
These 12 animals in Feng shui are in particular order with rat being first and boar being last. There is a story behind this that is once Buddha called all animals for celebrating New Year’s Eve. But only 12 animals were successful reaching there. Although ox was very fast and supposed to reach first but then rat sat on his back and jump over to the destination, and ox became second. On this day only Buddha decided to give 12 zodiac names on the name of these animals.
Feng shui Chinese astrology requires birth location and time for giving any reports. Birth year will be in accordance with the 8 numbers representing 8 different compass directions. These numbers are called as patzu. Once having this information, a Feng shui expert analyzes bagua, an octagon shaped chart. The bottom of chart is in correspondence with the front door and accordingly he decides the location of house. With this he determines which objects to be kept where, positioning of water elements, plants and flowers. This also gives an idea about incorporating any objects like images, fountains, green plants or any other Feng shui products if required.
This Feng shui Chinese astrology determines the birth animal of the person with his birth date and according to the characteristics, behavior and attitude of that animal determines the person’s nature. With this color of the person’s home, type of furniture required and other elements can be decided. With such changes positive energy flows as such to accumulate maximum in your house and gives you vigor and power.
This Feng shui Chinese astrology is somewhat difficult to understand and comprehend for a normal individual as it requires extensive study of signs and Feng shui. It’s better for you consult a Feng shui expert for your predictions. These people very well understand about the interacting principles and guide you properly. After sometime you yourself can see the results and feel the positive energy within you. You can brighten up your future with this art and live a happy and harmonious life.
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Feng Shui and Site Selection
Classical Feng Shui is about living in harmony with the environment. By living in harmony with the environment, people are able to harness the beneficial energies or chi in the environment, to better their lives. It encompasses the human experience, which includes wealth, health and relationships. Through hundreds of years of observation, the Chinese discovered dwellings (homes or businesses) that were beneficial to occupants. In doing this research they also discovered, edifices that were destructive and harmful to occupants, making life difficult and in some cases impossible. The Chinese figured out which homes and businesses based on, how it was situated in the environment, the facing direction of the building, the move-in date and the occupant’s birth date would be beneficial and which would be destructive. The Chinese believe that 1/3 of our luck comes from heaven, that which we are born with or predestined, 1/3 of our luck comes from man, by working hard or having good acumen and 1/3 through the earth, which is Feng Shui. Some masters believe that really great Feng Shui will improve your life by 2/3. I tend to agree.
A common misconception is that professionals in this field use bamboo flutes, paint walls different colors, use mirrors, frogs, coins, and crystals to shift the energy in a home or business. This is false. Chachkis are not powerful enough to shift the energy in a home or business. Much of what is read online, in books, or seen on TV about Feng Shui is Western Feng Shui and it is bogus. This is not how it’s used to secure and enhance wealth, improve health and attract or maintain a relationship.
The best way to implement Feng Shui is to begin the process from the ground up. If you have a raw piece of land, this is the best time to implement Feng Shui. Everything from the facing of the building, to the placement of toilets, stoves, kitchens, bedrooms, laundry rooms, offices, can be customized for the person dwelling in the space to ensure that money, relationships and health thrive. There are special degrees known as Precious Jewel Lines that can be used to set the foundation, doors, stoves, beds, offices, etc. that will bring precious and beautiful things to the occupants. There are special wealth formulas like Five Ghosts Carry Treasure, which can be implemented by tapping a mountain in the environment and placing water in a specific location based on the facing direction of the doors to bring great wealth to the occupants. Many formulas can be created by utilizing the external features of the house or business and setting the driveways, water features, ponds, sidewalks, etc. to special degrees that can speed up good Feng Shui to produce faster results and to create great wealth and harmony.
Donald Trump utilizes these special techniques in all his buildings. Richard Branson, the Virgin mogul, also uses Classical Feng Shui to enhance his wealth. Steve Wynn, the hotel magnet billionaire, in Las Vegas utilizes these wealth producing techniques popular in Southeast Asia, but unknown to many Westerners. Chase Manhattan and Wells Fargo Banks also utilize these methods to increase and secure their wealth. A lot of companies like Disney use these techniques but don’t advertise it because it gives them a competitive advantage.
If building a home or business from the ground up is not feasible, the best alternative is to consult a consultant before you move-in to a home or office. By consulting a professional beforehand, this ensures that the home or office will support the occupants in all aspects of wealth, health and relationships. It is much easier to pick a good home or business for a person than it is to fix a home or business that has posed nothing but challenges for the individual.
If you are not looking for a new home or business, I would recommend consulting a professional to ensure that your existing space is well placed inside and out to secure and enhance wealth, to protect and improve relationships and to boost and increase good health. It can always be used to turn a situation around, prevent a negative situation from occurring, and strengthen a positive situation.
Feng Shui can be implemented as early as the raw land phase, in the renovation phase, when finding a new home or business or in an existing space. It can be employed in countless ways to help improve the lives of individuals. In ancient China, it was reserved for royalty and the very rich because of its powerful influences on the human experience. It wasn’t until Master Yang, the savior of the poor, that it was introduced to the general public. Today, many are aware of Feng Shui, but few know of “real” Feng Shui, secrets that the movers and shakers and the truly rich use.
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Good Feng Shui – Pavements
Pavements and roadways , how and where they are placed and laid are often in life outside of your control , just like the issues and fortunes that life deals us or does not deal us. We can only make the best of the cards that we are dealt. It is not as if your local city or local municipality calls you into a town district meeting to consult with you as to where and how the roadway in front of your home or property should be placed or laid. On the other hand or other side of the fence where and how pavements and your pavement is placed in your garden city best work to encourage , focus and shield the vital sheng qi of your garden area , areas and lawn and general garden area as well.
If there is one rule and tactic in this procedure it is to build your garden and yard pavements to encourage positive sheng qi and to both enhance and focus the wonderful , good and great powers of this and your sheng qi.
First of you can make the choice and choose to make a straight pavement seem curved itself with shrubs, flowers, potted plants, stones or ornaments along one edge. Indeed the Chinese use mosaic pebbles in their garden layouts as the design and designs of these special mosaic pebbles work well and best to emphasize the inherent and instrinsic duality and dualities of both the ying and yang forces present and evident.
It can be said that a narrows pavement, all things considered, can be considered and thought best overall than the choice of a wide pavement width. Three or four feet ( that is 0.9 meter to 1.2 meter) can be said to be more than wide enough for pavements in your garden or yard , in most people’s gardens and outside areas of their yard and areas adjacent to their homes and office structures.
Along with these choices, low earth mounds on either side of your pavement or pavements will create much more interest to the eyes and senses and as well increase the flow of the vital qi forces and factors. Along with this consider that curving pavements and even curved planned in the making and layout of your pavement areas will create surprises , twists and twirls in your garden areas as well as the pavement leading to the entranceway to your front and rear doors. It’s like life- adding a bit of surprise, and surprises, and adds to the enhancements with all their twists and turns of changes, intrigues and excitement of life and living a life well lead, lived and experienced.
Along with this, on the other side of planning and layout of your pavement structures, try at all costs to avoid straight lines and straight line rigid layouts if you possibly can. Instead use a herringbone pattern or if need be an alternate layout in the form or forms of a “Bagua” shape.
If you can use “pavers” , rather than solid concrete , as they will allow the solid earth qi to rise and filter up as well as letting the most essential and vital to life water and moisture come through and filter up to the living organisms and creatures in your supporting and supporting areas. The world is a microcosm of your life and so is your own yard and gardens. Put plants between your pavers. Pick thyme as it is effective. You can walk and tread on thyme gently. In addition place shrubs and shrubbery in pots and pot like structures to make the ambience and whole area and areas as a whole appear and really seem friendly and friendlier.
Lastly consider making a private paved area, screened from the house. Feng Shui!
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Feng Shui Tips for your RV
It is believed that feng shui utilizes the natural laws of the universe to help you achieve your goal with the help of positive chi flow. In laymans terms, its the art of arranging furniture in order for one to receive good luck. The principles of this art can not only benefit you in your home furniture, but it can be applied as well when choosing and arranging RV furniture.
Here are some basics which can be applied right away:
- Clear up clutter from your RV. Get rid off all the things you don’t need nor love. You want positive chi to move freely.
- Put your seats at right angles to each other. This will also make it more conducive for conversations amongst family.
- Make sure that the coaches and the bed does not face away from the entrance.
- Your bed should not be facing a mirror. In fact, there should be no mirror in the places that you are found off. It is said that this will bring about bad luck and third parties into your relationship.
- The stove in your kitchen area should not be across the refrigerator or sink. The practical reason is that you don’t want heat to go in your refrigerator as it will consume more electricity. The feng shui reason is that you don’t want the elements of fire and water to clash.
- Make sure that you put in as much natural light and air as possible. You wan’t to welcome fresh positive chi into your RV.
- Place your bed against a solid wall.
- If you have a pet turtle. Do not bring him along.
- Pick your parking spot wisely. Stay away from electrical poles as the magnetic fields will disrupt your sleep.
- Place the television set in the living room area instead of the bedroom. I know that this is a hard habit to break. If you must place it in your bedroom, cover it with a plastic (not cloth) table cover when you are not using it.
There are more feng shui concepts that you can apply when you are arranging your RV furniture. There are concepts like object and color placement (where you will make use of a feng shui star chart), there are color coordination principles you can follow, and so on and so forth. If you are seriously want to apply some advance concepts, there are multiple sources online and books on the subject. You can also consult a feng shui master or an interior designer.
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