Feng shui is a technique for bringing balance to one's home, business and the land that surrounds them. It looks at many areas of one's life (health, wealth, family, relationships, career, friends, fame, children, and knowledge) to determine blockages within the home or business.

    
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Feng Shui

Feng Shui (also known as "geomancy") is part of ancient Chinese philosophy and metaphysics and means wind and water, which are the two fundamental forms of life energy. Feng Shui studies life energy and tries to understand the movement of energy in our environment and how the design of buildings and interiors affects us in a subtle manner. Feng Shui uses positive 'chi' to improve an individual's good luck and success.

Everything that exists contains 'chi' (qi), the energy or life force. This 'chi' possesses two properties, yin (receptive) and yang (active)—they are opposites and cannot exist without the other. Within the 'chi', eight constituents compose the universe (the Lake, the Mountain, Fire, Water, Heaven, Thunder, Wind, and Earth). Each trigram, or combination of three yin/yang elements, represents a particular quality and pattern of energy. In turn, the proper arrangement of these energetic qualities would affect not only the 'chi' of the environment, but that of the individual within the environment as well. With feng shui, the goal is to bring both into harmony so as to foster prosperity, health, and well-being with the Wind (feng) dispersing the 'chi' throughout the universe and Water (shui).

Feng shui is a technique for bringing balance to one's home, business and the land that surrounds them. It looks at many areas of one's life (health, wealth, family, relationships, career, friends, fame, children, and knowledge) to determine blockages within the home or business, that might cause some type of problem, and then at the different types of "cures" that can be used to alleviate the problem. The methods for analyzing a space and the "cures" to correct the problems can vary from esoteric modalities used for centuries to technological solutions of our current timeline. Both must blend in harmony to created balance in one's life.

Practitioners of feng-shui claim that the layout and arrangement of a home greatly influences the lives of all its occupants. The alignment of furniture, color schemes, and accessories all play a part in creating an environment that both relaxes and invigorates those who live there. Simply moving a few objects or repainting a room can have a significant impact. On the other hand, misfortunes such as poor health, financial problems, marital or relationship troubles, and infertility can be attributed to a house in which feng-shui principles have been ignored.

Feng-shui is also concerned with the location of a building because its position in an area may be adversely affected by the surroundings unless appropriate countermeasures are taken to deflect negative energy.

Feng Shi Tools:
The main tools used in a feng shui analysis are the Compass and the Ba-Gua. The Ba-Gua is an octagonal map or grid containing the symbols of the I Ching, the ancient oracle on which Feng Shui is based. It is one of the easiest methods used to ascertain the Feng Shui of any given environment.

Chi:
 is the invisible energy that circulates through the earth and sky and connects people with their environment. 'Chi' is present everywhere even in and around our body. Chi travels best when it imitates nature by flowing in gentle curves, rather than along straight lines, where it can move too quickly, or against sharp edges, where it can be blocked, and cause sha, or bad chi.

Yin and Yang:
Yin and yang are the two basic principles underlying all matter and energy in the universe. These forces are opposites and complementary and need each other to exist and flourish. The constantly changing interactions of yin and yang give rise to the infinite variety of patterns in life. The following table outlines the basic nature of each principle:

Yin Yang Yin Yang
 Negative  Positive  Weak  Powerful
 Dark  Light  Female  Male
 Night  Day  Soft  Hard
 Wet  Dry  Inner  Outer
 Cold  Heat  Spirit  Matter
 Winter  Summer  Passive  Active
 South  North  Receptive  Creative
 Down  Up  Decaying  Flourishing
 Low  High  Retiring  Advancing
 Earth  Heaven  Lingering  Hasty

The Eight Directions:
The eight directions of the compass (north, east, south, west, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest) and the center, known together as the Nine Palaces, are basic components of feng-shui. Each direction is associated with a different kind of chi energy. Knowing the characteristics of these directions and their spheres of influence allows the creation of good feng-shui. It also used in making adjustments needed to correct bad feng-shui.

The Five Elements:
Each of the eight directions and the center is linked to at least one of the Five Elements: water, wood, fire, earth, and metal. The Chinese are able to group all things into one of these five categories. Contact with the elements is a major part of feng-shui and the interactive nature of these elements is used in enhancing positive energies and reducing negative energies.

One of the most effective ways to create positive energy or remedy bad energy is to make good use of the five elements. Feng-shui is easily adjusted by mixing, separating and arranging the five elements at suitable compass points in the home. The elements interact in either a creative or destructive cycle and their presentation affects the balance of the environment.

Color and Numbers:
Color is another important aspect of balance in fengshui. Color has an effect on the look and feel of a room, but colors also have associations linked to them. For example red is a lucky color, associated with life, happiness, and warmth. Green and blue are associated with new beginnings, growth and family life.

Numbers also have meaning and some are more favorable than others. Nine is the luckiest, partially due to apparent mystical qualities: when 9 is multiplied by a single-digit number, the sum of the two digits of the product is 9. The number 4 is considered bad-luck because its Chinese pronunciation, "si," sounds similar to the word for death. As with the elements, color and numbers are also associated with the eight compass points.

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