Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of living in harmony with your home, garden and your business environment. By the simple reorganization of your surroundings on the key principles of movement, light and order, a transformation in your fortunes can be accomplished.

Feng Shui

• literally means “wind and water”
• can be used to predict and alter situations such as health, wealth, family life and relationships
• Everything is designed to be harmonious and to blend with nature
• There are three important basics of Feng Shui
  1) Yin= the actual house and its construction and direction
  2) Yang= the way the ch’i flows in and around your home

3) You

• By checking the Feng Shui of your home you can tell if al these are in harmony, and make changes to the balance if necessary using the Eight Remedies

Taoism

• Important principles of Feng Shui are based on Taoism, the ancient religion of China
• According to Taoist thought, the universe can be divided into two separate areas, matter and spirit
• Yin= things that are real (earth, matter) = dark area
• Yang= things that are spiritual (heaven) = light area
• Twin concepts of Yin and Yang are considered complementary- each need the other to exist
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Ch’i

• Chinese believe that there is a universal energy called Ch’i
• As you open a door you allow Ch’i to enter, bring vitality and life into your home
• However, Ch’i picks up residual energy from whatever it passes (ie. if your home faces a cemetery it picks up grief; but don’t worry, if your house faces something unpleasant, there are remedies to purify or correct the Ch’i as it enters the home
• Ch’i likes to flow gently through open spaces, and if your home is full of clutter and untidy areas it will become confused and unfocused
• Ch’i likes harmony and beauty, cleanliness and balance
• An unbalance of ch’i can lead to loss of fortune, unsatisfactory relationship, inability to relax, lack of friends, disruptive children or ill health

Eight Enrichments

• If you are standing with your front door open holding the compass in your hand, which direction are you facing?
• According to Feng Shui principles, you should ideally face south or south-east
• This is because your house is divided into eight areas called enrichments, each covering a vital aspect of human life
• The first area, which is always in the south section of the house is your fame and reputation area. Thus, ideally, as you open you front door and step outside you are stepping into your fame and standing in the world
• But what if your house faces another direction? You can see which direction, and thus which enrichment, dominates your life merely by checking your house direction

Looking at your Home

• Make an outline of the major rooms in your home; On front door, mark what direction you face as you open the door
• Overlay the Pah Kwa (eight sided)
• The shape of your ground plan may mean that one or more enrichments are not occupied by any rooms, or other areas fall outside the Pah Kwa
• If the area is missing then that is an enrichment you are missing; or you may have an abundance of an enrichment
• Remember the enrichment of the fame always does to the south, no matter which direction your house faces

Bedroom

• Two important things to watch out for when checking the Feng Shui of your bedroom are that there are no beams above the bed and that the bed is not directly opposite the door
• If you have beams = hang fabrics from beams to interrupt the accelerated flow of ch’i
• Position the bed so that you can see anyone coming into the room before they see you
• By Chinese tradition, a dead person is always carried feet first out of the bedroom, so you should never have your feet alighted directly opposite the door
• Should not have an office or study in your bedroom
• As you enter the bedroom, you should be able to see yourself in any mirrors , nor should be able to see yourself in a mirror when you are in bed
• Bedrooms should be as light and uncluttered as possible