Feng Shui
Feng Shui is an art and science that deals with placement of things, from the orientation of a building and the direction of its main doors to furnishing the interior and colouring the walls.
​
Although Feng Shui has been practiced in the West for only a century, its advent as a science of the built space dates back to ancient China. During the modern period, application of Feng Shui was made popular by Chinese emperors. In the last few decades, it has become a global movement, with thousands of books and articles published to promote this ancient art and science of architecture.
​
Feng Shui means “wind and water,” which refers to creating a positive flow of energy in the surrounding environment. The earlier form of Feng Shui was called “Kan Yu,” which literally means “Raise the head and observe the sky above. Lower the head and observe the environment around us”. It was a representation of the macro-micro theory that denotes the importance of keeping harmony with the cosmos in every design and act. Kan Yu also refers to the observation of the patterns of celestial or heavenly bodies, known as “heaven Qi,” and their influence on earth, “earth Qi,” which indicates the role of astrology in ancient Chinese geomancy. The term later changed to Feng Shui referring to two basic elements of nature, as it deals with the direction of the winds and water resources as well as topographical features of the plot in order to determine their positive and negative impacts on human lives.
In every ancient culture, from the Egyptians to the Chinese, people used to honour sacred places. Ancient architecture, in this case, proposes guidelines to locate a sacred place on earth by constructing buildings that stand in harmony with God’s creation and promote health. In these practices, nature has always been a key element. Hence, in Feng Shui, traditional philosophers studied nature to gain a sense of understanding about the universe, and they found “Qi” as a life force existing in all beings.
Qi, or life energy, is regarded as the energy that keeps the body alive and healthy. As lots of energy can bring about good health, vitality, and happiness, too little energy can cause depression, weakness, and low vitality, while no energy is equal to death.
​
Recognizing the source of ‘Qi’ in the landscape, the traditional architects could manage to distinguish the safe and sacred locations from the harmful, which mostly had healthy vegetation and were harmoniously aligned with the earth’s geomagnetic fields. Western science has also proven the impact of electrical and geopathic energies in the life of human beings. It is proved in western science that too much exposure to high electromagnetic fields under the electrical pylons may lead to cancer disease which has been known to Feng Shui masters for many centuries as “Shar” Qi or negative killing energy.
​
In this way, ancient systems of architecture were attempts to introduce means of creating places, which can reduce stress and lead to a healthy, long, and prosperous life.
Feng Shui, as one of such systems, introduces different principles to provide a beneficial flow of energy or Qi through the use of nature and celestial bodies in every building.
​
Talk to me today to learn how to use the beneficial flow of Qi.
​