The Spiritual Health

Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practice which is involved in studying how the environment affects us in our daily life. The way we feel and the way act is greatly influenced by the environment that surrounds us. Therefore, by properly organizing our surrounding it would be possible to improve our life. This is the basic theory about Feng Shui.

To study the environment, Feng Shui uses five elements to achieve harmony and balance in any space. These elements are: wood, fire, earth, metal and water. Each of these elements has their own characteristics and properties. Brief detail about each of these elements is provided below.

The first element to be considered is wood. The Chinese word for wood is ‘Mu’. Wood represents innovation, creativity and birth, and it is a sociable element. This element corresponds to the color green and the east direction. By placing this element at a strategic spot in any space, it would be possible to add all the characteristics of this element.

Second Feng Shui element is fire. It is called ‘Huo’ in Chinese.  This element symbolizes and brings activity, enthusiasm and energy to the places where it is found. It is a warm element which is to be handled with care as too much of this element would destroy the surrounding. Fire is represented by the color red and the direction south, and symbolizes the puberty years.

The next element in Feng Shui is earth which is ‘Tu’ in Chinese. This element symbolizes stability, patience and honesty. It is a methodic element that can also become demanding, and is ideal for everything that is related with real estate and inheritances. Earth is symbolized by color yellow and is representative of the early youth years. 

Another Feng Shui element is metal or ‘Jin’ in Chinese. It represents success in businesses and harvesting. It can also represent a knife or cutting metal and be destructive through it. White and gold are the colors that symbolize it, and its direction is west. This element symbolizes the adult years of human life.

The last element in Feng Shui is water which is ‘Shui’ in Chinese. It has a very important role amongst all the Feng Shui elements, and actually the name Feng Shui contains its name in it, meaning water and wind. Water mainly represents communications and traveling. But it also represents learning, arts and media. Water is elemental for all living beings, be it humans, animals or plants. It can be quiet or violent. This element is represented by the color black and direction north, and symbolizes the old human years.

Selecting the location of your house, its interior design, the spacing between the furniture, positioning the mirror, keeping the money trees, placing aquariums or the use of crystals and fountains, all this and more are included into the ancient Chinese art and science of Feng shui.

Feng shui is a 3000 years old Chinese practice which is embraced by many people even today because of its positive effects and good results. It is a proper blend of knowledge and science which teaches us the right way to balance the energy of any place for a good fortune and a fit health. Etymologically, the words “feng” means wind while “shui” means water according to the Chinese language which symbolizes a healthy body and a good fortune.

The ancient Chinese people believed that the land on which we live is alive and is completely filled with lots of energy (chi) which had the power to either make or even break a kingdom. Thus the theories of yin and yang and the five feng shui elements are just a few of the basic aspects of feng shui which are based on the Taoist vision. The five elements that are involved in feng shui are water, metal, fire, wood and earth. And all the things in the world are influenced by the movements and interactions of these 5 elements. In feng shui, the interactions of the five elements is used to increase positive chi and to decrease negative chi. The main tools that are used to perform all the necessary analysis in feng shui, includes the feng shui compass and the Ba-Gua.

The feng shui compass also known as the lo-pan is keenly used to achieve the in depth information about a given location, house or a building. In the word lo-pan, “Lo” means everything and “pan” a bowl which thus acts as the answer to the various mysteries of the world and the universe. The ba-gua is a simple octagonal grid with the famous I-ching symbols which is an ancient Chinese oracle on which the feng shui is mainly based. The knowledge of ba-gua proves to be very helpful to understand the association of the specific areas of your house with a few areas of your life.

There are numerous benefits of feng shui for living a fully potential life. Feng shui helps to enhance abundance and wealth, brings self expression, improved health, happiness, balance in life and better relationships.

Thus, due to all these uses people have started applying the feng shui rules in order to improve their life and also the energy in their house. Today, there are many schools for feng shui teaching the symbolic aspects of feng shui that should be used very carefully and intellectually to gain good and positive results. Due to its variant uses and powerful results, the principle of feng shui has spread all around the world and is being used extensively by people for their home and business.

So, if you wish to improve your life or attract prosperity feng shui is the key to all your problems and we have for you all that you wish to know and learn about feng shui to lead a happy and prosperous life.