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Feng Shui
Feng Shui is the Chinese pronunciation, meaning
Wind Water, which are the two powerful forms of energies circulate
around the earth, just like Blood and Oxygen in our body.
These energies can be creative or destructive and will have
an effect on our everyday life.
By understanding these creative energy flows,
Feng Shui Masters can manipulate them to maximize
our benefits, in other ways to avoid their destructive side.
Water is a visible source of energy whereas Wind is not. When
Water flows constantly it carries with it Creative Energy,
which will be dissipated by the Wind which is therefore Destructive.
To summarize this I quote “encourage the water to
flow and prevent wind from blowing”, these are
the two opposite factors known as Yin and Yang.
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Opposition (Yin and Yang)
Yin represents negative and Yang
is on the Positive side. The terms are used to signify the
different between one from the other. There always has to
be an opposite of something otherwise it cannot be defined,
e.g. male is the opposite of female, bright verses dark,
day and night etc. The Yin/Yang symbol explains
further that within a Yin there is Yang
and within a Yang there is Yin. This goes
on to infinity because in life everything defines and requires
its opposite to exist.
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Universe’s Qi (vital energy)
Through many years of studying Feng Shui, Chinese Herbal
Medicine and Acupuncture, I am now able to define what is
Qi. Many books and magazines have often mentioned
the concept and meaning of Qi, but never before
define the true understanding of Qi. As everyone
knows Qi is invisible to the naked eyes, but has
a powerful effect all matters on earth. In my future book
on “Yin Feng Shui” I will define “What
is Qi?”
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Five Elements
For calculation purposes, the Earth and
everything in it is divided into five groups, for example
as we already know from compass directions there are North,
East, South, West and Centre. These are renamed into five
elements as Water, Wood, Fire, Metal and Earth respectively.
Each of these elements then attaches their characteristics.
By using this method, plus the opposite of Yin and
Yang, we get the simplest way of calculating the
effects of the earth around us. Understanding these formulas
will give you the benefit of nature's life cycles and destructions,
i.e. the weather changes from spring, to summer, to autumn
and to winter. This alteration of climate will have a major
impact on our everyday lives.
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Interaction of the Five Elements
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Creation Cycle
Follow the arrow, starting from Water which nourishes Plants
(Wood), Wood fuels Fire, Fire burns into ashes (Earth), Earth
crushed produces Metal, Metal melts into liquid form (Water).
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Destruction Cycle
Follow the arrow, starting from Earth which stops or contains
Water, Water puts out Fire, Fire melts Metal, Metal cuts
Wood, Wood destroys the formation of the Earth during its
growth path.
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Why Feng Shui?
Many people commonly wonder about the same
question “Why do our lives evolve around Feng Shui?”
and this has been going on for thousands of years, from generation
to generation. I also asked myself this when I was going through
the early stages of my studies. “What is it, that
existed for so long and yet has not been proven by scientist
of today’s advance technology?” There must
be something somewhere that is not right, but again if it
were only beliefs then by now after thousands of years surely
people of all levels of understanding would have discovered
this already.
Everyday as nature passes in front of our
eyes and we never take a closer look or even stop to think
about the fascinating things that nature offers us. A tree
changes throughout the year due to the seasons and these reflect
upon the animals, which depend on it. In summer, the fruits
ripen and all living things gather to feed on this, as autumn
approaches leaves falls and all you see is a bare structure
made up of twigs and branches, not a single living animal
is present. This view effects our emotions, in this case we
feel unhappy
“Why do we need Feng Shui in our
life?” It is the same question as if we ask our
self. “Why do we need food or drink?”
The answer is our body requires all types of energies. By
ingesting the nutrition matters such as foods and drink we
are able to stabilise our everyday requirement to survive.
But this is only one of the five sources of energy supply
for our body. This source of energy has immediate results,
hence it is instantly noticeable, as part of growing up everyone
accepts that this is the way of life and no one had to question
it.
Feng Shui is the whole concept of finding
other invisible energies that we ingest through alternative
means i.e. absorbing by the skin, by senses, seeing through
the eyes, smell by the nose and hearing through the ears are
the remaining four of the five ways of energy enhancement.
Because the effect of these energies is concealed and long
term, not many of us realise it exists, and therefore we ignore
these essentials, until the Sha Qi (bad energy) seriously
impacts upon us resulting in body imbalance, illness or diseases
which causes our body to malfunction just as food poisoning
does.
Feng Shui Existence
Feng Shui knowledge has existed for over
four thousand of years, but because of there are so many types
of energy, our little knowledge is still like a grain of rice
in a sack. Throughout many generations of research the information
has been passed down to be continued by the descendants. Along
the journey to the present day, human greed got the best of
us, not only keeping the information for personal gains, but
also guarding secrets and only passing down to one or two
at the most in the family. Then there were the Dynasties,
who throughout their many rises and falls have ordered the
scripts to destroyed along with the Feng Shui Masters in order
to preserve the secrets within the Dynasty.
Fortunately, the skills were memorised in
the form of poems, young masters fled, stayed hidden and manage
to keep part of the knowledge until there was a chance to
practice. These disruptions of research have prevented Masters
bring much of the original data into the present day - known
to us as scientific evidence.
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