Feng Shui is something you feel when walking into a home, you can call it energy, or life force, but whether you know it consciously or not, one feels a homes positive or negative energy. This is great information for sellers and buyers who plan to own a home.
Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of improving every aspect of one's life by enhancing the environment according to the principles of harmony and energy flow. Feng (wind) and shui (water) are the two elements required for human survival and that flow, move, and circulate everywhere on earth. These combined qualities determine climate, food supply, and our life energy and mood. Within the last ten years, Feng Shui has gained widespread popularity in the West, and today more and more people are practicing it and experiencing the positive benefits of favorable placement.
It is neither superstitious magic nor passing fad. The Chinese have known for millennia that our physical surroundings affect every aspect of our inner and outer lives. They've long recognized the distinct relationship between success in life and good Feng Shui. Many successful people now create harmony and happiness in their relationships, increase their prosperity and dissolve chronic patterns of failure, difficulty and stress by rearranging their living and working environments according to ancient Feng Shui principles. For example, the position of the bed affects your marriage; the position of your desk affects your attention and work performance.
The essence of these life giving elements is CHI, or life force. Feng Shui is the art of designing environments in harmony with the flow of CHI through one's living space, and this flow supports and enhances one's personal CHI. This practice is rooted in a holistic worldview which sees all things and creatures as part of a natural order, a vast environment that is alive and in flux, ever moving and changing. Everything, plants, animals, people, is part of a vast landscape that swirls with vital energy. The same energy that flows through the world flows through us too. Actually, accordingly to the Feng Shui principles, our essence, (the part that makes us alive, unique and vital) is energy.
The Chinese determined that everything in the universe is composed of two qualities of energy that are complimentary and opposite: yin and yang. Yin symbolizes the passive side of nature. Yang symbolizes the active side of nature. Everything contains different quantities of yin and yang. The amount of yin or yang determines what kind of environments we have to deal with (too much yin brings lack of energy, difficulty to change and develop; too much yang creates a disruptive environment).
In order to better understand the importance of Feng Shui in one's life we need to look historically at the concepts of the "Five Factors That Contribute To Life Fortune." This information was distilled through hundreds of years of empirical observations by the Chinese sages with a burning question in their minds: What are the key factors for human success?
The Five Factors concept is their answer:
1. Fate (destiny)
2. Luck
3. Feng Shui
4. Charitable actions
5. Self-improvement
As one can see, Feng Shui is the third most important factor in our life, and is one that we can easily change, should the need arise. See the list below for the most significant ways that influence us right now.
1. Your front door
2. The people that previously lived in your house
3. The placement of your stove
4. Clutter in your home or office
5. The locations of the bathrooms
6. Your bed position
7. The air quality and lighting levels
8. The colors you see
9. Your desk position
10. Seeing your front door from the street.
Fortunately, by applying sensible Feng Shui principles one can reverse negative patterns and strengthen positive ones to maximize the chances of success. The bottom line is that Feng Shui can help you improve your environment easily, directly, and powerfully. And if applied correctly, your life can become easier and happier in essential areas- relationships, career, wealth, family connections and more. You may be amazed at how many life obstacles can be "cleared" with simple energy shifts that one can perform in the home or the office.
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