Applying Feng Shui at home can be easy if you understand the basic principles. Feng Shui (sometimes spelled fung shway or fung shui) is an ancient Chinese art that can enhance your life. The Chinese characters shown above are for wind (feng) and water (shui, shei or shwei). Feng Shui encompasses many aspects of life, but for simplification purposes, I will only touch on the parts that will help you
relax at home.
What is Feng Shui?
Feng Shui is the ancient art of organizing your environment to promote harmony with nature and to achieve a balance of energy between yourself and your surroundings. It started over 3000 years ago in China and is still very important today.
One rule that holds true for Feng Shui and plain common sense is to
clean up the clutter in your home!
For more information on how you can improve your home through Feng Shui, keep reading.
What are the key components of Feng Shui at home?
Chi. The most important concept behind Feng Shui is an energy and force called chi, which is sometimes spelled Qi or Ki. You cannot see, feel or hear chi but you reap its effects. The physical location and surroundings of your house is a major factor in determining what kind of chi you get. Unfortunately, relocating is not an option for most people, so I will focus on what you can do with your existing home to improve the flow of positive energy.
Your goal should be to maximize your positive chi (scheng chi) and reduce your negative chi (si chi) and harmful energy (sha chi) in order to benefit from Feng Shui at home. By adding various elements (for example a water element from this beautiful double nojoqui falls wall fountain), you can adjust improve your feng shui at home. Adding movement such as flowing water increases the flow of chi, which increases the energy level of the room. You can also import the properties of one or more of the five elements (water and metal in this case) which can help balance the energy affecting you and the other occupants of the space.
Yin Yang.
The most common symbol used for Yin and Yang is shown to the right, where yin is the mostly black half and yang is the mostly white half of the symbol.
Five Elements.
Chi and Feng Shui are affected by the following
The Four Symbolic Animals. Four animals from Chinese astrology play a significant role in Feng Shui. They are the reason why most people prefer a south or southeast facing home. These four symbolic animals are:
The Phoenix. The phoenix is particularly important for people whose house faces south, the home of the red phoenix. This will bring good luck and good fortune, as long as the slope in front of your house is not too steep.
The Dragon. The dragon is located in the east. To benefit from the wisdom of the dragon, there should be hills east of your home to increase your good luck and hope.
The White Tiger. The white tiger is located west of the home and this area should be flat to provide an equilibium between excitement and bad luck.
The Turtoise. The turtoise is located north of the home and represents private matters. To protect your private matters, the ground north of your house should slope towards the house.
Chinese Compass. A Chinese compass is also known as Luo Pan. It is a complex tools that incorporates a compass and several key elements of Feng Shui. Don't worry if you don't have one. I will give you the basic information you need in order to improve your Feng Shui at home. Having a real professional Feng Shui reader who can use the Chinese compass would likely provide you with more information about your home, but how many professional Feng Shui readers do you know?
A Pah Kwa is also known as the Former Heaven Sequence of Later Heaven Sequence. It is often a part of the Chinese compass and can help you determine the ideal location for the rooms in your house. The use of
the 8-point method
will help you determine the optimum layout of the furniture in each room, which in turn will help you improve your Feng Shui at home. A Room To Room Guide to Feng Shui
Feng Shui for the following rooms is covered is separate pages. Simply follow the links below:
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