Essential Feng Shui A Step-By-Step Guide to Enhancing Your Relationships, Health, and Prosperity

Feng shui is an ancient Chinese method of living in tune with the energies of the living earth. It is a set of techniques and a body of knowledge that can be studied and then systematically applied to your personal space and environment. When applied correctly, feng shui holds out the promise of creating great good fortune to those who arrange their homes and offices according to its principles of harmony and balance. Feng shui can seriously enhance your fortunes, improve your material well-being and look after your good health. It directly addresses all the aspirations of mankind, bringing opportunities for advancement and prosperity even as it magnifies chances of achievement, promotion and success. Feng shui as science and art But feng shui is not magic. Neither is it a spiritual practice requiring a strong faith in its potency, or a belief in its effectiveness. Feng shui is best approached as a science and practised as an art. It is a science because much of feng shui applications are based on the accurate usage of what are collectively grouped under Compass School feng shui, also broadly known as formula feng shui. Under this system of techniques, building and laying out rooms and furniture in accordance with the orientations of the compass combined with calculations based on formulas bring the desired good fortune. But accuracy of measurement, both of the compass direction (sometimes to the nearest degree), and the correct measurements of dimensions are crucial factors in the success of the practice. If the proportions are accurately measured and the computations have been correctly worked out, formula feng shui almost always works by improving the luck of residents. Results do not take long to manifest. But also remember that i f practised incorrectly, feng shui simply does not work! Much of feng shui is also an art that requires subjective judgement and interpretation. Experience is a significant asset in the practice of feng shui. This is because much of feng shui assessments are highly visual, requiring the human eye to make important evaluations with respect to shapes, terrain and contours. This dimension of feng shui practice has been collectively grouped under what is generally referred to as the Form or Landscape School of feng shui. Here the physical surroundings are judged according to how they visually appear. Mountains, hills, rivers, roads, levels, undulations, shape, smells, and just about everything that assails the senses, enter into the analysis of the surrounding environment. In addition, the quality of the soil, the strength of the winds, the intensity of the sunlight, the lushness of plants, and the angle of inclines, are factored into the feng shui man's evaluation of the land. Literally translated, feng shui means wind water. Basically it is these two elements that have carved out the land resulting in the physical formations of the living earth. What feng shui offers are guidelines that enable the practitioner to interpret the features of the landscape in terms of whether they bring good or bad energy, and thus, whether they will bring auspicious or inauspicious luck to those who live in their vicinity. The auspicious and inauspicious features of visual feng shui, as defined under the Form School, are very important to get right. The effect of bad landscape feng shui supersedes good compass feng shui. This is a vitally important first rule of feng shui practice to remember; that the physical structures of both the natural and man-made environment can destroy carefully worked out feng shui orientations. Activating luck Feng shui is also about consciously activating excellent luck in your environment and in your living space. Having learnt how to protect yourself, your home and your office from the incidence of bad feng shui (covered in Parts 2 and 3 in this book), the next step is to learn to energize the specific tyToo, Lillian is the author of 'Essential Feng Shui A Step-By-Step Guide to Enhancing Your Relationships, Health, and Prosperity', published 1999 under ISBN 9780345429049 and ISBN 0345429044.