What Exactly Is Feng Shui

By Adrian McCluskey

It sounds like the latest Oriental dish, but feng shui is actually a method of organization and design that brings harmony and peace to your home or office. Read on to learn exactly what these two words mean and how you can benefit from them.

Feng shui is a spiritual system that began in ancient China about 3,000 years ago. There are many complex notions that go into feng shui but a simple paring down of the philosophy has become popular in the Western hemisphere today. Basically, feng shui revolves around the chi or energy that surrounds all life.

Feng shui is best translated as wind water. Its a philosophy in China thats closely related to prosperity and good health. If you want to have the positive chi flowing through your home, use the principles of feng shui.

Would you have guessed that your bathroom has energy flowing around it? You might be surprised but it does and using the principles of feng shui you can make it a place that can bring feelings of calmness and serenity to your family.

Feng shui enthusiasts use two basic tools to get started. Just as you might use a compass to find your way in the wilderness, feng shui has compass or lopan to guide you in the correct direction. The lopan allows you a greater sense of what should be where in your room to allow the chi to flow unrestrained.

The lopan will help you realize that different rooms in your home or office have individual feng shui needs. Using it correctly will determine the colors and array of feng shui elements needed in each room as well as taking into consideration what feng shui element governs the individuals in the room.

The feng shui lopan looks somewhat like the regular directional compass. It guides you towards a layout that best allows positive energy flow by using a needle in the center and several concentric rings of the outside.

The other feng shui tool is called the bagua. You can use a blueprint or scale drawing of your home to layout an energy map. There will be eight sections: North, Northwest, South, Southeast, East, Northeast and West, Southwest. Each area will have a governing feng shui purpose, element and color in your life.

Feng shui theory says that you can affect the energy around you simply by creating a space that is favorable to your life. This involves knowing the five feng shui elements, feng shui colors and how the energy moves throughout each room in your home.

More on that next time around. - 30198

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