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What is Feng Shui?
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Looking to ancient methods to make your home healthy warm and inviting. What Is Feng Shui? Feng Shui is all about living in harmony with your environment. It's about harnessing positive energy to promote better health, wealth, and relations with others. It's about correcting negative energy, a detriment to your well-being.With balance, Feng Shui gives you the impetus and the drive to succeed What is this energy, or chi? It's the stuff that breathes life into plants, animals, the mountains, oceans, and us. It's the stuff of dreams, intuition, fate and luck. It's the stuff at the core of non-living matter such as airplanes, buildings and the chair on which you sit. It's the stuff acupuncturists stimulate with their needles. It's the stuff martial artists conjure up to split solid objects. And it's the stuff Feng Shui practitioners harness to improve the health, wealth and relationships of their clients. Directions and Locations Do you find you sleep better facing a certain direction? Are there rooms in your home that invite relaxation, peace and comfort? Are there rooms that make you feel uncomfortable, anxious or depressed? Have you ever wondered about all of this? Feng Shui determines what type of house you have and which of the natural elements are,dominating, depending on which way it is facing. The direction will affect the inhabitants according to each individual's date of birth. Yin and Yang Yin is classified as the female, passive principle of nature and encompasses softer textures, rounded shapes, curves, quiet colors, nurturing, comfortable, receptive spaces. Yang is classified as the male, active principle of nature and encompasses angles, straight lines, high spaces, light, glass and hard surfaces. Balance and Harmony Yin and yang represent eternal change. Everything seeks a state of harmony and balance. If yin and yang aren't balanced in your environment, their imbalance can produce unwanted emotional and physical effects. Many clients complain of fatigue, depression and lack of motivation or headaches. If a room is dark, add more light (yang), if a room is overly bright, add window blinds or curtains (yin). The Five Phases Like yin and yang, the five phases are, five characteristics of chi that change over time. Just as ice, snow, steam and fog represent types of water that transform over time, the five phases are five physical elements in nature: fire, earth, metal, water and wood, that represent different manifestations of chi. The movement, transformation and interaction of each phase, as it resides in a space, or different rooms is what is studied and manipulated in Feng Shui. Think of a tree, a rock, a door or a table, even a human being, as actual bundles of intertwining energy or phases interacting in time and space. Feng Shui brings balance to the distribution of these elements in the living or working space and aligns the client personally with his or her immediate environment. The Pa Kua The Feng Shui of your home, room or office is enhanced by dividing the space into eight sectors according to compass direction, and each sector is identified with a life aspiration. The life aspirations are: mentors/helpful people, marriage and romantic prospects, family relationships and health, wealth and prosperity, education and children's luck. With Feng Shui, it is possible tp activate any of these life aspirations to benefit residents. Interior Design and Feng Shui With skillful orientation of furniture and lighting, well located accessories, conscious choice of colors and materials, clients can experience the energy of their home or working environment, or any space, come into alignment with their own subtle energy, providing balance, renewal, inspiration and profound new opportunities, in all areas of life. Trained as an Interior Designer in London, Caroline has worked in the design field for over 15 years. Spending many other career years in Asia she integrates Eastern philosophy deeply into her practice, combining the wisdom of Chinese and Tibetan Feng Shui with Western design expertise. Contact Caroline Vesey design at 415 389 8668 or caroline@carolinevesey.com. |
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