Feng Shui

Feng=Wind and Shui=Water

The way of wind and water

Go with the flow!

 

• Uses forces of nature to control over our environment

• We understand different patterns of events happen in life

• We are connected to everything in the universe and a part of a system

• Creating harmony with ourself and our living space

• Arranging our living environment to achive harmony and balance that will bring happiness, prosperity and peace

 

Feng Shui is an ancient philosophy, focuses on creating harmony between people, buildings and nature

 

Harmonizing with living space would improve our lifestyle

 

Better we aligned, orientated with nature, the more we balance our energy

 

Location

Orientation

Position

Direction

 

2-What is the goal of Feng Shui?

Enhance the positive energy/chi

Prevent from the negative energy/chi

Shift and control the flow of chi in our living spaces

Make life force supportive and nourishing as possible

 

3-Why do we use Feng Shui?

If we want to improve our life, we should improve our home

Clear your mind and think about what you want from life

What it is you want

Think about your goals

What feelings and emotions  you wish to achieve

Then what tools you can use to achieve your goals

If we want to increase good energy in our living space, we start with feng shui

Harmonious environment can be felt on all levels;

Mental

Emotional

Spiritual

Physical

 

• Health

• Wealth

• Relationships

• Education

• Career

• Travel

• Recognition

• Love and romance

• Happy family life

 

4-How do we use Feng Shui?

What you want your home to do for you

Walk around your home and look carefully

What you would like to improve 

• Clutter

• Plants

• Furnishing

• Lighting

• Arrangement of furniture

• Artwork

• Colors

• Material

 

5-Feng Shui Philosophy

Life is journey from one place to another. 

We start out in a particular circumstance

Choices and decisions we make 

Determine our mode of transportation

 

Art of placement and trinty of life destiny

• Fate = Heaven luck, Moment of your birth=We can not change

• Men made luck = We can change

• Earth luck, Feng Shui = We can change

 

6-Chi= Life force, energy

Life energy of a person can be adjusted with environmental changes which would improve his overall lifestyle

Chi will be stagnant, dull, spiritless and can be blocked in a space that is filled with clutter

 

7-Yin and Yang= Opposite but comlementary forces

Dualism

We can improve the flow of positive chi and keep the negative chi away 

Balance ying and yang energies in our living space

Positive chi would improve our health, relationships, prosperity

 

Mixing of two opposite energies makes life possible 

When yin and yang are balanced, chi flows smoothly. It creates good state of emotional and physcial health.

 

Opposite forces complement, interconnect and interdependent in natural World

 

Yin and Yang may rise to each other as they interrelate to one another

 

Neither side is fully Yin or fully Yang

 

8-5 Elements

Everything in the universe comes from five elements

Wood-Fire-Earth-Metal and Water

 

5 Elements Theory is a Chinese philosophy used to describe interactions and relations between things

 

5 Elements are fundemental substances of everything in the universe which interactions ocur

 

Generative and dustructive cycles of the elements

 

Each element has its own characteristics with different aspects of nature;

• Directions

• Seasons

• Colors

• Sapes

• Emotions

• Numbers

The Compass School:

 

Eight areas of a living space

1 North: Career, business success, black and blue color, water and metal elements, winter

 

8 NE: Wisdom, knowledge, self-development, success in school, erath and fire element, winter becoming spring

 

3 East: Family life, health, nutrition, harmony, green, wood and water, spring

 

4 Southeast: Wealth, prosperity, abundance, green, spring becoming summer, wood and water

 

9 South: Fame, fortune, longivity, festivity, joy, red, summer, fire and wood, bird

 

2 Southwest: Marriage, mother, relationships, love, romance, spouse, yellow, earth and fire, summer becoming autumn

 

7 West: Children, creativity, future prosperity, metal and earth, autumn, White

 

6 Northwest: Suportive and helpful people, international trade and travel, father, grey, metal and earth, autumn becoming winter

 

 

9-Home is a very special place where we live and grow emotionally

Home is a place where we feel safe and emotionally attached

Home is a shrine to us

Home is self definition of us

Where we live means so much to us

Home is like a garden where we plant seeds of our feelings

 

Emotional connection 

Sense of belonging

Time dimension of Feng Shui

Time changes, we change, our feelings change

Time changes, our fate changes

 

A person’s life can never be a smooth sailing as his/her fate changes with time.

 

10-Imagine a building as a human being

Mouth of the building=Door

Eyes of the building=Windows

Circulatory system=Plumbing system

Nervous system=Electric system

Roof=Head

Foundation=Legs

 

Balcony=Makes home and person free = Place of feeling free

 

 

 

 

11-New Living Trends

Sharing

Connectivity

Healing architecture, nature and environment friendly

Work and life blending

Materials, recycling

Urban transformation

 

12-More we spend at home, the more we deal wit materials

Enhane or protect the life force, chi, use according to what they represent

Colors

Shapes

Sounds

Scents

Materials

Numbers

 

11-Due to luck down phase, we have second thought, rethink about  life and reconsider our feelings

We have discovered a new;

Sensitivity

Emotion

Love

Light

Noise