How to create a Happy Healthy Home and Business!

Thursday, May 13, 2010

What is Feng Shui anyway?

     Some of you may be pondering this question.  Yet I bet most of you have heard Feng Shui referenced on TV, talked about in advertising and are aware that it is practiced by top international companies such as Trump, Walt Disney and Sony.  Feng Shui is often overlooked in this country as folklore and hocus-pocus when in fact the ruling Chinese have hidden this valuable secret from the lower class and the rest of the world for nearly 6000 years.  
     Feng Shui is actually a "Natural Science" that has been growing in popularity in the US since the early 1980's.  Literally it means "Wind and Water"; it has to do with how subtle energies affect us.  Feng Shui is the study of "how Qi (chi) travels on the wind but stops at the waters edge".  It is a system based on keen observation of the heavens (astrology or time) and the earth (interior and exterior spaces) forces and how the energy of each interacts.  Using Feng Shui principles one balances these forces to achieve better health, wealth and relationships.  The correct balance of all the elements opens the pathway to success.
     In a practical sense Feng Shui is a way to design the home from the inside out.  It provides solid reasoning when choosing a color family for particular areas of the house, a bed direction and the position when building a house.  It also determines what elements are needed to balance a space: such as a metal sculpture, plant or water feature.
      If you are still confused about what Feng Shui is and how it might be beneficial for you today, then I hope to inspire you to delve a little deeper.  I invite you to come back to this sight to see how you can make life more fulfilling, harmonious and stress-free.  I hope to support your search with helpful hints for creating harmonic spaces, space that allows the soul to speak to you, places where you get out of your own way so that the natural order of the universe supports you, to help you find the peace-filled and successful life that you seek, a happy healthy home.