Feng Shui How does it work?

There are 9 areas in our home and businesses that we can tap into to create powerful, positive results. Often overnight! Those areas are: Career & opportunity, knowledge, family, health, wealth

& good luck, fame & recognition, partnership & marriage, children & creativity, helpful people & travel. Each wall and corner in our environment represents one of these areas. For example, if you want a new career or to advance your present one you would go to the area that represents career and create positive energy by adding something, like a lush healthy plant, a fountain (moving water represents prosperity in Feng Shui) or a picture that inspires you. You may also need to take something away from the area, like clutter.

Yin and Yang

The concept of Yin and Yang is one of the most fundamental and profound theories of Feng Shui. It is the Chinese perspective on balance and continual change. The basics of this deep and extremely significant diagram are pretty subtle yet profound. Yin and Yang is a foundation theory for Feng Shui that supports many other theories including the Five Elements Theory and the Environment.

Yin and Yang are dependent opposites that must always be in balance. The opposites flow in a natural cycle always replacing the other. Just as the seasons cycle and create times of heat and cold, Yin and Yang cycles through active and passive, dark and light, etc. Yin and Yang evolved from a belief of mutually dependent opposites that cannot live without the other. More interestingly, there are little cons in every pro and vice versa. Nothing is total. The Eastern view of opposites is, excuse the pun, is the opposite of a Western view. Western philosophy tends to look as things as black or white, right “or” wrong, etc. There is separation and unrelatedness in the Western perspective. Whereas, the Chinese view is not opposites, it’s perspective. Everything is as evolving and cycling. There is neither right or wrong, but rather there is balance, transformation interaction, dependent opposition and most importantly transition.

Symbolism Uniqueness The Yin and Yang for the home

Yin and Yang can further be explained as a duality that The list has given us a few cannot exist without both interpretations of Yin and Yang. parts. Here is a list of some of Each of this needs to be founded the many opposites that are or instituted in a particular area contained in such a simple in the house, depending upon symbol. its relevance and prominence.

Yin - (The Black Portion): For example, the night stays in Passive, Cold, Death, Winter, the inner rooms (the energies Female, Night, Even, Moon, of the house are concentrated Water in the bedroom and kitchen),

thus it is a Yin stronghold. On Yang - (The White

the other hand, the day stays in Portion): Active, Hot, Life,

the outer rooms (the energies of Summer, Male, Day, Odd, Sun,

the house are concentrated in Fire

the drawing room, study or the Within Yang, there is a

porch). spot of Yin and vice-versa.

Thus, the directional Just as in the heart of winter,

placement and arrangement a seed lays in wait to become

of the house has to be in a way, life, so is Yang waited within

that Yin and Yang are placed Yin for its turn. In a hot

properly. For example, as Yang summer, a sudden desert

is light, the house should open storm can bring coolness.

towards a source of light and This too is an example of how

not towards a source of water Yin is found in Yang.

as the prosperity may ‘flow’ Thus we also observe

away. Many such calculations that the separation of the

are based on Yin and Yang circle (symbolising the earth

‘residences’. However, there or alternatively, the full

are many other factors like the circle of life) is not cut into

five elements, directions and straight halves. They are

magnetism that work closely curved and they alternatively

with Yin and Yang in Feng Shui. advance and accommodate

Yin and Yang affect your into each other, depicting the

home and the way you decorate alternation.

it. Read about some common Again, there are no

negative problems with houses, absolutes, just cycles in time.

and the solutions for them. This early philosophy of

The use of Yin and Yang here nature, the complementary

is to illustrate that your house alternating forces of Yin and

does not become too dark. Yang, dark and light, female

On the other hand, in a big and male, which maintain the

garden, shrubs, rose arches and balance of the cosmos, are the

rockeries can have a pleasing foundation of Feng Shui.

effect on a flat landscape.