What is Feng Shui
What is
Feng Shui
Feng shui (pronounced Foong-Shway) literally translates to “wind-water,” which gives us a hint that this subject is connected with the natural elements of the landscape, rivers, lakes, mountains and so forth. Our bodies is made up of 60% water and air. To understand what feng shui is, you need to truly know what Ch’i (also spelled Qi).
Ch’i is the energy or life force that flows through living things. As Grand Master Stephen Skinner puts it so eloquently, “It is as subtle as radio waves, yet as concrete as the mountain stream.” This ch’i is the same meridian energy studied by acupuncturists to cure the human body, as it is the same used by martial artists who accumulate ch’i in certain points of their body and unleash it to demonstrate superhuman effects, such as breaking bricks with their bare hands and making their bodies invulnerable to heavy blows.
The three Principles of Ch’i say that:
- Everything is Alive
- Everything is Connected – related
- Everything is Changing – weather, seasons, bodies, emotions
The three kinds of Ch’i (sometimes called luck or fates):
- Heaven Ch’i – the “horoscope” we were born with. Our destiny patterns.
- Human Ch’i – Our own responsibility. The efforts we undertake to overcome obstacles in life, enhanced and shaped greatly through our thinking, mindset and attitude of gratitude.
- Earth Ch’i – Feng Shui – the conscious manipulating of Ch’i to improve our opportunities.
The Goal of Feng Shui:
- To contain the right quality and quantity of ch’i within the home or office to improve the EARTH luck of its occupants.
- To enhance wellbeing. Similar to Acupuncture, (Feng Shui has the same roots in working with energy), blocked or stagnant ch’i can cause fatigue and compromise the immune system causing health issues. The same applies in your home or offices.
A Little History
For centuries feng shui was the exclusive preserve of Chinese Emperors and the immediate ruling class. Its techniques were so closely guarded that at a certain point in history, the first Ming Emperor (AD 1368-1644) actively encouraged the manufacture of misleading textbooks to keep the real formulas out of the hands of the populace at large, of which many are still in circulation.
With the cultural revolution in China, the practice of Feng shui was banned and Feng shui Masters moved to neighbouring counties. To earn a living, many Masters taught a variant of their knowledge, resulting in an upsurge of feng shui books and concepts not necessarily written by true Masters. Many of these misinformed textbooks are still in circulation.
Feng Shui in China has been considered a science for at least 2,600 years, built over thousands of years’ experience of successive generations of Feng shui Masters carefully measuring, recording and matching the outcome of each feng shui pattern against their original intention. In ancient China, its innovation was traditionally used to improve the prosperity and luck of the family and their future generations, therefore its practice was embedded as a strategic military tactic in both politics and the battlefield to defeat opponents. For businessmen, feng shui was an instrumental tool to gain leverage over competitors.
Feng Shui for preferred modern living
Today, feng shui is as relevant to modern day living as it was at its time of realisation, if not more. More of us are starting to invest in strengthening our mindfulness and well-being. In this rapidly changing world, there are major challenges such as globalisation, the aging population, the changing nature of work, changing social structures, all of which are having a profound influence of our society and on our place in the world.
Feng Shui allows you to build an accurate clock to measure the influence of time and space on the external and internal environment of a building and impact on its occupants with a view to navigate these ch’i symmetries to harness their benefits.
Feng Shui IS:
- A sophisticated and practical technique for manipulating Ch’i or energy to improve prosperity, relationships and marriage, luck in career, family, children, education, community respect and health, among other things.
- The art of enhancing the energy of an environment to support one’s attitude, opportunities and luck to change for the better.A science in the same way that medicine is a science.
Feng Shui is NOT:
- A religion
- A form of psychology
- A form of interior decorating
- Magic
- A cure-all
- Easy
- A spiritual practice
- Just intuition
- A fad (it’s been around for more than 4000 years)
- A way to improve your chances of anything (*) although it can help you
accumulate more personal luck, which is an abundance of opportunities, but it CANNOT change the mathematical laws of the universe.
Feng shui (pronounced Foong-Shway) literally translates to “wind-water,” which gives us a hint that this subject is connected with the natural elements of the landscape, rivers, lakes, mountains and so forth. Our bodies is made up of 60% water and air. To understand what feng shui is, you need to truly know what Ch’i (also spelled Qi).
Ch’i is the energy or life force that flows through living things. As Grand Master Stephen Skinner puts it so eloquently, “It is as subtle as radio waves, yet as concrete as the mountain stream.” This ch’i is the same meridian energy studied by acupuncturists to cure the human body, as it is the same used by martial artists who accumulate ch’i in certain points of their body and unleash it to demonstrate superhuman effects, such as breaking bricks with their bare hands and making their bodies invulnerable to heavy blows.
The three Principles of Ch’i say that:
- Everything is Alive
- Everything is Connected – related
- Everything is Changing – weather, seasons, bodies, emotions
The three kinds of Ch’i (sometimes called luck or fates):
- Heaven Ch’i – the “horoscope” we were born with. Our destiny patterns.
- Human Ch’i – Our own responsibility. The efforts we undertake to overcome obstacles in life, enhanced and shaped greatly through our thinking, mindset and attitude of gratitude.
- Earth Ch’i – Feng Shui – the conscious manipulating of Ch’i to improve our opportunities.
The Goal of Feng Shui:
- To contain the right quality and quantity of ch’i within the home or office to improve the EARTH luck of its occupants.
- To enhance wellbeing. Similar to Acupuncture, (Feng Shui has the same roots in working with energy), blocked or stagnant ch’i can cause fatigue and compromise the immune system causing health issues. The same applies in your home or offices.
A Little History
For centuries feng shui was the exclusive preserve of Chinese Emperors and the immediate ruling class. Its techniques were so closely guarded that at a certain point in history, the first Ming Emperor (AD 1368-1644) actively encouraged the manufacture of misleading textbooks to keep the real formulas out of the hands of the populace at large, of which many are still in circulation.
With the cultural revolution in China, the practice of Feng shui was banned and Feng shui Masters moved to neighbouring counties. To earn a living, many Masters taught a variant of their knowledge, resulting in an upsurge of feng shui books and concepts not necessarily written by true Masters. Many of these misinformed textbooks are still in circulation.
Feng Shui in China has been considered a science for at least 2,600 years, built over thousands of years’ experience of successive generations of Feng shui Masters carefully measuring, recording and matching the outcome of each feng shui pattern against their original intention. In ancient China, its innovation was traditionally used to improve the prosperity and luck of the family and their future generations, therefore its practice was embedded as a strategic military tactic in both politics and the battlefield to defeat opponents. For businessmen, feng shui was an instrumental tool to gain leverage over competitors.
Feng Shui for preferred modern living
Today, feng shui is as relevant to modern day living as it was at its time of realisation, if not more. More of us are starting to invest in strengthening our mindfulness and well-being. In this rapidly changing world, there are major challenges such as globalisation, the aging population, the changing nature of work, changing social structures, all of which are having a profound influence of our society and on our place in the world.
Feng Shui allows you to build an accurate clock to measure the influence of time and space on the external and internal environment of a building and impact on its occupants with a view to navigate these ch’i symmetries to harness their benefits.
Feng Shui IS:
- A sophisticated and practical technique for manipulating Ch’i or energy to improve prosperity, relationships and marriage, luck in career, family, children, education, community respect and health, among other things.
- The art of enhancing the energy of an environment to support one’s attitude, opportunities and luck to change for the better.A science in the same way that medicine is a science.
Feng Shui is NOT:
- A religion
- A form of psychology
- A form of interior decorating
- Magic
- A cure-all
- Easy
- A spiritual practice
- Just intuition
- A fad (it’s been around for more than 4000 years)
- A way to improve your chances of anything (*) although it can help you
accumulate more personal luck, which is an abundance of opportunities, but it CANNOT change the mathematical laws of the universe.